Even though I'm still playing Far Cry 2, and still I'm driving suprisingly new Jeep Wranglers for hours and hours and hours and hours... I have the strange urge to buy the most frustrating insanely-hard racing game outthere. The one game that actually rivals up with Ninja Gaiden 2. It's not a game to challenge you, it's a game that intends on making you lose. And if you do succeed, the game will punish you twice as hard later on.

In Ninja Gaiden if you got past a boss and was ready to take on the next one, somehow the camera would hitch up behind a small wall...
In MC:LA, and all of the other Midnight Club's, winning would make the AI twice as difficult.

And I'm not overreacting. It's a so-called "dynamic difficulty system". In other words; If you're winning races, prepare to become shitfaced. If you're on a losing streak, prepare to be still shitfaced.

In all honesty, even while the game is annoyingly difficult, according to many even more difficult than Midnight Club 3... If you do win a seemingly impossible race; A little angel gets it's wings, flies down and slaps some reality in you that you sir are cheering for no reason, knowing you won yourself another loss. Hehehe, seriously - The statisfaction of winning a race in a beatdown, half-upgraded Chevrolet Camaro is amazing.

Though, knowing the Midnight Club series all too well - You might as well buy a new controller right at that point, cause the massive dissapointment of getting on a big-ass losing streak after a long-awaited win hurts like hell.

Oh... And if anyone's up for a bit of screwing around in Saints Row 2 - The 'tag's up there and... The 'tag's up there.

Adios and may God watch over my controller as it'll fly, oh it will fly. Like a Wii controller zapping from some insane 5-year-old's hand, thinking you do Wii-bowling by flinging the thing around like a motherfucker.

I have MC:LA and I can confirm that it is just as frustratingly hard as all the other games in the series. If you make one mistake in a race, that usually costs you the win, as the AI never ever crashes. And even if you do race absolutely perfectly, winning is still a challenge because the AI will be right on your ass the entire time.

I hate games like that. They want you to lose. They make you look like a loser. A man who is talentless and will never be good at anything.

Developers are evil when they do shit like that. I thought Gears of War's single player campaign was cruel, but I know there are games out there that intend to make you keep playing just so you can prove to yourself and you are a winner and a man that will lead a great future; only to realize that you just beat a stupid game and accomplished nothing. The game's box laughs at you. You crawl in a corner, hopeless and destroyed.

It's fucked up.

Beat that controller up!  I didn't get MC: LA just because of the daunting difficulty.  I'll be ready to hit Stilwater with you when you're ready.

Thinking back, those games were hard as hell. I had midnight club 3 and I remember it taking 5-6 times to win a race. I never actually beat that game I don't think. 

Dude i remember MC Dub Edition made me damn near cry, that was fucking hard...by this i take its the same, im not sure if i'll get MC:LA just yet

Sheesh. I forgot about that. I was totally looking forward to this game, but at least now I have an excuse to knock it off my list...

I really enjoy difficult games, but difficult racing games are too much.  I don't value repetition.