Pretty sure I’m with the consensus on this one, though. “Burnout Paradise is boring, actually” is a Carolina Reaper, lava-hot, coronal ejection-level take.
That’s presumably the back of the box feature MW2012 was trying to address, but honestly I’d take the over the top crashes and slo-mo hood crumpling over the branding any day. Authentic car sims already exist and they’re for something else. If you’re not going to accurately model the physics and instead are aiming for arcade fun, then who cares?
Well, you care, and that’s fine. I’m saying if given the choice I’d take Burnout’s approach.
But still, hot take. Paradise is absolutely on my very short list of perfect games. Every piece of that game is designed to go with every other piece, and when they ran out of pieces they stopped. It’s all grain, no chaff, I can pick it up and play it any time.
And also, man, both Paradise and MW12 hold up so, so well. In retrospect Criterion had some rendering juice at the studio at the time. You guys made me boot up MW12 by talking about it and that thing looks better than most games I’ve played in the intervening decade. It’s nuts.
Well, there I can’t help. To each their own.
Pretty sure I’m with the consensus on this one, though. “Burnout Paradise is boring, actually” is a Carolina Reaper, lava-hot, coronal ejection-level take.
Not having real cars and all the races feeling the same kill the game.
That’s presumably the back of the box feature MW2012 was trying to address, but honestly I’d take the over the top crashes and slo-mo hood crumpling over the branding any day. Authentic car sims already exist and they’re for something else. If you’re not going to accurately model the physics and instead are aiming for arcade fun, then who cares?
Well, you care, and that’s fine. I’m saying if given the choice I’d take Burnout’s approach.
But still, hot take. Paradise is absolutely on my very short list of perfect games. Every piece of that game is designed to go with every other piece, and when they ran out of pieces they stopped. It’s all grain, no chaff, I can pick it up and play it any time.
And also, man, both Paradise and MW12 hold up so, so well. In retrospect Criterion had some rendering juice at the studio at the time. You guys made me boot up MW12 by talking about it and that thing looks better than most games I’ve played in the intervening decade. It’s nuts.