Crackdown 3 Review Thread - MC: 60 OC: 62

[Cerebralbore101]

Conina said:

Cerebralbore101 said:

No, he's committing a fallacy of falsely equating renting a game, with owning a game. 

Like I said before, a 6 hour game is not an 8/10 for a $60 asking price. I did not say, "a 6 hour game is not an 8/10 for an E2 rental price."

So where draw the line?

If you buy it in a few months for $20 - $30 should it get a higher score then? 

No, because there will be plenty of other games for $20 to $30 that will offer much more content, and replay value for the same price. Right now, since the game is new we are going to compare it to other relatively new games that also cost $60. Games have to be compared to other games for the same price point. How much fun, how much content/replayvalue is one game of one genre, versus another game of the same genre? Keep in mind, both hypothetical games cost the same. 

And yes, fun factor is an element that can save a game from being too short. But most everybody is saying that Crackdown 3 is only about as fun as the original. And IMO that just isn't enough fun to salvage a game from being 6 to 14 (14 hour completionist run) hours long, with almost no replay value. 

Don't get me wrong here, I loved the first Crackdown, and consider it to be a classic. But that game was 40ish hours to complete all the way through, and 15ish hours to do the main story. And the original Crackdown received review scores of about 8/10. So it makes perfect sense for Crackdown 3 (a game that is just as fun but almost a third the content) to get a 6/10 from the average review site.