"Stuck at the Folks" F-ZeroGX ramble

[JibberX]

Stuck isn't a nice word, but when you are beached on the Isle of Wight, in a town with only a postoffice, a spar and a very very bad pub for company you tend to seek solace in bad Christmas TV, a pack of DVDs you've already watched and the Cube you remembered to pack.

And what game did I play? Well having had my memory card wiped 3 times in sucessesion over the last year... I decided to do some back tracking, I'm no ultra completest, but some games are just in a different league when it comes to grappling your attention from 100 best comedy moments.

Well from scratch, I've pretty much totally completed F-Zero GX... thats a veiled lie as anyone knows, completing F-Zero GX 100% would be like finding the arc of the covenant, but I've done the Grand Prix mode, unlocked most of the Arcade tracks, dabbled in Story and crushed those hopelessly pathetic times in Time Trial. Its a freaking good game, just the Arcade tracks seem a tad, well, simple compared to some of a demonic experiences in the Grand Prix mode.

Interestingly enough the most challenging Cup had to be Ruby Cup, the 3rd Cup, the balance of tracks from speed to technique, made finding a decent ship to race with was more intricate. In the end I buckled together a custom ship with C, A, A combination. Kicked Arse.

Anyways. F-Zero GX, pretty darn fine game, and if you haven't completed it, or even thought about completing it, give it another go. Its immense.

[Papercut]

You forgot to pack Rogue Agent?



I keep meaning to return to GX, but the difficulty of the Story Mode chapters was too much, any progress was glacial.

[Shotski]

yeah F Zero is brill im stuck on the last bit of the story mode. But 4 our player is frantic. I made this f zero racer that looks like a suave mo**** jet fighter and my friend made the gayest one ever it was all pink and green and called the pretty giraffe

[rjpageuk]

Yeah the story mode is very hard (and frustrating in places), but make sure you unlock the arcade tracks by completing all of the cups with golds, the arcade cup has some of the best tracks!

[Dezm0nd]

Rogue Agent, gaming bliss

[no angel]

heh, my ex lived on the iow, horrible place. there are tons of people in the sticks there who have no electricity, i **** you not.

[Tig]

F-Zero GX is indeed immense

Congrats on managing to make a kick-ass car. The custom car thing was the only aspect of the game that peeved me slightly. Everything I cobbled together handled either like a brick or a bar of soap. Even the efforts which seemed to handle well were always *slightly* rubbishier versions of a particular car in the existing roster. Is it me, or do the XYZ stats have absolutely no bearing at all on how well the car will handle? Bah.

Perhaps I'm just crap at car creation. But I did make some kick-ass emblems in any case

[nips]

Flying in F-Zero is the best thing ever. As is blasting around the course at 1500kmh. I've lost my touch though, I haven't played it in about 8 months.

[PH]

I haven't played this properly in months either.

I completed everything and TT'ing wise i got to a very good standard.

rjpageuk speaks the truth, make sure you unlock those arcade tracks, they are some of the best in the game. * Fondly remembers Thunder Road. *

[EvilBoris]

Flaming black bull bastard!

That last story mode on V.hard drove me mad

[Firsty]

F Zero GX is crap

[MikeRox]

here here, get back to F-Zero X you graphics whores

[nips]

F-Zero X is the dogs bollocks, quite possibly my favourite game of all time, and definitely my favourite multi-player game of all time, but the insane difficulty of Story mode is just brilliant... and as you said, the graphics :O

When I first played GX I couldn't believe what they'd done to my favourite game, but now... I'm very happy... I'm hoping for a first party game next time, maybe another before the next gen, but damn, what a fine series

[Supergoal]

I started playing this one again too,
finished off all story levels on normal.

Awwgghh Story 7......

[Sergeant Syphillis]

F-Zero X is the dogs bollocks, quite possibly my favourite game of all time, and definitely my favourite multi-player game of all time, but the insane difficulty of Story mode is just brilliant... and as you said, the graphics :O

A lot of people talk about the difficulty of F-zero X however I found it far easier than GX. In X the computer players didn't seem as vicious and little can compare to GX's story mode on max difficulty (I also have not done the last chapter on very hard).

They're both equally amazing games though and really show what the series is all about, there's just so much in both of them that many racing games just pale in comparison.