Burnout Paradise. Great game but:
- it is taking longer and longer to load. Even if you pull the network connection it takes a long time to load
- my internet connection is crap today but even so it tried to pull in the ‘news’ so the loading took even longer. I want a ‘skip this bit’ button.
- and then we have the new damn store.

“Hey, I know how we can sell more stuff! Let’s stick a store right in the middle of the menus. And just to be sure they won’t miss it we will not auto-detect what they already bought”

Which bloody idiot thought this up? I want to move through menus and not see upsell. I’ve got all the damn packs bar party and I’ll not buy that. Any intelligent system would know this. (But any intelligent system would also not pause while it waits for me to see a “Be careful when you see this ‘save’ logo..” at the start).

Criterion should (1) let us skip that news/twitter/omg-we-are-so-cool bit at the start and (2) remove the damn store. Let us turn it off. It is very very annoying. It’s bad enough with the idiots in the game who either head in the other direction when you start a challenge (kick them? I do.) or they insist on taking you or someone else down who is needed to complete the damn challenge and on top of this you make me swear when I see your store which AGAIN tries to load information from who knows where.

It’s saying something when I think the original no-expansion game is better because there is none of the crap there.