Burnout 3 absolutely. Paradise was a great game but it’s format shift to open world effectively killed the series. Also made races really repetitive since they always went to the same places and you didn’t have an incentive to explore the rest of the map, which was full of really cool stuff like the quarry and train lines…

Anyway Burnout 3 is just the perfection of the classic formula. Shoutouts to Revenge for the traffic check mechanic and the cool new car designs.

Same for me. There are some interests I have (mostly niche games) that just don’t have the population to have any sort of traction here. I don’t comment or vote there anymore, and I’m only still logged in on my main PCs because I didn’t bother logging out. Deleted all my old comments and posts.

But was he???

Does DOOM count? It’s been officially open sourced recently, even though it was already treated as such for decades.Either way, I can’t stop playing it, there’s 30 years of user created content to go through.

Everyone already mentioned Dark Souls and stuff like that. Some stages in classic Doom are also kinda like that.

But my personal nemesis is the mission Glatisant in Ace Combat Zero. Every AC game has it’s long score attack missions, but Glatisant is mandatory in every run of a game you have to clear at least 3 times, and it’s a 30 minute long ground assault on a snowy mountain range with poor visibility and covered in air defenses. The danger level never gets lower, and it’s easy to get shot down right at the end and having to start it all over again.

Always skip Blighttown, and the game still loses steam on Lost Izalith. Really the worst part of the game.

Ohh yeah going back through the tower again in DMC3 is annoying. It was already kinda hard to navigate before the scramble.

Since I have to use wireless, I did find myself a pair of those for my new phone. Still waiting for them to ship, though. Over the ear hooks are pretty nice, I used to really like them years ago when they were more common, before the damn rubber in-ears.

I just got a new phone that doesn’t have it, and I very strongly miss it. I hate having to charge wireless devices. Everything that I can, I get wired.

Doesn’t help much that lately it’s been getting harder and harder to find good compact wired earphones, most companies pivoted to wireless… And of those that I find, most are the in-ear type with that rubber tip you squeeze deep into your ear… I also don’t like that. Guess I’ll have to move to over-ears for everything.

Dude gotta have extended lungs. Ain’t no way man.

Don’t. Use your own words or don’t even respond to the thread.

THE GODDAMN PEAR! I saw people get banned over it lmao. Yeah, good times back then. Being online was a lot less bullshit.

Oh my god I used to LIVE in Ultimate-Guitar back in the day. It was the first actual forum community I got into, and I played a lot of guitar, so I was always into the culture and news.

School of Rock, it kinda became a Christmas movie with my family, we watch it every year. Jingle All The Way with Arnold Schwarzenegger is the other one.
Then there’s my personal favorite, Pacific Rim. I absolutely adore that movie, giant robots fighting kaijus. Too bad there was never a sequel.

Main PC is a gaming rig with Windows 10, side PC for work is Linux Mint with a Win10 dual boot partition just in case something fucks up in Linux, but I haven’t needed it in a while. I am not upgrading to Win11 for as long as I am able.

That’s exactly my pick too, just MacArthur, and let him do his plan of “an irradiated sea of cobalt”. What do you mean we’re not in NonCredibleDefense?

I have a few still bookmarked on my browser. Most of their old content is still there, too.
https://conceptrobots.blogspot.com/
https://conceptships.blogspot.com/
http://concepttanks.blogspot.com/
http://drawthrough.blogspot.com/

Similarly to this, does anyone else remembers the old “concept” art blogs? They were focused on mechanical designs instead of fantasy themes, but they served a similar and excellent source of inspiration. There were blogs for robots, ships, vehicles, tanks… I miss them a lot. The last post on conceptrobots was in 2019.