Doing it Again...

Honestly, I don't blog much, particularly because I don't have enough time to think about what my next post would be. I could've released one of my drafts from years past, but one thing remained: the passion for blogging was simply not there, especially with all the work I'm doing for years. Coming here again made me realize myself: I don't have the energy required to think what kind of topic I'd write about.

New Year, New Me(ss of ideas)

Global GT Lights cars racing in Silverstone by butter_lord and Kad'O

It's already halfway past January and things have been positive so far for me, at least for normal things I do. Past 15 days were filled with me following this year's Dakar Rally while being in awe with how the cinematography are put along with the commentator's plethora of dad jokes, puns, remarks witty enough to wipe floors with Lorelai Gilmore, and sneaks that unfortunately doesn't include Taylor Swift references (but thankfully I got that one covered myself). Other things include finishing Combat Mecha Xabungle which I consider it as an "unserious mecha anime with more comedy bias despite having its fair share of serious moments", and an office trip to Jogjakarta of which I haven't visited the place for a long time, but last and not least is rebooting my content creation project after reflecting on my actions in terms of creations, although I have to say I still have a slow start with not that much post interactions along the way.

Even then, my homework is stacked as the time goes, but my discovery of a new method in creation and a more active community actually help alleviating the burden and actually make the final work satisfying. I do have this target where I need to make sure that I can make good creations and cash in some new audiences on social media on the way to keep the top down racing genre alive and interesting, especially with more games on the sub-genre making their returns such as GeneRally 2. That said, this was something that led to the first ever major announcement for the new project: the 2023 Dakar Rally T1 class cars, three of them, with 10 major drivers represented so far.

But Dakar Rally vehicles are just the tip of the iceberg. It actually started with something that doesn't have to do with top down racers, or racing in general, let alone racing games: Taylor Swift's new album, Midnights.

The Resurrection of GeneRally 2

A screenshot of GeneRally 2 (Image: GeneRally 2's Steam Page)

The year was 2013, GeneRally 2 was announced following the release of the new version of GeneRally. The Kickstarter campaign for the sequel has kicked off and with that, a new hope for a renewed classic that has been around since the early 2000s. The failure of the campaign, however, started a domino effect to the game's downfall, made worse with the silence of the project leader himself James Burgess (although slow but sure there were progression blogs that were written), taking its toll to the community. This doesn't mean the game is dead; GR2 was still being worked on in closed doors while GRPL Discord Server carried on activities in the original game.

Essential Listening: Ridge Racer Infinity

Author's note: I'm not too knowledgeable with music genre so apologies if I described wrong genre for some of the songs featured in this post.

Official artwork for RoBKTA's Ridge Racer Infinity (Image: Firaga Records)

The Nonsense is Back, Evolved as Ever!

Racing. Track featured is Trial Mountain v5.3 by nomscar.

Well, I had to say that I wasn't as active in blogging as before, not knowing what I had to write. That, however, has changed and the motivation returns to me after a series of events in the past few weeks. I had doubts that people would still read blogs now that people are more interested towards video blogs, but even then some things are better done as a blog post rather than a video blog, especially when I think about the fact that I haven't had the sufficient resources for it.