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I find especially hard: bits where you have rely solely on balancing on your back wheel while maintaining momentum, and bits where you have to get up nearly vertical / actually vertical slopes.
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I dunno, some of them seemed to be more luck than judgement. There was one obstacle where you had to launch off a ramp and get across a short ramp held in mid air to get to a ledge, and the gap seemed impossibly large. I literally got over 100 faults on that. 100. It was pathetic. But it is a good game. I only intended to put it on for an hour or so but ended up sinking a good four hours into it.
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Anyhow, don't be too put off, I think the beauty of Trials is you play until you reach the limit of your skill/patience then stop.
Typically I rushed through the Beginner, Easy and medium levels achieving bronze and silver medals, tried some hard, got stuck and frustrated. Went back to the easy levels to get gold medals which was satisfying, did the same through medium then went back to hard and I was that much better that i could get through them this time.
There is only so much you can take with Trials though as the gameplay encourages multiple resets and things get super repetitive quickly - especially when you're trying to get a no fault gold medal run on a track (even worse but more satisfying with the platinum medals)
My best tip is once you complete a track - check out the replays of the guys at the top of the leaderboards, often there's a route that you never thought of which can drive your time down by loads.
Second tip is use the front flip to get greater distance on those long jumps.
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I bought Trials 2: Second Edition, which looks a lot like Trials HD, but I've put a lot more time into *Cyclomaniacs, which I'm inexplicably playing through for the third time.
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Getting the medals is super frustrating. I've got gold on all but the last of the easy levels. It's bits where you feel like you've timed every jump and hump to perfection, then you'll get to what should be a really straight forward bit and your front wheel will bump up slightly. Then you lean forward and the back wheel lifts so you lose momentum. Then the back wheel goes down and you just wheelie yourself off the bike pathetically.
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To get a long jump push back just before you hit the lip and then just as you come off the lip hit forwards and you'll go quite a lot forwards. You can then do a forward flip if you want but really that's just showboating.
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there's a new podcast up btw. you know, every time we finish one, i listen to the first twenty minutes, hate the sound of my voice, feel like I'm just burbling fuckbrain, and decide that the NEXT one will be semi-decent. Six times I've gone through that exact process.
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anyway yes, Trials HD. I feel like I've hit a wall (lol, etc), but I need to get through it. I'm not taking my shit to the next level yet. No platinums, few golds on Hard.
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quote:Originally posted by Kanye West: there's a new podcast up btw. you know, every time we finish one, i listen to the first twenty minutes, hate the sound of my voice, feel like I'm just burbling fuckbrain, and decide that the NEXT one will be semi-decent. Six times I've gone through that exact process.
I think that's exactly what happens with film-makers, writers, actors and everyone who attempts creative stuff. Or at least, everyone who does it well You finish it, take one look, recoil in disgust and try again. I think if you decide that you're "getting it right" you lose the drive to improve and your work turns to total, total shit, eg Spielberg.
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I've still not listened to your last one as I haven't found my headphones. I know they're in the house somewhere which is why i haven't bought any more yet but it's annoying now.
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I enjoyed the podcast this morning while eating my toast with cherry jam, and a cup of coffee. Good work. I particularly liked benway getting the subject of downloadable content all wrong.
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For anyone who doesn't want to wallow in self disgust you simply have to understand that the creative process is mostly some kind of lucid one, where the best genius comes flying out spontaneously and you then quickly forget about it. On listening/reading back you surprise yourself immensely. I'm trying to stop benway doing this scrutinising of his own work, because it doesn't help. We've stopped clapping our hands. We've stopped erming at everything on the agenda and I've banished the squeeky chair to the spare room again, but he just can't help himself. he has to sit there agonising over his mong voice.
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you'd agonise if you had a mong voice. My next job is eradicating something that I'm not even going to mention (not mikee)
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Completed the new DLC for DA:O last night. It is pretty shit. Adds nothing to the story really and is piss easy and gives you weapons and armour that aren't particularly good.
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Yeah I spotted that a long time ago. There were a few other bits and bobs in the game too like that. I forget what they were off the top of my head.
You should play Assassin's Creed 2 - it's much better.
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I will do when it is cheap second hand. I'm still plowing through Lego Batman when Kate is out (which is rarely) and DA:O when she's in. She might like AC2 so I could probably get away with playing that shen she's in.
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It does start off a bit ropey. I was trying to convince Reema that the AC games were totally cool and not at all juvenile, then within 20 minutes of starting it I found myself at a part where you're encouraged to seduce and undress your lover using quicktime events. Thankfully this is probably the only genuinely lame bit in the whole game and you can more or less skip it by not pressing any buttons.
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quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: That sounds like it's what people who don't play computer games assume that computer games are all about.
TO be fair though she'd have hated it anyway. She saw me playing Trials HD the other day and said "what's this? some sort of fucking stupid skateboarding game or something?"
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quote:Originally posted by Ringo: TO be fair though she'd have hated it anyway. She saw me playing Trials HD the other day and said "what's this? some sort of fucking stupid skateboarding game or something?"
Oh dear. Is she slagging off your hobbies? That doesn't sound good. Does Reema do that kind of thing a lot?
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I was quite tempted by Madworld and also Manhunt 2 and Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Wii and the Smash bros game on the wii but none of them give gamerpoints so I haven't bothered.
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