Well beyond the year of Paradise...
Here we are, beyond the year of Paradise and CG's support for the game is still going strong. In their Twitter's they are still talking about playing through the game as part of their working day. The Island and Cops and Robbers packs are still being finished and will not hit our consoles for a couple of months at least, then there is the work they are doing on the 3D version???
Which makes me wonder, are Criterion Games supporting Paradise too much?
I ask mostly because I am, after over a year of playing and having completed the game and done everything I feel I want to do with it, now quite bored of Burnout Paradise.
Also, because I had a rather cool dream last night about visiting Criterion Games' offices and seeing 3 cool new titles that, in my imagination, they were working on. (none of them were car/racing/driving games)
Then to wake up and see Matt Webster's Twitter that he is going for his Elite license (again) today... made we wonder, aren't the CG boys bored of Paradise yet??? and How long will it be before they are working on something new and exciting??... which leads to how long will it be before we see a new CG game? My guess is it will be several years away at least! I will be an old married lady by then (I am nearly that now), how interested will I be in the new CG game by the time it does come out??? Maybe my future kids will be old enough to play it by then!!
Although I really like the idea of a team supporting their game after release, and I am still looking forward to the Island, although not as much as I was 6 months ago... I think over a year after release it is time to put the game to bed, and move on to a new project. 
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Dodger455
Tue, 02/24/2009 - 17:49
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Paradise lost
I am looking forward to the island, and I hope that there are some tough challenges that take some skill to complete.It is a sad feeling when you have done them all, and there is nothing else to do but try to trash your records.I am a Burnoutaholic, and I want more now, not 2 months from now.CG support is awesome, and as long as they keep it fresh, and give us something to look forward to, I will keep racing.
I don't agree with everything they do, but most of it is o.k. I hope that the game does not get old, or boring for me, or it will be "Paradise lost". And by the way, keep on dreaming of new games.
Late.
jwillisjr
Tue, 02/24/2009 - 21:25
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Expansion downloads
I hope they keep expanding the map, if it became a country...that would be really nice!!! We would have to travel bar airport or sea. The cars would be nice traveling on the interstate from state to state though.
"The sleep of reason produces monsters" -Goya
"The sleep of reason produces monsters" -Goya
Beep
Tue, 02/24/2009 - 21:39
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Would be nice
It would be cool but think how much data that would have u would need to keep changing disc 1-10+ or something if you did it properly and it would take years to make. It would never happen
jwillisjr
Tue, 02/24/2009 - 22:43
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I agree...also
Majoring in Game Art and Design ( and before that, just growing up playing and analyzing games), I totally understand the inner makings and outter makings of games. As far as switching Dvd's...hmm why again? I was thinking that with the 360 or any game console that is of next gen standards, would have the problem up if players didn't have enough space on their hard drive for downloading all the MB to GB of data.
Still it would be nice to see if they did, how that would turn out. This is why I would like to have a world editor DLC or for the PC where we can make our own world. Much easier than me having to build it from scratch with 3D studio Max, and having to somehow get an engine and all of that BS, just to make a tribute to Paradise? Too much.
We need atleast more design features, the car layouts CG gave us to design our own cars are obviously set up so they can easily transfer the designs onto their texture maps. However, I think, if they keep marketing their product where more player input gets in Paradise, its can still lead to something great for the future...For example, I will maybe have to end up making my own P12 T shirt and send to to Criterion.
Heck, I should just go work for them and stop ranting...
"The sleep of reason produces monsters" -Goya
"The sleep of reason produces monsters" -Goya
Chu
Wed, 02/25/2009 - 02:31
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Original plan was better
I wish they had stuck with the set of downloads they had originally laid out. Of course, what ever they changed to the island pushed it's release date back, but I would have been happy to wait a couple months after the Bike Pack to get it and then moved on. I love the Legendary cars, but can very much live without them, as I'm sure will also be the case with the Boost Specials and the Toy cars. Give me my island and Dust Storm, then move on to a new Burnout game with circuit racing already.
22samurai
Thu, 02/26/2009 - 19:51
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Long live Burnout Paradise
As long as CG/EA supports it (and after), I'm totally supporting Burnout Paradise. I plan on buying all the DLC available. I will probably play other games when I get Elite/all cars, but you can bet that I'll be back time and time again to get my racing fix.
PsychedelicBabe
Thu, 02/26/2009 - 23:59
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until....
the inevitable happens.....and they stop, and forget about it...then promise you a bigger brighter better game and alas they disappoint you....you then get angry and feel disappointed.....thats how i feel right now :(
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