God of War III It Is, Then

Today I started playing God of War III. Looks like a fun, gory title.

Well, That will Be All from You, Mr. Zero

I'm deciding to move on from F-Zero GX.
It is a damn difficult game, and I've now given it more than plenty of a chance. I didn't see credits, but I've given it a pretty thorough play-through. I expect more thorough than many people did.

I've beaten the four available cups on Novice, Standard, and Expert classes. Once I finished Expert, the new class Master was unlocked.

There is a fifth cup. But if I want to play it, I have to beat all the other cups on Master. This is a little more time than I'm willing to put in. I mean, I'll try the Master cups. ONCE. If I can't beat them, I'll move on to the Story Mode. If that proves too difficult, I'm moving on.

I do not consider this defeat. This is not the same as surrendering. The reason I'm going through with this project is to play the games that I've started and left unfinished, or hardly played at all. F-Zero GX is one of those games. I've now played it quite a bit, and even quite a bit more than I originally played it. I feel I've accomplished what I had set out to do with this game: I've gotten my money's worth. I enjoyed myself. I almost cried in frustration at the difficulty of the racing. I ended up with watery eyes at the end of races from not blinking due to the breakneck speed.

I'm not done, but I'm pretty much done.

** Update: I managed to beat two more cups in Master class, but after being unable to beat the last two, I'm truly finished.

Know thy Limitations

So the next game on the list is F-Zero GX for the gamecube. This is a racing game. My memory card had no saves, but I know I played this game quite a bunch of time back home. I didn't finish it, but that was not because I got distracted. It was because it was very, very difficult.

I think I gave up.

Let me try to explain this: this is a racing game and it's futuristic and it's very fast. It's hard. Very hard. So when I started playing it again, some things started coming back to me. Like how hard and how fast it was, but also maybe just how far I got the first time: I remember most of the tracks I've been racing. I unlocked a fourth tournament, or cup, after the first three the game comes with, and I did so both then and now.

What I'm starting to notice is that the first time around I couldn't have gotten much further than where I am right now.

I'm going to keep trying but this might be one of the games where I need to bend a rule.