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Crackdown 3 Jimpressions: This game is rubbish, I’m going to stop talking about it
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Yes I have. Does that now qualify me in your books to comment in this thread?
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A far fetched and fantastical idea i know, the idea that some company, on the stock exchange would dangle some schwag in exchange, not only for good reviews, but also for poor reviews of the Competion. Never happen in this Utopia we call home.
Review scores fly directly in the face of the players consenus. Make of all that what you will.
Do i believe that Jim took schwag to review bomb? Absolutely not. But i do think he mailed in his effort, went in with preconcived notions about the game, and went along with the initial wave, and the notions, and lackadasical effort. Thus - "its a stinker"
I'm aware it wasn't one or the other (we'll, for what we know anyway) but my point was I found it interesting.
I could believe that every one of those games is better than what I've played of Crackdown 3 and I'm baffled that you can't even imagine that to be the case.
This looks like Agents of mayhem, just uninspired, with terrible movement, terrible gameplay, terrible enemies and terrible art.
I actually really liked Agents of Mayhem, but seeing this video I was just thinking how bad this looked compared to that even when it tried to be nearly exactly the same game.
Agents of Mayhem was clean, enemies animation was better, the controls felt snappy, the gameplay was fun (though a little repetitive becuase of budget), the art was nice and the multiple characters were fun. The 3 team system was actually tons of fun.
The sad thing is that this game will probably sell more than AoM :(
People, buy SR3, SR4 and AoM instead of this.
I actually really liked Agents of Mayhem, but seeing this video I was just thinking how bad this looked compared to that even when it tried to be nearly exactly the same game.
Agents of Mayhem was clean, enemies animation was better, the controls felt snappy, the gameplay was fun (though a little repetitive becuase of budget), the art was nice and the multiple characters were fun. The 3 team system was actually tons of fun.
The sad thing is that this game will probably sell more than AoM :(
People, buy SR3, SR4 and AoM instead of this.
Feels like a sign of the times for MS development teams. Its other experimental titles like Sea of Thieves and ReCore have some intriguing aspects and mechanics but are all weighed down by an inability to create well-rounded experiences. The new teams working on old series have received plenty of flack for their work.
This sort of stuff is just boggling compared to what Nintendo and Sony are doing. Even the games I don't like or find a lot less merit in than most people (God of War, to some extent Odyssey, whatever else) they still feel like modern, completely designed games. They don't feel like parts are just straight up half-assed, like when I was playing ReCore and they had this shiny ball with one of the worst textures of all time on it.
This sort of stuff is just boggling compared to what Nintendo and Sony are doing. Even the games I don't like or find a lot less merit in than most people (God of War, to some extent Odyssey, whatever else) they still feel like modern, completely designed games. They don't feel like parts are just straight up half-assed, like when I was playing ReCore and they had this shiny ball with one of the worst textures of all time on it.
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Maybe. What's your Xbox GT?
Yup, I feel the same way. They delivered on giving Crackdownmans what we wanted.
Didn't he take a pic with semen on his face once?I was thinking about it and I think Jim is a Terranova supervillain. That's why The Agency car always hit him, the game is obviously biased against him.
It screams super villain to me.
Eh, gotta disagree with ole jimbo on this one. Some of his complaints are kinda ridiculous to me.
Yeah pretty much unfortunately
Yeah pretty much unfortunately
You been in the review thread?
Even by Internet standards there's some truly epic shit going on there.
Yeah
I mean it's an... okay game. If you're a Crackdown diehard or are looking for something that's mindless fun, CD3 will keep you entertained for a bit.
I doubt I'll finish it any time soon, but it will be something I load up for an hour or two when I don't want to play anything too deep or story-driven.
Astrobot isn't a series. And you have to wear a chunky ass VR headset with wires all over the place in order to play it.
Jim brings up some valid points, and while I'm sure it's a good "hamburger" game, we should've gotten more. And that's the thing; it's another safe sequel, much like Gears of War 4. Safe sequels don't cut it when the genre's bar has been raised.
I loved the original Crackdown to pieces back in 2007 but in 2019 I'd likely grow bored after a half hour.
I just hope there's enough interest to keep the franchise alive, because it doesn't deserve to go out like this.
I loved the original Crackdown to pieces back in 2007 but in 2019 I'd likely grow bored after a half hour.
I just hope there's enough interest to keep the franchise alive, because it doesn't deserve to go out like this.
One thing that makes this game great for jumping in for some mindless fun is how fast the load times are. There's next to zero wait time when you're playing the game.
I love that Jim is both a contrarian (click-bait for ads) and someone who just goes along with the wave lmao
I actually think totally the opposite, and I guarantee you that I played AoM with the best expectations. CD3 gives me all that AoM didn't. I hated AoM controls, the game run badly even on X, the city was way smaller than crackdown's, and while both have a cheese cartoon inspired plot, the AoM cheeseness seemed so artificial. The game was all about being like a game of a 80s cartoon, but it really didn't worked for me. Damn, the concept was so good but... I simply didn't like it at all.
The graphics were good of course, but with a way smaller map, and running way worse of course it had better graphics than crackdown 3.
And I was forgetting something, the main theme was freaking great!
When I say it looks cleaner and better I dont mean the quality of the graphics, I mean the artstyle. The use of colour palete, city design and character designs is much better.
Also i played on PC and it worked great, so i cant talk about how it run on xbox.
If you enjoyed Crackdown or Saints Row 4 dont sleep on this game. Don't expect anything special, it is essentially Crackdown 1.5 but its on Gamepass so give it a try ($2 for 2 months if you dont have gamepass yet). Been taking breaks from Metro Exodus to play it and it is good mindless fun.
Holy shit we are back to conspiracy nonsense, boys. Even insinuations that Sony paid for these reviews. I love Crackdown 3 for bringing out the crazy like no other decidedly mediocre game could.
What is left? Angry Joe, Crowby Cat.... Dunkey? Still many threads to shit on Crackdown 3. The controls (platforming) are fine by the way. The only thing that I disagree from the video.
You know I agree, the controls are fine. The actual shooting and platforming is circa 2007 but the game isn't hard to play or control.
I don't think Agents of Mayhem is better at all, or even close to better. And I like it, CD3, SR3 and 4.
It's also not really the same game and air-dashing is janky as hell if you're one of the few characters that can do it. That said, it's got far better animation work.
It's also not really the same game and air-dashing is janky as hell if you're one of the few characters that can do it. That said, it's got far better animation work.
I legit didn't know first party games launched on their first fucking day on gamepass. It's kind of great... and surprising.
AoM is boring as fuck. Cool design and fun characters but the actual gameplay is awful.
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I'm an Xbox fan who has almost universally enjoyed Microsoft's first party output this generation. I've got no reason to -want- CD3 to be a bad game. That's just how I feel about it when I play it. It's not great and it's rarely even good. How would I describe Crackdown 3 so far? Crackdown 3 is something you can do with your hands for a couple of hours if you've really got nothing else to do
I mean it's a battle for the middle-to-bottom so I don't much care who 'wins' on that contest.
AoM at least wasn't a hotly anticipated sequel to a beloved original.
As I recall, AoM launched with zero hype and expectations and was almost forgotten by the next week.
Expectation and all that.
It feels dated, but it has a good visual makeup and plays well enough and on top of that happens to stand alone in it's genre despite it's issues - I expected a game like this, I get the feeling people thought it was going to be some amazing revelation despite the incredible amount of rebooting and delaying it had.
Maybe he just thinks it's a bit shit and expects more in 2019. If you listen to the video, he explains why he thinks it's crap.
You're saying that he expected it to be crap. Everyone else is saying it is. Which confirmed his notions. Thing is, he'd get better publicity if he went against the tide. So there's no reason for him to just say its crap for the sake of it. You're basically accusing him of lazy journalism, which is quite insulting and also ironic given that you've come in here spouting shite preconceived notions about why he is saying its crap.
I'm playing AoM alongside Crackdown 3 and I don't agree with any of this.
From what I've played of AoM so far, it's a claustrophobic mess with no sense of direction or consistency.
I hated Saints Row 4, but this is probably even worse.