Just Cause 2

i kind of wish there was a targetting lockon or something, even just for sniping guys from the parachute

For me this just looks like one of those games that seems amazing for the first 4-6 hours / look at this world & these toys you can play with in it! but after that it's the kind of thing I'd never touch again - like Far Cry 2 or the last Red Faction game or Infamous (actually it looks most like Mercenaries 2 w/o co-op, a game I skipped anyway). Or what was that B&W open world WWII game set in Paris that came out a few months ago - I've already forgotten? Too many of these sort of mid-tier open world games already this generation IMO.

i agree, but i like to have a pick-up-and-play omg look at this crazy shit you can do game lying around to destress with for a half-hour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3rSSd0opis&feature=channel

damn, the demo is so much fun.
i'm gonna wait on this, but it looks like a must get.
Every review seems to suggest that the "game" is no fun, but just exploring and blowing shit up is non-stop wonderland.

I've been playing this demo so much. It was a mistake not getting it last week I think. Next time I have the chance, I'm picking it up.

sorry mordy! ;_;

It's okay. Your advice was good -- I couldn't have known at the time how amazing the game is.

finally going to get back into some gaming, and will download this tonight. is it playable as a single player?

It's single player only, and yes, the demo is very playable in a "pick up for half an hour, ignore missions and fuck around" way.

Is it a bit tiresome how huge and samey the map seems?

okay had a bash at this. seems okaaay, but not totally grabbed by it which i was surprised at because it sounded like my sort of thing. i still might get hold of the full thing, when the price is right.

curious to know if there's any kind of recognition in the plot that you're a terrorist?

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/04/02/postcards-from-panau/#more-27905

kinda makes me want this

Traded in some stuff and picked this up today. Hope to get some time with it after Barcelona-Arsenal finishes.

i don't like the chopper controls in this at all

I needed a new run around being a dick and causing mayhem game - so far, this is outstanding at that. I guess I'll have to do enough of the story to unlock all the toys, but the "plot" sure isn't much of a hook. Found the Mile High Club, which I plan to shoot down at the first opportunity (I had a weaponless chopper and no explosives, and then had to make dinner). Huge frickin' world - really surprised at just how full it is.

i've only played the demo, so would you recommend the purchase? i need something vast to keep me amused

(the demo didn't last long, and i only covered a few hundred yards of area so i couldn't get the sense of a 'large world' from that)

(I had a weaponless chopper and no explosives, and then had to make dinner)

what is there a masterchef subgame or something

i wonder what playing this would be like if one had never played GTA (like me)

(I had a weaponless chopper and no explosives, and then had to make dinner)

what is there a masterchef subgame or something

Should have stated I had to stop playing and make dinner. Though that would be cool if there were times where the game just switched you up and went Cooking Mama on your ass.

tracer you've never played any GTAs?

I've only played a few hours so haven't seen that much - but when the map opens up and I see how little of the game I've explored it seems huge. Hope to get a little more time with it today.

Apparently you can't shoot down the Mile High Club. However, I was able to fire into the club with a helicopter gunship and kill everyone and blow up all the neon signs.

I'm having insane amounts of fun with this game - I've now done one mission for each of the factions, but just screwed around for another 6 hours. It is incredibly huge - I've checked out less than 10% of the land. Decided to run between two dots on the map that seemed pretty close - took me almost ten minutes.

Feels like one of the biggest gameworlds I've ever played (after WoW and like Daggerfall obv).

cozen - nope.

Kind of pressed for cash right now, so I haven't picked this up yet, but I'm still finding funny shit to do in the demo. My latest pastimes:

1. starting a big stupid road chase and hopping from motorcycle to motorcycle, elbowing their riders off as I land

2. attracting a ton of heat, hopping on top of a car, loading it up with triggered explosives, waiting for the inevitable roadblock and sailing away at the last second on the parachute as the bomb-covered car smashes into the line of soldiers and jeeps. I worry that I may enjoy this too much.

About Just Cause 2 as a B flick:
http://shouldntbegaming.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/impressions-just-cause-2-and-the-unserious-game/

this is great!

some lols, much otm

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/1632-Just-Cause-2

just CUZ!

muthafucking game is sweet

couldn't get into the controls at first, but man it was worth it.

also was basically baffled at first what this game was all about, but it's just so simple and addictive really. can't stop playing it. stupid world cup getting in the way.

i've realised what this game reminds me of, Midwinter 2 FoF. and in some similar ways, Hunter

just started playing this, and found the mile high club within the first few hours. OMG insanity...

yeah that's a mad base. the destroying satellites mission is pretty wow too.

love how this is just so simple to play

have resisted its grasp tonight so that i can indulge in a hefty session on wednesday when no football is on.

stuff to blow up gets kinda repetetive pretty quickly, but I'm still enjoying this. I'm still discovering new and unique bases for starters.

Like I was all woaah at flying by 737 happily towards a mysterious island and noticed a large tower in the distance and suddenly BLAM it knocked me out the sky. i'm guessing some kind of emp tower.

just enjoying trying to find all the stuff, like really want to complete the 'driving unique vehicles' list.

I'm still playing the crap out of this game. Passed 100 hours this weekend, and I've collected all the skulls, black boxes and drug drops, 100% of all the towns done (still a few things to find in a couple of the cities) and am slowly wiping out the airfields, harbors and military bases. I think I have a couple of oil rigs left to finish off as well.

Gave up on the story though - kept failing at killing the bosses on top of the towers and decided since the story sucked anyways I'd just do all the other stuff.

ok thx to goole i have this now so here is my rundown

1. pretty fucking fun
2. airplane controls suuuuuck so much that i refuse to do the race missions
3. weirdly aimless - like the game actually kinda makes it difficult to progress down the storyline a lot of the time by putting tantalizing stuff in the way or making travel lead you through hot zones and whatever.
4. it is probable that i am stupid here, but i ran out of plantable explosives and have never found more of them anywhere, which is getting v v annoying at this point.
5. this might be one of the worst written games dialogwise ever.
6. really looks great - the level of detail is kinda o_O, especially since very little of it is actually functional.

4. Call the black market dealer. If you haven't gotten that ability yet, you just have to hope to find some more.

Can someone describe for me what a blissful 30 minutes of this game is like?

yeah i can call the black market dealer but plantable explosives dont show up so i dont know if i just havent unlocked them yet or?

I thought "triggered explosives" were pretty early on. You unlock stuff by causing chaos, so just shoot up some water towers, generators and the like.

another thing that keeps coming back to me is that its basically a tropical locale mapped onto the basic functionality of red faction guerilla with batman arkham grappling hook thrown in. its a bizarrely backwards looking game in a lot of ways.

xpost yeah idk, ive blown a ton of shit up. im probably just missing something stupid tbh

When in doubt, blow up more. Maybe try a few faction missions.

complete more mission yes, certain missions will unlock checkpoint facilities that contain free weapons + grenades

but generally raiding the facilities finds you free ammo anyway

this and Mario Galaxy 2 feel like the choicest morsels i've been missing

Just got this for under £10 from Zavvi - only played half an hour so far and I think I'm going to like it. Can't quite get to grips with the grapple hook controls yet but I'm looking forward to using it for lots of crazy shit away from the story mode. Shoulder buttons being the wrong way around is annoying (R2 instead of R1 to shoot) - dunno if I can change that in the options. Voice acting is *really* bad. Ground combat & transport jacking feels very like Mercenaries 2 which I've played the shit out of.

another cheap totally underrated game: $30 for Alpha Protocol

I think I just turned a corner in this game - learning how to "fly" with the chute and grapple. The "ohhhh I get it now" was similar to when I first surfed the electrical lines in InFamous.

great thing to do with this game: climb a mountain to find a citadel, kill everyone in it, blow up everything and then leap off the side of the mountain. unfortunately, this is more or less the ONLY thing to do with this game.

drive really fast on your motorcycle off a cliff, hit your parachute at the last second, glide over beautiful snow capped mountains into a river valley below

Speedboats off cliffs are fun too. As is hooking two planes together and watching them death spiral into a city.

Ah, good times.

i loved this game but there was def a point where the stupidity of the writing and story became more than just "eh". because i kinda wanted the repetition to add up to something, i guess

revisited this recently, bloody loving it. I should be complaing that it's fairly repetetive but somehow I keep finding things to do picking up hidden stuff or randomly destroying government property. My favourite right now is taking out the antenna stations. Twanging the supporting cables with my chopper.

The dialogue is hilarious. There's a mission where you have to pick up some prostitute and the woman who is telling you about the mission constantly bad mouths the 'filthy whore'

sooo many missions too.

just got this

& it is hilarious

I'm gonna do the missions over time but just fucking around is def fun. I just like to blow stuff up I think, & then ride away to some new locale, ad nauseum (since I get motion sick in these kinds of games, but it's worth it)

that's good for like a week and then the game kinda sputters out.

130+ hours, still haven't finished the story. Beautiful game for silly 20 minute blasts of mayhem.

or that too.

yeah that's all I wanted, for $15 that's perfect

that's good for like a week and then the game kinda sputters out.

that's what i felt too, but i think that's because a) i didn't really stick to the missions because the scripts and acting were too dull and (more importantly) b) i found the missions very hard.

yeah like i said, man, nearly a year ago now, the stupidity was an afterthought for much of the game... until it wasn't. there was no reason for the mission design to be so repetitive and for the writing and v/o to be so bad.

there was no reason for the mission design to be so repetitive and for the writing and v/o to be so bad.

it pains me to say that, but it's true these days.

this is a fun game for me, i have a million hours in and still not completed but i pick it up every now and again for just a muck about and to do some more missions. a bit like how i play fallout 3 really.

wow save game fuck up. all that work

good job i enjoy the shit out of this damn game

i had something similar happen with my gta:SA game on the 360. was one mission away from completion. almost got that far when i played it on ps2. i'm never gonna finish that game.

(and when i say 'completion', ste, i just mean the story missions. i know you've probs nabbed every morsel of graffiti!)

youd better believe it. hundred percent on both ps2 and xbox versions.

but yeah thats tough losing the game so close to the end. even just doing the missions was an epic journey for san andreas.

in jc2 i just like finding and owning all the locations and faction items. i dont think i'll ever finish this one

completing the big city in this one was too damn hard; I got 3/4 of them but on the 4th stuck at like 96% (or more? can't say, has been months). problem is that you can't use the net for help because I do not want to check every single coordinate. obsessive gameplay has its costs

white tiger mission is overly long and the worst part of this game.

but goddam its so cool just powering through this game

and other sentences ending in 'this game'

Finally finished the missions the other day, just time for gta i guess.

But loving this game, I'm almost 70% done and no intention of stopping.

have done all the locations now, at 93.5% or so, thinking about putting it down since I don't wanna do all the races (fuck traffic) but yeah, what a game. 120+ hrs in the end

There are still a few things I can't find in the cities to finish them 100%. It's driving me nuts.

Just Cause 3 coming to PS4, Xbox 360 & PC next year.

omg

This might be where I cave for the new consoles. Maybe.

360 or xbone

One, apparently. It's been established elsewhere that I don't know what I'm talking about re: Microsoft consoles.

i have never played a just because game

You should play Just Because 2. Why? I think you know the answer to that one.

It's just behind the timesuck that is Skyrim in the time I've spent playing it. I never, ever get tired of it.

I gave my copy to my little brother because it sucked too much of my time!

this is $3 on steam until Friday?

So this glitched out and I can no longer attain 100%

bummed

fyi, it's this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54WYLxkDf60

Seems to be a known bug caused by a mission based around the oil rig.

AAAAAAAAAAAArgh

Free on Games With Gold till the middle of the month btw

omg jc3 has leaderboards game over man, game over

Picked up JC3 couple of days ago, cheap on Steam that's why.

So it's glitchy as hell and on the whole feels like a clumsy PC production but I can't stop playing despite that. The utterly awful AI coupled with some dodgy physics makes for some interesting stuff, but can make escort missions too frustrating.

I also hate the winged suit addition.