lobotomies4free  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Can you clarify what you mean about the standard definition rendering? What issues are being addressed?

terminatorvsmtrx  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 6:12 pm

bring on the addons… i hope i can find time to dust off the old burnout paradise now though considering mgs4 and gta iv are literally taking up every free moment i have

tretle  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 6:21 pm

Very quiet

Kratos_ate_Snake  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 6:31 pm

good to see it is still being supported..

40cal  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 6:52 pm

“1080i support for PlayStation 3 owners with “almost HD” sets” funny. LOL

Anyways thanks for the update and custom soundtracks. Burnout has always been super fun to play.

darkiewonder  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 7:25 pm

Criterion is definitely delivering on the updates and making the game really worth the purchase! Thanks and welcome to posting on the dark side of gaming haha! <3

HanSolo  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 8:40 pm

i got the game when it first released, i love it, and i love the support its getting!
this is the way how devs/publishers should say thanks to gamers for purchasing their game

great job!! i will buy your next game, just because you show that you care about your product and the gamers

xaos  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm

evilman, you accomplish nothing with this but making it an enormous pain to read the blog…

Joe  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Is there any chance of a Black 2 from you guys over at Criterion Games. Burnout is great and all but I would love to see another Black game.

DarKaoZ  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 8:48 pm

Sweet! Can’t wait for this… but why until July 10th? Checking for bugs?? Anyways… the sooner better.

Stunt  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 8:49 pm

@evilman

Chillax buddy, it will be here before the end of the month.

joel  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 8:53 pm

Wow, this was unexpected, but hey who knows it might work.

GameDreamer  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm

You can use a custom soundtrack in PA!N, but it’s not in-game XMB music. Maybe it’s just a proprietary music player in the game that searches your HDD for music.

monkeyisland  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 10:06 pm

damnz somebody sure wants 2.40

blahblahbloo  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 10:12 pm

I, for one, hope that Criterion is successful at keeping used copies of Burnout Paradise off the shelves with these new updates.

joel  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 10:32 pm

Well besides the huge rant..

Nice update, Im looking forward to it,

VenomX  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 10:48 pm

@ GameDreamer

It would a lot better if Pain used custom soundtracks from the In-Game XMB instead. I hope they update it so that it works that way.

VenomX  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 10:49 pm

evilman278 your not alone on that one. I wish Sony would give us 2.40 now as well but I guess it’s not ready or something.

OmegaArchetype  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 10:59 pm

Sounds awesome. I especially like the custom soundtracks part! ;D

VenomX  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 11:06 pm

Lol, what about the patent Microsoft had on custom soundtracks?

TrumpetMan  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 11:23 pm

@VenomX

I am not entirely sure, but I think the details of Microsoft’s patent cover a custom soundtrack that is handled through the console’s operating system. Having a custom soundtrack which is accessible via an interface programmed into a game, however, is free game. In other words, Sony could provide help with third parties in developing methods within the game to use custom soundtracks and that would be fine. However, this is a rough idea of how the patent might be detailed. I haven’t actually read the thing in a while.

lakaihigh  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 11:34 pm

awesome to see that Burnout is still gonna be getting the love all through this year. I wish most devs would adopt this sort of idea and continue to expand their games until the have completed and released their new project. I know expansion cost time and money but it sure would be great to keep their product fresh much like Warhawk. Incognito has done a great job of evolving Warhawk and it looks Criterion aims to do the same. mad props to you guys. Incognito should take notes for their next update (custom soundtracks). But hey, if 2.4 includes custom soundtracks then they don’t have a thing to worry about!

peace,
Lh

tails-4  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 11:35 pm

thats amazing stuff!!!!

great work!!

VenomX  |  June 23rd, 2008 at 11:45 pm

@ TrumpetMan

So if Sony used In-Game XMB to do custom soundtracks it would be a patent infringement? Ah, sucks if that’s true.

Cloonix  |  June 24th, 2008 at 12:15 am

Yeah “101″. I also want to know what it is about “Improved Standard Definition rendering for PlayStation 3″. What does it mean? No eyes hurting edges anymore?

richkaos  |  June 24th, 2008 at 1:44 am

Shame they couldnt fix it so that you can simply restart a race if you dont win. Fix it and i might start playing again, for me this is a major gripe

Iloveplaystation  |  June 24th, 2008 at 1:52 am

Talk to us about the downtime that PS3 is havning today.. IS finally in-XMB coming after thoose 6 hours of maintence

p-s-3  |  June 24th, 2008 at 2:27 am

I wanted 4 player off-line spilt-screen mode :-( (so do a lot of people i know)
Thanks for the update tho! ;)

Kevling  |  June 24th, 2008 at 2:43 am

@ 101 – see here (http://www.criteriongames.com/article.php?artID=120) for a full explanation of the SD improvements, including screenshots

@ 111 – the date of 11th July is because the update has to go through Sony & Microsoft’s various testing and approval processes. The update is finished, it has left Criterion, it just has to flow through the right tubes to get released, and unfortunately these things take time.

Flanders  |  June 24th, 2008 at 3:09 am

Seriously…great game and also a great community on the Criterion blog/site. I love just driving around Paradise City and seeing the different areas and environments. I honestly assumed that when GTA IV came out, I would spend all my time driving around Libery City instead. But for whatever reason, I find myself still playing Burnout Paradise….maybe I just have a hard time adapting to the lower resolution textures and choppy frame rate in GTA IV. But whatever the reason, Burnout Paradise is still my most played game of the year. Only problem is that it was released way back in Janurary and might be forgotten when all of the ‘Game Of The Year’ awards are released at the end of 08.

NewYork214  |  June 24th, 2008 at 5:01 am

game is good.once i get some extra cash ill be buyin this. gameflyed it bout 4 times already. cant wait to try the newstuff

PS3Diablo  |  June 24th, 2008 at 5:33 am

Great news ! I will be picking up Burnout Paradise this week-end actually.

Gothdom  |  June 24th, 2008 at 5:39 am

@130

For me, it’s burnout’s car handling. I would’ve wished the cars would handle the same in GTA. GTA’s stupid car handling turn me off the game (the lack of tanks also…)

Desidarious  |  June 24th, 2008 at 8:16 am

@105, Sufood, next time try posting the title of the article instead of “look at the second article”…. it’s not like they ever ADD articles and the one your talking about could move down to third, fourth or fifth and so on.

krod! LOL

Tseska  |  June 24th, 2008 at 8:17 am

i just want play music on while playing warhawk xD .
other way this nice this will hold me up until 2.4 release

Ghostm  |  June 24th, 2008 at 8:44 am

Thank you god for Custom Soundtracks. Its something that every single game on the PS3 needs. Now I can rock some ColdPlay while playing burnout.

Ghostm  |  June 24th, 2008 at 8:50 am

@ 128 Iloveplaystation | June 24th, 2008 at 1:52 am

You wish! In your dreams buddy. I’ve learned not to get excited about Sony’s news…specially with countless delays! I could be wrong but we’re more likely to see the 2.40 firmware update mid July. If not the end of July.

I still love you though Sony!!! Please remember that Custom Soundtracks is just as important as in-game XMB.

tretle  |  June 24th, 2008 at 8:55 am

@desidarious – sorry about that, was 4 in the morning here and I tried posting a link to the article three times but psblog wouldn’t allow it.
Then I thought that I was blocked or something so I posted “very quiet in here” to check if it was just the link that was being blocked. By the time I posted that I was ready to pass out and unable to think so it wasn’t the greatest heads up.
Lets rectify it, Last night a post was made on ps3fanboy which had a screenshot of a new psn id which included trophy’s and the sort. Its still just a rumor right now but it was supposedly conformed by a R&D developer.
No confirmation as of yet, but one thing to keep in mind is that if this is true it looks like a replacement for the current profile which you can access by pressing triangle then profile in the friend section of the xmb. If it is true then it wont be the main way you view your own trophy’s on the xmb, there will be a trophy’s section on the xmb for that by the looks of the 2.40 videos.

gamesblow  |  June 24th, 2008 at 9:21 am

I’d just like to note that I just got back from EB and this game, along with Battlefield, came with me. I hope the full game is as good as you all have made it out to be. I played the demo and was a little off put by a “FEW” key things but thought the graphics were great and the collision/wrecks were modled to perfection. I bought this over Grid because it seemed like more than just a racer.

So here’s to the update and me having the game finally!

Seanscythe2  |  June 24th, 2008 at 10:07 am

you’ll like it, I just wish there was a splitscreen mode. Me and my brother hate having to take turns.

Ghostm  |  June 24th, 2008 at 10:14 am

I really hate split screen. It gives me eye pain. Online co-op is the best way to go.

madtyger  |  June 24th, 2008 at 10:44 am

I love how they are breathing new life to this game.

joel  |  June 24th, 2008 at 10:47 am

This game is so awsome

tretle  |  June 24th, 2008 at 11:51 am

blog update please :)

TouchyEd  |  June 24th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

#143

Online co-op doesn’t address the issue of people who have real-life friends who want to play in the same room at the same time.

saunderswan  |  June 24th, 2008 at 12:56 pm

sweet i see the first of many games being patched for IN-GAME music FIRST was PAIN now BURNOUT :)great job guys bring it on.

ROLL ON 2.40

maluraq  |  June 24th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

@gamesblow haters … hey comrades, I find gamesblow’s comments immature and even borderline ridiculous at times myself, but that initial comment about the in-game XMB being over-hyped and his preference for drivers in the cars doesn’t count.

The preference to see a real driver makes perfect sense to me. It doesn’t bother me personally, but I do love how it looks on Gran Turismo for example, so if he doesn’t like the look without, he doesn’t. I can see why Criterion didn’t include drivers, considering the carnage in the game though (although Motorstorm did a good balance on that one I think).

As for his comment about the XMB, he’s completely correct. Access to the XMB from inside the game does NOT mean we’ll have custom soundtracks in all games. You can access the XMB while watching a video too, but if you play music, the video ends. You can access the XMB while listening to music but if you access the store, the music stops too.

Being able to see the XMB and access its features does not necessarily mean being able to do all those things AND play a game at the same time (I can imagine changing video settings on-the-fly might screw with game logic, for example).

Granted, 90% of the rest of gamesblow’s comments I’ve found abrasive and ignorant, but this one’s on the money.

maluraq  |  June 24th, 2008 at 1:30 pm

Re: the 1080i output mode, for those who aren’t aware of the math, that’s a 12.5% increase in pixels output (they’re rendering in 960×1080 and then scaling it in software to a full 1920×1080) and they’re saying they can still maintain a full 60fps.

Personally, in a driving game, its the vertical resolution that matters, in terms of being able to make out detail near the horizon on the road, so I’ll be playing this in 1080i (since my TV is 1080i but supports 720p) from now on.

In contrast, I played Drake’s in 720p despite the 1080i option they added for people without 720p support, because I like the added horizontal detail for aiming at tall slim sets of pixels (enemies).

TouchyEd  |  June 24th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

It’s not on the money. Because neither you or him have any friggin’ idea how (or if) custom soundtracks are going to be implemented.

SURE, come out and say “it might not work” but don’t state it like fact…and then [DELETED] and whine like a little dress-wearing Sally-Ann (Gamesblow, not you…)

Gamesblow is a troll. And a sad little pathetic one at that. End of story.

saunderswan  |  June 24th, 2008 at 2:00 pm

@tretle

here is that link to the patent MS have for IN-GAME MUSIC
http://www.google.com/patents?id=mx93AAAAEBAJ&dq=gaming+soundtrack