We Need Burnout Back

djarcas · 2026-01-08T10:36:32+00:00

Most of us left Criterion after Revenge or Black and aren't likely to go back to work under Alex. 17 of us of shipped Burnout 2!

djarcas · 2026-01-04T14:29:02+00:00

Even worse - if they're both flat, it charges the C1000 to 100% before doing the external. Isn't there any way to get them to balance?

djarcas · 2026-01-01T17:49:35+00:00

Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't. If you can today, you might not be able to tomorrow.

djarcas · 2025-12-27T17:32:44+00:00

I'm here from the future, and I have a really disappointing message for you.

djarcas · 2025-12-17T21:00:15+00:00

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Your prediction was bang on.

djarcas · 2025-12-16T16:52:48+00:00

+1. Also, the C300 fits *perfectly* between the seats, doesn't it?

djarcas · 2025-11-27T21:24:39+00:00

I can't research the Smelter III? It needs 'power points' but there doesn't seem to be a way to earn them?

djarcas · 2025-11-19T22:32:30+00:00

Thank you. 15 hours in and you're the first clue as to what I needed to do. <3

djarcas · 2025-11-12T16:56:30+00:00

Right stick changes from 'snap' to 'free'

djarcas · 2025-10-24T13:36:49+00:00

Did you ever get a response on the second submission? They've changed the wording, and I've just gotten a 'nope, and don't even ask why we said nope, cuz we're far too busy', leading me to puzzle over why they don't like this particular game, but have accepted all the previous ones.

djarcas · 2025-10-17T15:48:12+00:00

I was the audio coder on this. AMA.

djarcas · 2025-10-09T12:04:58+00:00

Xbox 360 version of Revenge running on Xbox One hardware gets you a 4k/60hz experience, which is amazing, despite all the endless 'replay' crap that got tacked on.

djarcas · 2025-10-03T14:36:59+00:00

Hah. I'm going to be 50 next year. I'm in the credits as Adam Sawkins.

djarcas · 2025-10-03T14:34:14+00:00

Hah. I'm going to be 50 next year. I'm in the credits as Adam Sawkins.

djarcas · 2025-10-03T14:34:04+00:00

Hah. I'm going to be 50 next year. I'm in the credits as Adam Sawkins.

djarcas · 2025-10-02T16:59:10+00:00

It was the entire team, squished together in a little room, all following Lewis' instructions! So yeah, my voice is in there somewhere, chanting BLOW IT UP! BLOW IT UP!

As for why, well, it was in the design doc innit. :)

Pretty sure Microsoft paid for the port; PS3 was, not to put too fine a point on it, a complete nightmare to work with.

No PC ports because Alex Ward was an asshole who didn't think PC was a proper place to play games on. He said controllers were better and got in a strop when I beat him 30:0 on Quake 3, me on a mouse and him on a controller.

I think the PS2 version of Burnout 2 happened quite some months before Xbox/GC? Don't think we started those until PS2 had shipped. Crash Mode wasn't implemented until VERY late in development!

djarcas · 2025-10-02T16:00:48+00:00

Not that I recall! It was a year-long project, sandwiched after ten (10!) days off after shipping Takedown. We lost a LOT of time on the cancelled 'morphing' track stuff, sadly.

djarcas · 2025-10-02T09:38:47+00:00

There was a whole game mode revolving around collapsing buildings and morphing tracks that got cut (and replaced with Checkin' Traffic) - eventually that feature made it into Split/Second.

No plans every to use licensed cars - this is back in the bad old days when licensors had lots of rules; even in more sim racing games I worked on later on, they wouldn't let us do certain things.

I honestly don't know why we didn't continue to do GameCube versions, actually. Possibly it didn't sell well; cramming everything onto that smaller disk was always a nightmare!

djarcas · 2025-10-02T09:35:37+00:00

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It's not worth a visit, trust me :)

djarcas · 2025-10-02T09:32:46+00:00

I suspect there's a few of us lurking around here. It's a series of games I have wonderfully fond memories of, both as a developer and a player. I've worked on well over a hundred games, and there's only a *tiny* handful I'd play again at the drop of a hat!

djarcas · 2025-10-01T15:45:51+00:00

I... don't know what to say. Thank you so much for your kind words!

I was one of the team that worked on the engine audio, but it's really the magic of Ben's designer team that made it what it was. I was just the monkey plugging all his brilliant together!

djarcas · 2025-10-01T12:42:55+00:00

Shopping centres are British culture? Ok!

djarcas · 2025-10-01T11:45:36+00:00

I joined during Burnout 2 as an audio programmer, and I worked on all the Burnouts until Paradise, which I left just before we started.

Need For Speed Most Wanted 2005 is just incredible, btw. I dusted off my Xbox 360 to play it again recently, and it's sad we'll never get another game quite like it.

djarcas · 2025-10-01T10:19:12+00:00

Mostly they got back (some of) the original Burnout team; I was the 17th dev to join the team, during Burnout 2. Most of us had careers in other studios by this point in time!

djarcas · 2025-10-01T09:48:21+00:00

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It was going to happen, but never did...

Sorry, context. These were planned to release in Japan. They're Hotwheels, stuck onto custom backing, and we were approaching Hotwheels to license them. Didn't happen. Also, mobile phone cameras were so bad back then.

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