<!--quoteo(post=1691634:date=Oct 28 2008, 06:25 PM:name=Shockwave)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shockwave @ Oct 28 2008, 06:25 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1691634"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Pedant. I haven't hit the obligatory 'aliens invade' section yet.
Svenpa, there is no such thing. There's Doom style 'Shoot at you until you die or they do' as far as I can tell. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> It's not pedantery when I correct the fundies. What makes you exempt? Aside from not being a fundie, I guess.
<!--quoteo(post=1691634:date=Oct 28 2008, 07:25 PM:name=Shockwave)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shockwave @ Oct 28 2008, 07:25 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1691634"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Svenpa, there is no such thing. There's Doom style 'Shoot at you until you die or they do' as far as I can tell. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
AbraWould you kindlyJoin Date: 2003-08-17Member: 19870Members
I havn't seen anyone pick anyone up. I have to test if you can actually place IEDs on stuff, might be a rightclick function or something - my IEDs would not even parent to the truck a threw them inside.
one of the first fights I got in, a dude tried to save another dude and I killed them both. At least it sounded that way. In these games, I'm usually in such dense foliage that I can't see what I'm shooting or who's shooting me.
"Far Cry 2... there are many ways to sell a game. Deceiving your customers is one of them."
Seriously they should win an award for how ridiculously deceptive their promotion was. That video was so contrived. I think watching it was more fun than I've had playing it.
The best part of the game is... the first person animations. The devs realize this, so they showcase the weapon jam animation every 30 seconds. This malaria must be mutating... because it has infected all of my guns. Dude, don't turn the gun left and right looking at it trying to figure out what's wrong with it. IT'S JAMMED, MORON! YES, AGAIN! Unjam it! I think a homemade rubber band pipe gun would work better than these things.
I agree with all of the previous criticisms. I nodded my head all the way down the line. This game is brain dead. In other words it feels like it's designed for exceptionally dumb people. There is just no motivation for doing any of the crap you are doing. They're like "oh, you're in Africa, you have to kill this guy, and you have Malaria, good luck, the rest of the story is up to your imagination". Maybe they should hire a 3rd grader as a consultant to think of a more engaging story line for their mindless shooter. Foliage is annoying. I don't mind the dense foliage in Crysis because enemies don't have xray vision through it like in FC2. I was so glad when I got a sniper rifle so I no longer had to fire blindly at muzzle flash through grass and bushes. Only Ron Jeremy could find his target through all the freakin bushes. Maybe that's who the main character is. And it's not malaria he's got, oh no, it's something much more sinister. I think I've got a story here! Far Cry 3, here I come!
ranting continues: I'm tired of the "play the way YOU want to play" crap. There was some MMO clone ad I saw recently that said this. It's like yeah, you can buy an AXE or a SWORD, so you can live any way you want! You can buy a red potion or blue potion, it's your life! In FC2, shoot the guy in the foot or the head: be WHOEVER you want to BE! False choices... it reminds me of the election...
The AI... in my first real encounter, I walked up to a scrap metal wall. Then I start getting shot... through the the wall, by the guy who apparently saw me through the wall. I'm like, no way, that is just too awful, I have to be getting shot from somewhere else... but no, it was just the loser AI.
I had no expectations for the game. I didn't see the promotional material until after it was out. I wasn't even going to buy it. But I was bored. It's definitely not an open-ended Crysis. Oh well. I even bought it on Steam so I can't sell remaining DRM installs...
QuaunautThe longest seven days in history...Join Date: 2003-03-21Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
<!--quoteo(post=1691672:date=Oct 28 2008, 05:48 PM:name=juice)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(juice @ Oct 28 2008, 05:48 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1691672"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->From the end of the video:
"Far Cry 2... there are many ways to sell a game. Deceiving your customers is one of them." Seriously they should win an award for how ridiculously deceptive their promotion was. That video was so contrived. I think watching it was more fun than I've had playing it.
The best part of the game is... the first person animations. The devs realize this, so they showcase the weapon jam animation every 30 seconds. This malaria must be mutating... because it has infected all of my guns. Dude, don't turn the gun left and right looking at it trying to figure out what's wrong with it. IT'S JAMMED, MORON! YES, AGAIN! Unjam it! I think a homemade rubber band pipe gun would work better than these things.
I agree with all of the previous criticisms. I nodded my head all the way down the line. This game is brain dead. In other words it feels like it's designed for exceptionally dumb people. There is just no motivation for doing any of the crap you are doing. They're like "oh, you're in Africa, you have to kill this guy, and you have Malaria, good luck, the rest of the story is up to your imagination". Maybe they should hire a 3rd grader as a consultant to think of a more engaging story line for their mindless shooter. Foliage is annoying. I don't mind the dense foliage in Crysis because enemies don't have xray vision through it like in FC2. I was so glad when I got a sniper rifle so I no longer had to fire blindly at muzzle flash through grass and bushes. Only Ron Jeremy could find his target through all the freakin bushes. Maybe that's who the main character is. And it's not malaria he's got, oh no, it's something much more sinister. I think I've got a story here! Far Cry 3, here I come!
ranting continues: I'm tired of the "play the way YOU want to play" crap. There was some MMO clone ad I saw recently that said this. It's like yeah, you can buy an AXE or a SWORD, so you can live any way you want! You can buy a red potion or blue potion, it's your life! In FC2, shoot the guy in the foot or the head: be WHOEVER you want to BE! False choices... it reminds me of the election...
The AI... in my first real encounter, I walked up to a scrap metal wall. Then I start getting shot... through the the wall, by the guy who apparently saw me through the wall. I'm like, no way, that is just too awful, I have to be getting shot from somewhere else... but no, it was just the loser AI.
I had no expectations for the game. I didn't see the promotional material until after it was out. I wasn't even going to buy it. But I was bored. It's definitely not an open-ended Crysis. Oh well. I even bought it on Steam so I can't sell remaining DRM installs...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You try hard to be funny and fail harder. Also, its usually a good idea to recognize the difference between gameplay types you like, and those you don't. Apparently, you just hate open world games. And I doubt anyone claimed you could play Far Cry 2 how you want- but they did claim, and easily accomplish, allowing you to take care of enemies the way you want. Hiding behind a tree, with grass all around? Throw a molotov to one side. That'll get 'em out of cover. Or, just surround them with fire thanks to your flamethrower, and watch the brilliance.
Also, its fairly common for shooters to have the wall problem, especially in open world games. Sometimes, your AI Routine can only handle so much. Honestly, they didn't deceive their customers once, I think you just fit into that same category that they made the story for: Idjits who don't quite realize that sometimes, not giving a ###### makes your life better.
douchebagatronCustom member titleJoin Date: 2003-12-20Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
ever since seeing that video ive been trying to get enemies to help each other to safety. I can't even wound one to the point where they fall down. ive died so many times because ive done nothing but shoot people in the legs, its getting infuriating.
X_StickmanNot good enough for a custom title.Join Date: 2003-04-15Member: 15533Members, Constellation
The best I've seen is a guy go down, drop his main weapon, then slowly struggle back to their feet (and draw their pistol). They can still move around, just they hobble and are slower. I've never seen another guy go over to help one.
However, it was pretty damn awesome (and cinematic) when I thought I took a guy out, only to hear a pistol shot fly past me, turn around and see a guy slumped on his knees taking potshots at me with a pistol while he held his side. That was pretty awesome.
-feels console'ish (dumbed down, lots of icons and little to no text, frequent pauses and explaining xyz) -weapons feel okay -voiceactors weren't that enthousiastic it seems. (please. help me get out of there.) -the car driving feels..rigid, like driving a car in some mod of a very old game. -scripted as heck, can't open a door before I shoot someone in the head? not even by bazooka? -surroundings look all the same to me
QuaunautThe longest seven days in history...Join Date: 2003-03-21Member: 14759Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
<!--quoteo(post=1691798:date=Oct 30 2008, 05:58 AM:name=Zaggy)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Zaggy @ Oct 30 2008, 05:58 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1691798"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->First try of the game!
First impressions:
-feels console'ish (dumbed down, lots of icons and little to no text, frequent pauses and explaining xyz) -weapons feel okay -voiceactors weren't that enthousiastic it seems. (please. help me get out of there.) -the car driving feels..rigid, like driving a car in some mod of a very old game. -scripted as heck, can't open a door before I shoot someone in the head? not even by bazooka? -surroundings look all the same to me
Will play some more :3<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Do play more. The early part of the game focuses a lot on a very small portion of the map. By the second and third missions, you're in a hellish desert, a sahara kind of desert, in huge valleys, with big plains, all kinds of stuff.
Yes, this game can feel very confined in the start. But its all to prepare you for the lovely vistas the game has to offer. I myself cant wait to get to the river called "The Heart of Darkness" <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" /> And I really enjoy the hunt for the Jackal, and listening to his diaries. I agree with the man, and if its possible, I hope we can live together as flatmates serving guns to the world. hunting for diamonds is an alright mini game in it all too. And best of all, free roam for the choosing after the initial "intro" to get you going.
X_StickmanNot good enough for a custom title.Join Date: 2003-04-15Member: 15533Members, Constellation
Drive From One Side Of The Map To The Other While Getting Shot By Literally Every NPC You See. No, You Can't Use A Car, Because It'll Get Exploded At One Of The 50 Checkpoints Between Here And There Then You Clear All The Checkpoints And Complete The Mission And Now You Have To Drive Back And Go Through All The Checkpoints Again And The NPCS Have Respawned So You Have To Do The Exact Same Journey Backwards And That's Just One Of The Standard Missions You Have To Do 400 Of: The Game
I'm actually one of the ones who liked this game. Yes, the missions were repetitive and simplistic for the most part, but I didn't mind clearing the same camps repeatedly because I found the combat fun.
I wouldn't have been bothered by the repetitive missions if it wasn't for the long and boring travel getting to the missions. Oh and if you do get killed on the way to a mission you get to make the same stupid journey again. Never finished the game.
I kinda got sick of it about 80% of the way through the game so I loaded up some trainers. Being a superman able to run as fast as a jeep, jump three stories high and fire M203 grenades at the RoF of an SMG makes that game incredibly more appealing.
<!--quoteo(post=1848838:date=May 27 2011, 03:55 PM:name=Sops)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sops @ May 27 2011, 03:55 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1848838"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I wouldn't have been bothered by the repetitive missions if it wasn't for the long and boring travel getting to the missions. Oh and if you do get killed on the way to a mission you get to make the same stupid journey again. Never finished the game.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
That, and screw the game for resetting the map every time I walk through the same damn outpost I just cleared (and thus get out of my car, and kill ze dudes).
Also, die in fires new map that I would have to explore anew and restock crap.
<!--quoteo(post=1848733:date=May 27 2011, 06:05 AM:name=X_Stickman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (X_Stickman @ May 27 2011, 06:05 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1848733"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Drive From One Side Of The Map To The Other While Getting Shot By Literally Every NPC You See. No, You Can't Use A Car, Because It'll Get Exploded At One Of The 50 Checkpoints Between Here And There Then You Clear All The Checkpoints And Complete The Mission And Now You Have To Drive Back And Go Through All The Checkpoints Again And The NPCS Have Respawned So You Have To Do The Exact Same Journey Backwards And That's Just One Of The Standard Missions You Have To Do 400 Of: The Game<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--> Ya, it's repetitive as hell if you keep playing, and if you're normal you'll never finish the game, but you'll probably still get 8-10 hours worth of entertainment out of it before you figure that out when you start playing. For the 6 whatever dollars it was on steam it was worth it.
I think the game was critically underrated too. It was not a fun game to finish, you get bored before it's over, but ffs, portal 2 had completely run out of content in that time period and then some. If you quit after it got boring you'll definitely have a few good memories of it.
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Svenpa, there is no such thing. There's Doom style 'Shoot at you until you die or they do' as far as I can tell. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /><!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's not pedantery when I correct the fundies. What makes you exempt? Aside from not being a fundie, I guess.
B..bu..but the video!
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I have to test if you can actually place IEDs on stuff, might be a rightclick function or something - my IEDs would not even parent to the truck a threw them inside.
"Far Cry 2... there are many ways to sell a game. Deceiving your customers is one of them."
Seriously they should win an award for how ridiculously deceptive their promotion was. That video was so contrived. I think watching it was more fun than I've had playing it.
The best part of the game is... the first person animations. The devs realize this, so they showcase the weapon jam animation every 30 seconds. This malaria must be mutating... because it has infected all of my guns. Dude, don't turn the gun left and right looking at it trying to figure out what's wrong with it. IT'S JAMMED, MORON! YES, AGAIN! Unjam it! I think a homemade rubber band pipe gun would work better than these things.
I agree with all of the previous criticisms. I nodded my head all the way down the line. This game is brain dead. In other words it feels like it's designed for exceptionally dumb people. There is just no motivation for doing any of the crap you are doing. They're like "oh, you're in Africa, you have to kill this guy, and you have Malaria, good luck, the rest of the story is up to your imagination". Maybe they should hire a 3rd grader as a consultant to think of a more engaging story line for their mindless shooter. Foliage is annoying. I don't mind the dense foliage in Crysis because enemies don't have xray vision through it like in FC2. I was so glad when I got a sniper rifle so I no longer had to fire blindly at muzzle flash through grass and bushes. Only Ron Jeremy could find his target through all the freakin bushes. Maybe that's who the main character is. And it's not malaria he's got, oh no, it's something much more sinister. I think I've got a story here! Far Cry 3, here I come!
ranting continues:
I'm tired of the "play the way YOU want to play" crap. There was some MMO clone ad I saw recently that said this. It's like yeah, you can buy an AXE or a SWORD, so you can live any way you want! You can buy a red potion or blue potion, it's your life! In FC2, shoot the guy in the foot or the head: be WHOEVER you want to BE! False choices... it reminds me of the election...
The AI... in my first real encounter, I walked up to a scrap metal wall. Then I start getting shot... through the the wall, by the guy who apparently saw me through the wall. I'm like, no way, that is just too awful, I have to be getting shot from somewhere else... but no, it was just the loser AI.
I had no expectations for the game. I didn't see the promotional material until after it was out. I wasn't even going to buy it. But I was bored. It's definitely not an open-ended Crysis. Oh well. I even bought it on Steam so I can't sell remaining DRM installs...
Reminds me too much of Doom 3.
Anyways, this game does look fun, but I dont have a good enough PC to run it.
I'll pick it up for the PS3 more than likely, but I just got Digea 3 and Eternal Sonata.
And i'm playing Warhammer too haha.
"Far Cry 2... there are many ways to sell a game. Deceiving your customers is one of them."
Seriously they should win an award for how ridiculously deceptive their promotion was. That video was so contrived. I think watching it was more fun than I've had playing it.
The best part of the game is... the first person animations. The devs realize this, so they showcase the weapon jam animation every 30 seconds. This malaria must be mutating... because it has infected all of my guns. Dude, don't turn the gun left and right looking at it trying to figure out what's wrong with it. IT'S JAMMED, MORON! YES, AGAIN! Unjam it! I think a homemade rubber band pipe gun would work better than these things.
I agree with all of the previous criticisms. I nodded my head all the way down the line. This game is brain dead. In other words it feels like it's designed for exceptionally dumb people. There is just no motivation for doing any of the crap you are doing. They're like "oh, you're in Africa, you have to kill this guy, and you have Malaria, good luck, the rest of the story is up to your imagination". Maybe they should hire a 3rd grader as a consultant to think of a more engaging story line for their mindless shooter. Foliage is annoying. I don't mind the dense foliage in Crysis because enemies don't have xray vision through it like in FC2. I was so glad when I got a sniper rifle so I no longer had to fire blindly at muzzle flash through grass and bushes. Only Ron Jeremy could find his target through all the freakin bushes. Maybe that's who the main character is. And it's not malaria he's got, oh no, it's something much more sinister. I think I've got a story here! Far Cry 3, here I come!
ranting continues:
I'm tired of the "play the way YOU want to play" crap. There was some MMO clone ad I saw recently that said this. It's like yeah, you can buy an AXE or a SWORD, so you can live any way you want! You can buy a red potion or blue potion, it's your life! In FC2, shoot the guy in the foot or the head: be WHOEVER you want to BE! False choices... it reminds me of the election...
The AI... in my first real encounter, I walked up to a scrap metal wall. Then I start getting shot... through the the wall, by the guy who apparently saw me through the wall. I'm like, no way, that is just too awful, I have to be getting shot from somewhere else... but no, it was just the loser AI.
I had no expectations for the game. I didn't see the promotional material until after it was out. I wasn't even going to buy it. But I was bored. It's definitely not an open-ended Crysis. Oh well. I even bought it on Steam so I can't sell remaining DRM installs...<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You try hard to be funny and fail harder. Also, its usually a good idea to recognize the difference between gameplay types you like, and those you don't. Apparently, you just hate open world games. And I doubt anyone claimed you could play Far Cry 2 how you want- but they did claim, and easily accomplish, allowing you to take care of enemies the way you want. Hiding behind a tree, with grass all around? Throw a molotov to one side. That'll get 'em out of cover. Or, just surround them with fire thanks to your flamethrower, and watch the brilliance.
Also, its fairly common for shooters to have the wall problem, especially in open world games. Sometimes, your AI Routine can only handle so much. Honestly, they didn't deceive their customers once, I think you just fit into that same category that they made the story for: Idjits who don't quite realize that sometimes, not giving a ###### makes your life better.
However, it was pretty damn awesome (and cinematic) when I thought I took a guy out, only to hear a pistol shot fly past me, turn around and see a guy slumped on his knees taking potshots at me with a pistol while he held his side. That was pretty awesome.
First impressions:
-feels console'ish (dumbed down, lots of icons and little to no text, frequent pauses and explaining xyz)
-weapons feel okay
-voiceactors weren't that enthousiastic it seems. (please. help me get out of there.)
-the car driving feels..rigid, like driving a car in some mod of a very old game.
-scripted as heck, can't open a door before I shoot someone in the head? not even by bazooka?
-surroundings look all the same to me
Will play some more :3
First impressions:
-feels console'ish (dumbed down, lots of icons and little to no text, frequent pauses and explaining xyz)
-weapons feel okay
-voiceactors weren't that enthousiastic it seems. (please. help me get out of there.)
-the car driving feels..rigid, like driving a car in some mod of a very old game.
-scripted as heck, can't open a door before I shoot someone in the head? not even by bazooka?
-surroundings look all the same to me
Will play some more :3<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Do play more. The early part of the game focuses a lot on a very small portion of the map. By the second and third missions, you're in a hellish desert, a sahara kind of desert, in huge valleys, with big plains, all kinds of stuff.
And I really enjoy the hunt for the Jackal, and listening to his diaries. I agree with the man, and if its possible, I hope we can live together as flatmates serving guns to the world. hunting for diamonds is an alright mini game in it all too. And best of all, free roam for the choosing after the initial "intro" to get you going.
--Scythe--
(Disclaimer: I haven't played Far Cry 2.)
<img src="http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m116/d00m3dd00d/hahaohwow.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
Also invulnerable.
--Scythe--
That, and screw the game for resetting the map every time I walk through the same damn outpost I just cleared (and thus get out of my car, and kill ze dudes).
Also, die in fires new map that I would have to explore anew and restock crap.
Ya, it's repetitive as hell if you keep playing, and if you're normal you'll never finish the game, but you'll probably still get 8-10 hours worth of entertainment out of it before you figure that out when you start playing. For the 6 whatever dollars it was on steam it was worth it.
I think the game was critically underrated too. It was not a fun game to finish, you get bored before it's over, but ffs, portal 2 had completely run out of content in that time period and then some. If you quit after it got boring you'll definitely have a few good memories of it.