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.
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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
Ummmm 3 than stop.
Okay maybe two as well. But yeah probably 3 and then move on.
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.
TheGamer Writes "Far Cry 3 is a time capsule of what game design was like in the early '00s"
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?
"Far Cry 3 is a time capsule of what game design was like in the early '00s"
>Came out in 2012
Okay then
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.
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.
Well sure not the bugged&glitched coop
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
The sheer amount of random things that happen is what makes it great for me.
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.
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.