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Did Burnout: Paradise disappoint anyone?
cbebop007 | 4:02 PM on 02.21.2008 5 comments


So I've been finally playing Burnout: Paradise the past couple days and, while I'm somewhat enjoying myself, I'm also very disappointed. I'm disappointed mainly because I miss stuff from the previous games:

* Crash mode. Obvious complaint. That stupid flippy mode doesn't even come close to being a satisfying replacement. And, before you say it'll be DLC, I don't want to pay for it. If it's free, maybe I'll be slightly happier.

* No retry. I've already bitched about this on a previous post, but it still sucks when I crash right at the end of a race and have some zip by me, leaving me with second or third. I want to immediately retry, but I can't.

* Online mode. I'm sorry, but I personally don't want to be in some free zone before a race actually gets under way, only to have the host decide to leave...I just wanna fucking race. Don't make me jump through hoops to race in a racing game.

* Open city / courses. This is what almost made me lose my shit. I was way way way ahead of all those other fools in a race and drifted into a turn right towards the end. As I drifted I ended up in one of those gated shortcuts. Ok, that's fine, I'll just take this. Bad idea. Because of the open world shortcuts aren't tailored for that specific race, so this "shortcut" took me clear past the finish line and much more. By the time I got back onto the street and backtracked I got third. Fucking A.

Now before people disagree, I'm not saying it's a bad game. I realize having an open seamless online experience is new and cool, and having a huge open city that you can learn like the back of your hand to destroy on any race is great. But I'm just disappointed compared to what the previous games have been.

The best way to sum this up is to say that while I was playing Burnout: Paradise, I instead got the itch to play Burnout 3 or even, *shudder*, Burnout Revenge.

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PANZERDRAKO's Destructoid Blog
when you talk about the open world in burnout paradise is like in need for speed most wanted?
Skribble's Destructoid Blog
Man, Burnout Paradise is sweet. If you want crash mode, then play Burnout 3, if you don't want an open world, play Burnout 3, and if you want everything you knew about the previous games, then go play them.

The point Im trying to make is that Burnout Paradise is great in its own right; judge it by what it has and not by what the previous iterations had. They could have easily released another Burnout that was exactly the same as all the others and everyone still would have bought the game, but they didn't; they wanted to try something new and innovative and it worked!

Online mode is totally seamless and is great fun when you know your way around the city. If you crash during a race then you can turn the corner, pull up to another set of lights and be in a whole new race to change up your route. Find a route that takes you back to your previous race and then you can have fun getting back there.

Burnout Paradise is different, yes, but that is no excuse to say it is flawed for not sticking to its roots. It has like 85% new content and you are criticizing them for making everything fresh and different? Come oonnnnnnnnnnn.

Come onnnnnnnn!!!
chuchoyei's Destructoid Blog
@Skribble

I was also dissapointed by how many things they changed in this game.

I judge burnout paradise according to burnout standards if they didnt want me to judge it like a burnout title they could have used a different name like super cars with crashes or something

And really no retry WTF? that makes the burning laps horribly tedious.
DarkHawk24's Destructoid Blog
To me this is a good game but it dissapoints me a bit. The one thing that makes me up set is how they made open world racing a pain. I have to play this game and constently keep looking at the map because the turns are not marked. Does this not bother you?


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