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Just Cause 4 has gone gold (Release date December 4th)

Marcus Brutalius

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The "no open world game has physics like Botw" crowd should definitely check out some of the videos on youtube showing what you can do in JC4.

I didn't like Just Cause 3, but the new stuff in JC4 like calling in a ship via supply drop and transforming it into a floating balloon boat almost sold me on the game. Feels like 2 gens ahead of what you can do with physics in Botw.
 
Grand Galvantula

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also anybody complaining about performance issues should know that according to Jim Sterling, Square-Enix meddled excessively with Just Cause 3 to the point that it started as a F2P game (as seen in its earliest screenshot leaks) and had to be converted to a $60 game mid-development, which would explain the performance issues. Avalanche has been surprisingly upfront about the problems, even highlighting an article that calls attention to them in one of their recent bulletin videos



I'm still waiting on launch impressions before I buy, but it looks like it fixes all the issues I had with JC3.
 
BobLoblaw

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Why do they keep making these games without co-op? I'm never gonna buy them until they do. :|
 
DaciaJC

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NarohDethan said:
I dont know whats more depressing, that someone looked at that cutscene and approved it, or the thought that nobody reviewed it.
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Heh, that gif uses trailer footage with the stuttering added on top. But apparently the game itself wasn't too far off at times, especially when a lot of explosions were going on.

SapientWolf said:
Honestly, what I really want them to do is reskin Mercenaries and just call it Just Cause.
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I've been wanting literally this for years now. Still waiting, sadly.
 
Laserbeam

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it kind of hurts me how little I care about this considering how into 2 I was.

After trying 3 and not really digging it, I think I'm done unless this gets some really positive reviews and such.
 
Bwooduhs

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Curious about this, like most people I loved 2 but 3 never truly grabbed me.

Will be interesting to see how I feel about this considering it's coming right after Odyssey and Red Dead.
 
BobLoblaw

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TheBeardedOne said:
Meanwhile I'm glad there isn't co-op.
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I guess it's ok that you don't have anyone to play with, but for people that do, it's a glaring omission. Playing a game like this, who gives a shit about that awesome stunt you just pulled off if your friend can't witness it (or even better, help plan it)?
 
TheBeardedOne

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BobLoblaw said:
I guess it's ok that you don't have anyone to play with, but for people that do, it's a glaring omission. Playing a game like this, who gives a shit about that awesome stunt you just pulled off if your friend can't witness it (or even better, help plan it)?
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True, to some degree, but some people just don't want to play with others or like co-op.
 
BobLoblaw

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TheBeardedOne said:
True, to some degree, but some people just don't want to play with others or like co-op.
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Drop-in co-op exists. I'm not saying make it mandatory. Almost no game does that anymore. Just having the option to plan out a series of elaborate events with a friend and then nail the payoff is just too good to ignore.
 
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Marcus Brutalius said:
The "no open world game has physics like Botw" crowd should definitely check out some of the videos on youtube showing what you can do in JC4.

I didn't like Just Cause 3, but the new stuff in JC4 like calling in a ship via supply drop and transforming it into a floating balloon boat almost sold me on the game. Feels like 2 gens ahead of what you can do with physics in Botw.
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Eh JC just gives more tools with physics on for you to mess with but nothing really impressive

Zelda BOTW is pretty impressive so much stuff you can do and this was all done on Wii U hardware
 
vypek

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I'm not buying until I know how the upgrade system works. If it's like 3 I won't bother at all. Like 2 and I'll consider it even if this game is reminisicent of a slightly updated JC3
 
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After gigantic messed on PS4 at launch day i will just keep my eye on it and hopefully 33% sales drop like Tomb Raider come soon enough.
 
Grand Galvantula

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vypek said:
I'm not buying until I know how the upgrade system works. If it's like 3 I won't bother at all. Like 2 and I'll consider it even if this game is reminisicent of a slightly updated JC3
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Supposedly it involves doing side quests for various people, including but not limited to stuff as simple as stunt jumps. It doesn't sound like it's getting obnoxiously-high scores in races and activities anymore.
 
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Grand Galvantula said:
Supposedly it involves doing side quests for various people, including but not limited to stuff as simple as stunt jumps. It doesn't sound like it's getting obnoxiously-high scores in races and activities anymore.
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Thank you. I don't like it as much as Just Cause 2 but that sounds faaaaaar more tolerable than the dozens of races and activity mini games. I couldn't find the info in any preview video I saw.
 
Tauntaun

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JC3 is sitting in steam backlog, I loved 2 but I haven't had a chance to try out 3 and hearing about how mixed it is I probably wont get to it for a while.
 

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Jc3 was not bad

The problem is that when you start something fun, the game would freeze/crash/drop frames.

It took away a lot of the fun. I dont know how is nowadays, but both pc and ps4 were pretty bad back in the day
 
Defect

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I loved Just Cause 3 even on OG Xbone. Can't wait for more grapple hook shenanigans.
 
giallo

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They dropped the ball hard on jc3 with no patches to fix anything nope not happening again. Not even an update on why they didn't do it. But they kept their promises on releasing the dlcs. Go f yourself! Never been so disappointed in paying full price for a game during launch.
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Yup. Such a bad look on Avalanche's part.

I'm not touching this one for months. I'll see how it all shakes out, performance-wise. I got burned hard on Just Cause 3.
 
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Til this day, one of my favorite gaming related gifs of all time. Gold doesn't meant what it did way back when anymore. It's more a symbolic act of hey we're pressing discs and folks will get to play what we busted our tails for for the past X amount of years.
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The only game I've ever owned that got worse with every patch. It was unbelievable.
 
matrix-cat

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This game has one hell of an uphill battle, with Just Cause 3 having been so infamously bad on consoles and the knowledge that Square Enix games drop to half price within like two months of launch.
 
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No co-op, no buy. People have been asking for it for years and it's obvious why. There's no engrossing story or anything, it's just a sandbox game with cool physics and big explosions. I liked 2, but the best parts about it were showing it to a friend or playing the ridiculous multiplayer mod. The direction of this franchise makes no sense to me.

For people who do like it the way it is, I hope you get decent performance.
 
Genetrik

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To me the biggest issue with 3 were not the performance issues but the design decision to tie progression to annyoing mini challenges. That was the REAL dealbreaker. At least to me.
Really hope 4 will deliver as I loved 1 and 2.
 
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Zedelima said:
Jc3 was not bad

The problem is that when you start something fun, the game would freeze/crash/drop frames.

It took away a lot of the fun. I dont know how is nowadays, but both pc and ps4 were pretty bad back in the day
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I played through the PC version at launch and would say it was mostly fine. It was just more demanding on the CPU side than anticipated, the official minimum and recommended amounts of RAM are both 8GB despite the game demanding more than that after a while, and the implementation of SMAA leaves a lot to be desired.
 
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WhiteNovember

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Huge fan of Jc2, but Jc3 didn't catch. One of the reason was the poor technical performance. I am surprised, that the game already comes out. Barely heard anything about it and iirc, it was just recently announced..
 
hydruxo

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JC3 still runs like shit on PS4 so I have no faith in it being any better in JC4
 
S1kkZ

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they still have not shown a single second of console footage. after jc3, thats all i need to know.
 
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Genetrik said:
To me the biggest issue with 3 were not the performance issues but the design decision to tie progression to annyoing mini challenges. That was the REAL dealbreaker. At least to me.
Really hope 4 will deliver as I loved 1 and 2.
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The design choices were the biggest disappointment to me as well. Even without ignoring the performance issues, I was still more bothered by choices they made for the game.
 
Marcus Brutalius

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apeAsnake said:
Eh JC just gives more tools with physics on for you to mess with but nothing really impressive

Zelda BOTW is pretty impressive so much stuff you can do and this was all done on Wii U hardware
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OK, if it makes you happy. Sometimes I feel that people have a different definition of the term "physics". GTAV on 360/PS3 is a much bigger physics simulation than anything you can find in Botw.
 
Snkfanatic

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I want to be hyped I really do. I loved 2 but 3 ruined it for me....one of the first and biggest digital gaming preorder regrets I have. I will wait and see what DF or impressions say about performance before considering it.
 
ApeEscaper

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Marcus Brutalius said:
OK, if it makes you happy. Sometimes I feel that people have a different definition of the term "physics". GTAV on 360/PS3 is a much bigger physics simulation than anything you can find in Botw.
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Nah more does not mean better, more people are impressed with BOTW physics as expected, lots of new physics and ways people have not done before or seen in a open world game. Physics in GTA, JC has been done before nothing new or impressive
 
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