After finishing Forza Horizon 2, I wanted another racing game on the Xbox One. Issue is, there isn't many right now. Pretty much the best one is Horizon 2, but we have two others so far and that's Forza 5 GOTY Edition and, The Crew. So I bought the game a few days ago, at $68 and after installing the damn thing for hours I decided to finally start it up. So after the start screen or "any button" screen, it was "loading" it was like this for half an hour and I thought... surely this has hung by now... So I restart the game, and same thing. 20 minutes go by, and still nothing happening just kept loading. It turned out to be a connection issue, the uplay servers were down... Now, this game has solo missions mind you. If the servers are down you'll never be able to play the game at all, not even an error message would display. I was complaining about this in chat with Borman, A Toubib and some others, so if story is familiar, then you're not going crazy. Nothing has pissed me off more than spending money on something that doesn't work, after 3AM it let me create an account and play the game. Now I know this isn't the first time this has happened, and I know Ubisoft titles are known for fucking up and causing all sorts of issues. I honestly didn't know it really required a uplay service to get past the start screen. Right on the front it says "REQUIRES INTERNET CONNECTION" but for what? Maybe on the back it should say "to play ANY of the game". Any other games they've released like this? I was very close to returning the game, even though it had a DLC code which stores don't allow returns, I would've argued my case. Since I've successfully avoided Activision titles, Ubisoft is now next, didn't have issues with Driver San Francisco. It just seems to get worse every year or generation. Probably should mention the game itself isn't bad. Physics are like previous generation and nothing new, and visuals honestly look the same, nothing better than NFS Carbon. It's still keeping me entertained for now and I wouldn't really recommend it, I thought I'd like it to the point that I'd want to grind to level up, it's just not one of those games really. Had a race that was 1 hour long, 110 checkpoints.. insane. It really is a mixed bag.
It's incredible the ammount of complaints i read about uPlay. How can they still getaway with this shit?! Every single Ubisoft has this exact same problem. I still haven't bought Valiant Hearts simply because it requires uPlay, even thought it's a single player game. As for the game, i was interested on it when i first saw the demo from 2013 E3. Not only the game was downgraded, better games were released since then. Ubisoft usual lack of quality and respect for their customers doesn't help it either. PS: Do all Xbox One games take ages to install? This wasn't the first time i heard something like that.
I never knew it was this bad, I surely will be avoiding them now. Online requirements for single player is just stupid, it's best to avoid. Ubi are like EA, honestly don't care as long as they make a buck. The Crew is quite buggy and I don't understand why cars bounce off boundaries like RC cars. It can take a good hour or two to install Xbox games :/
The time spent playing the betas on PC and PS4 seemed like the game was stable. The only bug I encountered during the PC beta sounded like someone was mic blasting and none of the volume controls would mute it. I got the game on PC since I got a new GTX 980 and it was free. Heard the PC version was surprising stable. Haven't tried the final release yet but my time with the betas were mostly positive. My main complaint I recall was enemies having too much damn health during take down missions. It would be sad if the servers are now somehow worse but the floodgates are open this time around I suppose. GameSpot said it best though, it's a single player game disguised as a MMO. Probably to force always online down your throat.
I played the beta of this game and thought it was absolutely terrible. Forza 5 on the other hand is very good, despite being somewhat lacking in content due to being a launch game.
Valiant Hearts requires an uPlay account? I don't have one and still played and finished Valiant Hearts. It was one of my favourites games of the year. And yes, every Xbox One game takes ages and ages to install. I still remember getting my Xbox One on Christmas 2013 with Forza 5. I just wanted to play it as soon as possible but it turned out to take more than 8 hours to install and download/install the patches. Since then I only buy the exclusives for the Xbox One. About The Crew, I thought it could be a good game when it was announced but after playing Watch Dogs and reading people's impressions on Unity, I had no doubt that The Crew would not be a good game. I don't like to be right on this one but Ubi isn't a good developer this year even though they gave Valiant Hearts.
Was able to play a bit more for a few hours. Progressed more through the story, and side missions, what pisses me off the most about side missions are. Community players can still throw you off track, one T-boned me and I had to restart the whole thing again urgh. The handling is still bothering me, the cars sway around and you can't do very good slaloms.. Too bad they're part of the side missions too. AI are also part of the problem as well, there's takedown missions where you have to destroy the enemy car. For one, they are so rubberband like they're impossible to catch on a straight. Terrain doesn't slow them down at all either, oh but it slows you down of course. Reminds me of Tokyo Extreme Racer, the AI hit you from behind, you slow down and get pushed back. In another mission the AI rammed me near a traffic car, I bounced so far back I lost the mission... not even by default. I'm glad none of this happened in the that hour long race the other day. Despite me bitching about nearly every point of this game, it still does entertain you if you can put up with the amount of bullshit within the game. It's not insanely hard, but there's a lot of corners cut to produce it. Some objects are not even placed right in the world for example. Traffic sometimes does not move (like time is frozen, works good for you in the long run). Payouts are bullshit and everything is expensive, clearly trying to get real money in for credits. I've noticed Forza have done the same thing, but at least they haven't made every race reward you with 250cr for a 10 lap race. So like I said, avoid this game. I really don't feel my $70 was worth it at all. Maybe for a $15-$20 game but $70 is a premium price. The trailers don't even live up to the detail you get, or the gameplay for that matter. It did have a chance, but like usual Ubi cut corners to make a buck.
It requires uPlay if you buy it on Steam. If it doesn't need that on PS3/PS4, that's where i'll buy it then. It's weird that game installs on Xbox One take so long, specially since their initial plan was to lock the game to the console. I only tried with a couple of games, but on PS4 it only takes a few seconds. Anyway the only studio i respect is Ubisoft Montpellier, who did Rayman Origins, Rayman Legends and Valiant Hearts.
Just go frustrated with the game, too many bugs and the amount of times I had to hard reboot the console. So I returned the game today with a full refund.
Is it that simple to return a game in your country ? In my country you can only return items if they are sealed or damaged. The retailers here really don't want to deal with these kinds of things.
I wasn't even asked a reason, which usually they do. It was odd. I was in and out of the store in less than 5 minutes. EB Games (Gamestop) basically have a 7-day return policy for change of mind. However 8 days had past and I still got my refund. I got lucky with this, as they certainly don't do returns with games that have DLC or Activation codes. I guess the person who did the return wasn't aware. However, yes returns can be quite simple here but it's under consumer law that if the product doesn't function as intended you have the right to a full refund. If the store refuses, which has happened before. I just take it up further with the fair trading commission. Australia has great consumer laws here, and a lot of action can be taken.
No, not at all. Most games take less than 10 minutes easilly and even then you can still start to play the game once 25% of it has installed. Yesterday I installed Alien on to my Xbox one complete with a 1GB update (That's just taking the piss too) but I could start playing within a few minutes. Anyone who has a game taking hours?? to install really should get their Xbox seen too or find a better internet provider if that is causing the issues.
Wait, there is still that uplay shit of being always online even on Single Player titles or they are now like Steam?
It's an always online game with solo missions, but really you're required to sign in to even start the game. So a complete waste of money if or when your connection drops or uplay is down.
The worst part about "The Crew" being bad for me, is this is pretty much means the only other option for racing games for PS4 is "Driveclub"... Gah, how the mighty racing genre has disappointed so far...
The Crew seems intriguing. Other than Driver, I haven't seen Ubisoft do a NFS/GT/Forza type of game (well if you exclude Asphalt by gameloft (owned by Ubisoft)). I knew it had to be eeehhh material. I haven't been assed to play it yet but i might someday. As for the uPlay stuff, WTF Ubisoft? Damn you DRM!!!! wonder what its like w/o online. Question is can it rival GT5 and MK8?
