A Gaming Diary
Posts tagged outrun
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Mar 30th
ARGH!
So I’ve been playing more of this on the PSP and saving up my miles to buy the 328 GTS, because it was my very favourite car on OutRun 2 on the Xbox.
I finally get enough miles and run off to the showroom, choose the car and… a message pops up saying “Sorry, you must unlock this car on the PS2.”
Fuck’s sake.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Mar 30th
Hooray!
On my fourth go and with the office clock clicking closer and closer to one o’clock I finally finished the SP easy route for the first time. Go me!
I now have 10,001 OutRun miles. I need 13,500 to buy the 328 GTS. Would have enough if I’d not bought the F50 earlier.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Mar 30th
Played it on the bus to work.
Yes, I played OutRun 2 on the bus to work.
I love how that sounds.
I played OutRun 2 on the bus to work.
I still can’t quite finish the easiest route on the SP stages, but it’s really starting to feel like it’s my fault, not the controls. Getting used to digital braking and accelerating has been the biggest challenge. I can’t ease off the gas to get round bends anymore and it’s really changed the way I’m having to play the game. Anyone who went all or nothing on the triggers in the Xbox game will probably find it easier to adjust.
But it’s so good. It is OutRun 2 in the palm of my hand. It’s not perfect, but it’s more than a handheld approximation of the real game. It is the real game.
It’s Magical Sound Shower played through a decent all-in-one stereo instead of an expensive separates system with gold-plated double-thick speaker wires. Or something.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Mar 29th
Hooray! For probably the only time ever I’ve got the best score on one of the routes on the OutRun2 online leaderboard. On the PSP version, this is. Representing for the UK. Only Union Jack on the top scores screen.
Tried to play online, but there were no games and nobody joined when I created one.
Anyway, I’ve taken the steering sensitivity down a couple of notches, which has helped things massively. I’ve mainly been playing OutRun 2, rather than any challenges or SP, just to try and compare it to the version I already know and love.
Best PSP game ever? Well, Street Fighter Alpha 3 Max is stiff competition, but OutRun 2006 might just beat it. We’ll see.
OutRun 2006 Coast 2 Coast
Mar 29th
Tried the PSP version briefly this lunchtime. Very difficult to control and drifts don’t seem as natural to pull off as in OutRun 2 on the Xbox.
It seems good, don’t get me wrong, but it’s going to take some getting used to is all.
OutRun 2
Feb 25th
One run through Arcade mode.
Top of the score board and four seconds off my previous best time.
Ah, that’s better.
Now I can probably jump back into Black for a bit.
OutRun 2
Feb 18th
Well, as the Xbox was on I couldn’t not, could I?
Did the the easiest route in arcade a couple of times and came 5th and 3rd on the high score table. Flushed with success, I decided to try a mission, as I’ve never fnished mission mode. A few goes later I realised why – it’s bloody hard. Too hard for midnight Friday night, anyway.
OutRun 2
Jan 23rd
So I played OutRun 2 instead, for the first time in ages. I went through the easiest route a couple of times, scraping in to the finish both times. I’ve lost a lot of skill.
Then i tried the hardest route and should have made it, but I completely mucked up the first corner of the final stage and ended up driving into barriers and skidding around for a good five seconds. So I only made it to the final corner before the time ran out. Gutted.
Still, it’s a glorious experience every time. I just wish the new version was coming to the 360, rather than the Xbox. I’m really noticing the softness of the low-res pictures these days, now I’m running my PC and 360 through the TV at higher resolutions. Never mind, though.
Incidentally, OutRun 2 is my favourite game of all time and my profile says I’ve only played for seventeen and a half hours in total. Add in the time played in the arcade and on my other Xbox and it’s still probably under twenty hours. I find that incredible, but it’s because every time I tunr it on it’s just for on, two or three runs through arcade mode, which takes no time at all.
