Trials HD - "worse than crack cuz u gotta go out and get crack"

Discus.

Prior, from the XBOX thread:

fuck this game in the fucking fuck

― cozwn (webinar), Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:15 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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IN THE FUCKING FUCK

― cozwn (webinar), Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:17 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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Trials? Told you.

― JimD, Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:18 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 82.71.241.77] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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it's great, so compulsive but so so difficult

it doesn't help that I have a friends list full of ppl playing it; it's tweaked the only competitive bone I have left in my body

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:21 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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ok gonna get it tonight. better warn the neighbours.

― ledge, Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:22 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 83.244.171.162] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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are you on my friendslist ledge I can't remember?

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:24 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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the medium levels are just the right difficulty for my skill level; hard is sooo fkn hard, I faulted 85 times and took 9 minutes on one earlier o_O

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:25 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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aye (assuming you're cozeny)

― ledge, Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:26 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 83.244.171.162] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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ahh u r reg delmot aicmfp

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 2:28 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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the game is like some sort of zen crack

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:58 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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fuck, i suppose i have to as well.

― BOO LIAR BEN KONOP BOO BAD BOO BEN KONOP BOO (forksclovetofu), Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:10 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 71.249.221.56] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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see if anyone can beat my time on rock'n'drop (near the end on medium difficulty); only track I'm top of my friends list on at the minute

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:13 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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nnnnnnnggggghhhh so addictive

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:43 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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haha thanks to my live username i was just totally baffled by what you were saying for about a minute

― genereal disease (jjjusten), Thursday, August 13, 2009 9:48 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 64.131.23.182] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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it's ten bucks, right?

― BOO LIAR BEN KONOP BOO BAD BOO BEN KONOP BOO (forksclovetofu), Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:01 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 71.249.221.56] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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haha that did occur to me :)

btw 98th in the world on tired hill reginald delmot. you better step up ur game

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:01 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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1200 space dollars, forks

― cozwn, Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:01 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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What is that in american earth money? 15? i can never keep that shit straight.

― BOO LIAR BEN KONOP BOO BAD BOO BEN KONOP BOO (forksclovetofu), Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:03 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 71.249.221.56] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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oh man my wrists hurt.

the difficulty curve on this is beautiful. easy is just put the hammer down and learn to balance; medium is finesse, letting go of the throttle from time to time, and learning the tracks; and hard is pure technique.

― ledge, Thursday, August 13, 2009 10:22 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 195.112.40.182] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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how come only czn's scores show up for me? i'm pals with forks n justen.

― ledge, Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:21 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 195.112.40.182] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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oh wait i got justen & jefflev confused. all those 'j's. yup.

jefflev what is yr tag?

― ledge, Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:22 PM (Yesterday) [IP: 195.112.40.182] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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jefflev13

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, August 14, 2009 1:51 AM (12 hours ago) [IP: 66.133.223.121] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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hay dudes my tag is 'gooole' w/ 3 os but i don't do pvp much. battlefield 43?

― goole, Friday, August 14, 2009 3:06 AM (11 hours ago) [IP: 76.17.240.10] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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Btw if peeps have not added me I am "nnnnnggggghhhhh"

― genereal disease (jjjusten), Friday, August 14, 2009 4:19 AM (10 hours ago) [IP: 24.118.232.197] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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i'm 'goeff tips'.

or maybe 'geoff tipps'. I didn't choose it and can't remember..

― wilter, Friday, August 14, 2009 4:24 AM (9 hours ago) [IP: 203.20.54.227] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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that's geoff not goeff :|

― wilter, Friday, August 14, 2009 4:25 AM (9 hours ago) [IP: 203.20.54.227] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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i'm 'polyphonique'

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, August 14, 2009 4:56 AM (9 hours ago) [IP: 67.164.39.14] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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i don't do much pvp except for wimpy arcade games.

― Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, August 14, 2009 4:56 AM (9 hours ago) [IP: 67.164.39.14] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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jesus, that was a four hour session there. I will friend you folks.

― BOO LIAR BEN KONOP BOO BAD BOO BEN KONOP BOO (forksclovetofu), Friday, August 14, 2009 5:08 AM (9 hours ago) [IP: 98.221.194.160] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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this game is designed to make the tiny ocd part of my brain take over and keep me up all night, so i am going to opt out.

― genereal disease (jjjusten), Friday, August 14, 2009 6:10 AM (8 hours ago) [IP: 24.118.232.197] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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Trials HD is definitely the new king of "just one more" gameplay, thanks to the leaderboards (and having friends actually playing it, unlike on PC), plus instant restarts and the generous checkpoint system. I just beat the 3rd hard level in 8+ minutes and 95 restarts, then watched the #1 replay just roll through it with no faults in 39 seconds = mind blown.

Any advice on the hill climb mini game? For whatever reason I can't even get the bronze 50 meters...

Defnitely enjoy the easier tracks, where it's much more about speed and balance and crazy jumps, but there's a certain thrill to struggling through the more difficult stuff too.

Hoping to try out the track editor over the weekend

― Jeff LeVine, Friday, August 14, 2009 6:31 AM (7 hours ago) [IP: 66.133.223.121] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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do not beat my scores any of you, else you will be removed from my friends list so I can remain number one in my mind forever

I am warning yous!

― cozwn, Friday, August 14, 2009 7:02 AM (7 hours ago) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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No worries, I have retreated to the warm embrace of beating all the clear every peg challenges on peggle.

― genereal disease (jjjusten), Friday, August 14, 2009 7:27 AM (6 hours ago) [IP: 24.118.232.197] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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OK bitches gauntlet thrown

hard 1 - rise & fall - 00:47.406, no faults

― cozwn, Friday, August 14, 2009 11:12 AM (3 hours ago) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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make that 00:38.386, no faults

― cozwn, Friday, August 14, 2009 11:38 AM (2 hours ago) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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Hill climb: you have to straighten the bike out and keep it in low gear the whole way up. I think I almost hit the top when I spun out.

― BOO LIAR BEN KONOP BOO BAD BOO BEN KONOP BOO (forksclovetofu), Friday, August 14, 2009 1:42 PM (40 minutes ago) [IP: 98.221.194.160] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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game is worse than crack cos at least u have to go out and get crack

― cozwn, Friday, August 14, 2009 1:59 PM (23 minutes ago) [IP: 86.1.203.24] Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I am 25th in the world on hard 1

the kicker is I'm still not even top of my fl leaderboard; some other fucker is 16th :((((

wait so this is basically excitebike?

forks: in regards to hill climb, can you explain what you mean by "straighten the bike out"

also thanks for creating the thread!

you know i have had a copy of trials 2 in steam for basically forever (cheap indie games pack) and have yet to play it

on hard 2 I can do it faultless right up till the part where you have to hit the springy boards that force you back on yourself then I just crap out :(

Thomp, Trials 2 is pretty great too (especially after all the updates they pumped out). It's definitely worth playing, but it's harder and more frustrating than the new version, basically (I think) because the physics engine is a little more unforgiving. I.e., it's much easier to crash or kill your guy. I actually played both back to back last night and it was pretty obvious how the xbox version is more bouncy and forgiving, which is probably a good thing. The xbox version also has better friend integration (naturally), which makes the just one more go feeling more pronounced. I feel like even the easy tacks are trickier in the PC version, while on 360 they're built more for speed and crazy jumps and end up being much more fun because of it.

cozn - you have RUINED my day by beating hard 1 with no faults :(

did you see my replay :D

I know what you mean though

Jeff, what I do on the hill is climb about ten meters up and lean forward, then bounce down the hill until I'm about two meters up and my rear wheel has stabilized and I'm popped in a standing wheelie. Then I lower forward at the same time I'm HALFWAY accelerating. When both wheels are on the ground, it will straighten out into a flat to the ground diagonal. If you do it right, you get a good steady push and the bike just guts its way up. The problem i had was when I hit the gaps initially. Once you get to the gaps, you have to accelerate slightly and start correcting the front wheel deviation.

And yes, this is basically superawesome excitebike.

I dedicated myself to beating y'all's beginner scores last night. I hate u ledge.

try again...

I played this last night until my hand cramped up so much that I had to stop.

my hands, my wrists, my shoulders! god knows how many times i just tried hard 1. god knows how many more times for just the first section. i'm gettin' there. slowly but surely.

c'mon delmot where you at

post a time fool!!!

(my shoulders are aching wtf)

hey ur time on hard 1 is pretty good!!!

brutal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I5ZjLXnADs

hey ur time on hard 1 is pretty good!!!

when i say "getting there" i mean TO THE FRONT OF THE PACK

Man these hard and expert levels are fucking impossible.

I'm so pissed - I keep raping my score and my friends but I cannot for the life of me do the last section consistently :(

shiiiii - my friend is 21 and I'm 22 now on hard 1

sorry this is my trials blog

this game seems very frustrating

"trials and tribulations" and "king of the hill" on hard, cannae do at all. there's one slope in the former, with an extra fat plank nailed halfway up, that i've had over 100 goes at.

I can't do king of the hill, don't think I can even get over the first obstacle : /

ditto. i keep on wondering if a 500cc bike is gonna appear... but i doubt it.

btw just found you can change yr threads and bike colour and stuff.

grar my first RAGEQUIT. Was getting to the end of probably a gold medal run on Underground, and completely forgot how to get up slopes :/

there's one slope in the former, with an extra fat plank nailed halfway up, that i've had over 100 goes at.

Seriously, fuck that plank.

I remember back when I had plans to do things today.

I think I need to stop playing this now. It's moved into ugly obsession. And I'm not very good!

How long has this game been out now, 3 days? You're all going to burn out by the end of the first week.

look, jimd, if we want to turn into hunched tangled knots of RSI that's our prerogative

well I manage to finish king of the hill

105 restarts

I think I was approaching 200 last time - still unsuccesful. Made it over the first hill but couldn't do the later one with the oil barrel in the middle.

Still, check my hill climb score, bitches.

My modest quest today was to get silvers in all Medium races, and I did it!

And in the process, i got a high score on one of them! (until reg or coz decide to go back and reclaim it, anyway.)

4 of us curently in the top 10,000 globally - good job Team ILG!

Got my first time out, only two-thirds of the way through the second extreme track :(
also can't get over first bit of king of the hill :(
claw hand :(

Got my first Hard silver, which was exciting.

Watching the videos of the top scorers really has helped quite a bit.

I've only managed the big hill and the annoying double plank slope on trials and tribulations once each. Maybe it's time to hit the vids.

unfair bombardment

faultless and around 46 seconds

post some times delmot, I'ma smash you

not my screen but fuck this bit of "technique" imo
http://ded.zenblue.net/trials_technique.jpg

fuck the two parallel iron slats at the start of concrete dreams and the first set of boxes on king of the hill too while we're at it

xp don't quite recall it but it doesn't look too hard!

Nearly reached the 500 fault limit on Inferno II last night. Got up to 470 before I timed out. I think I went slightly mad.

will post some times this eve...

yeah it doesn't look too hard that's why it's so fkn frustrating

nah you don't need to post times (that's what the leaderboard functionality's for innit) I'm just goading 8P

aye well i've gotta goad ya back.

got the unyielding achievement, that was quite fun.

holy smokes reginald's outing on the hill climb is the sickness~~~

nice work

no no no no i shd NOT have got this game

^^^^^^^OTM except it's amazing except it's infuriating too

yes

just watched that utub of the final level, lol now i know what i have to look forward to

literally the most fun game i've played ever. absolute perfection.

The music is awwwwwful.

must get on this

eyo i need more ppl to shame me with their ghost times - 'gooole' on xbl

polyphonique

Haha. Almost pulled the trigger on the purchase, but the unskippable opening that forces you to listen to the seriously awful music held me back. Probably still get it at some point, but goddamn what a shitty way to sell yourself.

Don't think I've ever played it with the sound on.

superstupidmoe on xbl, like goole it would be fun to see how awful I really am :-)

ULTRA BLIFIL on xbl, i am v bad at this game

if it functions the same way as the first one did, you can just play your own mp3s thru eksbawks and it still puts in the FX which is THE ONLY WAY i played the original
everyone's right, music is SO BAD

anonymous butt rock is the perfect s/t for this

i would prefer a more curated selection of butt rock.

I was just playing this and failed like 170 times on this one section. I finally passed it and started pumping my fist like a mad man, whapping my elbow on the corner of my iPad. It hurt like hell, broke the skin, and will probably have a big bruise. Fuck.

stevietonychick on 360. i'm not very consistent.

<-- YoungMaple on xbox live, adding people from this thread

Some of these user created tracks are kind of awesome.

I'm FireAntParty.

I'm iforry72, will go through and add everyone on the thread too.

Finally unlocked the extreme tracks, but I feel like that's my limit - not sure I have it in me to tackle those soul destroyers this time around.

Inferno 3 is so hard. I can't even get 2/5 of the way through it.

It's so frustrating because in my mind I know exactly how to get past this one part and it's a total echo from a tough part of Inferno 1, but no dice. Fail fail fail fail. And then my finger is bleeding and I'm like fuck this shit.

jesus i'm tearing my hair out trying to gold the medium tracks.

i quickly hit a wall with the megahard shit in the first one, surely this will be no different...

we need ledge in this piece, he was a damn fiend

i remember one from the first game where it started with a double bunny hop onto a post the size of a mailbox. like at that point the sense of enjoyment kind of diminshes

I have had a lot of fun improving on the easy, medium and hard tracks. Even if I never spend the time to do the extreme tracks, I feel like the game is completely great and totally worth buying. I also still need to check out some community tracks, and maybe try to build one of my own.

the community tracks can be great, though a number are totally broken. the local multiplayer is excellent fun.

I can't consistently bunny hop. My downfall.

ok, i'm in.

i love that you can sort of control your driver when he's laying on the ground after a crash (left trigger curls him into the fetal position, right trigger makes him flop around convulsively?). spent way too much time getting him to flop down the beach into the water after falling hundreds of feet. but it turns out he can do the backstroke, so totally worth it.

fuck a gigatrack yall

i mean it's not all that **hard** but my emotional capacity wrt dealing with intense frustration fizzles at like 2-3 minutes so most tracks are fine. that shit is sadistic.

it feels like a totally different game when you're cruising through a new set of tracks, crashing all the time and just trying to finish vs. trying to maintain zen focus and get silver/gold.

also it is annoying to see 'goole' doing better than me on every single track.

dude just wait 'til ledge gets in here

stop tempting me

i don't wanna ruin my life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttoXapJQVh8

Have any of you guys finished the Extreme tracks?

i think i cleared one gate on one of them

I still need to finish Inferno 3. Very frustrating to have only one track incomplete.

seriously what

http://www.ign.com/wikis/trials-evolution/Way_Of_The_Ninja

i am absolutely useless at the trick/technical/slow/balance type shit

jesus

psh that dude faults a bunch of times.

i'm worried about being able to get 50 medals to get to the next set of medium tracks. :(

i got to that double-up wooden ramp in that rack after, swear to god, 20 mins and about 150 faults. i can't do 'simple' stuff like that; there are obv stock techniques for getting more height, more distance, etc, out of a given jump based on your lean as you exit and in midair but i just don't get it :/

Measuring yourself against the best guys in the game is a recipe for heartbreak.

I have done a couple of the extreme ones, don't think I'm going to do all of them. I find myself going through old tracks, spending ages getting gold and still getting stuck at second behind polyphonique every time.

yesss i beat inferno 3 finally, yayyy

what's the strategy for choosing bikes? i've just been picking the fastest/newest one for everything.

Scorpion 450 when I need power, Phoenix Evo 250 when I need finesse.

finally played this. god damn. i can't decide whether i love it or hate it's very existence.

Both Trials games on sale on XBL today, though Evo is only 33% off, so I'll wait until it's inevitably on sale again for 50%