FarCry 3

[JudgeDredd]

I did report above that I noticed a considerable decrease in GPU temperature after I installed the latest 3.10 drivers from nVidia.

I'm pretty sure that is still the case...although GPU and fans are running full pelt my temperature is around 65-70 where it was close to 100 before.

I do only have a GTX460 and I'm obviously not running everything up high - but the drivers did seem to help my temperature.

[Grim.Reaper]

I did report above that I noticed a considerable decrease in GPU temperature after I installed the latest 3.10 drivers from nVidia.

I'm pretty sure that is still the case...although GPU and fans are running full pelt my temperature is around 65-70 where it was close to 100 before.

I do only have a GTX460 and I'm obviously not running everything up high - but the drivers did seem to help my temperature.

I am currently using a ATI HD6850 so maybe it also depends on what card is being used.

[Bison]

I got Far Cry 3 as a gift and am excited to play, but I'll be holding out until the overheating issues are resolved.

[LongBlade]

^ Teeth to the knee.

Ha!

I remember when Far Cry 2 was released someone did a test with it to see how far they could push the graphics. They couldn't find a limit. Apparently the game scales its detail to the power of the video card and, as best they could tell, there is no upper limit. The graphics will take as much as you can feed them. I'm assuming that Far Cry 3 hasn't changed that formula.

[Bison]

Hmmm...I don't know if I want to risk my gpu melting playing the game.  They should have some sort of cap to prevent burning out people's gpus.

[RooksBailey]

I've been tempted to get this game  - especially seeing how there is NOTHING of interest to me that is being released in the next few months  >:( - but these heat issues concern me.  Has a patch been released?  Is the game now safe to play?  ;D

[JudgeDredd]

I didn't know it wasn't safe to play.

I had one instance of graphic corruption which required an exit...and I put that down to heat but I've had no issues since and that was when I first got the game.

To me it seems solid and is a fantastic game.

[RooksBailey]

I didn't know it wasn't safe to play.

I had one instance of graphic corruption which required an exit...and I put that down to heat but I've had no issues since and that was when I first got the game.

To me it seems solid and is a fantastic game.

Okay, thanks! 

What did you think of the story?  I wasn't initially interested in this game because of the setting - college boys fighting pirates on a jungle island just isn't on my top 10 list for game settings  ;D - but if there is a Heart of Darkness angle to it, I might be able to overcome that objection.

How are the open world aspects?  Does it feel open in a Skyrim "you can go anywhere, do anything" sort of way, or more of a Borderlands "you can go anywhere but there are only different quests to be had" sort of game? 

[JudgeDredd]

I love the story. It gripped me straight out the traps.

As for open world, there are animals to kill to make different bags for carrying more kit, there's more little race, shoot, hunt tasks. It's open world in that you can go wherever you like on the island and in the surrounding water.

You can jump in and out of the story as and when you please. I'd say it's not as big as Skyrim...but more akin to that game than I remember Borderlands being.

Overall - easily my fav pirchase and I'm getting many, many hours of play out of it.

[RooksBailey]

Thanks for the info!  I picked it up today as an early birthday gift.  Haven't had a chance to try it yet, though.  As soon as I get a feel for it you can probably count on some feedback from me.   ;D

[JudgeDredd]

yw.

I hope you enjoy it. If you enjoy it half as much as I am then you are still getting a bargain.

The other night I saw a tiger jump onto the hind of a deer, get dragged along a bit and then the deer fell...wee touches like that make it really cool for me.

[RooksBailey]

I just put in about two hours and...wow!  What a game!  It reminds me of an odd mix of Deus Ex (for the sneaking elements), Arma 2 (for the exploration and combat), and GTA IV (for the general criminal hijinks).  Quite the mix!

I knew I was going to like this game when I was driving along a road and some pirates in a jeep were coming the other way.  As we passed, I heard one of them swear some obscenity and jam on the breaks.  Then they swung their jeep around and starting chasing me!  What followed was quite the unexpected car chase - again, something out of GTA.  I was swerving and skidding all over the place trying to lose them.   ;D  I finally gave them the quick slip by pulling behind a small hill.  I expected the AI to quit, but no - they doubled back to continue to look for me!  So I decided to fight.  I got out of the jeep and took aim over the hood of my car.  As they pulled up, I opened fire, shattering their windshield and causing the pirate jeep to go out of control and slam into a rock outcropping!  I think I must have killed the driver because he never left the jeep, but his cohort did.  I dropped him next.   8)  When I went over to the body to loot it, I saw that the game actually puts bullet holes where you hit the bad guys!  Wasn't expecting that...or the bullet holes in the jeep, either!

Wow...what a game.  I think I can actually forgive Ubisoft for the many, many missteps of the last two years.   ;D

Thanks so much for the rec!  You didn't steer me wrong!  :-*

[JudgeDredd]

Cool.

It is a great agme. I think I must have 30 or more hours on it, I'm only part way through the story and I've only uncovered maybe half of the island! And it's not got tiring.

It's"wee" bit samey - but different enough it doesn't bother you. By that I mean you take out enemy camps. And that is through the game - but the camps get more difficult. Reinforcements turnign up, more enemies, enemies with bullet proof vests, dogs, snipers, chargers, molotov cocktail geezers...they just ramp it up enough so that even though you are doing the same thing you done from the start game, it requires some different thinking - especially if you want the extra XPs by taking the camp quietly.

For people still worried about heating etc...all I can say is what I said before - I had one graphics glitch early on and nothing since. My fans are going full pelt when I play it and the temp is up at the 70's (and that's down from when I first checked the game out where it was running in the 90s)

I am NOT playing the game on full graphics mind either.

I only have
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
8GB Memory (can't remember make - but not expensive)
Intel Quad Core 2.33GHz CPU
nVidia GTX460 768MB Graphics card

So not a fast machine by any stretch of the imagination - and the game still looks great

[RooksBailey]

The following is something of a pompous opinion piece with excessive verbiage on Far Cry 3  :), but I think once you clear the clutter away, the author has the right of it:

I Hate That I Love 'Far Cry 3'

This is a game I would have every intention of never playing. If you had told me any of this premise ahead of time, I would have gotten on my indie high horse and sneered safely in the arms of my anti-Ebertian, post-gamer ideals.

...

And while I had every intention of hating Jason Brody, I, too, lost my person to the overwhelming circumstance of his journey.

...

Put another way, Far Cry 3 is the Toxic Avenger of videogames. It is sophmoric and atrocious, and yet it is the best representation of this young medium for the entirety of 2012, and potentially long-tailing into 2013, perhaps because it also represents us. It is worthy of cult status, if not as a technical achievement then as the only videogame to master such a dark form of empathy. That I could hate something so strongly and be so completely absorbed into it only wets my appetite for the coming realization of videogame’s storytelling potential as the most immersive artform of this century.

[TheCommandTent]

^Dude seriously why would post things like that.  Its dangerous.  :P   Now you have me looking past my initial urge to blow the game off..........   ;D