Jonathon

You're getting more Trophies than the XBox people are getting to Achievements.

Burnout Revenge is shit and anyone that actually likes it or nay, puts their enjoyment of it above Burnout: Paradise is a delusional retard.

There. I said it.

This coming from someone who has completed both games beyond 100%.

Sandbox, all the way.

I am eagerly anticipating being able to make Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast map recreations in the sky bubble.

"On a side note, I despise DJ Atomica =]"

Curse you and your attempt at unifying us on something totally irrelevant that I have to agree with.

"And that is exactly what I have done. I've purchased the *good* games in the series that had a focus on speed and on fun, not on tedium and frustration."

So you like pushing buttons and not strategizing or figuring out within the confines of the game's architecture what will make you good at it. Maybe you play the wrong games, nay, have the wrong system. WarioWare seems to fit better to what you're looking for in a game.

"Pausing the check the map, angrily driving back to the start of the race,"

Which, you've got two different things you can do here. You can go back and get a better feel for the road OR you can start another event nearby where that one terminated.

"and wasting my time searching for collectibles"

Smashes help you find routes for your racing, which we'll get to in a second, and billboards and super jumps give you a feel of the cars' capabilities so you don't over or under compensate jump distance, steering, tricks for boost, etc. before you get online and utterly fail a race.

"when I could be doing what I was trying to do in the first place, i.e. play the meat of this so-called "racing" game,"

But this is not a series of tracks for you to do over and over again offline and then take to it online. We're talking about an open world where routes can change and are determined by the players. You need to be familiar with how those work and how to stitch one together in order to constantly win.

"is not anyone's idea of a job well done,"

More than a few publications and awards shows have bestowed "best driving game" to Burnout Paradise. More than a million people have registered to play online.

I think you're wrong.

"and with that it's not beyond help. A simple "restart race" feature for singleplayer would be painless and in no way undermine the open world."

YES. IT. DOES. Why? Because if you have to cheat your way around the city and are completely unaware of your surrounding, then you become one of the fuckups I have to constantly contend with in challenges or team matches.

"You're both desperately defending a game you love despite this change doing nothing but improve an almost positive experience."

el oh el wut

For what it's worth, Paradise is my first Burnout game. I'll never understand the hard on that people have with the previous installments.

"I understand the limitation is due to their online functionality, but most people won't even bother with that feature."

Oh, and if there was ever any notation that you don't know what you're talking about and shouldn't be solicited for any advice, it's this. Playing online is the MEAT of the game. Based on the total hours I've spent online and offline, it's half the gameplay. It was the main tenet of their advertising campaign.

But sure, keep on about games that don't fit your needs but are fine for the rest of the hundreds of thousands that have played it.

Nope, wrong. If you're looking for an easy way out by having a quick restart option, you're quite simply a whiner and are completely missing the point of having an open world game, and should go back to the previous installments of the series.

The absolute ONLY way to know your way around the city and thus get all the collectibles (smashes, billboards, etc.) and be comfortable enough to find the shortest routes on the fly during races and the like is to do the double time of doing an event, failing, and working your way back from a different point of view to try it again, better this time because you've got a better bearing on where you actually are and where you're going.

If there was a quick restart to the game, then there would've been no point to them wasting all that time to make an open world game. Why don't you just spit in Criterion's face while you're at it.

If I remember correctly from my wild and crazy Apple fanboy days, a large PR reason that Apple went with Intel was because IBM promised availability of a 3.0 Ghz G5 processor and couldn't/wouldn't deliver on it, while they were delivering results for Microsoft and the 360.

It is weird to think that while the Mac got beat up a lot in the gaming press for not being a "game machine" that the tech that was used to power it since 1996 was the forerunner to power this generations' consoles.

Also, Steven Blum did Brute voices in Halo 3.

There's even a few Pillows songs that are completely in English. I've been wishing for this for a very long time.

Even some that are partial Japanese lyrics should be considered. Hell, "Call Me" by Blondie has French in it, so why not?