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You've finnished the main part of the game, what is there left to do?
Time trials. Tearing around those oh so familiar tracks hugging every corner in the search for that perfect racing line. Its fun for a while but in the end what is the point?
There is some satisfaction to be had in beating a time to unlock something or beating your personal best on a difficult track. But then you hit a wall in your progress and the only advances you can make are in the tiny fractions of a second, and for most people no matter how much they try they will never get those really fast times.
In certain magazines they have tables of the fastest times of readers on the games, its a good challenge to try to beat the times of some of the best gamers in the country but some of those times look near impossible to attain
example: diddy kong racing ancient lake, at my fastest with TT on top form I can get around 51 seconds but this is nowhere near the sub 45 second times that are displayed.
(It is the same with donkey kong 64- I practiced on rambi's arena for a stupidly long time for a competition in the official nintendo magazine probably more than 24 hours just playing bash the beavers, I eventually got a top score of 224 and entered it as the previous month around 200 would have got me into the top 10, the next magazine rolled around and I turned to the high score table only to find that I missed out on a top 10 place by 2 points. Now I can't play rambi's arena without somehow feeling that I will never improve no matter what I do.)
The only time I have ever enjoyed time trialing was when my brother was playing on f zero x and set a good time on multi-jump, we constantly beat each others times until he could no longer improve on his time.
This mode is good for adding extra gameplay options to a game especially if there are many tracks (or levels in the case of some fps) to race on but bad if you get stuck early.
Time trials. Tearing around those oh so familiar tracks hugging every corner in the search for that perfect racing line. Its fun for a while but in the end what is the point?
There is some satisfaction to be had in beating a time to unlock something or beating your personal best on a difficult track. But then you hit a wall in your progress and the only advances you can make are in the tiny fractions of a second, and for most people no matter how much they try they will never get those really fast times.
In certain magazines they have tables of the fastest times of readers on the games, its a good challenge to try to beat the times of some of the best gamers in the country but some of those times look near impossible to attain
example: diddy kong racing ancient lake, at my fastest with TT on top form I can get around 51 seconds but this is nowhere near the sub 45 second times that are displayed.
(It is the same with donkey kong 64- I practiced on rambi's arena for a stupidly long time for a competition in the official nintendo magazine probably more than 24 hours just playing bash the beavers, I eventually got a top score of 224 and entered it as the previous month around 200 would have got me into the top 10, the next magazine rolled around and I turned to the high score table only to find that I missed out on a top 10 place by 2 points. Now I can't play rambi's arena without somehow feeling that I will never improve no matter what I do.)
The only time I have ever enjoyed time trialing was when my brother was playing on f zero x and set a good time on multi-jump, we constantly beat each others times until he could no longer improve on his time.
This mode is good for adding extra gameplay options to a game especially if there are many tracks (or levels in the case of some fps) to race on but bad if you get stuck early.
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You've finnished the main part of the game, what is there left to do?
Time trials. Tearing around those oh so familiar tracks hugging every corner in the search for that perfect racing line. Its fun for a while but in the end what is the point?
There is some satisfaction to be had in beating a time to unlock something or beating your personal best on a difficult track. But then you hit a wall in your progress and the only advances you can make are in the tiny fractions of a second, and for most people no matter how much they try they will never get those really fast times.
In certain magazines they have tables of the fastest times of readers on the games, its a good challenge to try to beat the times of some of the best gamers in the country but some of those times look near impossible to attain
example: diddy kong racing ancient lake, at my fastest with TT on top form I can get around 51 seconds but this is nowhere near the sub 45 second times that are displayed.
(It is the same with donkey kong 64- I practiced on rambi's arena for a stupidly long time for a competition in the official nintendo magazine probably more than 24 hours just playing bash the beavers, I eventually got a top score of 224 and entered it as the previous month around 200 would have got me into the top 10, the next magazine rolled around and I turned to the high score table only to find that I missed out on a top 10 place by 2 points. Now I can't play rambi's arena without somehow feeling that I will never improve no matter what I do.)
The only time I have ever enjoyed time trialing was when my brother was playing on f zero x and set a good time on multi-jump, we constantly beat each others times until he could no longer improve on his time.
This mode is good for adding extra gameplay options to a game especially if there are many tracks (or levels in the case of some fps) to race on but bad if you get stuck early.
Time trials. Tearing around those oh so familiar tracks hugging every corner in the search for that perfect racing line. Its fun for a while but in the end what is the point?
There is some satisfaction to be had in beating a time to unlock something or beating your personal best on a difficult track. But then you hit a wall in your progress and the only advances you can make are in the tiny fractions of a second, and for most people no matter how much they try they will never get those really fast times.
In certain magazines they have tables of the fastest times of readers on the games, its a good challenge to try to beat the times of some of the best gamers in the country but some of those times look near impossible to attain
example: diddy kong racing ancient lake, at my fastest with TT on top form I can get around 51 seconds but this is nowhere near the sub 45 second times that are displayed.
(It is the same with donkey kong 64- I practiced on rambi's arena for a stupidly long time for a competition in the official nintendo magazine probably more than 24 hours just playing bash the beavers, I eventually got a top score of 224 and entered it as the previous month around 200 would have got me into the top 10, the next magazine rolled around and I turned to the high score table only to find that I missed out on a top 10 place by 2 points. Now I can't play rambi's arena without somehow feeling that I will never improve no matter what I do.)
The only time I have ever enjoyed time trialing was when my brother was playing on f zero x and set a good time on multi-jump, we constantly beat each others times until he could no longer improve on his time.
This mode is good for adding extra gameplay options to a game especially if there are many tracks (or levels in the case of some fps) to race on but bad if you get stuck early.
Mario Kart - Mario Raceway is a prime example of this.
Making that ultra hard jump over the wall on each of the three laps is damn near impossible and beating those top times are extremely difficult.
Making that ultra hard jump over the wall on each of the three laps is damn near impossible and beating those top times are extremely difficult.
I used to do the time trials for the Mario Circuit 1 on the snes. The easy one. Got down too 1:07.13 if i remember correctly.
Spiriatii wrote:
> Yes I remember that shortcut... But I thought the track was Peach
> raceway?
Anyway, I've just got 49"46 on Rainbow Road on the GBA version
> of Mario Kart and I'm well pleased :)
***sits back and dreams of what it must be like to own a GBA***
> Yes I remember that shortcut... But I thought the track was Peach
> raceway?
Anyway, I've just got 49"46 on Rainbow Road on the GBA version
> of Mario Kart and I'm well pleased :)
***sits back and dreams of what it must be like to own a GBA***
And I thought this was going to be a topic about shaving.
Shaving is such a pain in the rear!
Shaving is such a pain in the rear!
Spiriatii wrote:
Your answer: GREAT! (Unless you're a guy and you get a pink
> one, just like one of my mates... :))
if it were pink one or no one then i would still have the pink one! Lack of money forbids it though :(
Your answer: GREAT! (Unless you're a guy and you get a pink
> one, just like one of my mates... :))
if it were pink one or no one then i would still have the pink one! Lack of money forbids it though :(
Slaveunit wrote:
> And I thought this was going to be a topic about shaving.
Shaving is such a
> pain in the rear!
I'll second that!
> And I thought this was going to be a topic about shaving.
Shaving is such a
> pain in the rear!
I'll second that!
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