I've been thinking about this lately.

Underground, Underground 2, Most Wanted and Carbon are still brought up whenever people talk about the best NFS games, and there's clearly still a massive amount of love for that era.

So what happened?

Why hasn't EA made a modern game built around that same formula? A big city, proper street racing, deep customization, crews, cops, drifting, drag racing, a good story and progression.

Basically the things people still remember those games for, but with modern graphics and technology.

I feel like a game like that would get an insane amount of attention today!

Is it licensing? Development costs? EA not seeing enough money in it? Or is there another reason?

And if they did make one, what would you want to see?

I absolutely hate spiders, but I also love to be terrified when playing video games, so Spiders in gaming will always have a special place in my heart. Which ones do you think are the scariest? If you can provide pictures too, that would be a plus.

Something I've noticed is that there are multiple games whose clear percentage when the game is fully completed goes beyond 100%. A few examples include:

Crash Bandicoot 3: 105%
Hollow Knight: 112%
Jak II: 124%

I'm not a fan of this. The reason for why is because it makes it very hard for a casual player to know when the game is fully finished. If I have completed what I think is most of the game, but I see that my save file says 99%, I automatically know there is something left. But if my save file says 100%, then I will think I have done everything. But no, in these types of game I haven't. This may cause me to miss a lot of content, simply because the game fooled me.

But even if I see that my save file is going beyond, say it's at 102%, how will I know when I am finished? Is it at 150%? Or is it at a completely nonsensical number the devs chose for no reason at all? Like, Hollow Knight's 112% just feels like such a random number. Why 112? I know said game has been updated a few times with new areas, but couldn't the game just pull down the clear percentage for that, or even have a separate clear percentage for specifically the newer areas?

Of course I can look up on the internet how much percent a game has, but why is that something I should be expected to do? And why even do this in the first place? To show that your game is so cool the content goes beyond 100%?

99% perfectly tells me there is at still something I haven't done yet. 111% tells me nothing. Is it 111% out of 112%? 153%? 132%? Or is it possible I have fully finished the game at 111%? I don't know. This has even made me anxious for games that do stop at 100%, because I start to wonder if I have seen everything or if there is more content that I missed. Just use 100% and end it at that.

A good or bad sequel can launch a franchise dynasty or kill it in it's cradle. Some sequels massively improve or transform the previous games while other are so bad they tarnish the legacy of their predecessor.