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Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade (wolfsgamingblog.com)
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[–] 40 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Well it was probably the best of the series.

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  • [–] 43 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (8 children)

    I enjoy a good power fantasy as much as anyone, but I have a soft spot for the crushing bleakness of Far Cry 2. Everyone is a shithead. You're a shithead. You will always end up taking missions for both sides in the conflict, perpetuating it. Most of them involving war crimes. The only missions where you don't do evil are the ones where you're paid in malaria medicine which you need to not die.

    You get a bunch of buddies which will likely get killed one by one, possibly by you as a mercy killing. And those who survive will end up betraying you.

    It's such a nihilistic game. No hope, no redemption. I couldn't get into FC3 after that. Even though it was a ton of fun mechanically, Far Cry 2 just hits different.

    Edit: Happy to see from other replies that this is not a completely fringe opinion any more.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Easily my favorite enemy ai, too. Actually fanning out to find what made a noise, playing dead so you may need to double-tap to be sure, etc

    And the "physical" map to get around with was great

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Oh yeah, the game leans really heavily into diegetic design, with weapon degradation and the map and stuff. Love that.

    In fact, I just installed it. I wonder how far I'll make it before it gets too depressing to go on =D

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    And the graphics still hold up! I'm playing it now, and it looks great.

    Somehow, I never got around to playing any entry in the Crysis series. I should fix that at some point. I hope my 3080 is enough to run it.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    They definitely do! A very distinctive look for FC2, another thing that sets it apart from the rest of the series. (I mean, OK, Blood Dragon is very distinct, too, but that's kind of another thing.)

    Unfortunately, there are still no computers that can run Crysis well. Some things are outside the reach of current science. Maybe in another ten years or so, we'll get there. It's still worth playing, though.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    I appreciate that the other games, even if they’re 90% power fantasy, retain a tiny bit of that nihilism in the story of each game.

    3: Jason becomes totally disconnected from society and almost feels like he can’t come back from the killing. 4: Help the rebels, and they become despots just like Pagan Min. Give up on the rebellion at the beginning of the game, and even Min admits he’s tired of the cycle. 5 I won’t even spoil, definitely a bit less of an artistic message even if it’s a huge twist.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    I guess I should play it then (and 2, judging by the replies). The only one I've played is 4, which has some really fun gameplay, and one of my favorite villains ever, Pagan Min. I didn't care much at all for the overall conflict or most of the other characters. What kept me going was taking out the outposts, climbing the towers (until it got repetitive), hunting, and flying around in that dinky little helicopter.

    Guess I gotta replay that one too now...

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    • [–] 83 points 9 months ago

    so they removed Denuvo. Lol

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    [–] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Cool, FC3 doesn't even launch on my PC because my CPU core count is too high.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago

    Funnily enough, this is the type of issues proton solves beautifully and transparently on linux, making it a great gaming platform in general but particularly so for aging video games! If you own this game on steam, just launching it on linux should work out of the box.

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    • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I still remember playing this game, after purchasing it on Steam, then it launched uPlay to start the game. And randomly drops connection during playing to uPlay, not saving any progress, shutting down my game. Steam was still online, everything else worked.

    After two minutes uPlay logged back in, so I restarted from last save, lost like 30 minutes of unsaved stuff. So I get to it, and whatdoyaknow, it drops AGAIN.

    Uninstalled the game, and never bought anything from Ubisoft ever again.

    Fuck that company. And I still love Prince of Persia Warrior Within.

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    • [–] 12 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This along with Blood Dragon, are the best Far Cry games for me, that was when Ubisoft was still the good guys...

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    • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    WHERE THE FUCK IS A WILDLANDS PATCH?

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    • [–] 8 points 9 months ago

    This was the best farcry there was

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    [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    The definition of insanity: continuing to run your game company horribly and expecting different results.

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    [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The only FarCry game I ever played is FarCry 3: Blood Dragon DLC, that was launched as a separate game later on Xbox 360. Good memories. :-) If that counts as FarCry 3, then I agree, its the best game in the series. wink

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    The main game is also good, just not as cool aesthetically. I personally think it had the best dialogue and story of the series (on a non-humorous level, I mean. BD is "better" in the sense it's purposely awful but gets the vibe it is going for spot on)

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Cool, now do blood dragon

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