[Sneaky Snake]

I'm thinking of picking this game up for either the Mac Pro or the 360 (most likely Mac Pro as it will play it nicer). Also how would this game play on a 4670, as I'm about to purchase my brothers homebuild and buying the 4670 for it. Just wanted to know your thoughts on the game.

From what I've read from IGN's review there's nothing to do with Far Cry 1 in the game and it makes you wonder why its called Far Cry at all. That aside however it is apparently an amazing FPS. incredibly open levels, more so the Crysis, great graphics, and replay value as there's is different endings.


-Snake

[AussieMacGamer]

From what I've heard from actual people who buy the game to play it, not get payed to commit they're allegiance to it and give it a 9 out of 10. The game has one major flaw. It redefines repetition.

[Sneaky Snake]

AussieMacGamer, on December 21st 2008, 07:06 PM, said:

From what I've heard from actual people who buy the game to play it, not get payed to commit they're allegiance to it and give it a 9 out of 10. The game has one major flaw. It redefines repetition.

hmm, the review did say that the side quests where all quite repetitive and similar. I don't think IGN is payed to support certain games, if fact I'm almost positive. If that ever came to light there would be law suits galore and people would lose all trust in the sight. However they could be quite biased. They gave the console versions an 8.8 and the PC version an 8.9, simply because of better graphics.



-Snake

[The Liberator]

Is there a demo for it? If so, I would try that first, and then if I think I would be able to stand the repetitiveness of the missions, but having nice eye candy and whatnot I would buy it.

Liberator.

[AussieMacGamer]

There is no demo. And the graphics aren't that nice.

[Sneaky Snake]

AussieMacGamer, on December 22nd 2008, 11:15 AM, said:

There is no demo. And the graphics aren't that nice.

I'd say that the graphics are quite good, just a bit under Crysis. However my opinion only comes from pictures and videos of the game, no actual game experience. The review said that the graphics are very good except for character models, which could've used some work



-Snake

[Fourth Horseman]

I own it and was playing quite a bit of it and enjoying it... and then Fallout 3 happened and well, I just haven't gone back to it. I probably will at some point, but I guess the fact that I put it down and don't really miss it says it all.

The thing I disliked the most was that you run into militant checkpoints and outposts everywhere you go. They're all hostile. So you clean them out but they don't stay cleaned out. Since you're criss-crossing the map constantly as you go about your business you end up shooting up the same places over, and over, and over again. It got old.

I'd grade it a B. It's fun, there's lots to see and do, but it's not even half as engaging or interesting as Fallout 3, IMO.

[AussieMacGamer]

Fourth Horseman, on December 23rd 2008, 04:12 PM, said:

I'd grade it a B. It's fun, there's lots to see and do, but it's not even half as engaging or interesting as Fallout 3, IMO.

So that wouldn't make it more of a d+ at all would it?

I've just started playing it and so far, not so good. I will be back with more.

[Frigidman]

Fourth Horseman, on December 23rd 2008, 12:12 AM, said:

The thing I disliked the most was that you run into militant checkpoints and outposts everywhere you go. They're all hostile. So you clean them out but they don't stay cleaned out. Since you're criss-crossing the map constantly as you go about your business you end up shooting up the same places over, and over, and over again. It got old.

I hate that about some games... no way to "clear and move". The stupid thing just respawns the same crap over and over and you can never clear everything out. It reeks of piss poor design quality when they resort to 'lets just respawn baddies to add content'. Its about on par with 'timed crap'.

[The Liberator]

Oh dear. Not timed crap again [and other gaming pet peeves]…

Liberator.

[Frigidman]

LOL. Yes.

[Fourth Horseman]

AussieMacGamer, on December 25th 2008, 07:20 AM, said:

So that wouldn't make it more of a d+ at all would it?

It's a logrhythmic scale.
Seriously, though, I was trying to make a differentiation between overall engagement and general fun. Both games are fun, but Fallout 3 is deeper and much more engaging.

[AussieMacGamer]

I seriously still don't know why so many people hated Crysis. I'm a little further into Far Cry 2, and it's turning out to be a pretty average shooter.

[teflon]

Crysis needed an über-machine in order to run even half decently, and then the actual gameplay was fairly standard (or something), and had a hackneyed sci-fi plot. This after years of hype (all based around the graphics really).
Far Cry 2, by comparison is open world, and cross-platform, and much easier on your machine. More people get to play it, not as much hype, lives up to expectations better.

[Frigidman]

I dont know. I ran crysis on middle settings, and it was fluid, and very beautiful. I don't have a super powerful rig either, its still on old 939 architecture for Cry-ing out loud hehe.

It had some nifty elements, the suit you wore was nice, no more stupid 'lets pick up health to live crap', and it had some interesting short term benefits you used in specific situations.

Not saying it wasn't still a tech piece and really had no guts to the game. But it was funnish a bit, more so than Doom3 was.

[AussieMacGamer]

teflon, on December 28th 2008, 12:01 AM, said:

Crysis needed an über-machine in order to run even half decently, and then the actual gameplay was fairly standard (or something), and had a hackneyed sci-fi plot. This after years of hype (all based around the graphics really).
Far Cry 2, by comparison is open world, and cross-platform, and much easier on your machine. More people get to play it, not as much hype, lives up to expectations better.

That's exactly what I'm talking about.
I ran Crysis (at what i thought to be half decently) on all low settings and a low resolution and thoroughly enjoyed the gameplay of which i found to be anything but 'fairly standard'. Instead it was dynamic, open, and allowed for the player to completely decide the outcome of each particular combat situation (at least at the begging of the game anyways) using a combination of gameplay elements including the Nano-suit, and the interactive natural environment created by CryEngine 2.0. Crysis i feel has been the first game to really master this.

Far Cry 2 totes an arguably better storyline, open world, but where it really falls short is in the raw gameplay element, the real reason players are playing a shooter... to shoot things. I will elaborate on this more, but sure Crysis had a dumb storyline (arguable no dumber that Far Cry 2's),a horrible ending and it didn't have the massive open environment, but whatever open environment it did have, it used it to its full extent in making its core gameplay element, as flexible and fun as possible.

[Sneaky Snake]

Hmm its now down to Mass Effect or Far Cry 2 for my next purchase


Crysis didn't require that good of a machine to run great. It runs with the majority of settings on high (maybe two thirds of em) on my Mac Pro with XP. Framerate would hover at high thirties and dip to high twenties for brief moments. It requires an uber machine to turn on high settings and antialiasing though, the fps just crashed when I tryed that.


-Snake

[Frigidman]

Sneaky Snake, on December 30th 2008, 10:48 AM, said:

Hmm its now down to Mass Effect or Far Cry 2 for my next purchase
Crysis didn't require that good of a machine to run great. It runs with the majority of settings on high (maybe two thirds of em) on my Mac Pro with XP. Framerate would hover at high thirties and dip to high twenties for brief moments. It requires an uber machine to turn on high settings and antialiasing though, the fps just crashed when I tryed that.
-Snake

Mass Effect is supposed to be pretty awesome. However to this day, my bought and paid for game refuses to run without crashing during intro movies. The devs just seem to not give a rats ass to fix it either, nor refund me since 'its an opened game'. Like no kidding, I had to open it to find out that it crashes! HAHA... *sigh*.

[jgwdoc]

Sneaky Snake, on December 30th 2008, 08:48 AM, said:

Hmm its now down to Mass Effect or Far Cry 2 for my next purchase
-Snake

I can't speak to Far Cry 2 (yet), but I'm in the middle of Mass Effect and it's an awful lot of fun. Beautiful graphics, interesting story line, lots of freedom in how you pursue quests and what attributes/skills you maximize, good NPC interactions. Really a very engaging game, and I have had zero crashes on my MacPro.

[AussieMacGamer]

This game isnt getting any better. I think i could seriously play through the entire thing with the machete, the AI is that dumb.