+Majesticmerc MVC Posted August 24, 2009 MVC Share Posted August 24, 2009 I was disappointed with Far Cry 2, and it nailed to the wall the fact that critics don't have the slightest clue about games any more by the fact that it averaged 85/100 on metacritic. Don't get me wrong, technically I think it's stunning, the use of fire was good, and the graphics were great, but the game itself was a broken promise. The missions were repetitive, but the thing that annoyed me the most was that the outposts respawned instantaneously. Realism would be the gradual repopulation of the outposts (i.e. 1 or 2 men arrive to cover the downed guards, and reinforcements arrive later), which is something that I thought that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. : CS did quite well. Instead, what happened was you would go 100 metres down the road, realise you made a wrong turn, and then have to fight the same outpost again in order to take the left turn instead of the right turn. Good gameplay makes a good game, and the ability to free-roam was severely lacking on a game that touted itself on having an "open-ended" story with only one objective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricardo Gil Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I got this game like 4 months ago but haven't had the chance to play it yet (it's actually still sealed). It it worth opening at all? Seems many of you guys thought it to be repetitive.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solardog Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 How to tell (most of the time) if a game sequel is going to suck:1. The publisher buys or extorts the rights from the dev team and hires someone else to do the sequel. 2. The most of the original team members who created the game go onto other jobs so the publisher hires a bunch of talentless office drones (poached straight out of college or IT work by headhunters) as obedient replacements who will obey the publisher's every inept idea for the franchise. E.g. Raven, Lucasarts. 3. The independent developer is bought by one of the big evil publishers. All the innovation and coolness is sucked out of the formerly PC-centric franchise to make it more "mainstream" so borderline-retarded console players are able to grasp the dumbed down gameplay and controls. So guess what else is going to suck? Bioshock 2. Btw, I didn't bother playing Far Cry 2. Played Crysis though. It was great up until the alien stuff. Oh man I hope you're wrong about Bioshock 2, but I cant argue with your reasoning and I fear you're right. btw, I agree with your impression of Crysis, loved it until the alien stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lothodon Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I got this game like 4 months ago but haven't had the chance to play it yet (it's actually still sealed). It it worth opening at all? Seems many of you guys thought it to be repetitive.... if you have the opportunity to sell/return it, do it. i have tried to play this game 5 times now, and all the comments in this thread are right, game is not good. i have an obsession to finish every game i get regardless (example: die hard nakatomi plaza) and this one has a lot of dust on it, as it's not been touched in months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solardog Posted August 25, 2009 Share Posted August 25, 2009 I got this game like 4 months ago but haven't had the chance to play it yet (it's actually still sealed). It it worth opening at all? Seems many of you guys thought it to be repetitive.... Put it this way: The definition of repetitive could just be a picture of the Far Cry2 box in the dictionary. Its got just enough cool tho to keep you playing longer than you normally would causing you to hate it all the more. Hate is too strong a word tho, I didnt hate it, just disappointed. Tons of untapped potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 I don't mind the game at all. Looks like I'm in the minority on that. But then I didn't buy it either, it came with my video card. If I had to buy it I might feel differently about that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andre S. Veteran Posted August 29, 2009 Veteran Share Posted August 29, 2009 I gave my opinion in much detail here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boogerjones Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I thought this game was poor but had nice visuals. It was repetitive and tedious. A comment I saw on another forum was that it was more fun for the gamer to be at work than playing Far Cry 2. I felt the same way. And that's the definition of a bad game. One thing that really annoyed me regarding its release was the exclusive PC Gamer review that game out 2 weeks before the game's release. It was a shamelessly positive review that was obviously an arrangement between PC Gamer and Far Cry 2's publisher that gave the magazine an exclusive early look in exchange for a positive spin on the game. Consequently, I will never read a PC Gamer review again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp0 Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I thought the game was impressive technically and certainly had potential, hence why I bought it. But it wasn't all there gameplay wise. I think they tried to do far too much, Open world singleplayer, multiplayer, and a mapeditor. That's a hell of alot of work, and things like the A.I and the controls suffered. But I for one I am hoping they stick to Africa setting for a FarCry 3, because with some more work it could really be a fantastic game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O.G Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 Needs more content. I'm not sold on the whole africa backdrop. One part seems as bland as the next and the vast areas of nothing are a complete waste of space. Needs more urban, anything other than the occasional tin shack. Also, what makes it FarCry exactly? It is nothing like the first in either setting, storyline or wow factor. Basically it is a mediocre game with little to set it apart from a budget shooter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SYBINX Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I thought it was pretty cool when I first played it, but now the excitement has gone. I miss the tropical beeches, the annoying monsters and the jungles. I now see Crysis as the new FarCry, as it's the closest thing we have for now.Sure the engine for FC2 is very good looking, but it just looks bland and dull, plus I found the game play a bit repetitive. Why Crytek didn't have control over it pees me off a bit. I'm disappointed that the next game will still be in Africa. I say bring back Jack!!! I miss the red shirt.... FC2 shouldn't be classed as a sequel. Ubisoft got a black mark from me for changing something cool into something not so cool. I mean we got the awesome pc game first and then xbox game which was great, then came the expansion which was pretty damn good, then came the 360 port with slightly better visuals and not much else, and then the Wii game (got bad reviews, but at least it was FarCry). I suppose Ubisoft own the rights now? and all we can expect from Crytek is more Crysis games? (not that is a bad thing). I loved the game, plays better on a 64-Bit OS mind... I have two Sapphire HD 4890 OC edition cards in CrossFire and the trees and the grass look so real. I must admit the Dunia Engine is far better than Crytek Engine. Although they are both good engines, and Crytek SandBox which was the first engine for FarCry was amazin. I think it was the first engine where a wheel was a wheel and not a shaped like a 8 sided hexagone. It was also the first game in which water looked like water. Dunia is about 38% more powerful than the Crytek Engine but, still they are one of the best game engines around to date... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.F.D.K Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I loved the game, plays better on a 64-Bit OS mind... I have two Sapphire HD 4890 OC edition cards in CrossFire and the trees and the grass look so real. I must admit the Dunia Engine is far better than Crytek Engine. Although they are both good engines, and Crytek SandBox which was the first engine for FarCry was amazin. I think it was the first engine where a wheel was a wheel and not a shaped like a 8 sided hexagone. It was also the first game in which water looked like water. Dunia is about 38% more powerful than the Crytek Engine but, still they are one of the best game engines around to date... Like everyone else in here, I thought the game was great visual-wise, and i have to say i did enjoy the fighting too but it started to get really stupid taking out an outpost again that you just took out a minute ago :blink: . That's not realism as far as our real World goes. Anyone who's allergic to repetitiveness should stay away from it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted August 29, 2009 MVC Share Posted August 29, 2009 I loved it, but since moving to Windows 7, I can't play the multiplayer. That gets me angry. Punkbuster needs to get their code updated....so we can multiplay again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solardog Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 I loved it, but since moving to Windows 7, I can't play the multiplayer. That gets me angry. Punkbuster needs to get their code updated....so we can multiplay again. I sure they'll get caught up by the time Win7 is released in a few months. You could use the gaming break. Go outside and smell the bee crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted August 29, 2009 MVC Share Posted August 29, 2009 I sure they'll get caught up by the time Win7 is released in a few months. You could use the gaming break. Go outside and smell the bee crap. Well see, you don't understand. I've not played it since March or so....the beta didn't allow multiplayer either.. So I have had enough bee crap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solardog Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Well see, you don't understand. I've not played it since March or so....the beta didn't allow multiplayer either.. So I have had enough bee crap I understand, I was just messin' around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I loved the game, plays better on a 64-Bit OS mind... I have two Sapphire HD 4890 OC edition cards in CrossFire and the trees and the grass look so real. I must admit the Dunia Engine is far better than Crytek Engine. Although they are both good engines, and Crytek SandBox which was the first engine for FarCry was amazin. I think it was the first engine where a wheel was a wheel and not a shaped like a 8 sided hexagone. It was also the first game in which water looked like water. Dunia is about 38% more powerful than the Crytek Engine but, still they are one of the best game engines around to date... I'm curious to know how you came to the conclusion that the Far Cry 2 engine is 38% more powerful than the Crytek engine? Because one thing that has let me down in FC2 that I love to do in Crysis is to sneak behind vehicles and shoot their gas tanks and blow them up that way. Or take out their tires...you can't do that in Far Cry 2. Maybe the ability to do that with the FC2 engine is there but if they didn't bother to use it then it doesn't matter how much stronger the engine is. Details like I mentioned above are why Crysis is a great game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Crysis also had much, much better physics/destructableness than far cry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAID 0 Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I agree with almost everyone here, Far Cry 2 sucks the big one. The visuals are great, the storyline is the biggest pile of **** I've seen in a long time of game-play. Ubisoft is a ****ty company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmatic Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 is there any such thing as a mod scene for far cry 2 ? it sounds like these are gameplay problems that , when you tweak them out, leave nothing but the good things about the game... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOOOMKULTUS Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 FC2 sucks big time. Ubisoft doing what mega corps do with small-time successful franchises,**** it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 Yeah I think it would be immensely better if it wasn't for the respawning guard posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
O.G Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 is there any such thing as a mod scene for far cry 2 ? it sounds like these are gameplay problems that , when you tweak them out, leave nothing but the good things about the game... No mod scene. Ubisoft has refused to release the SDK. Mapping is about as far as it goes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trag3dy Posted August 30, 2009 Share Posted August 30, 2009 I could have sworn that I saw somewhere there was a mod that removed guards are every intersection in the game and made them spawn less often. But I wasn't playing FC2 at the time so it didn't interest me. I'll have to see if I can find it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanManIt Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Its a beautiful game, but they fumbled with the gameplay so bad. Repetitiveness killed it, along with the stupid AI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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