mrharvest
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Post by mrharvest on Jun 1, 2022 21:00:39 GMT
What's your favourite then?
I reckon mine is FC2. It had so much going for it. But for the love of god don't play it vanilla. Redux + Realistic Reshade and it's so much better. It's still a janky older game (released 2008) but it's just got some spirit that the newer games don't have. Plus the story is so much more plausible (barring maybe 6, but that had other issues).
FC3 was just nonsense. FC4 was the same. FC5 was, well, maybe it's a good game. But I hated literally every character in the game, including the protagonist, so it makes it difficult for me to have an objective opinion. FC6 had great characters, great premise, but somehow they dropped the ball. It just gets worse and worse towards the end of every section and the whole campaign.
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Post by askew on Jun 1, 2022 21:02:03 GMT
Blood Dragon.
Otherwise FarCry up until the stupid monsters.
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Post by eleven63 on Jun 1, 2022 21:11:31 GMT
Just finished FC6 - what a boring ball ache of a game that was. Couldn't wait to get to the end game - where as I would normally have taken my time, ticked off the side quests, etc...
3 and 4 for me.
6 sucks balls. Needs a major rethink.
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Post by alastair on Jun 1, 2022 21:12:08 GMT
I think Blood Dragon was my first one. It was indeed marvelous!
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 1, 2022 21:13:14 GMT
Tbh that's how I feel about many a current Ubisoft open world single player game, Valhalla, Watch Dogs and Far Cry they all seem so bloody boring.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2022 21:18:06 GMT
Ubisoft has not had a great start this gen. Watch Dogs Legion was the worst of them. Immortals Phoenix Rising was okay, at least.
But to answer the thread, my faves were 2, 3 and Blood Dragon. Always meant to pick up Primal but I never did.
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Post by eleven63 on Jun 1, 2022 21:50:28 GMT
And Blood Dragon, obvs. A complete blast.
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Post by X201 on Jun 1, 2022 21:50:45 GMT
I think with all of them, the main characters and story have been a bit meh, but the maps and activities are usually good
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 1, 2022 22:52:20 GMT
It's 2. I understand why people don't like it, as it's a pretty hostile player experience. But without wanting to get too wanky about it, that's kind of the point. You're an unwanted, unhelpful interloper in a hostile environment, there's no safety anywhere, your employers are all bastards, your friends aren't really your friends, and the most noble thing you ultimately do is basically to kill yourself. It's not a power fantasy! Aside from that, the fire effects remain amazing. And there's a real sense of chaos that I love, that anything could go horribly wrong at any time. Anyway, the ones after 2 kind of blend together for me. Blood Dragon was fun. And I liked Primal, just because the setting and gameplay was so different. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jun 2, 2022 3:31:55 GMT
Only played 1, which I thought was amazing at the time. Even the monsters, while not as good as the mercs, were pretty cool at times. But the real star was the world and the physics.
Been wanting to play FC2 for ages, but never gotten around to it. Same goes for 3, despite owning that one.
Can't say that any of the others after that really appeal.
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Post by malek86 on Jun 2, 2022 5:18:04 GMT
Started FC4 on Prime Gaming, and it runs like shit. It sticks to 40fps no matter the settings. Guess I won't bother then.
Anyway, I'm not a fan in general, but I liked Far Cry Instincts. Probably because it was the most linear of the series.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 2, 2022 5:26:44 GMT
Far Cry 2 as well. I've only played 3 otherwise and I barely managed to finish it. I think some things are objectively better, but the only thing that actually matters is that the guns have overall more satisfying sound to them. Some in FC2 are good, but others are not.
FC2 has the clearly superior physics, stealth (sound detection!), fire propagation, actual wind, destructible vegetation, better AI interaction and voicing and soundscape and soundtrack are lovely. It's one of the few games where I'm sometimes completely fine just walking around while enjoying the dense atmosphere for its own sake.
FC4 seems to compare favourably with FC3 and FC5 in some ways when it comes to the physics and some other details. Just as a point of interest. I need to take a look at it at some point.
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Post by hedben on Jun 2, 2022 6:45:33 GMT
The thing I like doing the most in every Far Cry game is stealthily taking everyone in a camp out one by one, but having the option to go Beast Mode if you’re spotted early. Was it FC3 that introduced chain takedowns or were they also in 2?
Anyway FC2 was a great game but it was bastard hard and annoying sometimes (bloody respawning enemy roadblocks everywhere). FC3 and 4 were more fun.
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 2, 2022 6:50:53 GMT
FC2 didn't really have takedowns. That started in 3.
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Post by dangerousdave on Jun 2, 2022 6:58:54 GMT
Far Cry 2 for sure. Playing through 4 years later and realising it was a stripped back version of that was such a disappointment. Haven't bothered with the series since.
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Post by Phattso on Jun 2, 2022 7:49:51 GMT
Still the original Far Cry for me. It was unparalleled at the time, and I used to load up the level called 'boat' for years and years afterwards just to have a tool around. It narrowly pipped Doom 3 to the post in ushering in the more advanced shader techniques of that generation too so it was a sight to behold. FC2 was amazing, a genuine attempt to try something new, but its oft documented missteps combined with it not actually being a sequel to the original that I loved left a sour taste. FC3 was fun. A return to the island setting, and a more overtly gamelike approach. I enjoyed it despite myself. FC4 and FC5 were that exact template moved to a new setting, and I'll play FC6 when it's a tenner and not a second before. I probably enjoyed FC Primal more than the later mainstream games. It was quite focussed, had some novelty, and just really clicked with me. But I easily spent more hours in FC1 than *all* of the others combined.  |
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 2, 2022 8:14:23 GMT
FC2 didn't really have takedowns. That started in 3. There are machete takedowns more or less, but it's not silent and sometimes they dodge it. Only silenced headshots are silent or at least produce very little noise. |
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Post by MolarAm🔵 on Jun 2, 2022 8:21:12 GMT
FC2 didn't really have takedowns. That started in 3. There are machete takedowns more or less, but it's not silent and sometimes they dodge it. Only silenced headshots are silent or at least produce very little noise. Yeah, "stealth" in FC2 usually means "I'm going to go off-road through the jungle to avoid this checkpoint". Rather than "I'm going to take this whole base of idiots down one by one, because I'm a ninja somehow and they have no peripheral vision or spatial awareness". |
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Post by mrharvest on Jun 2, 2022 9:24:54 GMT
Interesting so see so much love for Blood Dragon. I mean, it's great. But it doesn't have the depth I would expect from Far Cry.
As a shorter romp I also very much enjoyed the Vietnam DLC that 5 had. You could free your buddies, and they could die. It had a bit of that ruthless magic that 2 has.
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Post by dfunked on Jun 2, 2022 9:27:59 GMT
Blood Dragon was great. It was exactly as deep as it needed to be (like a puddle basically)
I really enjoyed 2 even though it didn't click with me at launch. Came back to it several years later and fell in love with the world.
1 was OK at the time up until the trigen or whatever they're called arrived, where it just completely shat the bed.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 2, 2022 9:29:34 GMT
Yeah Blood Dragon is by far the best one. I liked what I played of 2 and as said previously, the first was good until all the stupid mutants etc.
Have tried to get into FC3, FC4 and FC5 and have binned them all after a couple of hours.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jun 2, 2022 9:36:08 GMT
The original FC was brilliant, with the big, loud, muscley, shiny soldier enemies. All big and muscley just shouting at you with their big, shiny, muscley bodies... brilliant.
Oh and it was one of the first games with Half Life 2 to have eye adaptive HDR.
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Post by malek86 on Jun 2, 2022 9:46:43 GMT
I'm pretty sure in fact that it was the very first game to have HDR, though it was only added in a later patch.
Half-Life 2 never actually got HDR, it was only featured in the Lost Coast demo from 2005, and then in Episode 1 and 2. They never patched it into the main game. Kinda like how they never added the extra graphical features from Orange Box into the PC version. Valve has always been a bit weird like that.
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Post by Chopper on Jun 2, 2022 10:55:43 GMT
Far Cry 3....remains the biggest gaming disappointment of my life, and I haven't played any since. Not to disparage anyone who likes the later games, but Far Cry 2 gave me everything I wanted, and then some, from a shooter at the time. The cross pollination with the AssCreeds which resulted in the Ubigame resulted in a formula that became instantly stale for me.
I only played #1 briefly, a long time after it was released, so I dunno about that one.
Clint Hocking did a kind of 10-year anniversary retrospective on FC2 a few years ago. I thought it was a proper blog but seems to collect the 'top ten articles' written about FC2 (from his perspective) instead.
It's a pity he disappeared into the maw of Valve back in the day; I believe he's back now, but 10+ years of producing very little end product...
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Post by brainbird on Jun 2, 2022 12:44:51 GMT
FC2 is still installed on my Xbox for the unlikely event I've got time to continue the game I've started years ago.
Despite what the internet says I've rather enjoyed FC5. Looking back I think FC4 or Primal were the ones I enjoyed least because they were just FC3 reskinned.
FC6 will be bought when it's cheap.
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Post by ToomuchFluffy on Jun 3, 2022 4:25:22 GMT
Clint Hocking did a kind of 10-year anniversary retrospective on FC2 a few years ago. I thought it was a proper blog but seems to collect the 'top ten articles' written about FC2 (from his perspective) instead.
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Post by hedben on Jun 3, 2022 7:32:59 GMT
I got New Dawn in a bundle with FC5 and haven’t played it yet. I liked FC5 just fine- is it more of that with different baddies?
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Post by dfunked on Jun 3, 2022 7:37:37 GMT
Pretty much... Post apocalyptic version of the FC5 map that's been altered a bit.
It's OK, but pretty forgettable.
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Post by lukasz on Jun 3, 2022 9:37:45 GMT
I'm pretty sure in fact that it was the very first game to have HDR, though it was only added in a later patch. Half-Life 2 never actually got HDR, it was only featured in the Lost Coast demo from 2005, and then in Episode 1 and 2. They never patched it into the main game. Kinda like how they never added the extra graphical features from Orange Box into the PC version. Valve has always been a bit weird like that. HL2 received graphical update. I thought it was hdr? The game looks much better, especially the lighting and shadows than it did in 2004. I played ten min of fc1 once. Ten years ago? But on my wish list is fc5. Want to shoot up some American rednecks. Also have blood dragon... somehow. In ubi account. I guess that is what people recommend |
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Post by mrharvest on Jun 3, 2022 10:06:33 GMT
I could barely bring myself to complete FC5. The narrative loves to wrest control from the player all the time. It's like the writers played Bioshock 1 and decided it should be the ending, but every 30 minutes.
New Dawn is pretty bad in this regard too, there's a very strong cut scene impotence going on. You'll mow through 100 enemies when taking over an outpost without much breaking a sweat, but when you're in a cut scene a single baddie with a pistol turns you into a wet sock. There's just that disconnect between the gameplay and the story.
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