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Having just completed the excellent Far Cry (one of the best games I have ever played, to be frank) I wanted to know how many of you have played and enjoyed it. Which moments stand out most? What completely random things happened that made you laugh? Warning: this may contain spoilers.

Personally, I loved that guy sitting ont he see-saw. And when I was in the Treehouse level, I spotted a Trigen uup ahead, aimed my M4...then heard that horrible breathing right behind me. "Clever girl....argh!"

What do you lot think? Opinions on the game would be welcome too. It's just Far Cry seems not to have kicked up much fuss, despite it's quality and scale.
 
Far Cry was a great game, and still is. The first moment that comes to mind is the 2nd level (carrier I believe).

****warning: possible spoilers ****

Right after the battle on the upper deck with the helicopter and all those mercenaries, you have to find a boat. Well eventually I saw the rubber boat hanging so I jumped in. Right. There was no switch to bring it down to the water so I thought let's shoot the chain. There I saw that the physics engine wa real life because when you shoot 1 of the two chains while sitting in the boat causes it to tumble, and ofcourse I plunged into the sea, and I believe you couldn't just walk back (entrance closed in the hull).

This was really great, and of course all other levels, the design and playing with physics!
 
RoyaleWithCheese said:
Far Cry was a great game, and still is. The first moment that comes to mind is the 2nd level (carrier I believe).

****warning: possible spoilers ****

Right after the battle on the upper deck with the helicopter and all those mercenaries, you have to find a boat. Well eventually I saw the rubber boat hanging so I jumped in. Right. There was no switch to bring it down to the water so I thought let's shoot the chain. There I saw that the physics engine wa real life because when you shoot 1 of the two chains while sitting in the boat causes it to tumble, and ofcourse I plunged into the sea, and I believe you couldn't just walk back (entrance closed in the hull).

This was really great, and of course all other levels, the design and playing with physics!
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no need to walk back, just shoot the other chain and hop in the boat, btw it didnt seem like much of a challenge to find the boat, heh.
 
When that bloke on the radio revealed his true colours I realised how dull and formulaic the plot really was...
 
Xtasy0 said:
no need to walk back, just shoot the other chain and hop in the boat, btw it didnt seem like much of a challenge to find the boat, heh.
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well I had to, I was down in the water and no way back!! heh, but indeed it wasn't hard to find.

And yeah, the story was really predictable and the mercenary speech was cheesy. But hell, sometimes that exactly what we need. Just plain old fun in a new jacket
 
I think FC is a cool game - slightly let down by some poor levels and the 'human Trigens' (who wondered from a poor Doom clone and got trapped in Far Cry :/)

Still a sweat game :)
 
My favorite part was when i beat it on the hardest difficulty setting.........


Becuase now i never have to waste time on it again.
 
I liked that see-saw guy as well. Just seeing him fly up in the air was funny enough :)

I fell when I shot the boat chains too, but there's a bit of land you can climb on and shoot the second chain without having to go too far.
 
Yeha I just walked onto land and shot the other chain.

Seriosuly though. It just doesn't seem to me like Far Cry has kicked up as much of a fuss as a game of it's calibre deserves. Yes the betrayal was cheesy but apart from that I actually liked the plot: the tactical nuke (oh, don't worry, it's very low-yield) especiallywhen you start mutating, added a nice twist ("Doyle! I'm going green!" - amazing line), and CIA intervention...it was like a cheesy but entertaining Steven Seagal movie.

Hangliders. I love hangliders.

And also, I love the way two out of three main villains are killed so very easily. Crowe: Shoot him in the head with a sniper rifle. Doyle: "I bet he'll mutate or something. Oh, no I've just shot him."

Oh yeah...in the 'Bunker' level (I think) where you have to turn off a steam vent by going across an indoor canyon and climbing some ladders, when you turn it off three trigens come running out of a vent ont he other side. There's a solid metal bridge and above that another one suspended on four chains. The trigens run across the lower bridge. I shoot the two chains nearest me and the upper bridge flops down on Trigen 1's head. The other Trigen starts ot push under it so I shoot one chain and the bridge swings outwards, pushing the Trigen 2 into the abyss. Trigen three climbs up onto the bridge, now teetering ont he edge of the lower one hanging by one chain. I shoot the chain and it topples right over the edge. Four bullets, three kills and immense satisfaction. ;)
 
Well, I do warn at the beginning that this is for people who either don't care about story or have completed the game. But do whatever you feel is appropriate :)
 
i dont own far cry...

highlight if you want to know the terrible, terrible truth.

should i get it? i dont know.. i want a good game, but im not sure. the demo dint intrest me much, but i have £50 spare. everyone says its amazing, but i cant decide... :(
 
Buy it, you arse. ;)

Seriously. If you don't like it you can always take it back.
 
Actually...it kinda does look better than Doom 3. Maybe not graphics but I think I'd rather play FC. Massive beautiful jungle or corridors and spiders from mars? Hmm.

When is the See Saw bit!?!?!?!?
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That'd be the mission called 'Boat', quite near the end, on the very first island near the tent where you get the demo packs.
 
Far Cry is overrated. The graphics are awesome as well as some of the enviroments but the gameplay lacks and most of the situations it throws you in have been done 100 times before in 100 different games. I like the first few levels better then the rest of the game.

When i crawl through the bushes i just feel like i'm playing Operation Flashpoint again, except Flashpoint was tons more fun and strategic, and there were tanks.
 
Sparta said:
Far Cry is overrated. The graphics are awesome as well as some of the enviroments but the gameplay lacks and most of the situations it throws you in have been done 100 times before in 100 different games. I like the first few levels better then the rest of the game.
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Exactly how i feel. I loved it for the first 3/4 levels then it just bored me to death.
 
I'd say Far Cry is easily the best single player FPS since Half-Life. The multiplay is nothing revolutionary, but still fun as hell. I guess I can understand people thinking it's overrated, but regardless I'd put it up there with all the other FPS greats like Doom, HL, Halo etc
 
justindugard said:
...I'd put it up there with all the other FPS greats like Doom, HL, Halo etc
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you can't, tho... it's name isn't cool enuf... i mean far cry... WTF is that?
 
ya it is! far cry doesn't mean anything! half-life actually make sense as a title
 
I think Far Cry has something to do with a tagline or something about the tropical island setting. "It's a far cry from paradise" or something like that. Dunno if you knew what Far Cry meant or not. For example, this post I just made is a far cry from making sense.
 
And Far Cry, is a far cry from being one of the best fps ever in my books
 
I am NOT a far cry from understanding that other people won't share my views on that. I personally think it's great, just started another play through of the campaign an hour or so ago actually :)
 
jonbob said:
When that bloke on the radio revealed his true colours I realised how dull and formulaic the plot really was...
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yeah plot is sucky i mean thats hundreds of games and moives about a secret genetic experament on a uncharted island... big man and reporter go then you gota get the reported and end the enperament... YAWN!!!! i stoped after the 4-5 mission cause it just got so borring... for a game that uses pirated software youd think they could cook somethin better up... and for multiplayer? its good but the snipers and rocket noobs should be limited... 1 sniper for evrey 5 ppl...
 
yeah, i agree, i also enjoyed the first few levels.. then i was like "when is this boring sh*t going to end"...
 
Well, I can understand why people might find it boring, but...actually no I can't. I suppose iit's just people's tastes and opinions. And is there any proof at all that Far Cry uses pirated software? Just because pirated software was found in the CRtek offices after the game's release it doesn't mean it has anythign to do with FC at all. Personally I believe that if HL was the last big paradigm shift, Far Cry is the next one. I'd like to know quite what you guys found boring about later levels. Didn't like the Treehouse level where the Trigens are running around killing everything? Not even the night raid on the regulator? Or how about the penultimate Dam level? I find Far Cry a great game regardless of the plot - which has a kind of B movie charm imo - because the action is fun, intense, and the outdoor situations can be approached in many different ways. Added to that the excellent AI, the incredible (albeit occasionally dodgy) physics and the wide-scale feeling of the battles (especially in the Rebellion level - it's a big island crawling with Trigens and soldiers all fighting. One hell of a level.
 
My favorite Far Cry moment:

Using a jeep as a missile to blow up a helicopter by bailing out at the last second, sending the jeep catapulting off a cliff and straight into the chopper. Doesn't get much better than that.
 
lol, i think im having a dejavu feeling... remember the thread i started about DE:IW where loads said it was crap, with some people said it was good? Sulkdodds, i learned something from that thred. NEVER TRY AND CONVINCE PEOPLE A GAME IS GOOD!!! its pointless trying and it makes you look annoying. so my advice is for you to silently acknowledge that you are better than everyone else, and that all the people who hate your game dont appreciate gaming as much as you.

and dodds, do u have DE:IW yet? coz maybe i could borrow ur farcry, and you could borrow my DE:IW.
 
To whoever said the plot was formulaic, well yes it is but to be fair about that, what about the original Half-Life? How many times has their been the whole "science experiment goes awry, creatures from someplace other than earth invade"? Hell, that was DOOM's plot :p I know that's not the whole HL story but it's the premise of it. So it's not just Far Cry that isn't 100% original in the plot department.
 
justindugard said:
To whoever said the plot was formulaic, well yes it is but to be fair about that, what about the original Half-Life? How many times has their been the whole "science experiment goes awry, creatures from someplace other than earth invade"? Hell, that was DOOM's plot :p I know that's not the whole HL story but it's the premise of it. So it's not just Far Cry that isn't 100% original in the plot department.
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You can't judge the story for it's premise.
FC had a cool premise, but then the whole story is crap. HL had a cliche premise, but the story turned out to be great.
 
That's true, Half-Life did play through in an original manner. I don't think Far Cry's story is crap though, it's just a typical b-movie style game that didn't take itself completely serious.

Also, from what I've gathered so far, Half-Life 2's story looks to be original as well.
 
Sprafa said:
You can't judge the story for it's premise.
FC had a cool premise, but then the whole story is crap. HL had a cliche premise, but the story turned out to be great.
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How did HL's story turn out be great? Lemme lay it out for you:

1. Science experiment goes awry - Aliens come
2. Fight some aliens
3. Military comes to clean up
4. Fight some marines and aliens
5. Some random guy keeps walking around that you can't kill
6. Good thing that giant 3-headed worm-thing came up out of the ground staight into a room that was pretty much a giant furnace...or we might've actually had a semi-cool boss to fight
7. Go to (in my opinion boring) alien world to kill giant alien in boring/annoying boss fight
8. Random unkillable guy hires you while riding some kind of space-tram
9. The End
10. Gordon Freeman - Status: Hired (or whatever)

I'm not saying Far Cry's story is any better, but I just wasn't impressed with HL's story. I'm just not really intrigued by who the G-Man actually is and what his little agenda is. My favorite part of HL was how immersed you felt while playing. From the tram ride to work to the scripted events and one-sided conversations with barneys and scientists, I felt like Gordon Freeman. I thought that was cool.
 
Suicide42 said:
lol, i think im having a dejavu feeling... remember the thread i started about DE:IW where loads said it was crap, with some people said it was good? Sulkdodds, i learned something from that thred. NEVER TRY AND CONVINCE PEOPLE A GAME IS GOOD!!! its pointless trying and it makes you look annoying. so my advice is for you to silently acknowledge that you are better than everyone else, and that all the people who hate your game dont appreciate gaming as much as you.

and dodds, do u have DE:IW yet? coz maybe i could borrow ur farcry, and you could borrow my DE:IW.
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you're better than everyone else because you think DE:IW and Far Cry are good games? baffling.

i think far cry is decent. i haven't played a decent FPS in ages, and far cry is probably the best since NOLF2 (no i didn't jump onto the Call of Duty bandwagon like everyone else did, pile of crap if you ask me). you lot should be glad that you're even getting something as good as FC. if far cry wasn't released what would we have to play? Doom III won't be out for a while, same with HL2. yeah you're all entitled to your opinions, but just be thankful you've got something to play that's all.

and as for Suicide42 and his love for DE:IW...well..we had this discussion before didn't we? did you ever get round to playing the original Deus Ex?
 
Erm, he completed it I think. Twice.

I'm still not looking forward to Doom 3. It just doesn't look that good. But who knows? I'm just glad I can faff around on sun-kissed beaches in a game as well as in real life - although I've got to admit, Far Cry is much better than Brighton.
 
Sulkdodds said:
Well, I can understand why people might find it boring, but...actually no I can't. I suppose iit's just people's tastes and opinions. And is there any proof at all that Far Cry uses pirated software? Just because pirated software was found in the CRtek offices after the game's release it doesn't mean it has anythign to do with FC at all. Personally I believe that if HL was the last big paradigm shift, Far Cry is the next one. I'd like to know quite what you guys found boring about later levels. Didn't like the Treehouse level where the Trigens are running around killing everything? Not even the night raid on the regulator? Or how about the penultimate Dam level? I find Far Cry a great game regardless of the plot - which has a kind of B movie charm imo - because the action is fun, intense, and the outdoor situations can be approached in many different ways. Added to that the excellent AI, the incredible (albeit occasionally dodgy) physics and the wide-scale feeling of the battles (especially in the Rebellion level - it's a big island crawling with Trigens and soldiers all fighting. One hell of a level.
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The rebellion level was the longest in the game, the Treehouse level was fun also. But i hated that level that starts you off in a cargo elevator and then pits you straight up against 2 Fat Boy's with rocket launchers. Terrible level planning in my opinion, sure it was damn hard, but no thought was put into it. Same thing happened with the Dam level, they give you 10 bullets and you're supposed to sneak past 9 or so monsters, in broad daylight. And then you're up against 5 rocket-launcher Fat Boy's again.

And even though many of the outdoor enviroments have multiple routes, the gameplay was ultimately the same and didn't offer much variety other then more eye-candy.

After reading all the reviews about how great Far Cry was i was really bummed when i finished the game. It didn't offer anything i hadn't played before and i didn't have that much fun crawling through the bush in almost every single outdoor level. It sucks too because now i feel as though its a chore to go back and play through the game again. I just can't be stuffed
 
Dedalus said:
you're better than everyone else because you think DE:IW and Far Cry are good games? baffling.
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that was sort of a joke.

Dedalus said:
and as for Suicide42 and his love for DE:IW...well..we had this discussion before didn't we? did you ever get round to playing the original Deus Ex?
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did you listen to anything i said in those posts? DE is one of the best games EVER, and DE:IW comes very close to it IMO. and yes, i completed it twice.
 
AmishSlayer said:
How did HL's story turn out be great? Lemme lay it out for you:

1. Science experiment goes awry - Aliens come
2. Fight some aliens
3. Military comes to clean up
4. Fight some marines and aliens
5. Some random guy keeps walking around that you can't kill
6. Good thing that giant 3-headed worm-thing came up out of the ground staight into a room that was pretty much a giant furnace...or we might've actually had a semi-cool boss to fight
7. Go to (in my opinion boring) alien world to kill giant alien in boring/annoying boss fight
8. Random unkillable guy hires you while riding some kind of space-tram
9. The End
10. Gordon Freeman - Status: Hired (or whatever)

I'm not saying Far Cry's story is any better, but I just wasn't impressed with HL's story. I'm just not really intrigued by who the G-Man actually is and what his little agenda is. My favorite part of HL was how immersed you felt while playing. From the tram ride to work to the scripted events and one-sided conversations with barneys and scientists, I felt like Gordon Freeman. I thought that was cool.
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Thats IS the story, but you obviously dont play games for the story. You felt like you WERE Gordon Freeman , yet you dont care who the G-Man is even though he followed your every move and may have orchestrated it (resonance cascade) in the first place. You were Gordon yet you didnt care to pay attention to each turn of events; everytime you met a scientist who told you a new part about what went wrong , or barney who told you what was happening now, and you didnt notice how many interesting methods you used to scrape your way to the surface, and you also ignored all of the new technologies and sciences going on at Black Mesa, hell you ignored Black Mesa itself.

Tredoslop said:
FarCry looks better than Half-Life 2.
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No , it really doesnt. HL2 still blows FarCry out of the water in all but foiliage. And HL2 Physics are actually realistic, useful, and implemented.

My favorite FarCry moment was when I decided I was never going to play it again. I didnt even make it past the carrier before being bored senseless.
 
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