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	[quote name="Ice Cream Jonsey"][quote name="Jerry Whorebach"]Yes I enjoy reading your list and look forward to the next blah blah blah. Let me get that out of the way first because I am ANGRY. There is not going to be any more praise for you before we are done here. I had a dream. It was not about different colours of humans holding their hands but about you reviewing MCLA. You hated it! Which is understandable, because you wrote a really good post outlining exactly all of the problems that I had with it and you did too. But before I could either commiserate or give you TIPS for how to fix them you deleted it. This is how your post read in my head: the physics are not realistic blah blah blah it is too easy. Well, the game is about a hundred and something levels long. It gets harder later on, a bit. But more importantly you can flush your Xbox cache to delete the patch that made it too easy. Also the handling never gets anywhere close to even PS2 NASCAR sims but it is legitimately different for every car, and some of the first few are really weird. There are some good cars! The thing is I read this post of yours when I was either blackout drunk or asleep. So I'm only about 20% sure it ever existed in the first place. Either a "YES" or "NO" whether it ever existed would be very much appreciated. Thank you.[/quote] I liked it, I liked how it started off with a bunch of guys giving each other shit because of their rides. We don't get that kind of interpersonal abuse in video games, often. We should. Gordon Freeman, Elexis Sinclaire, Mike from Jagged Alliance, Q*bert, John Madden. I don't know what kind of car any of these young Pharaohs drive. Well, wait, John Madden had the "Maddencruiser," so let's forget I put him on this list. I assure you, I've properly workshopped the rest of this. Midnight Club: Los Angeles has me initially selecting between one of two shitboxes and then the very next thing shown is a guy in an Argyle sweater IN LOS ANGELES (!!!!!) telling me that my decision-making is poor. A decision I was forced into! I don't think Booke was exactly held at gunpoint when he was deciding between the argyle or the cable knit Irish fisherman's sweater from the wharf or the Steve Jobs black long turtleneck or full white-on-white biathalon gear discarded by Snow Job from G.I. Joe or other weather-inappropriate gear for when it is always 88 degrees and sunny. Glass houses, bro. Making enough of myself as an adult to be able to drive the cars I want, instead of whatever cars I could get, this section of MC:LA was a nice throwback to driving around in wheeled garbage heaps. We have a community Dumpster where I live and it inexplicably has wheels. I'm not saying that it is a better ride than the first sedan we pick in MC:LA, but: 1) It's not fucking burgundy 2) It's opaque, so the cops can't look into it for evidence of crime, they'd have to go off suspicious smells, and it smells like garbage, natch. Just kidding. I've driven unfortunate cars. Probably none as unfortunate as what we start out with in Midnight Club. But close. In fact, there is only one guy who comes to mind in video games who we <b>know</b> has a car, at all times, and uses it and loves it. <img src="https://www.caltrops.com/images/top100/theDuke01.jpg" width=800> The Duke! And the Duke never gets any kind of shit at all for what he drives, in fact, I don't remember him getting any kind of online abuse at al-- <img src="https://www.caltrops.com/images/top100/theDuke03.jpg" width=800> Lemme keep workshopping this. [/quote]