I just wanted to come here and give my experience of trials rising. Fired it up feeling excited to play my favourite game. Started the standard grind with the pointless bike. Unlock rhino. Get gold on every track. Get ready to move to the next set of tracks. Have to do stadium tracks which I get zero enjoyment from but it’s all good. Just zone out and blast through. Get back to having fun, get gold/plat on every track available. Go to move to next difficulty. Bam. Locked behind xp wall. Spend a long boring time doin incredibly tedious busy work (that I completely understand why some people enjoy, but feel bored to death by) eventually hit the level I need to do boring stadium tracks. Zone out and blast through. Unlock next set. Finally I can play the game again. Oh wait. There’s barely any new tracks unlocked, get gold/plat again, next set of tracks is locked behind and even bigger xp wall. I am so bored for 90% of the time I’ve played so far. I hate the way the new game is set up. It’s like you have no idea how a lot of people play this game. I just want to race the trials tracks like it is in HD but no. I have to do a million back flips and repeat tracks that I’m going to be repeating over and over anyway to set good times but all the good stuff is locked away behind boring contracts that show zero creativity. Thanks for ruining my favourite game.
Yeah I agree. I do have time over the next week or two as I’m off work but I have to force myself on to do a bit of grinding towards the next bit of game I’m allowed to play. I have a friend who I got into trials, and he’s bought it this time, but he won’t get past the first xp wall before he’s bored. He likes racing the trials tracks and trying to get the next difficulty unlocked. I’ve already put more time into this game than he will probably play in total and I’ve not even unlocked all the hard tracks yet. I very much doubt he’ll get past medium, and let’s be honest, the game doesn’t really start until hard. I just can’t wait to get everything unlocked so I can start setting some times.
I wasn’t a huge fan of fusion either. I just play HD still. and it might make the game interesting and fresh for you, but for someone who just plays trials for the trials tracks, this is so boring. There’s no reason they can’t have all the stuff you like in the game, but why make me and all the other players that’s don’t like this Ubisoft style of fill up a map with busy work to make it feel like there’s more content play it. I would just like a classic mode where all the tracks are in groups like old trials games and then I can just scroll through quickly and decide what track I want to play and then just play it. Instead I have to dredge through a huge cluttered map searching for a track. There’s just no reason to gate off content behing a boring un-creative xp grind.
There is a contradiction in the design of this game.
On the one hand you have this very noob friendly tutorial that really helps new players learn how to play the game, and on the other you have this tedious grind of repetitive contracts to unlock tracks. A large percentage of players are likely to be put off by the grind and just stop playing. Only the truly hardcore will suffer through this grind and keep going.
I like to think I am a bit of a hardcore rider but I ride all the tracks from beginner to extreme in this fashion, I look at a beginner/easy track as just as much of a challenge as the hards, in fact sometimes it's a lot harder to get a high rank run on an easy track than a hard. Can you not progress without doing all the contracts by just getting good runs on each track? I've only just got rising and am on the mediums at the mo but most of the contracts now seem to be just things like beat so and so, do it in so many faults, do it in so much time etc, these are a lot less tedious as they are pretty much what you will be doing by riding anyway
Agreed again.
But, wasting your time complaining.
They will NOT be changing the structure of the game.
I bought it, but will NOT be starting it for 3 months.... until a ton of user content is available.
My experience of previous games, is that user tracks (the good ones) tend to be around 10x better than Redlynx have ever created. AND, THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF THEM.
I may not even bother with the main game itself.
Major reviews have complained about the grind in this game. I think they will definitely be patching the grind to become far less obnoxious.Originally Posted by Gabe-777 Go to original post
Unfortunately by the time that patch arrives every hardcore player will have slogged through the grind anyway.