[quote name='Hired.Geek']Cheapy & The Bitterest Whiny Gamer ever, great show as always though.
It just baffles me that Wombat believes that this game is not finished. I am about half way through, and think this one of the best open world games ever. I have to once again disagree with Wombat. He states that there is very little map compared to something like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which I completely disagree with. I will use an analogy of spilled milk. If you spill milk all over the floor one gallon of milk will cover quite a bit of floor space, which is similar to GTA:SA. In GTA:SA most everything you do is at ground level. Almost none of the game happens inside the buildings or on top of the buildings. If you keep that milk in the container, it does not cover nearly the same amount of area, but still resides in the same amount of physical space. Which I think is more like Crackdown, things happen on top of buildings as well as at ground level. I never completely finished GTA:SA, but I think that Crackdown probably has about the same amount of playable space as GTA:SA, you just have to go up as well as around. CheapyD, send me an address and I will send cork to plug up all this whine’ing lately from Wombat about games. Maybe CheapyD needs to add a third member to CAGCast like Shipwreck or some other contributor to help get a third opinion on things.
Really enjoyed the interview, I was expecting to hear him just complain about the screw job that these little guys get. But I was really impressed by Defender basically saying that DVD Empire and all the other little guys can make money as long as they use their heads. I am guessing that allot of his wisdom comes from years of experience.
Oh my god when I heard Cheapy say he was so busy playing Crackdown he did not have time to "rough up the suspect" so to speak, I was taking a drink and had pop drip out of my nose!
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Even if you take land mass out of the equation, the time it takes to complete the story is way too short for an open ended game, at least for me.
I just expect more from a first party next gen game that costs 60 dollars retail, bare bones character customization, 3 cities and an 8 (at most) hour story doesn't cut the mustard for a purchase in this market