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My Favorite Thing About Far Cry 3

Jason Schreier:

"So what is this game?"

Seems like a simple question, right? Usually there's a simple answer: "It's a platformer where you save the princess by jumping through deserts and oceans." "It's a sci-fi shooter. You blast away aliens." "High-school simulator meets dungeon-crawler."

Far Cry 3 is a little bit harder to define. Maybe that's why I like it so much.

Chris5584139d ago

Well sure not the bugged&glitched coop

finbars754139d ago

Bugged and Glitched co-op.I have never had one problem with the co-op at all.I have had a couple of hiccups in the SP but nothing that made me be concerned more of a laugh or two.The SP is just do enteresting and fun in so many ways.If this doesnt win GOTY then im sorry the gaming community has no clue of what a complete packaged game truely is.

Chris5584138d ago

Well i had to replay like 10 x the last map of coop for my plat just because it bugged the cutscene with jet skis didn't come and the list goes on not to mention trophies not showingup

landog4139d ago (Edited 4139d ago )

best thing about far cry 3-the single player

it is amazing, epic, and awesome

multiplayer is decent

co-op is ok

but damn that single player, its 10/10 for me, maybe 9.9/10

Thatguy-3104139d ago

The bow and arrow alone is my favorite thing out of the game. Made me feel like such a bad ass. The campaign was good too but I think it would have been netter just to focus on Jason and his friends. The whole tribe thing was just a little to much. Still love the game though.

Sandmano4139d ago

The sheer amount of random things that happen is what makes it great for me.

akaakaaka4139d ago (Edited 4139d ago )

The gun gameplay, action, physics, graphics, AI, the driving.
The campaign single player, the open world, the fact that the main mission felt like a non open world and where unique and fun, well pasted.(it make me want Killzone 4 to be open world like this and why not TLOU2 and any other game that fits into it, fc3 proved that open world's can have linear quality Hollywood style of campaign into a open world game, specially KILLZONE3 will have fit perfectly into a open world)
The wild life and locals/mercenaries.
The rpg elements, leveling up was fun to do and well placed, it keep the game always fresh (something GOW always do well)

I did not like
The brainwashing loading menu, "kill,him,men,lick,death, etc etc" very iluminati .
SPOILER ALERT* The big anunaki colossus devil Satan,very iluminati.

DasTier4139d ago

... You do realise that every game does not have to be the same right? About 6 years ago people were probably saying your exact comments, but about Call of Duty 4 and look where that lead us. To 6 years of stale non-innovative FPS's.

Also what do you mean very illuminati? Nothing about this game was "very illuminati", and Anunnaki were Sumarian Gods/Aliens, so the demon was not an Anunnaaki either.

Awesome singleplayer and map creator though, shame about the poor co-op and tacked on online.

coolmast3r4139d ago

This game is one of the best for me in 2012. It feels so alive. Sneaking through jungle with bow, planting a landmine on the road and watching it explode after an anemy car runs over it, being a hitman and kill all these foes in a stealthy way...Damn, this game deserves some sort of a prize, it's just awesome.

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masterfox409d ago

Farcry 3 and literally thats it! lol

GamingSinceForever407d ago (Edited 407d ago )

I recently tried 3 for the first time but the frame rate was a turnoff.

I liked 5 and 6 though.

banger88407d ago

If you have a Series X or S, the Xbox 360 version runs at 60 fps with fps boost. It's a shame the remaster doesn't.

isarai409d ago

2 and 3, pretty much the only ones i really enjoyed. 1 was amazing for the time but aged quite poorly. 4 has the elephant gun, all i can praise from any entry after 3 lol

cooperdnizzle407d ago

Ummmm 3 than stop.

Okay maybe two as well. But yeah probably 3 and then move on.

JEECE407d ago (Edited 407d ago )

Far Cry 2. People constantly rant about games now being too easy, holding your hand, having too many unnecessary RPG-lite leveling features, etc. People specifically complain about open world games being too focused on tons of collectibles and "checkmarks" that just waste time.

Far Cry 2 is an answer to all of those complaints. It was made by Ubisoft before they fell into all the traps discussed above (and before they started inserting towers into their games to defog the map). It has respawning enemies, weapons that degrade, and the collectible diamonds are very useful in the game (which you find in a similar way to the way you find shrines in BOTW with a radar system). The map you have is an in game item you pull out while playing, not a pause menu that is unnecessarily detailed. Also the enemy AI and physics are much better than later entries in the series.

It has a mixed reputation because people at the time said it was too hard, the weapon degradation was annoying, and then respawning enemies were annoying. FC2 came out in 2008, so this was before games like Dark Souls and BOTW had come out and made it cool to like these types of features.

XbladeTeddy406d ago

Far Cry 2, the one with the AI that find you through walls and trees, can one shot you from a mile away and have 100% accuracy? That was frustrating not fun because cheap AI.

JEECE406d ago (Edited 406d ago )

Uhh, I mean, it isn't one of these games where once the enemies have detected you they will magically forget you exist because you walked behind a wall or went into a bush. And yeah the AI isn't stormtrooper level accuracy. Again, these are positives, not negatives to me.

To be fair, I'm really directing this at the people most critical of "Modern Ubisoft" or "Modern Open World" design elements. Like the type of people who fawned all over Elden Ring because it had a clean UI because they are so burnt out by the "checkbox" type of open world design.

If you like those types of games, then a later FC game like 3 and especially 4-5 would be more your style.

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Far Cry 3 Is One Of The Most Important Games Of Our Time

TheGamer Writes "Far Cry 3 is a time capsule of what game design was like in the early '00s"

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Knushwood Butt491d ago

Beat it twice; once on PS3, and once a couple of months ago on PS5.

Doesn't Far Cry 2 have some of the things they are talking about here? Diamond hunting, healing, malaria medication?

shinoff2183491d ago (Edited 491d ago )

I believe 2 did. I highly doubt it was the only game like that though. I imagine the writer isn't old enough to have played part 2 but I also feel it wasn't the first game to introduce stuff like that

They bring up mass effect 2. I felt mass effect 1 was better. It just seem cut down. The citadel was a joke in part 2 compared to 1. How do you cut back on that.

Profchaos491d ago

Having just replayed the entire me trilogy yeah I think 1 was my favourite I think 2 had better cover and shooting mechanics but everything else in 1 was better

jznrpg490d ago (Edited 490d ago )

Mass Effect 1 was the best . It played like an RPG . The other games were more shooter and lost the feel the first game had unfortunately

gurp491d ago (Edited 491d ago )

I played it on PC when it came out, might play it again some time
Far Cry 3 is the best of the series, it was ahead of it's time

Palitera490d ago

It seems the blogger didn’t even play RDR1 if he thinks FC3 brought these elements to the AAA table. Tiktokers always have a new surprise. Smh

Sgt_Slaughter491d ago

"Far Cry 3 is a time capsule of what game design was like in the early '00s"

>Came out in 2012

Okay then

BrainSyphoned491d ago

If we are going to talk early 2000's game design how about start in the year 2000 with games that are a far cry better than something released 12 years later.
"Chrono Cross, Baldur's Gate II, Diablo II, Dragon Quest VII, Final Fantasy IX, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, along with new intellectual properties such as Deus Ex, Jet Set Radio, Perfect Dark, The Sims and Vagrant Story."
The article names things Ubisoft has shoved into games to dumb them down and then claims we should rush off to play it. Maybe instead look back at it as the death of originality from Ubisoft and gaming in general.

glennhkboy491d ago

Far Cry 3 & Assassin's Creed VI: Black Flag are 2 of the very best games from Ubisoft. All Ubisoft games since then are all just copying these 2 games.

ChubbyBlade490d ago

This isn’t an early 2000s game…you’re about a decade to early on that one.

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