Crackdown 3 is getting a whole range of previews. Some say it's just a slightly better version of the first, others say it's terrible.
Some people really angry the graphics are so average, which doesn't bother me at all really.
Been playing the first Crackdown on my Xbox One, because its free for everyone-you should go download it now, and it looks much worse than anything ive seen from 3 all the way back to the e3 2017 footage.
In fact everything ive seen from Crackdown 3 tells me its markedly better than 1 in every possible way. The way it does boss battles, graphics, weapons, enemy variety, progression; 3 looks to be a massive upgrade from past titles. Its not really debatable. Then only way one could say they look similar is through the most basic core gameplay loop. Other than that, youd have to be pushing some agenda or have never actually played the first game.
Wow, SotTR on GamePass already?! Just how bad did that game do? We've gone from Fall blockbuster to "free candy" in 12 weeks.
@Dezzy ouch......so it's apparently not more fun to play than to watch. No idea how development could have stagnated like that without MS doing something about it. Perhaps it needed the Metroid Prime 4 treatment: Delete and restart.
@NEStalgia THAT's what you got from his comment? Man... pfffff...
If I had received a dime for every time someone on the internet said a game was ugly...
I would go with @SharkAttackU's opinion instead: if you've downloaded it, or still have it, play the first one and THEN comment on how bad the new game looks, because in my humble opinion, a LOT of people are overreacting. And remember what I mentioned on how the opinion of that guy in the half hour playthrough video changed within the space of like 15 minutes? That oughta tell you more than enough.
Nothing negative that anyone is going to say, is going to not make me want to play this game, because to me,
it looks like a pretty decent sequel, and I already know that I'm going to have a lot of fun with it.
I don't get why it took so long. I bet all of those delays were regarding the destructible environments coding. Which I probably won't even experience because I don't play multiplayer.
@Dezzy IIRC it wasn't even going to have a single player originally. I think one of the delays was simply adding that in after the fact. (To be fair SFV did that a year after launch and turned out great.)
@ThanosReXXX Confirmation bias. It's my own observational opinion and now others are confirming it. I'll open the vent to air out the echo chamber in a week or two.
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@NEStalgia I'm willing to wager a bet that around at least 35 - 40 percent of these commenters haven't even actually played the game, or not nearly long enough, to formulate an informed and grounded opinion on it.
I'll refer again to the playthrough video guy: he comes across as a really down to Earth, and positive person, but even for him, it took about 15 minutes to get into the game, or rather: to GET the game, and why it's still entertaining, regardless of any pre-conceived notions about it not looking so good or being ""disappointing" after such a long development period...
Perhaps a healthy percentage of those commenters are also suffering from confirmation bias:
"Yeah, just what I thought: Dave already said it was bad, Mike also thought that it was going to be bad, Steve thought the long wait and multiple delays could only hurt it, and I myself can't really see any major improvements, so yeah, I also think it's bad, and I haven't even actually played it yet, and I also have a severe case of rose-tinted spectacles concerning how good the previous games already looked, so this is a MAJOR disappointment, yo... "
On a side note: I don't think that the delay had to do with having to shoehorn a single player campaign into it.
I always expected there to be one, since it always had one to begin with, and also a solid co-op, so besides the multiplayer, that was (far as I'm concerned) always a given.
Talking about shoehorning: far as I'm concerned, they could have left out that loudmouth Crews. Hate his commercials, can't stand the guy, so if anything about the game would turn me off, it's that, but fortunately, there's also other characters to choose from. (perhaps needless to say, but you never know who else is gonna read this: it's not a racial thing, I just think he's a hugely annoying person)
@ThanosReXXX Yeah, that's probably a lot of it. The internet has a way of doing that. We'll see.
The single player was shoehorend in. Well, not shoehorned, but not part of the original roadmap according to that article on it's back story and the devs going to them about the cloud tech etc. It was supposed to be a cloud tech demo, and the multiplayer was the actual game, not a single player. Doesn't mean they haven't spent a lot of time on the campaign with the delays, just that it wasn't originally intended for the game before someone decided to add it.
Hah, I agree. People seem to like Crews. I honestly had no idea who he was and had never heard of him until the Crackdown 3 trailer initially, and the voice acting annoyed me. I didn't find out until the year or two after with the next reveal that he's a big name celebrity. Still annoys me though. I finally saw him in a TV commercial (I don't watch TV normally) at Christmas, and it's like "oh, yeah, he does exist outside Crackdown!" He was annoying there, too. I can't stand loud/aggressive people. Some comedians can pull it off, but he's not one of them. It seems like he's loud just to be loud. Then again, he seems to have a lot of fans....and I don't seem to think what most of the rest of the US thinks is comedy these days is funny. SNL stopped being funny 20 years ago, for me. And I always thought Letterman was funnier than Conan. Fallon doesn't even make me crack a half smile, I just stare blank faced thinking "people are laughing at this?!" I'll stick to the BBC for comedy. And Japanese content. I "get" Japanese humor for some reason.....it's more like British humor...but different.
@NEStalgia Well, sounds more to me like the entire game was shoehorned in, then, because like I said: a solid single player and co-op campaign has always been a thing in the series, so it was never an online only game. When I personally think of shoehorned, I always imagine something looking severely out of place, and from what I've seen so far, it's just good old Crackdown, with a new coat of paint and some new features, but far as I'm concerned, that's actually a good thing.
Let Dave, Mike, Steve and Brad (which is actually the name of the guy I fanta-quoted) have their petty little agreement on why the game is bad and/or disappointing, I'll still be buying it regardless...
As for Crews: I only came to know of him thanks to Old Spice commercials and if I remember correctly, he was also in one of the Expendables movies. Both performances left me severely unimpressed, and the former left me hugely annoyed. I've heard he's a really nice guy in real life, but none of that shines through in anything that I've seen from him.
Far as I'm concerned, the only black guy that can do the loudmouth thing, while still being funny (although of late his performances also aren't that great anymore), is Chris Rock. But I could understand that he too will be an acquired taste for some, or no taste at all...
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
@redd214 Well, there's loud, and then there's LOUD, and I don't know if you've seen any of these Old Spice commercials, but they're annoying as f***.
After I posted my previous comment, I did remember seeing him in another show where he wasn't as annoying, and that was in the comedic police series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. But that's about the only exception that I can come up with. And as far as games are concerned: I just don't like "celebrities" being put into games for no apparent reason, other than being able to attach a name to franchise, or the other way around.
'The console wars are like boobs: Sony and Microsoft fight over which ones look the nicest and Nintendo's are the most fun to play with.'
I don't think I've ever seen anything Terry Crewes has been in. He's entertaining in the Crackdown promos though.
Hope the game is actually good.
Apparently this kind of environmental destruction has been completely ditched though. My guess is that a lot of the delays were based on trying to get this stuff working properly and they ended up just giving up on it:
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@ThanosReXXX Nah, it's just that the game really wasn't intended to have SP at first. It was just an online Crackdown game. That was the design. Of course that's from the whole Mattrick era where they wanted cloud everything, service everything, DRM everything and couldn't find their rear end with two hands and a map.
SP got added sometime later. Probably when the villagers were setting torchfire to the building.
I never actually saw one of Crews' Oldspice commercials. I heard about them on Crackdown threads. The last Oldspice commercial I saw had "Oldspice guy", whoever he was....the soft spoken guy, not the loud abrasive guy who has only two vocal octives: "Screaming" and "angry screaming"
Chris Rock easily comes to mind. Sinbad. Remember Sinbad? I'm dating myself now. Crews seems like a louder Samuel L. Jackson impersonator. Not old 90's cool Jackson. Modern bat-stuff-crazy Jackson.
@redd214 Glad I'm not the only one who found Crackdown 1, while beautifully enhanced...."dated" as you say! Also, if you're as loud as Crews, I'll supply the duct tape gratis.
@ThanosReXXX What's wrong with celebrities in games? I mean the 40 seconds of Patrick Stewart in Oblivion really made the game. And Keifer Sutherland really made MGS5 not be an incomplete unfinished trainwreck. It's all sunshine and roses with celebs around!
Spent about an hour and a half playing the Crackdown 3 multiplayer. Vids definitely don't do it justice, the colors really pop in HDR. The destruction was underwhelming though. It's cool everything can break but just felt unsatisfying, hard to explain, like everything is made of cardboard. I did have one cool instance when an entire building was falling down and I was running along the side of it. Gameplay wise really wasn't too special for me. Some neat abilities and weapons but nothing really set it apart. Pretty average overall. Probably didn't help I've been playing the Division 2 beta most of the day.
@redd214 It's so funny, I was waiting for Anthem, Division, and Crackdown, and now that they're out, I'm playing the entire KH series, Pokemon, and a train simulator....
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