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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.
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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.
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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. :D |
Road Rage is absolutely awesome. When you're bored, you can easily add up to 100 takedowns.
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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...
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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!
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Getting on for almost a year later I'm giving this thread a swift old kick up the jacksy, because there's a new, rather substantial, patch on the way. Actually there's two packs on the one, the first is a free update, but there's also the new party pack coming. Details are below, but the one key thing a lot of people will be happy to hear about in the free update: you'll be able to restart races.
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Nice update. This might actually encourage me to pick the thing up and finish it after all this time.
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Given most companies ignore any such issues, or use them as basis for churning out a sequel, I don't think you can throw too many jokes Criterion's way. Plus this is all part of their push to get new sales, what with the Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Edition (or whatever it's called) landing about the same time in the shops. Given some people were put off by the lack of retry, this might be what's needed to get them interested.
I say hats off to Criterion, I wish more developers supported their games this well. Also Garr: I know I'm up for playing BP again, I'm pretty sure Skills is, so if you're down that's three of us as just a starting point. :) |
The restart feature may actually prompt me to pick up the game now. My biggest gripe with the demo was the lack of any sort of menu UI the previous games had. Being forced to do everything in-game just annoyed me and sucked out any fun I had, the lack of restarting being a big reason for that. Seems like a small thing, but I have serious issues with the whole "do everything in-game" trend that most games are going for these days, and it just seems cumbersome as fuck to do so in an arcade-style racer. Menus are sooo passé.
Either way, a purchase could be on the way. Does anyone know if the price has come down? |
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It's nice to see that they're still supporting the game after all this time although cynics might suggest that it's cheaper for them to extend the old game rather than build a whole new one and it only took Codemasters a month to disable people reversing off the line and destroying the car behind straight away in GRID. I am amazed they never had a restart option from the beginning though. Especially in a game like Burnout with it's burning route missions, the best way to complete them is to try over and over until you're properly in the zone and ace it. Having to drive back to the start each time made me really lose my focus and double the amount of time it took to complete each mission. |
I just got this game but unfortunately the ps3 version which nobody seems to be playing.
It's pretty fun but I kinda liked the confined style of the older games, in which you just pick a race and you just race, and when you enter crash mode it looked more badass :/ It's still a fun game, haven't touched online yet just so I can finish off some single player. Oh and since I don't have an hdtv I can't see shit when it turns night, not sure if it's always like this even in hd but when I'm boosting in the middle of the night and everything goes blurry it looks like I crash into an invisible "wtf I dunno" objects. I don't see myself buying the extra's though. To me it's more like a game to kill time and have fun but nothing I would devote myself to. |
I keep meaning to go back and finish up the single player to this, but I haven't gotten around to it. Maybe the new content will inspire me, though I wish this update included the new island they've been talking about since the game was released. It's mentioned in the In-Game Store section, so at least they haven't forgotten about it I suppose.
Oh, and count me in for online stuff too. We need to have more of these 8-player nights. |
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Next time we play, may I suggest that we spend more time just shooting the shit rather than getting into the challenges right away? I found that the random pointless wandering was just as much fun as the challenges.
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I'm with Shin on this. Some shooting the breeze is OK, but it's more fun when you're doing races and challenges. It'd definitely be cool to give the online Marked Man (they did add that right, I'm not just imagining it am I?) a go.
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Not to mention my favorite strategy of guessing when I'm going to be the marked man and leaving the chase to start off way far away from everybody, making them waste half their time just getting to me. The fact that they give the chasers infinite boost just doesn't quite balance it enough. Every time we've played it it's ended with everyone going "Well, that was... OK?" omg Shin y u diss :( |
The team chase mode of Takedown and Revenge were the most fun multiplayer modes though. Infinite boost for the pursuers meant you could generally catch up pretty quickly and then have epic battles trying to smash them off the road. There was tactics to it too, it often made sense for one of the team being chased to deliberately hold back and try to slow down the chasers whilst the others got away. If you're not driving full speed yourself it's much harder to take you out and they couldn't just boost past you as that made it easy for you to take them out. I used to play that for hours on end, literally. Good times.
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The thing about team chase though was that it rewarded teamwork. Because in Marked Man in the end everyone is out for themselves (only the person who takes down the marked man gets the points) it doesn't do nearly as good of a job of encouraging you to work together.
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Ah I see, I thought it worked the same as team chase, sorry.
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Bumping because the release date for the Cops and Robbers DLC pack has been announced as April 30th.
This one should be more interesting than the last few DLC packs, as it includes a new game mode, and the Police liveries are looking pretty cool.
Also, just wanted to post in this thread to make it known I'm one of the PS3 owners that plays this game. |
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I'm interested to hear more about this Cops and Robbers mode, and whilst the pack does look like it has the potential to be ace the issue for me is going to be pricing. So far all of the Burnout paid-for DLC has been well overpriced and has put me off entirely and I fear this is going to fall into the same issue. Guess we'll see though.
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Excellent. Another game (and game mode) to squish Omagnus from above in.
Like our British friend, I hope the pricing point doesn't suck. |
I got the game a month ago , beaten it alredy and loved every moment.
I can't play online becuse my internet connection is shitty but this game is awesome offline aswell . I think there should be more "action" in racing games insted of those realistic games like Forza motorsport .(It isn't a bad game, I just didn't like it so much [my opinion]) |
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There's now a price for the rather fun sounding Cops and Robbers mode (and included 33 police updates to various cars): 800 points (or $10). It's a lot better pricing that previous content, but it's all down to how many people are likely to pick it up as to how worthwhile it is. Anyone planning to get it?
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Ten bucks for what's essentially still one mode is still a bit of a rip, although you're right, it's far less of a rip than the prices they've been charging for single skins. I hate to sound like the radio brothers, but this is something I would have bought no fucking question at 400.
At the point this is all at, I'm hoping we get something like "Ultimate Box Mk. II" down the line that contains all four thousand dollars worth of the paid DLC. Wouldn't need to be only 30 bucks or anything, but cut your fanbase some fucking slack here guys. |
It's rather annoying that the first Burnout game I didn't like much is the one they've decided to keep adding bits too. :(
I keep meaning to try and get back into the game but can't find the time. Maybe I'll play it a bit over the bank holiday weekend and see if I still don't like it. |
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I dunno, sales of the complete box have been ok as I understand it so there will be plenty of new players online.
Whether or not any of them will be racing instead of just driving around in circles like twats is a different question of course. |
PUG Burnout games are almost entirely freeburn challenge completion. I don't think this will ever change.
While this is hardly bad, the automatically split userbase that comes from paid DLC sure isn't going to help matters any. |
Are there actually any decent high-speed arcadey street racing games available at the moment? I mean ones where you might get in a race online once in a while obviously.
I mean, Burnout is mainly people driving in circles crashing into each other and the next Need for Speed is a circuit racing game so apart from Outrun, what are your options if you want to drive fast into oncoming traffic? Does anyone know if that Midnight Club game is any good? |
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I bought it last week. Probably around the same time you did. |
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Screw you guys, I'm buying Cops and Robbers when it hits on Thursday.
Crash TV Episode 32 is out. It goes into greater detail on Cops and Robbers mode. Fixes added with the latest game update: Quote:
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Cops and Robbers is fun, and enough people bought it (at least for PS3) that I was always able to find a game.
It turns out that if you start a game with non-C&R-owning people in the room they can still just freeburn around while the game is going on. Same for people who join after the game is started. It's strange though because they still get boost so they can really fuck with the players. It was amusing because I hosted a game and Rockgamer joined. He didn't have the DLC and he was driving the Inferno Van. So we'd be playing Cops and Robbers and he'd be following us around. If the battle over the gold stayed in one place for too long he'd come careening through and take out everyone. It was like a timed environmental hazard. |
That sounds....awesome.
You other xblive dudes get this so I can disrupt you all. |
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Big Surf Island Trophies have been added to the PSN (go to "compare trophies" to see them) so it'll probably be out within the next few weeks. It appears that the island has "mega jumps" instead of the super jumps we are used to.
Edit: Release data announced as June 11th and preview trailer is up. |
Bumping with more island news. Two new videos that detail some of the features of the island and even show some of the new vehicles you can unlock.
new offline challenges new mega jumps new gate smashes 1 new event type 10 new online challenges 12 new road rules 9 new vehicles Price has been announced at $12.99 |
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So they are charging for it? That's kind of disappointing, since I remember hearing about the huge, free expansion that was coming back when I first bought the game. Not unexpected, and I'll still buy it immediately provided the island is large enough to warrant $13, but still disappointing.
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While this certainly looks like the best pay DLC they've released so far, I just don't play the game enough for me to justify paying over half of what I paid for the game for this. Even if I did play more, that price is still kinda hard to stomach just because it is so freaking high (though, based on the price of the other pay DLC, I can't say I didn't see it coming).
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It does add 110 (seemingly easy) achievement points, if you're into that sort of thing.
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Well, I think BP may be done and over now. One thing the BSI pack added was the Diamond P12, which is unlocked by completing all 500 online challenges. Also, BSI was the last DLC pack they've advertised and/or hinted at, so there's nothing on the horizon now.
Sadly I have heard that Criterion will be sent over to work on the new NFS game, so it may be quite a while before another Burnout comes along. |
With any luck by the time they do make another one they'll have decided to actually make it a racing game this time. The original directors of Criterion have left now anyway so the studio's output is likely to turn into a run of progressively worse carbon-copy sequels in the finest EA tradition.
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Minus Shin's horrible trolling, I don't know how I missed the announcement about the Toy Legendaries that come with Big Surf. A cute surprise when I unlocked them, I don't know how I missed the newsbit about it.
Regardless, I'm only at 380-390 or so, and considering the ability of some of you folks for getting off barrel rolls, I don't think I could expect to see the Diamond car any time soon. Now all they need is a price drop on Cops and Robbers. (Seriously, 10 bucks?) |
Has Big Surf proved worthwhile getting?
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Those toy cars are different from the ones you can buy then I take it? |
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Shin: It's a combination of two "premium" car packs, so that alone helps. The toy 88 special seems uniquely capable of holding it's own as well, unlike the other toys. It's a good pack. |
How many barrell rolls do you have to do to get the diamond p12?
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Enough to complete all of the freeburn challenges in the game.
Probably not so much how many you can do, as much as how reliably you can pull off one through a hoop or a double on demand. A lot of the freeburn population seems to fail miserably at this. |
Skills and I knocked out all of the 10 new Big Surf Island challenges. They were all painfully simple to complete. Hell, most of them were basically "meet here and then go off the nearby mega jump". We played for an hour or so and I managed to get all mega jumps, and all but two smash gates and two billboards. I'm now over 300 freeburn challenges total, so only a couple hundred more to go to get some car I can probably live without easily enough.
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While easy, they were a nice change of pace from MEET AT THE AIRPORT AND GO THROUGH THE RING.
Secondly, both the Toy 88 and the Dust Storm Super Turbo could help a bunch with some of the other challenges. The Toy 88 is probably the best jumper in the game, and the dust storm does barrel rolls quite well. |
I really like the design of the city, after exploring it for a while. Its color palette and overall design sense are significantly different and are really nice, and the retarded jumps they managed to build in are awesome. They definitely weren't kidding when they said they were designing the city around being full of tricks this time.
Also I ended up buying the legendary cars. Holy shit having that hovering DeLorean is amazing. It even leaves little fire trails behind you when you boost! |
Since a few of us have been playing this again, just wondering anyone have the Cops and Robbers DLC, or thinking about grabbing it, because I'd be down.
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Is it included in the "ultimate" rerelease? Because I was considering picking that up.
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Don't think Cops and Robbers is, but I'm not sure.
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The only pay content that the Ultimate Box has in it is the Party mode content.
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I see you guys playing this all the time. I thought this was a piece of shit. I played it when it first came out and I thought it blew, thought that was the opinion of most of you all.
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The only other person who actively hates it is Shin, man.
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