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This is a record of a twitter thread, originally posted in 2018

Thew
@AmazingThew

I played all the videogames and now I don't have any videogames to play

Thew
@AmazingThew

You know what Split/Second is super cheap and nobody's made a good racing game in almost a decade so let's give that a shot

Thew
@AmazingThew

It occurs to me that the last truly good racing game I played was old enough to have a soundtrack prominently featuring Junkie XL

Thew
@AmazingThew

Off to a truly magnificent start, defaulting to 4:3 letterboxed to 16:9 on a 16:10 monitor

Thew
@AmazingThew

"To drift, tap Joystick Axis 3 Negative while turning Joystick Axis 1 "

Thew
@AmazingThew

okay Split/Second isn't bad but tbh it mostly just made me want to play Burnout instead

Thew
@AmazingThew

Also it's locked at 30FPS and has an always-present shaking camera bc I guess the Bourne movies were popular when it was in development and it's actually kinda nauseating

Thew
@AmazingThew

okay well I got Burnout 3 up and running in PCSX2 and maaaaaaan those driving physics are absolute perfection

though I could prob have gone the rest of my life without having to listen to Yellowcard again