[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Offical Far Cry 3 Thread (Page 1 of 5)
Posted: 11/15/2012 6:30:53 AM EDT
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Looking forward to it on PC. They've got some odd ways of doing the editions though. The regular PC version is only $50, while the special edition is 60. The SE is only available on Amazon as a download, however. Weird.
The story itself looks kinda lame, but I don't care. I'm just excited for the open world exploration. And they now have the system of capturing territory, so respawning checkpoints should disappear. |
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The media embargo must have ended and it appears that far cry 3 is getting rave reviews: Game Informer - 9.00 Inside Gaming - 9/10 Eurogamer - 10/10 Kotaku - Yes CVG - 9.4/10 IGN - 9/10 This makes me feel better about preordering this one for the bonus content. ETA: You can punch sharks in the face! |
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I just hope they don't have some arbitrary timer on the storyline like FC2 did. Got tired of being detoured to chase down malaria pills Sounds like there isn't a timer at all. Malaria and weapons degradation are gone. The only thing the developers do to push you further down the story, from what I have read, is to make certain parts of the skill tree locked until you have reached certain points in the story. However, the reviewer who mentioned that also said that most of the cool skills were obtainable by the time you got a few hours into the narrative (out of 15-20 hours total for the narrative), so no biggie. A couple of reviewers have said that there are at least 2 endings, which is interesting. I wonder if it's gonna be like far cry2 where the 2 endings had basically same outcome, or whether they will be truly divergent. |
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the guy reviewing it sounds like he loves it http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-11-21-far-cry-3-review |
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another good review
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/11/21/wot-i-think-far-cry-3-single-player/ |
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Looks like Best Buy is offering a $20 rewards certificate and some bonus DLC content if you pre-order Far Cry 3. Anyone know of any better deals before I pull trigger on this?
ETA: Good thing I read the fine print before placing an order, you have to join "Best Buy gamers club unlocked" for $15 to get the $20 certificate  . no thanks.
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Looks like Best Buy is offering a $20 rewards certificate and some bonus DLC content if you pre-order Far Cry 3. Anyone know of any better deals before I pull trigger on this? ETA: Good thing I read the fine print before placing an order, you have to join "Best Buy gamers club unlocked" for $15 to get the $20 certificate . no thanks.I think gamestop has some bonus stuff |
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Far Cry––––––––-incredible game up until the mid-way point then the monsters came out and it got stupid and way too difficult, was not that fun the other 50% of the game
Far Cry 2––––––––––––––––bad game all around. All I did was shoot the dumbest AI, use crap guns and drive crap vehicles around doing stupid errands that were squeezed out of a NES game. Oh and the FOV made me nauseous Far Cry 3––––––––––––––––––––I think I will wait a few weeks before buying it. |
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Far Cry––––––––-incredible game up until the mid-way point then the monsters came out and it got stupid and way too difficult, was not that fun the other 50% of the game Far Cry 2––––––––––––––––bad game all around. All I did was shoot the dumbest AI, use crap guns and drive crap vehicles around doing stupid errands that were squeezed out of a NES game. Oh and the FOV made me nauseous Far Cry 3––––––––––––––––––––I think I will wait a few weeks before buying it. See I feel exactly the opposite about FC2, I bought it used for my son's PS3, watched him play it for 15 minutes then came downstairs and bought it on Steam, played all the way through 4 times....different strokes I guess |
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Whens the last time a gaming magazine rated something a 3  THis is a valid point, actually. The 1-10 scale is really a 6-10 scale, maybe a 5 if it is utter dogshit. An 8 is a pretty middling game. Then again it is also rare for a game to be getting so many 9.5s and 10s across the board as Far Cry 3 is getting, so that's encouraging. |
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Whens the last time a gaming magazine rated something a 3 THis is a valid point, actually. The 1-10 scale is really a 6-10 scale, maybe a 5 if it is utter dogshit. An 8 is a pretty middling game. Then again it is also rare for a game to be getting so many 9.5s and 10s across the board as Far Cry 3 is getting, so that's encouraging. There are plenty of game sites that don't even give out ratings but just give their thoughts on the game. Everything I've read has been positive. We'll find out in a few days I guess. I'm looking forward to having an island playground though 
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That first "level" of Far Cry 1 where you assault the old Japanese carrier and wind up fighting a helicopter is one of my all time favorite game levels... if the whole game had been like that Far Cry would have been one of my all time favorite games. But then halfway through the boogens came out and it just became really annoying. I feel the same way about the first Crysis... that whole level on the river at night playing cat and mouse with the search helicopter was awesome. But again it was a great game until the damn aliens show up, then it felt like it dissolved into a one dimensional, weak rail shooter.
I think that is Crytek's greatest strength but also their greatest weakness... they make wonderful "first halves" of games but they always feel this strange need to fuck with their cookie dough. Far Cry 1, sans sci fi monster shenanigans, would have been an epic game. Crysis, sans alien goofery, would have been an epic game. Instead Crytek always had to add hot dog to their chocolate chip cookie dough, which turned the taste from really good to "bleh" for me. I really tried to like Far Cry 2 but for every element I felt it did well, it did something wrong. The obnoxious malaria pills thing, the bizarre and seemingly broken factions system, the weird "buddy" element that felt very useless and tacked on, the checkpoints that were always hostile, the clunky vehicles (of which there were only like three types), the weapon degradation system that made every firearm feel like it was made out of wet rice and paper mache and worst of all in my mind the way they locked certain weapons out until you farmed enough diamonds to use them. Sure you could find one being used by an enemy but the second you picked it up it shot for shit and blew up in your hands in five seconds. Nothing pissed me off more in that game than knowing every single weapon you picked up in the field was a ticking time bomb and the only ones you could actually depend on had to be store bought. At least the game didn't bust out a bunch of ETs, CHUDs or magical zombie skeletons halfway through. If Far Cry 3 can recapture the fun from the first half of Far Cry 1 but delete all the bullshit monsters and then keep out the broken traits from 2 I think it would be a really nice game. |
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I'm thinking about getting this but only having played the first Far Cry I can't decide if i'm going to have a clue on what is going on. I don't remember a thing about the first Far Cry other than it being on an island. stories are all different, no need to have played the others |
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After FC 2, I wasn't looking forward to this game. After seeing the changes they have made, I will likely be picking this up.
I like the RPG elements that they added to it. The RPG elements in FC 2 were too subtle and made the game more of a pain all in the name of realism. I'm playing a game damn it, not a life simulator. |
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I'm definitely getting this. The only thing I'm not sure of is whether I should pick it up on PC or 360. My PC is aging a bit. 2.3GHz AMD quad core, and GTX460ti, 8GB of RAM. Do you guys have any idea what kind of experience I can expect on PC? PC, most def. I doubt you'll be able to play on max settings, but with a 460 you will for sure be getting better gfx than you will on the 360. Plus more settings to tweak, etc. Also, the standard PC version is $50 vs $60 for consoles. The PC deluxe version, with all the pre-order bonuses and soundtrack and so on is $60 on Steam and Amazon. I like video game soundtracks so the deluxe edition was a no-brainer - basically you buy the soundtrack for $10 extra and get all the bonus content free. And although I dislike the idea of bonus content in general, FC3 offers not only weapons but several extra single-player missions too. I'll be playing this on a non-ti 460 for at least a couple of weeks until I can upgrade. |
| Ciraxis, do you play on PS3 or PC? I have been out of the gaming loop pretty much since BF3 because after that, it was all I played. I didn't even know a third was coming out. I enjoyed the first two for the most part (minus some of the aforementioned gimmicks/additions that annoyed me). I've never played FarCry online though so I have no idea what to expect there. I did enjoy creating my own big arse maps in the map creator though. Just never "published" them and got online. |
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Mot of the reviews so far seem to concentrate solely on the single player. Anybody see any reviews with good info on the multiplayer? nothing really. I'm not counting on it being very good. But I am looking forward to the map editor, I loved using that thing. I'll be playing on PS3 for anyone interested. |
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Mot of the reviews so far seem to concentrate solely on the single player. Anybody see any reviews with good info on the multiplayer? nothing really. I'm not counting on it being very good. But I am looking forward to the map editor, I loved using that thing. I'll be playing on PS3 for anyone interested. A couple of reviews have touched on it, and the opinions range from "nothing special" to "well executed." Either way, it probably won't draw many people away from CoD or Battlefield for long. 10 maps, decently sized. Class systems, unlocks and attachments, several game modes, blah blah blah. Some of the reviews I linked to on page 1 talk about it. I think the reason you aren't hearing much is that it's hard to judge multiplayer on an unreleased game. Honestly though, who buys a Far Cry game for the multiplayer? |
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Mot of the reviews so far seem to concentrate solely on the single player. Anybody see any reviews with good info on the multiplayer? nothing really. I'm not counting on it being very good. But I am looking forward to the map editor, I loved using that thing. I'll be playing on PS3 for anyone interested. A couple of reviews have touched on it, and the opinions range from "nothing special" to "well executed." Either way, it probably won't draw many people away from CoD or Battlefield for long. 10 maps, decently sized. Class systems, unlocks and attachments, several game modes, blah blah blah. Some of the reviews I linked to on page 1 talk about it. I think the reason you aren't hearing much is that it's hard to judge multiplayer on an unreleased game. Honestly though, who buys a Far Cry game for the multiplayer? I was referring to the online co-op mode. My understanding is that it's an entirely different campaign from the single player. |
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Mot of the reviews so far seem to concentrate solely on the single player. Anybody see any reviews with good info on the multiplayer? nothing really. I'm not counting on it being very good. But I am looking forward to the map editor, I loved using that thing. I'll be playing on PS3 for anyone interested. A couple of reviews have touched on it, and the opinions range from "nothing special" to "well executed." Either way, it probably won't draw many people away from CoD or Battlefield for long. 10 maps, decently sized. Class systems, unlocks and attachments, several game modes, blah blah blah. Some of the reviews I linked to on page 1 talk about it. I think the reason you aren't hearing much is that it's hard to judge multiplayer on an unreleased game. Honestly though, who buys a Far Cry game for the multiplayer? I was referring to the online co-op mode. My understanding is that it's an entirely different campaign from the single player. I did hear that co-op wasn't great, not bad but not great. I guess it is linear and there is no exploration, also if you don't have a full 4 players it can seem like its just wave after wave of enemies. Also they take more damage than in single player. Why didn't they just allow co-op with single player, that would have been awesome taking down outposts with a friend. |
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Mot of the reviews so far seem to concentrate solely on the single player. Anybody see any reviews with good info on the multiplayer? nothing really. I'm not counting on it being very good. But I am looking forward to the map editor, I loved using that thing. I'll be playing on PS3 for anyone interested. A couple of reviews have touched on it, and the opinions range from "nothing special" to "well executed." Either way, it probably won't draw many people away from CoD or Battlefield for long. 10 maps, decently sized. Class systems, unlocks and attachments, several game modes, blah blah blah. Some of the reviews I linked to on page 1 talk about it. I think the reason you aren't hearing much is that it's hard to judge multiplayer on an unreleased game. Honestly though, who buys a Far Cry game for the multiplayer? I was referring to the online co-op mode. My understanding is that it's an entirely different campaign from the single player. I did hear that co-op wasn't great, not bad but not great. I guess it is linear and there is no exploration, also if you don't have a full 4 players it can seem like its just wave after wave of enemies. Also they take more damage than in single player. Why didn't they just allow co-op with single player, that would have been awesome taking down outposts with a friend. Heard the same. Sounds like the enemies don't level to the number of players you have, so with 4 it's easy, but with 2 it can be way too hard. Enemies taking more damage sounds like they went back to far cry 2's bullet spongers  . The co-op campaign is shorter as well. Most reviews have said that like the multiplayer, it's competent but not outstanding. Still, it's another mode that they threw in. I'd be happy with the game even if it didn't have co-op OR multiplayer.
Speaking of single player, I heard that you can use the map editor in the single player game. I have no idea how that will work, but it could be awesome. |
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Mot of the reviews so far seem to concentrate solely on the single player. Anybody see any reviews with good info on the multiplayer? nothing really. I'm not counting on it being very good. But I am looking forward to the map editor, I loved using that thing. I'll be playing on PS3 for anyone interested. A couple of reviews have touched on it, and the opinions range from "nothing special" to "well executed." Either way, it probably won't draw many people away from CoD or Battlefield for long. 10 maps, decently sized. Class systems, unlocks and attachments, several game modes, blah blah blah. Some of the reviews I linked to on page 1 talk about it. I think the reason you aren't hearing much is that it's hard to judge multiplayer on an unreleased game. Honestly though, who buys a Far Cry game for the multiplayer? I was referring to the online co-op mode. My understanding is that it's an entirely different campaign from the single player. I did hear that co-op wasn't great, not bad but not great. I guess it is linear and there is no exploration, also if you don't have a full 4 players it can seem like its just wave after wave of enemies. Also they take more damage than in single player. Why didn't they just allow co-op with single player, that would have been awesome taking down outposts with a friend. Heard the same. Sounds like the enemies don't level to the number of players you have, so with 4 it's easy, but with 2 it can be way too hard. Enemies taking more damage sounds like they went back to far cry 2's bullet spongers . The co-op campaign is shorter as well. Most reviews have said that like the multiplayer, it's competent but not outstanding. Still, it's another mode that they threw in. I'd be happy with the game even if it didn't have co-op OR multiplayer.
Speaking of single player, I heard that you can use the map editor in the single player game. I have no idea how that will work, but it could be awesome. if you could build single player maps I would never put this game down
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holy shit looks like you can
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/27/far-cry-3-map-editor-lets-you-build-and-burn-your-own-locales/ |
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holy shit looks like you can http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/27/far-cry-3-map-editor-lets-you-build-and-burn-your-own-locales/ I'm far too lazy to make my own SP maps, so I hope that there is some way for map builders to publish what they create. Maybe someone will remake the multiplayer and co-op islands and put them in there so you can explore them in SP. I wonder if they will allow seamless integration of new maps into the SP game world, or whether a custom map would have to be explored as a separate load. In other news, I found out that you can continue to play after the story ends, so that is cool. |
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Single player is fun so far, seems to run a lot smoother than I anticipated but having all the items to craft and learn does give it a skyrim type feel. AI is just as dumb too How the hell did you get your hands on it early? I hate you. ETA: Also, all the early reports I am reading from players on forums are saying that the biggest fuckup with the game is that the HUD is huge, noisy, and can't be shut off. For those of you already playing (damn you!), what do you think of the HUD? |
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Single player is fun so far, seems to run a lot smoother than I anticipated but having all the items to craft and learn does give it a skyrim type feel. AI is just as dumb too How the hell did you get your hands on it early? I hate you. ETA: Also, all the early reports I am reading from players on forums are saying that the biggest fuckup with the game is that the HUD is huge, noisy, and can't be shut off. For those of you already playing (damn you!), what do you think of the HUD? 
Hud isn't too bad but it's easy to miss those damn animals or even enemies when they are very close. I still can't figure out for the life of me what round for a bengal tiger as the R700 just tickles it. Even the damn kimodo dragons take 3 rounds. I have not found a helo to fly but there are hang gliders in a few places. One of the major gripes I have is for the craftable section and how you have to open 3 drop downs to get what you want. I guess I am just used to the inventory systems of other games but this is a bit of a pain to navigate through. |
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Single player is fun so far, seems to run a lot smoother than I anticipated but having all the items to craft and learn does give it a skyrim type feel. AI is just as dumb too How the hell did you get your hands on it early? I hate you. ETA: Also, all the early reports I am reading from players on forums are saying that the biggest fuckup with the game is that the HUD is huge, noisy, and can't be shut off. For those of you already playing (damn you!), what do you think of the HUD?
Hud isn't too bad but it's easy to miss those damn animals or even enemies when they are very close. I still can't figure out for the life of me what round for a bengal tiger as the R700 just tickles it. Even the damn kimodo dragons take 3 rounds. I have not found a helo to fly but there are hang gliders in a few places. One of the major gripes I have is for the craftable section and how you have to open 3 drop downs to get what you want. I guess I am just used to the inventory systems of other games but this is a bit of a pain to navigate through. Huh. Do the bad guys at least go down in a shot or 2? I don't know if youever played Far Cry 2, but from a combat standpoint the most annoying thing by far was how it took probably 6-8 rounds to kill a dude, even from an AK or other "powerful" weapon. ETA: does your shot placement matter when attacking animals? Like, if you pop a tiger in the melon will it go down? ETA2: What system are you playing on? |
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Baddies don't take too much to take down, a headshot or 2 COM and they are down. Using the AK may take 3-4 if they aren't vital hits, same with the pistols but nothing crazy. Haven't tried the SMGs, or shotguns yet but I will by the end of the night.
The animals it doesn't seem to matter where you hit them, it seems to be more of a shot count thing. Trying to take them out with a R700 like I said is almost futile and god help you if you have one sneak up on you when all you have left is pistol ammo. Be aware of what's in the water too lol. THe wildlife is more of a threat than the AI to be honest. PC |
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Baddies don't take too much to take down, a headshot or 2 COM and they are down. Using the AK may take 3-4 if they aren't vital hits, same with the pistols but nothing crazy. Haven't tried the SMGs, or shotguns yet but I will by the end of the night. The animals it doesn't seem to matter where you hit them, it seems to be more of a shot count thing. Trying to take them out with a R700 like I said is almost futile and god help you if you have one sneak up on you when all you have left is pistol ammo. Be aware of what's in the water too lol. THe wildlife is more of a threat than the AI to be honest. PC Something you may want to try, if you are on PC: apparently disabling depth of field will make your graphics better and increase your fps, interestingly enough. http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/731880-Guide-How-To-Disable-Depth-Of-Field |
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I am running 70-80 FPS on ultra, the depth of field is not really an issue. As for taking out the animals, I highly reccomend the shotgun. I keep a suppressed R700 and the shotgun as my animal slayer. Damn bow sucks ass so far though. What's your GPU and CPU? Curious as to how my i5-750 and HD7870 will perform. My plan was to take a silenced sniper rifle for long range and an SMG if I got caught up close. But if it can't take down a charging tiger, then maybe that's a bad idea. I heard the .44 revolver pretty much takes down everything in 1 shot too. |
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The smg will work but to be honest the shotgun is much more effective against the larger animals that seem to be very abundant. Like I said the actual bad guys are dumb as rocks so you can go full leeroy Jenkins and execute them with a knife and shotty no problem |
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2600k I7 and 660TI The smg will work but to be honest the shotgun is much more effective against the larger animals that seem to be very abundant. Like I said the actual bad guys are dumb as rocks so you can go full leeroy Jenkins and execute them with a knife and shotty no problem Cool. I should be able to get max or close to max settings then. What weapons do you start with when you get out of the tutorial and "on your own"? ETA: How much of a power hit do your weapons take when adding a supressor? I'd expect it to be something since most games penalize you somewhat for attaching one, but hopefully it doesn't ruin a sniper rifle's ability to one-shot people. Also, something that I haven't been able to tell from gameplay vids so far is whether you can customize your weapons on the fly. Can you have a supressor on your gun and then take it off in the middle of an engagement? Or can you only do it at a weapon shop or workbench or whatever? |