Do you foresee yourself getting the next Burnout game? Is it already a sure thing?

Personally, nothing with me is guaranteed, but I've been in love with the series since I bought the first 360 game, despite my hate for most "racing games," and have been especially impressed with how much I've been enjoying the open-world Paradise. So I'm almost at the point where I'm ready to pony up more cash for an all new game without knowing a thing about it, so long as it sticks with the basics of what the Burnout series has been all along.

A few of the big things I've been missing from Paradise are the aftertouch takedowns and explosions, and the crash mode. Basically, combine Revenge with Paradise, and you have a perfect game.

No, I liked paradise but i dont know if Its guaranteed buy.
I will see if its good

I really couldn't get into Paradise. It fell into one of the category of boring-open-world-games for me. I'm not sure exactly why but Crackdown is also on this list. I don't like wasting 10 minutes to find a mission. Give me a menu where I can easily get into the action, get out, and save my game. So if it's open world then no.

I've been a fan since Revenge so I'm going to buy all the future Burnout games, even if it has Need For Speed plastered on it.

Absolutely. I've been playing Burnout since Burnout 1 came out, and besides Revenge, which I feel was a step back from Takedown, I've enjoyed each game in the series quite a bit.

If Criterion ends up making another open-world Burnout, hopefully they'll enhance the interface so that players can actually jump into matches featuring exactly what they're looking for (random or specific events, freeburn challenges, races, etc.). Adding and tweaking a few game types and generally doing what they can to cut down on the lulls a lot of freeburn games suffer from would help, too.

Does anyone else HATE Paradise.... the game mechanics are great but i can not stand the open world. I find myself looking at the mini map more than I am looking at the actual race which really detracts from the experience for me.

Probably is.  I've never played another Burnout before, but I love Paradise.  Hopefully it's not too different.

It depends who is developing it. With Criterion developing a new need for speed, they may not have time to develop a new burnout game, so another studio may develop a new burnout. Who knows what they'll do with the series.

yes, being a burnout fan since the original burnout and burnout 2. Burnout 3 blew my mind then as much as Paradise did almost a year and a half ago. Today, Paradise is still my favorite intense high-speed battle racing game. A sequel to Paradise or a full blown traditional sequel will have my support for a team that gave back and continue to support there game as much as Valve does with their games.