I'd try this on pc but there's no way I'm installing that fucking Uplay tripe on my computer. Could chance the ps4 I suppose.

About the same as Shabs. Tried the Alpha but couldn't connect to the servers.

I only did a couple of tracks. The idea of spotting possible runs and then being able to create your own run could be good, as long as they are not preset. Could be a good social game where people discover really good courses.

Tis, sadly. Utter tripe, and I love me some x-treem sporting.

All Top Gear turbo-wank in the cutscenes, then PS3 graphics with PS2 gameplay in the actual game.

Yes, that's what everybody is saying.

The thing I'm having difficulty with is decent path finding while doing your own thing. You can be setting a great course, then you're suddenly met with those wooden fences (I'm assuming their some sort of avalanche defence) and you smack into it, then glitch into it, and can't do anything until you spawn back to your initial start point, losing what you'd done.

It's also too easy to come to a standstill, and getting going again in the direction you want is fiddly.

Navigating the map is awkward.

The jumps/tricks are difficult to time, it feels different to similar games. I miss the 'pre-wind and release' employed by other titles.

I had one event where I had to follow another rider who was blathering shite the whole time, it was too easy to pick up speed and pass her, then you had to stop and let her pass to see which way you were meant to go. There was no sense of following her path or enjoying a continuous, interesting route down a mountain, just finicky stop-starting.

Some of the falls feel unfair.

It's not terrible, I had an enjoyable six minute continuous downhill jaunt, which did have the sense of speed Tempy's not getting, but it strikes me as a game which will be ready in six months, not in two weeks.

So the beta ended last week and it's being released this Friday. Couldn't have been any negative feedback at all.

I was but this is the fundamental issue of the last two gens that AJ is echoing in the PS4 thread. Too easy to let crap slide ship sub standard and then patch. I also strongly suspect they would not get all bugs sorted in a day one patch.

Regarding it going gold for months if we assume that then it would also have been before the alpha which barely worked.

b0r1s wrote:

I was but this is the fundamental issue of the last two gens that AJ is echoing in the PS4 thread. Too easy to let crap slide ship sub standard and then patch. I also strongly suspect they would not get all bugs sorted in a day one patch. Regarding it going gold for months if we assume that then it would also have been before the alpha which barely worked.

When I was playing it, it wasn't very buggy. My gripes with the game weren't bugs, just general design/gameplay choices. There was a very occasional glitch when you snowboarder into a particular type of hazard but, frankly, it's the type we see with any rag-doll physics. The questionnaire was asking about how certain things felt, as though they are deciding how to find tune various sliders to keep most people happy.

Apologies, when I said about it going gold, I meant before the open beta, which only ran for one weekend  18-21 November, not months and months ago.

As a catholic I need to know when to celebrate the anniversary of St Eep

Good stuff I love ice cream

Heresy

This is not the best game ever, but it's actually really good fun when you're tearing down a mountainside. The speed with which it drops you into its vast world from the map is fucking impressive, and the instant restarts are also superb. I've felt a genuine buzz as I've whipped between rocky outcrops in my wingsuit. This video is me racing my own ghost in an early, easy challenge. Hopefully it gives the sense of speed, but I'm sure it will also confirm a few folk's decision not to buy.

Looks fun enough. Cold be on my birthday list when cheap in February.

Andy wrote:

This is not the best game ever, but it's actually really good fun when you're tearing down a mountainside. The speed with which it drops you into its vast world from the map is fucking impressive, and the instant restarts are also superb. I've felt a genuine buzz as I've whipped between rocky outcrops in my wingsuit. This video is me racing my own ghost in an early, easy challenge. Hopefully it gives the sense of speed, but I'm sure it will also confirm a few folk's decision not to buy.

Actually, that really does remind me a lot of 1080. Nice. Does the PS4 automagically add the bookends to uploaded videos like that, or did you put those on?