..wait, what? You hope they don't make the game too good?? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
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..wait, what? You hope they don't make the game too good?? :?Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
Of course that's not what I meant :p My point is, Crysis is improving with each release as the changes being made are good. A lot of franchises will eventually go too far by changing too much or changing the wrong thing however, thus creating a game which is a significant step backwards when compared to it's predecessors. What I'm saying is, Crysis = good, Warhead = better, Crysis2 = very good, Crysis 3 = crap. As a hypothetical example ;)
Ah. Well, I have faith in Crytek. ;) I've played every one of their games (Far Cry and the Crysis games...interestingly, Crytek had nothing to do with Far Cry 2...) and every one has been better than the last...and improved (imo) the right things. :D
I was thinking about Far Cry actually after I finished Warhead yesterday. Is that worth a play too? I'm not usually a huge fan of FPS but I did enjoy my time with Crysis for the most part and I remember Far Cry being one of the big names when it was new. Did it live up to the hype or will I be a bit disappointed if I move from Crysis back to that?
I loved FarCry 2. Being able to light grass on fire to smoke out enemies was awesome fun. I also liked the self heal mini cut scenes where your character pulls bullets from his/her wounds with pliers. The story in FarCry 2 is good and dependent on the character you choose and the buddies you keep alive the game is never the same the second time around.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
I read reviews on both Far Cry games after my last post and am currently winning 2 low bid items on Ebay :p They both sound and look pretty good so we'll see and maybe I'll win them! Seems odd that no.2 is nothing to do with no.1 though...
Yup...nothing to do with each other and they were made by different studios. Ubisoft (who made Far Cry 2) claimed that it was the "true sequel" to Far Cry, but since nothing about them is similar, I'm not really really sure where they're trying to pull that from..Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
That aside, both are good games, imo. Completely different, but both are good.
Well I just managed to get a copy of each off ebay and it's cost me precisely £5.33 so I don't really care if I like them to be honest! I also spent another £40 on Play.com but meh it was worth it :D
Portal 2 is on sale for $30 at GameStop... Just got my copy today and can't wait to play it :D Happy Birthday to meee!
I'm playing portal 2 too. That’s an awesome game with many stages. I’m waiting to finish trophies stage in order to play dragon age or mass effect.
I finally finished Bioshock and Dirt 2.
I got both FarCry's in the mail about a week ago and put down the original after a matter of minutes... A lot of reasons but basically I just think it's a bit crap :p FarCry 2 looks a lot better but I haven't played it yet so I'm basing that on the boxshots and manual (plus the map - I love wen games include maps :D)
Other new titles included Dead Space which I LOVE and have already started to play through for the second time! I completed the oldish Star Wars Republic Commando today and it has a lot of good points but does have a few flaws as well. A sequel is well overdue though and the original gameplay with some next gen graphics and a longer campaign with co-op/multiplayer options would be just incredible.
I also got hold of the original Starcraft (as I realised I currently don't have a copy!) and Warcraft 3 which I'm currently playing. Not a patch on no.2 and the move from isometric to 3D has been implemented appaulingly imo. It's a cartoony game with an awful story that I just don't care about. To make matters worse they've added 2 new races (often a sign of desperation in sequels!) and neither of them are any good. Clicking on the sheep doesn't even make them explode anymore... So disappointing...
Metro2033 and STALKER Call of Pripyat finish off my latest shopping spree but the latter still hasn't arrived yet :( The other game I got was a copy of Left4Dead2 so I could play it on my own Steam account after previously buying an already activated copy (the guy gave me his account though so now my mate uses it and we can play together :D
So far, FarCry is a fail, Replublic Commando is a pass, Warcraft 3 is a fail and Dead Space is a tremendous pass. Metro2033, STALKER, Farcry2 and Starcraft still need judging though of course the iconic Starcraft shouldn't struggle to satisfy me after a quick revisit :D
Having played both Farcry games through more than once I have to disagree on that count. The original had a MUCH better storyline and the environments and enemies were a lot more varied. The graphics in Farcry 2 are orders of magnitude better, obviously, but for sheer gameplay and fun I have to say the original was a lot better in my book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
Like anything, it depends on what you're looking for.
I agree. Granted, they're very different types of games, with Fary Cry being more of an open-world FPS with Far Cry 2 being more of a GTA-style RPG. IMO the story is better (more developed, etc) in Far Cry than in Far Cry 2, but that has less to do with the story in Far Cry being particularly good and more to do with the story in Far Cry 2 being just plain awful. :P That being said, I did enjoy playing through both of them. OOC, Munty, was there anything in particular that put you off Far Cry? Just wondering since, like bOb mentioned, it does have a pretty wide variety of environments and enemies..the things you dislike might go away later in the game.Quote:
Originally Posted by blueonblack
I honestly made it mere moments into the game before it tipped my frustration meter (sadly that's not too hard but it does take a lot to make me put a game down this quickly!)
I didn't expect any more graphics wise than I got as it's an oldish title by now. Gameplay is also not too bad and the binoculars are a particularly handy tool.
On the flipside, it was the actual level design itself that put me off very fast. Running through sewers, fine. Using machete to kill stupid occupants of small outpost as they filed through the same door their friend just died in, fine. Being met on a beach by 6 troops and two vehicles, fine (as I had a vehicle too and I MGd em all down :p) But having a rocket firing, fast moving patrol boat far enough off shore that it's nigh impossible for me to hit it yet close enough that it is able to hit me no matter where I try to hide? Well that was my first turn off and it took me ages to kill the guy firing at me with the crappy gun you start out with...
The next and final hurdle I had to overcome (made worse by the fact the rockets had nearly killed me, health doesn't regenerate and there are no medkits anywhere to be seen) was an abandonned aircraft carrier crawling with troops packing MGs. I think there's something like 10 enemies, one of whom has a rocket launcher and another 2 are in a boat. All are heavily armed and miles away from me and my crap gun.
Now, before it's said that I gave up because it's too hard, that's not quite true. I managed to kill all of these enemies the first time I played this part of the level and then I moved to the carrier. I jumped down a small ledge and died instantly... We're talking 6 feet or so...
After a shaky start with a rocket boat and heavily armed aircraft carrier I simply figured that this was setting the scene for things to come and I decided to cut my losses there and then. Sure I could've played further in and in time I will, right now though I have so many other, better games to be playing I don't want to waste my time with it.
Flame away :p
If I'm thinking of the right spot, I think that's just a "you weren't supposed to go down here and there's no way up so we just put an instant-death zone at the bottom" situation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
The difficulty and enemy AI were definitely two of the aspects that they had to work on balancing after Far Cry...as Yahtzee put it:
Fortunately, once I got my hands on the sniper rifle, I could also see and kill the enemies from 9,000 yards away. :twisted:Quote:
While the scenery was expansive and pretty, you couldn't spend much time admiring it before finding your body attempting to occupy the same space as ten million billion bullets fired by enemies with telescopic x-ray vision who could see you hiding in a bush 9,000 yards away
Thank God it's not just me! I was expecting some less than generous responses given that I clearly gave up on this game very early on :D I'd love a sniper rifle, it'd almost certainly save the game for me even at this early point. I'm guessing it'll be some time before that's an option though won't it?
EDIT : Hey I've just been reading some faqs and walkthroughs and such and they all mention medpacks you can pick up but so far I haven't seen any... I passed one med box thing in a hut very early on in the first little hamlet but I couldn't use it as I didn't need to and I couldn't carry it either. Not having carryable health items is one of my big problems with this game (especially with non-regenerative health) so can someone clear this up for me as it may help...
Yep, that was the medkit. And no, you can't carry any, just have to limp along damn near dead and hope you find one. And yes I recall that $&*(@ boat very clearly. I HATE those boats, but that one was the worst. When you DO get the sniper rifle it's a lot of fun picking them off the boats from the shore. :D (A little bit that I was happy to see was just as fun in Far Cry 2)Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
Well the good news is I've given the game a revisit and cleared the first three levels with minimal frustration :) I'm still not particularly impressed with the level design but there are becoming fewer suicidal moments like the first rocket boat...
On the first reload (just before the carrier) I managed to take out all of the opposition without a single shot fired in return which was nice. I think there were only 8 in the end though, not the 10 I thought there were...
Anyway the next level on the ship went fairly well but these enemies are in some pretty tricky places and I kept getting clipped from the gantries as I ddin't know where they were shooting from!
I now have a sniper rifle but only 10 rounds which is disappointing but I guess I'll just save them up till I really need them as the M4 is doing a pretty good job right now anyway.
I'm still by no means being won over by this game but at least I can play through it now and give it a fighting chance. It's going to be fighting for play-time with a few other games I'm already playing but with 3 levels done and 17 to go I guess it shouldn't take me too long anyway. We'll see hey :p
Awww, he hasn't met the thingies yet... :whistler:Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
Haha nope, not yet! Just the good ol humies to fight so far. I'm not following the story at all actually as I've been watching Dragonball on my other monitor and the voices on FarCry are so quiet I can't hear anything but gunfire :p
Just a query for those who've played this game. If you were taking some american bird on a trip in your yacht when it got blown up with a rocket launcher and you nearly died before being washed up on an island where you hear people discussing how important it is that you die... What would you do when you found yourself a new boat? Would you really follow the instructions of some doctor who just happened to leave a radio right near the point you entered the sewers?
I'd be on my way home after the end of level 2 personally. To hell with the broad and to hell with the island! Worst story ever :p
That depends....did she pay up front? :P
I guess not, the protaganist must have some serious debts to settle when he gets home though or it's still not worth it! It does beg the question though doesn't it, at what point do you turn tail and run home? When your vessel is destroyed by a rocket? When mercenaries set out to kill you? when you unearth a devious plot by a mad scientist? When you start fighting with mutants? Hmm... For me it would be the rocket...
Started and finished Bad Company 2 over the past weekend. I started Assassin's Creed II as well, loving this game, loved the original as well.
Just finished Portal 2. Was pretty fun.
Finished watching all 153 episodes of Dragonball a few days ago so I'd call that about a fortnight :p
Also been playing Warcraft 3 and hating every minute of it. I posted up a rant of my feeling s here for anyone who's curious as to why... http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums...III-t8936.html
I installed Metro2033 to follow up this disappointment and sadly wasn't wowed the way I was hoping to be. Right from the get go it had issues with loading the game (which are apparently very common) then there were driver incompatabilities (again very common) which forced me to drop it down from very high settings to just high and it made a BIG difference to quality. Again there is a link to this rant here > http://www.strategycore.co.uk/forums...dpost&p=104397
One of my big problems with this game is that there is no really useful display of health (or even ammo unless you're fighting) instead you have to check your watch to see how close to being dead you are. On mentioning how stupid this seemed (due to stopping mid firefight) someone linked this image so its clearly not just me.
Anyone else played this as I do like it but it crashed again even on High settings last time I played so I'm giving it a break and will be trying out Farcry2 today.
I never had a problem with Metro 2033 stability, so I can't help you with that. I never really found the health meter to be an issue, tbh. I was too busy enjoying the atmosphere and interesting weapons and mechanics. :whistler: ..oh, and trying not to get myself killed...
lol well that's kind of the problem it's posing for me 88. Don't know when you played it but if you remember the beginning you fight a room full of bandits quite early on. I think there must be 6-8 of them at least as it took me a while to kill them all! I had trouble with it because every time I stuck my head out I got hit by a magic homing bullet but I never knew how badly I'd been hurt. The screen goes red and there's a heartbeat as well when things go pearshaped but I still had no idea what health I had left. Miraculously I managed to get through this part of the game without dying on my first try but it's pure luck that I didn't die because I honestly don't understand how I'm supposed to know what my health is... As far as I can tell its either a green light which is good or a red one which is bad right? lol that helps doesn't it! Another thing that's bugged me about the beginning of the game is the massive amount of prescripted events that take complete control over the character. There have already been 2 or 3 occasions on which I've been thrown out of a vehicle or similar by these mutants and I was convinced that it was game over and I'd died but in fact I hadn't and it was just part of the game. I don't get it... There was also a point where I was told to tap E but I don't know why, I guess the monster was trying to eat my face or something, who knows!
Anyway I do want to play this game so stability is the key. Did you use max settings when you played as a lot of people (ie. not just me!) have had varying issues on max. For me the game would crash after about 1 minute on very high settings but on just high it was stable for a long time. Until it crashed again... It's as if the game is actually consuming my GPU and then running out of memory or something odd but it's not just crashing the game it's the whole system. Nothing else is now or ever has given me similar problems...
Yeah, I was running it on full settings.
As for the quick-time-events, there are a lot of them in the first 20 minutes or so, but after that I don't remember any. I actually never finished the game...I should probably get around to doing that some time... I don't remember the health system exactly, tbh, but I don't remember having any issues with it. *shrugs*
I have recently finished:
1.MK9
2.God Of War all three parts
3.Crackdown 2
4.Kane and Lynch 2
Now playing FarCry 2 having put down Metro2033 till I can figure out how to get it running properly! Got to say I'm really enjoying it as an open-world freeroaming FPS. I get the feeling I'll be playing it for a long time as there's an awful lot to do but that's a good thing right?!
It takes me back to days of playing Mercenaries on the old PS2 which I also loved and in many ways they're quite similar games. All that's different is the tech levels essentially as Mercenaries was a pretty standard Gulf War sort of engagement whereas FarCry2 is more of an internal African Conflict.
It's not even vaguely related to FarCry so I don't know why they gave it the same name. Personally the original (I know its different dev houses) still isn't doing anything for me wheras this one is doing almost everything for me. I'm generally not a huge FPS fan, despite my recent purchase of maybe 7 FPS... But open world titles like Mercenaries, FarCry 2 and the STALKER trilogy are totally my kind of games and I'm enjoying every minute of this one.
As a bit of a heads up, does anyone know what's so buggy in this game as everyone everywhere has it down as one of the buggiest tittles in the world but I've been ok so far. Just would like to know what I have in store :D
I'll be interested to see how long it holds your attention. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed it and finished it, but it gets a bit repetitive after a while....what with most of the missions being essentially the same...Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
IDK, I don't remember ever having any stability problems with it. *shrugs*Quote:
Originally Posted by Munty
I'll let you know 88 but yesterday I scouted 20/57~ outposts and collected almost 60 diamonds out of 221 (so probably about half of the ones in the Northern sector? I've also done 4 jobs for the gunshops and another 3 assassination ones so I've made quite a dent in the 'background' of the game.
That said I've only done 2 missions in the main storyline so I figure by doing all the diamonds and outposts en-route to my next main objective there should only be a few things to pick up at the end of the map before I move south.
Guess what I'm going to do now? See you all later lol
Ok I need some advice on this game from someone else who's played it and I think here is as good a place to start looking as any! 88, you've played it, lend me a hand would ya :D
So first off... Big Ol' Spoiler alert!
So I've finished the main missions in the northern province and reached the part where I have to 'choose' whether to defend the church or Mike's bar. I chose to save my buddies but after they and I all died I figured it wouldn't have mattered which I chose as it's a scripted death fest anyway...
But now I realise that my best buddy (Josep) is dead and I've only done something like 4/12 buddy missions so far. I guess I make a new buddy down south but I think I've missed out anyway as it says in the wiki that Josep will give you 2 extra missions 'Fuel the Violence' and 'The Lemon Beater' neither of which I've done.
If he's now dead surely that means I've missed the chance to do them doesn't it? I haven't saved yet though so I guess I could go back. Would mean doing lots again later though :( Any thoughts appreciated, I really want 100%!
Spoiler over, thanks in advance for any advice :p
I have played the game also with multiple characters and as far as I know each buddy has a few missions exclusive to them. So you losing your current buddy shouldn't effect you getting bonus missions from another.
Thanks Oz, I figured it out in the end and had to reload from just before I started the last mission of the first part :( It's the missions in Mike's bar which are the buddy quests (I've noticed the icon there but never visited for the work!)
Anyway I'm not at the point where I've done all the assassination jobs (cellular antennas) all the available gunshop jobs, all but the last main mission for the area and 5 of the eight buddy quests. The sixth one I'll do later but for now I have to stop playing as the sun is in such a place that I can't see enough in game anymore lol
I'm puzzled about how I can get hold of the last two buddy jobs though as they need to come from the guy who was until recently my 'rescue buddy'. That means he wasn't ever in the bar offering jobs as he was off in the wilderness waiting to save my ass I guess. I've now managed to swap rescue buddies by doing jobs for one of the other buddies which put her 'history' above my old guys. When I go to the bar now it's her in the widerness but... he hasn't come back yet...
I need him to be in the bar in order to do those last jobs and I'm nearly out of stuff to do in the north now! I've unlocked all the safehouses, scouted all the outposts and found all but 14 diamonds! When the sun has gone I can do all of that tonight and leave the game ready to go to the southern province next time I load it up. But I can't GO to the next province until I've done this guys mission so what next?
/\That, iirc. So, you won't be able to get the bonus missions from the one, but you will get other unique ones from others, later.Quote:
Originally Posted by The boy 4rm oz
Just turned up something else that's puzzled me. You know how I thought I was so nearly done up north? Turns out I only have 4 buddies when there should be 6! So not only do I need to find these extra 2 buddies (I already have intel which should lead me to them!) I then presumably have an extra 2 missions for each of them. On top of that, apparently only 4 people can spawn in the bar at any one given time so that'll be an issue too when I have all six. I don't really want to kill any of them after all :(
The extra 2 buddies are found when you go down south if I recall correctly. Oh and be careful. When you go down south there is a little intermediary "joining" landscape, you will find a few diamonds there. This all happens after the incident at Mike's Bar and you are running.
Well I have played about 20 hours of Assassin's Creed II over the week (since Saturday last week) and am probably 75% of the way through the missions with all the Armour and weapons (minus one). I have nearly all the art work and only about 30/100 feathers. I will be moving over to the final area later this afternoon but for now, homework calls :(.
Thanks Oz I found the last 2 up north so there are 6 up top and I'm not sure how many extra down south. I think another 6 but looking at a guide I found maybe only 4?
Anyway I've now done everything up top except the last 2 buddy missions as the last buddy won't spawn in the bar (I have to kill my rescue buddy to be able to do these which is a MAJOR design flaw with the game...) then I just have 4 more diamonds to collect and the top map is finished and its on to the south part! Can't help thinking it's a bit stupid that you can't ever come back north but meh, can't be helped I guess.
Thanks for the info with the desert, there are 4 diamonds there which luckily are marked on my map ;) So I should be on the southern part very soon but I may take a break from the game after that as I've been really cramming in playtime on it lately which can't be healthy ;)
