My "I got it all" thread

[TMoney]

Hello everyone!

On the 18th, I was able to purchase Pure on my vacation in Florida on my last day there, and I just spent the entire car ride home to Ontario playing it.

WOW. It's a beautiful game. I'd say she's the hardest of them all so far too... very hard for me to stick to FEISAR and win like I usually like doing. Assegai is proving a good choice.

The 360 in the air move can prove hard with the stick with some sweat on your hands

Bottom line - I'm extremely impressed. It beats Fusion so badly I can't see why anyone would play it again.

Anyway - back to unpacking!

[infoxicated]

Congrats

[Sausehuhn]

Wow! This is awesome! Now I want this game more than I did before! ... is this possible? :roll:

[Lance]

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no, it's not possible.
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[Sausehuhn]

Yes, you're right Lance

[Rapier Racer]

This delay nonsense is driving me crazy!! Every time I come on here and read these posts the I wantitness goes up by 1 million, maybe these delays are in fact a cleaver-marketing ploy by Sony

[Sausehuhn]

and it works! :wink:

no, really, why we have to wait so long? They started their first handheld and it isn't available all over the world? What is thas? They do not say any word about a lauchday! Why? If the game woudn't be so good, I would say: "Hey Sony, the PSP is your problem, I won't buy it!"
But when I hear these words and see these pictures and movies, I can't wait any longer.
... I will use this time for getting more money for the console... :roll:

[Mobius]

Thats what i am doing here. Saving what i need.

[semi-accurate rant]

Apparently they wanted to release it here before the end of the financial/fiscal (wherever your from) year which i beleive is the 31st March in the UK. Which i cant see happening - tho it would be a friggin miracle if it did. I think when they have their budget sorted they are gonna tell us on the 1st of april 2005 that they are going to release them in Europe on the 7th April and retailing @ £100...

...then tell us that was an April's fool joke.

But seriously i think that by the start of the new financial year we will have a fixed date.

yay

[/semi accurate rant]

[Rapier Racer]

lol what a great Arpil fools joke

[Lance]

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don't forget that Sony are having financial difficulties these days, very different from the old AkIo Morita days, so this may be having an effect on what they can afford to do if they don't have spare cash to have a huge stockpile PSPs and games before release dates.

oh, btw, Steve, can i call you Steve?, [sorry, am drunk at the mo], ''wantitness''] hehe, sounds like something from The Neverending Story. love that flick. and book
tallyhoooooooooooo
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[TMoney]

Thanks for the congratulatory remarks haha

I truly am proud of the effort ! When I left for Florida, I thought there was no way I'd have it by the ride home, since release dates at the time said 23rd.

When I got to Orlando, a few EB stores had Wayne Gretzky's hockey and the soccer game. Then the day after that NFS:Rivals, Spiderman 2, THUG and Dynasty Warriors were on the shelves... so I asked the clerk what was up, who informed me Wipeout showed shipped and that I could probably pick it up the next day.

Just some facts for the curious I guess :

Today I connected to the WOure download service and the cover photo was there saying that downloads were coming soon.

The 2nd menu skin available is just inverse colours of the original menu... which is mostly white w/light blue and red/pink lettering.

The game doesn't let you pick specific music tracks in the race. It's either random or sequential.... but you can add and remove tracks from the playlist.

The 4 classic tracks are 'neotronic' tracks... basically everything looks very tron-like , a-la Wipeout 3's bonus tracks. The classic tracks aren't *exactly* like their originals... meaning for example a turn may not have the same angle of track it had orginally. I think it was the orginal WO track where I noticed that.

Mines make a very cool sort of beeping noise... you can hear them sometimes before you see them. There's also a bomb you can drop that has a similar sound. The sound has come in handy a few times for me around a corner, where I couldn't see but still could expect to find them.

Wow the graphics. WOW. Movies online don't do them justice. There's this one part ... I can't be bothered to get the track name now.. but you've all seen it. The track where it it splits with a giant gaping whole in the center of the split, and then comes back together. Anyway, it's a minor thing, but somewhere in the track you see a faint rainbow pattern across this huge panoramic... I don't know.. looks like a turned off LCD screen or something... and the rainbow pattern followed you as you made the turn... it was such a minor detail but I was shocked to notice it. This game is simply gorgeous.

Everytime you get a gold medal, it shows up on your progress chart. Kind of the same way Wipeout 3 worked for the single race-chart , but for everything. There are medals for time trials, Zone, Tourny and single races... but for every gold you get - you can select it and a piece of concept art comes up. I've won a lot of them now... and they could publish a book of this stuff.

Anyway - have any questions post them and I'll answer to the best of my ability.

[Concept]

A very simple one.

Do you think Pure is up to the standards of 2097 from what you've played so far?

[Shem]

great!!

- okay, tell us about the teams. How did it happen that AG-Sys are back, same with Qirex and other teams missing from Fusion ?

- what is the overall feel of the tracks? are they wide, narrow, industrial, dark or W'O" like? (*important to me* - is there a 'snowy' track? [silverstream...sagarmantha....])

- did you manage to unlock Phantom? if so, how is it?

- what about the pitch control? can you tell us if it really exitst? or if it makes any effect on your flight?

[Concept]

Shem - I've already seen videos of a snow track with snow falling down.

[Shem]

well, i didn't


thanks for the info tho.

[Lance]

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[waves hello from Orlando; sorry i missed you. sorry about the rain, but it wasn't my fault! ]
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[Concept]

well, i didn't

thanks for the info tho.

http://www.gamespot.com/psp/driving/wipeout/media.html

Gameplay footage 7. There's your snow track.

Looking good.

[Shem]

aahhh, there it is....

Now i can die happy. :

[TMoney]

Very much up to 2097/XL standards for me....
The soundtrack isn't as good in my opinion... but it's still damn good.

My brief manual read tells of the fall of the F9000 league, and that how only purists remained to race until the birth of the FX300 league. All the classic teams come back to this island to race...

No word specifically on AG that I noticed though.

I'm currently at Flash level mostly. Which is difficult for me.. and XL and 3 are a cake walk for me now... Pure is much more challenging.

But I can tell you now from what I've seen from Flash.... you'll get the speed you want and maybe some you don't.

I actually tried pitch control a few times... it's mentioned in the manual so there is an effect - but I didn't notice it like I can in XL or 3. I don't really use it on jumps as I did, because I'm concentrating on rolling at those points instead (because it gives you a speed boost when you land).

Your snow track is the second last real track in the game.

And Lance, no worries on the weather. I got there Friday and had 4 decent days.... and one or two good days after that. Compared to Windsor, ON - your worst day in Orlando is glorious. Besides, without a rainy day I wouldn't have made it to the Florida Mall to by WO

Cheers everybody

[Shem]

My brief manual read tells of the fall of the F9000 league

About freakin' time. Now all things make sense. Natasha Belmondo's quote from Pure especially...