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We need to talk about Crackdown 3's visuals
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The games that everyone is comparing to are great, not lying or being sarcastic, but can you do this?
Checkmate
lol thats what that gif reminds me of.
Ugh that's not a good look. Thankfully for Microsoft, next gen is right around the corner. Hopefully their first party rebounds in a big way.
All these "last gen" comments... I'd love to play crackdown 1 on whatever suped up 360s you guys had... Cause I just booted it up on back compat- and it doesn't look like this at all.
This game isnt going to win any awards for visuals, but it looks fine for what it is...
This game isnt going to win any awards for visuals, but it looks fine for what it is...
Honestly, the most disappointing aspect of the visuals for me are the explosions. It's not that they're bad; they're just completely unremarkable for a game series known for blowing stuff up. The explosions here just look like average video game VFX - not good, not bad - just serviceable.
Despite shortcomings in many other areas, both Just Cause 3 and 4 have far more impressive and satisfying explosions. Crackdown 3 may end up playing far better than either of those games, but the visual spectacle of the chaos is really underwhelming.
Despite shortcomings in many other areas, both Just Cause 3 and 4 have far more impressive and satisfying explosions. Crackdown 3 may end up playing far better than either of those games, but the visual spectacle of the chaos is really underwhelming.
Now it's a bullshot already. lol
Then this has to be a bullgif.
As much as I appreciate these games are all doing different things (granted Crackdowns destruction is completely pared back in its SP campaign), it is still somewhat strange that even a 5-year-old open-world launch window title like InFamous looks so much better, and I'd argue the same for Sunset Overdrive too. And CD3 has been in development for how many years by a team of how many people?
Whilst Crackdown as a franchise has never exactly been much of a looker, it is still somewhat perplexing this new title doesn't look far better than it does. The assumption was that the delay(s) would lend to a much better looking and far more polished title, but that doesn't seem to have been the case (unless things drastically change by release day). Like with Sea of Thieves and its lack of content, you're sort of left wondering why the game has taken as long as it has to develop. Presumably, it had a pretty troubled development, and the cloud-based R&D and testing also complicated things.
Still, the downgrade to the visuals, destruction, world size, physics etc might not necessarily mean the game itself isn't more fun. Despite the somewhat muted previews, the jury is still out on that front. I guess we'll have to wait for reviews to get a better idea of how it plays or just how good it is or isn't, but I'll be trying it either way thanks to Game Pass.
The art style is alright. At times it can actually look pretty decent, especially when looking out over the city at night. The poor animations, un-detailed and un-populated world, and flat geometry look to be problems most of the time, though.
I look forward to giving the game a run on Game Pass, but I don't expect too much out of it. That's part of the beauty of GP, though.
I look forward to giving the game a run on Game Pass, but I don't expect too much out of it. That's part of the beauty of GP, though.
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I don't know what kinda mouth breathing neckbeard can look at that footage and not want to play it.. I honestly feel bad for these people.
Crackdown 3 is receiving so much undeserved hate around here it's disgusting.
Crackdown 3 is receiving so much undeserved hate around here it's disgusting.
yeah but wouldn't be wiser to just straight up cancel it like they did with Scalebound and invest that money somewhere else?
It's just sad that we can not expect quality games from Microsoft if it's not Gears of War, Halo or Forza.
I really really hope to get quality games from them next gen onwards.
I'm serious, I've never seen one. Usually people love to make threads for cases where they disagree with the metascore. Era in general is quite hostile to review sites.
Whats wrong with this one from the OP? This is from this E3.
Disgusting, simplistic and last gen spring to mind.
It will never end because we have some low res potato cam gifs of an exploding building from a tech demo vs 4K screenshots of an actual finished game
When games are in development, often early footage shown from them is of higher quality than it is towards the end of development when the reality of said game needing to be optimized for underpowered consoles starts to set in.
Did you have any other questions, OP?
Did you have any other questions, OP?
It has a dated (early last gen) visual aesthetic. I was trolled in another thread for sharing this opinion, but it turns out I'm not the only one who feels this way.
From the GameSpot preview video:
Yeah I know. It's still dumb though. It was certainly a dumb thing to advertise and then not deliver on.
Leaving aside the MP destruction effects, I think Crackdown 3 is visually pretty solid and clean looking. I am puzzled by the lack of shadows in the PC footage we've been seeing. I assume it's a bug.
If you told me it was a late gen 360 game running at 4k, I would believe you. It's really not a looker but it looks fun so meh.
Its great that if you feel validated by others sharing your opinion, but...
I can look at crackdown 1 and crackdown 3 played side by side and tear that opinion apart.
I mean, it's cell shaded... Which a lot of games were last gen- but that's not a gen specific artstyle.
Here's some early last gen "open world" for comparison
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Quote me: Crackdown 3 will do very well on GP. Probably 3 to 4 million players in a month or so. It'll probably sell more than most here expect it to and be a successful title for Microsoft. You'll read alot of posts where "the reviews were too harsh. The game was judged unfairly". All-in-all, Crackdown 3 will be at least a million+ seller despite metacritic.
Soon after you'll find threads that toss Crackdown 3 in with other games from Microsoft that were reviewed harshly on meta (SoT, SoD, etc) but will do great numbers and be successful nonetheless. But because meta didnt say so, Crackdown 3 will be labeled as a sub par game that should be forgotten.
Yeah... Sort of. Those initial videos are not really representative of what will actually be in the game.
I guess my point is, Crackdown is not a series I think of when I think PvP and destruction. But they doubled down on those things. It strikes me as odd.
There footage on the full extent of the destruction? Why sort of?
Across the whole city? I thought the current game has much smaller, destructible arenas instead. Can you link me a video?
Some of y'all are brutal. :P
It doesn't look that bad, but it won't win and visual awards. Still, I'd be interested to hear how it is. I was never really a big Crackdown guy, but if it works out for Xbox this year, more power to them.
It doesn't look that bad, but it won't win and visual awards. Still, I'd be interested to hear how it is. I was never really a big Crackdown guy, but if it works out for Xbox this year, more power to them.
You said sort of destruction. I'm asking you what footage has ever shown the full scope of destruction to know that it was sort of delivered?
Except I firmly believe what I posted. That showed far more promise and this is ...looking poor.
They actually released some early official screens too.
Here's how those fare versus the most recent screens (Jan 19 and E3 2018).
Or maybe some people will just not like it? There are plenty of games that sell great that people don't like. It happens.
I've never seen anyone create a new thread for the purpose of presenting a metacritic score as proof that a game is bad. Users here are capable of explaining for themselves why they like a game or not.
Ha, I love the look of the game and especially thought the latest gameplay previews looked great. Looks like a current-gen Crackdown game that is incredibly colorful at times and immensely fun to play, not sure what folks were expecting or why anyone would think the visual design choices would move away from looking like and continuing the trend of the Crackdown series.
I would hope with these visuals its at least True 4K/60fps on the X right?
4K/30fps for the SP campaign, but I believe the MP might be 4K/60fps, though I'm not entirely sure.
But?
Go right ahead. Do share your opinion on the animations as well - it is one of the most important features in all the things visual aesthetic entails.
I love the cell shaded look in games that get it right.
Yea, I love the art style, the game looks great. Sumo really managed to pull it together.I love it - especially the art style. The particle effects look amazing and the game in general looks super crisp thanks to its native 4K image quality.
You feeling validated by the opinions of others doesn't change the fact that you're opinion that it looks like an early 360 games doesn't stand up to the simple scrutiny of putting it side by side with early 360 games.
My opinion of the visuals and the animations are similar- not great, but servicable - certainly won't prevent me from enjoying the game
All things considered - visually, CD3 sits amongst its contemporaries in a spot similar to where CD1 sat amongst its contemporaries.
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