Quote Originally Posted by SaturnReturn View Post
I can't help but feel that, if this were really true, you would just play online with your friends and set the barrel roll option to "off". That was provided for those who don't like barrel rolls, so that can't really be used as an excuse not to play the game. As leungbok says, you can play almost all of it without barrel rolls. Beat Zico won't be possible without them, but that's just one trophy, and if it's really about playing with friends, then trophies shouldn't be much of a bother.
Just because you can switch BR's off doesn't mean you should do if you don't like them. You need to better understand that we've all been told that BR's are integral to the game, therefore it would be wrong (going against the intended experience) to turn them off just for online play.

I have already explained why I find the trophies somewhat annoying.

Okay folks, it seems I am still not getting through, so allow me to put it another way by posing this simple question...

Q) Do bears crap in the woods?
A) We all know they do. Pretending you can't see or hear them won't mask the stink.

Turning BR's off for online play with friends is NOT a solution. It's like trying to ignore the credit crunch by staying indoors!

The rest of the world uses BR's. I've been exposed to them & won races using them. Other people however find that BR's are easy to forget about. They're also the sort of feature that many people want to forget about - because they shatter the futuristic realism of the series. BR's are just like the PtT button - that's why no-one talks online in WOHD. Just because we're told BR's are an integral part of the game doesn't mean all WOHD players are going crazy trying to do them on every bit of every circuit just to find out where they can possibly be done. Nope. Instead, people just forget about them & blame the game for being too hard when they fail to win yet another 1p novice race on venom.

Fine - what's done is done with WOHD, but SL extended WOHD with Fury, so how about throwing the old school WipEout and 2097 players a bone?

SL doesn't need to change the main Wipeout HD game. SL doesn't need to change Fury. SL doesn't need to change anything. SL should simply add to it. It wouldn't hurt WOHD to add in what I've described. It would just be giving gamers another option.