Is the action cam over hyped and problematic?

[Dutch]

Does it not imply a level of seniority on these boards and hence a likelihood that one might have got the game on time ?

So your logic would imply that before discussing test cricket on these forums, as does happen and which I do, I should first have played international test cricket?

 

[Bubblyjubbly]

So your logic would imply that before discussing test cricket on these forums, as does happen and which I do, I should first have played international test cricket?

Now you are inventing a straw man. However, I would have thought you would have played the game before entering into a discussion of the finer points and their utility.

 

[Dutch]

Now you are inventing a straw man. However, I would have thought you would have played the game before entering into a discussion of the finer points and their utility.

Yawn!

I am off to do something useful. Have a good time. You seem hell bent on rubbing everyone on here up the wrong way. Great. It is your life. I care not. I was actually one of the people who valued your comments in your inital review as I think it is valid to have different points of view. However you just seem itching for an argument for the sake of an argument. If it is green you call it red, if it is red you call it green. Ah well, it is up to you of course.

 

[saferider4969]

I find the action cam to be the best thing that could have ever happened to a cricket game. Action cam gives the feel of a match and the matches become so realistic, like in a test match I am forced to defend many deliveries which brings the runs scored to a realistic run rate like 2.5-3.9 runs per over. If you want to leave a wide ball then you need to judge if the delivery will come back in or will go away or go straight, Action cam makes you very thoughtful of what to do.

 

[Rehan_24]

The Action Cam isnt the future of Cricket Games thats for sure. It feels good to see but you cant enjoy it when actually playing. I highly disliked the Action Cam. The developers have missed some basic things in the game again just like the last year....

 

[MasterBlaster76]

I find the action cam to be the best thing that could have ever happened to a cricket game. Action cam gives the feel of a match and the matches become so realistic, like in a test match I am forced to defend many deliveries which brings the runs scored to a realistic run rate like 2.5-3.9 runs per over. If you want to leave a wide ball then you need to judge if the delivery will come back in or will go away or go straight, Action cam makes you very thoughtful of what to do.

How does it work with hooks and pulls, as well as other shots behind the wicket? Sorry to sound like a broken record, but it's sort of important.

 

[King Pietersen]

I replied to your question in the Impressions thread Steve

 

[saferider4969]

How does it work with hooks and pulls, as well as other shots behind the wicket? Sorry to sound like a broken record, but it's sort of important.

Hooks and pulls are kind of easy to execute sometimes with the action cam but when playing on a bouncy track it gives the feel of how a batsman faces short pitch bowling and when the batsman gets hit by the ball it gets a little blurry for 1-2seconds to create the feeling of being hit and being unconscious for 1-2 second.

Playing shots behind the wicket feels good because you can almost feel the delivery and then guide it behind the wicket.

I can't tell you how realistic my matches have been playing single player. In test matches I scored around a 2.5-3 runs per over in a day's play on hard and it felt awesome as it was a bouncy track and I survived the 1st day and even scored some runs.

Experience playing online for me was very different for me with the action cam, I smashed everyone I played with, latest match that I played I smashed 70/0 in 3.4 overs of a t20, I hit one more six and the ball was in mid air when that guy left the game.:

 

[MasterBlaster76]

I replied to your question in the Impressions thread Steve

Yes, so you did. Cheers.

Hooks and pulls are kind of easy to execute sometimes with the action cam but when playing on a bouncy track it gives the feel of how a batsman faces short pitch bowling and when the batsman gets hit by the ball it gets a little blurry for 1-2seconds to create the feeling of being hit and being unconscious for 1-2 second.

Playing shots behind the wicket feels good because you can almost feel the delivery and then guide it behind the wicket.

I can't tell you how realistic my matches have been playing single player. In test matches I scored around a 2.5-3 runs per over in a day's play on hard and it felt awesome as it was a bouncy track and I survived the 1st day and even scored some runs.

Experience playing online for me was very different for me with the action cam, I smashed everyone I played with, latest match that I played I smashed 70/0 in 3.4 overs of a t20, I hit one more six and the ball was in mid air when that guy left the game.:

Well, offline is where it's at for me, as far as cricket games are concerned, so that's very good news! Not the fact that someone quit on you - the other part. I can appreciate how annoying that must be - a quitter should automatically forfeit the game.

Edit: Just saw your screenie: 70 odd off 3 overs? Definitely sounds like offline is the place to be.

 

[saferider4969]

Yes, so you did. Cheers.



Well, offline is where it's at for me, as far as cricket games are concerned, so that's very good news! Not the fact that someone quit on you - the other part. I can appreciate how annoying that must be - a quitter should automatically forfeit the game.

Edit: Just saw your screenie: 70 odd off 3 overs? Definitely sounds like offline is the place to be.

I have some good news.
Mark told me to play a t20 match with a quality opposition.

I played a t20 with the No.1 ranked player on XBOX LIVE, and I was 40/2 after 5 overs then by getting singles, doubles and some boundaries I reached 133/4 of 13.4 overs(I had to play really well to get here and the powerstick came into good use) and connection was lost. We started one more game and it was a green top, I managed only 67 in 13.5 overs, while chasing he was 9/2 and the game lost connection again. I know I made a very small total but I think the match would have been close as the ball was doing all sorts of tricks.

So I'd say - If you get a quality opposition and play a t20 or one day you'll experience realistic cricket.

 

[pcfan123]

yay great to hear, and after a month or so, all the bandwagon cricket fans will leave and we should have mostly the serious cricketers online.

 

[soumya]

The action cam is ok for test matches, where you can take your time. But it's giving me a hard time in t20's.

 

[Supershtuffthat]

I would have thought that was obvious. How are you going to pick up the line and length, let alone the subtle (and not-so-subtle) changes of pace with a such a restricted behind-the-batsman view ?

I think a lot of people on here fit onto the mold of having a university degree, and, from what I've seen, a high level of intelligence and experience actually playing the game. And from my own experience of playing real cricket, all batting is done from a first person perspective, differing not that much from a third person perspective from just behind the batsman, as demonstrated in the game. Picking up line and length and changes of pace from this perspective would be much more natural than controlling myself from a commentary box/broadcast perspective.

This perspective replicates playing actual cricket more closely than the commentary box perspective, and that's another reason why I think it is so popular with the fans of this game.

Just out of interest - this so called leading university you studied at - what is the name of it? What did exactly did you study? And what occupation do you pursue? Everyone is dying to know.

 

[Bubblyjubbly]

Many people do have a university degree and most of those aren't worth the paper they are written on. I like to keep my particulars to my myself, especially in an age of ID theft. That said, I do have a 'Blue' and not from one of the third-rate Australian universities (ANU, Sydney, WA etc...) and not whilst studying for some token postgraduate degree either - I will let you work out the rest.

As for the game, if you actuallly think a behind-the-batsman third-person view is anything remotely close to a first-person view in real life then I need say no more. Not only is the view in the game quite restricted and restrictive, particularly with respect to picking up line and length or pace, the fact you aren't blessed with either the sensory awareness (or peripheral vision) that a 'real' batsman would have nor the control or dexterity, particularly in the absence of a motion controller, limits the utility of this view. As with all things related to the so-called improvements in the game, they are rather superficial and poorly thought out. I don't see what is natural or effective about a view that doesn't work particularly well.

 

[Dutch]

Many people do have a university degree and most of those aren't worth the paper they are written on. I like to keep my particulars to my myself, especially in an age of ID theft. That said, I do have a 'Blue' and not from one of the third-rate Australian universities (ANU, Sydney, WA etc...) and not whilst studying for some token postgraduate degree either - I will let you work out the rest.

As for the game, if you actuallly think a behind-the-batsman third-person view is anything remotely close to a first-person view in real life then I need say no more. Not only is the view in the game quite restricted and restrictive, particularly with respect to picking up line and length or pace, the fact you aren't blessed with either the sensory awareness (or peripheral vision) that a 'real' batsman would have nor the control or dexterity, particularly in the absence of a motion controller, limits the utility of this view. As with all things related to the so-called improvements in the game, they are rather superficial and poorly thought out. I don't see what is natural or effective about a view that doesn't work particularly well.

What would you like to have seen implemented?