[Multiplatform] Burnout Paradise

You guys all got this game, right?

You like it? I think it's fantastic. Never thought violating driving rules would be so much fun.

Also, while I know that it is absolutely impossible to get even close to 100%, I'd really like to complete as many online challenges as possible. The problem is that with the current amount of faggots playing Burnout Paradise online, it is impossible to complete even one 8-player-challenge, you know what I am talking about. So if you guys want to join my project, that would be cool.

Oh, I do have a PS3, not that other console that collapses when you look at it the wrong way.

I heard its a good game, but I dont play much racing besides PGR nowadays. Too bad about the PS3 for you though. Because I think there are like 10 xbox live GFF guys who play online.

I had a bit of a rant about how disappointed I was by Paradise in my journal at SB but it's still a fun game. I've had the same problem with idiots online but I've found that if you play ranked matches rather than casual ones you do actually get to race from time to time. Also a lot of people fix it so everyone drives the same car as the host which makes for much more entertaining races. I have to say I'm none too bothered about the challenges though.

I normally race offline 'cause of those same rat-bastards, Musharraf. But even then, racing around smashing into things is fun as hell. I especially like playing Marked Man with a crappy car, an amazing challenge you gotta try. I still love Road Rage though. It's gotta be my favourite!!

Too bad I'm too busy with DMC4 to race these days. Definitely will get back to it though some time.

Road Rage is absolutely awesome. When you're bored, you can easily add up to 100 takedowns.

Originally Posted by BZ

Too bad about the PS3 for you though. Because I think there are like 10 xbox live GFF guys who play online.

Indeed. You'd have no trouble at all finding people to play it with here on that "easily breakable console". (Gotta troll no matter what Mush, eh?)

Someone should make that PS3 pick up games thread, it might be easier to organize such a thing from there. Especially since most of the PS3 crew doesn't show their face in any non-PS3 related threads.

One thing that annoyed me about the challenges was that they often repeated. Get to the airport and do this thing. But do it with 2, 4, 5, 6, and 7, people. "Oh, fun.". After about 250 challenges, you start to lose interest due to further lack of reward after that point, and the fact that many of them are hilariously the same as ones you've already done.

Other than that, the game's a riot. 100 percenting the challenges sounds like a daunting task though.

Rest of the game is utter brilliance though, and I still don't understand a lot of Shin's specific complaints, as I thought they dealt with most of them in a pretty good way. Oh well, different strokes and all that.

To be fair Skills, after that rant I played a fair bit more offline, got the hang of it a bit more and I enjoy the online game more now. My problem I think, was that I wanted to be able to jump into the new game and straight away go blazing around the place with the boost button held down. Now I find that if I slow down a lot near the corners, I tend not to get so lost and can make up the time by dodging traffic on the straights. I still wish there was a quick restart button and I still think it needs a lobby option but I do enjoy the game. Playing ranked games really helps you to actually get races (I'm amazed nobody else here plays ranked, only me and one of my mates even have rankings out of my whole friends list) and that a lot of people play with matched cars turned on means I don't have to give a fuck about collecting billboards and shit. In fact I think I probably play Burnout more than you do now...

I'm not a real big racing game guy. Hell, the last racing game I got was what came with my XBox, which was Need for Speed: Most Wanted. That was a decent enough game, I suppose, but I just never really got around to finishing it.

When the guys wanted me to play the Burnout demo, I figured, you know, what the hell, right? Not like I was doing a whole lot else at the time.

Burnout Paradise is easily the most fun racing game I've played in a while, which doesn't count for much, since like I said before, not really my thing, but I tell you what, you get a bunch of your friends together and it's a blast.

There are a few problems I have with the game though, like how some of the takedowns don't make any kind of sense. I'll have a guy tap the front end of my car and I come to a dead stop and the game tells me I've just been taken down while the guy who just took me down is rolling his car through five other vehicles. And yeah, a lot of the challenges repeat depending on how many players you have with you in the game. Let's do some barrel rolls with my friend. Got that done. Oh hey, another dude wants to join. Didn't we just do this challenge?

Aside from that, this game is fantastic. The crashes are really awesome too. Sometimes I just try to see how awesome I can make a crash look. That's a pretty fun way to kill time.

Originally Posted by Shin

I still wish there was a quick restart button

Oh God, yes. PLEASE. At least the quick event end thing was useful if you fucked up early, but a restart'd be great. If I messed up a BR, at least going about it backwards gave me an idea of what revised route to take to get there in time. But other than that, oh yes.

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a lobby option

Like, for just races instead of freeburning? That'd be a nice change, actually. Many people do want to get challenges done in unranked.

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amazed nobody else here plays ranked

As a general rule, I avoid ranked if at all possible on all games. I find that, at least in my own experience, ranked has far more assholes and annoying faggots in it. I only bother with ranked if it's achievement related or there is some other tangible reason for doing so. Since it's impossible to get near the top of any leaderboards due to the amount of time some people have to play a game and grind wins, I don't see the point. Perhaps Paradise is the exception to this rule though, I haven't even looked.

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In fact I think I probably play Burnout more than you do now...

I rarely (read: never), get invites from people anymore. I'd be down though if people shot me an invite more often (or annoyed me on AIM/IRC about it).

I bought this, which lead me to then getting Flatout: Ultimate Carnage on 360, which is.. what I was pretty much looking for in the first place it would seem. =x Free roaming does nothing for me, especially since it seems so half arsed (invincible barriers of doom preventing awesome jumps or whatever everywhere). The Road Rage bits are hilarious as ever though, and I like that they included the unused, original Burnout 3 music tracks in there!