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[A Black Falcon]

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.

How many times have I done it? No idea, but quite a few. As I said, I've played a bunch of PC games splitscreen... and I don't mean like once or something. Not on a monthly basis or anything but certainly several times a year I play splitscreen PC games. As in, most any time that I am in a situation where I might be playing multiplayer games at home (these days, that means it's a vacation and I'm seeing my cousins, but in the past I played some with friends as well), we'll definitely play some PC games in addition to console ones.

Racing wheel? Um... those are all well and good for NASCAR games or sim racers, but for arcadish ones? I see absolutely no need. The minute difference it would make for most of the racing games I have is in no way worth the cost. For PC or for consoles.

Other racing games not released on PC... sure, that happens. And that's why I have a N64 and Cube... they don't exactly have bad selections of racing games! And not a small selection, either.

Yes, so would I. That's fantastic.

I expanded on why. :)

... 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!

Then you can repeat to yourself your mistaken opinion that XG and Pod are bad games as much as you want... but it doesn't make it true.

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"!

The point is that for games like that, once you get used to the game the complexity becomes less important and the fun becomes more important. Let's take TIE Fighter. Sure it's simple compared to those, but it's complex in its own right... at first it seems quite complex. As you play you get better and you get to memorizing a lot of the keyboard layout. I still have memorized most of the keys that I use frequently in that game... so no, you are quite mistaken. The un-fun part is only at the beginning; as you get used to how it works the importance of that aspect of the game fades away.

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

I'd probably choose F-Zero X, but I'm sure it's a good game...

That is, unless it came out 2001 or later. In which case it wasn't released in the '90s. :)