I’m finding this Youtube series surprisingly entertaining:
Basically, a trio of British Youtubers have gotten together, one in a monster truck, one in a (pink) Mini Cooper S, and one on a motorcycle, and decided to take a road trip across the America of The Crew 2, starting in Los Angeles and trying to visit an itinerary of various destinations across the whole of America. Without using any sort of in-game navigational assistance. Turns out this is more challenging than anticipated. (It’s almost as though The Crew 2 isn’t a very good game.)
…if only there was some other game that let this do this! Some game that didn’t suck. Maybe something like The Crew 2 that doesn’t suffer from The Crew 2’s issues. Hmm.
The road signs in the third episode, what few there were, look like they were given the same level of attention as the store signs in the PC Gamer article above. I kinda want to reinstall the first game just to compare its signage.
Well, I was bored yesterday, so I recreated their LA - Seattle roadtrip without a minimap in Crew 1. Since I was on my own and didn’t just head into the hills and forests, it wasn’t as chaotic as their trip obviously. The road signage wasn’t great, but didn’t seem to be as bad as what they encountered. Perhaps it was just easier since I generally just stuck to the main highway up the coast? (ie keep water on left and go north!)
Around Seattle things did get a bit confusing, but since the sun was setting in game, it was easy to head west towards it and I ended my trip at the space needle.
I’m not very familiar with the US, so I suspect I’d struggle a lot more if I didn’t have the coast as a guide. Perhaps I should try something like SF to Chicago?
BTW The roadtrip reminded me of an article I read at RockPaperShotgun in 2009, where Jim Rossignol circumnavigated the in game map of Fuel in one 8 hour sitting. At the time I don’t think these open world racing games were very common, so it was more of a novelty back then.
That’s one of the things I think make the series so far what it is. A game with actually sensible road signage would not have been nearly as funny, IMO.
At this point I’m more excited about Forza Horizon 4 than The Crew 2. If Horizon 3 wasn’t a POS as reported, I would be playing that right now. The problem for me is that The Crew 2 is doing America AGAIN (and with even less fidelity the second time around). Maybe they should have gone with Canada or whatever, somewhere new.
This is from someone who completed ALL the skill challenges in The Crew 1 on Platinum, over 3-4 months (edit: not years, but it does feel like a long grind at times). I don’t know the exact number but it must have been several hundreds.
On Windows 10 there are lots of bug reports, can’t start won’t run etc., and no one is doing anything about it, not least MS. It is like they want the Windows Store to fail
