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"Burnout 3"

Freakin class.

Ones based around simple arcade principles yes.

The more possibilities, depth and strategy a game has the more it will keep me interested.

Burnout 3 is very limited in these areas.

Thief 3 would have had made me complete it my now if it's save system hadn't screwed up.

Deus Ex, Gladius anything with a reasonable level of development/choice as far as story/character/game progression goes are fantastic.

Crappy control systems don't help an interesting-ish game (MGS2)

A crappy camera will give a game a small lifespan (Conan)

A lightweight system mimicking more indepth games will sometimes be unappealing (TS2, most EA games)

I'd say my one weakness as far as simple games go is for hack/blast and slash games like BG:DA, Night Caster, Serious Sam, New Legends but most have a level of character development and stories so there's always decent goals to be going for.

More games like Phantom Crash needed! Yay!

/ramble

I've noticed that nobody really plays this online at all anymore. And I think it'll be the same next week with Battlefront when everyone gets bored of it.

Exactly I find I feel very little incentive to play either. Burnout's cumulative time spent playing stats are pretty crap and were the final straw as far as the current crop of xbox racers were concerned. So they're gone and good riddance!

Although if SWB kept stats I think it'd be a classic even two years down the line.

Shame.

It'll be dead come Halo 2, although quite a few others will be aswell. I think the best thing about it is it has shown me how good Ghost Recon 2 will be now it's in 3rd person.

Jumped back onto SC:PT today and had some fantastic games, what made me come back to it? I want to bring my miserable stats up a bit with some respected players for competition. Also those same stats gave us warnings about who was likely going to jump from a game (some poor fool with a -1400 penalty!).

Anyway...

Just completed everything on Gold on this, clocked up eaxactly 50 hours on it, decent game if a bit tedious at times, now onto Riddick..

I'm just trying to wrap up the single player. Mostly easy, apart from some stupidly difficult Preview Lap things. Not so much a difficulty curve as a difficulty tan graph. Just getting a bit repetitive though.

Still, it'll do me for just now. Then it's back to RSC2 and PGR2. Then, when I've finished up with them, it'll be Halo 2 time. Maybe.

Hedfix, stats are a mixed bag. True, PT is still one of the best Live games IMO, because of the stats. However, SW: B is also class because people just kick the crap out of each other for the fun of it.

Yes but that gets boring after a while.

The hype about this blew over far too quickly.

Got it the other day. Absolutely sublime.

Me too. I can't play on Live however as my monitor doesn't accept 60Hz.

You can change the Hz setting from your Xbox Dashboard to 50Hz if you need to.