Author Topic: Far Cry 3 (Read 11570 times)

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #60 on:** December 04, 2012, 09:54:26 AM »

Yep, that's how I feel too. I'm among the few who really dug the overbearing hyper-immersion of FC2.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #61 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:09:10 AM »

Tom Chiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #62 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:18:34 AM »

I know pilonv1 likes Chick so I won't go into one of my usual rants about him.

Far Cry 2 was one of those games that forum people always like because it had big ideas in it in a genre that is more about production values now. Which is fine.

I think there is a big difference between making a game with just big ideas and actually making a fun entertaining title.

Which is not to say that Far Cry 3 is perfect. It's not although I find it very fun. After playing a lot of 3 now the biggest factor for me enjoying the title is simply how stealth was broken in Far Cry 2. Just fixing that makes the game a lot better for me.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #63 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:30:04 AM »

One of the posters in the comment section sums up the problem with FC2 pretty succinctly: you fight the same enemies at the same outposts, you turn the same bolt to fix your car, you jam A to fix the gun you picked up off the ground, keep taking your pills to stave off malaria for a few more hours. Rather than being truly immersive, it just ended up being repetitive, boring, and pointless.

But I did still enjoy it.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #64 on:** December 04, 2012, 11:06:43 AM »

malaria was like 1/3rd of the game. i'm actually sympathetic to the tom chick review. far cry 2 was my favorite game that year.

demi · « **Reply #65 on:** December 04, 2012, 11:12:09 AM »

:tomchickcry

Sooooo mad, lol.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #66 on:** December 04, 2012, 11:25:57 AM »

Far Cry 3 just feels like a bunch of popular games lumped into one game, which is fine. It's just completely different from 2 because of it. 2 was about feeling super vulnerable, 3 is about feeling like a god. That's cool. I just feel like that's the angle most games play.

maxy · « **Reply #67 on:** December 04, 2012, 11:36:46 AM »

Bought it,$70(cheap for my country).Tom Chick can kiss my ass.

I can already see that I will be playing this for a long long time.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #68 on:** December 04, 2012, 11:43:43 AM »

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All you people who complained about the respawning checkpoints in Far Cry 2, a game in which you were not Rambo and therefore did not get to single-handedly defeat the entire military of a Third World country, will finally get the chance to stop bad guys from spawning so that you can depopulate your open-world shooter of meaningful content. Congratulations. I hope you’re also enjoying getting to hunt boars with an assault rifle, which I’m pretty sure is in there because people whined that there were no lions and tigers and bears in Far Cry 2

Human Snorenado · « **Reply #69 on:** December 04, 2012, 12:10:09 PM »

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on December 04, 2012, 11:06:43 AM

malaria was like 1/3rd of the game. i'm actually sympathetic to the tom chick review. far cry 2 was my favorite game that year.

Another 1/3 of it was checkpoints, so you really only got 1/3 of a game

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #70 on:** December 04, 2012, 12:28:45 PM »

If Tom Chick hates it, it's a must-purchase for me

cool breeze · « **Reply #71 on:** December 04, 2012, 12:34:40 PM »

I haven't played Far Cry 3 yet, but I understand what Chick and the defenders are talking about, and while I agree, I can't care about the good game/bad sequel thing. Far Cry 2 was a good game/bad sequel too. While I'd like another game in the spirit of Far Cry 2, I just don't mind that Far Cry 3 is different.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #72 on:** December 04, 2012, 12:52:08 PM »

FC3 is unpacking right now on Steam!!

drew · « **Reply #73 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:28:05 PM »

stayed strong through my day off and didn't head out to pick this up, i really hope you guys are right about the price drop....

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #74 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:40:34 PM »

Guys at the office are playing this right now. It looks fucking boss. If I were a weaker man I would have bought this by now.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #75 on:** December 04, 2012, 06:43:27 PM »

-Shoot guys
-Stab guys
-Hunt animals
-Explore
-Find loot

Himu · « **Reply #76 on:** December 04, 2012, 07:04:37 PM »

Not bad qt3 review, but I didn't like Far Cry 2 because it was repetitive and the features he wishes made a return in Far Cry 3 (fixing cars, popping pills, unjamming guns) were poorly implemented at best, one-dimensional and grasping for "realism" for the sake of it at worst. It's fine when you're doing this a few times, but eventually all of this turns into repetitive routine and falls quite in line with the "gameness" that Tom describes that Far Cry 3 contains within his review.

Also, Far Cry 2 is janky as shit. Have you tried playing that game in 2012? I have.

Sho Nuff · « **Reply #77 on:** December 04, 2012, 07:12:17 PM »

The PC version of this is pretty fucked. Weird bugs where the controller gets stuck turning right when you pull LT to aim, lots of other weirdness. Definitely waiting for a patch on this

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #78 on:** December 04, 2012, 08:16:23 PM »

Didn't come across any problems in the hour or so I played on the PC earlier this afternoon. I'm not using the controller, though.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #79 on:** December 04, 2012, 08:50:41 PM »

I'm using controller on PC. I had that issue once in the first 20 min or so and never again for the following 5ish hours.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #80 on:** December 04, 2012, 09:56:46 PM »

i hate the character you play as. so much.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #81 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:11:39 PM »

The thing I hate about him most is they set him up as a whiny privileged bitch boy, but within 20 minutes he's a seasoned murder machine.

Himu · « **Reply #82 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:17:44 PM »

I haven't played the game yet, but from what I've read, the main character seems to be a depiction of "this is what would happen to a video game protagonist if it occurred in real life", along the same lines as Spec Ops.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #83 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:22:55 PM »

This game's too tame for it to convey that though. You don't see horrible shit constantly happening like in Spec Ops.

Himu · « **Reply #84 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:25:21 PM »

Well, from what I've read, Jason makes constant quips about video games and pop culture, so it uses the violence of the setting to make self aware comments on video games and violence. Seems real hit and miss but I'm interested in how it portrays it.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #85 on:** December 04, 2012, 10:31:19 PM »

Well I'm only like 6 hours deep so we'll see what happens later.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #86 on:** December 05, 2012, 06:17:09 PM »

Riding down the river on a jet ski, into a large tunnel, discovering a large underground structure that you can climb, that takes you over a bridge and through a cave into an enemy camp, where you can see a tiger cage and snipe it open so the lion moves towards me and I kill the leopard, which alerts the camp which leads to me slaughtering them in a panic and I didn't actually kill the panther as its killing the dogs.

It's basically super fun, and loveably racist.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #87 on:** December 05, 2012, 09:02:57 PM »

theres a scene where Jason and a chick are in a car and Jason's all "DRIVE STRAIGHT. STOP SWERVING. SERPENTINE!!!"

and I dont know if i they are purposely making this guy awful?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #88 on:** December 05, 2012, 09:13:57 PM »

I hope they are just making him as awful as they can. Then at the end, you get killed by the crazy guy. The last thing you see before the credits rolls is him standing over you and laughing at how lame you are. Won't happen, though.

Also, I really hate the way that the crafting is set up. It should be an in-game pop-up window, not something that you have to escape back to the main menu to access. Come on. And I hate how looting bodies and switching weapons it tied to the same button and how sometimes it's really hard to get the game to recognize that you're standing over a lootable body and want to loot it.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #89 on:** December 05, 2012, 09:32:58 PM »

I fucking hate how you HAVE to use a health kit to recover health if you have it.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #90 on:** December 05, 2012, 11:19:00 PM »

Yeah, some of the designs choices in this game just don't make much sense.

maxy · « **Reply #91 on:** December 06, 2012, 09:50:38 PM »

I officially declare this game as awesome "must buy Iwata^TM" game.

That is all.

drew · « **Reply #92 on:** December 08, 2012, 12:30:56 AM »

just came across these, it's really good, wish there were more...

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #93 on:** December 08, 2012, 01:07:33 AM »

Ok I'm officially over this game not being like 2.This game is awesome.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #94 on:** December 08, 2012, 07:22:32 PM »

Starting to really enjoy this game. I've found what weapons/strategies work for me when attacking enemy bases and I'm finding them the most fun aspect.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #95 on:** December 09, 2012, 12:04:21 AM »

When you get to the next island there's a no-killing stealth mission where if you get caught it resets to last checkpoint. Probably the least fun I've had all year with a game.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #96 on:** December 09, 2012, 12:08:55 AM »

Sounds about as fun as the same mission in Hotline Miami.

maxy · « **Reply #97 on:** December 09, 2012, 07:01:36 AM »

Did you people notice how awesome is the cover system in this game?

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #98 on:** December 09, 2012, 07:46:27 AM »

Yeah it's great. Hope it becomes the new standard. It's so much better than snap-on cover systems.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #99 on:** December 09, 2012, 08:05:29 PM »

this game is kinda losing steam. i've rescued the third friend...

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #100 on:** December 09, 2012, 09:27:08 PM »

Man, the mission quality really drops off on the second island. Think I might be done here. It was really fun for a few hours but I guess I'm too jaded to do the same repetitive side missions I've done in every other open world game this year.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #101 on:** December 10, 2012, 10:20:49 AM »

Haha, the ending is so cornball. The game's story never really delivers on the strong premise it sets up at the start.

The last mission is fucking rad though. It'd make Michael Bay queef.

FatalT · « **Reply #102 on:** December 10, 2012, 03:30:51 PM »

This game is amazing. I got it from Gamefly last week and I can't put it down. The stats screen says my game time is 9 hours and I've only completed the first story mission. I've just been running around liberating bases, upgrading my skills/equipment, and finding those cell towers. This might be my GotY.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #103 on:** December 12, 2012, 12:17:58 PM »

Got to the second island.

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Great. They killed off the only really good character.

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BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #104 on:** December 12, 2012, 10:22:25 PM »

Quote from: fistfulofmetal on December 12, 2012, 12:17:58 PM

Got to the second island.

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Great. They killed off the only really good character.
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Game gets way cornier. Awful story.

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #105 on:** December 12, 2012, 11:05:49 PM »

GREAT.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #106 on:** December 13, 2012, 12:08:32 AM »

Jason Brody literally looks at his hands and says "What have I become?"

Game writing.

FatalT · « **Reply #107 on:** December 13, 2012, 06:56:05 AM »

I'm about 13 and a half hours into this now and only 33% done according to the stats. I still haven't made it to the second island yet. I want to hurry up and get 100% so I can move on to Hitman: Absolution! I might end up just switching between the two to be honest because at the rate I'm going, Far Cry 3 is going to take me forever.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #108 on:** December 13, 2012, 08:30:44 AM »

Yeah, I'm taking it pretty slow too. Just reached the second island, and still having a blast.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #109 on:** December 13, 2012, 12:50:54 PM »

Some of my favorite missions so far have been the Lost Expedition mission. Unique locations, interesting set ups, lots of shootin'. I'd probably buy some DLC stuff like that.

FC3 is definitely at its best when it's ripping off Tomb Raider:

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BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #110 on:** December 13, 2012, 06:42:26 PM »

Yeah, the knife stuff was definitely the best part of the game.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #111 on:** December 14, 2012, 11:09:52 PM »

So...yeah:

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http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/1099141251763990598/EE814D51337DEF2DC1F860F52838B64486C2DB38/

This happend during the part where I "slayed the monster."

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Great Rumbler · « **Reply #112 on:** December 21, 2012, 12:39:54 PM »

Quote from: Eschaton on December 21, 2012, 12:08:13 PM

So is this intentionally the most offensive game ever? because if so they did a great job w/ that

You're a pasty white guy that has to save a bunch of backwoods tribals by doing what they are powerless to do, but only after they take you through a spirit journey and give you tattoos, thereby providing you with a connection to the Earth that you're modern civilization has robbed you of.

Also, you have to get into a knife fight with a gay rapist.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #113 on:** December 22, 2012, 09:41:35 PM »

Well, the story in Far Cry 3 is pretty bad. Most of it's just really predictable and the rest is kinda pointless. Making the best character in the game vanish midway through was a really dumb decision, too.

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The big problem with the ending was giving you a choice. It would have made more sense if they'd treated the act of playing game as the choice itself, meaning that by playing all the way through you've already made the choice to go down that dark path of violence and death.

Never mind that the "bad" ending is probably the worst thing ever. I mean, honestly, Ubisoft.

And they really should have gone full crazy, instead of just giving you a few glimpses of it during those awesome drug sequences. More Apocalypse Now, less generic FPS missions.

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Lot's of missed opportunities really, but it's a videogame so whattaya gonna do?

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #114 on:** December 22, 2012, 09:58:51 PM »

Since I'm never gonna finish the game I looked up the ending on wiki:

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The "Kill your friends then fuck Citra then get fucking STABBED TO DEATH" ending sounds pretty awesome TBH.

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BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #115 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:38:40 PM »

The bad ending was some soap opera-tier heeeeelarity.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #116 on:** December 22, 2012, 10:42:10 PM »

Wait no, I'm thinking of the good ending. The bad ending is just dumb.

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #117 on:** December 23, 2012, 12:36:00 AM »

But First Person Sex man.

demi · « **Reply #118 on:** December 26, 2012, 04:04:37 PM »

Game is sweet as fuck.

demi · « **Reply #119 on:** December 28, 2012, 06:31:00 PM »

Holy shit, lol. Is this the first game to have first person sex? Jason was pounding that jungle muff.

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Author Topic: Far Cry 3 (Read 11570 times)