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    Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    I know they shouldn't be on paper and i'm sure a lot of people won't agree, but then again I can't be alone here. To get a platinum on a tournament for me is borderline impossible. To put it into perspective I have 1 track left (being WotN) to go and 8 tournaments. And trust me I've given some of the tournaments their fair share of game time. I think on the Fantastic Voyages tournament I must have racked up a good 5 hours game time now. I mean 6 levels in a row without fault? Seriously?
    The first 3 levels are fine, generally no problems at all. But then you come to Mind Bender which has got to be the most inconsistent track on the game bar Sewage Plant. Then if you do happen to get past Mind Bender, joy of joys you have to do Trials of Limbo, for me one of the hardest tracks out there. I just don't see how tracks like Logging On and Truth is Out There are so highly ranked in difficulty and Trials of Limbo is a medium
    Given you get past Limbo by some genuine miracle you then have to Archipelago which has some real annoying sections where you have to slow down to prevent your self falling down to your death. Anyone else have this with this tournament or in fact any tournament. I'd take being forced to do Inferno 3 over and over before I get a Platinum then these tournaments anyday
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    I only have TYM left to platinum out of the tournaments, but Fantastic Voyages took me forever to get right. By the end of it, I never wanted to play any of those tracks again. It didn't help that I already disliked every track in the set for some reason or another.
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    Originally Posted by InstantNews
    I only have TYM left to platinum out of the tournaments, but Fantastic Voyages took me forever to get right. By the end of it, I never wanted to play any of those tracks again. It didn't help that I already disliked every track in the set for some reason or another.
    Haha, I really like Titan Graveyard, it's the only thing that gives me the will to actually restart. I don't expect to be earning platinum on TYM anytime soon. My best so far is 34 faults, haven't played it in a while though so I guess I could get it down to nearly 20 or so.
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    My best on TYM is 11 faults, mainly because I choke on the last three tracks. I'm just fine through The Wreck, but past that, it's up in the air.
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    At this point in time, I'm happy with gold on tournaments. I hate Industrial Revolution, I think it's called, Sewage Plant and Physics Factory are so annoying. My first run through on Fantastic Voyages I got silver, on Trash Talk gold, goes to show you how bad that tournament is.
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    Out of interest, although interest isn't the right word, more desperation. Do you remember if you used the Phoenix or the Scorpion on Fantastic Voyages? Because the way I see it Trials of Limbo is physically impossible on the Scorpion. However, the Phoenix is a lot more prone to flipping you on your head, especially when you're not concentrating because your trying to figure out in your head what RedLynx were thinking when they came up with these tournaments.
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    Originally Posted by LukeMSki
    At this point in time, I'm happy with gold on tournaments. I hate Industrial Revolution, I think it's called, Sewage Plant and Physics Factory are so annoying. My first run through on Fantastic Voyages I got silver, on Trash Talk gold, goes to show you how bad that tournament is.
    Knew it wasn't just me Such a stupid tournament
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    Originally Posted by Jake1782
    Out of interest, although interest isn't the right word, more desperation. Do you remember if you used the Phoenix or the Scorpion on Fantastic Voyages? Because the way I see it Trials of Limbo is physically impossible on the Scorpion. However, the Phoenix is a lot more prone to flipping you on your head, especially when you're not concentrating because your trying to figure out in your head what RedLynx were thinking when they came up with these tournaments.
    I tried it so many times that I attempted it with both the Scorpion and Phoenix, but i got the platinum run with the Phoenix.
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    Originally Posted by InstantNews
    Originally Posted by Jake1782
    Out of interest, although interest isn't the right word, more desperation. Do you remember if you used the Phoenix or the Scorpion on Fantastic Voyages? Because the way I see it Trials of Limbo is physically impossible on the Scorpion. However, the Phoenix is a lot more prone to flipping you on your head, especially when you're not concentrating because your trying to figure out in your head what RedLynx were thinking when they came up with these tournaments.
    I tried it so many times that I attempted it with both the Scorpion and Phoenix, but i got the platinum run with the Phoenix.
    Thought as much, I've tried it a lot with both but seem to be getting the best results with the Phoenix. I can get to Archipelago a lot now with the Pheonix as I finally have a consistent way of doing the gears on Limbo. However to do Archipelago without fault under the cirumstances is just unreal, I get a fault every single time. Probably got to it about 10-15 times just tonight.
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    Re: Tournaments-Hardest thing on the game?

    I worked on platinums on tournaments after I got all individual tracks. Now I just have TYM left. I guess I got lucky with fantastic voyages because I got the platinum the first time I was really trying for it. Trash talk was like that too (although I barely scraped by just a few tenths faster than platinum time on that one.)

    Then again, some of them took dozens of tries. Destroyed Beauty and Urban Legends come to mind. I wish it was possible to complete the tracks in each tourney in any order you wanted to. Get the hard stuff out of the way early, rather than choke on it at the end.
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