Yeah, I hear you. I used to love Rivals too. I put in so much time and devotion to the game I became NFSTimes.com player ranking #12. That is through perfecting events which greatly helped playing/racing throughout the entire map.The only player I found that could compete at the same level was a friend, Jhow who is player ranked #3. When you can use Turbo anywhere and everywhere on the map and know exactly where and when to employ it you become almost unbeatable. But i just don't care about Rivals anymore.
I've completely stopped playing Rivals. I built a new computer, added G27 wheel, and have been solely playing The Crew for a a few months now. To tell you how bad Rivals/EA is, I haven't even loaded Origin onto my new rig.
I used to drive around Rivals map and wish that I could just drive off the road and into the mountains and explore those areas but in Rivals you are so limited to where you can drive....you drive on those few streets and that's it.
Well, The Crew is awesome beyond description. The map/world is so vast you would have to combine all the maps for all the NFS games onto one map and you would still only have a tiny fraction of the map in The Crew. I have a few hundred hours of playing The Crew and have yet to see the whole map. I think it might take a year before I see it all. That may be an exaggeration, but trust me, the world map is enormous and so fun to explore or race. Now that I think of it, look, the cars fall into 5 categories, Full Stock, Street, Dirt, Performance, Raid and Circuit. There are several actual Circuit tracks (like Laguna Seca) scattered within The Crew also. There is so much in this game...its amazing.
It is so strange....reviews on The Crew are not all that great and kept me from buying it for a few months. The Crew sets a new standard in the industry that is so far beyond what all the other game companies are doing and have done. I think that's why EA didn't release anything new in 2014. I don't even know what their plans are for the next release. They will have to step way up to even come close to Ubisoft's The Crew.
With The Crew, my new computer and the G27 my gaming has never been so fun. There are events in The Crew that take 2 hours to complete. The map is the entire U.S. and there are absolutely no restrictions where you can drive, just turn off the road anywhere and explore, race, etc. I always used keyboard and became very proficient with it. Zero interest in that now. I can't even describe how much fun using the G27, the pedals and choice of stick shift, paddle shifting, or automatic trans is. I thought I was getting a great driving experience with the keyboard.....duh.....using your fingers to drive compared to actually having this setup....no comparison, the fun factor goes through the roof with G27.
You like off-road driving/racing? You can drive for hours on dirt roads and never drive the same road twice. The Crew doesn't crash. It actually plays for days and weeks without crashing the game. I think I get about 1 game crash per month.
Yeah, with Rivals I got used to rebooting the computer sometimes every 10 minutes, and 5-6 times per hour. 45 minutes of crash free gaming became something to relish.
To be honest though, it may have been computer hardware that caused Rivals to crash. I thought I had a pretty powerful rig but the technology was a few years behind. My old rig was i7 930, 10 gigs ram, 60 gig SSD C drive, 1 tb D drive, 2 GTX 760s in SLI. But I don't even care anymore to see how Rivals plays with my new rig...I just have absolutely no interest in EA/Rivals/Most Wanted 2012 anymore.
The longest race in Rivals is Grand Tour and that takes around 8-9 minutes.......how boring. I can't say enough about The Crew. I purchased the Gold Edition for $89 and then spent about $30 more on what is called Crew Credits and that's all you need to spend. There is something called Perk Points that I used the extra Crew Credits on and purchased all the Perk Points available. That is a great tip if you are going to buy The Crew.
If you end up buying The Crew and want a few more tips write back to me. Look for me in The Crew....ShelbyCobraSS
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