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- sporkafife
My usual gaming experience consists of about a few hours playing on Call of Duty: Black Ops. Either with a couple of my friends or on my own. I do enjoy playing Black Ops, especially when my friends are there too, but it isn't exactly a relaxing experience and usually ends up in me getting too bored or too annoyed to continue playing. My day-to-day experiences on GT5 don't get much better. After reaching a bit of a roof at level 34, I started to play online and was immediately swamped by X2010's, "$$$$$$$$" lobbies and punting. Most of the races I join online end up in a huge pileup at the first corner and the lucky sod that got through it unscathed winning the race skill-lessly. <-----WARNING: not a real word
Today however was completely different. It started off pretty frustrating, my PS3 must have caught Man-flu and decided that it did not want to bother connecting to the internet. After attacking the problem from many different angles I gave up. I couldn't find a problem, and I had seen every PS3 error code in the book (you all know the ones I'm on about "Error 300809D45" - thanks a lot Sony
). My patience was stretched thin, so I decided to play GT5 and do some offline racing.
I booted up GT5 and found myself trying that Lambo Cup seasonal race on the Cape Ring Periphery. No matter how much I hate that track with it's huge gimmicky spiral section and over-the-top jump, I have to admit that it is a very challenging circuit to drive on. It has plenty of elevation changes and tricky corner combinations that make controlling even the most stable cars a challenge. To makes things harder for myself, I chose an un-modified Lamborghini Murcielago with some soft sports tyres.
I failed to win the race 4 times in a row. On the 4th attempt I was a mere 2 seconds behind the leader. I would usually get frustrated after losing a race that many times, but driving the very tricky Murcielago around a highly demanding track that poses many challenges turned out to be one of my favourite GT5 experiences to date. I enjoyed every corner. The act of slowly perfecting my driving was both fun and rewarding. When I finally crossed the line in 1st position, I felt a little sad. I had truly enjoyed the journey that had embraced me for the past 45 minutes, and the thought of it being over made my heart drop slightly.
Even the AI (usually dickish and constantly smashing into me and/or each other) seemed to have calmed down and become more human. I think it was the combination of cars and track that brought this mysterious change along, but the AI seemed totally different. No longer were they smashing into me, and they didn't look as if they were driving on rails anymore (I even saw a guy in a Miura lose the back end for a few seconds) and the tire marks on the track were evidence that some of the AI were having a difficult time too. Unfortunately, during the time I had spent in gaming/driving Nirvana, my internet had come back on and friend invites to Black Ops had already started to fill up my inbox.
Maybe tomorrow I'll turn on the PlayStation and intentionally disconnect the internet. Then I can guide my cursor over to the seasonal events and give the rest of the Lambo Cup a try
P.s. The experience bagged me about 300k too
Today however was completely different. It started off pretty frustrating, my PS3 must have caught Man-flu and decided that it did not want to bother connecting to the internet. After attacking the problem from many different angles I gave up. I couldn't find a problem, and I had seen every PS3 error code in the book (you all know the ones I'm on about "Error 300809D45" - thanks a lot Sony
). My patience was stretched thin, so I decided to play GT5 and do some offline racing.I booted up GT5 and found myself trying that Lambo Cup seasonal race on the Cape Ring Periphery. No matter how much I hate that track with it's huge gimmicky spiral section and over-the-top jump, I have to admit that it is a very challenging circuit to drive on. It has plenty of elevation changes and tricky corner combinations that make controlling even the most stable cars a challenge. To makes things harder for myself, I chose an un-modified Lamborghini Murcielago with some soft sports tyres.
I failed to win the race 4 times in a row. On the 4th attempt I was a mere 2 seconds behind the leader. I would usually get frustrated after losing a race that many times, but driving the very tricky Murcielago around a highly demanding track that poses many challenges turned out to be one of my favourite GT5 experiences to date. I enjoyed every corner. The act of slowly perfecting my driving was both fun and rewarding. When I finally crossed the line in 1st position, I felt a little sad. I had truly enjoyed the journey that had embraced me for the past 45 minutes, and the thought of it being over made my heart drop slightly.
Even the AI (usually dickish and constantly smashing into me and/or each other) seemed to have calmed down and become more human. I think it was the combination of cars and track that brought this mysterious change along, but the AI seemed totally different. No longer were they smashing into me, and they didn't look as if they were driving on rails anymore (I even saw a guy in a Miura lose the back end for a few seconds) and the tire marks on the track were evidence that some of the AI were having a difficult time too. Unfortunately, during the time I had spent in gaming/driving Nirvana, my internet had come back on and friend invites to Black Ops had already started to fill up my inbox.
Maybe tomorrow I'll turn on the PlayStation and intentionally disconnect the internet. Then I can guide my cursor over to the seasonal events and give the rest of the Lambo Cup a try
P.s. The experience bagged me about 300k too
