Farcry or Half-Life 2 - Quick!

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I am going to get one or the other of these 2 games, so which one? What's Far-cry going to run like on a 9600 xt? Whats the registration/activation like for Half Life 2? Pls Reccomend one or the other!
 
half-life 2.

Half-life 2 is best, then next best is FarCry then after that Doom 3
 
Far Cry runs fine on a 9600xt. But I would have to go with hl2. I enjoyed hl2 much more than i enjoyed far cry, but that is just me. I had no problems with activating, and I activated on opening day, took me about 15 min. Now My friend just got it the other weekend and activated it at my place, took him about 30 min (i think ;) ) Only diffrence was i got mine through steam and he got retail version. So mine was already installed...technicaly.

JEEVES
 
yeah for HL2 u can get away with some aa and af at that res...but with far cry..LOL

let's just say my 6800ultra can run HL2 flawlessly and Farcry smoothlessly...
both@ 1600x1200 4xAA and 16xAF on the highest quality they can offer..

HL2 is just a better coded engine imo..
 
Far Cry by far. Anyone can have HL2 for free....







Just download one of those physics tech demos and hit your moniter with a crowbar. ;)
 
Well the 9600XT is pretty weak for Farcry. I had one and upgraded because of it. It surely ran every other game pretty well before that. At 1024x768 no AA no AF I found Farcry to be a slideshow alot of the time on a 3.4GHz P4 with 1GB of ram.

So for performance reasons and because I found that it was a better game, I'd say go with Half-Life 2.
 
Half Life 2. It runs well at 1024x768, all settings high, with 2x AA and no Aniso. It occasionally still had periods where the frame rate would skydive, but turning off AA made it smoother.

This on a system that was a P4 2.4C@3.0 Ghz, 1:1 with 1 GB RAM.
 
Sir-Fragalot said:
Well the 9600XT is pretty weak for Farcry. I had one and upgraded because of it. It surely ran every other game pretty well before that. At 1024x768 no AA no AF I found Farcry to be a slideshow alot of the time on a 3.4GHz P4 with 1GB of ram.

So for performance reasons and because I found that it was a better game, I'd say go with Half-Life 2.
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yep... far cry might look good, but other games like HL2 looks the same if not better.
IMO FC's engine is just not coded as good as the source engine
 
No freakin' question about it.....


HALF-LIFE 2


by way far...

It looks way better and it comes with Counterstrike Source & HL2 Deathmatch... That itself is well worth the money ;)


(also - Far Cry is getting cheaper and cheaper, last week it was running for $29.99 now I saw it at Fry's for $14.99 soon it will be in the bargain bin for $9.99 :p )
 
Sir-Fragalot said:
Well the 9600XT is pretty weak for Farcry. I had one and upgraded because of it. It surely ran every other game pretty well before that. At 1024x768 no AA no AF I found Farcry to be a slideshow alot of the time on a 3.4GHz P4 with 1GB of ram.

So for performance reasons and because I found that it was a better game, I'd say go with Half-Life 2.
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You must have got the short end of the stick with your card. I played Far cry on my 96XT at 1024x768 with 2x AA, and got nothing below 35 frames. Same settings with HL2 but nothing below 40 frames. All this was on a 2200+ tbred with junk ram. Since then I've upgraded to a A64 system, and better ram. And it is even nicer.
 
Far Cry's engine is superior to HL2's...ESPECIALLY with the outdoor scenes...just take HL1 and add bumpmapping and triple/quadruple the polygons and add the Havoc engine which is also used in Far Cray and finally mix it all up in a blender and you have HL2 engine...Far Cry is a much longer game and has FAR better graphics BUT HL2 has the storyline and the more inventive weapons and better audio minus the weapon and environment audio which sux in both games :rolleyes:


Far Cry has bump mapping on EVERYTHING which makes things look fuking awesome and it also uses and uses pixel shading on everything which makes things even BETTER...hmmm...actually ya know what...PAINKILLER makes the BEST use of the Havoc engine...so take HL2 and Painkiller and Far Cry and mix it all up and you'll hopefully get Duke Nukem Forever :p...

My vote is Far Cry...Painkiller if you don't have it...only prob with Far Cry is it's AI is kinda suky since they can see you like 500 miles away...
 
Far Cry because
1] It doesn't use Steam
2] It can be installed in under 5 hours
3] When you double click the icon it doesn't take 2 - 5 minutes for the game to start.
4] It's a lot longer game.
5] It doesn't give you vertigo and spasms.
6] It's easier to back up.

Yeah, after 5 hours of trying to get it installed in WXPP and W2KP I gave up and returned it for a refund. I will never buy another Steam / Valve game.
 
I don't have either one, but Far Cry looks way more appealing to me, AND it costs half as much. I almost bought it tonight, but I have too many games already that I don't have enough time to play.
 
Far Cry is the better game no doubt.

Half Life 2 is hyped to death really. Though HL 2 may be a bit nicer to your computer but then it don´t render all the detail Far Cry engine does.

I enjoyed both a lot but Far Cry is more rewarding and have much better replayability.
 
Open ended shooter (FarCry) vs shooter on a rail (HL2), take your pick.

Also, the far cry engine is much better, especially when it comes to huge levels (HL2 will stop to load 4 times in each level).

I vote for FarCry. Get HL2 when it hits the bargain bins.
 
They both have their good points. Really, you're going to win either way. They each have their very own play style. I liked Far Cry's open ended gameplay, and I liked HL2's story and realistic graphics and physics.

To me it's a coin toss.
 
To me it's a coin toss too decided by the fact that HL2 will run better on a 9600XT.
 
This Far Cry game is laughable. I cant believe many of you said that this game is better than Doom 3. Im on the stage with the "genetically mutated jumping monkeys that kill you with one hit". Playing this game is like starring in a low budget B movie.

RTCW is better than Far Cry...from what I have played so far...and this game isnt even on Doom 3's level.

The AI is terrible. You kill one guy and the rest of them follow him to their deaths like mindless lemmings. At least Doom 3's enemies were "kick ass" demons and zombies, so they had an excuse to "not fear death". The only reason that Far Cry seems challenging is that the game uses a checkpoint system instead of a normal quick save system.
 
Doom 3 had the cool looking baddies and Far Cry had the awesome graphics with all it's bump mapping and pixel shading and Painkiller had the awesome graphics and music and HL2 had the best AI out of the others...

Why can't game devs just put these games in a blender and come out with an even BETTER game than all 4???
 
I like Far Cry MUCH better than HL2, however the only game I am playing right now is CounterStrike Source... Basically that is no help. :)
 
Metallica_Band said:
Why can't game devs just put these games in a blender and come out with an even BETTER game than all 4???
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Because each game needs a gimick. It's either "OMFG buy HL2 the physics ROX0RZ!", or "OMG Doom 3 graphics are the best ever, buy me!"

The devs spend so much time getting one gimick to work better than it does in any other game, that they don't take time to make sure every other feature is still good.

Doom 3: Good graphics, everything else sucked.
HL2: Awesome physics, good graphics, and the gameplay lacked.
etc.

That's why everyone liked Far Cry so much. No hype: No one heard about it before the demo was released. Plus, as far as graphics, and AI, and gameplay go, it had a really good balance.
 
Everything was awesome in Far Cry except its AI...the AI stunk like poo...they could spot you miles away when u hide in the bushes and ur looking at the thru binoculars...and they sometimes shoot each other when another baddie gets in the way...there were some other probs but they were minor things...HL2 may have nad nice use of the Havoc engine (physics) but Painkiller made the BEST use of the Havoc engine IMO...
 
wallijonn said:
Far Cry because
1] It doesn't use Steam
2] It can be installed in under 5 hours
3] When you double click the icon it doesn't take 2 - 5 minutes for the game to start.
4] It's a lot longer game.
5] It doesn't give you vertigo and spasms.
6] It's easier to back up.

Yeah, after 5 hours of trying to get it installed in WXPP and W2KP I gave up and returned it for a refund. I will never buy another Steam / Valve game.
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winner! far cry definitely.
 
it's really a tossup... hl2 will run better on your card, but it's much more expensive. However, hl2 has more replay value BECAUSE of cs:S and hl2dm... farcry is much cheaper and is a good experience as well.
 
Metallica_Band said:
Why can't game devs just put these games in a blender and come out with an even BETTER game than all 4???
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They're working on it. It's called F.E.A.R. and I cant wait till it comes out :D
 
If those Duke Nukem Forever ppl were smart then they'd use the Havoc engine for their physics...unless they made thir own awesome physics engine...but I don't see anything beating Havoc until that new Unreal game comes out...that'll be awesome...
 
HL2
but when your multiplayer needs go unfirfilled jump onto Farcry for some TFC like jungle combat
 
O'Doyle said:
No freakin' question about it.....


HALF-LIFE 2


by way far...

It looks way better and it comes with Counterstrike Source & HL2 Deathmatch... That itself is well worth the money ;)


(also - Far Cry is getting cheaper and cheaper, last week it was running for $29.99 now I saw it at Fry's for $14.99 soon it will be in the bargain bin for $9.99 :p )
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Lol...that made me laugh. Buy Half Life 2 for a 5 year old game with crappy gameplay and a ton of cheaters! HL2 Deathmatch is trash also...sorry. Half Life 2 will take you about 12 hours to finish, and I highly doubt anyone would play that crap over again.
 
O'Doyle said:
No freakin' question about it..... HALF-LIFE 2
by way far...It looks way better and it comes with Counterstrike Source & HL2 Deathmatch... That itself is well worth the money ;)
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CS:S?? You're kidding me...oh yeah...like I wanna play a game with old shitty graphix and I have to actually PAY for it??? AMAZING...something that used to be FREE and now we gotta pay for it...only difference is the bots...the graphix are worse than HL2...sure...redone maps...pshhh...other mappers can do a better job at remapping already remapped maps...there are no new weapons and the models are still poo...oh...and wait...get this...what a suprise...same sound too...what a bunch of lazy jackhole fux...the devs barely but ANY effort into this former FREE game and now they charge us for it...sure the so-called deleted scenes have new sounds but I could make better farting sounds compared to theirs...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING is new about this game...you run around like a little girl in a linear based game shooting the crappiest of crap bots...they're worse than online n00bz...they camp like hell and u can just walk up on them and knife them to death...what a bunch of $#!T...and when they DO attack they just run in a straight line and start shooting...like freakin kamikazee bots...no storyline either...come on!!! How the fukin hard is it to come up with a storyline??? A bunch of terrorists came and started threatening the USA and we send out counter terrorists to go kik their ass...WTF...took me 2 seconds to come up with that...lazy ass girly men I tell ya...CS:S is worse than CS...AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! Worse "game" evar!!!

And don't get me started on the deathmatch...sure it's fun at first but after a while it's more boring than putting staples in my brain...what the hell happened to these once awesome game devs??? Did they die and evil combine devs take over Valve??? What a bunch of shit...all hopes have been given up for a sweet HL3...
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O'Doyle said:
(also - Far Cry is getting cheaper and cheaper, last week it was running for $29.99 now I saw it at Fry's for $14.99 soon it will be in the bargain bin for $9.99 :p )
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Since when did the cost of a game determine the quality of the game??? That's kinda a dumb way to determine the quality of a game...Serious Sam only cost $20 and it kiked ass...so did SS2...

What kind of cheap are you talking about anyways??? Cheap as in quality or cheap as in cost??? If you just mean cost and not quality then ignore my reply...

Rogue4mula said:
it's really a tossup... hl2 will run better on your card, but it's much more expensive. However, hl2 has more replay value BECAUSE of cs:S and hl2dm... farcry is much cheaper and is a good experience as well.
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I don't know...Far Cry ran more smoothly for me...no Steam...no freakin skipping...no Steam...no 2 minute load times...and did I mention no Steam to put up with???

Now don't get me wrong...I love HL2...just not Steam and the mods that Valve is making for it...come on...bring on the community mods!!! Can't wait for SvenCoop 2...is that what it's being called??? That will kik ass...and will they ever release TF2??? I mean come on...:rolleyes:
 
If Counter-Strike Source was a totally different game, it wouldn't be called Counter-Strike.
 
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