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[OB1]

Hmm... okay, splitscreen multiplayer. I have two gamepads and a keyboard, so that works (as long as it is okay with a four button gamepad with no analog). And quite a few of those have it.

Almost all of those games have either split-screen or shared-screen two player modes. A few don't, and a few have four players, but most have shared system multiplayer...
Anyway, I think I made my point. Okay, is it more fun to sit around the TV? Perhaps, but I have spent far too many hours playing single-system multiplayer PC games with friends and relatives to think that it is in any way bad.

Dude... nobody plays split-screen on PCs. It's just not practical. How many times have you done it? ... Exactly. And keyboards suck ass for racing games.
And unless you have a racing wheel most of those games aren't worth playing. And there are still dozens upon dozens of AAA console racers that never got released on PCs.

Handling depends on settings and the car you choose. Speed increases with difficulty level but is admittedly a bit weak. Tracks? As I said, I consider the great track designs (and style) to be by far the game's greatest strength!

The tracks look neat, but they do not function well.

Screamer 2 had fantastic graphics for a 1996 PC game... it's great fun still, once you get used to the very slippery controls. That takes a little while. But still, great arcade racing game probably best compared to a Ridge Racer. With cars that slide a lot.

As for Drome Racers, it cost me $2, is by the guys who made Rollcage, and is decent. Not fantastic, but okay...

Oh, and I'd be pretty surprised if you've played even half as many demos as I have.

Yes, so would I. That's fantastic.

'Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity...' I think that saying applies here.

... Well yes. But I'm always the one who has to stop these things, I'm always the one who has to be the bigger man. But not this time buddy! Oh no, this time I'm going to wear your shoes and be the immature one who wants to continue forever! So if you want this to stop you better stop it yourself!

So a complex game with a very high learning curve cannot be fun to anyone, even once they get used to the control scheme and game system? I do not think that that is the case at all!

It's called reason, ABF. Common sense and reason. I'm sure that some people also enjoy nailing their dicks to walls, but it's not something you'll generally call "fun"!

As you remember, I'm sure, I'm not a huge NFS fan... but they are okay racing games. Burnout 1 is a lot of fun. But since I've only played that Burnout game, and I've played at least a little of all of the NFS (PC-version) games (full versions of 1 and 4, demos of the rest), it's definitely an unequal comparison and that certainly helps NFS... playing Burnout 2 would be good to let me see if that series has improved enough to beat NFS, but as it is I don't know, obviously.

From the bit I've played of Burnout 3 it's probably the best arcade racer since the 90's.