Far Cry III

So finished this, decent game but not too great.

There's many fairly large design issues I feel.

First the game is extremely repetitive. The side quests content is boring as fuck, I mean there's a few proper quests but most of it is just climb on a radio tower, capture the 2camps in the area you just revealed, do the wanted and hunts quests in these, move to next. All of them are extremely similar and just add stronger enemies as you progress but all the wanted quests play the same, all the village captures play the same etc. The layout changes a bit but it's really boring very quickly. The Rakyat challenges or even collecting letters/relics are like that too, there's a few interesting ones but 95% of them are just diving/climbing/exploring caves but they lack depth. Only the main story quests add variety in terms of places, objectives, gameplay and such.

Second, the whole crafting/economy is completely fucked. You have too much money basically all the time, even if you don't loot too many corpses. On that note, fuck whoever thought making loot shit should require to hold a key, have a shitty 1s animation(for corpses) and can only be performed at a very very close range. Money is worthless too for the most part, only thing worth buying are relic maps(the cheapest ones) and signature weapons. Crafting starts by extremely limiting your ressources(ammo, bag space, syringe and so on) yet you unlock everything by basically 1/4 of the game minus the last upgrades that require special hunts which are unlocked before half of the game is done and earlier if you explore shit. That makes the talent to loot more hides fairly worthless as I had almost everything already unlocked by the time I got the storyquest which unlocked it as a skill. Should have been swapped with the herb one, you don't need to collect many herbs early game since you have few recipes and not a big need for them anyway. The whole thing feels like a complete afterthought and becomes pointless by 1/4 into the game, all the animals and skinning and shit worthless. Herbs/syringes stay useful especially the sprint one, who needs cars when you can just run as fast.

Third I pointed it out before but difficulty is complete shit. Even in the last parts of the game you can rambo your way in or completely trivialize most encounters by sniping from a bush at long range with a silencer. Weapons like the flamethrower instantly CC 99% of the enemies in the game preventing them from firing back, only the flamethrower guys aren't. There's weird inconsistencies with difficulty too, like how if the enemies are alert they'll spot you from 100m away if you're not hidden out of sight but they can't notice you 1m away if they're not completely alert if you're standing in a bush. Or how they spot corpses from super far for whatever reason, but you can't hide corpses(you can takedown drag but it's clunky as shit and doesn't help in many situations). That's on the hardest difficulty I can't even think how easy it is on normal or on easy. Makes the whole process of grinding capture camps and shit even more boring since there's rarely any difficulty, most of the 2nd island caps I was tired of doing infiltration stuff so I completed them with a sniper rifle and it was taking less than a minute to spot all the guys then execute them in one shot to get the undetected xp bonus.

Finally, one bug plagued me the whole game, I had my bow showing all the time for whatever fucked up reason. I'd see its shadow on the ground while running, could see it if I looked down, and that means it was popping out in every fucking cutscene of the game. That was annoying as shit. Tried unequipping/reloading, nothing fixed it.

Still a decent game, looked alright even though I feel it wasn't really that great looking either, makes good pictures but it lacks life, activity, whatever. Music was great though, pretty good choice of weapon and shit, takedowns looked cool even if they became a bit repetitive. Overall a good game but they could have cut 50% of the side content and it wouldn't have changed shit about the game I feel(besides making the island smaller). Story was alright, have to go check youtube for the other ending. Wish there were more choices though, and wish the hero wasn't such a fucking brotard.

Gavinrad_sl said:

If you picked the left ending, do yourself a favor and DONT youtube the right ending. If you picked the right ending, BURN IN HELL!!!

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Not sure which is left or right, I picked the "evil" one and watched the "good" one on youtube. Evil one looked like complete shit with my bow in the middle of the screen though. Even the credits on the beach with the dagger had my bow on it. Fucking bow.

Sean_sl said:

Er, if you go in guns blazing you will get raped pretty fast unless you're constantly shooting up drugs. Sorry I mean healing yourself with medical syringes. It's basically as hard as you want it to be.

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But you get billions of medpaks just lying around and you can collect herbs to make a full stack of healing syringe in like 20seconds, and I'm not even talking about the 100$ medpaks. Yeah obviously if you decide you don't want to heal AND want to rambo the game is going to be kinda tough. That's like trying to be stealthy and only sprinting around though. You can literally just run into any camp and kill everyone around without being good at aiming and without taking cover for more than a few seconds here and there and depending on the fight you might not even have to take cover, and you'll use maybe 4-5medpaks in the process which can be farmed back in literally 30secs including the loading.

The infiltration style is "harder", as long as you don't use weapons with silencer and actually try to takedown targets. Use a bow or silenced firearms though and it's piss easy too.

I didn't say the game wasn't good, but it's too easy, regardless of what you use. The only remotely challenging way of playing the game is not using any weapon and only clearing shit with takedowns, and even that isn't that hard once you have ninja steps(or even jungle run). It's a bit sad to me that everything dies so easily and that you're offered so much firepower so early in the game. That's one of the aspect that kinda ruined the game for me, that and the massive amount of repetitive tasks, not enough variety of stuff to do. It was still an ok game, but I don't think it was a great game, which annoys me because considering how long they probably spent designing these islands and shit, it feels like a waste. There's some really impressive semi hidden caves and shit with jumping puzzles and really impressive looking locations, but then all you get is a shitty relic and 2-3 chests filled with trash loot because the only thing you can loot is ammo or trash loot.

They had the basis to make one of the greatest game of the year and instead they made an ok game, that's what annoys me. It's not me making the game easy, it's the game being easy. I played the first island entirely with bow and takedowns. Well I used the sniper for a few wanted quests, used the flamethrower for the weed field quest and used the shotgun for a couple of story missions, but the rest of the game I used a bow and melee. I liked the bow because at least I had to compensate for movement due to travel time as well as drop but at the end of the day it's still a very powerful weapon. You shoot some guy in the foot and he dies instantly. It's silent and while the impact generally alerts guards, you can kill them before they really react once you have the bow talents. Takedowns are the same, sure they have the positional requirement but they instantly kill everything(besides the big guys until you unlock the specific takedown). With throwing rocks it's very easy to distract people and instantly kill them repeatedly, hell even if the enemies are semi alerted of your presence, you can sit in a bush and they don't see you until you're in takedown range anyway. And that's only useful if you plan to get the unspotted bonus.