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ManaByte
Gold Member
No Death Stranding got shit on because it's a slow walking game without the talking.
ShadowWolf712
Member
That's what I don't get either.
Like I'd understand somewhat if this was a budget title, for sure, but I just can't understand some of the apologists for the game and what they're basing this on. ESPECIALLY with all the promises and blustering by MS and it being full price.
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MiyazakiHatesKojima
Banned
Well, I'll be playing it for the first time on January 1st, 2020.No Death Stranding got shit on because it's a slow walking game without the talking.
Lets see who is right!
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
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Xenon
Member
Good lord this threads burning up with some serious hot takes. My fav.
Then we get the nice assortment of Sony fans who seem to resent positive xbox anything saying they're payed shills. Followed by people who've never played it but YouTube said it's bad so they're sticking with it.
For what it is the game is fun. No doubt Microsoft set this game up to be crucified by attaching it to unroven technology and taking three years to get it out. That said, I applaud them for doing the right thing and going back and tweaking out the single player campaign which I had a blast playing. Then again I love these type of games.
Multiplayer was garbage for me. So I have no intention of Defending that.
Then we get the nice assortment of Sony fans who seem to resent positive xbox anything saying they're payed shills. Followed by people who've never played it but YouTube said it's bad so they're sticking with it.
For what it is the game is fun. No doubt Microsoft set this game up to be crucified by attaching it to unroven technology and taking three years to get it out. That said, I applaud them for doing the right thing and going back and tweaking out the single player campaign which I had a blast playing. Then again I love these type of games.
Multiplayer was garbage for me. So I have no intention of Defending that.
ManaByte
Gold Member
Spukc
always chasing the next thrill
Agreed game looked sick as heck in hdr.
And i had way more fun with it than many other games.
(Like ps4 spooderman)
Not every game needs to be GOTY
Games can be flawed and still good.
(Bloodstained)
Oh and not being 100+ hours helps.
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MP sucked balls only played once.
Then again. Herpderp 2019 need MP
And i had way more fun with it than many other games.
(Like ps4 spooderman)
Not every game needs to be GOTY
Games can be flawed and still good.
(Bloodstained)
Oh and not being 100+ hours helps.
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MP sucked balls only played once.
Then again. Herpderp 2019 need MP
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HaveButOneLife
Banned
Crackdown 3 is second party.
JimmyJones
Banned
The first Crackdown was amazing!
Mercenary09
Member
Nah it really wasn't. It was pretty much Crackdown 1 again only we're 12 years from when that game came out. It deserved the scores it got.
Mercenary09
Member
Yet it has a pretty good score overall, plenty of fantastic scores from a bunch of sites, and more GOTY awards this year than any other game. Can't say I've seen Crackdown 3 really in hardly any top 25 lists.No Death Stranding got shit on because it's a slow walking game without the talking.
MiyazakiHatesKojima
Banned
Xenon
Member
I was watchingManaByte 's Twitch Stream today and honestly enjoyed the way he played Crackdown 3!
I thought to myself "Maybe if I watch someone play a game properly, I'll have a more positive opinion for it."
That's the thing about Crackdown, you get to decide how to play it. Which is why when I watch Mr. Sterling play the game it doesn't look fun because he really doesn't want to have it. Because that's his schtick. I'm not saying the games for everybody. But it was pretty obvious he was being disingenuous about how the game played and the controls.
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MiyazakiHatesKojima
Banned
Yeah, I definitely agree.
Makes me think and realize why reviewers didn't like this game and even Death Stranding. They just don't know how to play those two games properly, I guess.
Crackdown 3 looks legitimately fun to play, I'll definitely give it a shot with the XCloud Beta coming out next year in my country
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BusierDonkey
Member
I enjoyed the game the entire time I was playing it. As you build up your abilities and the game starts really moving quickly it becomes a lot of fun. I also had way more fun with Recore and Rage 2 than reviews suggested I would.
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Xenon
Member
No I hope not. The whole point of Crackdown is the platforming mixed with action. Imagine how much fun Mario games would be if you could just blow everything up and walk across the level(after the first few times =P)
But yeah I can definitely see how Microsoft set you up for disappointment. I just think that goes against the core mechanic of the game
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Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
Game fucking sucked. Much was promised, less was delivered. Only reason anyone liked it by my estimation was because it was essentially free with GamePass.
Free + nostalgia + people really wanting a good exclusive for their Xbox = some poor souls claiming the game was “old school fun”
Free + nostalgia + people really wanting a good exclusive for their Xbox = some poor souls claiming the game was “old school fun”
Codes 208
Member
Funcoland, actually. Before Gamestop assimilated them back in 2000 anyway.
Cert.in.Death
Member
It's MS' property.
Otterz4Life
Member
My sentiments exactly. Not GotY by any stretch, but a fun romp.
The air dash was so wonderful to use. Traveling around hunting orbs with a leveled up agent felt great. Rockstar style missions in Crackdown would suck. 3 had advancements, but not what people wanted. Not sure what they were looking for. A fully destructible city never made sense from a gameplay perspective, let alone a technological one. I never counted on it being there after the project went dark for a while. I think it’s something that sounds cool on paper but isn’t actually fun in practice. Maybe that’s why I’m not disappointed.
I too came fresh off Crackdown 1 as they gave the game away leading up to 3s release. C3 is better in possible every way. The crowbcat video is misleading as hell. People saying “it’s just an HD Crackdown 1” don’t know what the they're talking about.
Slings and Arrows
Banned
It was alright, but should have been much better.
GHG
Member
Gamepass is $1 if you've never had a sub before. Then cancel your membership if you don't want to keep it.
Job done.
cireza
Member
Microsoft should have shut up about the game and unveiled it as a standard game 1 year before release, then release it.
They probably learned the lesson.
I did not play it, but it looked like a fun game. However, it feels a bit pointless after Sunset Overdrive. They should have funded something else.
They probably learned the lesson.
I did not play it, but it looked like a fun game. However, it feels a bit pointless after Sunset Overdrive. They should have funded something else.
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hooijdonk17
Member
Early April Fool's?
nowhat
Member
Glad to have you back! Missed you!
MiyazakiHatesKojima
Banned
hooijdonk17
Member
Bolded by me because I had to point out this is total and utter bullshit.
Nothing people expected out of Crackdown were out of some weird hype self-delusion.
Crackdown 3 was hyped by Microsoft themselves as the showcase of Xbox One's "Cloud Computing" power, from graphics to physics and destruction.
I mean, have we forgotten this shit?
'Crackdown 3:' Microsoft Says The Cloud Can Make The Xbox One 13 Times More Powerful
Video Microsoft has been talking about leveraging cloud computing to supercharge the Xbox One since before the console even launched, and if reports coming out of Cologne are accurate, Crackdown 3 might finally be the game to make that dream a reality. Crackdown 3 comes with two modes: one is...
www.forbes.com
And then there was this video:
And you know what we eventually got? This:
For the people who said crowbcat's video was misleading? I lol in your general direction.
Crackdown 3 was a disaster in the making and its only saving grace as a released product is that it went largely unnoticed.
HaveButOneLife
Banned
That's everyone's excuse.
Doesn't matter, it's not a first party game developed by a first party studio, and Microsoft calling it such is disingenuous.
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Gamestop must have an influx of used copies they need to move.
That's good
I agree though. I had a great time with it. The MP was pure doodoo imho but the campaign was exactly what it needed to be.
thelastword
Banned
Many people tried Crackdown 3 and some were not interested, others when they played, it was not fulfilling to them. It was never a big franchise and the amount of hype placed on it to be as big as other AAA games, surely it could never sustain.....Like anything else, some will have fun and enjoy the game......I'm pretty sure someone out there loves Life of Black Tiger....The truth is, Crackdown was not scored down for the issues of black tiger, it was definitely a playable game, just did not hit the promises it was pitched on and it became very repetitive quickly.....
Crackdown 3 Was Underrated In 2019
We make the case for why Crackdown's comeback deserved more love.www.gameinformer.com
Really agree with this. It's basically Crackdown 1 in HD, and it's probably one of the most FUN games I played this generation. But since they didn't turn Crackdown into a slow walking/talking cinematic game; people ignore it.
Remember, many people tried Crackdown 3 because of gamepass...…..I still have it installed.....Underrated? perhaps not, it's basically the third game in a series, that has progressively gotten less critical adoration....I think the first one was a novel idea and cool at the time, even then it was a bit repetitive and didn't have the production values of the games that dominated that gen...….I think G.I knows this, the first Crackdown would never have been played as much had it not been for Halo....
C
Contica
Unconfirmed Member
Bolded by me because I had to point out this is total and utter bullshit.
Nothing people expected out of Crackdown were out of some weird hype self-delusion.
Crackdown 3 was hyped by Microsoft themselves as the showcase of Xbox One's "Cloud Computing" power, from graphics to physics and destruction.
I mean, have we forgotten this shit?
'Crackdown 3:' Microsoft Says The Cloud Can Make The Xbox One 13 Times More Powerful
Video Microsoft has been talking about leveraging cloud computing to supercharge the Xbox One since before the console even launched, and if reports coming out of Cologne are accurate, Crackdown 3 might finally be the game to make that dream a reality. Crackdown 3 comes with two modes: one is...
And then there was this video:
And you know what we eventually got? This:
For the people who said crowbcat's video was misleading? I lol in your general direction.
Crackdown 3 was a disaster in the making and its only saving grace as a released product is that it went largely unnoticed.
Irrelevant. Game is still super fun, and my point it still stands. People dislike it for what it isn't, not for what it is. Same procedure as with Fable and the dumb acorn.
Should MS have toned down their idiotic hype schpiel? Yep, of course. Still irrelevant to whether or not the game is fun though. Which it is.
The Bloody-Nine
Member
Is this worth playing if you can download it from, say, an unnamed subscription service? I don't think I'd ever buy it outright but it is available to me.
EDIT Blade apparently doesn't think so.
EDIT Blade apparently doesn't think so.
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Cert.in.Death
Member
Firstly, the 2nd party distinction is dumb. If you don’t own the studio, it’s a 3rd party creation.
But especially when you own the property, you could always cancel the project or simply refuse to release it, so allowing it into the market is an implicit approval of its quality by the publisher. The only time it makes sense to dub something “2nd party” is if it’s a joint venture in creating a new property for the financier (ex: Bloodborne). Otherwise it’s purely a publishing arrangement (i.e. purchased exclusivity), ala Cuphead or Sunset Overdrive.
Mochilador
Member
It's fun as hell. My only problem with the game is that it's really dark sometimes, kinda like Resident Evil 2. I had to turn up the brightness to see in some areas.
it_wasn't_me
Banned
Of course GI will say that. Because they played the game for 1$