First, I'd like to state my annoyance at the web page that locked up my browse after I was halfway through this post. >:-O
Went bowling last night, hadn't been in about a month. Dollar night is great. :-D Bowled a 170ish, then a 200, then a 156 I think. I was picking up my spare unusually well, and I almost made a couple tough splits. I give partial credit for the success to Miller Lite.
Played more GT4 yesterday, as I will probably do just about every day for the next several weeks. I thought I'd start with my Toyota RSC rally car, and rather than sell it (which was tempting, at $265k), I bought some dirt tires and finished up the rest of the dirt events at the Easy level. That won me a Mitsubishi CZ-3 Tarmac, a 1980 Renault 5 Turbo (street car, not the rally car, but cool nonetheless), a Land Rover Range Stormer concept, and a Hyundai HCD6. My biggest complaint is that the last two cars there are concepts, so you can't sell them for any money. At this point I had won more than enough money to pay for those dirt tires, so I felt like moving on to the Normal-level events. I got back in my 350Z LM race car and just destroyed the competition on the Umbria and Capri rallies. Umbria especially, I was just flying. I won the Lancia Delta HF Integrale rally car, and a 2001 Impreza rally car prototype. I might build the Impreza up for rally later, as I think it can probably be modified for more power than the Toyota RSC, but I'm not sure on that yet.
Next, I bought a BMW 120i for the 1-series race and European Hot Hatch Championship. Having driven this car a couple times with the GT4 wheel over the weekend, I could really see the difference between the steering wheel and controller. With what I believe was a nearly-identical setup, tires were squealing more with the controller, and the car wasn't always right where I wanted it, despite being easy to drive. That makes me feel that much better about ordering a wheel yesterday. Then finally, Evan came over before we headed to the gym and wanted to do an S-license test on a rally course. First one we saw was the ice rally, and after several of his attempts, I think I got a silver on my 2nd try (first time all the way through the course though).
Posted by Ben at March 8, 2005 07:07 AM