Far Cry

[lolfighter]

Yeah, so I'm wondering. I've played the Far Cry demo, and I'm asking: What's everyone so hyped about? Granted, the level was big and detailed, but that's about the only thing that seemed particularly special to me. How does this game stand out from the crowd, how does it warrant the extra attention? It's just another shooter with real-world weaponry as far as I can see. Anyone care to explain? Or are you just as confused as I am?

[Venmoch]

Nope I'm as confuzzled as you are....

[Geminosity]

Not to mention my PC didn't particularly enjoy running it ^^;

[Niteowl]

the deagle feels weighty and purdy while shooting it... that should be enough!

[lolfighter]

I take this as a resounding "we pretty much agree with you".

[Sancho]

K, whats this farcry I keep hearing about?  Is it an FPS?  A mod?  Is it worth my time to check it out?

[Anarki3x6]

its actually pretty good. single player wise. great graphics and such, ill be trying to beat it over spring break.

and its not a mod :p huge game , comes on a dvd only. id probably say it is worth playing.

but vietnam and 2k4 definitely are better

cant wait to play them all soon

[lolfighter]

You're not answering my question. What's making this game special? The graphics are nice, but not overwhelming. The gameplay is "follow waypoint, kill people with Real World Guns™" from what I can see. The demo hints at a token storyline. From what I can see, it's the kind that's mostly told inbetween levels, explaining why the level you are now on succeeds the previous level.

I ask again: What makes this game special? What makes it stand out from the crowd? Why are the gaming sites highlighting it like that? Bribes?

[Anarki3x6]

ill answer you after i play it more  :p

[Geminosity]

From the Demo all I can tell you is the 'OMG SPECIAL!!!11' features are...

- Big, Fully explorable Levels
- Dodgy AI
- Your Char can't aim for beans unless he's lying down and aiming
- Indoors and Outdoors (unlike say... HL which blows at doing outdoors properly)
- "Play what you see" editor (check out the website/videos to see that one in action)
- Oh so pretty water
- Thars fish in them thar waters too
- I think I saw a seagull once
- Maybe twice
- It has vee-arkles
- They can go boom

I think that's it covered =o
To be honest most of the stuff they're blatting out the Publicity trumpet seems to be tekky boring stuff... the stuff I've forever been saying they should just slip in unnoticed while they concentrate on... I dunno... how about the frigging game?

It's amazing... Metroid Prime has ragdoll physics and yet you'd never know if you hadn't really thought about it because ninty/retro didn't make a big deal of it.  They were too busy making the game into something other than yet another cheap rip-off of something that's already out =3

[Venmoch]

I want BF:V over Far Cry

BF:V will run on my PC for a start....

[Quaunaut]

I want BF:V over Far Cry

BF:V will run on my PC for a start....

They both run on my PC, but first off, Far Cry has TONS of tech glitches with GeForce cards.

Secondly, no, its storyline is like a "HL on a Tropical Island" kind of thing(the 2nd demo CLEARLY hints at that).

Nother thing is, I could have done better voice acting than the main character, my Gosh....its TERRIBLE!

This and World of Warcraft, I see no reason for everyone to be excited...

[Geminosity]

Person 1: Pfff at WoW, it's just another MMORPG and outside of nice graphics it doesn't look like it offers anything new.

Person 2: But it's by Blizzard!

Person 1: So?  The combat shown in the videos looks dull, nothing they're unleashed publicly has shown anything particularly innovative or fresh, heck it's just like every other Lame Massively Multipunter Online Ripoff Pay Game.

Person 2: But it's by Blizzard!

Person 1: What's the big deal?  Ok so the Warcraft world is kinda cool and you can play a gnome which seems to give some people weird fetishes but it's just another stat-crunching borefest!!!

Person 2: But it's by Blizzard!

Person 1: Blizzard made Diablo...

Person 2: ... I hate you.

[Niteowl]

- Big, Fully explorable Levels
- Dodgy AI
- Your Char can't aim for beans unless he's lying down and aiming
- Indoors and Outdoors (unlike say... HL which blows at doing outdoors properly)
- "Play what you see" editor (check out the website/videos to see that one in action)
- Oh so pretty water
- Thars fish in them thar waters too
- I think I saw a seagull once
- Maybe twice
- It has vee-arkles
- They can go boom
 

pure. gold.

[lolfighter]

So I'm basically right about Far Cry: Nothing special really, just small nifties that are made to appear like The Second Coming Of Christ.

As for WoW: Dead on Gem. Isn't being jaded about MMORPGs a wondeful thing? ^^

[Geminosity]

You know me fighter... always waiting on the next big thing so I can point out how it's identical to everything that came before it and is about as 'big' as a severed pinky :p

There's one mmo I'm cautiously optimistic about but we'll see how it goes...

[Plaguebearer]

mmm, severed pinkies...

[Majin]

I knew a guy who use to work on Maps for a Quake 3 game called Navy Seals Covert Operations who went and got a job at cry tek doing the maps.
I know his work so I want to see what he could do with more freedom!

[Anarki3x6]

ok after playin it a bit more heres a quick review of sorts :p

for playability, it works great on my machine (2.6 ghz p4 512mb ram and 128 mb radeon9600) at high settings. one of the most beautiful games you will ever see.

gameplay reminds me of call of duty. you start off in this place, walk around, find some guns, then it gives you objectives to go to this and that on the little mini map.
so you walk around through the forests/swim to places and basically kill whatever gets in your way.

so basically if you like going through a series of objectives while having to kills tons of people, then its pretty fun. you need a good system to run it though  :p

i'll have to agree with leaderz0rz who said its mainly showing off its engine, with a so so storyline and such...

[SaltzBad]

pimpin' the underdogs
Want exciting and fairly new ?

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Or you'd like to become an excessively jaded MMORPG player?

www.jossh.com :p

yet another cheap rip-off of something that's already out =3

Is that a phallic smiley? =3