Need for Speed: Most Wanted

[Some Stupid Japanese Name]

Im glad you guys are beat testing this. Cant wait to play it after the patch.

[A Robot Bit Me]

So if I lose nothing when I crash and nothing when I get busted, why do I care what happens between races?

[A Robot Bit Me]

So if I can't enter a race if I'm being chased by cops and driving fast provokes cops into chasing me, I guess my Need is actually for Safe, Orderly Driving?

[No One]

Yeah, having to deal with cops in-between races was a terrible design decision. The upside is that you can rack up SP quickly by going on lengthy pursuits and then losing them. I got 40k for an 8 minute chase.

This game has the worst soundtrack ever.

Edit: I also really don't like how the MW races basically become a test of memorizing where all the bullshit spike strips are located later in the game. It's especially lame when a cop gets right in front of you and throws one down.

[Dipstick]

The dumb thing about not being able to start an event while the police are chasing you is that you can actually start the event if you have played the event previously, from the Autolog menu.

Some of the design decisions in this game make no sense whatsoever.

[Rumpy]

Also, agree that restarting a race shouldn't be such a pain in the ass --> wait for cinema to end -> wait for HUD to come up -> scroll all the way down -> restart race -> no -> yes

It's easier to pause and select restart race.

A lot of really weird design decisions in this game, can't believe they made it all the way to retail. I'd hate to see what didn't make the cut. Or maybe I do, they might have had some better ideas.

[haohmaru]

It's easier to pause and select restart race.

Yeah, I know. Poorly worded as I was talking about retrying the last race after you've completed the race. You can restart in the middle of the race easily enough. I kind of don't get why you're stuck with your car if you travel to the spot instead of starting a race via the map/autolog recommends (which allows you to choose a car to race with). Don't really like the whole "hunting for jackspots" thing, either or the fact that if you want to get to a destination you're almost guaranteed to be chased by the cops unless you get there slowly. That bugs me more than the ambush racers.

And, online/multi - public is annoying. It's like demolition derby, race to a spot, wait again, sometimes have some dopey challenge like every racer has to have two takedowns before an event is finished, and you still haven't raced yet.

Don't think I'll be sticking with this nearly as long as either Burnout.

[Rumpy]

The jackspots (really? That's the name they chose?) are just stupid in general. I go to choose another car, and it asks me which location I want to go to (if I've found more than one). I don't give a shit where the car is, I really just want to drive the car. When I see the locations listed, I don't really know where those even are and it's pointless to even know. You could at least know what street you were on in Paradise. It's a total crap shoot on if one location would take me closer or further away to the next race I will choose next. I don't even know what race I can choose from until I get into the car, plus I'll just choose "start race" if I'm able to.

[GohanX]

I got the Vita version of this and was playing it a bit last night. Seems on par with the home console versions, with the same strengths and weaknesses, but is overall a great portable game. The game is a lot less busy than the console versions though, the town is huge but there's not a whole lot of traffic around, and the races only seem to have 5 cars in them.

On the other hand, I didn't have to be in a crappy car for long, and I've been tearing up the last few races in a frickin Ariel Atom. I <3 that car.

Also, nobody has the Vita version, so my speedwall is forever alone!

[Error]

wound up getting the PC release since new video card. Pretty looking game. This is so clearly the sequel to Paradise I wonder if they just got told to change the name 3 quarters of the way through.

I am disturbed that even though I haven't added anyone who is playing this to my friends list in Origin (well, just now I sent Diff a request, but never mind that) I can see at least two people on my times.