@Hussein Uddin: What price did you find it for? PlayAsia looks to be pricing it ridiculously like they are with the imported game. Another site I found had it at $528.
No Dragon*Con option? It had gaming (computer, board, card and live action) as well as an MMO track and a track talking about online issues. Where's the love?
Wait, wait, Kotaku, you put up like 3 pictures of the same cosplaying Lightning but NO love for the Boss? Or Vyse? Or Heat and Serph?
For shame Kotaku...for shame...
That said, TGS wins...however the one that SHOULD win is Blizzcon (and I HATE Blizzard and WoW with fiery passions..) simply because of the Dyrider (sp?) chick that won the costume contest over there is a thousand badasses. (I don't think you fellas seen it, follow Kaybabakin's link)
Although I SEVERELY doubt these pictures are the best that TGS can muster. For now, TGS wins.
@KayBabakin: Yep, I already mentioned it, but Kotaku never showed the better of the Blizzcon costumes. The Japanese easily beat everyone, except for the die-hard blizzard fans.
@KillerBee: I dunno, you should check out Sakura-con in the US. There's some pretty awesome American cosplayers there, that is if you can get passed the fact that the American girls are all much chunkier than the Japanese girls.
@incubushead: I don't know man. Looking through the Sakura Con images in this link, I am still going to say TGS wins by a large margin. Besides, when you have even one Heath Ledger Joker at your Con, it brings your average WAY down. Also, it should be noted that I don't mind a little chunk on a woman, as long as said chunk is sexy chunk....like Beyonce mmmmmm.
@KillerBee: Japan is numba one in cosplay. the attention to detail in some of the cosplayers is astounding. there are a handful of good US cosplayers....
@KillerBee: Well I like variety, so I'll take the amazing Boomer, TF2 crew, Ratchet, and others from PAX over the gaggle of Square-Enixicity that is TGS.
@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.
@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?
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.
@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.
@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.
@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!
@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.
@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.
@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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She's just too damn HOT!!
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*looks at voting results*
Looks like that's a lot of crapiums.
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For shame Kotaku...for shame...
That said, TGS wins...however the one that SHOULD win is Blizzcon (and I HATE Blizzard and WoW with fiery passions..) simply because of the Dyrider (sp?) chick that won the costume contest over there is a thousand badasses. (I don't think you fellas seen it, follow Kaybabakin's link)
Although I SEVERELY doubt these pictures are the best that TGS can muster. For now, TGS wins.
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Theres an option missing, which is the one that gets my vote: "Wherever Omi Gibson goes!"
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Fourth, most definitely fourth..
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http://us.blizzard.com/blizzcon/photogalleries/index.xml?rhtml=y
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Quite a few that put even the Tokyo stuff to shame.
[EDIT] see if I can get the linking to work for easy clicky-clicky: [us.blizzard.com]
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I dunno, there are some DIE HARD japanese fans...
It all comes down to who wants it bad enough, who has the most skill and talent, both West and East got them in abundance.
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with teh key word being "HANDFUL".
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What?
Maybe to you...but not to others.
09/29/09
I'll bet you, this is gonna be free-roaming and superpowers all over again...
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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.
09/29/09
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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But that's exactly why people like it!
09/29/09
"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?
09/29/09
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.
09/29/09
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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Apparently you care, since you took the time to post this comment.
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...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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Very excited about that mag grenade. Can't wait to get my hands on this!
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i gave up around 450. buddy of mine however got all 500. @.@
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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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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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It was under the bridge! You magnificent bastard!!
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ahhh yes... always under the bridge..