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• Emphasis with caps doesn't bother me when i'm reading stuff on here, but on a professional website it rea... : qwpeoriu
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  I found it fun. Its a game where the sole purpose is to crash into other cars...people are actually expec... : VegasX
  • Yeah people just seem to expect it to suck for some reason. I loved it, and I am definitely getting it. : nomaad
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    depth is a varied notion. Most apparently simple games which are very fun have a depth to their simpli... : seven
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      again, the point of the game is to crash as much as possible. lol : VegasX
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        No it's not. Have you ever even played Burnout? That's not remotely the goal. It's a racing game. A... : Chris Remo
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          Well thats how I play it. Its a racing game where you get bonuses for crashing through billboards, gettin... : VegasX
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            None of the things you said are responding to anything I said. It's a racing game. I didn't say it's a ... : Chris Remo
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              It's not a racing game in the same context that Forza or PGR may be.
              
              For instance, I dont play Forza or PGR as I find them boring. I find it boring to just sit there and race around the tack 6 times in hopes to geting 1 of 3 winning slots at the end.
              
              After about 3-5 minutes I purposefully turn my vehicle around to try and run into all the on coming traffic I can.
              
              The Burnout series rewards this behavior to some degree and in fact is built upon players taking advantage of that. I consider Burnout to be as much of a racing game as Carmageddon or Twisted Metal.

              Dec 21, 2007 2:42am PST
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              It's not a racing game in the same context that Forza or PGR may be. For instance, I dont play Forza ... : VegasX
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                Are you even reading my posts? I'll say it yet again: I am not claiming it is a racing game in the same ... : Chris Remo
                • admittedly not having played the first Burnout, you are correct. I am only repeating myself because it se... : VegasX
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            burnout is very much an arcade racer, keyword here is race. the majority of the game is still racing agai... : pyide
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              sure and I get that aspect. But from my understand in Paradise the "racing" aspect is not longer necessar... : VegasX
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                all the other stuff in paradise that's not racing came about from their decision to make it an open world : pyide
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                  Well sure I mean you absolutely will have to race to gain upgrades or new cars and paint jobs or unlock o... : VegasX
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                    "But like you mentioned going as fast as you can, trying not to crash while trying to take out your buddi : Chris Remo
                    • No it isnt, not at all. The point of an FPS (usually) is to stay alive by all means necessary. There are ... : VegasX
              • I think that is what everyone hates. The fact that the racing has taken a back seat to the (frankly borin... : marmite
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              Not to mention, crash mode wasn't even in the original Burnout. Burnout started as a racing game series,... : Chris Remo
              • To be honest, I never played the first burnout. I only played Burnout:Revenge and I loved it because I wa... : VegasX
        • eh...kinda. Forza 2 is a racing game. This is (was?) an arcad-y driving game with several different mod... : YoYo
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    How on earth are you interpreting the criticisms as calling for "depth"? What does that even mean? If... : Chris Remo
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      after playing the demo, i'd say i like the way online play is done so much more than sitting in a lobby, ... : pyide
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        I've seen a demo of it and as far as I know you specify a start and endpoint, and then it generates a rou... : Chris Remo
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          On its wiki article: Multiple settings have been confirmed to be fully customisabl6][7]such as: ... : pwnage1232
          • 16 checkpoints? that is awesome. you could make some really epic races. i was fearing for a while it woul... : pyide
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            can wikipedia be trusted here? i seriously can't stop pumping cum, but the [7] source leads to an ign ... : pyide
            • well i listened to it- their podcast says you can save 10 of your own custom routes}t]b, complete with th... : pyide
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      Why is my junk getting jumped on about a game that, for the most part, is about crashing, and getting poi... : VegasX
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        Who is calling for elaborate single-player story lines, NPCs with backstories, and worlds filled with mag... : Chris Remo
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          When I talk about those who are calling for more "depth" or unicorns with drug dependencies and shady his... : VegasX
          • err everyone who has talked to be, personally, not *everyone* as in Earth : VegasX
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            Like I said in the other post, fine, you can play Burnout however you want. This is true for every game.... : Chris Remo
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              I was being facetious in my original statement, as we both know sarcasm or tongue in cheek doesn't always... : VegasX
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                I understand you were exaggerating but again the things that you were exaggerating were completely out of... : Chris Remo
                • Well yeah it's not beneficial to be taken out or total your car (though it's still fun imo). No I dont de... : VegasX
  • No, but most of us would expect a sequel to be better than previous iterations, rather than fucking up so... : Vincent Grayson
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  Lol "The lack of retry really isn't an issue." It's the reason I'm not buying it. I can't see anything... : marmite
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    there's a whole paragraph about showtime mode near the bottom. it's pretty hilarious. and while their... : pyide
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      I wonder why retrying would necessitate loading. Can't they just teleport you across the map. maybe it'll... : marmite
      • it's all about the engine & how the data is streamed probably. i have zero knowledge in this area thus no... : pyide
  • I don't see why they couldn't go middle of the road like NFS:MW did. Their hardline dedication to an imm... : pwnage1232
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  This is incredibly childish and adds one more reason I don't want to buy the game anymore. : Begawkiness
  • I liked the GAME and thus will be buying the GAME. I may not like what the DEVELOPER is saying but then a... : gakera
• Even as a big fan of the Burnout series and as someone definitely picking up Paradise on day 1, that whol... : pwnage1232
• that guy sounds like a fucking ass. how dare people criticise your game! : erotic sock
• No crash mode? :( I really liked playing party crash with 3 or 4 folks. Watching each other hammer th... : YoYo
• as they mention TDU i really hope they do another TDU game. that was really fun (even more so with the ha... : CoRDS
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  I'm glad they have worked hard to eliminate loading. The long loading times of Revenge prevented me from ... : filthysock
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    They made it worse though. Where as before you could keep trying the burning laps if you fucked up (and t... : marmite
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      OUCH :( Ok it appears they are using the same segment-loading technique from revenge then. Where they str... : filthysock
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        from that article "The demo was made AFTER work on Paradise was completed, so no, we won't be using inter... : marmite
        • If the sales figures suck they will patch. Unlikely tho, the brand is pretty powerful. : filthysock
        • Awesome asshole apostrophe usage from them too, ahahahaha : pwnage1232
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  The sooner they get this game out of the way, the sooner i will have a sequel to Black. : Drewus
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    holy fuckity fuck yes YES YES YOU HEAR THIS YOU FUCKS?! THIS DREWUS CHARACTER KNOWS WTF : scottythejock
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      Seriously, that game was so awesomely mindlessly fun. I don't even know wtf it was about, all i know is t... : Drewus
      • it was definitely very goldeneye-ish, I have a boner just talking about this. umm.. I'm gay for black : scottythejock
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      Sign me up to this fuckity fuck fuck fest please. I want to shoot REALLY loud guns to create REALLY FUCKI... : nodebug
      • Best gun sounds in a game evar! RATATATATATATATATATATATATA KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMM!!! RATATATAT... : Drewus
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    I could never get into black... wait a minute I've said this to you before http://www.shacknews.com/la... : marmite
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      while the unskippable cut-scenes were eye-clawingly annoying, the rest of your "points" were ignored comp... : scottythejock
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        are you denying that it often took 2-3 clips to kill guys? That the ammo was VERY scarce? that the game s... : marmite
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          heathen. : scottythejock
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            your in denial. : marmite
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              you're. : scottythejock
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                ewe too just settle down : filthysock
                • this is getting rediculous : Drewus
              • :) : marmite
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          so, so wrong in every way : jcupitt
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            oh yeah, well I don't think I am. : marmite
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              oh yeah?? : jcupitt
              • yeah. so there. : marmite
  • You mean a pretty and loud but otherwise utterly derivative shooter with a worthless story and repetitive... : node
  • yes please. One of the most entertaining shooters I've played the last few years. : SilverSnake
• Oh man. Talk about a poor way to react. Calling it 'feedback', criticising the spelling in the letters th... : node
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  What a horrible way to react to your fans and/or buyers. : Maarten Goldstein
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    "The lack of retry really isn't an issue. You may disagree, but we don't feel it is" That really reads... : marmite
    • "We don't care what you think." : dirge23
    • i laughed at that too. "you have criticism? it doesn't apply here. move along." great argument. : FrayLo
• "(when not too distracted by all the bad spelling in all of the letters we receive". Seriously - what a l... : jbury
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  because this new Burnout is an experience that YOU choose how to play rather than us forcing a game struc : jrock
  • to me, it sounds awesome for online play though, which is where the longevity has been in the past two b... : pyide
• Obviously the lack of retry is an issue or else the feedback wouldn't indicate it is. Since they don't th... : .ka`boom.zZz.