Far Cry 3 Thread

Will21st said:
^^This.Seems like some people put in a couple of hours and moan it isn't any good.This game needs serious investment.Played 10 hours or so and feel like I barely scratched the surface.So much to do and such varied gameplay it's ridiculous. A lot of nitpicking from some posters,imo. No game is perfect.


Takedowns are so much fun.Especially when the detection meter is almost full and you plunge the knife in their necks at he last moment.

Another cool element when attacking camps is switching off the alarm. Can get pretty hairy at times. :eek:
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Explain to me where the variety is in this game?

Shooting up 38 camps - pretty much all the same from what I can tell.

Climb 18-odd towers. Ooh the excitement!

Stab a bad guy - see "shooting up 38 camps" above

Open hundreds of loot boxes, boring. Annoying. Moronic.

"Hunting"? What hunting? If you mean shooting something thats moving and looks like an animal, it's hardly "hunting" is it? It's not like you have to stalk it and take your time. It's just there and you shoot it. Pathetic.

Drive med packs to a checkpoint (moronic).

Race through some checkpoints to win some money, boring, seen it all before.

There's no satisfaction in exploring to find crates etc. as each crate contains the same old crap. There's nothing special to find.

You can't talk to anyone, there's no interaction

I can just imagine what we look like playing it, sat there transfixed, mouths wide open, eyes glazed over, not really sure why we're playing it. It's one of those games where you suddenly decide to stop playing and you're just left with this hollow feeling of "What did I just do? I just spent hours and I can't even remember what I did and I don't even think it was fun."

The whole thing is a chore, just like FC2 was, just like half the games that come out these days. It's just a load of banal tasks strung together very loosely around a weak story. There's no depth to the world at all, nothing. It's just a pretty landscape, there is literally nothing interesting about the game world other than the nice colours.
 
Bow > guns

Nothing more satisfying than taking out an camp with deft bowmanship, rock distraction and knife kills, without anyone knowing what happened

Edit: To all the nay sayers, yes the game is very flawed. It's repetitive, there are far too many patrols, backup arrives far too quickly, there are far too many animals about (lol rare tiger, I have 8 pelts already and those bloody dragons) and the mission areas are too small but it's what you make of it. The gun play is great, you can go about things however you like (aside from some objectives which require a certain type of kill etc). It's much better than FC2, which I dearly tried to like
 
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This game seriously needs the options to turn tips off!

did a mission where you need to get to the top of ancient chinese ruins....you walk close to some old beams and the character says something like "those beams look old" .....ok, maybe I can knock them down. Oh look they are flashing bright yellow covering half the screen:rolleyes:

ATM I would say the game is heading for around 7.5/10. Possibly 8, as the last few missions I have done have not been quite as linear as the previous ones. With LOTS of tweaks...but tbh all very small ones, this could have been a classic.
 
andyT totally tore this game apart, no idea why im really enjoying it.

Amazing to see different peoples interpretations of things :)
 
There are 2 things I cant figure out.. Maybe because im daft, stupid, take your pick or because of the Console like menu crap I have to put up with, I don't know.. Its for the pc btw

1) How do I HOST a public COOP? I only have 2 options. I can host a private COOP. Or I can choose public CO OP but that just throws me into someone elses game which are usually on easy or normal mode and darn boring.

2) I how I get access to the freaking map editor? I can see whatever maps ive made(none) or which ive published(again none) even other peoples maps which there is a few off. But I cant for the love of god find out how to launch the map editor..
 
Davepen said:
I much prefer to get in close and do some melee takedowns.

So much fun to be had with death from below/above, knife takedowns and grenade takedowns.
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Same here. After playing hitman it just seems so easy. Infinite rocks to throw and they never seem to see you. Just leg it up and stab 'em.

Disable the alarms first (I usually just shoot the boxes if there are only 1 or 2 of them) and then pick them off until I get spotted.

It seems very easy, so I'm wondering if I need to up the difficulty a bit? I get more trouble from the wildlife than the guards so far, but I don't want to make it so hard that it's a ballache where I drive for ages picking stuff up and then get killed by a deer or a woodchuck or something.

My only real gripe is the horrible menu system. It is such a PITA to navigate when you're unlocking loads of stuff at the start or checking what you need to unlock/craft things.
 
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Anyone know if you can turn some of the tips off in a config file somewhere? ....It is ridiculous that you can have an objective of 'find xxx' when there is a yellow dot on the screen for you to follow!

They should just rename every objective in the game to 'follow yellow dot'
 
AndyT said:
Explain to me where the variety is in this game?

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The variety and joy is in all the things that you mention as negatives.... it's up to the player to mix it up and get the most out of it.That's the beauty of this game and what was great about FC2. If you can't see it then that's not the game at fault.

I guess we all enjoy different things. :)
 
Just cleared out a tough area on a mission. got to the end and killed the last guy who set me on fire. So I press Q to put fire out...I have done it many times before of course. no, it doesn't do it. It uses up a health syringe. My health is still going down and THEN it tells me to press Q to put out the fire!:rolleyes:

.....For every great moment there seem to be many more dumb ones! Exploring the ruins is fun.

EDIT- Can't believe I only have 28% progress:eek:....seems like I have been playing it for ages! I have done 19/38 quests though apparently. Any way to show playtime?
 
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Pighardia said:
Just cleared out a tough area on a mission. got to the end and killed the last guy who set me on fire. So I press Q to put fire out...I have done it many times before of course. no, it doesn't do it. It uses up a health syringe. My health is still going down and THEN it tells me to press Q to put out the fire!:rolleyes:

.....For every great moment there seem to be many more dumb ones! Exploring the ruins is fun.

EDIT- Can't believe I only have 28% progress:eek:....seems like I have been playing it for ages! I have done 19/38 quests though apparently. Any way to show playtime?
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When you continue/load game it shows your playtime.
 
Tbh, the crafting system does grow on you...or at least becomes less of an annoyance.

PS- 11 1/2 hours in. Time has flown!

I predict a reallifesis type mod, which will make this game look unbelievable...in a good way
 
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