Are you holding the drift button at all times? That is all I can think of when it comes down to your control issues outside of your actual controller being broken or damaged.
If you read my posts you'll see I stated several times my fingers were no where close to the drift buttons at all.
The controller is certainly not damaged or broken in any way, as it works in the menu's and in other games without any fault whatsoever.
It leads me to believe that the demo might have glitched or something, or the game is just truly terrible (which I doubt, because I don't think you guys would like it this much if the drifing/controls were this weird).
I never thought you would have suddenly loved it, and I never expected you to, but I really do think this is one of the best drifting mechanics I ever saw in a racing title, for me it is probably the best. While OutRun2 is really easy to understand, I knew people who could not get it down but could handle this within a few minutes. When it comes down to it, just getting a bunch of friends together and having a few rounds in this title has really been such a blast. Almost everyone I have played online too has been really interested in talking about SEGA stuff as well, so I have a lot of fun there too! Truth be told, I am certain I have had more fun and spent more time on this game than Bayonetta.
Which is not to say this is better than Bayonetta, of course not! I do not even agree with George's score on this game.
As I said, I think there must be something amiss with my experience because I cannot comprehend anyone thinking what I played was acceptable, let alone the 'best ever'.
Even if the drifting worked better, I probably wouldn't buy this game as it really doens't seem that good anyway. It's not bad, but I wouldn't buy it.
I dunno, sounds like you suck at racers mang. :roll:
I'm guessing this is a joke, since i beat you flat in OutRun Online consistently to the point you asked me to put on the rubber banding so you could keep up with me.
EDIT: I forgot to say that I do not think you are being fair on the weapons. While almost all of them are queer and unrelated to SEGA stuff, at least half of them are nothing like any Mario Kart weapons, and almost all of the ones taken from Mario Kart have some new optional mechanics that were never used in any game in the genre ever.
I think I'm being perfectly fair. The weapons are generic trash from what I've seen. Mushrooms are now Shoes, Green Shells are now Green Gloves and Red Shells are now Red Rockets.
I'm sure Sumo racked their brains day and night to make such memorable and original weapons full of Sega Memorabilia. [/sarcasm]