SteelSkin.net – The Ramblings of Chris Nutt

Seems like youngsters with talent greater than mine are getting younger and younger. DJ Sara and Ryusei would be younger than me if they combined their ages then doubled it.

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Need For Speed.

Need for Speed is a series I have always held in disdain, a chav racer only that wasn’t worth looking at versus arcade racer king Burnout or simulation champion Gran Turismo. I saw The Fast and the Furious, whilst entertaining it did little to contradict my view of shiny glowy night time racers like NFS:U, NFS:U2 and NFS:C. The first inkling I had that it might not just be a chav racer and something of a good arcade racer to have as a wing man to Burnout was 4 Color Rebellion‘s take on NFS:Carbon for Wii.

So a couple of weeks back I asked my mate to download the demos of NFS: Carbon, Juiced 2 and PGR 4 on his Xbox 360. I tried NFS first and was confounded, it was hugely enjoyable and certainly looked nice if a little low on FPS. So we tried Juiced 2, it looked a wee bit nicer, but the game handled like 2nd rate racer, not bad just not great like Auto Modellista did. PGR 4 is the latest in a series of games that after every retry I have disliked immensely. No great surprise when I thought it was made of huge amounts of ass when I played it, nice rain though.

So fast forward to this weekend and my mate John decided to trade in his PS2 Slim for the shiny monolith that is the PS3. Whilst we were in Gamestation Kirkcaldy I found a rare copy of NFS:Carbon for the Xbox 180. I was informed by a bemused Gamestation Edinburgh employee that the Xbox version was always sold out and he didn’t have the foggiest idea why. The simplest answer is MS dropped the Xbox like a hot potato and there for EA followed suit. This is a great shame as the Xbox Carbon looks great, not as great as say Motorstorm in 720P on the PS3, but pretty flipping amazing for the little black box.

I started on tuner as the muscle cars feel as crap as they look and until I have mastered some skill in NFS I feel my nice shiny RX8 tuner will meet my needs. The game plays really nicely and has a free roaming aspect that I didn’t expect, I really am enjoying it and the ability to play in bite size chunks makes it all the more appealing, like GTA: Vice City.

Hi All,
finally updated my Journal CSS.
I hope it works okay.

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It seems like Vista has a bad rap these days. I really feel kinda sorry for Microsoft as they seem to be unable to do right. When they don’t have security, people whine about not having security. When they do, people whine about security features. When you only have XP, people whine that it’s old and is kinda tired. When they have XP and Vista, they whine on about how Microsoft shouldn’t have bothered as XP was good enough.

It works for me, but I had built my own PC from nothing but brand name parts. It wasn’t expensive at all. People these days buy sub-£300 PCs and complain about the quality. Well duh! you pay for what you get, I don’t see you driving a Lada or eating nothing but Tesco’s Value food. You want something that works well, pay for it, it doesn’t have to be expensive just be made to a good standard.