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a bone to pick posted:
CowboyAndy posted:Okay, so I am simplifying things here. They did add new stuff, like Weapon Arts (special techniques based on the weapon you were using), new guilds (mostly either PVP or PVE, no 'defend an area' style guilds like in 2). It was safe, but it expanded on the stuff I care about most. It has the best art direction in the series and by far the most enjoyable combat and some of the most enjoyable level design. I liked the approach of refining what was already worked instead of reinventing the wheel. 2 was a fun game and they did try some new stuff out, but it was wildly inconsistent and kind of ugly. That's not to say 2 was bad or 3 was perfect, but imo 3 is the best in the series. veni veni veni fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Dec 11, 2017 |
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far cry 2 was a lot of fun + my favorite of the series so far + one of my favorite shooters ever
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Dec 11, 2017 00:40
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Far Cry 2 was a much more compelling game than the later ones but 3 and 4 feel much better to play. They also get boring after a while due to being so humdrum standard issue Ubisoft.
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Dec 11, 2017 00:57
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The thing I liked most about Far Cry 2 was weapon durabity. It was fun picking up a weapon and hoping it doesn't jam on you since the guy you murdered for it didn't take care of it. I wish more games had that mechanic. The respawning checkpoints can die in a fire.
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limp_cheese posted:The respawning checkpoints can die in a fire. I was trying to think of things I disliked in Far Cry 2, and your post made me realize it was this. Otherwise I really liked the game - played it out of sequence after 3, 4, and Primal, and thought i held up really well.
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Dec 11, 2017 01:43
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veni veni veni posted:It was safe, but it expanded on the stuff I care about most. It has the best art direction in the series and by far the most enjoyable combat and some of the most enjoyable level design. I liked the approach of refining what was already worked instead of reinventing the wheel. I'll agree that 3 was pretty and was certainly refined. I guess it just didn't pull me in like 1 and 2. --- Far Cry Blood Dragon was fun, and I wished they made a good sequel to it.
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Dec 11, 2017 01:53
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I mean the checkpoints were kind of bad, but sneaking through the deep jungle, suddenly hearing an engine's tach peg out, and getting run over before you can turn around was pretty frustrating
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They could have kept making variants of Red Alert 2 with different settings as far as I’m concerned, gently caress innovation
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Vegetable posted:They could have kept making variants of Red Alert 2 with different settings as far as I’m concerned, gently caress innovation Amen to that. I still play RA2's campaign every year or so. If they made an HD remaster I couldn't give them my money fast enough.
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Japanese games are worse than Western games as a whole and its not close.
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Dec 11, 2017 03:42
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Aside from the stupidly good spritework I really don't know why gamers jizz themselves over SNK stuff, particularly their fighters. There's nothing bad about them, but I really don't get the hype.
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mind the walrus posted:Aside from the stupidly good spritework I really don't know why gamers jizz themselves over SNK stuff, particularly their fighters. There's nothing bad about them, but I really don't get the hype. Agreed except Metal Slug. Even Metal Slug isnt that great I guess but it's one of my favorite games to look at. The sprites in SNK games are good enough to warrant playing here and there still though. beyond that I'd say they were average games for the time.
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Bear in-mind SNK spritework really is the very best in the business. I could never deny that:            I've just never been enamored with their games. They always feel just a little too stiff and like I have to study under some Japanese street gang for five years before I understand it. 
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Japanese games are worse than Western games as a whole and its not close. this is true, but mostly for RPGs i don't know a single good western fighting game or SHMUP in before idiots say killer instinct
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Das Butterbrot posted:this is true, but mostly for RPGs Clay Fighter
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Das Butterbrot posted:this is true, but mostly for RPGs fighting games and shmups are garbage tier genres anyway, on the level of platformers.
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I have very strong memories of Far Cry 2. It had lots of cool ideas but was executed terribly. Enemy AI was turbo insane, and people in small hatchbacks would come screeching over mountaintops and within remote jungles to hunt you down. I remember crying with laughter at one point where there was some rickety wooden bridge. As enemy cars drove over it, they caught one glimpse of me, slammed the accelerator, and rammed through the wooden barricade into the river and died. Over and over. I remember driving with my finger permanently over the "change seat" button with the mounted weapon jeeps because you couldn't drive anywhere without being assaulted non-stop by murder frenzy people. AI was schizophrenic between pretty cool, or pulling off 1km sniper shots in the dead of night with no warning. And if you set fires, they would come charging through the fire and burn to death in droves. The buddy system looked cool, but mine broke instantly after I incapacitated myself after a mission by shooting a truck I was standing on. My buddy arrived to pull me away from my idiocy, then stalked off mumbling about enemies and was never seen again and was marked MIA without there being any enemies to fight. My next one died without me ever seeing him. I feel like the game could have been a cinematic and cool experience for some people, but for me it was a comedy of frustrating errors and everything being janky af.
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Das Butterbrot posted:this is true, but mostly for RPGs mother loving DIVE KICK
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mind the walrus posted:Bear in-mind SNK spritework really is the very best in the business. I could never deny that: XIV actually got rid of a lot of that stiffness you're describing (XIII was stiff as hell) and it is a much better/more fluid game. I highly recommend it if you haven't tried it. It's even recently gotten a new DLC character confirmed.
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food court bailiff posted:mother loving i stand corrected, my bad also, lethal league is by westerners i think. that one's cool too
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Japanese games are worse than Western games as a whole and its not close. There's unpopular opinions and then there's something the DSM would list as a symptom of insane madness
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CowboyAndy posted:Okay, so I am simplifying things here. They did add new stuff, like Weapon Arts (special techniques based on the weapon you were using), new guilds (mostly either PVP or PVE, no 'defend an area' style guilds like in 2). The stupid impossible elevator at the top of the windmill makes me so irrationally angry that ill never be able to enjoy dark souls 2
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:Japanese games are worse than Western games as a whole and its not close. If the only games you play are open world 3rd person action games then yes
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Jeza posted:I have very strong memories of Far Cry 2. It had lots of cool ideas but was executed terribly. Enemy AI was turbo insane, and people in small hatchbacks would come screeching over mountaintops and within remote jungles to hunt you down. I remember crying with laughter at one point where there was some rickety wooden bridge. As enemy cars drove over it, they caught one glimpse of me, slammed the accelerator, and rammed through the wooden barricade into the river and died. Over and over. I remember driving with my finger permanently over the "change seat" button with the mounted weapon jeeps because you couldn't drive anywhere without being assaulted non-stop by murder frenzy people. this isn’t the popular videogame opinions thread
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Meme Emulator posted:If the only games you play are open world 3rd person action games then yes Or FPSs, or RTSs, Western MMOs are significantly less terrible than eastern ones, etc.
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the best game ubisoft has ever published by an almost incomprehensible margin is rocksmith 2014 and if you disagree you're a scrub afraid of music 
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japan is better at fighting bad guys with swords and fists and that is indisputable, the best western equivalent is batman and that is mindlessly easy if you're even okay at games.
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Caesar Saladin posted:japan is better at fighting bad guys with swords and fists and that is indisputable, the best western equivalent is batman and that is mindlessly easy if you're even okay at games. I'm sorry but Jedi Academy with the cheat that lets you cut people to pieces still exists.
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Twelve Batmans posted:XIV actually got rid of a lot of that stiffness you're describing (XIII was stiff as hell) and it is a much better/more fluid game. I highly recommend it if you haven't tried it. It's even recently gotten a new DLC character confirmed.
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Final Fantasy VII is the only good Final Fantasy game Ocarina of Time is the only good Zelda game and is the best JRPG of all time Skyrim is best played vanilla with no mods 98% of the best games ever made were produced before 1997
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walking simulators are the future of gaming
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we're in the middle of a really weird, lurching, drawn-out industry wide crash and the only reason it's not blowing up bigger is because a lot of genuinely good+fun games are still coming out propping up the rest of the market
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XxGirlKisserxX posted:Final Fantasy VII is the only good Final Fantasy game The opposite of this guy
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Zelda III is by far the best Zelda game and Nintendo has never come close to topping the SNES. In fact in many ways they've been getting worse and worse.
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XxGirlKisserxX posted:Final Fantasy VII is the only good Final Fantasy game I thought this might be a genuine post until the part about Skyrim revealed it to be a troll post.
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XxGirlKisserxX posted:Final Fantasy VII is the only good Final Fantasy game if you stretch it to 1999 so as to include starcraft and half-life you can bump that up to 100%
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People only figured out the concept of video games around 2000. Until then it was all monkey banging with stick and stones.
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XxGirlKisserxX posted:Final Fantasy VII is the only good Final Fantasy game What interesting ideas. I would posit that 98% of the best games ever made were produced since the mid 2000s, and the last few years have been watershed years in gaming and gaming acceptance into culture.
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the best JRPG ever made is phantasy star III e: JRPG is the best genre
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Jeza posted:I have very strong memories of Far Cry 2. It had lots of cool ideas but was executed terribly. Enemy AI was turbo insane, and people in small hatchbacks would come screeching over mountaintops and within remote jungles to hunt you down. I remember crying with laughter at one point where there was some rickety wooden bridge. As enemy cars drove over it, they caught one glimpse of me, slammed the accelerator, and rammed through the wooden barricade into the river and died. Over and over. I remember driving with my finger permanently over the "change seat" button with the mounted weapon jeeps because you couldn't drive anywhere without being assaulted non-stop by murder frenzy people. I liked a lot about Far Cry 2 but I couldn't get into it because everyone talked so fast. I don't know if it was a bug in my game or what but every VA just talked super fast and it sounded like poo poo
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