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[Christoff Yurievich]

Alright, I've put more time into the game and I do like it much more. That said, I'd love for Criterion to patch the game to at least make it an option to show a BIG ARROW flashing in the middle of the screen for an instant whenever I should make a turn. It's been really aggravating to lose a race, not because of racing, but because of directions.

I was racing with headphones on so I could hear the chiming of the turn signal pretty well. Shocked me the first time it happened because I didn't know what was going on.

EDIT: I am glad I can turn most of DJ atomic'a babbling of byt turning of tips in the options menu.y

this is important and very useful. I was happy to not have to listen to him as much as I did in the demo.

 

[Ronin]

Scooped up the PS3 version today. Would like to play online with some of you clowns.

Add me.

PSN - RoninRevolver

 

[C4Lukins]

With Showtime mode is there any benefit or goal involved in it? I tried it out a couple of times and it just totaled a score for me in the end and I was just curios if there was some sort of end goal or cars to be unlocked in the mode.

 

[Slaylock]

The rumble in this game is awesome. I love the hit you get when a car drops in the junk yard. Would hate to be playing this with the Sixaxis.

I ordered a DS3 from an eBay seller on Friday, in large part for this game. I'm looking forward to the rumble.

 

[DenogginizerOS]

The rumble in this game is awesome. I love the hit you get when a car drops in the junk yard. Would hate to be playing this with the Sixaxis.

Dual Shock 3 will thankfully rectify this. Mine comes tomorrow or Friday.

 

[Gowans]

I cant wait to picking this up on Friday, my driving tunes are already playlisted up (same as in my car) Battery & Whiplash (Metallica) = Full Speed, everyone taken down.

Expect this to do really well over here, emost guys on my friends list are gagging!!"

 

[Gary Whitta]

One cool feature I just noticed is that in surround sound the game will send the car's turn signal sound to the appropriate left or right satellite speaker, so you can identify which way you have to turn by sound alone.

 

[j-wood]

Help me GAF, I am in a bind. I can buy Burnout paradise now, and get DMC4 at some other time, or vice versa (by DMC4 I mean in a couple of weeks).

What do I do?!?!?!

 

[ElectricBlue187]

does this game have splitscreen co-op?

 

[pxleyes]

does this game have splitscreen co-op?

dont believe so

 

[Grecco]

Help me GAF, I am in a bind. I can buy Burnout paradise now, and get DMC4 at some other time, or vice versa (by DMC4 I mean in a couple of weeks).

What do I do?!?!?!

Play both demos and decide for yourself? :lol

 

[DenogginizerOS]

One cool feature I just noticed is that in surround sound the game will send the car's turn signal sound to the appropriate left or right satellite speaker, so you can identify which way you have to turn by sound alone.

Yes. And when you are doing challenges online that invlove one person jumping over others, you can hear your compadre whistle overhead as he attempts the jump and hear the distant thud in the rear channels as the message pops up on screen that your compadre has wrecked.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

The rumble in this game is awesome. I love the hit you get when a car drops in the junk yard. Would hate to be playing this with the Sixaxis.

I would hate to have to play with their shit ass music. Thank goodness for custom soundtracks.

This game truly is all kinds of awesome. Can't wait to get in more time tonight.

 

[Gary Whitta]

The surround-sound turn signal thing is nice but I think even better would have simply to steal a trick from The Getaway and have the car's actual turn signal flash prior to a turn. That way I can anticipate a turn at high speed without taking my eye off the road.

 

[j-wood]

I think I'll pick up paradise, and finish beating assassin's creed. Then trade AC in, and get 30 bucks towards DMC4, because I really don't see myself playing through AC again...

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

does this game have splitscreen co-op?

this has been asked so many times maybe it should go into the OP. no, it's not.

 

[Duke Togo]

A bit LTTP.

psn: duketogo

 

[Aladuf]

The rumble in this game is awesome. I love the hit you get when a car drops in the junk yard. Would hate to be playing this with the Sixaxis.

I'm playing with the Sixaxis...maybe I should look into getting a DS3?

Also, I'm finally starting to figure out where things are in the game! At first I was getting pretty lost because the world is just massive! This game is hella-fun and I'm ready to meet up with some GAFfers when a few of us are online at the same time.

 

[Blimblim]

I'm not sure you guys will care since the majority are from areas where the game is already out, but I've put online two 60 fps videos of the game, showing the mountain area tracks and the showtime mode from the 360 version (only got that one from EA)
http://www.gamersyde.com/news_5820_en.html

 

[dammitmattt]

The surround-sound turn signal thing is nice but I think even better would have simply to steal a trick from The Getaway and have the car's actual turn signal flash prior to a turn. That way I can anticipate a turn at high speed without taking my eye off the road.

I'm pretty sure it does, but it's just not easy to see.

With Showtime mode is there any benefit or goal involved in it? I tried it out a couple of times and it just totaled a score for me in the end and I was just curios if there was some sort of end goal or cars to be unlocked in the mode.

Each road (64 total) has a goal that you have to eclipse. To see the goal, press up on your d-pad when you are on the road. They're usually in the 500,000-1 million range, and once you beat the total, the street sign turns from red to silver.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

this is the headset I got:

will it work in this game? I bought it because of the open-ear design and it says it's PS3 compatible. Thanks.

 

[gray_fox224]

To those of you planing to get the game at Gamestop/ EB, there's a 10%off coupon curt of CAG user lwelyk. It works. I'm going it use it this weekend when I pick the game up

http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/showthread.php?t=168288

 

[gray_fox224]

this is the headset I got:

will it work in this game? I bought it because of the open-ear design and it says it's PS3 compatible. Thanks.

It will work.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

I'm not sure you guys will care...

Thanks Blim, you look after us in the UK.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

nice, thanks.

Spoiler

I also bought it to use in Rock Band to sing and play guitar/drums at the same time

 

[Woo-Fu]

The surround-sound turn signal thing is nice but I think even better would have simply to steal a trick from The Getaway and have the car's actual turn signal flash prior to a turn. That way I can anticipate a turn at high speed without taking my eye off the road.

It does if the rear end of your car isn't trashed---and had turn signal indicators in the first place.

 

[besada]

Played a couple of hours last night. The sense of speed is wonderful (particularly on the hood camera setting). I didn't have much problem getting around, and discovered that I love the Marked Man races. There are only eight ending points, so getting where you're going is mostly just staying headed in a single direction.

So far, I'm glad I bought it and I haven't even taken it online yet.

 

[besada]

this is the headset I got:

will it work in this game? I bought it because of the open-ear design and it says it's PS3 compatible. Thanks.

If I could find a bluetooth version of this, I'd be ecstatic. I love the form factor, but I've been unable to find anything like it in a bluetooth.

 

[Union Carbine]

Anyone else notice (360 version) that there isn't a driver in the car? It threw me for a loop when I first saw it.

I love the big map but some of the more remote locales (I'm thinking the Wind Farm, etc.) don't have much going on around them so after ending a challenge there, I find myself wasting time driving back to civilization.

I really like having to take down a car to add it to the collection.

 

[Slaylock]

Anyone else notice (360 version) that there isn't a driver in the car? It threw me for a loop when I first saw it.

The developers have said that it would be disturbing to see a body getting crushed as you wrap your car around a telephone pole.

 

[Xun]

Anyone else notice (360 version) that there isn't a driver in the car? It threw me for a loop when I first saw it.

Neither version has a driver in the car.

It makes sense if you think about it though.

 

[bluheim]

If I could find a bluetooth version of this, I'd be ecstatic. I love the form factor, but I've been unable to find anything like it in a bluetooth.

This was supposed to launch by the end if 2007...but we are still waiting for it :

Logitech Vantage Bluetooth

 

[Gary Whitta]

Yeah the Burnout series has never had drivers, IIRC.

 

[Union Carbine]

The developers have said that it would be disturbing to see a body getting crushed as you wrap your car around a telephone pole.

Neither version has a driver in the car.

It makes sense if you think about it though.

Eh. Didn't FlatOut create an entire concept just out of the driver getting flung out of a wrecking car? With all the havok-physics flinging of bodies that happens in games these days did they really think an anonymous driver type getting flung through a windshield or wrapped around a dashboard would be that disturbing? Heck, they could have just made the driver a crash test dummy. It makes sense if you think about it.

 

[Xun]

Yeah the Burnout series has never had drivers, IIRC.

Actually that's not entirely true, I seem to recall Burnout 3 had drivers. But they were completely static.

Oh well, drivers or not, it really doesn't bother me.

 

[distrbnce]

I prefer no driver with more attention paid to the car, and more horsepower devoted to physics.

A crash test dummy would be dumb.

It makes sense if you think about it.

 

[steve]

The surround-sound turn signal thing is nice but I think even better would have simply to steal a trick from The Getaway and have the car's actual turn signal flash prior to a turn. That way I can anticipate a turn at high speed without taking my eye off the road.

It does that. When you hear the turn signal, the light on your car flashes. You just don't notice it because the game is SCREAMING by at such a frantic pace. :lol

 

[besada]

Logitech Vantage Bluetooth

That's exactly what I want. Thanks. I'll keep an eye on it now.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Not many people talking about crashes, anyone had some crazy crash that would be .gif worthy?

 

[Gary Whitta]

It does that. When you hear the turn signal, the light on your car flashes. You just don't notice it because the game is SCREAMING by at such a frantic pace. :lol

Yeah I wonder if the much-called-for option to make the turn warnings more prominent would even help given the uniquely insane speed of this game. To some extent Burnout has always felt more like being shot from the barrel of a gun than navigating a racing course, so this free-form expansion is really throwing a lot of people. The only real solution may be to simply play the game enough to learn the city and be able to anticipate the correct turns without any kind of help. That amounts to a very steep learning curve, though.

 

[KAOS]

Might be too early calling Burnout Paradise racing GOTY but damn if it isn't!!! Been enjoying the Xbox 360 version kudos to Criterion/EA!

Gamertag: Geistkaos

 

[Rowsdower]

Not many people talking about crashes, anyone had some crazy crash that would be .gif worthy?

Oh plenty. Like in an online race we all crashed our 8 cars in the same spot at the same time while everyone was laughing histerically over the headset.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Oh plenty. Like in an online race we all crashed our 8 cars in the same spot at the same time while everyone was laughing hysterically over the headset.

I need this game

 

[h3ro]

Not many people talking about crashes, anyone had some crazy crash that would be .gif worthy?

Yeah, really makes me think Criterion missed out on an opportunity by not including a Replay/Save replay feature...

Imagine if we had an upload site where we could view our mugshot collection, Replay stills and replay movies ala teh Haloz... woulda been great!

Also, the Steel Wheels code, is it working for everyone?

 

[fistfulofmetal]

Not many people talking about crashes, anyone had some crazy crash that would be .gif worthy?

I nailed a vertical take down online from like... 30 feet high.

 

[besada]

It's a crime there's no saveable replay feature. If any game screamed for H3-esque replays and saves, it's this one. I had a wreck last night where My car traveled the full-length of the street balanced on its front bumper. It was sweet, but no one will ever see it.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

I nailed a vertical take down online from like... 30 feet high.

 

[fistfulofmetal]

The dudes mugshot reaction was a combination mooning and middle finger.

By the by, how does I save these mugshots again?

 

[Koren]

Does somebody know if it's possible to play with european gamers (with PAL games) using the US version of the game ?

 

[dkeane]

The dudes mugshot reaction was a combination mooning and middle finger.

By the by, how does I save these mugshots again?

Saves them automatically, just go through the options screen you'll see them.