DBrim

@sarahsdad: There's a closing cutscene, which is just as ridiculous as the rest of the story. They open up the speedlists you don't choose for completion, which is nice.

I always play normal as well. I very rarely go back to a game and play it on another difficulty unless I want the achievement.

@dionysis: The handling feels really similar to what I remembered from Hot Pursuit (tap to drift, not hold), so I was able to pick it up pretty quickly.

@korwin: It isn't the best PC port in the world, but I'm still having fun with it and ultimately that's what I care about.

danbrim. Hit me.

I picked up the PC version and put three hours into it tonight.

The framerate is locked at 30, which kinda sucks. Everything else looks really nice, even on my semi-good 660 Ti. Good wet roads and thunderstorms, as you'd expect from a game derivative of Hot Pursuit.

The risk/reward of the racer campaign is super interesting. It feels GREAT when you bank a big batch of points, but it's maddening if you miss them. If you accomplish your goals but crash before you get to the hideout, you have to move on and get no points, which I see as potentially problematic.

The pre-order cop car is a bit overpowered. You feel a bit like a jerk if you bust a racer (specifically if it's another person), but you also feel GREAT.

The cars handle more like Hot Pursuit than Most Wanted, and there's nowhere near the crashing emphasis as either. If you ram a car, they don't crash. It barely feels like a Criterion game (which was what I was kind of expecting). When you crash, it doesn't give you as good of a "rolling start" as either of those games, which is kind of annoying.

The "story" dialogue is so terrible/corny that it's actually really funny.

The multiplayer is glitchy (lots of server lag when running into other racers), and there's a message saying that the servers are undergoing maintenance later tonight. Maybe they're fixing it. The world is big and it loads only six people in, so you rarely run into other people. This is a weird limitation that makes running into somebody else an event, but it causes other problems. There's a "host migration" process if the host disconnects, but the pausing doesn't work quite right. I've lost one race and gotten busted (losing all points) as a result of that hitch. With the other people not being very important, it feels like all of those annoyances are for nothing.

Overall, I'm enjoying it. But it's not without its flaws.

Excited for another Criterion-ish racer. I really enjoyed Hot Pursuit (I enjoyed Most Wanted more, but that's fine). Hope the PC version is good.

Holy fucking shit.

I put in about 250 hours into Burnout: Paradise.

It seemed much better tonight, for what it's worth.