Why all the hate ?

[Skoll]

Seriously it is a game from 2000 that has clearly had texture work done on it, not to mention achievements, 360 controller support, cards, hell the fact that this ♥♥♥♥ even runs is a miracle to some extent.... this is what rally games were like back then.

Have you people really never played ♥♥♥♥♥♥ games cause honestly I think everyone who ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about this should be forced to play games that are actually bad or have there steam accounts taken from them for acting like there mothers gave them no sense. There is clearly more love that went into this than most re-releases.

If you think this should be removed from steam you should just stop gaming all together cause you don't know how good you have it. Go play ET for the atari or how to train your dragon two , superman 64, warehouse simulator, Infected survivor stories ....

Not even trolling here, there is no solid ground on which to hate this 7$ game for

[Peking Duckman]

http://www.vg247.com/2014/08/01/the-new-colin-mcrae-pc-game-is-not-what-you-think/

Except it wasn't the original Colin McRae Rally, it was the recent mobile phone imitation ported to PC. The two games are nothing alike.

[Skoll]

and....? The original was not 2.0 the first one came out in 1998, 2.0 came out in 2000. Not really sure what anyone is expecting for a seven dollar price tag? Cause there are really only 2 options other than what they did, release 2.0 with no achieves and cards, that crashes constantly because the source code has been lost to oblivion, or a 30-40 dollar remake which probably will never happen any how cause there just is not that big of a market and the ends don't justify the means.

People calling for this to be removed from steam seem to think this is not a solid rally game, and is broken beyond all repair because that is the only reason a game should ever be removed Both of which are blatent lies, this game is rock solid for what it is.

it is just crappy to see the community act like a bunch of spoiled kids about a solid game, If they keep it up they will end up like the baseball game community totally SOL with no one who wants to develope games for them any more, or port stuff over.

[Leezeebub]

People are pissed becasue this is a port of the crappy mobile game, while the store page would lead you to believe its a HD remake of 2.0

I dont care if the game is removed, but they really need to let the customer know what they are buying.

EDIT: Ive actually just seen the post from the devs about them updating the store description, so my complaints are now invalid :)

[secuda]

Different ♥♥♥♥ different era but still ♥♥♥♥ compare to what you can get for 7 euros these days on steam.
Like what Peking Duckman say it was belived that this was a PC version remake rather then some a Smartphone game. also no proper graphical settings (because smartphone) and no proper keybinding (again due to smartphone).

[Burt]

First thing - this is rework BASED on 2.0 (content like cars, tracks etc.), it's not an imitation, just rework
Second - they moved this content to new graph engine (Unity 3D to be exact) to refresh the game with new physics and actually improve old sprites to use with wrap-around resolutions

I have to agree (because I used Unity 3D engine for myself), that they could've made special version for PCs with more original content, like POS (my favourite tracks) and 6 cars circuit racing (I was really disappointed about lack of Sweden and Great Britain rallies). They had to cut it for mobile because of package size. However - as a true fan of CMR series I'm glad that someone in Codemasters wanted to rewise me my old days spent playing such great game once more and gave me oppurtunity to buy it.
New players, that was raised on games like Dirt, NFS from Criterion and so forth will never understand true meaning of old game remakes.

[Mechanoid]

I played CMR before, sure this might be a mobile port.
but it's a good port.

I enjoy this game alot, and yes i was hoping for remastered 2.0
But i don't feel i got scammed, still love this game and hope they WILL release a 2.0

Like Marcusq said "Why all the hate"
judge a game by it's gameplay not wether it's a port or not....
Do some research before buying a game.

+1 like for this game

[neil_lcfc]

I reinstalled and played 2.0 on PC last night after all the fuss on these forums and I much prefer this.
All it needs is the same or similar content to 2.0. Handling and graphics are loads better than 2.0 ever was. it's just a bit light on content and too easy to win but it is only a fiver after all !
If they could up the difficulty and add an extra few stages it would be even better.
Some people are going over the top in their critisism it is not a bad effort for a cheap price.

[Crom]

Publicado originalmente por Marcusq:

Seriously it is a game from 2000 that has clearly had texture work done on it, not to mention achievements, 360 controller support, cards, hell the fact that this ♥♥♥♥ even runs is a miracle to some extent.... this is what rally games were like back then.

No, back then the games had content and updating the game ment adding more, not removing it.

If you really want a good arcade-rally, Colin McRae Rally 2005 cost about the same on Amazon, looks better, has more content and there is unofficial fixes to make it work on 64bit windows.

[Gary2025]

Publicado originalmente por Marcusq:

Seriously it is a game from 2000 that has clearly had texture work done on it, not to mention achievements, 360 controller support, cards, hell the fact that this ♥♥♥♥ even runs is a miracle to some extent.... this is what rally games were like back then.

Have you people really never played ♥♥♥♥ty games cause honestly I think everyone who ♥♥♥♥♥es about this should be forced to play games that are actually bad or have there steam accounts taken from them for acting like there mothers gave them no sense. There is clearly more love that went into this than most re-releases.

If you think this should be removed from steam you should just stop gaming all together cause you don't know how good you have it. Go play ET for the atari or how to train your dragon two , superman 64, warehouse simulator, Infected survivor stories ....

Not even trolling here, there is no solid ground on which to hate this 7$ game for

Well said and I could not agree more, however the best feel in any of the McRae games for me had to be the very first one Colin McRae Rally on the PS one, from the moment I played the demo I was hooked. I have the PS one emulator and I play my original game, however using keyboards takes most of the pleasure out of it but I am getting used to it.
This has really made my day, I feel like a little child on Xmas morning when I was 5 and I see my bike!!!!!! YES, Sold to the me, Thank you Steam for this. £4.99 at time of comment

[Gary2025]

Publicado originalmente por Crom:

Publicado originalmente por Marcusq:

Seriously it is a game from 2000 that has clearly had texture work done on it, not to mention achievements, 360 controller support, cards, hell the fact that this ♥♥♥♥ even runs is a miracle to some extent.... this is what rally games were like back then.

No, back then the games had content and updating the game ment adding more, not removing it.

If you really want a good arcade-rally, Colin McRae Rally 2005 cost about the same on Amazon, looks better, has more content and there is unofficial fixes to make it work on 64bit windows.

Hello Crom, Marcusq made a very good point, you need to understand he is commenting on a game from 2000 [sic] you can not really prove him wrong in his comment by reffering to Colin McRae 2005, the 2005 tells you it was made 5 years later, that is same as saying the very first GTA is so bad because, have you seen GTA 5? that is much better.

At the time of Colin McRae Rallys` release date there was not much that could compete with it and yes it is STILL a very good game to play, read the description on the steam store page and you will be amazed. How many racers give you that much content these days?

[Mechanoid]

This is a great no-nonsense game.
Love to see more of this kind.

you know,pick a track , pick a car , choose a color by a color mixer and just GO !

nowadays it's 1000 things to change and lot's of event's and whatever....
takes me like 15 minutes to even get driving.

anyway, SHOUTOUT TO THE DEVS Keep it up , thumbs up.

[Case]

Publicado originalmente por Marcusq:

Seriously it is a game from 2000 that has clearly had texture work done on it, not to mention achievements, 360 controller support, cards, hell the fact that this ♥♥♥♥ even runs is a miracle to some extent...

I'd suggest you actually play the game from 2000 this game is supposedly "based on". You'll find that it's unbelievably better in every way except modern hardware support (for example you're limited do maximum 1280x960 resolution). And the original actually doesn't even look that much worse - you could even say it looks better, as it has a distinct overall graphic style, while this new "remaster" is all over the place when it comes to graphics - some things look pretty modern, some are terribly dated, some textures are photorealistic, some are just taken from the original CMR 2 and postprocessed to look better.

Seriously, go play CMR 2. You can still get it running on modern systems - I'm playing it without any problems on Win 7 x64 and it's sad how much better and much more fun that game is over this "HD remaster".

[SamSerious]

Publicado originalmente por Marcusq:

this is what rally games were like back then.

OP are you 12 ? you have no idea what you're talking about. You are comparing Colin McRae masterpieces with a mobile game. You fail. Please go back to tablet gaming .

[Skoll]

Publicado originalmente por mcquade:

Publicado originalmente por Marcusq:

this is what rally games were like back then.

OP are you 12 ? you have no idea what you're talking about. You are comparing Colin McRae masterpieces with a mobile game. You fail. Please go back to tablet gaming .

I probably have played more games then all the posters in this thread combined, this game reminds me of ridge racer from ps1 to some extent. You can't really compare the two games cause the other one cost 50$ brand new back then at cheapest maybe 30 . I knew reviews are all opinion based but if you look back to the original reviews for 2.0 it actually did worse than the tablet version overall.

The main point of this thread is people wayyyyyy over reacted to a really solid $7 game and the racing community can't afford to lose any more publishers on steam. The Baseball community raged out at MLB now look what they have freaking 1 pen and paper looking baseball game, do you want rally car management sims to be all steam is left with?

[Buz]

It's not really about the game itself - it sounds like most people already agree it's terrible. The fuss is mostly about how deceptive the advertising is, given that they're selling it to PC gamers who enjoyed the old games and are making it sound like it will be the same or slightly better.