PSN Thursday: Bowled over by Burnout Paradise

Good for them, gotta cut them some slack sometime.

Microsoft is freaking brilliant. If you choose not to pay for their online service, you get to wait a week for the demo, while your PS3 brethren (who also chose to pay nothing) get to play it the whole time.

Great competitive differentiator there, guys.

Other great crippleware suggestions:

XBox Live Silver members get downscaled to 480i.
XBox Live Silver members get an hourly nag warning to upgrade to Gold.
XBox Live Silver members are limited to 3 hours play daily with the new Family Timer(tm) technology.

Quick impressions of the burnout demo (360, in case anyone cares) is that this game sucks. Why couldn't they have given us a prettier burnout 3? This whole free roaming stuff is boring as hell, and the worst part is that if you want to replay an event, you have to drive all the way back to it. SSX3 did this free roaming thing too, but it also had a menu that you could use to pick your events the old way, in case you just wanted to get on with it.

Oh cmon, this extra week crap is stupid. All you have to do is create a new Live Profile and they give you a free month of Gold on the spot. Worst-case scenario: you have to set up a new throw-away e-mail address.

REAL TOUGH, MICROSOFT.

Tell me about it. XBL gold members get to pay for the service, and yet every dashboard blade is littered with ads...and we have yet to get any dedicated servers in our games.

Woot. Gonna get me the punk pack.

Also get on Burnout on PS3 tonight. I played it on 360 this morning and it's great. The friend invites and such are great and I'm told identical on PS3. However, if the PS3 one doesn't have voice chat I'm gonna be pissed.

So boring. Feels so limited. The only moderately interesting thing is the crashes, and with no replay they're over quickly. No incentive for them - they're mistakes.


Swing and a miss.

I played the demo last night, I would like to say that my personal favourite was Burnout Revenge, this one seems to want to be need for speed. If I want to play burnout I think that I would be more likely to throw in the Burnout Revenge in my PS2 and rock that. How come all the burnouts that came out after that one aren't fun for me. Anybody else feel the same? Course it is just a demo but free roam? i didn't like having to fix my car while cruising around in free roam either. Oh ya and again there was no hitting cars from behind to send them flying into the oncoming. You want me to play something on a PS3 comeout with Burnout Revenge2 with some newer boards better cars and more big fire and explosions.

My family and I are having a blast with High Velocity Bowling!!

Burnout is OK, I guess.

...not sure how this turned into a 360 dash commentation section, but I am happy with XBL. am hoping it will become free in the future though (especially since they do have ads).

I WILL say that XBL marketplace is MUCH easier to navigate than the PSN Store. I really wish that the PSN Store was setup like their XMB Media Bar--I think it'd be much easier to find things and navigate than their current setup.

@Xopher
Agree. BurnoutRevenge is (IMO) the best in the series. Haven't had a chance to play the Paradise demo yet, though. I do like the other games in the series, but Revenge is by far the most played at my house.