Originally Posted by ben1bob Go to original post
LONG POST ALERT! go to the last line if you haven't got half hour on your hands to read my whiny post.

ok. there is basically one thing that matters to me in Trials HD at the moment. i consider the hardest Platinums to be World Championship and The Midnight Club. i'm not ready to get The Midnight Club Platinum yet, so i've been caning the World Championship. it'll get me into the top 100 too when i do Platinum it. all i currently want is to zero fault this tournament and achieve the status (in my head) as a pretty great Trials player. not a legend or anything, just pretty great

it's been down to 1 fault for, i think, a couple of weeks now. i faulted on Underground but carried on til the end without another fault. d'oh.

so last night there i was, having my usual goes at World Championship. got to KOTH faultess. wasn't excited because i've got to it many times before and then faulted. but i did a great run and made it though, gliding over the boxes like a swan on a lake. i was getting a little excited now. by Stock Market (9th track) i was more than a bit nervous, so much so that i nearly crashed on the last jump by landing rather vertically! but i made it through faultless anyways and made it through the chequered flag before falling off. so just ONE more to go, Trials/Tribulations.

it's fair to say my nerves were all over the place. but i got straight down to it. time was not an issue as i had 90 seconds to play with. the track was proving simple, even with my nerves. i made it to the penultimate checkpoint and by now the situation i was in had hit me, my hands were shaking. due to this i meant to put a little throttle on but somehow managed to push RT all the way and flipped my ******* bike backwards!! i probably haven't done that for weeks!!!

i've bottled some things in my time, but this is the pinnacle. it doesn't get any worse than this. well i could've faulted at the very last checkpoint...

i then sent a XBL message to Euphoric Fusion so he could comfort me with a virtual hug and a "there there Ben. it'll be ok", as my wife was in bed. then i got back on my bike. and no there is no happy ending to this, i'm still at 1 fault

this is just basically cathartic for me, writing this. i needed to get it out my system, the pure devastation is hard to cope with when it's just stuck in my head. i didn't sleep well last night

though it could be a proper topic by me saying... what's your worst ever Trials moment? is it as bad as mine?
Mines are the same as yours. Except, it happened to me several times in the World Championship. Either I finish it just too slow for the Platinum, either I finish it under the 8-minutes mark but with one fault, usually having came from the easiest obstacle possible. The culprit of course is me, who is getting stressed when the medal comes in grasp.

What is getting depressing though, is that the more time I am putting into it (it's getting hellish, with several hours each night right now), the more I get stressed when I'm nearing success, because all I'm thinking about is not the run as such, but that it'll be all over soon and as I'm having this dialogue of anticipation in my mind, I'm, inevitably, already in the process of faulting.

Furthermore, once this happens I am not able to control the bike at all. The simplest jump becomes overly complicated and I'm missing it in the most stupid manner.

So yeah, it seems you are not alone in this kind of situation.