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Farewell All!
Post by Logan on Aug 10th, 2003, 3:57pm
Dear Fellow Racers:
I am writing this with an excruciatingly horrible announcement in mind. Of course I talk about my retirement from the field of racing in F-Zero: Maximum Velocity.
I'm sure all of you sympathize deeply and will miss me terribly. Okay, Okay, I just said that to make myself feel better, actually, until you read this you most likely never heard of me 
Logan West, gamer of many facets has officially withdrawn from the arena of "active" competition in the game we fondly refer to as F-Zero: Maximum Velocity. When questioned as to his motives, Mr. West replied:
"Well, I have a lot of other games that I'd like to play, and besides that, it's not as easy to get a time anymore, I don't think I ever worked for more than half an hour on any single level and now I'm getting to the point where I need to spend more time than I'd like to. There are some games I'd like to compete on (such as F-Zero GX When it comes out) but for now I think I'd like to relax a bit and finish up some loose ends, like getting 100% in hard on Metroid Prime and other such stuff."
The man known as "Mr. Consistency" has officially announced his retirement on the ninth day of August in the year of our Lord two-thousand and three. He is called Mr. Consistency because of his incredibly close laps on races, sometimes landing on top of eachother and almost always within one tenth of a second. Albeit sometimes he is consistently poor in his laps........
As a finale, he worked on his races that were the worst. His best level so far? Probably Stark Farm: Third Circuit, with a 21st ranked time.
Any regrets? Well yes, Logan would have liked to see a much better Fire Field: Landmine Circuit time but feels that perhaps this would be saved for some future time, he's tired of racing. Another regret is a decent run on Championship.
"If only I could have gotten a decent run, for me somewhere around 1'28"50ish then I think I would have been happy, but there's always a lap that was worse than the rest, or I missed that jump, or bumped the corner on that last turn or something."
Mr. West started out in place number 183 and the next week had gained ground to land at 93rd.
"My main objective was to be on the first page" said Logan "and that's what I strove for."
This remarkable jump was overshadowed in the news by another jump, one made by renowned F-Zero player: Dave Phaneuf. Dave jumped from in the 130's to 92nd and the only mention in the news was something to the extent of "Dave Phaneuf and Logan West made large gains this week."
Well that was breeding ground for competition and for quite some time (unknown to Dave) Logan tried to get ahead of him. They'd both move up about the same amount each week, with West always a few places behind, but in the end he won out and made it to the first page before Phaeuf. It was after this that West contacted Phaneuf and told him the story.
But Logan West wasn't quite through yet, he kept improving times as he discovered new tecniques,
the first was the
Fighting Comet (and it's miraculous boost), soon after came the
Slide Turn, which brought the
Jet Vermillion into play.
Then he discovered that the Jet Vermillion could turn well on ice!
And along came the Opponent! Which helped a lot.
Then was the Strafing tecnique, which was a huge help and caused lots of old personal records (PR's) to fall.
"I never looked at any of the strategy walkthroughs myself, I could have gotten better times perhaps if I had, the only thing I ever looked at was Dave Crawford's Driving tecniques and the Japanese Dash Tecnique (though I never used that because I couldn't quite get it right). Oh, and the map showing the shortcuts on Plummet Circuit. All the rest I don't know how close my strategy is to the Masters'!"
Mr. West has compiled a complete walkthrough for fast times (encompassing all of the tracks) as a tribute to FZeroCentral.
"I hope to get it posted on GameFAQs as well, I know it's not the best, but perhaps it can help someone, I orignally started it to help myself! I never could remember what "Target Times" I shot for on each lap, so this was a great way to remember it! I hope it might help some other gamer, though I shouldn't like for them to get ahead of me on any tracks you know!"
Perhaps he seems a bit of an egotist, but that is not the case, Mr. West desires to be a humble man, but doesn't mind telling things like they are, "No brag, just fact."
He didn't contribute much in world records, so he contributes in his own most helpful way.
He rose through the ranks to land himself solidly in the 30's,
may he ever be forgotten! (That's intentional
)
The Shadow
Re: Farewell All!
Post by F-Zero Fanatic on Aug 10th, 2003, 4:03pm
Very nice Logan.
You'll be back. 
In the meantime, have fun in whatever you do.
Re: Farewell All!
Post by Logan on Aug 12th, 2003, 12:15pm
Perhaps I'll be back, I don't know, my main drive in playing games is to 100% complete them, I did that with MV a long time ago and er, got "sidetracked" by competing for about 25 hours
I still would like to get in the top 10 in Universal and I'll be working on F-zero a tad bit and F-zero X some more (just learned slide). So I'm not done with FZeroCentral, just MV for now