I really enjoyed my first 12-16 hours with it but...there are some truly irksome design choices that are making it hard to keep playing. While I initially loved the open world aspect - I'm one of those people who spent hours just driving around GTA IV and V purely for the joy of driving - it's incredibly frustrating that you can't simply quick start events. Once you've got all the collectibles and you're just trying to go for the Burnout Elite License, you want to just run the damn races and get your wins and it becomes an annoying pain in the ass to start an event and, should you lose, find yourself halfway across the damn map from where you started and have to waste time driving back to retry it. I should be able to just open the map, click on the event I want to run and have it start me there. Similarly, if I know I'm going to lose an event, I should be able to hit Start on the controller and select Restart or Quit, instead of bringing my vehicle to a complete stop, waiting a few seconds for the event to cancel out, and then either drive back to the start or, the often quicker option, quit to the main menu and reload the damn game. Furthermore, the slow-mo crash cam is kinda cool/entertaining for the first few hours but, eventually, it feels like a petty, vindictive wasting of my time. There should be an option to turn that shit off, because when you're on your fifth or sixth attempt of running a Burning Route with a crap car that handles like complete ass, that unskippable slow motion crash scene feels like spiteful trolling from the developers that makes me wish they'd all get cancer.
So, I guess what I'm saying is, yeah, it's a good game right up until it isn't.
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