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I mean they crash into you and take you out when there is absolutely no benefit to them at all. It's just bloody rediculous and makes really angry.

Yep, exactly the same thing has happened to me on numorous occasions, it's so frustrating, it's like all the other races are against you and no one else.

I think that one of the things that gets lost on developers is that not everyone playing the game they are developing is a 14-16 year old with nothing but a mountain of available time on his hands. Also, game developers are, by and large, amazing gamers, and I think that very often, they program games with difficulty levels to challenge themselves and the aforementioned young teens. What happens is that when you make games like this, that are so difficult they are really only accessible to "Elite-Gamers", which represent maybe 3% of the gaming community, you alienate a lot of people, particularly people like me, who in the end, spend a lot more money on consoles and games than the aforementioned top gamers. This is why, while I love a challenge, I honestly believe that developers need to be a lot more sensitive to professionals and other adults like myself, not just the tiny group of people who they seem to mostly be catering to.

This is one of the things I love about GTA games, Halo games, Midnight Club 3, Ratchet & Clank titles and other games that are more accessible to the majority of gamers.

I know that some people love games like Ninja Gaeden for the reason that they are absurdly difficult. I also know we have people like volacide, who are so good at this game that they could actually beat it if it was even more difficult. However, that's what I believe that Online gaming is for. There is where the game should be insanely challenging, even to the point of ridiculous and frustrating, not in a career mode or storyline/single-player mode, at least not in my opinion.

Let's get to the basics here, if you want to create a succesful game, make it playable, this is something the makers of Motorstorm have not achieved, in my opinion.

Well it DID achieve an 8/10 score, so that makes it more than just playable, if you can't hack it...well that's another story...Time Attack does make practice (as well as frustrate the *bleep* outta ya) but of course, competition cannot exist without frustration. I think they achieved it pretty well...only problem I have is their lack of content and that's pretty much it.

I think 8/10 is a reasonable score for this game to be honest. I don't think that because gamers like myself find the diffcult and AI a little cheesy (well okay, very cheesy) is any reason to knock off points. I mean, even with the mad frustration I did beat the game in a couple of weeks of part time playing. I do agree about the game lacking content. The things I take points off for are the things I wrote in my first post in this thread. However, to be fair, I think that I would probably give the game an 8.0/10.0 as well as the pro reviewers did. It is far from a horrible game.

The AI is not trying to take you out and trying to lose.

It's trying to take you out in the process of winning.

I've never experience the enemy drivers doing things that inhibited their position just to take me out, like a driver in front of me brake checking me or a driver in front of me trying to crash so that I crash into them.

No, what they usually do is sideswipe me into oblivion or into a rock or a wall and take my position.

Then again I'm usually in first place so they hardly would have any chance to sabotage me since they're never in front.

That's because you are very good at this game. Try this, vol: Go to around the middle ranks and you will see that the AI will literally take you out not just to gain your position, but even at the expense of their position. I can't tell you how many times the huge truck in front of me just cut me off, drove into a wall to block me in and just stayed there. I have seen the blocking vehicle literally stay there until I backed up and tried to proceed.

That is true, it's like the purpose of the A.I. is to impede your process through any means necessary. But I don't believe it is, the "smarter: they are, the more efficient they'll use the boost to get to the finish line, instead of just wanting to crash into you...mind you, if you give them the chance, they won't hesitate.

I've been slameed into a wall so many times and been pinned there and sometimes you can't get out.

I can't say I've been in that situation too many times because the game is too ridiculously easy by now for me. But I've been in "Bike vs. Mudplugger" situations where I just had to back off, outmaneuver the Plugger and boost my way out...not that complicated, really.

I always end up crashing into something though.

quote volacide

Besides, if you've never won a MotorStorm race with ease and been able to set yourself away from the pack that's your fault and you just need to get better, because I do it all the time. Only the higher up races do I ever have trouble with that.

Oh, and these cars are not slow if you know how to race them. Often times I feel like a rocketbooster with some wheels strapped on in this game, narrowly escaping a rocky death around every bend.

Dude, at the moment, I am annoyed as I am trying to get gold on all.

There is a race, Sidewinder on an ATV. thing is cars are also on it. I hate the fact when I am on the second to last bend in first place, I get rammed and toppled. It pisses me off so much! I have moved on to another game for a while whilst I calm myself down and try again methodically.

But Chiro, I agree, I have had people just sacrifice themselves in a suicidal move, just to stop me advancing. I hate it when it happens!

Go whine at the developers. That's why i posted the link on the first page.

BTW, what exactly does the update 2.0 bring to the game? I'm pretty sure you need it before you can install the new track and cars and whatnot from PS Store, like with 1.2 and the time trial...