Rate the Game: Week 105

[M-A-G]

Good morning, y'all. I've actually got a lot on my plate for today so I'm going to try to squeeze this sucker out as quickly as I can. That's what SHE said, am I right? :shifty:

Anyhow, we keep rolling on here as we're set to look at our 105th game for this endeavor. Last week, Cole McGrath got a decent amount of love for his PlayStation 3 hit, Infamous. How infamous does it end up becoming as we place it on our glorious leaderboard?

<select><option selected="">Rate the Game Results

<option>1. (TIE) The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (4.8)</option>
<option>3. (TIE) Hitman: Codename 47, Mass Effect (4.75)</option>
<option>5. Goldeneye 007 (4.72)</option>
<option>6. Super Mario Bros. 3 (4.7)</option>
<option>7. Silent Hill 2 (4.66)
<option>8. (3-WAY TIE) Chrono Trigger, Portal, Red Dead Redemption (4.5)</option>
<option>11. (3-WAY TIE) Mega Man 2, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (4.44)</option>
<option>14. Super Mario Bros. (4.41)</option>
<option>15. God of War (4.4)</option>
<option>16. Mega Man X (4.36)</option>
<option>17. (TIE) Metal Gear Solid, BioShock (4.33)</option>
<option>19. Perfect Dark (4.3)</option>
<option>20. (TIE) Shadow of the Colossus, The Last of Us (4.28)</option>
<option>22. Super Street Fighter 2 (4.15)</option>
<option>23. Sonic the Hedgehog (4.14)</option>
<option>24. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (4.125)</option>
<option>25. Super Mario 64 (4.07)</option>
<option>26. (TIE) Grand Theft Auto 3, The Legend of Zelda (4.06)</option>
<option>28. NBA Jam (4.05)</option>
<option>29. (12-WAY TIE) Super Mario Kart (4.0)</option>
<option>- Sonic the Hedgehog 2</option>
<option>- Super Metroid</option>
<option>- The Simpsons</option>
<option>- Castlevania: Symphony of the Night</option>
<option>- Donkey Kong Country 2</option>
<option>- Resident Evil 4</option>
<option>- Super Smash Bros.</option>
<option>- Banjo-Kazooie</option>
<option>- EarthBound</option>
<option>- Fallout 3</option>
<option>- Mirror's Edge</option>
<option>41. Final Fantasy 7 (3.94)</option>
<option>42. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (3.92)</option>
<option>43. Mega Man (3.89)</option>
<option>44. (3-WAY TIE) Contra, Castlevania, Devil May Cry (3.86)</option>
<option>47. Half-Life 2 (3.85)</option>
<option>48. (TIE) Half-Life, Infamous (3.83)</option>
<option>50. (TIE) SimCity 2000, Final Fight (3.8)</option>
<option>52. Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver (3.77)</option>
<option>53. Batman: Arkham Asylum (3.76)</option>
<option>54. (TIE) Double Dragon, Max Payne (3.75)</option>
<option>56. Tetris (3.69)</option>
<option>57. Mortal Kombat 2 (3.67)</option>
<option>58. (TIE) Diablo, F.E.A.R. (3.66)</option>
<option>60. Mortal Kombat (3.65)</option>
<option>61. Doom (3.625)</option>
<option>62. StarFox (3.61)</option>
<option>63. Resident Evil (3.58)</option>
<option>64. (TIE) Ninja Gaiden, Shinobi (3.5)</option>
<option>66. Dead Space (3.4)</option>
<option>67. Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (3.39)</option>
<option>68. Resident Evil: Nemesis (3.38)</option>
<option>69. (5-WAY TIE) Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Condemned: Criminal Origins, Crash Bandicoot, Wolfenstein 3D, Left 4 Dead (3.33)</option>
<option>74. Gears of War (3.27)</option>
<option>75. (TIE) Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Borderlands (3.22)</option>
<option>77. (3-WAY TIE) Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Darkstalkers (3.2)</option>
<option>80. SoulCalibur (3.16)</option>
<option>81. Pac-Man (3.125)</option>
<option>82. Killer Instinct (3.11)</option>
<option>83. (TIE) Virtua Fighter, Rock Band (3.09)</option>
<option>85. (5-WAY TIE) Time Crisis, Tekken, Earthworm Jim, Metroid, Halo 2 (3.0)</option>
<option>90. Guitar Hero (2.875)</option>
<option>91. Streets of Rage (2.84)</option>
<option>92. Altered Beast (2.8)</option>
<option>93. Bayonetta (2.75)</option>
<option>94. (3-WAY TIE) Dead Rising, Gauntlet, Assassin's Creed (2.71) </option>
<option>97. (TIE) Silent Hill, The Sims (2.6)</option>
<option>99. Tomb Raider (2.55)</option>
<option>100. Halo: Combat Evolved (2.5)</option>
<option>101. (TIE) Twisted Metal, Crackdown (2.42)</option>
<option>103. Gran Turismo (2.3)</option>
<option>104. Ghosts n' Goblins (2.14)</option>
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Infamous comes very close but unfortunately doesn't break that critical 4.0 barrier as it ends up sharing some room with Gordon Freeman with a 3.83 average. Well, the 4.0 section is crowded as it is. That's my takeaway.

There's more fuckery to be spread around, though, as we need a new game to talk about and rate and what not for this week. Let's go to the bowl, this time with a new camera behind the...camera....

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Hope that looks a bit sharper than the other times I've filmed this process. With that said and done, your game to rate for this week is the high-octane, rubber-burning, open world cruising racer from one of the more prominent driving franchises, Burnout Paradise! It's the same Burnout you know and love...sort of. How did this different approach take to you? Let's do that rating thing we do and show this week what for! Until next week!

[Lock Jaw]

Never played it.

[Sepholio]

Absolutely love this game. Maybe it's bias but damn it's an easy 5 for me. Just pure fun.

[Destor]

i agree it was outrageously fun. shame the franchise stagnated. 4 on pure fun factor alone

[ClockShot]

I think I played Takedown which was the game before this.

So, never played this one.

[Fignuts]

4

I actually preferred the premade tracks of previous games over paradise's open world. But this was still a fantasic game.

Burnout needs to make a comeback.

[M-A-G]

I'll preface this by pointing out that I never played a Burnout game before this one and haven't played one since. The reason why I know about this title and managed to play it was because of two of my friends and my boss at the time who were all about it. It's one of those titles I got sucked into playing. It's certainly fun as hell and there's a lot of polish on it. It's just frustrating when you're playing something you're not particularly good at. I don't know how or what the fuck but I always somehow managed to find myself in the fucking mountains no matter what I was doing. Handling the vehicles took me a while because I'm not particularly great at driving games by default.

None of that, though, really ruined things to the point where I'm calling this a bad game. There's tons to do, the vehicles and the world look stellar, and the soundtrack is very fitting. I even have it downloaded. The only thing that I didn't get around to was the DLC stuff. Even without that this one's hard not to recommend.

[Destor]

wait it was takedown i liked i never played paradise. open world didnt interest me

[Fignuts]

wait it was takedown i liked i never played paradise. open world didnt interest me

Feel like its much easier to anticipate turns in premade tracks.

[Destor]

burnout should be arcadey

[Fignuts]

I dont recall the arcadey feel of burnout really changing with paradise.

[M-A-G]

It's certainly no Gran Turismo. It feels more arcade than most racers. I do know that I absolutely loved the Montgomery Hawker vehicle. Oh, and the bonus cars like the one that looks like Ecto-1.

[Destor]

I dont recall the arcadey feel of burnout really changing with paradise.
obviously i didnt play it but it didnt look arcadey

[Sepholio]

It was very arcadey. Just didn't have the awesome crash mode of previous games. Which was a huge letdown but the core racing game was still excellent without it.

[drave]

-50 DKP for lack of uWu in post

[DAMN iNATOR]

4. I'd give it a 4½ if I could.

[M-A-G]

Handling the vehicles took me a while because I'm not particularly great at driving games by default.



For the record, this shouldn't be taken as an indication of my skills in driving in real life. :o

[M-A-G]

It was very arcadey. Just didn't have the awesome crash mode of previous games. Which was a huge letdown but the core racing game was still excellent without it.

There was some sort of crash mode. You were able to bust into it at anytime during the free driving sections. You had to rack up points and get multipliers by hitting buses and what not. Unless there's a different mode in the other Burnout games you're talking about.

[Sepholio]

There was some sort of crash mode. You were able to bust into it at anytime during the free driving sections. You had to rack up points and get multipliers by hitting buses and what not. Unless there's a different mode in the other Burnout games you're talking about.

All the other Burnout games have a dedicated crash mode. It's more of a top down/three-quarters isometric view. It lays out a bunch of scenarios in places with intersections, parking garages, lots of elevation changes. Your goal is too get as many points as possible by wreaking havoc on the area. The cool thing is to start the crash you usually explode your car and send it hurtling into the area you are targetting...but you can control the direction of your car as its flying out of control. There are power ups you can collect like a second explosion and point multipliers and the like hidden throughout the areas to help you keep shit going and amass your target points. It is an incredible game mode.

Some of the devs tried to make an indie version of basically the crash mode a few years ago. It was very scaled back tho tbh. Cant remember the name of it.

[Destor]

i only ever played crash mode in 3. racing was whatever

[Sepholio]

Yeah it may not have been in all of them, but it was in more than one for sure.

[M-A-G]

The original doesn't have it.

[drave]

didn't care for the racing at all. then, i think the studio who did burnout took over the need for speed series and the controls sucked.


Want a new NFS Most wanted TBH.

[DAMN iNATOR]

I'll say I did enjoy that they tried to have a variety of events to obtain higher and higher class licenses, but I got bored or it midway or so through "A" license.

[M-A-G]

Marked Man was my favorite event to do. I could get sidetracked with that shit for a good while.