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Yeah Mankind Divided and the new Hitman look pretty good. Not so thrilled that the first installment of Hitman will have only a handful of missions though. Most are saying they plan to wait until June and buy the whole game vs riding out the episodic releases.

Some are now claiming Square Enix is the best publisher, but when I see Tomb Raider spiraling downward into a simplistic shooter with easy tombs, and Just Cause stagnating with the same old rinse and repeat demolition gameplay, I can't agree.
 
I really wanted to like Just Cause 2 but to me it's a GTA clone. The missions just don't feel like they accomplish anything. The wanton destruction is fun....for about an hour. Then I'm bored with it. I felt the same way about Sleeping Dogs and Mafia II. Never even came close to finishing them.
 
was there even a storyline/mission set? i loved the game but don't remember anything that stood out about any characters or any story.
was just a quick bash and blast for a short run over and over whether it be just grappling mayhem, flying and bombing jet fighters, or blowing up army vehicles and settlements. there definitely hadn't been anything quite as open with quite as much option for mayhem before it. i couldn't even have told you the protagonist's name until the new trailers for 3 came around mentioning Scorpion. nothing like that is worth what they charge for most (new)games but getting it for cheap and enjoying some destructive runs was very fun.

but that is the point of those types of games. not a memorable cast or enlightening story. just plain destruction. i can't remember any point to the last 3 Far Cry games, except to kill most of an army of locals. nor do i remember any of the characters in those since the original, but they were also fun.

 
Now I love the first Far Cry ( trigens FTW! ) and play it every few years. Far Cry 2 was very good in that they got the guns and the combat right but it was basically the same 4 or 5 missions over and over. I finished it but will never replay it. Far Cry 3 had a pretty good story and got the guns and combat right. I will likely replay at some point. I haven't played FC4 yet but I will when I finish some of these other games in my backlog.

I played Just Cause 2 for about 2 hours and never went back to it. I just get bored without a decent story. Same with Sleeping Dogs. I may go back to Mafia II at some point. It was a similar game but it was somewhat interesting.

I also just hate games where you drive like 100 miles in game just to do something. No it's not really different from say an Elder Scrolls game where you walk or ride a horse 100 miles for a mission. I've been driving for 25 years though and I've only ridden a horse 4 or 5 times. Maybe if I was a cowboy I'd feel the other way lol.
 
Yeah you have to be a bit nihilistic to play Just Cause for very long. I started enjoying going for completion in JC2, until I found at about 98% that it was impossible to get 100% due to a glitch where some items didn't spawn.

Far Cry 1 was a hoot, and I wasn't put off by the Trigens like many were. I played the many many hours worth of fan made sp content too, and really enjoyed it. Matto's stuff was some of the best.

The Trigens weren't as hard to fight as most made them sound. I discovered early on you could just wait for them half exposed from behind a door jam, and they'd get tricked into pouncing at you and smacking right into it while you just easily shoot them dead. LOL

The jumpy invisible human ones were a bit more tricky, but the thermovision goggles made it manageable. Funniest part of the game was the quick kill exploit for transformed Krieger.
 
I never understood why they continued to call the games Far Cry when they didn't have anything to do with the first game. The first one had the best graphics up to that point. I'll always remember seeing the water rendering for the first time and being amazed.
 


Actually I like that they use the term Far Cry as a general theme, vs continued story line. It allows them to change stories and characters a lot. I'm really not too optimistic about Primal though. I really don't see how they can build enough depth into a stone age game. The trailer showing numerous versions of clubs you can craft reeks of repetition.

Yeah Far Cry 1 had pretty revolutionary graphics for it's time, but Crysis 1 really took it a step further with textures, shaders, and post processing. Too bad it was maligned so much by noobs that didn't know how to tweak settings very well, and elitists that insisted on max settings.

I ran it on a mere P4 3GHz with X800XT at 1200x900 and used a couple cvar tweaks I came up with to run object quality at low but with high veg detail. By the time I was done with my tweaking I had it running with max textures and plenty playable frame rates. Admittedly though, I avoided heavy fire fights, because the FPS would drop to 20 or so.

It was really only the noobs using one size fits all settings and elitists that insisted on max settings that were miserable over performance. A lot of the high settings only detracted from the visual quality too, like the heavy haze higher shader settings introduced.

Once I got the settings dialed in, the first time I came out of the jungle in that first level and saw the sunset over the water, I was in awe. I was using high enough water settings to see the wave undulations and shoreline foam too. It was just so realistic I had to gawk at it a while.
 
Now i have been playing few good games. Skyrim, Fallout new vegas in preperation for the next one, Happy Wars with some friends. Oh... oh... yeah i have been playing Clockwork Empires witch is an amazing game with very cool mystery Cthulhu or Lovecraft theme.
 
Far Cry was 2004 though. Crysis was 2007. Both games still look pretty good for their age but yeah Crysis was amazing at the time as well. I didn't even play it until...I want to say 2010. I had a E8400 at 4Ghz and a GTX 460 1GB at the time and I could max it at 1080p. When it was released existing hardware couldn't even max it even with multiple GPU setups and Crysis and Crysis Warhead were a staple for many graphics card reviews for years after release. I just replayed them along with Crysis 2 earlier this year. Still fun games.
 
BO3? Call of Duty? Never played one lol. I don't do multiplayer since America's Army ate several thousand hours of my life and the single player campaigns are too short to spend money on.
 
i still try to go through the 2 of them every couple of years. amazing how the graphics and gameplay can hold up to many modern titles ~7 years later.

have tried to get back into Wasteland 2 with the release of the Director's Cut but it has been quite a mess. crashes, missing NPCs and other bugs, horrible stuttering in dx9 mode(to fix the constant crashing). i should've stuck through the original release and not quit to wait for this "enhanced" version.
think it's time to get back to my NewGame+ of The Witcher 3 with Hearts of Stone and the other latest DLC/patches. initial playthrough was a great experience.

 
I, and I think most, am of the opinion that it doesn't matter when a game comes out, because you still compare them to the games that release in that time frame. You even admitted Crysis was used as a benchmark for years, and it wasn't just because it was a demanding game. It was because for years it was not just the performance benchmark, but also the graphical benchmark.

Enough said.

 
Right, my point was just that Far Cry was freaking amazing looking in 2004. As good as Crysis was for its time in 2007. 😛
 


The way you responded it sounded like you mistook my meaning to compare Crysis to Far Cry, but I was really only saying at the time of Crysis' release, the differences were even more noticeable, and probably longer lived too.

Even today, when high tech graphics games come out, they're usually a buggy mess by comparison. Unity for example, and I have a feeling the same will be true of Syndicate.

 
Speaking of Crysis, Crytek announced Robinson The Journey for PlayStation VR

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That looks amazing. Hadn't heard of it before now.

Playstation only?
 
Me neither. Looks like it's PS4 only.

My HDD failed, you guys, ...again, of a bad sector. I had already checked it's health a long time ago, and it showed one. So I began the backup right from back then. So this time around, I was prepared.

The first Far Cry is not most favourite one of the lot. And I had played it back when it released. Perhaps I was too young to understand anything. The graphics were great, I remember they were really gorgeous. Those 'trigens' (never knew they were called as that) were one of the main reasons I was put off from the game and I don't remember completing it either. I should replay it someday.

I've never played Far Cry 2 but I've played 3 and 4. The stories were good, but too 'fun and crazy' type for me. Like how the storyline for GTA V was.

I've already mentioned this before in this thread, I think, I've played Crysis (2007) quite a number of times. I remember playing it back in 2009 or 10 I think, on my E7500 and 8400GS. I did a lot of tweaking in the CVar files to make the game look good and run equally as well.

I played it again when I upgraded to a GTS450, but I still couldn't max it out. Played it at 720p and at high settings. I decided not to waste much more time tweaking the settings, so I just settled for the in-game ones.

Played it again recently when I got the 750 Ti too. This time, I was satisfied. I was able to run it at max settings and get 60FPS.
The graphics are still gorgeous, in my eyes. The only things that look dated to me, are the textures and the polygon count. Other than that, it looks great, for an 8 year old game.
 
Meh, I still think original Far Cry was easily the best. I don't know why so many complain about the Trigens. Most that do are inclined to panic more than observe. There's ALWAYS ways to beat AI.

Original Far Cry had a nice big world, with many ways to traverse it, and the story and pacing was very good. Mixed with the background music and cutscenes, it was effectively suspenseful.

The merc AI were also pretty challenging, which added to the experience. I also liked that the vehicles drove very well. There are a LOT of things that Ubi screwed up that CryTek nailed in the original, and considering it was their first game ever, that's saying a lot.
 
don't think Crytek has ever failed to make a good game. after the original Far Cry, Crysis, & Warhead I was a bit disappointed by Crysis 2 & 3, but compared to other shooters released around the same times they are still quite amazing. I kept seeing teasers that Crysis was being remade on the latest iteration of Cryengine. been a while since I've seen/heard anything though.

dying to get my hands on next year's Umbra that's also using Crytek's Cryengine.
 


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