Burnout 3: Takedown is the only answer.
Paradise is massively over rated IMO and was more and more frustrating to play the more time you put into it. Having a crash mode could have elevated it a little more but 3 would have still won out for me.
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I agree with you on Burnout 3. But Paradise has a per street crash mode high score, which while not as good as 3s, is enough to scratch the devastation itch, and it's easily accessed on steam. So I don't think it's fair to say it has no crash mode. Just a vastly inferior one!
I never played any Burnout games aside from Paradise. Paradise, to this day, remains my favorite racing game ever made.
What could I be missing by not playing the older games?
I think the best thing about Paradise was it was a new generation of consoles and the graphics really had a feel for its own. The crashes were great. But no crash mode just let it down. I kinda enjoyed the open world concept. But Takedown is 100% THE burnout game.
Got Paradise after playing Takedown into the ground and words could not express my disappointment. I had fun and all but it never felt as good as Takedown did. Open world and Burnout is just not my favorite combination
Couldn't agree more, open world and racing for me never really mix well.
Burnout Revenge was great fun. Causing crashes to try and make the biggest pileups was my favorite mode.
I am currently playing Burnout Paradise, and since that is the only Burnout game I have played (and I don't like to play games that don't have PC ports, even though Burnout 3 looks amazing!), that is my favorite.
I am about to 100% Burnout Paradise. Once I do I will make a post about it. It's a great game, with honestly a few flaws, but it has become one of my favorite games.
I played it on ps3 with a camera. Loved the snapshots it took when you got wrecked or wrecked someone. So many middle fingers. Good fun.
I've had the privilege of playing Takedown on an OG Xbox, it was a pretty slick game but IMO Paradise is pretty much a direct upgrade. At least, I can't think of anything 3 did that Paradise doesn't do equally well or better with more polish, and that's through the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia.
Actually, one exception: Lazy Generation is peak in terms of arcade racing soundtracks.
Any reason why you don't use emulators?
No good reason, and sometimes I do, but I do not own a controller, and I own a 100 Hz monitor, so I prefer games that work well on keyboard and mouse and can run at higher frame rates.
All fair reasons. I would recommend picking up a controller, though, even for a lot of PC games.
8bitdo's Ultimate 2C wired controller is $20, and is quite a nice controller.
Also, does your monitor happen to support variable refresh rate or is it possible to overclock it to 120Hz? Even if it doesn't, it's almost certainly possible to run it at 60Hz natively for emulators. More modern emulators can even run games at above 60Hz using memory hacks (similar to Game Genie or Action Replay codes), although stability varies from game to game.
I love legends, it’s my childhood. Played a lot of it.
Same, my favorite mode was always dominator.
I had a friend with burnout 3. A lot of time was spent on crash mode. Also have paradise on PC, but I didn't play it that much.
Have to install paradise again and get into it properly.
Dominator