10 Things I hate about WipEout Pulse

[Dogg Thang]

Well I'm certainly not awesome at the game. Never have been with Wipeout as much as I love the series - the original took me ages just to eventually scrape through it. And, yes, in Pulse my imperfect laps far outweigh my perfect laps. If they didn't, we'd have a really serious problem.

But my Pulse perfect laps, even early on, far outweigh my perfect laps from any other WO game (can't remember about Fusion - I don't really count that). Like phl0w, the only ones I had difficulty with were the Phantom tournaments due to the blowing-upness of it all. I breezed through time trial golds and head to head first time - something I could rarely do in Pure. The only difficulty for me came from surviving the weapons and that was an all or nothing thing: if I survived, I won.

For better or worse, I have little doubt that making through the challenges set out by the game is much easier in Pulse.

And I see all of Colin's points and have always admired the direction he's taking the series but I think Sausehun makes a great point - the handling can really be AG with all that brings, while not having the game needing to be really tough for new players. Ultimately, what drew most of us to Wipeout was the feeling of flying an anti-gravity craft, and the speed. They're really the main two things that differentiate the series from other racers. The speed is still retained in the later classes but if I didn't know that and was new to the game, I'd likely think it was too slow early on. And if losing that feeling of floating and anti-gravity is seen as making it more accessible, that pretty much weakens the two main draws of the game for new players. But, as Sausehun says, there's no reason why you can't have floaty handling but not have it as punishing as the earlier games - making it accessible while not sacrificing the strengths of the series.