Pre-alpha doesn't constitute a game yet, that's a stage of development prototyping, engine and system testing. This is when developers are messing with technology, seeing what works, what doesn't, what can be done and what can't. It's more or less a glorified sandbox of prototype implementation and testing.This is the point that I'm making , he said this was "never the game" but it clearly was gameplay footage & even labeled as so.
About the cloud stuff most people don't understand that it's a process , today it's using the cloud to train the models for what can be ran on the consoles of tomorrow.
No one ever said destruction was in single player, it's actually been maintained since day one that it's not and for very specific reasons. You're supposed to be saving the city; not destroying it, not to mention if you could level the city it could be game breaking. If you blow up the whole city what are you supposed to do?When a game is shown off and is played, and it says it's in pre-alpha stage, there is a certain expectation that forms.
I don't think this was misadvertisement, because games change through development, but the way the cloud was hyped and emphasis on destructibility, and then have it not make it into single player, is a huge let down and indeed a huge downgrade from where they raised people's expectations to.
The multiplayer destruction looks awkward as well. Like a giant brittle styrofoam cage instead of real structured with intricate bits and supports tumbling down (also no debris).
I played a bit of the old crackdown last night, it's not too bad. This game looks like that but with a fresh coat of paint and a few extra bells and whistles.
I don't see this game making anyone go get an Xbox. I also don't see anyone besides the most hardcore crackdown or Xbox fans rushing to defend this game. It looks like a very average but fun affair.
Awesome destruction was likely the thing that was going to set it apart and bring it into AAA territory, but instead it ended up being used in a half baked multiplayer mode and the singleplayer looks like an upgraded x360 game, certainly not a current/next gen title. Just my opinion (overwhelmingly shared on the internet).
Pre-alpha doesn't constitute a game yet, that's a stage of development prototyping, engine and system testing. This is when developers are messing with technology, seeing what works, what doesn't, what can be done and what can't. It's more or less a glorified sandbox of prototype implementation and testing.
What was shown in 2015 isn't something special, they could implement that now if they so choose but you can't exactly build a game from that not to mention it's computationally wasteful. Development is a balancing act of capability versus viability, what something is capable of doesn't mean it's the most viable and that's exactly what we've seen here.
All I can do is provide context, you can think whatever you want but I wouldn't consider anything in actual pre-alpha stages as constituting a game.There is nothing that you can say to change the fact that it was shown as gameplay , you can not say "this was never the game" when it was clearly the game. things changed but when it was shown that was the game.
Unless it's some sort of abstract Siggraph demo, these companies should not be showing stuff that cannot be realistically achieved.
It seems pretty clear that Microsoft needed at some point to sell an idea (cloud computing) as hopefully a way of pushing product (xboxes) and did so using an existing brand (crackdown). After all this development time has that led to any real and revolutionary benefits? No.
It's siiiiiiick, bro!Game looks like it’s going to be a blast to play. I know I have been looking forward to this and can’t wait to play the full game.
Not really concerned about the downgrade in the visuals just as long as the gameplay is tight.
You guys are in for a surprise when this game releases. Even more so when you find out how many players are on.Such a divisive game this is turning out to be. I have previously stated I bought a 360 primarily for the first game and it was so good. The second was shite.
This just looks sort of "meh" and they have totally botched the development, how can it take 4+ years to create this game? MS have some work to do in case of exclusives for next gen.
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It's not downgraded, that was never the game.
They already discussed this in detail, this was a proof of concept not really attached to anything, this was the peak of what could be done. They had to build an actual game out of this though, they had to leverage the amount of acceptable compute usage for the game to allocate from the cloud, they had to look at the scope of the world, what was in it and what kind of gametype could be formed from it. I mean as cool as this looks a bunch of obstructive rubble everywhere doesn't make for a fun game, it makes for a bunch of shit you're going to get stuck on, in and frustrated with.
Wow. Didn't realize that this game was being worked on as early as 2015.
When a game is shown off and is played, and it says it's in pre-alpha stage, there is a certain expectation that forms.
Crackdown 3 downgrade
Anthem downgrade
The narrative surrounding the Crackdown 3 downgrade and the Anthem downgrades are quite different.
The Crackdown 3 downgrade was just a "proof of concept" but with Anthem they LIED to us.
This is why I cant take any outrage over "downgrades" seriously, it happens all the time but people only get outraged over it when its a game they dont like.
This is one of the problems, some people like yourself have expectations based around something that was never supposed to happen whatsoever.
Apparently you can't read, his post was about single player.They literally promised that this level of destruction would appear in the final game. Dave Jones himself said we could expect it, but you're trying to tell people they were wrong for expecting it?
Come on, dude. This level of damage controlling is just awful.
They literally promised that this level of destruction would appear in the final game. Dave Jones himself said we could expect it, but you're trying to tell people they were wrong for expecting it?
Come on, dude. This level of damage controlling is just awful.
Apparently you can't read, his post was about single player.
Destruction was denounced as part of the single player since day one.
Crackdown 3 downgrade
Anthem downgrade
The narrative surrounding the Crackdown 3 downgrade and the Anthem downgrades are quite different.
The Crackdown 3 downgrade was just a "proof of concept" but with Anthem they LIED to us.
This is why I cant take any outrage over "downgrades" seriously, it happens all the time but people only get outraged over it when its a game they dont like.
I was actually wrong, turns out there was no destruction at all intended for singleplayer. My comments still stand for the multiplayer side of things.
I tend to agree now that it's much less of a big deal, but at the same time, what makes this game special? It still looks like a generic last gen game with better graphics. Without the cool multiplayer it's just meh. I might try it with gamepass, though.
Where exactly did they "clearly" state that the footage shown was not representative of the final game exactly? Going to need a link on this one.The difference is that for Anthem they did not say the final game will not look like that, however for Crackdown 3, they did clearly state that this level of destruction will likely not be in the final game. Massive difference.
Holy Hell, the hits just keep on coming. How do you release a game in 2019 where a huge part of the game is multiplayer focused and NOT have ability to play with friends?
https://www.gameinformer.com/2019/02/11/crackdown-3-wont-ship-with-competitive-multiplayer-parties
BBQ, of course.Just wondering guys..do you like bbq sauce or tomato with your crow?
I worked on this briefly. All I can say is that Sumo got given a complete mess, and did an admiral job given the time and budget constraints they were probably under to get it back on some sort of track.
Don't blame them for this.
Just wondering guys..do you like bbq sauce or tomato with your crow?
Wow. Didn't realize that this game was being worked on as early as 2015.
Such a divisive game this is turning out to be.
I wonder where this will review compared to the recent batch of sub 70 metacritic Microsoft exclusives:
Sea of Thieves (69)
Below (69)
State of Decay 2 (66)
We Happy Few (64)
Crackdown (??)
Just remember, even Crackdown 1 which people actually like only has a metacritic average of 83. Based on what I have seen and heard, I think even 60+ for Crackdown 3 is looking like a long shot now right?
Did you like it?Know whats awesome... having played this game and reading negative comments lol
This is such a weird situation and I really do feel for the dev team. Crackdown 3 is basically two games. One, the campaign, is a sequel to Crackdown 1 made by Sumo Digital. The other is that Wrecking Zone thing which is the origin of the destruction stuff.
The main game would never work with destruction since these games rely on traversal through a large world - the agility orbs wouldn't work if you could destroy everything not to mention the core level design for various missions. So it sucks that everyone associates destruction with the game because of a tech demo that was never related to the actual sequel.
We see this a lot, though. I was genuinely shocked by the reaction to Spider-Man and its puddles (not to mention the suit thing). People were LIVID on Twitter and YouTube. Insomniac delivered one of the best looking open world games ever made and people went nuts over those puddles without understanding what they were looking at.
Ah well.
Oh yeah, it’s 100% their fault. It just sucks for Sumo. They shouldn’t have even called that tech demo Crackdown 3 since it has nothing to do with the series design.In this case it is just microsoft's fault.
There was some sort of environmental denstruction even in the reveal trailer, so after all this, it is kinda impossible to ignore it.
The main game would never work with destruction since these games rely on traversal through a large world - the agility orbs wouldn't work if you could destroy everything not to mention the core level design for various missions.
I suppose some light destruction could have worked, true, but not on the level of that tech demo.I'm afraid I've got disagree to here...
I think it could have worked if they had done it on a smaller scale, stuck to something more along the lines of being able to carve your way through brick walls and things like that
Not full building destruction, but something more streamlined I love the first Crackdown and I love the fact that Sumo is making more of what I love, but I can't lie I would have liked to see it evolved a little bit especially with all this talk of the power of the cloud and destruction.
Fully physically destructive things like Vehicles, walls, Bridges, perhaps something like just cause 4 with certain items being completely destructible offering a humongous explosion.
I haven't seen the game yet so I'm not going to judge too much, but I'm hoping some level of interactive destruction exists in the single player.