The Worst NFS Ever - Casino Edition 

Payback problem was that everyone wanted a storyline based on the fast and furious movies, we just forgot to specify to them that it was the first 3 movies and not the 3 last movies

If you try to please everyone, you will end up pleasing no one. Your rant on the wide audiance appeal is so right. Another banger video. Thank you for the hard work!

I think the funniest thing about when I played this for the first time, I played it right when they were introducing the abandoned cars that you would find in free roam. They’re like the bait crates you find in the world as random police chases. Get the car, escape the police and you keep the car. First car I got was an RX7 and I used that as my main race car and upgraded it to the max rating. I was out running supercars with a ‘90s tuner car and ended up beating the game with it. I don’t really hate this one like most people. Had my fun with it but see its issues.

I never knew there was SO many NFS games lmao

And the new NFS games have the worst car handling

Can't wait for NFS The Run review ! Starring Jesse Pinkman !

That why I wait stick on OG era of NFS (94-02 with expection of 10's Hot Pursuit)

I think Ghost Games really had an uphill battle when it came to taking over from Black Box. They stumbled with 2015 (I hate the fact that it was - and still is - always online and there were some technical issues at launch) and they crashed and burned with Payback, but they got back up and redeemed themselves with Heat. I think, had EA not taken them out back to join Black Box, Visceral Games and Pandemic Studios, they really could have done something great. I am happy with Criterion at the helm but honestly EA needs to stop handing NFS over from developer to developer and let them work their magic instead of what they have done with the IP since the early 2010s.

One thing Payback does very well is the special missions. Being able to switch between multiple cars, and having action movie like scenes is really cool!

Payback is probably better than the actual fast and furious game. Also agreed, realism doesn't need to be everywhere.

Oh, THIS game. I said this in the past but I didn’t think this game was THAT bad. I could have fun with it despite the atrocious upgrade system.

Another thing I really disliked about payback was that there was not a single character in that game I actually liked. The closest was Jess being somewhat tolerable

This is the game where the nfs soundtrack completely gave up

This game had a good story, but what ruined it for me was the off-road races (the handling model for dirt :/). I could barely drive, Id have to switch to easy to even have a chance at winning. Other than that the drifting is fun, and I guess I the drag racing?

I still think we should have a Pro Street 2. More Street Tracks like Touge and highways, more tuning like combining NFS Shift and Underground 2. Would be a banger as long as the handling is better.

It's a good day when Bluetag uploads

If realism was what made games good or fun, Most Wanted wouldn't be the behemoth it is. Hell, let's put absolute realism to the game and have traffic so dense that you cannot speed over 40mph when you are in city perimeters. I bet that would make us racing game fans happy. And the fact is that UG1 and UG2 also took place at night only, which was their identity. Wasn't NFS'15 a reboot of UG anyways? Didn't the fans demand something like UG and MW? When they get it, they just complain about something else again. The NFS fanbase is very much not self-aware.

This was literally not a bad NFS game. The only thing I didn’t like was the offroading and speed cards. Payback literally has the best drift physics in the whole franchise.

Bro I tell you If EA was smart they would revive Ghost and Blackbox And combine Ghost BlackBox and Criterion Just imagine Ghost with their amazing graphics BlackBox with the execution And Criterion with the ideas Bam perfect studio

when Bluetag is talking about the "worst", you know it's gonna be a good video

I really hated the spin the wheel and get an upgrade you want or you don't want. I uninstalled this game as soon as I came to know of that and the sad part after this I never played any need for speed after this one 😅

Dude Payback being called NFS Casino Edition is literally spot on Also like you said: Fortune Valley is based on Las Vegas (which we know as the land of casinos)

one of my biggest gripes about this game is the respawns. you respawn when you dont need to be respawned and lose time, or you dont get respawned when you need to be respawned and just better off restarting the race

I loved payback, my only big problem with it was how driving long distances kinda felt like a chore. In heat, if I need to get from one side of the map to another, I’ll gladly drive there, but in payback, I usually just fast travel

only songs i liked during my short time with this game were: City Rejects-Ho99o9 Trap and a Dream-A$AP Ferg n only cuz i played those the most and i already knew the songs

Except the upgrade system (which was fixed in united mod) payback is one of my favorites. The story was great, the missions were creative, soundtrack SLAPED and, graphics were ok and tuning was fine. Also handling model was much better than 2015. Also there were some things to do after story. I still miss the car hijacking missions.

I’d love to see him review the Tokyo xtreme racer/Tokyo xtreme racer drift series

i had so much expactations for this game and they just trowed a slot machine to upgrade my car

I played the game several years ago, and I somehow quit about 4hrs in, don't remember why.

Idk about you guys but I loved the fact that they put roaming racers in the game. It makes it feel less empty and it’s a fun little thing to do when your bored. It’s nothing crazy but it’s enough to give you something to do for fun

it's funny cause payback is my favorite of the new need for speed games, and everyone despises it xD

The collector acctually appears in heat...like not phisically. He is the one who gives you the DB11 at LVL10 and the P1 at 20. He only speaks to you at the cell phone. That was a nice eastter egg. There are a lot in payback too.

I remember a 16/17 year old me being incredibly hyped for this game to release. Pre-ordered the deluxe edition even. I was a tadbit sad however when the game finally came out and didn't completely live up to expectations. Don't get me wrong, I still played the shit out of it and really enjoyed myself while I was at it but I just couldn't ignore that this game was pretty lacking in delivering what most fans wanted and I could never really shake the disappointment of paying €80,- for this game with it being like it is. When I'll build a new rig I'm absolutely going to revisit this though. Had a lot of fun playing this and even more in the photo mode!

The highlight of this games existence was that video where Blackpantha pushed Jake Paul off a cliff

Hey, in the part of the offroad with the yellow Porsche Panamera, you put a spoiler above a retractable spoiler. You're Crazy?

Need for Speed Payback is to this day the best Videogame in the Fast and Furious Series.

9:24 that is also a problem I have with nfs rivals where whenever you touch a rock or skim a wall the game will pause for 30 seconds and show you slow motion footage of your car crashing, and I just have to sit there like “can we get back to the race or not?” Like, this isn’t burnout just let me continue getting chased by the cops!

4:38 unbound isn't a ghost game, it's back to Criterion !

That invisible wall at 11:50 physically hurt me

Need for Gambling: Payback Casino Debt. Another good game idea that was ruined by corpo greed

NFS Payback was a failed attempt to recreate the Forza Horizon vibes.

Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Bluetag’s TV screen is perpetually moving

Ea is like YES YES SPIN THE WHEEL GET ADDICTED **evil laughter**

I remember briefly playing a bit of this when it was free in PSPlus a few years ago and it definitely was a game, one with driving even. I crashed into a truck at full speed and it didn't react to it until almost a full second later. That is the only thing of note I have to say about that game

On the next NFS game, we'll get a post credit cutscene with razor holding a BMW key and saying "Fine, I'll do it myself.."

The fact that this is the last NFS game that had Rock music in their soundtrack. Well, "Country Rock" for a game set in a deserted place was something expected lol.

It sucks that ea will never put money down to completely replace the handling for need for speed. The brake to drift handling originated from Hot Pursuit 2010 and now here we are, still jank asf.

You make a good point with the handling, It honestly baffles me how every ghost era need for speed gets it wrong, NOONE likes the drift or die system, I ended up quitting playing heat 4 hours in because of how annoying the drifting got.

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Payback has a bug in one of the missions that makes the game literally unbeatable, and it still hasn’t been fixed.

if there was no card system it's a solid game. The card system hurts it A LOT imo.

With every video you make I'm more happy that a friend introduced me to your channel.

This reminds me of what happened to me recently. Context: I have never play any Forza game, ever. I was visiting a friend’s house, and he booted up FH5 (we’re both car guys). He was playing it for awhile, and I noticed that the game has a lot of NPC chatter. Like, a LOT. It’s goes from your NPC friends talking to you about the festival, to the radio stations talking about the festival, to “I-just-don’t-know-who-anymore” talking about, you guessed it, the festival. I was like, “is it just me or this game has a LOT of talking for a racing game?”, and my friend just laughed at me and said it felt fine for him. Idk, man, that certainly kills most of my hype for that game. I ended up not buying it, it’s just not my type of game. I bought Grid Legends instead, because sim racing (lmao, ok, I know what you’re thinking, but I was going to get GT7 later, until GT7 came out and it was an online game and that blew off my hype for it as well).

The desert "country rock" sound you were reffering to is called stoner rock

You must try need for speed rival very underrated game

Kerela in the background….nice touch

NFS payback feel like they're trying to replica NFS The Run with over the top action scene but location is meh, unlike the Run where location change as you progress through the game Payback location is just Sand and city

There's only one thing I think you should have mentioned...this game is not for us Gamers or people who cares about It's for the NEW GENERATION who plays fortnite and FIFA, eats every year release like water. These people pays for it, likes it, wants to buy cards and stuff to differentiate themselves from others They will continue to push these kind of games, because people buy it, people buy the loot boxes

Theory : The Arkwright Files said "The collector is a slave, the house is just a pawn." And that means the high speed task force in nfs Heat is owned by the collector... "The collector is a Slave." The collector has a boss, which is most likely someone like Kobashi or Another Mysterious Figure... Hopefully we find out more in other nfs games...

This game had a good variety of events and funnily enough, the best story in the franchise. But man did they mess everything else up hard. Unbound still doesn't have drag racing, so in a way, this game has more content than unbound.

A good diversion from this would be to look at a *good* NFS game for a change That being Hot Pursuit (2010) Let's be honest, it's one of the last truly great NFS entries and for some reason people tend to overlook it Not as much as ProStreet, but still

If it haven't got so much microtransactions it could be even best racing game of 2017

It's not that bad. I'm playing it right now. You can buy garages which is unique for a NFS game...

Payback is the last nfs game I expected to admire in some aspects. From the continuous day and night cycle, free roaming racers you could challenge like in 2015, the twisty canyons and mountain roads in a big desert, replayable missions, and a pretty okay soundtrack! I'm glad you continue to speak your mind without letting triggered clowns bully you for having an opinion. Keep doing your thing Bluetag!

Finally a reviewer that shares my opinion, this game is terrible in every way apart from the graphics, which are decent enough.

The worst part if you play the NFS games on PC, even the ones that you can play offline uses Denuvo and a third-party launcher.

the main problem was the casino machine for cars upgrades, the rest of the game was ok (if compared to the '10s need for speeds) and the progression system was quite challenging to invite you to race again and again. some problems (like the cutscenes of exploding cops or the fact that you must drift to take every corner unless they are large) came from Rivals (i found it cool anyway). i don't understand how is it possible that NOONE is not able to recreate something really good like it was Driver San Francisco, it has a perfect driving system for the genre and also the story was good

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i don't think it was that bad in my opinion, the graphics were good, the storyline was a good, for me the parts that rlly pissed me off were the gambling system for performance parts and how the police system worked. but all in all for me, it was a rlly fun game to play.

IIRC The Crew did a slightly similar chance based upgrade system, but it did seem to bias on giving you actual upgrades, and didn't leave ya staring for hours at a slot machine. I thiiink it was worse in the sequel, but I didn't buy it.

Need for Speed Unbound makes Payback look like one of the GOATs of the series.

Se não fosse por essas micro transações que enfiaram sem dó e piedade, esse jogo para mim seria um nota 6.

I'll only pay again to play the franchise, when Kuruhs is the main and final villain

Man I remember I used to get home on a Friday, fire up the Xbox One then launching this game in my red R8 and drive around listening to P.O.V Gravedigger while smelling taco that was made in the kitchen, this game is beyond perfection in my opinion, even though it is a copy paste of 2015

I love your videos dude, great sense of humour!

Almost 20K keep it up bro! You're nailing it

This game felt more like a movie

Nfs payback isn't that bad, I can still appreciate it for doing a heist scene kinda vibe

Honestly if I have the opportunity to play this game I'll play it for the customisations and free roam but I'll not play it for the story because I don't really care about it and honestly this is a racing game why the story has to be so over the top like seriously Is making a story like fast and furious a good thing ?

I love when people use steam chart as general play base while forgetting that Xbox and PlayStation exist lmao

What I hated about this game, to quote Mac on this:"Just press the drift button" it felt like I was driving on rails. That and the roulette tuning. The rest was OK at least and the ambience was just right.

9:35 you can switch it off in settings

6:40 some people will disagree with me on this and that’s okay, but I actually like Tyler, jess and mac for how compelling, relatable and enthralling they base off their characters archs. Experiencing the main narrative through each of their perspectives during their missions is what makes the game very immersive. I love listening to their dialogue during free-roam when I’m driving through silver rock, liberty desert or even mount providence while music is playing in the background. These guys have very unique and interesting personalities in a way I can relate to each and every one of them.

Loved the MICHULL instrumental in the back!

Mom, dad, come!! The blue rat is talking about another game from a dying franchise!

Favorite channel recently. Keep up the good work Blue 👍🏻

7:14 - it would be fun to make a character, something like in forza and assign yourself to event type and the other two would be filled by those characters, so if you choose that your character wants to race then Miller stays as Getaway driver and Mac is drift/rally expert. If you choose to be a drift expert then the Tyler will stay as racing expert and miller still would be a getaway driver. Basically - swap your character with one of those guys and the other stays.

small nitpicks: the cutscenes when during jess' missions can be skipped and the cinematics when you wreak a cop can be turned off in the options, along with muting the characters during races. Beyond that, I agree with everything said in the video. Also wish to mention that I got this game after a friend convinced me to try it out; came to love almost everything, especially the offroading much to my surprise. And low and behold, by the time I shelved the game, I found that I actually platinum'd the game to completion.

the soundtrack is the one thing NFS doesn't dissappoint imo. Even Unbound has a lot of good songs, even though everybody hates them.

It's mind blowing how nfs hasn't been good since it peaked with the original Most wanted

The video name kinda stunned me for a second, since at first I thought EA had actually made a physical slot machine for casinos only and not another digital casino disguised as another game. Kinda made me think of that Cash Bandiloot slot machine in british pubs. Happy to see another one of your videos, keep up the good work. (Forced realism in games makes me go scream internally and makes my PC scream like in opera hall)

At least it has the most bomb soundtrack for racing out of the ghost era.

This is why most wanted hits most of the right spot. The fact the main player character is a mute helps players to get into whatever type of driver they are. Imagine a game like zelda but the protganist is links gay streamer cousin who speaks too much.

The American Cassino Edition

the only bad thing about payback were the speedcards, since you're basically gambling every time to upgrade your car. Other than that the physics were kinda annoying at times but still waay better than the majority of nfs games.

I found this game pretty enjoyable, the card system just kinda threw me off a bit though. Still managed to make decent cars though since my luck was kinda wack the first week I decided to try

You forgot rivals from the ghost era

I agree on the slow down thing when you take out cops, my fav nfs game is rivals cause of how chaotic it is, but there the cops are like tanks so your gameplay isn’t stopped every 2 second, but on newer games its really annoying cause even if they crash buy the selves it slows and turn the camera to them

You need to make a review on NFS Prostreet. I see that people nowadays are into that Rough shitbox style that were stuck together with ductapes, zipties, leak hoses and a broken dream of owning a devalued $10000 R34 GT-R that crashes at Nevada Highway.

Good quality man, keep up what you do