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Far Cry 3 |OT| Sex, Drugs, and the Call of Battle in the Uncharted
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I love the wingsuit. My favorite way to get around is to combine the sprint boost syringes with the wingsuit. Just speed up a hill and launch myself off. Loads of fun. The player movement in general in this game is one of its best parts.
catotheyounger
Member
I think the second island is a big let down.
Visualante2
Member
I'm having more fun taking the base camps. But that may just be because I'm more experienced in it. I feel like they use vertical space in more interesting ways, but overall I agree. The militia are completely uninteresting.. sure the place is torn apart but I don't really get a sense of that tension. A few crying women isn't going to phase the Brodinator.
ResidentDante
Member
Damn, that sounds fun! Gotta try this out later today!
XANDER CAGE
Member
Uh... not really. Central and South Africa are a bit different.
NoirVisage
Banned
I just saw 4 Rakyat men hunt and kill an older couple in a car..it was..surreal. If you wait around long enough, you see some random madness among them.
I choose C) not take advice on how to act from you, and continue to call you out when your whining gets excessive.
I choose C) not take advice on how to act from you, and continue to call you out when your whining gets excessive.
Visualante2
Member
Cargo dump, another great side quest for photography lovers.
kinda Ghostbusters vibes with the GPS tracker, what a weird guy
MagicWithEarvin
Member
In the quest "All In"
Is this quest glitched? Every time I press the prompt to punch the prisoner, the scene just sits there doing nothing. The game didn't freeze on me or anything. I reloaded the checkpoint.
My comment was as serious the group I was talking about in the first place.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
Ok, so I'm about an hour into the game and I'm thinking about going hardest difficulty. what does that change? does it change the AI at all? because I'm on medium right now and I'd say the amount of bullets enemy absorb is perfect.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
oops I stepped into a dick-wagging contest. my bad
XANDER CAGE
Member
I think I like Handsome Jack more, but Vaas is awesome. It's a good year for crazy.
SJRB
Gold Member
Contender for antagonist of the generation as far as I'm concerned.
The "definition of insanity" was extremely well done.
Handsome Jack is one of the only characters this year to make me laugh.
My sense of humor is immature, but Butt Stallion was fucking hilarious to me.
While we're talking about Vaas, X-Play did a segment on his motion capture and the actor that plays him: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTL9kzcUuvA
Just got to "that" part that they showed off at all the Ubisoft press conferences before the game released.... it's a bit disappointing how much the graphics have been toned down since it was originally show.
WARNING, large spoilers ahead:
Youtube proves my point:
Original clip from 6 months ago, notice the extreme amount of dense foliage in the background behind
, and the general level of details:
http://youtu.be/iaGSSrp49uc?t=1m42s
Compare to how it actually arrived in the final game:
http://youtu.be/Q2rV-mURGFw?t=19m54s
Oh well, such is the reality of releasing a game on 7 year old hardware I guess. Just makes you think what we *could* have had. Shame.
WARNING, large spoilers ahead:
Youtube proves my point:
Original clip from 6 months ago, notice the extreme amount of dense foliage in the background behind
Vaas, and the waterfalls inside the cave
http://youtu.be/iaGSSrp49uc?t=1m42s
Compare to how it actually arrived in the final game:
http://youtu.be/Q2rV-mURGFw?t=19m54s
Oh well, such is the reality of releasing a game on 7 year old hardware I guess. Just makes you think what we *could* have had. Shame.
You were under impression they would be showing the console version of the game at a press conference to show how technically impressive the game is?
The graphics weren't "toned down", they were just showing the PC version.
What I saw in your first YouTube link is pretty much what I'm playing. Though I haven't reached that specific part, yet.
Nope, I am playing on PC maxed also... it looks just like the 2nd clip (just a littler higher res). Unless you are completely blind it is impossible to miss the huge differences.
You're seriously trying to tell me that the PC version maxed out looks just like the console version, with a "little higher res"?
I mean that's just a straight up lie.
I haven't played Far Cry 3 on consoles, but I just watched your second YouTube video and that Xbox 360 version does NOT look like the Far Cry 3 that I'm playing.
To me they look as different as an Xbox game and an Xbox 360 game.
I don't know why you posted a console video to compare to the tech demo in the first place anyway. Xbox 360 game doesn't look as good as trade show tech demo, what a surprise!
Your point may actually be valid, I don't even know. But I would need to see a comparison of the maxed PC version and the E3 demo.
SJRB
Gold Member
You got ways to go. If you want to know specifically you can check progress in the handbook menu, it shows exactly what mission you're on in regards to the total missions.
Tricky I Shadow
Banned
Yes.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
hey, so do you guys know what the difficulty settings change?
Maybe come back after you have played that section on PC =0)
I know, I'll record that exact section later tonight (on my PC, maxed)... and post it up again next to the console version and the press conference version. The difference between the console and PC will be minimal (other than the abysmal console frame rate)... the difference between the press conference version and the other versions will be HUGE.
Not looking for an argument, I just find these kinds of things quite interesting... the differences between what we are shown during development (promotional material etc) and what we end up playing.
Absolutely. I wasn't discrediting your overall point, just rather your odd choice of comparison material.
Like I played Far Cry 3 on PC all day Tuesday and it did not look anything like what I just saw in that Xbox 360 footage, and it looks very much like the tech demo, to me anyway.
Still not as bad as the disparity between Crysis PC and Crysis XBLA, though. Dear God. They removed like half the jungle to get that game to run.
The amount of shots it takes to kill you, I guess. I've been playing on the highest difficulty since the beginning and I can't say It's that much of a challenge. Especially considering the fact that you get pretty much half the weapons for free once you've activated a tower or two.
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Finally beat the game...
What an incredible experience.
What an incredible experience.
Story sucks, awesome gameplay, right?
I'm not that far, but that's kind of the impression I've got from people who have played it longer than I have.
thelurkinghorror
Member
An update (7mb) popped on my Xbox Live 30 minutes ago... I don't know if the patch fool me but my game seems smoother.
edgardavids
Member
Pretty much. Hes a good character though.
Do the console ports display version numbers on the main menu? If so, did it change?
MagicWithEarvin
Member
Wha..? The story is pretty good for this type of game. There are some parallels to Alice in Wonderland, and that's something I'd like to discuss in a spoiler thread. Which, btw, is something I just put up (do not enter if you haven't beat the game):
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=503138
And yeah, the gameplay all the way through was super. Stealth FTW.
10 hours in, loving the game so far. I havent progressed the story for like 4 hours...just running around doing crazy shit.
I loved the opening to the game. In the first 5 minutes, you establish where you are, who you are, who the good guys are, who the bad guys are, why you want to kill the bad guys and what your ultimate objective in the game is. Amazing.
I also like the little nods to other games i have seen so far...Assassins Creed and Bioshock (in the same area too)
I loved the opening to the game. In the first 5 minutes, you establish where you are, who you are, who the good guys are, who the bad guys are, why you want to kill the bad guys and what your ultimate objective in the game is. Amazing.
I also like the little nods to other games i have seen so far...Assassins Creed and Bioshock (in the same area too)
thelurkinghorror
Member
I don't think, I have not found anything
Visualante2
Member
RE: Alice. Vaas =
? I wonder who the
is then, maybe Buck. I kinda ignored the quotes because it seemed a bit silly to me, like they're trying to elevate it by making such a lofty comparison instead of letting the game speak for itself.
mad hatter
Cheshire cat
I don't think it's actually that deep. Probably giving them too much credit.
Yeah I like the in medias res they're doing, seems like the ideal narrative structure for games really.
SJRB
Gold Member
I think you are overthinking the quotes. They're there to emphasize the descent into insanity theme in the story, they're not part of the narrative. I loved them nontheless.
But if any, Dennis is the cat I suppose.
Big-ass Ramp
hella bullets that's true
so is the end of the story as bad as giant bomb folks say? they're saying it ruins the game
I am nowhere near the end but this whole "bad ending so the whole game is ruined" meme needs to die.
If you enjoyed 20 hours of gameplay I don't see how a disappointing ending can ruin a game.
I can't help think that these fucking Rakyat warriors should be showing up while I'm taking the goddamn stronghold. I just had a running battle with something like 25 pirates all on my own, some disposable bodies pouring in firepower would have been helpful, especially when they show up straight after I kill the last super-armoured asshole.
Also, strongholds completely killing off wandering patrols kind of sucks for fun free-roaming sandbox times. Hoping for mods.
Also, strongholds completely killing off wandering patrols kind of sucks for fun free-roaming sandbox times. Hoping for mods.
Angelus Errare
Banned
Well there are two endings, both of them are kinda...dumb. The only thing good about one of them are boobies and first person sex. But overall they're both a dumb ending to a dumb story using a dump trope with a dumb main character.
You still run into random events with pirates every now and then even in areas which are liberated. They're usually fighting Rakyates so it's not much of a challenge, though.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Couple questions for those farther into the game.
I see people talking about the second island. Is that visable on the map from the get go? I see a bunch of stuff to the South I haven't even explored yet.
Also are there more guns unlocked in the stores later on? I swore I saw a picture of someone using a M4.
I see people talking about the second island. Is that visable on the map from the get go? I see a bunch of stuff to the South I haven't even explored yet.
Also are there more guns unlocked in the stores later on? I swore I saw a picture of someone using a M4.