Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade
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Well it was probably the best of the series.
I enjoy a good power fantasy as much as anyone, but I have a soft spot for the crushing bleakness of Far Cry 2. Everyone is a shithead. You're a shithead. You will always end up taking missions for both sides in the conflict, perpetuating it. Most of them involving war crimes. The only missions where you don't do evil are the ones where you're paid in malaria medicine which you need to not die.
You get a bunch of buddies which will likely get killed one by one, possibly by you as a mercy killing. And those who survive will end up betraying you.
It's such a nihilistic game. No hope, no redemption. I couldn't get into FC3 after that. Even though it was a ton of fun mechanically, Far Cry 2 just hits different.
Edit: Happy to see from other replies that this is not a completely fringe opinion any more.
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My favorites are 2 and 3, I replay them both occasionally. 4 was OK. 5 was garbage. Haven't played 6.
- FC2 because of the kind of "horror" element being thrown into a oppressive and immersive open world.
- FC3 because of the gameplay overhaul and the brilliant storytelling.
I enjoyed 5 in coop, 4 was too much like 3. 6 was utter garbage.
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Well it was probably the best of the series.
Far Cry 2 is really underrated imho.
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I enjoy a good power fantasy as much as anyone, but I have a soft spot for the crushing bleakness of Far Cry 2. Everyone is a shithead. You're a shithead. You will always end up taking missions for both sides in the conflict, perpetuating it. Most of them involving war crimes. The only missions where you don't do evil are the ones where you're paid in malaria medicine which you need to not die.
You get a bunch of buddies which will likely get killed one by one, possibly by you as a mercy killing. And those who survive will end up betraying you.
It's such a nihilistic game. No hope, no redemption. I couldn't get into FC3 after that. Even though it was a ton of fun mechanically, Far Cry 2 just hits different.
Edit: Happy to see from other replies that this is not a completely fringe opinion any more.
Easily my favorite enemy ai, too. Actually fanning out to find what made a noise, playing dead so you may need to double-tap to be sure, etc
And the "physical" map to get around with was great
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Easily my favorite enemy ai, too. Actually fanning out to find what made a noise, playing dead so you may need to double-tap to be sure, etc
And the "physical" map to get around with was great
Oh yeah, the game leans really heavily into diegetic design, with weapon degradation and the map and stuff. Love that.
In fact, I just installed it. I wonder how far I'll make it before it gets too depressing to go on =D
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WHERE THE FUCK IS A WILDLANDS PATCH?
Man, that'd be sweet.
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The only FarCry game I ever played is FarCry 3: Blood Dragon DLC, that was launched as a separate game later on Xbox 360. Good memories.
If that counts as FarCry 3, then I agree, its the best game in the series. wink -
Cool, FC3 doesn't even launch on my PC because my CPU core count is too high.
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I enjoy a good power fantasy as much as anyone, but I have a soft spot for the crushing bleakness of Far Cry 2. Everyone is a shithead. You're a shithead. You will always end up taking missions for both sides in the conflict, perpetuating it. Most of them involving war crimes. The only missions where you don't do evil are the ones where you're paid in malaria medicine which you need to not die.
You get a bunch of buddies which will likely get killed one by one, possibly by you as a mercy killing. And those who survive will end up betraying you.
It's such a nihilistic game. No hope, no redemption. I couldn't get into FC3 after that. Even though it was a ton of fun mechanically, Far Cry 2 just hits different.
Edit: Happy to see from other replies that this is not a completely fringe opinion any more.
I appreciate that the other games, even if they’re 90% power fantasy, retain a tiny bit of that nihilism in the story of each game.
3: Jason becomes totally disconnected from society and almost feels like he can’t come back from the killing.
4: Help the rebels, and they become despots just like Pagan Min. Give up on the rebellion at the beginning of the game, and even Min admits he’s tired of the cycle.
5 I won’t even spoil, definitely a bit less of an artistic message even if it’s a huge twist. -
"suffering from success"
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Well it was probably the best of the series.
I guess I should play it then (and 2, judging by the replies). The only one I've played is 4, which has some really fun gameplay, and one of my favorite villains ever, Pagan Min. I didn't care much at all for the overall conflict or most of the other characters. What kept me going was taking out the outposts, climbing the towers (until it got repetitive), hunting, and flying around in that dinky little helicopter.
Guess I gotta replay that one too now...
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The only FarCry game I ever played is FarCry 3: Blood Dragon DLC, that was launched as a separate game later on Xbox 360. Good memories.
If that counts as FarCry 3, then I agree, its the best game in the series. winkThe main game is also good, just not as cool aesthetically. I personally think it had the best dialogue and story of the series (on a non-humorous level, I mean. BD is "better" in the sense it's purposely awful but gets the vibe it is going for spot on)
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My favorites are 2 and 3, I replay them both occasionally. 4 was OK. 5 was garbage. Haven't played 6.
- FC2 because of the kind of "horror" element being thrown into a oppressive and immersive open world.
- FC3 because of the gameplay overhaul and the brilliant storytelling.
2 was a bit repeptitive and rough around the edges for me, but still a ground breaking game.
3 is my favorite, also one of my all time top games, though I haven’t replayed a while.
4 is just 3+ in my opinion, so good but not unique.
I was surprised that I liked 5, I expected not to.
6 is quite bad, you are not missing anything.
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I enjoy a good power fantasy as much as anyone, but I have a soft spot for the crushing bleakness of Far Cry 2. Everyone is a shithead. You're a shithead. You will always end up taking missions for both sides in the conflict, perpetuating it. Most of them involving war crimes. The only missions where you don't do evil are the ones where you're paid in malaria medicine which you need to not die.
You get a bunch of buddies which will likely get killed one by one, possibly by you as a mercy killing. And those who survive will end up betraying you.
It's such a nihilistic game. No hope, no redemption. I couldn't get into FC3 after that. Even though it was a ton of fun mechanically, Far Cry 2 just hits different.
Edit: Happy to see from other replies that this is not a completely fringe opinion any more.
My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.
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Easily my favorite enemy ai, too. Actually fanning out to find what made a noise, playing dead so you may need to double-tap to be sure, etc
And the "physical" map to get around with was great
Later on in the game enemies just dropping their weapons and running when they find out it's you they're fighting. God I need to play it again.
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I still remember playing this game, after purchasing it on Steam, then it launched uPlay to start the game. And randomly drops connection during playing to uPlay, not saving any progress, shutting down my game. Steam was still online, everything else worked.
After two minutes uPlay logged back in, so I restarted from last save, lost like 30 minutes of unsaved stuff. So I get to it, and whatdoyaknow, it drops AGAIN.
Uninstalled the game, and never bought anything from Ubisoft ever again.
Fuck that company. And I still love Prince of Persia Warrior Within.
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Funnily enough, this is the type of issues proton solves beautifully and transparently on linux, making it a great gaming platform in general but particularly so for aging video games!
If you own this game on steam, just launching it on linux should work out of the box. -
Easily my favorite enemy ai, too. Actually fanning out to find what made a noise, playing dead so you may need to double-tap to be sure, etc
And the "physical" map to get around with was great
Trying to drive and look at the map and dealing with malaria symptoms at the same time. That's a core gaming memory for me.
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This along with Blood Dragon, are the best Far Cry games for me, that was when Ubisoft was still the good guys...
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This along with Blood Dragon, are the best Far Cry games for me, that was when Ubisoft was still the good guys...
Agree. 3 got me back into single player fps at the time. Blood dragon was just extra icing.
