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Far Cry 3 |OT| Sex, Drugs, and the Call of Battle in the Uncharted
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
So I'm guessing that far cry 3 is available on green man gaming, but not available in australia?
I spent about 4 hours with the game. All I can say it's RDR of this year. Hunting and side quests are as much fun as the main quests. I mean I spent about an hour playing poker and I'm having a blast. Totally a GOTY material here.
I'll try to write more impressions later on and see if it holds up all way through. So far, im very impressed.
I'll try to write more impressions later on and see if it holds up all way through. So far, im very impressed.
Dog Problems
Banned
Damnit, I was going to pre-order it until I read this. Has it happened anymore?
iamvin22
Industry Verified
unless you post a video, from everything i have seen both HD twins are the same and locked at 30fps. would like to see GAF video of GAF members saying its less than 30 fps.
I can confirm that the jeeps keep rolling in... .
Well I am not going to post a video - I just giving you my honest opinion, and you can either take it or leave it. My view is that the game is definitely not running at a consistent 30fps. I've got nothing to prove, and nothing to gain by deliberately deceiving you.
I would have a very hard time believing it runs at a locked 30 fps on console. I don't think I've ever seen an open world console game that didn't have framedrops, and certainly not one as pretty as this one.
iamvin22
Industry Verified
Not saying your opinion is wrong, just saying based off the the videos within the last week posted by game websites shows parity between the two.
i just wanted to see what your seeing on your end so we get an idea of bad fps. thats all
Massive Nights
Member
Can anyone else who's played it comment on the jeep-ageddon comment above. It didn't seem that way in the Total Biscuit play through I watched.
SirIgbyCeaser
Banned
Thing is, frame rate fluctuation is incredibly noticeable when you're inputting controls.
I doubt the ps3 and 360 version are anymore different than the Assasins creed on ps3 and 360. Considering its the exact same studio, and lets not forget. E3 demo was on a ps3 dev kit.
And from what i've seen of comparison videos out now. They have parity.
Patrick Bateman
Member
Is there any reason to keep those poker cards and chips?
Achievement for a full deck of cards or something?
Achievement for a full deck of cards or something?
That's what I've gathered from around the webs too. Damn nuisance it is, as it seems Steam is the only place I can get it digitally?
I'M NOT USED TO PAYING >$50
$40
Krappadizzle
Member
Pretty much this. I have no issues whatsoever with Jeeps. I see them occasionally but half the time they are filled with friendliest so?! When I do see an enemy jeep I usually can hear it coming and by the time it gets to me I either have c4 ready or hide in a bush and just avoid them. No biggie.
I'm glad they chose for this.
Also, I did a wanted dead quest. And in the middle of raiding some dude's farm my buddies arrived in a jeep and killed two of the guys on the farm
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
How are you supposed to take on Sharks ? Melee ? or Bows ? I don't think guns would work underwater.
The totalbiscuit and giant bomb videos looked pretty fun. Far cry 1 was enjoyable until a certain point, and I never played Far Cry 2.
Is this worth it at 35 euros from gmg?
According to the GB video you can engage them in a QTE (and skin them) underwater.
Is this worth it at 35 euros from gmg?
According to the GB video you can engage them in a QTE (and skin them) underwater.
Haven't been fighting sharks my self. But I saw in a gameplay vid that you can snipe them from the beach.
First impressions of multiplayer on pc: it's terrible.
First, matches don't seem to start at all if the lobby has more than 6 players (simply says its waiting for 1 more player in spite of how many players arrive). Second, it's totally P2P, host migration and all, and the match cancels itself if too many players leave (which is easy with 6 players and seemingly no join in progress).
And, I have a bow with flaming arrows from the Insane edition, which should be awesome. But the game otherwise uses CODs overpowered weapons so I got mowed down everytime I tried to fire it.
Map editor seems wasted on a game like this..
Single player so far seems awesome but this isn't, I enjoyed Far Cry 2's multiplayer too; big maps with vehicles and no almost-instant kills with standard weapons..
First, matches don't seem to start at all if the lobby has more than 6 players (simply says its waiting for 1 more player in spite of how many players arrive). Second, it's totally P2P, host migration and all, and the match cancels itself if too many players leave (which is easy with 6 players and seemingly no join in progress).
And, I have a bow with flaming arrows from the Insane edition, which should be awesome. But the game otherwise uses CODs overpowered weapons so I got mowed down everytime I tried to fire it.
Map editor seems wasted on a game like this..
Single player so far seems awesome but this isn't, I enjoyed Far Cry 2's multiplayer too; big maps with vehicles and no almost-instant kills with standard weapons..
Messofanego
Banned
Yeah, it seems a mix of all those pacific island SE Asian countries. There's maori ("kia ora" is hello) and Indonesian ("Rakyat" is people, "Selemat tengah hari" is good day, "laba-laba" is spider) being spoken.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
banjoted
Member
Played this on PS3 for about an hour or so last night and was frankly alarmed by the frame rate and tearing. I'm not that fussy with that sort of thing normally but this was severe. Found little from a web search so had wondered if it was just me. The servers won't working last night so I'm hoping it's something to do with that. If not, I may well have to get the PC version instead sadly.
I took down four sharks by climbing on top of a small island and sniped them from there. Was really easy.
Here's a quick video of the disappearing objects issue I reported earlier.
I'll also have FRAPS open to see if I can record some of the jeep chaos. At the least, it hasn't been as insane as my example since then. Maybe since I've captured a few areas now.
I'll also have FRAPS open to see if I can record some of the jeep chaos. At the least, it hasn't been as insane as my example since then. Maybe since I've captured a few areas now.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It's $70 on steam. :/
SJRB
Gold Member
In all fairness, it IS pretty silly that this entire tribe of people hails me as the king because I escaped some nutjob's camp. That introduction should've taken more time, the very first mission everyone is basically "hey Jason what's up bro. You're an awesome warrior" and I'm like "what the fuck is going on".
We should have gotten two or three missions where I prove my worth.
But still, this game is so awesome, wow. Komodos are the scariest things ever though, jesus. Game turns into some straight up first person horror game when you're in the jungle and have a pack of these things chasing you.
We should have gotten two or three missions where I prove my worth.
But still, this game is so awesome, wow. Komodos are the scariest things ever though, jesus. Game turns into some straight up first person horror game when you're in the jungle and have a pack of these things chasing you.
ResidentDante
Member
poor kitty
Holy shit! :O
I hate meeting tigers, pumas etc. they are really agressive and scare the shit out of me!
Patrick Bateman
Member
Is there any reason to keep those poker cards and chips?
Achievement for a full deck of cards or something?
Anyone?
Achievement for a full deck of cards or something?
Anyone?
SJRB
Gold Member
You can play a game of poker at several places on the island, my best guess is collecting the cards will improve your chances. Can you even sell them? I don't recall seeing them on the sell items list, aren't they just collectibles?
The jeep spawns are only frequent in the areas which are pirate controlled. It's colored red on your map when you press M.
Also lol at getting surprise attacked by wildlife predators when you're sneaking up on pirates. I got ambushed by a leopard while setting up mines, kicked the leopard off me, shot it, got noticed by patrolling jeep, shot the driver while he was coming at me and got run over by the jeep.
And unleashing predators on pirates is fun, saw a group on a beach with a caged bear, I shot the cage, bear went on a rampage, threw in grenades too because I can and smiled all the way looting their corpses and skinning the Asian Black Bear.
GOTY!
Also lol at getting surprise attacked by wildlife predators when you're sneaking up on pirates. I got ambushed by a leopard while setting up mines, kicked the leopard off me, shot it, got noticed by patrolling jeep, shot the driver while he was coming at me and got run over by the jeep.
And unleashing predators on pirates is fun, saw a group on a beach with a caged bear, I shot the cage, bear went on a rampage, threw in grenades too because I can and smiled all the way looting their corpses and skinning the Asian Black Bear.
GOTY!
L0st Id3ntity
Member
Played 2 hours on pc, it's pretty good, but the "been there done that" vibe is strong with this one.
whassupbun
Member
After playing AC3 recently, I saw a cow in Far Cry 3 and thought "Hey this is also an Ubisoft game, maybe I can pet animals just like in AC3. Let me go and tell him what a good boy he is."
Fucking cow killed me in two hits.
Fucking cow killed me in two hits.
Slackbladder
Member
This is odd. Why can I not find Far Cry 3 on Steam? I'm in the UK.
Fuck it. Bought on GMG. Probably cheaper anyway.
Fuck it. Bought on GMG. Probably cheaper anyway.
There was some issue with the Steam version in the UK. Probably not resolved.
edit: not the game itself, but publishing etc.
Like Assassin's Creed III, it's not on Steam, some suggest it's some kind of exclusivity deal with GAME.
I ended up getting the Deluxe Edition of both from GMG for £34 each. I don't know if you're supposed to be able to use 2 codes at once, but it went through.
I am the only one who is really bothered by the sound compression they've used in the X360 version? I don't want to exaggregate the issue, but I don't think I have ever heard so bad sounds like this since the Dreamcast era. The cinematic dialogue and the music is fine, but everything else, especially the NPC lines and the animal sounds are awful. They sound like they have been encoded using a 96kpbs bitrate. Everything is muffled, my mono Beatles collection sounds like this. Not to mention, at the beginning of the game, when you are in a car, an NPC is talking to you and music plays in the background, there is no motor sound, like the game could not handle more than a few sound channels... It's totally strange, especially seeing that the game disc is not even full, it installed around 5.6 GB of data. It's not a problem with my console or my sound system, no other game sounds like this.
DualShadow
Member
Played a few hours tonight, really enjoying. The stealth is so much better than Far Cry 2.
Only problem is the game crashed a few times which is quite annoying.
Only problem is the game crashed a few times which is quite annoying.
Slackbladder
Member
Yeah. Just looked at the OP. Probably get Ass III from there as well.
I came to a small out outpost with three enemies and parked my jeep a few yards away. There were also two tigers in a cage. So I shot the lock to get the tigers to attack the three guys. Everything went according to plan and the tigers killed them. But stupid me didn't think about the fact that the tigers then would turn to ME. Hilarity broke out and I ended up running laps around the jeep with the two tigers hunting me down. I had just gotten the "cook grenade" perk and I took advantage of it. Cooked the grenade while still taking laps around the car. Turned around and threw the grenade under car. Had like a second to get away. BANG! Jeep explodes and kills the two tigers, and almost killing me. Had like 1/5th of the first life bar left. Phew!
Edit: The jeep spaws aren't that bad. Just drive past them, or if you're on foot, just stay out of the main road. OR just take over the nearest outpost and they should go away.