It’s annoying being beaten by yourself
Yesterday evening I noticed a post on the Playstation Community Gran Turismo Forum about a “Time Trial” event that is being held. Even though it was already on week 8, and I obviously missed the first 7 trials I thought I would have a pop at this to see how my times compare with other drivers.
After only 18-20 laps I found myself in the top 20 driver on the London Reverse, Citroen C4 combination. Fantastic I thought; I can do well here. However shaving those last few tenths and hundreths of a second off my time was getting a lot harder. You have to hit every braking point and every apex perfectly on every corner, and all in one good lap. Much like a qualifying session but you have much longer to do it in of course.
Now I have always been a fan of chasing around my Ghost car in previous GT editions, but having the Online Rankings built into the game in Gran Turismo 5 Prologue just makes it so much more addictive. I just couldn’t get myself to stop trying and every one of the last 50-100 laps I said to myself this is it, come on, last lap, new pb … until I finally decided to call it a night in 11th place with a time of 1:01:121, with the #1 time being somewhere around the 1:00:4xx.
WARNING: If you have a bit of a temper or get annoyed with Games when you get stuck, Time Trial is dangerous! I was getting so frustrated with myself, at myself, that I couldn’t beat my previous time, over and over again, and just as I thought I was ahead my *&%*$& of a ghost comes zooming past because I was a little too slow out of that all important corner. You simply can’t imagine how badly I wanted to hurt myself!
