sebarnolds: Otherwise, I did not see any impact from my decisions on season 1 in my playthrough.

Bapabooiee: Just finished Burnout Paradise for the PC.

Daedalus1138: Dark Souls. I did it. After starting it twice before, I finally started it and played the game to completion. My first playthrough, as I later found out, was almost doomed to fail for a newbie such as myself. I chose the Deprived class, which starts with nothing but a club. After four hours of frustration, I did a little research and discovered that one of the better classes for a beginner was the Pyromancer. Started a Pyromancer and did reasonably well. Some twenty-five hours in, I was struggling every step of the way, having handicapped myself severely by trying to become a Jack-of-all-trades. I finally abandoned that playthrough and put the game on hold for about six months.

When I finally came back a little over a week ago, I started fresh with a Warrior. Things immediately got off to a better start, and though I still struggled a bit in some of the early parts, once I got the Drake Sword, things started looking up. I also finally started upgrading weapons and spending more time properly developing my character, instead of upgrading random stats.

And I must say I enjoyed the game greatly. There were quite a few moments of frustration, but in the end, I had a lot of fun. I used a walkthrough a lot, but really, a walkthrough can only do so much in a game like Dark Souls.

dirtyharry50: And???

Sucks? Great? Can't remember?

Just curious. lol

Bapabooiee: It's a really great game, and I've been enjoying it immensely. Note the present-tense, which means I'm still playing it.

The main single-player game took me about 8 hours to beat (to get a Burnout-class license and have the credits roll), but I went back to play the multiplayer and I'm damn glad I did. It's absolutely exhilarating, and there's always stuff to do.

I also just got back from a 5+ hour session of doing random events around the city, chasing and being chased around at high speed, and doing an 8-man demo derby in an abandoned airfield. Kinda surprised that a 4.5 year-old game is still kicking like that.

dirtyharry50: I've never tried multiplayer in racing game. I should do that sometime. It must be pretty fun racing other people.

dirtyharry50: That sounds great. I'm glad to hear it. That one is next up for me whenever I finish Flatout: Ultimate Carnage which I've been having a good time with. I play it for an hour here and there between other games but enjoy it every time.

Bapabooiee: Well if you decide to buy it, just make sure you get Burnout Paradise on Steam, and don't accidentally buy an Origin-activatable key. The Origin version -- in addition to requiring being launched from within the client -- also has SecuROM DRM on it - and it's already caused me some headache (documented and fixed, here). In addition, revoking the SecuROM activations for the Origin version of BP doesn't even work, so that's another problem to deal with.

The Steam version of BP, however, doesn't use SecuROM - only Steamworks DRM. So that'd be the best place to get it.

I think it's also worth noting that Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit -- another racing game by the same devs of BP -- normally uses SolidShield as its DRM. But on Steam, it's patched-out in favor of Steamworks.