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Rookersh posted:Is anyone really not expecting the twist to be Pagan is your real father? Ubisoft employs hacks so that's basically a given, but at the same time they just did a find and replace of FC3's script and that didn't come up in that one so I don't know what to believe anymore.
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Captain Diarrhoea posted:Far Cry 3 was rad by the way the only improvement I'd make is cut out all story/cutscenes and increase LoD distance cos that was some console poo poo or something.
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Volkerball posted:My biggest issue with 3 was the lack of voice actors for random enemy NPC's. Practically all of them rotated the same 5 or 6 lines by that one guy. Every pirate having the same voice got old quick. WHAT DEE gently caress This made it all the more baffling when they turned out to be compressed to hell, like they were from the first Assassin's Creed or something. If it's supposed to be their masks muffling their voices, it sure as poo poo doesn't sound like it.
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^^^ They all looked the same too. There was like 4 different enemy uniforms. J-Spot posted:My favorite thing to do in 3 was climb the radio towers and blindly rain rocket fire down on the outposts. Even if you were too far for the game to actually draw the enemies you'd still rack up the kills. I remember one outpost that had really steep mountains on 3 sides of it. Think it was on the second island. I used to load up on explosive arrows, grenades, etc, and trigger reinforcements. Then I'd just sit up there and rain death on hoes. Never enough to kill them all though. 
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Ddraig posted:I love how in Far Cry 2 you could be an incredibly evil person (because that's literally who your character is) If you play FC2 and drive around checkpoints instead of assault them, I'm not sure why you aren't playing Afrika instead.
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Nov 8, 2014 17:24
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Ddraig posted:I think one of my major beefs was how they attempted to be tongue in cheek about lovely aspects but somehow making them more lovely. Having a stupid loving forced tutorial isn't made any better if the game acknowledges it's a stupid loving forced tutorial, it's a kick in the teeth to say "Isn't this terrible and boring and horrible? It so is, but we're still going to make you do it!" Completely made up for by it having the sentence "Press crouch to go lower."
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Ddraig posted:I love how in Far Cry 2 you could be an incredibly evil person (because that's literally who your character is) Far Cry 2 also had way better fire mechanics than 3. In 2 if you threw a Molotov into dry grass in the middle of an outpost the entire outpost would be burning 5 minutes later and you could use this to direct and restrict enemy movement, in 3 it just lights up a small area and fades after 20 seconds. 2 also had the feature of enemies being loving terrified of you by the end of the game. You'd work your way through a compound and by the end of it there'd be two guys cowering in a shed being like "gently caress that noise I'm staying right the gently caress here, this is loving terrifying."
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Volkerball posted:^^^ They all looked the same too. There was like 4 different enemy uniforms. There were 5 or 6 different types of uniforms, mostly based on function of dude (assault, defender, charger, molotov, heavy weapons guy, and rpg/sniper) and 2 different color schemes if they were pirates or mercs. Wasn't too bad from a design perspective.
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I'm bad at sussing out system requirements for games, if my PC can play renowned system hog Evil Within at max without dropping frames ever then it can probably play this just fine right? Just asking cause system requirements lab says I can't at recommended but can at minimum however it's said I point blank can't play Evil Within or Dead Rising 3 at all and both of those ran just fine at max. So pretty sure it's just wrong all the time. Got a PS4 anyway and a mate to play co-op with on that so may go for that version anyway. Just curious.
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thebardyspoon posted:I'm bad at sussing out system requirements for games, if my PC can play renowned system hog Evil Within at max without dropping frames ever then it can probably play this just fine right? Just asking cause system requirements lab says I can't at recommended but can at minimum however it's said I point blank can't play Evil Within or Dead Rising 3 at all and both of those ran just fine at max. So pretty sure it's just wrong all the time. Got a PS4 anyway and a mate to play co-op with on that so may go for that version anyway. Just curious. You should be fine. Additionally if you played FC3 on max/near max without any problems you will also be fine.
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ayn rand hand job posted:There were 5 or 6 different types of uniforms, mostly based on function of dude (assault, defender, charger, molotov, heavy weapons guy, and rpg/sniper) and 2 different color schemes if they were pirates or mercs. It wasn't terrible, it's just with the same voices and faces, it felt like you were killing the same guys over and over again. Got old. But 4 seems to have different factions at each terrain, so there should be a diverse amount of killing to be done. Which I will do with my giant fuckoff harpoon cause I just pre-ordered this poo poo today. 
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I guess Far Cry 2 will join the list of games that everybody hated when it came out, but love in hindsight. Like Thief 3.
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Are you kidding? Far Cry 2 was and still is a complete turd. They managed to make being a murderous warlord a complete chore.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:I guess Far Cry 2 will join the list of games that everybody hated when it came out, but love in hindsight. Like Thief 3. Far Cry 2 is one of those games that you either love or hate with a passion. They did a lot of unique things with it, so naturally you will have people who think those things are great, and those who find them frustrating or whatever. Far Cry 3 scrapped that and tried to please everyone by being as 'safe' as possible, which lends to a certain degree of popularity, but bored the people who loved Far Cry 2 to tears because virtually everything unique and interesting was stripped out. ^^ I guess the problem is that you think you're supposed to be a murderous warlord in Far Cry 2. You're not. You're just a regular rear end in a top hat who happens to kill for money, and you're thrown into a situation where you have very few friends and very little support network other than what you can buy with diamonds or earn with favors. Far Cry 3 is the one where you're a Murderous Warlord and it was boring as all hell since there's very little to push against when all resistance just crumbles because you're literally the White God come to lay waste to everything. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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Ddraig posted:^^ I guess the problem is that you think you're supposed to be a murderous warlord in Far Cry 2. You're not. You're just a regular rear end in a top hat who happens to kill for money, and you're thrown into a situation where you have very few friends and very little support network other than what you can buy with diamonds or earn with favors. Oh that's right, you actually play as a complete shitmuncher doing boring missions for diamonds and pills or something. Too bad that doesn't make the game any less tedious.
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Far Cry 2 was pretty terrible, hence why they aren't making another game like Far Cry 2. Tedious, slow, and annoying and this is coming from someone who bought it on 360 and PC hoping it would get better on PC. Its like they didn't flesh things out at all. Your allies eventually die anyways, and the one cool thing about it is that you are the one that kills them all on the 2nd map towards the end of the game. Also, the ending is very dumb.
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blackguy32 posted:Far Cry 2 was pretty terrible, hence why they aren't making another game like Far Cry 2. Tedious, slow, and annoying and this is coming from someone who bought it on 360 and PC hoping it would get better on PC. So why are they making another game like Far Cry 3 
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Shima Honnou posted:So why are they making another game like Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3 had cassowaries, an animal that has literally only killed a single person in the history of recorded time. Clearly the superior game.
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Shima Honnou posted:So why are they making another game like Far Cry 3 Because Far Cry 3 kicked all the rear end and the sales reflected it.
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Shima Honnou posted:So why are they making another game like Far Cry 3 Because Far Cry 3 was pretty fun. Aside from the storyline, the gameplay felt a lot more polished. Far Cry 2 at times felt like a mess.
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Shima Honnou posted:So why are they making another game like Far Cry 3 Far Cry 3 spawned Blood Dragon. Hoping for Blood Dragon II
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Scyantific posted:Far Cry 3 spawned Blood Dragon. Blood Elephant.
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Moartoast posted:This made it all the more baffling when they turned out to be compressed to hell, like they were from the first Assassin's Creed or something. If it's supposed to be their masks muffling their voices, it sure as poo poo doesn't sound like it. Oh my god. The NPC audio quality in FC3 was so loving bad at times. It sounded like it came out of a PSX game.
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Far Cry 3 sold well because it's pure frosting. It's the most obvious, back-patting type of design that appeals to a ton of people. That's not to say it's bad for being brain-dead, it's just an entirely different approach without many peaks and valleys. Most things that people consider tedious in FC2 are what make it great. You're a lovely nobody struggling with everything from your equipment to your malaria, the world hates you, and when you pull off something amazing it feels so much more rewarding and personal, a result of your manipulation of the systems rather than your ability to hold down a button until everything blows up good.
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I played the Far Cry 1 beta when it first came out and that fulfilled all of my desire to play that series.
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I actually kind of miss the original Far Cry with its out there plot with scientific experiments. While the Tri gens were hilariously unbalanced, I really loved the concept of fighting through a jungle with mercs and those things out there loving each other up and trying to gently caress you up. Plus it had what the newer games seem to lack, decent indoor environments.
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Far Cry 3 was like AC1. Fun for the first 5 hours but gently caress doing the exact same thing for 30 more. I guess I gotta try FC2 some time, I didn't have a good enough PC to run it when it came out, so I skipped it at the time.
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I'm one of the few that liked FC2 because it made light important in a way I haven't seen elsewhere. If someone's in the shade they are effectively invisible and you don't get glowing xray vision and really depend on your ears. Gun deterioration can e:suck my dick wtf
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:Far Cry 3 sold well because it's pure frosting. It's the most obvious, back-patting type of design that appeals to a ton of people. That's not to say it's bad for being brain-dead, it's just an entirely different approach without many peaks and valleys. Totally agree. It's bright and colorful and there's very little investment required to get to the point where you're basically an unstoppable source of explosions. The game was designed for mindless, instant gratification. blackguy32 posted:I actually kind of miss the original Far Cry with its out there plot with scientific experiments. While the Tri gens were hilariously unbalanced, I really loved the concept of fighting through a jungle with mercs and those things out there loving each other up and trying to gently caress you up. Plus it had what the newer games seem to lack, decent indoor environments. Yeah, that sci-fi flavor helped mix things up so that you weren't stuck ultimately fighting the same military dude in a jungle over and over again for 20-30 hours. That's probably the worst thing about FC2 to me, is that you had soldiers and snipers and that was basically it. FC3's animals helped reintroduce some variety into the combat and environments, but it wasn't without its flaws.
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I just wish they'd stop loving UK customers around RE steam, nobody wants Uplay or origin, they will never catch up to steams market share and people don't need 3 sets of friends lists or whatever. just get the loving message and drop them jesus christ.
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Pound_Coin posted:I just wish they'd stop loving UK customers around RE steam, nobody wants Uplay or origin, they will never catch up to steams market share and people don't need 3 sets of friends lists or whatever. just get the loving message and drop them jesus christ. But aren't you excited about the
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It has to be some retarded experiment. They don't want to gently caress with their primary US market but the UK one is just the right size that they can roll out operation "charge £50 for every game and £23 on top for the DLC" which is a rubbish name. It's either going to be a success and we can look forward to £50 being the new standard or it's going to result in people only buying one of their games at the expense of the other. Far Cry 4 and Assassins Creed release right next to each other and I really doubt the average Brit is going to throw £100 at them. People are certainly less likely to by season passes. Hopefully this explodes in their face but i'm not sure the UK market is big enough for it to hurt them.Oxxidation posted:Far Cry 2 was a misery to play, even dumber (even if you discount the ridiculous voice-acting), and the sort of thing I couldn't even finish. Should 'ave taken the bus mate. Regarde Aduck fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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One thing I really dug about Far Cry 3 was what seemed to me at least to a very self aware script. Vas was an effective villain. But the implication of the story was that you could not defeat him until you became him. The way you become a blood thirsty psycho and are given a chance at the end of the game to murder your friends and girlfriend and have freaky sex with Cetra the gang leader before she kills you. (I ended up picking that option) There was a level of Starship troopers style of making a satire but not obvious enough that you really see it's a satire. Blood Dragon kind of hammers those points home and make me believe more that the square jawed American hero Archering his way through the game was intentional. On that I think it's interesting that we don't have a white hero this time. I am interested to see a different perspective and the fact that the knee jerk reaction was to assume the guy on the throne was the hero when it's actually the guy he is oppressing was so strong. Lonos Oboe fucked around with this message at 03:02 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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Ddraig posted:I love how in Far Cry 2 you could be an incredibly evil person (because that's literally who your character is) Far Cry 2 was weird because you would end up adopting tactics used in the real world (without it actually telling you to do them), like using a car parked on the side of the road to time setting off an IED. Or how I passed up on the .50 cal sniper rifle, because the Dragunov would let me wound with a gutshot and then I could pick off the people going to help the guy I just crippled. And then as I was doing that, they would start freaking out about it. FC2 was a Worst Person Shooter and it was awesome.
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Lonos Oboe posted:One thing I really dug about Far Cry 3 was what seemed to me at least to a very self aware script. Vas was an effective villain. But the implication of the story was that you could not defeat him until you became him. The way you become a blood thirsty psycho and are given a chance at the end of the game to murder your friends and girlfriend and have freaky sex with Cetra the gang leader before she kills you. (I ended up picking that option) There was a level of Starship troopers style of making a satire but not obvious enough that you really see it's a satire. Nope, you and everyone who has ever expressed this opinion continue to be wrong.
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I would like very much to play this game. Slowly taking over all the forts in a giant open world (while crafting myself gun holsters out of endangered animal skins) is definitely my thing.quote:On that I think it's interesting that we don't have a white hero this time. I am interested to see a different perspective and the fact that the knee jerk reaction was to assume the guy on the throne was the hero when it's actually the guy he is oppressing was so strong. edit: besides that, there was one other obnoxious (and so common it might as well be beige walls on almost every game and hollywood thing ever) element to FC3: a female lead who everyone says is powerful and in charge of things, but in practice she has no choice but to rely on the male lead for everything. Samurai Sanders fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Nov 9, 2014 |
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Far Cry 2 was a cool fire spreading simulator and I enjoyed all that I could enjoy out of that
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Far Cry 2 was weird because you would end up adopting tactics used in the real world (without it actually telling you to do them), like using a car parked on the side of the road to time setting off an IED. Or how I passed up on the .50 cal sniper rifle, because the Dragunov would let me wound with a gutshot and then I could pick off the people going to help the guy I just crippled. And then as I was doing that, they would start freaking out about it. FC2 wasn't anywhere decent as an open world shooter (loving CHECKPOINTS AND JEEPS.  ) but it inspired you to be an absolute bastard if you just wanted to survive. Some of the poo poo you had to do in that game to play on par with the AI could get you put on a war crimes tribunal in real life if you did it there.And if you somehow took the companion system seriously you'd inevitably do even more crazy and evil poo poo just to try to keep your little virtual friends alive so you could avoid that morphene injection animation. It was the one way you could be moral in that story and while they botched the final execution of it the underlying theme of all of the characters being evil/insane bastards (With yours being marginally better at most.) was still sort of there. I never played FC3, but I watched people play it. Outside of the videos with the crazy bugs and animal attacks it didn't seem that interesting. Though the animals and bugs looked funny as poo poo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9HhYAGIWdk
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