far cry 2 - fucking LOVE this game. it's like underrated ST/Amiga game HUNTER for the 21st century. or Midwinter, kinda reminds me of that. i've waited like 15 years for this game!
you should've seen the stealthy number i pulled on a guard post last night. 3 guards with AKs, all taken out one by one with silent pistol headshots from behind. they didn't know what hit them.
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
ok so i broke down and got some maps and have ground out EVERY SINGLE diamond case. i knew i would be driven by aspie rage to do it at some point.
and otm on the writing! pretty ingenious how the buddy missions/subversion submissions are all the same, but depending on which buddy you have, the explanation for each changes. so cool.
― goole, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i know it is not him but i like pretending the jackal is v/od by piven
― goole, Wednesday, 29 July 2009 17:10 (fifteen years ago) link
that because like all good men you want to hunt and kill jeremy piven
― wax onleck, wax affleck (jjjusten), Wednesday, 29 July 2009 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
hay can i give you guys a tip? you are only directed to go to one of the four locations around pala for the intro mission, but the other three still have ~interesting shit~ in them
― goole, Thursday, 30 July 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
There's a new trend that's been going around the gaming blogosphere: Playing Far Cry 2 under the rule of 'permanent death.' Basically, the object is to play the game on normal difficulty until you die once, and that's it. Saves are allowed, of course.
The people who are engaging in this mode are mostly writing about how permanent death affects the player's relationship to the plot and characters, ie the impact of not getting a do-over if a buddy is killed. Since I've started playing on permanent death, however, I've found that the changed dynamic of the game play is far more engaging than any differences in the plot/character development. I'm only about 8 percent into it so far, But the following differences make it an entirely new game:
-Since you don't want to die, you have to minimize all encounters with the enemy. Traveling on foot through everywhere but Pala and its outskirts, therefore, is the best way to avoid guard posts and patrols on the way to each objective. The effect of this is two-fold: Not only does it minimize the sometimes-tedious encounters with respawning guard posts and vehicle patrols, but it also heightens the tension whenever you have to sneak past a guard post or cross an intersection and risk getting run over. It also allows for more immersion with the world, since you are constantly looking for hidden paths around potential fire fights.
-Traveling on foot suddenly makes the "everyone is hostile" complaint a strength, and adds to the realism. Just think: If you were an armed covert agent on a sabotage mission, would you be cruising around in a jeep on the main roads behind enemy lines? Of course you are going to have an armed encounter every two minutes if you do that. Sneaking around on foot and trying not to die, therefore, is a natural response to the AI's hostile programming, and it allows you to act as an actual lone mercenary probably would.
-Raiding objectives requires more a conservative approach. It's best to pick-off the snipers and rocket launchers first, then run to the outskirts of the objective and take out the patrols searching for you.
Playing on permanent death is pointless the first time around, but as someone who is trying it on their second playthrough, I recommend attempting it at some point.
― gozer, Thursday, 30 July 2009 23:41 (fifteen years ago) link
normal difficulty? what about your buddy saves, do those count as dying. because, not to sound too aggro, i haven't died at all. i started playing on hard and it was... pretty hard.
― SNaKaTTaK (goole), Friday, 31 July 2009 15:03 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway the plot of this is seriously starting to rule
― SNaKaTTaK (goole), Friday, 31 July 2009 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
finished this! really great stuff in the second half, though the southern map is a lot harder to get around in, i found. good anti-climactic ending too. rad game!
― goole, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 14:56 (fifteen years ago) link
have not even done multiplayer once.
― goole, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:00 (fifteen years ago) link
multiplayer is ok, but nothing special. basically, its fundamental flaw is: Map Making Tool + General Public = Disaster
― #/.'#/'@ilikecats (g-kit), Tuesday, 18 August 2009 15:33 (fifteen years ago) link
oof. fuck that.
― goole, Tuesday, 18 August 2009 16:03 (fifteen years ago) link
£10 at HMV for both your xboxes and your PSlims.
a bargain I say.
the multi-player is broke like a cripples back, though.
― my opinionation (Hamildan), Saturday, 3 October 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
netflix on demand users, uwe boll has a present for u
― NAKES HAVE THE STAPLES IN THEM (jjjusten), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 09:24 (fourteen years ago) link
oh no way
― goole, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 18:35 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0400426/
― NAKES HAVE THE STAPLES IN THEM (jjjusten), Tuesday, 1 December 2009 18:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Michael Paré ... Paul Summers
lol of course
Udo Kier ... Dr. Lucas Krieger
aha yes that is lolzy, udo kier, ha ha
Anthony Bourdain ... Scientist
I HAVE TO SEE THIS
― goole, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 18:59 (fourteen years ago) link
Crysis 2 demo on XBL today apparently. Multi only though.
― JimD, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean if I'm going to demo this it's just so I can check out the sights, and I don't want people shooting me in the back of the head while I'm trying to do that.
― JimD, Tuesday, 25 January 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Was stoked to see this in action but no sessions have been available so far. This is why multiplayer only demos are stupid.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 27 January 2011 08:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah same here. Apparently it's very buggy once you do get in.
― JimD, Thursday, 27 January 2011 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
plays like a really clunky Call of Duty as far as i can tell. unimpressed.
― circa1916, Thursday, 27 January 2011 08:37 (thirteen years ago) link
wow this is just awful
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 28 January 2011 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
went 2 rounds, backed out of lobby and deleted from my drive. if this is representative, this is a complete disaster.
― O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Friday, 28 January 2011 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone play the actual game? i'm not really in the mood for another shooter but the reviews are good.
― adult music person (Jordan), Thursday, 24 March 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I've made a start on it. Kind of relieved how similar it is to the original farcry/crysis - I was worried that they'd change it into a gung ho console shooter, but no, it's still basically Metal Gear FPS. Lots of sneaking and hiding, all looks amazing (it opens in a fucked up Battery Park and the views over the Hudson are beautiful).
― JimD, Monday, 28 March 2011 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I still have to go back to Far Cry 2. It looked incredible but was just too damn hard for me.
― Mordy, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:01 (thirteen years ago) link
ditto
― adult music person (Jordan), Monday, 28 March 2011 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
This is hard too.
Haven't tried multi yet. Apparently the team that did the whole multiplayer side of it are the same people who used to be Free Radical! So my expectations are raised.
― JimD, Monday, 28 March 2011 18:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Huh, something kind of stupid keeps happening in this game. I go into an open area full of bad guys, spend half an hour clearing them out one by one, make my way over the the checkpoint then get killed and thrown back to where I started (which is pretty argh). But then I can't be arsed killing everyone again, so I just stealth my way over to the exit area and, um, finish the whole chunk in 2 minutes instead of 30. Feels like I could probably speed run this whole game in about 20 minutes total if I just chose not to bother actually fighting anyone.
― JimD, Friday, 1 April 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Bewildered C2 garnered such praise in the press. Nothing special about it, assuming you've played a FPS in the last 5-10 years or so.
― calstars, Tuesday, 12 April 2011 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Finished this today. It seemed to get uglier and uglier the further in I got - more pop in, more jaggies. And then the final section is in a place that should give you some amazing views across the city, but they just fogged it all out. Maybe that doesn't happen on PC? But yeah, not such a gorgeous game really, beyond it's first couple of hours.
Game itself held my interest enough to get me to the end, but only just. Plot was nonsense, level design wasn't hugely inspired, but cloaking and sniping stayed consistently fun.
― JimD, Tuesday, 17 May 2011 16:09 (thirteen years ago) link
so...far cry 3 comes out in like 2 weeks, and sounds intersting
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 23:12 (twelve years ago) link
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Monday, 26 November 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
On tuesday, I think. all the journos seem to be keen on it. I liked FC2, and will probably be picking this up at some point.
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 29 November 2012 01:11 (eleven years ago) link
this is the 3rd and final free game that came with my new video card. i didn't like fc2 all that much (so many awesome ideas with zzz execution) but i'm looking forward to this, hopefully it's not too super racist.
― adam, Thursday, 29 November 2012 02:45 (eleven years ago) link
(the others were sleepy dogs, great, and nu-hitman, pretty bad)
just finally got around to starting a playthrough of crysis 2 and wow i really really hate it so far
― i dream of booze pinata (jjjusten), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
i really wanted to like FC2 but got frustrated and stalled out on it. the save/checkpoint system (among other things) was really punishing, as i recall. excited about this one though.
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 29 November 2012 18:36 (eleven years ago) link
i have a thing about playing fps games like borderlands, stalker, crysis etc with a keyboard and mouse - love the way you can aim all precise rather than letting the xbox controller pad give a helping hand. however my pc is a few years old so it might only run far cry 3 at low spec. with that in mind, is it the kind of game that benefits from the precise aim system you get from a mouse, or does that not really apply? ie i find games like portal, splinter cell, batman, max payne etc are fine to play with the controller pad
― NI, Sunday, 2 December 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
Waiting for the Far Cry 3/McAfee patch.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 6 December 2012 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
Anyone played it yet? Any good?
(itt spacecadet tries to find xmas presents for Crysis-liking bf)
― a panda, Malmö (a passing spacecadet), Thursday, 6 December 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
i bought it and i'm excited about it but i haven't had a single minute free to try it
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 6 December 2012 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
this game looks dope
want a gaming PC (or new consoles) so bad rn
― ༼ ༎ຶ ෴ ༎ຶ༽ kma (cozen), Thursday, 6 December 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
it's ok. story is fucking dumb on some last samurai shit.
― adam, Thursday, 6 December 2012 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
yeah not looking forward to the story. mechanics are solid/fun though?
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Thursday, 6 December 2012 23:17 (eleven years ago) link
Bought a d/l code offa CL tonight. Still downloading.
The Giant Bomb guys raved about the mechanics and just dumped on the plot. So there's that.
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Friday, 7 December 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
i shot a shark dead from a clifftop, jumped into the water, skinned the shark, climbed out, threw a grenade into a pen of boars, skinned all of em, made me a backpack.
then a bunch of dudes showed up in a jeep but they got eaten by komodo dragons mid-gunfight. (i then skinned the komodo dragons.) gameplay is pretty good i'd say.
― adam, Friday, 7 December 2012 16:47 (eleven years ago) link
You can hunt tigers with grenades in this, and their buddy will eat you.
Got my sharkshins by standing on a shore with an AK.
Vaas' voice-actor will become a much bigger star after this(at least in the V/A world)
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Friday, 7 December 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
When a Jeep turns into a wood-chipper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=965OGK7s-Ug
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Sunday, 9 December 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link