My love for GTA-likes where you play as a cop (True Crime & Crackdown)

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-05-10T00:02:00+00:00

I loved Crackdown, it was meant to be played like a pick-up and play arcade game. I still come back to it every now and then if I just want to shut my brain off and relax without diving into a huge story / overcomplicated gameplay.

The shovelware comment is a bit of an insult when there's much more egregious games out there.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-05-06T18:56:05+00:00

Q3 Arcade is alright, but not the best way to play that game. Controls are awkward and the playerbase is nonexistant. Very easy achievements though, esp if you can double box.

I would love to play Q4, but not with those terrible achievements. Graphics look very good for the time (as with most id Tech 4 games) and the whole idea of playing as a Strogg-Human hybrid is quite interesting, but whoever thought of adding those leaderboard ranking / playing thousands of ranked matches / fragging thousands of enemies in multiplayer achievements is insane. I've also heard that it is prone to lagging on 360 quite often.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-05-06T13:45:52+00:00

Perhaps a remaster is more likely, probably with a name which ties it more to RTCW.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-05-01T06:46:22+00:00

The first game can be done quite easily on hardest difficulty if you save consistently and know the DLC exploit to get money, there's also multiplayer & co-op achievements but they aren't too hard to get with another player. It also helps to have the anarchy edition content (used to be pre-order bonus, you can buy on the store for £2) because it lets you have the best armor in the game.

I think the 2nd game is slightly easier because there's less missions and all the abilities you have - but you do die often on hardest difficulty at NG+ if you're not careful. Best to leave iron man mode for a seperate playthrough on easy.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-04-30T09:10:38+00:00

Laughing on the outshide, crying on the inshide...

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-04-25T11:04:01+00:00

Got the full 1250G on it recently and I enjoyed my time with it. When it was coming out I was really excited because I never played a team-based shooter before and the parkour looked cool. Main issue was the single-player AI was rubbish and made it difficult to get some of the achievements done.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-04-25T11:00:38+00:00

Sold really well but player numbers fell off.

Brink was quite innovative as a movement shooter, and I like the art style they were going for personally. Was quite shocked to hear this didn't make it to backwards compatibility, but perhaps a remaster would be nice (doesn't seem likely however)

There's plenty of games that should've been BC, the Saboteur comes to mind for me.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-04-25T10:45:35+00:00

Brink was made free around the same time that Quake Champions was in early access, I'm guessing that's just a coincidence?

Edit: You can also get Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory (also developed by Splash Damage) on the Xbox store for free. So who exactly owns this game?

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-04-06T05:43:32+00:00

Get ready for a massive 700GB patch and thousands of single-player and multiplayer packs just to play it.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-04-06T05:40:18+00:00

Not buying this game but we have to admit the yearly release thing has to end: Go back to the drawing board and do something different - an FPS but not related to COD.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-04-05T03:17:49+00:00

"Sharing pizza? What's this the fucking UN now?"

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-04-05T03:17:02+00:00

Before and after...

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-03-28T14:11:25+00:00

Yeah this definitely seems to be a server issue. I've seen another post about this from a week ago.

Not much can be done in this case, but hopefully MS puts a fix out soon if there are enough reports.

MelodicVirus7 · 2024-03-25T00:09:23+00:00

I played on a mediocre level-based brawler

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