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NeoAkira
09/29/09

In reply to Crackdown 2 Campaign: Mutants, Revolutionaries and Explosions
If this is anything like the first game, it'll be complete shit.
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Vecha: One more Month
09/29/09

@NeoAkira:

What?

Maybe to you...but not to others.
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D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*
09/29/09

@NeoAkira: I know right... i mean just look at the title for one thing.. they just slapped a big 2 behind it and called it a day...

I'll bet you, this is gonna be free-roaming and superpowers all over again...
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NeoAkira
09/29/09

@Vecha: Tired of America's Solution to Health Care.:

It could be the glitchy combat system of the game, or the fact that you had to pay via DLC to unlock some of the items, or it could be the generically boring game that just has you run around with super powers and smash things.

I hope these reasons are more then enough for you, my highness.
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Vecha: One more Month
09/29/09

@NeoAkira:

They sure are.

And I'm not acting like the asshole, you are.

You and your High Horse to classify a game as "shit", because you didn't like it.

There are many people who did enjoy the game despite the Halo 3 Beta.
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NeVeRMoRe666
09/29/09

@NeoAkira: " that just has you run around with super powers and smash things.

But that's exactly why people like it!
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NeoAkira
09/29/09

@Vecha: Tired of America's Solution to Health Care.:

"And I'm not acting like the asshole, you are."

Oh, aren't you the one questioning MY OPINION?

"There are many people who did enjoy the game despite the Halo 3 Beta"

what?
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Vecha: One more Month
09/29/09

@NeoAkira:

I'm not questioning your opinion...

I am questioning your "way" of suggesting your opinion...which is in a very Troll-like manner...which brings me to why I said,

"There are many people who did enjoy the game despite the Halo 3 Beta"

I said it...to point out that maybe, just maybe an unjustified sweeping notion that the game is "shit" could appear to be full of "shit."

You could have easily made a better post.
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alexkidd
09/29/09

@NeoAkira:
not me. you sound like a ps3 fanboy more than someone who actually had an issue with the game. the DLC was not built into the disc. combat was fast furious and explosions were glorious.
You didn't like it? who cares?
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NeoAkira
09/29/09

@alexkidd:

Apparently you care, since you took the time to post this comment.
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jgibson75
09/29/09

In reply to Crackdown 2 Campaign: Mutants, Revolutionaries and Explosions
I can't wait. I really had little hope that they would release a Crackdown 2, but my friends and I loved the first game. So I'm overjoyed that they are making a sequel, and really beefing up the multiplayer as well.
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Simes
09/29/09

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"Ruffian Games wanted to make sure that they player feels like they're no longer the most powerful thing in the city."

...and one of the best things about Crackdown disappears.

I'm getting a bit bored of games that talk about being the ultimate badass and utterly fail to deliver on that promise.
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Yossarian
09/29/09

@Simes: Yeah, I kinda liked kicking ass.
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Archaotic
09/29/09

@Yossarian: Best part of the game was the fact that you were literally superior to any one being in the city. No matter who it was, if you got them alone, they were fucked. The last boss died in one hit when I kicked him off the side of the little building he hides in. So badass.
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SpaceBat
09/29/09

@Archaotic: True that. The best part about any game with RPG-like elements of levelling up is that in the end you're basically an unstoppable force of gruesome violence. Taking that away isn't smart.
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DaveKap
09/29/09

@Simes: I disagree. The entire game was easy-mode, even in hard mode. It'll be nice to get a challenge. Then if I want to feel as Godly as I did in the original, I can just pop out Keys to the City 2.0 and turn on invincibility or turn off mutants. Invincibility was in the original and turning gangs on and off was there as well, so I don't see why that wouldn't be an available feature in the new game as well.

Very excited about that mag grenade. Can't wait to get my hands on this!
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ithyphallus, bonks morrigan
09/29/09

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is there a tracking system for the orbs you got? so getting those 500 orbs won't be a pain?

i gave up around 450. buddy of mine however got all 500. @.@
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Archaotic
09/29/09

@ithyphallus, lazy beareaucrat: They should take inspiration from inFAMOUS and let the player get access to some sort of "orb sense" power that'll clue them into the general locations of nearby orbs.
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ithyphallus, bonks morrigan
09/29/09

@Archaotic: that was from crackdown 1 fyi (a lot of things from infamous were) with an iconic orb sound. im referring to a map of some sort that will note the locations of where you got your orbs, leading you to map locations void of tiny dots. a retrograde tracking system.

assassin's creed had the same issue where i think a piano sound bite signaled a flag was nearby, but i've heard the sound where there were no flags around. the map didn't indicate where you picked up your flags leaving you to roam every inch of the kingdom and cities .

needless to say i gave up on that too with only 1 flag left in the kingdom.
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Archaotic
09/29/09

@ithyphallus, lazy beareaucrat: I'm not talking about the sound, I'm talking about making an orb indicator appear on the minimap when you hit a button. That's what the game needs.

OR when you beat the game, all of the orbs you haven't found yet appear on the full-size map and you can toggle them on and off. I have all of the Blast Shards in inFAMOUS but ONE, and I just can't friggin' find the damn thing. :[
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D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*
09/29/09

@Archaotic: It's under the brigde.. or at least mine was.
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(Human) Gyaruson
09/29/09

@D-K, Oh sheeple..:
It was under the bridge! You magnificent bastard!!
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D-K, stubbed his toe..*swears*
09/29/09

@(Human) Gyaruson: *gloats*

ahhh yes... always under the bridge..
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Ice-nine froze my baby
09/29/09

In reply to Crackdown 2 Campaign: Mutants, Revolutionaries and Explosions
I just hope they don't metal up the soundtrack like all the other sandbox games try to do. Crackdown had a pretty unique techno soundtrack that you rarely hear in any type of game.
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Archaotic
09/29/09

@Ice-nine froze my baby: "Metal up the soundtrack"? GTA4 and Saints Row 2 were full of hip hop and inFamous had a very unique soundtrack. I don't know of any sandbox games with a metal soundtrack.
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SteamPunkJin
09/29/09

@Archaotic: GTAIV and Saints Row 2 were both full of many different kinds of music, including techno and metal.
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Archaotic
09/29/09

@SteamPunkJin: Yeah, they had SOME metal in them, but SR2's focus was definitely hip-hop, and GTA4 only had one metal station with like 4 hip-hop stations.

@Endzeit: I don't think that counts since that's the entire point... :P
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Madeira
09/29/09

@Ice-nine froze my baby: As long as that main/pause menu loop is retired, I'm fine with any change to the soundtrack. I never, ever want to hear that damn loop again. That was no Battletoads pause menu beat- that never gets old. The Crackdown loop is up there with the most diabolical, sanity-destroying sounds in any game, ever.
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InsidiousTuna
09/29/09

@Ice-nine froze my baby: Crackdown 1 had Christian Rap in it. What are you on about?
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(Human) Gyaruson
09/29/09

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No. Oh God, no. No more agility orbs. Those things damn-near killed me with the first Crackdown. I am still at, and have been for over a year, 499 Agility Orbs. I ran through the city for hours and hours with my surround sound on high just listening for the sound, but I have still not found it.

500 new Agility Orbs just means 500 more headaches for ol' Gyaruson...
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TheMightyEthan
09/29/09

@(Human) Gyaruson: I am stuck at 498, after two years of Crackdown. They *really* need some kind of tracking system, so you can know which orbs you've already gotten.
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Yossarian
09/29/09

@(Human) Gyaruson: @TheMightyEtha: Good news! Today I invented this cool contraption called "Google". It allows you to put in keywords such as "crackdown" "orb", and "map", and then it find people who are crazy enough to have mapped the location of every single one!

=)

[www.candiedskull.com]

Happy hunting
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DragonYen
09/29/09

@TheMightyEthan: Find map online, use printer, get pen... instant tracking system. I guess I wouldn't mind an in-game system, but I have all of the agility and hidden orbs from the first game, so I guess it wasn't a huge deal for me to find them in the first game.
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DragonYen
09/29/09

@Yossarian: How did I not see this on my first look through.
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(Human) Gyaruson
09/29/09

@Yossarian: Yeah, the giant flaw with that is that I only have one left, and there's no way to see from the map which one it is. I'm not gonna play a game I haven't touched in years just for one more Orb and 50 lousy Achievement points. Not when I have The Beatles: RB, ODST and RB2 occupying my time.
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TheMightyEthan
09/29/09

@DragonYen and @Yossarian: Haha, pen-and-paper tracking systems work great if you start from the beginning like that, but when you pick up 360 of the 500 orbs by just coming across them while playing, it makes it difficult when using the map to know if you already got that orb or if you just can't quite find it cause it's under an awning or whatever.
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Archaotic
09/29/09

In reply to Crackdown 2 Campaign: Mutants, Revolutionaries and Explosions
Hrm...I'm not sure I like the thought of them making the game harder (removing safe zones, designing enemies that can chase the player), especially if your hero isn't any more powerful than in the original. Seems like they're almost forcing you to play co-op if you want to progress.

I'm still looking forward to it, but my stance on the game is growing increasingly wary as time goes on. They couldn't even give us ONE new superpower? =/
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Pult|Ost - Fortune Hunter Edition
09/29/09

@Archaotic: Paid DLC.
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Archaotic
09/29/09

@Pult|Ost - Fortune Hunter Edition: Frankly, I really wouldn't put it past Microsoft.
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SlinkyGuy - Loves Borderlands to death!
09/29/09

@Archaotic: Well what superpower would that be exactly then?

Heat vision?

I think they covered all the necessary skills for a super soldier in a game like Crackdown. Surely there can't be any more?
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Archaotic
09/29/09

@SlinkyGuy - So British, I piss tea and poop scones.: Telekinesis? Flying? The ability to explode people's heads with the power of one's mind? Something more interesting than 'lolz I am super soldier with guns and stuff'?
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SlinkyGuy - Loves Borderlands to death!
09/29/09

@Archaotic: Touché on the telekinesis part but flying? That sounds more like a fantasy power if you ask me, I can try to imagine them flying but I get images of the models sticking their arms out in front of their bodies and flying around like Superman or they're just basically flapping their arms to fly.

Now if it was a high-tech gadget of the sort, then I'd totally go with that. It makes a bit more sense that way.
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Archaotic
09/29/09

@SlinkyGuy - So British, I piss tea and poop scones.: Like a jetpack or a portable levitation device.
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SlinkyGuy - Loves Borderlands to death!
09/29/09

@Archaotic: There we go, now we're making sense.
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(Human) Gyaruson
09/29/09

@SlinkyGuy - So British, I piss tea and poop scones.: Arch: How bout a jetpack or levitation device?
SlinkyGuy: Now we're making sense.

Lols. Only in a video game forum can those two comments coincide and no one bats an eye. God I love video games ^_^
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SigmundTheSeaMonster
09/29/09

In reply to Crackdown 2 Campaign: Mutants, Revolutionaries and Explosions
I have this feeling my tendinitis will return with this title...
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Sarcasmancer
09/26/09

In reply to Hands-On With Crackdown 2's Tribes-Like Multiplayer
I made an effort with the original Crackdown, but my experience was crippled by the fact that I had played Prototype immediately before it. By comparison, Crackdown's pace (in terms of available super powers and character progression) seemed ludicrously slow. Hopefully you won't have to spend hours grinding to get to the good stuff in the sequel.
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Michael Dukakis
09/25/09

In reply to Crackdown 2 Multiplayer Gameplay
Good to see we're not having a Crackdown on puns!
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Yossarian
09/25/09

@Michael Dukakis - Mmm... puns!: Don't jump to any conclusions here. There's plenty of time for some of Crecente's agents to climb all over this and shut it down.
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Scazza
09/25/09

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Wow, colour me sad. That looks like a complete snoozefest. I loved crackdown, but this looks to be the most unpolished tacked on MP game ive ever seen. Notice how they just randomly die, it looks very much "unfun"

I know its early, but i really really hope they clean this up and make it much better.
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Kobun
09/25/09

@Scazza: Because the first Crackdown was all about multiplayer, right? Relax, this is hardly the focus of the game no more than it will be in Bioshock 2.
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Yossarian
09/25/09

@Kobun: I'm currently breathing into a bag and trying to suppress my internet rage.

j/k

kinda.

It is kind of lame, though. Which doesn't matter, because just like Bioshock, I'll be buying it the first day and loving it for the single player and the uniquely realized worlds.
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Scazza
09/25/09

@Kobun: Yeah, I know the first one had only co-op, and i hope that part of the game is good, but lets be real, nowadays when you finish a short singleplayer game, you get your worth out of the game playing online. if its shit, it dosn't feel as good.
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Yossarian
09/25/09

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Can we get all the "it ain't like Tribes" 'tards into this thread to watch this now, please?
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shouryuuken
09/25/09

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looks like a lot of fun, i cant wait for this.
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Kobun
09/25/09

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Yes! The voice is back! Though, it's kinda weird for the narrator to return same as before seeing as he betrayed you and stuff.
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Yossarian
09/25/09

@Kobun: Think of him as Glados, just business, ya know? No hard feelings?

Now that he's back on your side we can all have cake once you've cleaned up the city.

Again.
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[ZTF]Auspiciously Liminal
09/25/09

@Kobun: OMG SPOILERS RRRAGE
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InsidiousTuna
09/25/09

@[ZTF]Is my Name: It's fucking Crackdown, man. No story. He didn't betray you, you're a faceless killing machine. In the beginning of the game, the nameless narrator tells you you're gonna go murder the fuck out of the city's criminals. At the end, he says that the government supplied all the criminals in order to test out your ability to murder the fuck out of them, and then says that they're gonna use your murdering-the-fuck-out-of-people... skills to take over the world. Barely any plot at all. If you'd played the game, you'd know.
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[ZTF]Auspiciously Liminal
09/25/09

@InsidiousTuna: I was kidding. I have played the game to completion. I thought my supercaps would've given it away.
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InsidiousTuna
09/25/09

@[ZTF]Is my Name: You never know with some of the dunderheads that frequent this site.
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[ZTF]Auspiciously Liminal
09/25/09

@InsidiousTuna: Exactly my thinking. Thought I'd post it and look as stupid as possible to get it out of the way.
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MexN00B
09/25/09

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Looks much better than Crackdown 1 but it lacks something... I just can't explain it...
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Yossarian
09/25/09

@MexN00B: There's no traffic or people.
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Yossarian
09/25/09

@MexN00B: ffs... thanks for adding the last idiotic bit at the end... I replied thinking this was a serious comment.
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MexN00B
09/25/09

@Yossarian: eh sorry i was making it serious.. but i just had to add that D:
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Yossarian
09/25/09

@MexN00B: No worries. Idiotic was a strong word.

I would have found it funny except that I had actually replied with a serious thought, and was annoyed when your edit changed the entire tone =)
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