I love Crackdown!  Getting that last stupid green orb took me forever.

Bara

Nice. 

I haven't tried to hunt down all the orbs.  I just keep deleting my save and starting the game over entirely. 

Most people only do that with thier girlfriends. How could you do that with a game?!?

Well, when all the gang bosses are dead, you have the options of resetting them but they'd be so easy there'd be no point except collecting more shit and upgrading your skills further, or deleting your save and starting over, which is infinitely more entertaining to me.

I like collecting stuff but I'm not so into it that I'd put any particular focus to it.  I've gone through this game probably over twenty times.

Hell, I'd say over 35 but it's not like I've kept count.

Holy crap the cheese meter just broke.  I love this game.

I really want to like this game, but I am having a hell of a time getting into it. Maybe it's the controls. Seems like it would be more fluid with a controller(especially for driving), the mouse just feels a little "off" though I can't pinpoint how. The lack of any controller configs besides an Xbox360 controller is almost a gamebreaker. If I had a 360 controller I would probably have a 360 and not be playing it on the PC to begin with. Whenever I see that I think console port and that opens a whole lot more worries about how the game will be if I get further in. I'll keep giving it try here and there and hopefully eventually get into it.

Umm? I'v mapped my controls nicely to my n52 and mouse (needed to put one macro on the mouse for the side button to jump).

My only real problem with this game is the sheer lunacy of the enemys spawning. Im only at the 4th heath level but I get a constant stream of rocket armed choppers at the same time as a billions of bullets from the never ending infantry. I've seen infantry spawn directly on the spot where and at the instant I shot the last one too. Its just dumb, walk 20m away from a base and the whole thing respawned.

This almost ruins the game since it forces you into one kind of playstyle. When there isn't a a comm tower to blow anyway which seems to disable choppers. I don't even know what the other things do (gas lines, coronels and statues).

I run out of ammo with my main weapons faaar too quickly, theres no blood effect on your character or similar so you don't really know your being hit in the hail of bullets until you hear the heart beat. There isn't enough medpacks (small medpacks should drop from the enemies imo!).

If there wasn't as many enemies CONSTANTLY spawning I would use the grapple to kill them more, as it is I just try and kill them or run away as fast as possible.

Beyond that - the game is AWESOME. lol Its really fun - just completing the settelments is a great experince. You really get the progression feel with the fact all main pickups actually improve you, your guns vehicles, give you money or chaos and then you get a TICK! when its done. I've only put 17 hours into so far and thats only been doing the settelments (and I've only done about 20% of them, im at 8% game completion).

I just wish this game had Coop... oh how I would wail in enjoyment at this in Coop. If it did this would almost beat Saints Row 2 in fun.

It is definately a multi platform release, but that doesn't mean port.  I have a 360, but theres no way I'd be playing it on my 360.  The 360 doesn't have DirectX 10/11.

Driving with a keyboard feels off in every game I've ever played.  I do it anyway since controllers suck for shooting, but meh.  I haven't tried hooking both up and switching, wonder if that'd be cool.

Usually if the controls feel more off than they should, your system is overloaded and the controls suffer with the framerate, but that could just be a sweeping generalization that doesn't mean much to you.

I had to google n52 to see what it was . I'll try to use my Logitech profiler to map over controls, just usually lose the analog part if the pad isn't supported directly in game. Still would be better then driving with KB/mouse though.

I was kind of wondering how the 360 could hope to do the Gfx justice. I guess there's my answer, they don't.

I've tried the switching on and off thing with GTAIV and Red Faction:Guerilla with ok results. Maybe what I try here once I get the controls mapped over. I still see this game as a ton of fun once I get sorted.

I might check framerate with FRAPS, but I haven't felt that there has been any slowdown. My system has run pretty much everything I've thrown at it maxxed, so I hope this isn't the beginning of my hardware starting to show it's age.

Screenshots will give you a general idea, sure.

But they don't show you very well the exact clarity differences in special effects.  Every title I've noticed with both DX9 and 10 support had some pretty striking differences in that department.

I don't use my 360 for much of anything now that I got my new system...except of course games I can't get on the PC.

That's fair, and frankly a top of the line PC will always have the advantage over the Xbox.  Besides, a game this fun - as long as it runs at a playable framerate, who cares?

After getting my controller setup I ended up back on KB/Mouse anyways. Didn't like trying to drive with an analog stick without having analog, I was all over the place . After playing with the mouse sensitivity settings I think I have it where I want it. I went and raised some hell at the NPP with the Ultars(or is it Ulars) and am having a blast.

Since I game in moods I normally have about four different games being played through at once. An action game, a racer, a Strategy/RTS and an RPG usually. This assures I always having something to play for the mood I'm in. Just Cause can now fill the need for action

A top of the line PC will eat consoles for lunch. A midline PC will compete with consoles easily.

I imagine even a bottomline PC will look just as good as most console titles out there. Consoles are way outdated but hey graphics aren't eveything. Good games never die.

Anyway just picked up a copy of Just Cause 2 and am gonna give it a try.

Forums went gablooeeeyyyy

Just becnhmarked The Dark Tower.

Everything high to very high and either 8x to 16x at 1080p and averaged 32.80 FPS

Very happy with that. Only thing is it only reconized 4084 megs of RAM instead of my 6 gig.