FarCry 3

[RooksBailey]

^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

Well, in that case you most definitely DO NOT want to read my three day synopsis of my adventures on Rook Island.   ;D

I still can't get a feel for how much is scripted and how much is random.  If the majority of these events were completely random, FC3 is a most remarkable game. 

[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

Well, in that case you most definitely DO NOT want to read my three day synopsis of my adventures on Rook Island.   ;D

I still can't get a feel for how much is scripted and how much is random.  If the majority of these events were completely random, FC3 is a most remarkable game.

Thanks alot Scott.   :P  I may still have enough to hold out .... until the next sale that is.  ::)

[W8taminute]

Great game.  Playing it on Xbox though but I want to post my opinion of it here.

What everyone else has said: Great story, great characters, plausible circumstances abound (you start off as some scared meek kid but as you get the hang of killing bad guys your character actually does turn into an efficient blood thirsty killing machine), weapons variety which leads me to...ability to kill a thousand different ways.

The environment is on par with Skyrim in that you wish you could be there and experience it.  Yesterday after capturing another pirate outpost it started to rain in game.  I literally stopped what I was doing and just panned the camera around taking in the beauty and tranquility of rain in a jungle. 

If you're familiar with Ghost Recon: Future Soldier, you will like how you can customize weapons, stealth kill, and track enemies as it was clear to me that Ubisoft borrowed these concepts from Ghost.  Nice touch.

[JudgeDredd]

^ what he said and more

I can't get enough of the story.

The characters are amazingly well done. Vaas is a very believable nutter - Buck - well, he's genius, CIA guy - awesome, sexy chic - very sexy, and Dennis is a believable "nice" guy in a bad world.

One thing I don't like (but it's necessary evil) is the useless interactions. Right mouse, left mouse, right mouse, left mouse to crawl through a gap or something or mash the Space key when fighting someone. It seems console game makers think console players have ADHD and need that kind of useless interaction with the game.

Like I said though - it's a necessary evil when getting a console port to a PC...and when they're this good - I really can't mind too much.

[JudgeDredd]

WOW! I hate to say this - but they've just screwed this game up (for me at least)

Nothing - but NOTHING - kills a game for me quicker than making me play, replay and replay a mission.

I've got to a part in the game that I just can't seem to get by - I've played the mission more than a couple of dozen times and I am TOTALLY bored with playing it.

Sure this is frustration - but it's just one of those missions - I can't stand them - where there's just no let up.

A while back there was a game - the name escapes me - which had difficult missions - but if you couldn't do it in your current state - after a few tries it gave you full health back...and enabled you to complete the mission.

But - and I NEVER thought I'd say this - I've put the game down and will likely not touch it for a week or so.

Bad UBI.

[JudgeDredd]

lol - the only thing is - it's the only damned game icon I want to click!!

Damn you Ubi!  >:(

[JasonPratt]

^^ Is there a way to adjust difficulty in-game or before loading a save?

One game I recall giving the player a break after multiple attempts was the first Brothers In Arms (I haven't played the others yet). "War isn't fair, but sometimes a game should be. Would you like all your team to be healed?", if you're having trouble getting past a mission on multiple reloads. (Like a console game, the missions can't be saved just anywhere, so if you fail you have to replay the whole mission from the start.)

Not that this has helped me, as BIA1 is still one of my games on the list to-finish. ;) There's a mission in a town where I'm zig-zagging past several Axis roadblocks that I just cannot for the life of me get to the end of without dying. Close to the end, but I'm shot by the final defenders after I pop out of cover to try anything against them. (Assuming I survive that far. Which I usually don't. Nor does most of my team. Not so bad as it sounds in their case since they heal by the next mission regardless.)

When I go back to finish it, I'll doubtless take the difficulty down to easy, but I seem to recall that being permanent if ever chosen and I didn't want to lose any of the extras that unlock at normal level, mostly having to do with the production diary. Normally I wouldn't care, but I like being amazed at how hard the devs worked at reproducing the real-life situations the missions are based on, with period and contemporary photos of the area from which they reconstructed mission areas and cutscenes.

[JudgeDredd]

^ That was the game. I remember the phrase.

I'm not sure in Far Cry 3. There was another game I remember you could adjust the difficulty before loading a mission. I'll try that.

[W8taminute]

Judge, without giving away any spoilers, how far along are you in the game?  I myself have got only 4 or 5 missions to go before I complete the story so I may be able to help you if you are at a point earlier than where I am at now.

[CptHowdy]

^ That was the game. I remember the phrase.

I'm not sure in Far Cry 3. There was another game I remember you could adjust the difficulty before loading a mission. I'll try that.

in spec ops:the line if you keep failing a mission it will ask if you would like to lower the difficulty. i was surprised when it asked me that. first time i had seen a game tell me i suck!

[JudgeDredd]

Well thanks to Jason - I completed the mission. Turns out you can reduce the difficulty

Panic over!  :)

[W8taminute]

^Great job Judge.  Looks like I responded to your PM before reading here that you finished the mission.   :)

[JudgeDredd]

I got your message though...thanks for replying.

[RooksBailey]

Just a heads up: Amazon has Far Cry 3 on sale today:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=xs_gb_AMY371GFDKXOZ?ie=UTF8&docId=1000950371&pf_rd_p=441937901&pf_rd_s=right-1&pf_rd_t=701&pf_rd_i=20&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=1W3S4EZZM1Z5532K8BTK

$34.99 for all platforms. 

[W8taminute]

I'm three Relics away from getting the collect the relics achievement.  Woot!!

Next up, getting the Letters of the Dead achievement.