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Crackdown 3 |OT| Quack, Quack, Motherducker!
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I'm kind of blown away. The movement feels so good and the game is just a ridiculous blast to play when you're zipping around encounters. I just absolutely adore games that have good, integrated traversal+combat gameplay and I cannot believe I have not played more of the series outside a demo of the first game.
Do you have any recommendations of games that give you a similar experience?
Yeah the movement feels really good! I went back to Kingdom Hearts 3 after playing some of this and it felt like controlling a truck
It's just a shame the movement and combat isn't used to do anything interesting
Sunset Overdrive, Gun Valkyrie. A liiiittle bit in Spider-Man PS4.
Yeah I was thinking about it from a platforming perspective, and it would look cool as hell.
I didnt even think of players actually using them. I wouldn't mind flying vehicles so long as they were tied to late game abilities. Like If your ability to pilot one was limited by you Agility and Vehicle level.
Never heard of Gun Valkyrie before, thank you! It looks like a linear Crackdown 3, judging from the videos, pretty cool.
Really want to play Sunset Overdrive, and this thread with the amount of people using Spider-Man avatars saying the same thing finally made me interested in Spider-Man PS4 as well.
I said before, if they ever manage to really take advantage of the movement in this game for boss fights, we'll be looking at some pretty amazing bosses.
Well I think the actual mechanics are kept fairly simple but then some encounters are elevated by the enemies, environment, and weapons. Much like Sunset Overdrive really.
Monkey Moonshine kiosks, Prison Hardpoints, and Intel Caches all count & these only appear on the map if you get very close to them. You can check on the targets screen how many you have left by checking the corresponding boss (prison/intel is under the final boss, and monkey moonshine is under the head industry boss i think)
Yeah you need to have them selected while hunting and collecting orbs so when you collect it, the boost provides 10% extra on the orb you collected.
Thanks!
Shadowplay works with crackdown. I recorded a video with it and used it to take screenshots. You hitting alt z?
GunValkyrie was an amazing game, but holy shit did the controls ruin that game. I completed that entire game with perfect scores on every level, if there were achievements then I would have 100% of them, but with better controls it would have been an 8/10 instead of a 5(6?)/10 imo.
Check with msi afterburner, yesterday I was playing and the GPU was lowering the frequency for some reason at times.
Alt f10 I think when recording Earth Defense Force. Is it alt z now?
It doesn't have the Shadowplay pop-up when launching the game, so I assumed it wasn't working.
alt z will bring up the shadowplay ui. I only have crackdown and sea of thieves on my pc right now, but it definitely works with both those games.
That was a nice weekend! Played Crackdown 3 like addicted. That movement and platforming makes collectiong orbs so fun.
I have all DNAs, radio towers and shit ton of orbs. Worst thing is missing one or two orbs on location. It's always the hardest that last one :)
Also first ability that I maxed out was strenght due to awesome ground pound. It's so satisfying to destroy groups of enemies with it.
I have all DNAs, radio towers and shit ton of orbs. Worst thing is missing one or two orbs on location. It's always the hardest that last one :)
Also first ability that I maxed out was strenght due to awesome ground pound. It's so satisfying to destroy groups of enemies with it.
I think so. You can also start one whenever you feel like it, just keep your threat level at max for a few minutes with any faction, and a lockdown will initialize. I just survived one of those earlier this morning, and it was incredibly intense.
You should play it if you get the opportunity. A lot of people didn't like it, but some of us loved it, it's still tied with Crackdown 3 as my favourite game in the series.
Also ReCore, although combat and platforming are not as tightly integrated there, but both are well done, and platforming in particular is amazing, pretty similar to Crackdown 3.
I put on some music and started playing, only for a bit, and then realized 3 hours had shot by without me noticing.
I'm surprised by how poorly the game has reviewed tbh. It's not perfect, but I've been having such a good time just tooling around blowing stuff up.
I'm surprised by how poorly the game has reviewed tbh. It's not perfect, but I've been having such a good time just tooling around blowing stuff up.
Been a long time since I've seen a game this divisive. It's not even that some people are lukewarm on it, they seemingly actively hate it and can't fathom anyone enjoying it.
Personally I'm having a blast. It looks incredible on the One X, specifically the sense of scale. I could see complaints about things not looking great up close, but it's a minor nitpick.
It's the perfect wind down game IMO.
Personally I'm having a blast. It looks incredible on the One X, specifically the sense of scale. I could see complaints about things not looking great up close, but it's a minor nitpick.
It's the perfect wind down game IMO.
Well after playing this a lot this weekend, I question people (like the Jimidiot) and others. I wonder what their agenda is. Is it a 10? No, but a solid 8.
Now I know why so many people are getting away from the reviewers and just watch the game being played on Youtube. Reviewers are a dying breed.
Now I know why so many people are getting away from the reviewers and just watch the game being played on Youtube. Reviewers are a dying breed.
I was wondering if I should play ReCore before my 2 month subscription ends. I guess I should.
This is the Crackdown I remember. I think the reviews are a bit harsh, but we've also had a pretty good jump in game & environment "quality" since Crackdown 1 & 2 were released.
There are really only two things that I have an issue with. First, enemy lock-on is great but I wish I could swap between the actual enemies I'm locked on. Two, driving is horrible. I've barely been in a car yet because of it.
There are really only two things that I have an issue with. First, enemy lock-on is great but I wish I could swap between the actual enemies I'm locked on. Two, driving is horrible. I've barely been in a car yet because of it.
Okay, after reading Jeff Gerstmann's review I think that's accurate. It's his perorgative to give 2 stars - I wouldn't place it that low, but it's a fair assessment of the game without the hyperbole of some of the other reviews I've seen.
You can trigger one by just railing on one faction. I triggered a 3 on infrastructure and decided to just keep killing them because they were throwing so many robots at me so quickly and after killing like 30 or so of the trucks that came in it triggered a city lockdown
Once you level up to level 1 you get your agency vehicle, which drives great. (pressing up on dpad or V on keyboard calls it)
Yeah, I may have raised it from a 7 to a 8
Like I'm at work and thinking about Crackdown when I should be thinking about anthem.
I took a peek at what future unlocks will do and though I can't see myself willingly giving up my launch pad, some of those later grenades look like alot of fun
I am missing one weapon and not sure where to find it. The game is so good, though. It's very unfortunate to see the reception it has received. We don't have enough of these "just fun" games coming out. Has Microsoft said if they are still going to support the game for the long term?
Ngata and Niemand boss fights are a shit show. Was hoping for more than just bullet sponges with waves of trash mobs to artificially inflate difficulty. The latter was particularly egregious since it took place on such a small arena.
Bit of a disappointing climax but I had fun for the most part. Now to clean up the rest of the map of stuff I missed.
Bit of a disappointing climax but I had fun for the most part. Now to clean up the rest of the map of stuff I missed.
Looks like the monkey moonshine counter in my game glitched. It's stuck at 14, despite getting 15. Unsure of how I could fix it.
I think you should. The story is lacking, just like in Crackdown, but it plays beautifully, and all the little corebots have a lot of charm to them.
Husband started it last night and I watched him play it a bit. He was having fun (though the narrators talk a bit much) but I'll take a crack (heh) at it eventually. Gotta finish KH3 and Darksiders 2 before I start anything else.
I'm missing one too.
Just got the Oblivion gun at the top of the science tower. The science tower isn't much of a challenge combat wise. But the platforming is brutal.
I'm missing the one on the bottom row, 2nd from the left. Where do I get it?
I think the Mass Driver is still my favorite gun. It carries a lot of ammo. It blows up and poisons everyone in sight. In fact the explosions rival the rocket launcher.
I couldn't get Atmos to work in PC. And I don't even think the game is Atmos on Xbox. I played for about 5-10 minutes yesterday with my ear to one of my ceiling speakers and heard nothing. I even went to an area where there were sound objects above me and still nothing.
I think this is another Sea of Thieves, where it was reported as being Atmos well before release, but then wound up not supporting the format.
Oh, and come to find out last night that HDR wasn't turned on for the One X version by default! My TV indicates that it's switched to HDR mode when the game boots up, but wasn't actually rendering anything in HDR until I toggled it on in the main menu. Very weird decision.
Makes a world of difference in the effects popping, though. LG B7 OLED.
Makes a world of difference in the effects popping, though. LG B7 OLED.
2 things that stick out to me are the propaganda towers and the boss fights. They are surprisingly fun and the reviews didn't highlight them
I will say that they could've done more with the center of the city. In the sense that a newer open world game would've had stores, side quests npcs etc but the city doesn't have those elements and it's a cool setting so I'm disappointed not to see that.
I will say that they could've done more with the center of the city. In the sense that a newer open world game would've had stores, side quests npcs etc but the city doesn't have those elements and it's a cool setting so I'm disappointed not to see that.
Lockdown is so much fun. I always run out of ammo and have to resort to throwing cars around.
bit off topic: What's the best service to use to host images and link them here?
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I just beat Niemand and damn this game is good. I love how you can just go full Breath of the Wild and skip bosses, I only beat 5 of the 8 before I fought her. Climbing up the buildings to get to the main bosses is just epic, again I got some BotW feelings from figuring out how to scale them.
A lot of people would consider the short length to be a negative but personally I love that this is an open world game that doesn't feel the need to pad itself out with a million sidequests that take 5 years to finish. I'll go back and clean up the rest of the stuff there is to do but I instantly decided to jump into a second playthrough on Legendary as well, I feel like I got pretty brainless on a lot of the combat encounters and want to see if I can do it with more challenge.
I hope MS doesn't take the wrong idea from the mediocre reception. I understand where the complaints are coming from but this absolutely needs to continue as a franchise. This feels like the Knack of the Xbone, it's got "dated" design and isn't that ambitious but it does what it does REALLY well.
A lot of people would consider the short length to be a negative but personally I love that this is an open world game that doesn't feel the need to pad itself out with a million sidequests that take 5 years to finish. I'll go back and clean up the rest of the stuff there is to do but I instantly decided to jump into a second playthrough on Legendary as well, I feel like I got pretty brainless on a lot of the combat encounters and want to see if I can do it with more challenge.
I hope MS doesn't take the wrong idea from the mediocre reception. I understand where the complaints are coming from but this absolutely needs to continue as a franchise. This feels like the Knack of the Xbone, it's got "dated" design and isn't that ambitious but it does what it does REALLY well.
the ngata fight is just pure frustration, there is nowhere to go, mobs everywhere (there is now way to avoid them, you will get hit, always), boss takes way too long to kill and hast a one-hit-kill attack (which ist avoidable).
after two dozen attempts with a level 5 agent and the best weapons in the game...i just dont know what to do.
edit: ok, switched to easy and beat him in 10 seconds. this fights needs to be re-balanced on normal.
after two dozen attempts with a level 5 agent and the best weapons in the game...i just dont know what to do.
edit: ok, switched to easy and beat him in 10 seconds. this fights needs to be re-balanced on normal.
Having much more fun solo. Will try more co op soon, but there was weird lag the first time that threw the experience off a little.