Monday, May 18, 2009

Video game Moth Racing

According To Chris, Moth racing is like a video game:


Level one: Going in a straight line, while very easy when you know what you are doing there is always some stupid little part in the level that is slightly above your skill set and you always wind up falling down a hole in the ground like in the Mario Brothers.

Level Two : Sailing Upwind and Downwind, While almost as easy as level one, hell you might even have the exact same level in a game, there is one extra gold coin that makes all the difference.

Level Three : Veal Heal, again uber easy when you have the know how, but a significant jump in level difficultness which makes any game onlooker think you have a fair idea about what you are doing, a complete red hearing as a true gamer knows.


Level Four : Gybing, This is a crux level or you could class it as the first big boss man in most shoot em ups. While you may beat the boss man with a bit of luck the first time , you always find a better and quicker way to beat him each time you play the game.

Level Five : Competitive Race : While its all well and good being able to play the first four levels, at some point you need to actually learn what each button does and some different button sequences to do different moves..... and remember them. This is a bit like Tony Hawks skateboarding where there are at least 1 million different combo trick things you can do (an experienced gamer told me this). When you learn the correct combinations, a race comes together and you look fairly respectable.

Level Six : now even for an experienced Gamer things are becoming tricky and deaths more common. In Moth sailing, this is gacking in my book. Its pullable most of the time but even the top boys still fuck a few of them up. But when you pull the most ridiculous trick in Tony Hawk and meant to do it, then you can sit back on the couch with a air of smugness.

Level Seven : learning to Foiling Tack. There is a massive difference between learning and doing consistently. This is the level where a top gamer can look decidingly average. An inexperienced eye will look at the sailor and gamer and say to his muscle bound mates on his power boat that this sailor is shit and have a good laugh at him while blasting out the Venga boys on his crappy radio. Other experienced gamers and sailors will look and go, this kid is pretty fucking good if he is close to doing one of those quadruple back flips while pulling out a gun and killing off the first big boss man with his eyes shut.

Level Eight : This is the daddy big boss man, this is it, the top, the impossible, the holy grail. No matter how many times you think you have him down, he still gets back up with a full energy bar and gives you the smack down. Pulling a foiling tack under pressure from starboard to port off the start line at the pin end to cross the whole fleet. Foiling tacks on request coming in on port layline with 100 plus foilers on starboard.




Can you complete the game?

2 comments:

  1. HAHAHAHA So true!!! Im still stuck on level seven....

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  2. it sure is, I think im in limbo between 6 and 7, its a big step though, 7 to 8

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