Usurpers are as insipid as....

But I have written about my early tales of Xbox Live and Burnout, but since there is a 1000 plus members this blog should have a lot of comments.

Truth be told I can't seem to be as good as I ever was, is that a way to put it? I suffur from heart trouble when I play now it must be due to age and the slow pace of Paradise, lol. 

I just Know I played a lot of Burnout 2 then 3 then I went online (Originally to play Halo 2), and after getting use to people talking while i play, see smack talk use to put me off, lol. But after that I just followed my fast racing line, not the best ones as I never player against other onliners, just 2 player split-screen, which was normally a follow my leader sort of affair, but once you get online you realize that there is some fast racers out there and I still held my own with a slower car, Tuned Super, none of that twitchy Super Assassin skollob, or Euro for that matter.

But it was Road Rage on the blue team and giving the 'I am better than you so I will be on the Red Team and going to pop your cherry tyhs' I kept winning as a Blue guy, don't get me wrong the Reds in them days were good so I was not always a winner, but I think I brought their game up, and they just got better and so did I. But the great thing about Road rage was even if you died you could still chase the Red guys and protect your fellow Blue's. And that is where my place was, Protecting Zombie and any other blue's out there, but only after a Red guy/lass/dude/dudette got me, and to get me you had to weave through traffic and follow my tail till I fubar'ed, and most of the time, since Reds were using Euro's Or the WCR? they could not squeeze through the traffic like my Tuned Super, I did lead a merry chase. Till MonkeyCMonkeyDo would just pop up outta no-where and smash me against a wall. Or drunknnumpty!

We had a regular set of people, who I hope would pop up on the comments some time. I always enjoyed Being a solo blue rabbit too, because if you won one of those especially on Tropical Drive 6 laps you were counted as good, and that is always nice, lol.

I remeber the first Xbox Revenge, going around with numpty, showing him short cuts and the like, and catching on to boost drifting and jumping, it was part of the way I drove, slamming on the brake as I come round a corner, double clicking on the accelerator and brake and shooting around the corner, none of the mantaining speed stuff that is the main ingredient today, but just getting out of the corners quick because that was the main area where you could get nailed to a wall in Road rage, get in quick and get out quick, as a self defence mechanism.

I race with Bootleg on 3 in the day but I always though he was some whipper snapper American, not a Welsh charity worker, lol. I jest.

Anyway, so may people and a lot of hours of fun and it was a get home, start food and get in a good room asap, and stay there till 2AM, from 4PM, and that was a daily thing during the week, the weekends I rarly slept.

As I said before I played Burnout 3 online for 3 days straight, and had to ask the host to kick me so I would sleep, and from a noob with a dash to 200+ rank I say I was good, though I mostly nicked it of our across the pond yanks, who I miss, Stang1970 was one of them, I think his Gamer Tag was, who had a custom built 60 inch Plasma from Sony, in those days, he was a rich guy so he said and even invited me to his home in the States once for a party, but I stupidly declined, I hardly saw him after that, which was a shame as he was a cool dude, to the max as ZombieTron might say. 

Anyway I seem to not be making sence now, but I hope the future of Burnout games looks back at Burnout 3 and 2 and sees what made them great for online game play and we get to experince that again, Revenge was ok, and Paradise was interesting but still does not beat those Burnout 3 Takedown dayz, which I know may people miss.

Anyway be safe people.

Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?

 Like ichienkai I was a latecomer to the whole online multiplayer aspect of Burnout, and like so many others it took a period of convalesence for me to discover it. Just chiling out and "talkin the toot" with people from all over the world is one of the greatest pick me ups there is. As ichi says I was a crasher and therefore missed out on the whole racer community till very late in the game, but have since played with the 'creme de la creme' (or kev & suf as you know them) and many others in Paradise. Much as I loved Revenge, the lack of loading screens in Paradise kind of ruined it for me because though I could go back to it, it seemed less somehow. Revenge's crash junctions will forever hold a place in my heart but the lobbies cannot compare with Paradise's world lobby. And now that Paradise has nothing left to give we wait for the next game to tide us over till a new Burnout, will it be Split-second or Blur or even Joyride, I hope so because I'm starting to miss having a game where I can talk and play at the same time, I stop talking in FPS's because they might hear me.

All Criterion need to do is make a game that has the intensive racing of 3, the crash junction puzzle gameplay of Revenge and the lobby of Paradise.

JohnnyBravo, while I was El Sufur, and Jynxx was BlackPancake and Blofeld was BlofeldX, lol or blofeld kiss, lol.

Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?

I have played Burnout since the beginning, I am one of the few Burners who really LOVES the original Burnout game. It was challenging in a way that made me want to keep playing, not in a way that frustrated me to the stage of switching off my console and watching mind numbing TV instead which so many other games do.

Burnout always introduced something new with each incarnation, and Burnout 3 for me too, was the pinacle of gloriousness.

I made many, many friends playing Burnout 3 on Xbox Live. Many I went on to meet in real life (I stopped keeping count after about 25), and some are still very good friends today. But I think I was a bit annoying in a way when I first played Burnout 3 online, I used to room jump alot!! I jumped between RoadRage in Black Pancake's room or with Trigs/Cpt Smooth and Xandu, to racing with KingRaa or BugBong or crashing with Brokendisk as well as jumping in pretty much everybody else's rooms too. Each room would have their own regulars and it became a real community of players. It felt like everybody knew everybody else!

And because everybody knew everybody we had a lot of soap opera style dramas with all the various egos clashing and various romances and gossip and FUN!

Burnout 3 is the one online game where we spoke about everything else as well as the game we were playing, talking was a pre-requisite of joining many rooms, and we would have a question of the day, or required singing if you win, anyone who didn't co-operate would be booted!

For me it (Burnout 3) really was the golden age of Xbox live... I really hope to find another game and another group of people to recreate some of the magical moments that we had.

I was always Blue on Road Rage... I miss being chased!

And of course numpty's quick look ups to the real names of our sexual perversions, nasalphiliac!

Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?

 may help?

signed suffur

Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?

Really? Do you need a story to be playing Burnout? I mean, cant it be summed up in one sentence instead?

I'll do better in four words: It was Sheer Boredom..

Well ok? The real truth about me playing which got me into Revenge: I lost A Bet....

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"There's Nero, One of the Twin Angels" - DjSubzero18 (Burnout Revenge Online, 3/ 20/ 2009)

i must be crazy because i really didnt know thunderpants was you *psyche slaps her own face* im ROLMFAO @u right now......i love burnout and ive played them all ......... except ive playd and loved revenge the most ....... paradise only got 10 minutes out of me.....i wont go on as i want to read so much on the site .......but ill post back later telling you all how and why i still love this gmae after so long ............

I name checked a few rooms in my first reply, but there were a couple of names I missed out. There were 2 other rooms I would jump into which are definitely worth mentioning.

The first is Dippy's room! Dippy Doodah was the host, and it was the room where I first met the distinguished Mr Lard, it was a fun room full of singing and jokes and other general clowning around! click HERE to see what I mean!!

The other room which I would only stay in if I was in "the zone" as seeing the 20 second timer or crawling past the finishing line a good minute or two behind everyone else wasn't that fun, was the Elite Racers Room! Often hosted by Weiler (you can see his Burnout 3 guides HERE) this is where I would race with Frozen Vapor, Segaswirl and lil' len and all the other elite race purists! Definitely the room to test your skills against the best!

And when there weren't any rooms open that I wanted to join, I would host.

All this talk of BO3 has made me feel very nostalgic, so as it's Sunday morning, Xandu is playing CivRev and baby is asleep I am going to go play some Takedown and see if I can unlock all those tracks again!!

That was a fun room  to rage and race once in a while too, just to name drop, lol.

Patience is something I taught myself, so I never know when it's going to run out?

Yo mo fo's whats cracking. My first memories of B3 were playing against the frenchist, in fact my first week of playing Live consisted entirely of playing against Johnny bloody foreigners, I think this triggered my tourettes, It wasn't until i realised that you could join custom rooms and play with people who could understand your swearing hurrah for the english, needless to say I got booted a lot in the early days due to my colourful language and my insistance that everybody else who had the nerve to beat me was obviously a cheating barsteward, because I was a Burnout god and anybody who questioned this was wrong wrong wrong. But it didn't take me long to realise I wasn't as good as I thought i was.