@moffattron9000 said:
@BPRJCTX said:
@moffattron9000 said:
I will only accept this as a brag thread only if then i am allowed to insult everyone who is this insane while my medal count is stuck at 116
I don't want to sound like an asshole for making this thread, i never brag about anything related to games, or anything at all, and i think most ppl who do are losers.
But, Trials is somehow different...
I don't know, maybe i'm just an hypocrite, but getting all those golds really made me feel awesome.
And not wanting to sound like an even biger asshole, i don't think it was that hard getting all golds up untill extreme.
But, i'm gona say, that's probably because i got pretty good at it, and not because they're easy.
Of course i had to try most of them a few times, sometimes i got lucky and got golds the first time, but most of the time, it's just, getting to know the track.
The hardest one to get gold, IMO, was Groundhog Asylum, that's the closest to an Extreme track.
But yeah, i feel good right now, but i know i'm gonna be pulling my hair off trying to get golds on the Extreme tracks.
Btw, i'm at 212 medals right now, and that's nothing, looking at the Global Leaderboards, there are 35598 ppl better than me...
That's kinda crazy.
I completely get that feeling especially when this game makes me spend a day that was planned to write an essay for uni and instead has me spend three hours trying to get a my bronze up to a gold on that bloody phoenix because I figured what harm could there be in using the overpowered bike on a track that's not designed for it and you keep hitting that one obstacle over, and over again thinking to yourself that this will be the time that you finally get through all of this when deep down you know you won't leading you scream at the top of your lungs over the frustration of coming to this realization. Then there the depression sets in where not only do you feel like you will never beat that bloody obstacle but you begin to feel like you will never amount to anything as you can't get past this one small thing. then somehow you get past it not knowing if it is blind luck or you actually figured out how to pass it. Now reinvigorated you move on to the next obstacle where the viscous cycle begins again. Then slowly but surely you figure out obstacle after obstacle until you finally make it to the end, gold medal at the bottom of the screen and you find yourself on the biggest high that you ever feel like you have ever experienced and you scream at the top of the lungs in celebration. Then you go to the menu and move on to the next track.
If a game can lead me to such highs and such lows (and get me to write a shitty 250 word short story) I can completely understand wanting to gloat about it. Likewise it makes me want to insult people who are somehow at 212 medals.
That sucks, but it's totally awesome at the same time.
It's a feeling of accomplishment you rarely get from games nowadays.
Btw, let me give you some tips.
Don't use the phoenix on the beginner, easy, and medium tracks, use the scorpion instead, it's easier to get golds medals on those track with that bike, but if you ever want to go for Platinum medals. then you'll have to use the phoenix, but i'm not looking for that right now, i'm just focusing on golds, maybe one day...
Maybe.
Also, i don't know how you're playing the game, but, don't try to gold every track as you go through the game.
The first time, just play it, finish the track, and move on to the next, if you need medals to unlock more events, start from the beggining again, with a better bike, and when you get enough medals, continue from where you left off.
Whe you pass all the tracks in the game, including extreme, then you can think about improving your medals.
At least that's how i do it, and i think that's the best way to improve, and not get frustrated.
Also, when you want to impove your times, always do a "scout run", and focus on the obstacles and the best way to get through them, if you're having probelms with some obstacles, keep pressing B before you hit the next check point, try to complete it a few times, don't just start every run trying to complete the wholle track in one go.
If you're good, you can do that, and probably get a gold the first time, but, if you're having problems that's the bets way to go.
If, after you tried it for yourself, you still can't get the gold, look at the leaderboards for that track, and checkout the number one in the world, even if you're not good enought to do it as well as he does, mimicking the number one in the world getting a platinum medal, should make it easy for you to get a gold.
And, last but not least, play User Created Tracks.
The more Trials you play, the better you'll get at it, that's also a good way to get better at it, without getting frustrated, playing the same track over and over and failing at it.
There's also a lof of great user created tracks to experience.
Hope that helps.
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