In their infinite wisdom and quest to infuriate increasingly more day by day, Verizon "lost" the order for someone to drop by the house this past Sunday to install a new modem/router in our family room (instead of in the study, at the opposite end of the house). They're coming this Saturday instead, which means that my Download4Download plans in ModNation Racers have been halted until the end of the week. XP Boosting lists have not been that hard to find and I think even with 2X XP having ended yesterday, I still have enough people that will download my stuff. Star Creator and level 30 may yet be mine!
For the record, I am not trying to attain a Platinum in ModNation Racers. The trophies I'll have left after the ones I'll receive as I strive for Star Creator and Level 30 are, in my opinion, far too difficult. There's a reason I bought the "Unlock Key" on the PS Store - to avoid the secondary challenges on each course. Still, I'll end up with the grand majority of the game's trophies and that's far more than I thought I'd ever earn.
[I know I've asked this before, but if you own the game, puh-leeze do me a huge favor and download/vote all my stuff. Every download and vote helps tremendously.]
Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit is officially the second PS3 game to cause me to shout frequent obscenities all the time, the first being ModNation Racers. The only trophies that remain between where I stand now and a nice, shiny Platinum for the game are the ones you get as you persevere the rest of the way to level 20 as a Cop and Racer, as well as the two for getting all Golds as either a Cop or Racer.
Getting Golds is no easy task, most of the time. During a Time Trial, one crash with a car that seemingly came out of nowhere and you're lucky if you can still nab a Silver. This morning, my best run on one particular Time Trial was 00:00:04 off from the Gold time. Twenty or so attempts later, I grabbed Gold.
The truly sick part is that even though while I'm restarting and restarting and restarting, I'm cursing all the cars that are in the way of my potentially clean drifting turns and screaming when a car pops out of nowhere and I hit it because I had no warning time to try to move out of the way...once I do grab Gold, I look at my time and feel like I could do better. I just went through hours of unadulterated torture and all I can think of doing in that moment is jumping right back into the torture to shave just a second or two off my personal best. Huh!? It's so sick and twisted.
If I can manage to Plat NFS HP, it will be such a huge accomplishment. Hardcore arcade racers such as this are not my typical video gaming fare at all.