What was your "this is it!" moment?

I got hooked from the moment I saw the game, way back when... ok, so it's about 4 years ago. A friend of ours had bought BO3 for his kid and I watched a bit as the kid was playing and us so-called grown ups were sitting on the couch talking. No big surprise, my attention was sucked to the television and when hubby saw that I was sitting and well, tilting with the car in the turns, he just had to laugh.

Not long after that, we decided to get that game and do it for ourselves, and the fact that BO3 was (in our nearby store) only available for xbox, that's what we got. Yes, sometimes it's a very small thing that determines platform choice. Anyway, we played through that a LOT, and when Revenge came out, we bought it on the day it was released, prudently decided to wait until after dinner with testing it, and convinced eachother at 6 am that now we *had* to get some sleep.

It's basically gone downhill from there.

Right now I'm though sucked seriously and most likely irreversibly into WoW together with hubby, so the dear xbox360 isn't even booted up. Hasn't been since before xmas, actually... oh well, eventually I'll return for at least a little while just to keep the skills up.

Laters...

Aaboe

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There was no it moment for me...

When I first seen the game, I thought it was garbage, there was no skill, and racing games are by far the lamest games ever to play in any system... I would not play racing games... However, my friends/ neighbors 5 minutes down from my house, kept Eggin Me to play it... So I decided to buy it so I could play them... kind of just went with it... played it a couple of times, got mediocre in it... and just met new people along the way....

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"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. We Are All From The Dust, And To the Dust We Shall Return. Amen!" "Hellsing Ultimate Series I", Alexander Anderson.

Early games that I still hold in my heart as favourites of all time are Nebulus and Flashback, the main reason I remember them so fondly if because of the way the music and sound effects added to the excitement and tension of the game.

This is the same for the early Burnout games, before EA Trax. Mr Root created some of the best game music to race too, and the way the heart beat pulsed and the music changed while boosting was intense. I think it's that first time boosting in Burnout that made me know "this is it!"

Even after EA took over the reigns from Acclaim and EA Trax took over from Mr Root's compositions, the soundtrack played a huge part in how much I loved Burnout. Burnout 3: Takedown has an awesome soundtrack sometimes I would play just so I could listen to the soundtrack!  

Burnout Revenge has a great soundtrack too. Paradise however is a bit hit and miss and the levels seem really off, I have my music set to 11 but I can hardly hear the music over the engine noise even tho I have taken effects down to 6.  Personally the sound effects on Paradise don't do much for me either.

I think the sound effects and music affect my love of games more then any other feature. As long as the graphics are fit for purpose my imagination can fill in the blanks, but if the sound isn't right I just wont want to play that much.

Poker Smash is another great example of me loving a game because of the soundtrack, I absolutely love the game music and sound effects on Poker Smash!

My first online takedown on Burnout 3 was the moment I knew the game was special. After months of playing Project Gotham Racing 2 and listening to people crying when you have even the slightest contact with their car, Burnout 3 was like fresh air.

Even though you're supposed to take people down online you do still get the odd person that complains about it, but to me that just makes getting takedowns that much more enjoyable.

There are other reasons for me liking the game, like the graphics, the sense of speed... but to me the takedowns and online play are what made it stand out.

Like I said Khanon, the game didnt really peak my interest at first...

But, Revenge is a lot more technical than what it makes out to be.. which is cool with me... I guess you can say that I have what you would call OCD... Of course, thats just my opinion... because there is a bit of a rush, a hype in me to get the best out of anything... So when I realized that I could go so much faster on Revenge... It just kind of became a habit for me to play it on a constant daily basis.... so that I could get really quick times and so that I could beat my OWN times... So, yeah there was no moment for me, that ultimately said Yes, I will play this.... Its more like, Oh yeah... I can do better here or there... and thus I play Revenge on a daily basis..... not as much as before.... but still daily...

I think its like that for many really quick racers who obsess about how fast we can go... Its like a perfectionist mentality.. thats why they keep challenging and pushing themselves to the limit on how fast they can go... They may not see it, but when someone gets a better time than them, that becomes motivation to beat that other person's time... that motivation is enough to keep people playing this game without having that "IT" moment...

Unfortunately, I dont race with music on... I wouldnt know the music you guys are talking about... Every race my TV is always set to 0 volume, even on the Revenge options.. Ive set the effects and music volume to 0.. Its too distracting for me..

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"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. We Are All From The Dust, And To the Dust We Shall Return. Amen!" "Hellsing Ultimate Series I", Alexander Anderson.

I have some very incredible memories on burnout revenge where nothing else mattered but the savage things that were happening in the game. My favorite is haveing a legendary race with segaswirl. Jinno you don't use music thats pretty lame. I remember the legendary races i had i was bumping some of the most savage music into my head. Honestly, revenge actually got me into music before revenge i never knew what was the big hype about music it was mostly just annoying sounds to me, once i started to really get into revenge the music i was listening to whilst savage things would happen, everything just clicked in my mind, and i realized what awesomeness truly was in my perspective. Although i will admit, music can be distracting when your going for laptimes, for me it would make the laptime feel alot more intense and dramatic though. Now that revenge is boring from playing all the same tracks i have kinda lost interest in music again. At this point, the only music i really enjoy is when i am driving really fast in real life. Speed plus melody equals bliss.

No I dont listen to music when racing.... Ive tried listening to the Burnout Revenge music.... just didnt get me going....  so I turn it down so that I cant hear it...

On the otherhand, whenever I do feel like messing around... I put my own playlist in with some Linkin Park, Avenged SevenFold, Seether, Gin Blossoms, Hinder.....ect.... and listen to it while racing...

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"Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust. We Are All From The Dust, And To the Dust We Shall Return. Amen!" "Hellsing Ultimate Series I", Alexander Anderson.