Far Cry 5

polonyc2 said:
my issue with FC5 is that it's fun in the beginning but after you finish the first region you're pretty much overpowered and the rest of the game becomes too easy...I'm trying to complete those challenges which involve catching certain fish and wildlife to take away from the repetitiveness of the story missions...I do like the Seed brothers as villains though and I like that they are seen sparingly throughout the game

Far Cry 2 was right up there with the first game in terms of quality...unique setting and great graphics for its time
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Try turning up the difficulty and see if that helps.
 
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viivo said:
So the point of that video is a modded FC2 has more gameplay gimmicks than FC5?
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not sure what you mean, what mods are you seeing? that looks like basic FC2. The world is much more "realistically" destructible, character interactions are much more believable, weapon jamming, variety in "healing", etc. All of that is gone.
 
I still hated part 2 for the most part. *shrugs*

Jess and Boomer are a helluva good stealth and recon combo for companions.
 
jiminator said:
did you guys watch the FC2 comparison video above? It is pretty amazing how much more realistic the game world is in FC2 vs later games. I think the problem comes from catering to console limitations.
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I almost want to stop playing FC5 and start playing FC2 again.

guess the take away of all this is that all previous FC games were better than 5 is.
 
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Bigbacon said:
I almost want to stop playing FC5 and start playing FC2 again.
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Do it and I bet you come back to this pretty quick. ;)



guess the take away of all this is that all previous FC games were better than 5 is.
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Part 1 was. 3-4 did some things better as well.

Overall, I'm having a lot of fun with this. YMMV obviously. ;)
 
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Bigbacon said:
Yea the game forcing you to complete it when it wants is annoying as hell. You can't just explore a region and do the basic things over missions because you'll eventually be forced to complete the region. I did Faith's region first and the only main missions I did were the ones the forced me into. i missed playing so many side missions and other main type missions because of that. No longer can I just explore and kill off all the bases then work on missions like you could in 3 or 4.
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I started with Faith's region as well, and I didn't know it while playing it but that was the best region actually. The fact that you had to work around the bliss fields to not get high gave a fun little aspect to playing that region. And the destruction of the statue was a great fun mission as well. I finished most of the story missions there, and that was the part I enjoyed the most overall. And that's probably the region that took the longest to finish also.

One thing you didn't touch on (unless I suck at reading) is that your character is just a mindless drone. 3/4 you had a name, a voice, a personality. It allowed you to feel more invested. With being the nobody it is like playing any other old school FPS sort of thing.
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No, I really didn't mention that, probably because I never gave a second tought to that. I guess they were going for the "nameless hero" cliché. Honestly that didn't bother me. I hated the main character in FC3 and found it illogical that he turns from spoiled brat into rambo in like three minutes. So better to have no personality than one I loath.
Still feel like there is so much less to do in 5 over 3 and 4. like they took 3/4 and paired it down to the bare minimum.
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Less interesting things to do for sure. It's funny, how this game made fun of the tower climbing minigame in FC3. When it was still more enjoyable than most of FC5. I thought it was a really cool concept in FC3 that you revealed regions by climbing radio towers. I remember touching on that in my review of FC3.
but the shear randomness of things still makes it fun. See so many silly things going on at times just have to laugh. AI planes crashing into each other. helicopter smashing into the ground and taking out a car. then you get the weird like a moose smashing into a car and the car hits another car and that car flies like 50 feet in the air for whatever magic reason, comes back down on moose, explodes, sending moose and other car flying. Other car hits ATV and people go flying...those moments.
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Oh I forgot to mention that, the rag-doll physics of the game is terrible, and fallen enemies stuck into walls, and were thrown into the air randomly, even I was thrown a few times, and also managed to get the classic fall bellow the terrain bug once. I think in this day and age developers ought to get physics right.
And another thing I failed to mention is the terrible AI. I could walk up in their face and do a take down from the front almost always. They couldn't find me at times, and there were missions were some enemies wandered outside the mission area and the mission was to kill them, but if I left the area the mission failed so that was the exact opposite of fun.
 
M76 said:
Oh I forgot to mention that, the rag-doll physics of the game is terrible, and fallen enemies stuck into walls, and were thrown into the air randomly, even I was thrown a few times, and also managed to get the classic fall bellow the terrain bug once. I think in this day and age developers ought to get physics right.
And another thing I failed to mention is the terrible AI. I could walk up in their face and do a take down from the front almost always. They couldn't find me at times, and there were missions were some enemies wandered outside the mission area and the mission was to kill them, but if I left the area the mission failed so that was the exact opposite of fun.
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yea I've had other things I am calling "Chuck Norris Events" like guys see me and just flat out die but they really died by some random act like walking into a door...But I pretend my presence was enough to kill them.
 
jiminator said:
did you guys watch the FC2 comparison video above? It is pretty amazing how much more realistic the game world is in FC2 vs later games. I think the problem comes from catering to console limitations.
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Yeah, but shouldn't that just be an option to turn off or on? X and Pro can handle that I'm sure. Don't know about the previous models, though.
 
M76 said:
And another thing I failed to mention is the terrible AI. I could walk up in their face and do a take down from the front almost always. They couldn't find me at times, and there were missions were some enemies wandered outside the mission area and the mission was to kill them, but if I left the area the mission failed so that was the exact opposite of fun.
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I feel like what they did was make the AI only have vision and no hearing, except for certain sounds, like the rock you threw. Guys standing on the beech and they can't hear you splashing around like an idiot swimming.
 
Bigbacon said:
I feel like what they did was make the AI only have vision and no hearing, except for certain sounds, like the rock you threw. Guys standing on the beech and they can't hear you splashing around like an idiot swimming.
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I didn't even bothered to notice that detail. Just seemed that they were oblivious to you many times, but for some missions they rigged them so they knew exactly where you were. I loled the most but not in a good way when I Could hide from the ai behind a 1 inch thick tree.
 
M76 said:
I didn't even bothered to notice that detail. Just seemed that they were oblivious to you many times, but for some missions they rigged them so they knew exactly where you were. I loled the most but not in a good way when I Could hide from the ai behind a 1 inch thick tree.
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just crouch walk and they never see you. they can be almost about to see you and just crouch and bam, like you were ghost.
 
Enemy AI is idiotic except for those damned planes. They're borderline psychic at times.
 
M76 said:
I started with Faith's region as well, and I didn't know it while playing it but that was the best region actually. The fact that you had to work around the bliss fields to not get high gave a fun little aspect to playing that region..
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I haven't avoided the bliss fields at all...seems like there were a few story cut-scenes and 1 major event that took place because I was infused with the bliss...not sure how those would play out if you avoided them
 
WOW

i reinstalled Far Cry 2 and I still have ALL my old saves... from 2009. I have no idea where I was in the game or what to do next. I think it may be bugged but still. Cool!
 
Bigbacon said:
Im using an xfi with a PC speakers in a box. It works fine in other games.
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Tested on my X-Fi yesterday, works for me, it's just you, bruh. ;) Are you using Dolby Digital Live or DTS Connect? Some games don't jive with that stuff.
 
Far Cry 5 Breaks Sales Records
"Ubisoft announced today that Far Cry 5 is now the second biggest launch ever for a Ubisoft game, second only to Tom Clancy's The Division. It has made $310 million in its first week through consumer spending."

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Infographic with random stats released by Ubisoft. (source)
 
viivo said:
So the point of that video is a modded FC2 has more gameplay gimmicks than FC5?
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The point is that a 10 year old game from the same franchise has more realistic cloud formations, ballistics, day/night transitions, enemy AI, vehicle collision physics, vegetation destruction....among other things. Hardly gimmicks, as opposed to features which contribute to immersion. And its not clear what elements of the FC2 gameplay you think are the result of mods, browsing Nexus I don't see anything obvious.
 
polonyc2 said:
I haven't avoided the bliss fields at all...seems like there were a few story cut-scenes and 1 major event that took place because I was infused with the bliss...not sure how those would play out if you avoided them
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If you talk about the visions and bliss sequences It happens either way. That's my biggest gripe with the game: everything is predetermined, you have zero influence on the story or course of events. Apart from the window dressing choice at the beginning that leads to game over before you even start.
 
Well great.... They applied some kind of patch (had a download before my game launched) and now my loads lockup when fast traveling and game crashes. Thanks Ubi.
 
M76 said:
If you talk about the visions and bliss sequences It happens either way. That's my biggest gripe with the game: everything is predetermined, you have zero influence on the story or course of events. Apart from the window dressing choice at the beginning that leads to game over before you even start.
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yeah there's not much actual choice or consequence in the game but I wasn't expecting that with a Far Cry game...there was another part of the game in John's section where...
you are taken prisoner and you find the female deputy there...you are given a choice of letting her get tortured first or you taking her place...I chose to go first but wondered if letting her go first would lead to her death
 
Blade-Runner said:
The point is that a 10 year old game from the same franchise has more realistic cloud formations, ballistics, day/night transitions, enemy AI, vehicle collision physics, vegetation destruction....among other things. Hardly gimmicks, as opposed to features which contribute to immersion. And its not clear what elements of the FC2 gameplay you think are the result of mods, browsing Nexus I don't see anything obvious.
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Have you actually played FC5? Yes or no.

No offense but I notice you in lots of threads seeming bizarrely angry about videogames.
 
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polonyc2 said:
yeah there's not much actual choice or consequence in the game but I wasn't expecting that with a Far Cry game...there was another part of the game in John's section where...
you are taken prisoner and you find the female deputy there...you are given a choice of letting her get tortured first or you taking her place...I chose to go first but wondered if letting her go first would lead to her death
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I don't think anything has a consequence in the game. I don't remember even having that choice. But by the time I got to that part I was so annoyed with the story that I automatically skipped everything I could. So I might have accidentally skipped that as well.

I hated bioware infinite for the same reason: It was a fool's errand. The ending made all your choices and efforts during the entire game pointless. But at least there the presentation and the storytelling was good. So you only got annoyed at the end. Here the end is just adding insult to injury.
 
M76 said:
I don't think anything has a consequence in the game. I don't remember even having that choice. But by the time I got to that part I was so annoyed with the game and the story that I automatically skipped everything I could. So I might have accidentally skipped that as well.

I hated bioware infinite for the same reason: It was a fool's errand. The ending made all your choices and efforts during the entire game pointless. But at least there the presentation and the storytelling was good. So you only got annoyed at the end. Here the end is just adding insult to injury.
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I do like the presentation of the Seed Brothers (and Faith) in the game...Ubisoft did a great job with the main villains...the rest of the gameplay is typical Ubisoft map filler missions...I like the game but it's nothing groundbreaking...the Montana setting is also great...I skipped Far Cry 4 so maybe that helped me enjoy this a bit more
 
polonyc2 said:
I do like the presentation of the Seed Brothers (and Faith) in the game...Ubisoft did a great job with the main villains...the rest of the gameplay is typical Ubisoft map filler missions
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I don't have a problem with the characters, I have a problem with giving them supernatural abilities, and the interrupting the natural flow of the game with these damn intermezzos. If they were inserted properly into the gameplay and storyline instead of "capture party incoming" it would've been much better.
 
M76 said:
I don't have a problem with the characters, I have a problem with giving them supernatural abilities, and the interrupting the natural flow of the game with these damn intermezzos. If they were inserted properly into the gameplay and storyline instead of "capture party incoming" it would've been much better.
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I thought they fit in fine...you get caught during a mission or while exploring...cue cut-scene and some scenes with the barely scene John or one of the other Seed brothers...seems realistic to me...I enjoyed the cut-scenes as they had a cinematic feel
 
I just finished off the brother's area and now i'm on Faith's area.

Taking down the giant statue is pretty awesome.

Some of the cut scenes with faith are really awesome.
 
st4rk said:
Do me a favor and actually look at my post history before making retarded comments like that.

I don't hate video games, I hate gamers. Big difference.
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Best post of the... day at least? LOL This attitude is contagious by the way. ;)


Saw some small update for FC5. Don't see any notes anywhere yet. Thanks for the spotify link on FC5 OST polonyc2 :)


A couple of details I've noticed that I liked: Companion banter. If you take two people with you they actually start chatting with each other and comparing notes, sort of like what happens in Bioware games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect.

Some of the sidequests have been fun to play and had some depth going for them. Some of them have had some humor. I'm not talking Witcher 3 caliber side quests by any means but for a game like this I felt like if traded out towers and some of the other things people mentioned that a little bit more effort was put in quest and sidequest direction which I'd rather see if I have to make a choice between "either/or."
 
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Mchart said:
Didn't know that. I hope I can still do the mission since I killed him.
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yes you can...I did the mission after defeating John...fly close to the Yes sign using a helicopter and it should trigger...when I went there on foot the mission didn't trigger
 
I gotta say, whoever did the controls for this game needs to find a different profession. It's pretty clear they've never played a video game before.
 
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