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Neophobia - Unwillingness to try new things or break from routine.

I think the problem here is one of expectation, because this is the next iteration in the burnout series we expect more of the same and not a total reinvention. If this game was called anything else we would probably be very excited by the things that are being talked about.
It is getting slightly depressing reading about how people are giving up on a series that they love because, in essence, they are scared of change.  Racers upset by a lack of set tracks, Crashers upset by a lack of set crashes, Road ragers upset by……..actually these guys should be in heaven.
If you want a game with all the crash junctions or racetracks you know and love,  there is a deceptively simple solution already provided to you by those kind folks at Criterion¹ (burnout team rocks!(one for the podcast fans out there)).
If the reason you are not looking forward to it is because it is a totally new experience, and not “more of the same“, how can you say you will not enjoy it - without having first experienced it?
I for one cannot wait to try it out and I may be disappointed and head back to Revenge, but I have yet to play a Criterion game that I did not love, and I find it hard to believe that they would make such a huge mistake.
It should also be noted that whether we like to admit it or not we do not represent the average Burnout fan, if we were to look in from the outside I think we would be viewed as the “Loony obsessive diehards”(LOD), and not as I am sure we would like to believe the concerned fans of the series. If you disagree with being called an LOD take a look around, you are on a site dedicated to a computer game that maybe a few thousand still play on a regular basis. I for one am happy to be an LOD, for Revenge at least, as I frikkin love that game. The cool thing is though, if I love Paradise I can always come back for a visit with all the neophobics on Revenge.
 

Morning Mr Bloggy Woggy troggy doggy loggy, I could go on and on and on but wont as it does piss some members off😉. Okie Dokie were was I, ah yes Burnout Revenge yet another nearly great night racing, were does everyone go at weekends, it was very hard trying to fill a room and then when it did get full ichi had to kick them for having no headsets, (dude you cant be choos'ie on weekends), do PS2 people play revenge at weekends (makes you think dosen's it), apparently we played with one of The Creators friends last night and had to do his work (your getting lazy dude) so me and ichi recruited him  by force, and the promise of a free cookie.. (choc chip Xandu) I shouldent say this but heck why not I dont like racing in ranked room's ichi stop making me do that damn you, shure people have headsets but they dont use them and its so hard to get someone to talk when they are racing and all you get is shut up Im concentrating, We also raced with someone from the day (you dont get that ichi your a noob) called Tammy she used to be good on Burnout 3 so its nice to see that she isent so good on revenge, right I'm going to finish my coffe and go to work laters Bloggy Woggy Joggy Boggy

I was writing up a response to a question someone asked me and it just kinda got away from me.  I thought I’d try to work it into something readable and just post it as a blog.  I know this is BurnoutAholics not Skate.Aholics but there are a few parallels so maybe I can sneak by with this one. 

It's official:  the San Francisco Giants will not be resigning all-time home run leader and single season home run record holder, Barry Bonds, next season.

I understand that the franchise is trying to rebuild, but Bonds is a legend; an all-time great whose legacy will remembered, and not diminished or tarnished by the rumors of scandal.

Just had a great night on Revenge as usual, before i left Zom and Xan join and SUFFER and Boot are in the room and i'm the host and keep disconnecting How Rude! Sorry guys - cheap tiscali connection i guess...

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Total Burnout moment -

Just picked up a copy of EA's new game 'skate.' And I'm having a blast with it.  This is a really really fun game after you get the controls worked out and can start nailing the grinds.  I'm cruisin around this city just goofin around, pullin off reverse fakey double nollie kickflips into front side 50-50 grinds and kickflipping out into 360 reverse grabs to manual.  Ok maybe I made that up, but its still fun as hell.  Even crashing is a blast and some of them really do look painful.  Eventually I started trying to see how many bones I could break in a single crash which had both me and my roommate and my cat laughing our asses off.   Ok, time to go for some cool tricks again.  So I find a good spot to go for a big jump, set down a session marker and off I go, building up speed, off the ramp, smash.  Dangit, try this again. Still no dice, I need more speed so I do what anyone else would do.  Oncoming traffic right?  doesn't work so well on a skateboard but oh well, keep trying it.  My friend had to point out to me that it wasn't really helping.  skate doesn't give you boost for doing that. "BurnoutAholic moment" I thought something was up.  Why isn't my boost bar filling up? shouldn't I be going faster?  I wasn't even thinking about it.  First thing I would do after crashing is skate into oncoming honestly thinking in the back of my head that I would get up to speed faster.  Yup, BurnoutAholic.

As i have just had a good night racin' friends i would like to welcome Rams to the fold (can't believe i can type at this point - very drunk) - look out for for Boot's Bloggy Woggy's as they are very entertaining.  He has a strange relationship with Suffer at the Mo, don't know if it is a love hate thing as they have probably never raced yet but they seem to be getting along fine for two guys who are miles apart who share the same commen theme - RE. complete and utter madness LOL

im not lieing i did make this http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/107330.html mabye you should watch the other videos!!

go check now im telling the truth it took so long to upload it also!!

morning Bloggy woggy, it would seem that certain members on this site do not approve of our special relationship Bloggy, I think its Jelousy that you prefer me more than them, it probably stems from some deep deep childhood secret to horrible to mention, something like their teddy getting bear-napped, but don't worry Blogster this changes nothing  you will be The Blogg..