sick of farcry fanboys

[babywax]

It's more like decreasing damage to lower difficulty. The high damage is more like real life, hence the hardest setting being called "Realistic."
You can say it's not innovative, but the game isn't nearly as fun without the good AI. Dumb down the AI for the easier levels of play and what's the point? AI and massive enviroments are the game's two biggest selling points.

 

[ferd]

i never thought of FC being a good looking game...it's more like a puppet to show fx, since i feel the design of the game feels really cartoony...in no way comparable to f.e. HL2, wich has way better and more realistically looking textures and whatever

 

[ferd]

It's more like decreasing damage to lower difficulty. The high damage is more like real life, hence the hardest setting being called "Realistic."
You can say it's not innovative, but the game isn't nearly as fun without the good AI. Dumb down the AI for the easier levels of play and what's the point? AI and massive enviroments are the game's two biggest selling points.

what's the fuss about the AI in FC? I mean ive seen better before, imo those black marines in HL were alot more cunning and lethal then any enemy ive seen in FC

 

[Nuada]

I'd just like to get everyone a nice cold pint of Shut-The-****-Up. Nobody's played HL2 yet so no body knows. FC is a great game, there's no reason you can't buy and enjoy both.

Christ I thought I heard the last of these arguments with the SNES and Megadrive......

 

[Mac]

i think theyre both good.
farcry has good graphics, hl2 has good graphics and other things.
why cant they both be good? damnit

can't we all just get along? :cheers:

 

[dYiN]

hmmz , this isn't about farcry being a bad game ( cuz its not , its a very good gampe ) but about the fact that those farcry boys are ALLWAYS nagging about farcry being better and much more beautiful etc

 

[crabcakes66]

hmmz , this isn't about farcry being a bad game ( cuz its not , its a very good gampe ) but about the fact that those farcry boys are ALLWAYS nagging about farcry being better and much more beautiful etc

What he said......

Farcry isnt bad. But it isnt special in the sense that HL2 is special.

They are not even on the same playing field.

 

[Dedalus]

FarCry vs HL2 = Ferrari vs McLaren F1

they both sexy, and fast but both got diffrent experience. :E

that's the best thing you've ever said :cheers:

 

[OCybrManO]

I'd give Far Cry a 4 out of 5 because the graphics were their obvious selling point... and it shows in the other aspects of the game (though, not to the point of making it a mediocre game). It's a good game but it didn't have any jaw-droppingly cool moments. The gameplay was good, but it wasn't memorable. Ooh, the "freedom" of walking to the wrong side of the island and being killed by an invincible attack helicopter. The only real freedom was deciding between going full tilt or using guerrilla tactics.

Yes, HL didn't have incredibly amazing and innovative gameplay... by today's standards. Why are you comparing Far Cry to a game that was made more than five years ago, anyway? If you want my honest opinion, I think HL still beats Far Cry in several aspects (obviously not graphics) even after half of a decade of "improvement" in the industry.

The importance of the story in Half-Life was that you weren't supposed to feel like a story was being told to you. They don't show you cut scenes to give you information. They don't give you "mission objectives" or show your destinations on a radar. You know only as much of the story as Gordon would know in that situation. There is a lot of story to Half-Life that no one (other than Valve employees) knows about. Some of it will be revealed in HL2, but a lot will still remain unknown. This was in stark contrast to the way almost every other game was being done at the time.

There is no best way of telling a story (but there are bad ways... for example, putting the entire "story" in the install screen as was done with Quake 2). My other favorites in the story department are the Max Payne games because they did a great job of capturing the essence of a film noir "nothing to lose" love story. At first, I was worried about the "graphic novel" approach to telling a video game story but it worked. It may have hurt the replay value (whereas, in HL I wanted to go back through with what I learned and try to put the pieces of the puzzle together), but the few times I've played through the story I enjoyed every minute of it.

 

[DvS]

This is just my estimate but

Farcry: GFx 10, Gameplay 7, Plot/Story 3.
HL2: GFx 8, Gameplay 10, Plot/Story 10.

HL2 wins overall with me, even without being released.. which says alot about the comparison of these games, even if I feel farcry wins in graphics.

 

[famas_man]

To be honest, I dont really like the gfx in FC. Its not the quality, but stuff like the overly bright colors, or how the player models don't look very realistic. I realize that its supposed to be a sunny tropical island, but still... I feel like Im playing yoshis story or something (ok maybe not that bad)

 

[crabcakes66]

To be honest, I dont really like the gfx in FC. Its not the quality, but stuff like the overly bright colors, or how the player models don't look very realistic. I realize that its supposed to be a sunny tropical island, but still... I feel like Im playing yoshis story or something (ok maybe not that bad)

Heh..yeah everthing was a bit overdone.

 

[Letters]

Ooooh, Yoshi's Story = teh love! I need to play that game again!

 

[Spiffae]

I'm playing through far cry right now... as an avid HL2 fanboy , i had a lot of trouble enjoying it in the beginning. I still hate the stupid-ass one liners from the mercs, the story is completely asinine, the physics are good one minute, poor the next, and the AI is a mixed bag.

That said, the jungle environments, the sound engine, the scale of the levels, and the indoor sections where you fight mutants are all top-notch. The game has scared me like no other in recent memory, sneaking around and then suddenly being swarmed by 4 mutants leaping huge distances to kill me in two hits. there's a lot of tension, and I've been enjoying it quite a bit.

It's not Half-Life 2, but it's been growing on me.

 

[umop]

FarCry is a really cool game. When I first played it, it was the first time I was able to play with the new generation of physics. I was amazed, and it left a really good first impression. IMO HL2 will be a LOT more fun and also graphically superior, but FarCry is still a really cool game

 

[Styloid]

What I don't like is that people just decide that Far Cry must be the best possible FPS give or take a little bit. Right now we have Doom3 bringing us new lighting/shadowing tech, HL2 bringing believable characters/story/world interaction and Stalker bringing complete freedom in the gameworld... how can Far Cry (though it stands on its own) 'beat' any of these games? Don't say all FPS's are the same and that you will just buy and buy and buy them all. Appreciate them.

 

[Sparta]

Far Cry COULD'VE been an awesome game (at least to me) if it developed the story more and if it developed the gameplay variety a bit more. Every single level was just sneaking around through the bushes, then it was sneaking around through facilities. The same thing for 20 long and hard levels of the game. Ticked me off. The only thing that gives this game replay value (in my opinion) is the AI.

I dont find the AI as fun or as hard as Half-Life (Being an avid Splinter Cell player) but it can be pretty fun crawling through the bushes and eliminating a squad of Mercinaries. As a matter of fact, crawling through those bushes brought back fond memories from Operation Flashpoint. That game truly ROCKED. It was so much fun to creep into a forest just outside of a russian outpost, and then pick off every single soldier i could see. aaaahhhh. Then, after that, would come the tanks. Everytime i heard one of those things coming i shat myself. You plant a couple of satchel charges on the road and then just wait in the bushes.....as they drive closer...and closer...and closer....and then BAM!! 1st tank is destroyed with the 2nd behind it bewildered and stunned. At that second i pull out my Law and signal to my Anti-Tank soldier to help me take him down. I fire a round into its hull, then he does, and the BMP is toasted........good times.........good times.

THATS how you build tension. You don't need 50 scary monsters. Just 2 tanks, a couple of explosives and a LAW launcher. **** up at all and you're dead. Man that game rocks.

*goes off to install Operation Flashpoint

 

[phantomdesign]

Farcry is deffinetly not as good as HL2, but it appears to be a great game. The only think that's bothering me is reports that Crytech used pirated software.

 

[Sui]

what is this, the 50th far cry post scince it was announced? im suprised it doesnt have its own forum by now.

anyway, far cry is overrated, it is not as good as hl2, but yet it is still one of the best FPS out there ATM. hell, i even ended up buying it and i must say assault MP owns, engineers forever!!!

 

[Nuada]

Are you retards still insisting that Far Cry isn't as good as a game you've never played?

 

[mrchimp]

Are you retards still insisting that Far Cry isn't as good as a game you've never played?

Any such opinion that concedes to HL2 being better than FC despite never actually playing one of the afore mentioned games is not at all gorked I can assure you.

I derived more enjoyment out of the bink's when they were initially released than playing a single level of FC. Surely that fact alone would constitute an opinion of such nature and would not require us to be retarded to propagate it.