got around to beating farcry2... -_-

[Meat Shield]

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lol farcry 2 ending sucked hardcore... basic dumbed down bland console shooter grindfest... Im just mad I actually played it to the end...

2 ways to end it the same way.. take a battery to some dynamite on a cliff and blow yourself and the cliff up to block a passageway (cause god forbid you get an extension cord) or take the briefcase full of diamonds and bribe the guards... ???..... how that one kills you I have no idea.. but either way it says "the jackals body was never found"... pff ok.. I didn't even know I was helping the populous at the end of the game. I thought I was strictly a bounty hunter doing kill missions until I finally kill the jackal for major money then get the hell outta dodge... But nooo, then i start working with him for some glorious revolution to help some african country.. gay.

the ai was so dumb I would run past guards looking at the fucking walls who I would have to shoot at to start fighting with.

boring repetitive driving game

If you drive anywhere near the instantly respawning guard posts they will all pile into 1-3 cars with mounted guns in the back and follow you forever until you get out and headshot them all (and headshots take like 4 shots to kill) then take their cars which will be in perfect condition compared to yours.. not to mention if someone starts shooting at you with their shotgun they'll fubar your engine in under 5 seconds from sniper range...

and when you think you've killed someone after unloading half your clip into them close range they'll do a last stand cod4 thing where they can eventually start shooting at you with secondary

most guns are unnecessary like mortar and snipers (waste my time even more acting like the ai is hard to kill in the first place? and stealthiness isn't viable with crap ai) and flamethrowers and flare gun since wooden fuckin houses and brushes wont catch fire sometimes..

gun jamming was retarded

Shoot more then 4 clips worth of bullets and get ready for gun jamming land.. So many times id be shooting with my primary in a big firefight and it would jam then id switch to secondary and it would jam in like 3 shots then id charge forward with my machete and the animation for slashing someone takes like fucking 2 seconds so im standing there like a retard soaking up 10 npcs gunfire... not to mention shotguns are accurate as hell for npcs...

farcry 2s only real content is driving around and shooting guard post car pursuers while you try to save your real life time getting from point A to point B to kill some poor sap and repeat..

I could have beat the game 15 hrs faster without the bs 40mph driving max..

LOL seriously who drives 40 mph when your being chased or in a desert with no one around and shit..

healing was finding a bottle of water lying around to get max health back or find a syringe pack on a wall somewhere to add to your pack to use

sniper or rocket launcher npcs were obviously insanely OP because they'd shoot like only every 10 seconds and be crazy inaccurate but when stuff like mortars did hit you it'd be instant death... and an explosive death so not even a friend could revive you..

I literally felt like everything about the game rewarded stupidity and punished you for creativity.... I would always have a good laugh when I thought of something that made sense and could easily be implemented into the game and when I go and try it it would fail horribly...

some diamonds that you can find in briefcases in random places were on these inaccessible cliffs that i would try to wall climb to get to but then id hit an invisible wall just before getting to the top..

I remember the hotel shootout part in the beginning or the bar defense thing where you shoot never ending waves of enemies and I would be perfectly alright for 20 mins managing a good rotation of throw nade in one window and headshot npcs in the other... until of course I realized your supposed die like a nub to proceed... (and get malaria)

games these days require you to be high out of your mind to have fun while playing... everythings really going to shit.. bah, anyway time to find out what that thing called 'fun' is like again...



tl;dr = I know its been said before but its worth saying again, farcry 2 does indeed suck hard.

[Casper312]

I read the first sentence then saw the ''boring repetitive driving game''. I really do not see why people love this game. I also did finish the game, but it took me some deep boredom to finish the game, Good thing i got the game from my buddies vga purchase, so no troubles here. The game was fun for the first few hours then it was just a humping steam of caca. Ai even at the hardest difficulty is dumb, i hate games where the highest difficulty is bullets doing more damage and the ai still does the repetitive and predictable moves.

Anyways, game is worth the free tag when buying a new video card, nothing else.

To the people who really liked this game, please post why you think its a decent game, i really did not find anything good from the game, im sorry if im sounding like every generic player who played this game, but damm i hated this game and was hoping it was a good game.


PS. i just remembered the dumbest thing i found about the game, is where your being chased by other vehicles and they smash you from behind, stay in the car for a good 4 secs before getting outside and shotting you, really? is the ai that dumb? Same with roadblocks, standing near the road just begging to get runned over, i remember just running a post/roadblock over and bam just cleared it and got some ammo. To be honest, the badest thing about the game is the ai.

Last edit and rant: I just remembered what a fellow h member said, it involves about driving to point a to b, just to drive for 10 mins, get there and then get sent to your destination, while you can magically get perfect reception via cellphone? Really? You cant just call the guy and tell him where to go and save him 10 mins of useless driving? Sometimes i hoped i can just kill anyone i can like fallout 3

[Spare-Flair]

I am looking to beat the game to finally uninstall it and get a precious 7GB back from this POS. Probably just get a trainer to do it.

Such a beautiful game, good engine, good mechanics...

But the game itself, the story, the programming, everything that makes it a game sucks balls. I'd rather play Pac-Man. It's the same thing. Go around a maze in circles over and over again while running from enemies.

[Zellio2009]

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Game is 15 mile Doom and I'm fine with that. You need good weapons for the driving idiots. I just blow them up.

[Casper312]

It was way too easy to do that zellio, they try to run you over and fail and u just shot them through the windows and boom their dead.

[VorpalBFG]

games these days require you to be high out of your mind to have fun while playing... everythings really going to shit.. bah, anyway time to find out what that thing called 'fun' is like again...

tl;dr = I know its been said before but its worth saying again, farcry 2 does indeed suck hard.

It can't be that bad. You actually took the time to finish it. Perhaps you need to get high in order to dull your jaded cynicism. Then you might actually be able to have fun again. Try it on a higher difficulty setting as well.:p

[Stiletto]

Was I the only one who actually kind of enjoyed the fact that it was so open, and that there weren't enemies every 5 feet? Was I the only one who soaked in the well-made atmosphere, between the very pretty visuals and the good background sounds?

I mean, sure, I was annoyed that an MP5 and an AK47 somehow used the same ammo. Same for the 45 and the Desert Eagle 50.

But good lord, the hatred...insane.

[Casper312]

Yea its kinda crazy, on the hatred, but man, i have played some good ammount of games, xfire says around 4,300 hours of gaming, and this is the only game that made me go outside for once. Yes crazy i know right

[Zellio2009]

It can't be that bad. You actually took the time to finish it. Perhaps you need to get high in order to dull your jaded cynicism. Then you might actually be able to have fun again. Try it on a higher difficulty setting as well.:p

I stopped my car, let them all pile up in cars behind me, run away and shoot a grenade...

[VorpalBFG]

I stopped my car, let them all pile up in cars behind me, run away and shoot a grenade...

Well I can't argue with that. The driving AI is exceptionally bad. I like the guy in the car who slams into me head on only to jump out and get slaughtered by minigun fire. Far Cry 2 is definately not perfect, but there are an incredible amount of things done exceptionally well that make me overlook it's few shortcomings.

I do like the efforts the AI make to flank you. They do tend to take cover from sniper fire. Some actually remain in cover until you approach.

And really, look at game like COD4. There's no AI in that game. It's a freakin pop-up shooting gallery. I don't think there was any enemy that actually made me work for the kill. But people lavish praise on it like mad. At least the enemies in Far Cry 2 will attempt to get better position on you/ hunt you down.

[Riftsaw]

It can't be that bad. You actually took the time to finish it. Perhaps you need to get high in order to dull your jaded cynicism. Then you might actually be able to have fun again. Try it on a higher difficulty setting as well.:p

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The game is actually better when you DON'T get to the ending stretch. Thats when the whole fucking script just goes out the window. Its like they replaced it with the ending sequence of Megaman cept you also have malaria and instead of killing all the bosses you've faced before you also have to kill all your friends and contacts then team up with Dr. Wily and kill yourself. Because HE said you should.

I was SO fucking pissed. If I had not encountered that ending stretch I'd still be playing the game and running through with the other characters. I liked all the crap you could do(though I wish the cars were faster) and stuff you could get away with but then the ending stretch takes all that away.

You know, I can STILL go back and play Mercenaries 2(PC Version) even with all its problems(its still fucking fun) but I can't even get myself to touch Far Cry 2 anymore.

[Dethred]

All I have to say is Fuck IGN for their enormous load of Zebra shit they loaded on their readers.

I, personally, enjoyed it for about 2 hours, at which time I had done everything there was to do in the game. I then played it for another 10 or so hours just to try and get my money's worth. For those 10 hours tried my hardest to make it fun but I would have rather read a book instead. I uninstalled it, and sold it. Its probably the only game that made me sell it that fast, and never have a second thought.

The repetition made my brain bleed out my nose. The horrible AI was just useless.

I think the worst part for me, was the deception with the game. All the videos showed sequences that I never saw. I specifically remember the "deceiving your enemies" development video, where they showed how you can snipe a guy, and his buddy will come over to help. In the actual game, the AI would know you were there before you took the shot, shoot at you from impossible distances, and they couldn't give a tinker's damn about their buddies.

The Factions were pointless. Their bases were 50 ft. apart and none of the enemies in the map were distinguishable. There was no real plot with either faction, no back story, etc.

When you have to drive literally half of your time playing the game, it would have been nice to make the cars have a bit of feel, or speed differentials.

I could go on for hours. You have to really suck at life to be on a development team that cranked out this piece of steaming shit.

[Stiletto]

You know, I can STILL go back and play Mercenaries 2(PC Version) even with all its problems(its still fucking fun) but I can't even get myself to touch Far Cry 2 anymore.

Far Cry 2 didn't reboot my machine.

That puts it light years ahead of Mercenaries 2, which I also admit I enjoyed more.

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Was I the only one who actually kind of enjoyed the fact that it was so open, and that there weren't enemies every 5 feet? Was I the only one who soaked in the well-made atmosphere, between the very pretty visuals and the good background sounds?

I mean, sure, I was annoyed that an MP5 and an AK47 somehow used the same ammo. Same for the 45 and the Desert Eagle 50.

But good lord, the hatred...insane.

Nop you're not the only one who's puzzled by this hate. Singleplayer felt fatiguing because of the great distances, but you can just take the bus, and any game that doesnt appeal to you will seem repetitive anyway. Name ONE game that's not technically repetitive in some level? I like FC2 because it's beautiful, got a nice selection of weapons, the combat is fun. And then, when you are done with SP you can go play MP that have a decent selection of gamemodes, different classes, beautiful maps and a ranking system. Basically you "level up" in MP like in a RPG which I think is pretty cool, even if there's little reward to gaining rank.

Ofcourse these fcktards are not getting that since they've downloaded a cracked copy and have only experienced the singleplayer portion of the game - drive around a bit, not realizing you can take the bus for instant travel, uninstalled their copy and threads like this are born. And before you know it, these people vote FC2 the worst game of 08 before uknown titles nobody cares about with a sub 50 metacritic score, titles they wouldnt even voluntarinly install on their computer, but NO - FC2 is the worst - because the ending stinks......... it's a shooter, are you fcking kidding me?

Also OP wtf are you on about it takes 4 hits to kill with headshots? Obviously you can't aim shit because it always just takes one hit. Then you whine about all your guns jamming, that's what the reliability upgrades are for you genius. You get punished for storming about shooting like an idiot, aim for the head using controlled bursts with a fully upgraded gun and you'll have no problem. Actually it's kinda cool the game punish the low IQ players with features like that.

[PoweredBySoy]

Farcry 2 was fun.

Cry more.

[VorpalBFG]

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The game is actually better when you DON'T get to the ending stretch. Thats when the whole fucking script just goes out the window. Its like they replaced it with the ending sequence of Megaman cept you also have malaria and instead of killing all the bosses you've faced before you also have to kill all your friends and contacts then team up with Dr. Wily and kill yourself. Because HE said you should.

I was SO fucking pissed. If I had not encountered that ending stretch I'd still be playing the game and running through with the other characters. I liked all the crap you could do(though I wish the cars were faster) and stuff you could get away with but then the ending stretch takes all that away.

You know, I can STILL go back and play Mercenaries 2(PC Version) even with all its problems(its still fucking fun) but I can't even get myself to touch Far Cry 2 anymore.


Ah yes. I'm not that far into it. Just past the 50% mark. Ending sounds quite odd. I'm all about the ride, not the destination.

I haven't tried Mercs2. Maybe I'll give it a shot.

Tons of dis-appointment on the forums regarding Far Cry 2. Lots of angry patrons. Too bad though. What can you do?

[VorpalBFG]

Nop you're not the only one who's puzzled by this hate. Singleplayer felt fatiguing because of the great distances, but you can just take the bus, and any game that doesnt appeal to you will seem repetitive anyway. Name ONE game that's not technically repetitive in some level? I like FC2 because it's beautiful, got a nice selection of weapons, the combat is fun. And then, when you are done with SP you can go play MP that have a decent selection of gamemodes, different classes, beautiful maps and a ranking system. Basically you "level up" in MP like in a RPG which I think is pretty cool, even if there's little reward to gaining rank.

Ofcourse these fcktards are not getting that since they've downloaded a cracked copy and have only experienced the singleplayer portion of the game - drive around a bit, not realizing you can take the bus for instant travel, uninstalled their copy and threads like this are born. And before you know it, these people vote FC2 the worst game of 08 before uknown titles nobody cares about with a sub 50 metacritic score, titles they wouldnt even voluntarinly install on their computer, but NO - FC2 is the worst - because the ending stinks......... it's a shooter, are you fcking kidding me?

Also OP wtf are you on about it takes 4 hits to kill with headshots? Obviously you can't aim shit because it always just takes one hit. Then you whine about all your guns jamming, that's what the reliability upgrades are for you genius. You get punished for storming about shooting like an idiot, aim for the head using controlled bursts with a fully upgraded gun and you'll have no problem. Actually it's kinda cool the game punish the low IQ players with features like that.

Holy fuck. There are other people out there that enjoyed this game. Nice to see you. I couldn't have said it better myself. That was beautiful.:D

Sorry for the double post.

[electech98]

Finished the first act, and unfortunately I have no desire to continue.

[Casper312]

Nop you're not the only one who's puzzled by this hate. Singleplayer felt fatiguing because of the great distances, but you can just take the bus, and any game that doesnt appeal to you will seem repetitive anyway. Name ONE game that's not technically repetitive in some level? I like FC2 because it's beautiful, got a nice selection of weapons, the combat is fun. And then, when you are done with SP you can go play MP that have a decent selection of gamemodes, different classes, beautiful maps and a ranking system. Basically you "level up" in MP like in a RPG which I think is pretty cool, even if there's little reward to gaining rank.

Ofcourse these fcktards are not getting that since they've downloaded a cracked copy and have only experienced the singleplayer portion of the game - drive around a bit, not realizing you can take the bus for instant travel, uninstalled their copy and threads like this are born. And before you know it, these people vote FC2 the worst game of 08 before uknown titles nobody cares about with a sub 50 metacritic score, titles they wouldnt even voluntarinly install on their computer, but NO - FC2 is the worst - because the ending stinks......... it's a shooter, are you fcking kidding me?

Also OP wtf are you on about it takes 4 hits to kill with headshots? Obviously you can't aim shit because it always just takes one hit. Then you whine about all your guns jamming, that's what the reliability upgrades are for you genius. You get punished for storming about shooting like an idiot, aim for the head using controlled bursts with a fully upgraded gun and you'll have no problem. Actually it's kinda cool the game punish the low IQ players with features like that.

Im sure everyone knows there is a bus system in the game, which takes time to get to as well, i would often just drive my way there to go through a road block and restock on ammo/health, Hell to be honest, the bus system takes little of the driving away, Yes it does shorten the time, but still, well atleast me i would just drive just because using the bus system would be even more boring than it already is.

I actually got the game from one of my buddies that went sli, so he gave me the 2nd copy, so i guess you can call that not buying it? I actually played the multi for a bit, and found it boring as well. ''but NO - FC2 is the worst - because the ending stinks......... it's a shooter, are you fcking kidding me?'' So every shooter can not have a decent story line and common sense?

I understand what your trying to say about the gun jamming, and i actually liked it when it jammed, with the harder difficulty, it made the game kinda not boring and i had to try for once, its a nice feature i would like more games to have to add that realistic feel to them.

that being said, everyone has their opinion about this game, mine happends to be very bad towards it, and i guess im a fcktards for having standards. Im a go play with a ruberband and have more fun that i had with this game.

[JaYp146]

Finished the first act, and unfortunately I have no desire to continue.

Don't blame you.

Things I liked about FC2: pretty explosions, gorgeous graphics (which only rarely show up in a bland African environment), a large environment, weapons that "wear down."

Things I didn't like about FC2: blatant rip off of Grand Theft Auto style gameplay (freelance car hijacking in an "open" environment and freelance missions throughout), annoying and repetitive AI encounters in the wild, generally uninspired single player campaign, bland voice acting, cared little about the character I was playing, virtually non-existent plot ...

[Madalienmonk]

I played it all the way through and the only way to describe it is disappointment. I never go into games with high expectations, that way my soul doesn't get crushed, and this game was no different.

*spoilers*

This game in a nut shell: talk to a faction (they are both the same, so it doesn't matter) get mission ACROSS THE MAP. Drive to nearest bus stop, take bus as close as you can to mission objective. Take car waiting for you at bus stop, drive the rest of the way and destroy whatever it is that you need to destroy. Rinse. Repeat.

Thats it.

Most of the time its not worth driving to a bus stop so you'll end up driving for most of the game only to take 1-2minutes to actually complete the mission (which always requires doing the same thing - destroying/killing).

So, in conclusion : drive 5-10 minutes to mission objective take 1-2 minutes to kill the person you need to kill.

Though I have to admit the graphics were amazing, just...amazing.

I could go on about the flaws, but its already been done.

[ritch1]

I enjoyed Farcry 2 but I recognize its faults, they just didn’t annoy me as much as others. I appreciate games that have big positives (which this game definitely has) even if there are some negatives, I found the environments stunning and the game play pretty engrossing at times, the missions could be entertaining. People that don’t give it much time are the ones that hate it, they also don’t recognize the fact there are a few ways to do things and you can actually manage to cut out some of the irritations and end up having a really decent gaming experience.

The main thing I did have throughout though is the what could have been feeling, with that engine and environment a lot more could have been done I think but they probably run out of time. I don’t think a lot of people realize the insurmountable volume of work that goes into a game like this, can you imagine designing open environments like that and getting everything working together. Gamers are so demanding and spoiled, especially young ones.

This is what I thought was good and bad anyway: -

BAD (now if these points were addressed bear in mind what this game could have been)
Slow starting, the game needs to be played a good while before it gets pretty good
Outposts re spawning too quickly which can add to repetitive game play
Voice acting + script
Story was not very engrossing
the buddy thing didnt seem to have any real meaning
Missions repetitive
Not being able to carry certain weapons at the same time
Enemy A.I could be suspect
Vehicles could do with feeling more realistic
Air vehicles (maybe not actually?!)

GOOD
Awsome environments and graphics
Open game play works well, able to approach scenarios in a number of ways
Some scenarios work very well, if only there were more
Great fire effects
Great sound effects
Great music score that suited scenarios perfectly
Weapons felt nice, real kick to them
Great combat at times, in fact some of the best I have played in a first person
Different Vehicles could be fun

I’m sure there loads more, cant think right now

[Casper312]

the game does have some good things in it, and some might be worth playing for some, but for me the bads over shadowed the good, i know im sound like a broken record ''this game is bad!'' but it was prob the only game all year that bored me, mass effect almost did the same until i actually played it well besides rushing through it

[Sphere]

This was a definite let down and waste of my money.

[ritch1]

the game does have some good things in it, and some might be worth playing for some, but for me the bads over shadowed the good, i know im sound like a broken record ''this game is bad!'' but it was prob the only game all year that bored me, mass effect almost did the same until i actually played it well besides rushing through it

thats fair enough, at least you recognise it has some good points. the opinions that annoy me are ones that outright trash a game that doesnt derseve it. even if you dont like the game it is definatly one of the better releases of 2008, theres games in the past i didnt like at all but i admit their positives and understand why gamers go for them. I'd urge people who are thinking about farcry 2 it to form their own opinion. i dont think its title of the year or anything but its a pretty solid and i enjoyed playing it the last week or so.

Dead Space next i think!

[SixtyWattMan]

OMG something I've been missing in every one of my posts bashing Far Cry 2 is the cropped widescreen. What a piece of shit.

[Frostex]

Far Cry is a pretty straight forward shooter, it looks pretty and it has some nice feature, but like a lot of modern games its pretty shalow.

It's large scale but to fill that with content they use formulaic repetition of missions and gameplay elements, much like assassins creed did.

Other than the fact that it crashes every 10-15 minutes with me, here's a list of things about it that really anoy me:

Fast respawning check points make your efforts in any area temporary at best, leads to repetition of killing guards in certain areas.
A.I is typically quite stupid, but insanely accurate, if you speed through a checkpoint in a jeep you'll be getting tanged in the head by bullets and although you're speeding away somehow bullets will knacker your engine.
No lean when there clearly should be in this kind of game
Enemy health way too high, I loaded it up and took my new SAW machine gun for a spin and I find myself drilling in to bad guys like im firing rubber bullets, when the finally go down they sometimes still get back up, Far Cry did this as well.
Stealth just didn't really work properly, you could hide but you couldn't really sneak

It's got a lot of good points, the tech for rendering such a large area and things like the spread of fire...

It's perfect for console users who just want to hold the trigger down and fire thousands of rounds of bullets at these cartoony targets without really any realism

I prefer more realistic games, given the chance I would have snuck about mostly in the dark with the silecned pistol and machette taking people out sam fisher style and playing like the pro you're supposed to be.

I guess this is a trait shared by a lot of modern games, I dont know if its the push for more casual gamers al la spore (will wright admits they'd rather made a shalow game thats sells better) or if it's more to do with the audience for consoles and the more simple gameplay they're used to.

[ritch1]

the game is a straight forward shooter, no doubt about that. i had no expectations of it which helped. if you go in thinking this will be some form of role playing experience you would be very dissapinted as it is just a shooter but in an open world environment, which isnt a terrible idea but the repetitive gameplay annoys many.

i also think playing full on for a sustained amount of time is not a good idea. i played it while getting into fallout 3, when you got something to break it up its better.

if this game was more in depth and had more role playing elements it would rank up as a great game of all time. the mechanics and feel of it are great, thats what kept me playing but the shallow premise hurts it no doubt. like i say, i wasnt expecting much and the Farcry name bothered me so was pretty negative, after playing it though i had to admit they put a lot of work in and acyually made a decent game. maybe if they address these problems in a follow up....