Does it matter, haha.
I sent my copy back without opening it, so at least now I can try it. I would have left it sitting with FH3 out.
ReCore getting a free 30min trial today on XB1 & Win10
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Does it matter, haha.
I sent my copy back without opening it, so at least now I can try it. I would have left it sitting with FH3 out.
Just completed it last night. A 30 minute trial is plenty to get a taste of the combat and platforming.
The platforming evolves, becoming more demanding and varied as you progress, so if you're into the platform mechanics with the trial then I whole heartedly recommend it, you should have a lot of fun and be challenged. It's one of my favorite platformers in years.
The combat feels mostly the same throughout, so while there is color matching with different ammo types and you can switch out bots to fight with you the encounters never feel significantly different despite the variety of enemies you run into over the course of the game.
If you're into exploration then you'll like it as you find the dungeons and get more prismatic cores. If you're the type who likes to make a beeline to the end then you're going to be upset when the game makes you go back out into the world to find more prismatic cores in order to finish the game.
The platforming evolves, becoming more demanding and varied as you progress, so if you're into the platform mechanics with the trial then I whole heartedly recommend it, you should have a lot of fun and be challenged. It's one of my favorite platformers in years.
The combat feels mostly the same throughout, so while there is color matching with different ammo types and you can switch out bots to fight with you the encounters never feel significantly different despite the variety of enemies you run into over the course of the game.
If you're into exploration then you'll like it as you find the dungeons and get more prismatic cores. If you're the type who likes to make a beeline to the end then you're going to be upset when the game makes you go back out into the world to find more prismatic cores in order to finish the game.
What does that mean?
30 minutes is a decent length for a demo.
What's the shelf life for a Nintendo digital title?
Outlaw Torn
Member
I have previously rented Recore, so can I download the trial and play an extra 30 minutes from where I left off?
Possumowner
Member
After holding well off because of reviews,guess I'll find out how accurate they were.Wish more would release demos
adversarial
Member
Just bought it yesterday, actually.
I'm enjoying it for what it is.
I'm enjoying it for what it is.
Kacho
Member
Definitely. The people I know have all enjoyed it in spite of the flaws. Personally I'm really intrigued by the RPG elements.
AgentOtaku
Member
Downloading nao!
Most of the complaints are about the late game, so you won't be seeing the problems from a lot of those reviews.
I wish they would do a patch that decreases the amount of cores needed to actually beat the game
30 min should be enough for the initial dungeon30 mins only, I was hoping for a real demo
jediyoshi
Member
You get achievements through this.
The time restriction is on the system level, so you're basically just playing the game normally otherwise.
Playing on an SSD. Didn't catch the initial ingame loading time, but loading screens were all shorter than 10 seconds. Includes crawler -> granite steps and steps -> basin.
The time restriction is on the system level, so you're basically just playing the game normally otherwise.
Playing on an SSD. Didn't catch the initial ingame loading time, but loading screens were all shorter than 10 seconds. Includes crawler -> granite steps and steps -> basin.
That was ..... something... i guess
out of these 30 minutes
...5 minutes spent on initial loading
... the another 5 spent on various laodings of Xbox app
....which crashed ... so it needed anothe 5 to get actually into the game
... ingame res locked to 1280x720 :-( and ingame loading superfast
as for the game itself platforming is really nice , combat is serviceable ... overall I kinda like it
although the experience with the store/xbox app was bad enough to never ever consider buying something in Win10Store ... even if its masterpiece
out of these 30 minutes
...5 minutes spent on initial loading
... the another 5 spent on various laodings of Xbox app
....which crashed ... so it needed anothe 5 to get actually into the game
... ingame res locked to 1280x720 :-( and ingame loading superfast
as for the game itself platforming is really nice , combat is serviceable ... overall I kinda like it
although the experience with the store/xbox app was bad enough to never ever consider buying something in Win10Store ... even if its masterpiece
dreamcast210
Banned
Is the resolution issue because it's a trial? I'm able to play at a higher resolution.
Also, if you hadn't used the Xbox app yet prior to trying ReCore, then it would take more time for everything to sync and link. After that, it's fairly smooth.
Domcorleone
Member
I was locked to 720 as well and couldn't understand why. I didn't even have an option for 4K. Is this an issue with the trial version of the game?
i guess its a trial thing
well thw xbox app was fast on second try but for some strange reasonit crashed couple times .... but why the hell i should use xbox app when i am already logged in with the same account in the store ... just a winstore/uwp mess ..... might probably buy the game if it ever hits some actual PC store and not a store/platform which looks like bastard child of XboxLive and AppleStore with featureset worse than old 2004 green steam and requiring two logins of the same account
dreamcast210
Banned
I think the initial startup links the game with your Xbox app (and Xbox Live) account. Now that you have it set up, you shouldn't see that process anymore. The only thing you might see is when the game boots, it will sync up your game save. I usually see this when switching between playing on the Xbox and PC.
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
It's the full game. You do as much as you can do in thirty minutes.
Which, as an owner of the game, won't be a lot. But it will give you a taste of the controls and gameplay mechanics to an extent. I think is kinda smart of Microsoft. Almost all the reviews were glowing about the first hour, so by giving everyone the first half hour, you're theoretically seeing the best part of the game as a tease.
I'm quite a few hours into the game and I'm loving it. It really is the closest thing to Zelda and Metroid for the Xbox as we're ever going to get.
jediyoshi
Member
Nope. No problems maxing everything out at 1080p here.
Made a video, included a load time into the basin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awuO-xbZbmY
Primethius
Banned
Just tried it out.
Damn, this game sucks... a lot. The artstyle is pretty ugly and the game just doesn't come together visually at all. It's a really ugly, in-cohesive looking game. The animations are sub-par, often janky. The story seems to be "don't give a shit" tier.
I can usually forgive all of that but the main combat loop is a snooze, boring and seems super simplistic. I literally just sorta held the right and left mouse buttons and killed everything, including the first "boss", if you want to call it that. The lock-on system just doesn't work on a mouse and keyboard. I feel like I have less control and it doesn't really add anything to it so far. I couldn't find an option to turn it off.
But yea, 30 minutes of holding the right mouse button and left mouse button. No thanks.
Damn, this game sucks... a lot. The artstyle is pretty ugly and the game just doesn't come together visually at all. It's a really ugly, in-cohesive looking game. The animations are sub-par, often janky. The story seems to be "don't give a shit" tier.
I can usually forgive all of that but the main combat loop is a snooze, boring and seems super simplistic. I literally just sorta held the right and left mouse buttons and killed everything, including the first "boss", if you want to call it that. The lock-on system just doesn't work on a mouse and keyboard. I feel like I have less control and it doesn't really add anything to it so far. I couldn't find an option to turn it off.
But yea, 30 minutes of holding the right mouse button and left mouse button. No thanks.
Greatest Ever
Member
I don't recall the first thirty minutes giving off a particularly good impression for me, but hopefully someone else enjoys.
It's more than a few hours, the game is pretty fun most of the way through. It's only when you get to the final big dungeon/tower that things start to fall apart, at least for me. There's also one baffling design decision that hampers exploration, in that you have to pick 2 robot buddies out of 4 available. These all have seperate abilities used to reach places or get items. In the open world you can get into situations where you reach a core (the artifacts needed for progression), but you discover it's covered with rocks... and you didn't bring your rock breaking companion. Then you have to warp back to home base, bring the correct buddy and get to that spot again. Imagine playing a metroidvania and having to select which upgrades to bring along, that's kind of what this is.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Nice to know I can try this out to see for myself whether it's worth a purchase.
Schopenhauerian
Member
Definitely seems like this game is unusually polarizing, as was already suggested (here in the review thread) when the reviews started coming in. The complete divergence between two recent impressions I've seen (the first from this thread, the second published just yesterday in Dave Bierton's Digital Foundry analysis) really just reinforced for me this sense that ReCore (to an unusual extent) tends to elicit widely divergent responses:
Personally, I'm squarely in Dave's camp (still loving this game after 17 hours, the gated final dungeon about half done, collected 31 cores so far), but given the divergent responses we continue to see, worth exercising more restraint than usual (try before you buy, and so on) before making a recommendation.
Dave said:
Personally, I'm squarely in Dave's camp (still loving this game after 17 hours, the gated final dungeon about half done, collected 31 cores so far), but given the divergent responses we continue to see, worth exercising more restraint than usual (try before you buy, and so on) before making a recommendation.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Ok but 30 min is nothing.
Should've at least been an hour.
Barrow Roll
Member
Can you play the 30 minute trial more than once? Not continuing where you left off, but starting again?
Head.spawn
Junior Member
Can I play 30 minutes on PC, save the game, then go play 30 minutes on my Xbox One?
You get achievements through this.
The time restriction is on the system level, so you're basically just playing the game normally otherwise.
Playing on an SSD. Didn't catch the initial ingame loading time, but loading screens were all shorter than 10 seconds. Includes crawler -> granite steps and steps -> basin.
ha! any easy cheevos to grab in 30min?
Head.spawn
Junior Member
I keep getting a "Try that again" error when trying to download it...
Also getting the same error when trying to buy Gears 4, urgh.
This sure is helpful:
Try this:
http://aka.ms/diag_apps10
Download and run that.
Then when it is finished, press 'Windows Key + R', then run "wsreset.exe"; which will reset the store.
Let me know if that clears anything up for you.
