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Yeah just finishing those 9 race ones is tough, I had loads of failed attempts. do you stick with one ship you think is best? I mainly used the first and last ones, I think the last one is best for the 20 player races on tracks I can get round with out crashing as it gets up to speed eventually and really flies, but for everything else I’m not sure.

I can’t remember what I originally didn’t like about the downhill one to give that any more context, think I didn’t understand how the timing worked at first maybe? Guess if you have gamepass not losing much in giving it a try.

Been playing the new one of these, the skiing one, really enjoying it, the snow/skiing handling is really good, skiing down the mountain is just good fun imo. the snow looks amazing, and it’s cool how it deforms and leaves tracks as you have multiple retries. There’s loads of different routes down to save time etc. and obvs there are replays on YouTube of people flying over everything with crazy speed, like this one: Not sure how to describe the game, it’s sort of like trials but doesn’t work quite the same, and it’s in 3d, the perspective is sort of like a diorama. You can just ski down the hill without worry about times or challenges if you want but the main single player is beating times and avoiding crashes challenges, which like trials can be pretty frustrating, but apparently that’s what I like. it doesn’t work like trials in how it records time, as in your time gets reset if you crash so your time at the end is all your sectors added up, where trials includes all the time you spent crashing. theres multiplayer but not played that much. theres quite a few ui bugs too, which i expect will be sorted in a patch. And it could do with a way to see how you’re doing against the challenge times during a stage, although there maybe features in like that which are a little broken when I last tried, and there is an unlockable ghost mode which also should help with that problem. think it’s out on pc and Xbox at the moment, and on gamepass, suspect it will come to other formats too as the old one is on switch and ps too. The old game is the same basically but with mountain biking, I didn’t like it at first but ended up really liking it after giving it another go.

I get emotional at tv/films quite often, seemingly more so than I used to, not sure why/getting old? Games I’m not sure, can’t remember any specific examples but wouldn’t be surprised if there were some.

Really enjoyed my time with this but think I’m done with it for now, played about 10 hours, got 1 win in a 99 player race, got to s rank, wanted to finish all the championships but missed out on a few as they are only on randomly. So yeah thumbs up.

forgot i'd ordered this, until getting loads of emails about it arriving anyway, 100+ tracks of monks chanting/refantazio soundtrack

Had a look today think it said 7 days left of the special event

Oh right, I do the weekly time trials sometimes and friends times appear there, maybe it depends on the mode and some don’t allow it because of ps+? Or maybe a lot of old times got wiped in an update?

There’s probably loads of more recent ones I’ve forgot about but I really liked the robot from kotor

Yeah nice one Nag! really good top 5, didn’t play Balatro but the other 4 are great games imo.

Yeah when I was playing yesterday it said there’s an event on, so it’s probably still on, but as I’ve only just started playing I don’t really know the difference between event/non event stuff. ive spent so long playing f-zero (well this style f-zero) with a d-pad I’m not sure I could use the stick, might give it a try though.

took a while but got around to playing this and really enjoying it! surprisingly so as it is a bit of a mess playing it with so many ships all grouped together it's like the peloton in a cycle race but more chaos, at the start anyway, it does calm down later on in the race. the only way it works is collisions from other players don't throw you off course much, unless they're doing a spin attack. not done too many single 99 races, mostly doing the championships which are hard to finish even with decreasing number of players qualifying for the next race, sometimes (or always?) only the top 20 get to the last race, only finished a few of those. think the best i've done in a single 99 player race is 7th, and 10th in a championship. the 20 player is the best mode when it comes round, got some wins in that one. the pro pad d-pad is fine for left right but has caused me a few crashes when pressing down off a jump to go further and inadvertently veer off the track.

having never tried it i am a bit wary of the frame generation stuff especially this new one where they're using so many ai generated frames, be interesting to give it a go at some point and see what reviews make of it.

or maybe Maf should buy all the graphics cards and become king of the north or something, i don't know how it works. (a 4090 will definitely be fine for a long long time) don't know if it's been mentioned on here but there was a new intel gpu recently which looked like a really good deal at around £250 but apparently doesn't work as well with older/slower cpu's so not as good as it first seemed, like this place re-reviewed it:

yeah i've been looking at possibly getting a new tv, do i want one with black smearing like my current one or possible burn in? great. i think i might want an ips panel but they don't seem to do those much in tv's with gaming/high refresh rate features. and then a lot of tv's don't come in smaller sizes than 55 which is not ideal