Hot Take
EA continues to make itself more and more hated among the gaming community.
- Would you pay $40 for this come November?
For those who are video blocked at work (or don’t want to watch) there doesn’t seem to be much of a noticeable difference between remastered and old on the PC, at least on my small screen. For the out going consoles it does seem like it will get a more noticeable bump but still suffer in a fight between resolution and frames per second.
There’s tweaks to the lighting, textures, and anti aliasing and that really seems about it. PC can run it at 4k/60fps. The consoles are as follows: PlayStation 4 Pro and Xbox One X can run the remaster at 4K/30 FPS or 1080p/60 FPS. The mainstream PlayStation 4 and Xbox One will run the game at 1080p/30 FPS.
I haven’t bought any NFS since Rivals (2013) on PS3 but the original 1998 (NFS III) Hot Pursuit was one of the first games I had in the gaming library. Seeing EA doing something like above is depressing. I want to blame the volatile next gen console switch now nailed down for next month but I’m not sure it can be made a valid excuse. Normally [as with Rivals] they opted with a new game to span the generation change.
EA remastered Burnout Paradise, 2 years ago. However, that was a game people would actually back and potentially buy as many lamented the demise of the Burnout series as Criterion Games worked bits into NFS. The Burnout series was always that Fast and Furious type of entertainment where each successor got more outlandish. NFS though has continued on its juggernaut way.
I’m not sure how many people asked for a Remaster of a Reboot. It’s not a bad game per say, it just seems like something that doesn’t lend itself well to a remaster. It suffers from a car roster that’s a decade out of date, which I personally find to be the stale period between new and classic. This is something Burnout with its fictitious cars don’t suffer from. Perhaps it depends on what system you have and if you’re itching for a graphics update over similarly old Rivals. For the majority of the series followers I’d say this was a step into negligent territory for the series.
End Rant.
Out Nov. 6 on PS4, Xbox, and PC. Nov. 13 on Nintendo Switch
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