Finished every launch track on Platinum!
Edit: Just Platinum'd every skill game too.
ew skill games yuck.
congrats on the plats and finally defeating Gigatrack!
The startup of this game is easily the fucking worst I've ever encountered in a video game. Horrible music and long loading times.
Otherwise.... no complaints. Still getting the hang of the controls. I watched a replay of the #1 time on a certain track and am amazed at how much I've still got to learn.
Also, Gigatrack is awesome.
no the intro songs are great. you just gotta feel it bro!
yeah the load times can be a bit much, especially with all the DLC. its not that bad though, and once its over it all good.
as far as looking at the #1 on the boards, thats like 1% shit. you should realistically (hopefully) have other people on your friends list at various different skill levels to learn from. there are so many tiers of skill level in this game its crazy. looking at the top (if you're new to the game) isnt going to teach you a lot imo. its best to have people to look to who range from right around your skill level to several steps above. you can learn a lot from replays that are much lower ranked on the boards. somewhere between 5k to 1k depending on your skill level.
my humble suggestion for a good start at progression is to just play all the tracks in every difficulty first. get as far as you can get before it seems like its getting a bit above your head, taking as much time/faults as you need. then go back to the beginning and try to zero fault as many tracks as you can (skip the ones that are giving you trouble and come back later). then go back to the hardest tracks that you were unable to complete before hand and see how your skill has progressed. then go back to the beginning and go for platinum times (skipping tracks that give you trouble again).
its a good way to keep things fresh and it is a good way to measure how much you have progressed skill level wise. when you go back to earlier tracks after playing for hours it should be obvious how much you have learned and how you have leveld yourself up through just playing. this really is a game where the more work you put in, the more you get in return.