NASCAR The Game 2011 Q&A and Impressions

[skydog71]

Amazon is offering $35.00 trade-in on this one for anybody who might be ready to throw in the towel. If you also got the $25.00 preorder credit from Amazon, this is a great opportunity to get your money back.

I haven't decided what I'm going to do personally. As much as I enjoy putting Kyle Busch into the wall, I might just stick with GT5 for now.

[Romain El 82]

I've had it freeze probably 4 or 5 times in paint booth, 2 or 3 times in a race, and another 1 or 2 times randomly attempting to navigate the terrible menus. It's for 360, and I have the game installed to my HDD.

[Senor Nascar]

Quote: Originally Posted by bluengold34_OS

That sucks Kenny..... Man, there has to be something going on here with these freezes. I have both versions, and neither one has froze yet. I played on the 360 last night for about 3 hours.....and not one issue. I have logged in probably 25-30 hours on the PS3, and once again, not a single freeze. I am talking, offline, online, race now, career mode, create-a-car....not one freeze. My ps3 is the 80 gig fatty, and my 360 is the new slim 250gig.

I am with you on the 360 version. I have not had any freezes. I wonder what it could be tied to. On the PS3, only two freezes and it happened when I did something specific.

This is definitely something really odd that I hope someone at Eutechnyx can figure out and include a fix for in the upcoming patch.

[Papi34]

I still haven't got my copy of the game and am getting a teeny bit concerned with the issues discussed and general negative vibe.
However, and I know I've said this before, the feedback from the devs really is second to none. Not only are they keeping the patch development thread updated on a daily basis, but what I'm really impressed with is the way they're posting in nearly every complaint thread on the Eutechnyx forums (including the "Hey Dave" ones!) and addressing the issues instead of running away and hiding.
I've never seen devs being so open about a game after release, including admitting mistakes. I'm not defending the game blindly as there's no doubt it should not have been released in the state it was, but they've as good as admitted that and I do believe them when they say they can fix most of the issues. There's nothing to be gained from lying now as I'm sure the potential sales have taken an absolute battering already.

[leger433]

What is the final consensus on Xbox 360 vs. PS3 version? I'm probably going to wait for a patch either way, but is one version better or more stable than the other?

[nflman2033]

I have ps3 played everyday since Tuesday, never froze til Sunday, first was when I ended practice session, second was after split screen race with step son, third was after career mode race. Now that I have thought about it all three times were at Texas. However I had ran three or four races there before it happened.

[gigadkc]

got the game yesterday and played the game about 5 hours so far. I really like the game but the rubber banding is really annoying. How can a serious racing game still use sh!t like that? Raced a 200 laper at Fontana yesterday: not a single caution in the entire race and the last placed car was just 8 seconds behind the winner (me, of course). Rubber banding at it's best . Other strange stuff: I always led the race until there were pitstops. I was always 1st when I entered and when I left I was like 35th or worse (after all cars were in of course). It also didn't matter if I was in the pits one lap before everyone else or vice versa, so that has to be a bug, too.

Online was also fun but only 1 out of 10 races really works without bugs. The Paint Shop is fun but unfortunately I'm not skilled enough to create a good looking car


edit: just read in the official forums that there really is rubber banding in the game and that they probably remove it in the next patch. Great news imo.

[gamemaster-2005]

game should be better after patch they are fixing a lot of things.