nobody's waiting for me... on the other side.

tried my hand on both initial d and maximum tune today. here are my reviews..

i can't understand jap at all. so initial d was kinda difficult. dunno how to buy card sia. haha. but in general terms.. its harder to play. first of all i haven touched a realistic wheel in my life(daytona is too... erm.) and i didnt know that it can REALLY REALLY turn. so yea. it was kinda hard to get used to.

secondly.. semi-auto gear shifts in real life is kinda confusing. nothing like the real manual gear box. it will be ok.. though i cant really tell the range of RPM i am at in a certain gear. i usually overrev too much.

MAXIMUM TUNE

much better i suppose. though i had to switch to the back view of the car because i cant really estimate my turns tt well yet. cars are quite drifty with the inertia on them. i managed to successfully buy a card.. because the game was in english. managed to get ALL TIME FAVE Subaru Impreza WRX STi (GDB) and it proved to be an effective vehicle. good acceleration and all tt.

handling wise its still not there yet.. considering how much you must play(and spend) to tune your car to tt level. so the wheel was hard to control initially.. but i adapt pretty well. game requires a lot of understeering to manage ur car to do turning.. i still cant get my hand on the bloody U-shaped turns.

gear wise is the actual gear box sort. 6-gears. i have a slight problem to shift to the wrong gear.. eg from gear 2 i wanna go to 3.. i have to go diagonal to 3. still have a problem of diagonally switching.. sometimes push it to 1.. or even 5. but its good la. i thot it was something wrong with me when i saw my acceleration go up too much(its actually the GDB's acceleration being tweaked to be one of the fastest) and i had to change gear alot. but this car is a great chaser.

gaming wise.. i suppose im still far away.. but it will be a fun gaming experience wif cars.
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ok im bored now cos i dun have a guitar alraedy. and i cant sleep at this time. argh

i need to be entertained.