Far Cry 3 Thread

[TehBluebear]

Just finished the story, both endings. Anyone else feel the endings were kind of a let-down? Just felt underwhelmed really, everything up until that point was good.

Edit: After reading various interviews with the writer (Yohalem), I can sort of see what he was aiming to do, but honestly, it's all that disjointed and tenous that he failed more than suceeded. The scenes with Vaas probably was the closest the game got to getting most players to start thinking the deep thoughts that the writer is banging on about, but then to say that the terrible skinning animations and lack of actual skinned animals was a further to that just seems bloody awkward in my book. On top of that, most players are probably just in it for the 'shallow' game experience, merely brushing aside the Alice in Wonderland quotes and Vaas' ramblings as things that were a bit 'too weird for me I'd like to shoot more things please'. I find it admirable that Yohalem is willing to provoke the ideas and thought processes that he is talking about (particulary those pointed out in the Rock Paper Shotgun interview), but it just wasn't coherent enough. Maybe I'm just simple, or not the kind of audience he was aiming for.

 

[kissenger]

Finished the Story tonight brilliant game from start to finish TBH, kind of sad its over now.

How long did it take you altogether?

 

[Kmodo]

Are there any settings that could make dual core rigs run better? (e8400 coupled with a 480gtx)

 

[Paul_cz]

Maybe I'm just simple, or not the kind of audience he was aiming for.

Nah, it's just that Yohalem picked wrong game to explore these ideas with. In open world game where 6-8 hours is story and 20 hours is open world free roam gameplay, you simply cannot expect players to "get" what you mean, especially when it is written really incoherently.
Which is why Spec Ops was much more successful at this, since it was short linear and thus a lot more impactful experience.

 

[Caseh]

Hey guys.. Do you know anywhere I can download the client for this game? I bought it from Game in a sale the other day, but it turns out my dvd drive doesn't work.. No idea how longs it's been like that, as this is the first I've tried to use it in almost 2 years. But now I'm stuck unable to play my game. Anyone know where I can get a link for it? I can't download it off uPlay either I don't think.

 

[Draeger]

EDIT - Ignore, just realised the Gamesplanet link I posted would require you to pay a second time to download it.

 

[Caseh]

Seem's a need to buy it from there, but I'm not willing to buy it a second time, as I know I won't be able to take my copy back, as It's been opened.

 

[Pighardia]

Go back 2 or 3 pages and someone posted a link to a download for the client that most members here used. This was about a month ago though, so I do not know if it is still up.

Edit-

Give this one a go. http://www.filedropper.com/farcry3downloadmanageren

...it was much more than 3 pages!

 

[Murray]

Dunno whether to buy this on steam now or wait to see if it goes on a daily deal.

 

[zakblood]

just got to 50%,

Spoiler

bit where you are tied to the chair

, only crap bit so far in the game, loving it apart from that.

might start again and not do so much exploring this time before i do the missions and see how it goes, as an ex national swimmer,

Spoiler

i've swam round most of the map

 

[Caseh]

Go back 2 or 3 pages and someone posted a link to a download for the client that most members here used. This was about a month ago though, so I do not know if it is still up.

Edit-


...it was much more than 3 pages!

That seems to be working, thank you very much!

 

[Draeger]

Excellent. Result. Enjoy it, its a fantastic game.

 

[Murray]

Not sure if I can play like this ...

Spoiler

 

[[TW]Fox]

What an excellent game this is. I honestly thought I'd got bored with gaming given I cant play BF3 for more than 10 minutes without quitting. But no, I'm just bored of boring games. This is interesting, I like the story line and its great fun.

I do get an odd sort of shimmering gun effect when I'm driving vehicles though..

 

[reilly]

I love taking the outposts with the sniper with the silencer attachment, shoot all the alarms and then pick people off, and to finish the heavies, C4 or some explosive arrows

 

[Pestilence]

Must say, the animation and voice acting for Vaas is fantastic. Never get tired of seeing parts where that guy shows up.

 

[Usher]

I didn't realise that pirates could attack outposts you already captured, I selected a new weapon & went outside to test it & fired at a gas cylinder which exploded, some of the locals ran away shouting, I didn't like the weapon so went back in to change it back & replace ammo, when I came back out there was jeep full of pirates who started shooting at me

 

[Hastarius]

I only found out a few days that shooting the molotovs attached to the backs of those drunken guys sets them alight

 

[Baron C]

Grrrr...The damn game crashes periodically!
Starting to ruin the experience.

The official forums are no help as it seems to read as a fanboy dirge of hate against your PC.

 

[Usher]

Grrrr...The damn game crashes periodically!
Starting to ruin the experience.

The official forums are no help as it seems to read as a fanboy dirge of hate against your PC.

My game does the same unless I lower the engine clock on my GTX580, did the same with Dishonored & one or two other games,I discovered this 'fix' on a forum.
I have Asus Smartdoctor installed & simply move a slider a little before I play, it has no effect on slowing down the game