Far Cry 4

I guess I'm in minority but FC3 bored me to tears; I ended up finishing it with God mode on because I simply could not be bothered and simply wanted to complete it to get it out of the way. The base play was stupid (oh if you use a bow and they spot the corpse we don't turn on the alarm but if you used a silenced sniper rifle from 200m they do, wtf?), take downs meaningless (I got all these great knives yet every take down goes the same way?) and the copy and paste missions bored me to tears (every single frikking base appeared to have bad guys sitting on "insert location" to be killed by knife or simply luring up one of your allies to shot him for you ftw along with one or two animals to kill with a specific weapon in a specific zone).

The world was wonderful but why would a Shark swim up from nowhere to kill me because I happened to be in the water? Or why have killable animals that were of no use? Also the fact every vehicle basically worked the same way (only difference being if you had a machine gun on top or not for two player fighting). Money? I was running around with every weapon unlocked, every map unlocked with 10k banked and full inventory before leaving the first island... Same thing with skills; only thing holding me back was the requirement for story missions to unlock more of them. The Japanese letters were a nice touch but 130 something figurines without any flavour text? I gave up on all such collectors items after the first island and simply ignored them short of running over them from that point forward.

At least FC2 made me feel like I was not a glorified Superman running around (shark bite? Let me pull my thumb to heal up!) to save the world (and the less said about the two endings the better)...

Cormac... wrote: »

Reading complaints like the above makes me pity game developers big and small. Nothing they do will ever be good enough.

If that's not a troll post then I shudder to think how unfairly you judge other games/series that are generally received quite well for their blend of gameplay styles and story arcs (Mass Effect? Uncharted? Bioshock? RDR?).

Cute; you can read my comments on ME series in the PC gaming forum; I found ME1 a better game them ME2 because it actually told a story with better exploration rather than being a bland, crouch behind cover, type of shooter built for console gaming. As for my comments being unfair? Sorry but FC3 main story was piss poor; there's no other way to tell it (I liked crazy Vaas as a character but look at your interactions at the boat for example). The world was lovely, big and fun to run around in (if not for being attacked by random animals) but the story? Seriously? It makes ME2 look strong by comparison. Heck it makes FC2 look good in the story telling compartment by comparison. The only redeeming part of it was our crazy boss in the first half but after a drug infused mini game of QTEs that was over (Why was he not chasing me around the island? Why would he not leave me messages or take back outposts by killing everyone with his army if you did not sabotage his ammo depot etc. and had more interactions with him? Seriously, he was on of the best things and you're limited to a few movie clips on the main story mission )..

Reading the above just seemed like the kind of stuff a teenager would complain about. Different Knives? who really cares, how much meaningless nonsense like that should be added? And the minute they say "oh now each time you get a new knife your takedown animation will be different" will just lead to people on the other side of the fence going "I wish games would stop trying to hide behind animations and QTEs".

Then don't add more knifes in the first place? Or how about we actually apply some creativity and have various knifes be used for a subset of takedowns; if I want to do drop down I need to equip knife X; I know, horrible how hard that would be to implement to actually make the knife selection matter to game style as your gun selection matters to your game style.

If it bored you so much, put down the controller, sell the game and move on.

I did; hence God mode to finish the game simply in the hope it would actually become better down the line. As for selling it; sorry Steam game but then again it was 6.27 EUR with DLCs so not the worst money I've spent on a game as it was fun for the first 10 or so hours of exploring and sneaking around.

After spending enough time reading thread in this Games section I've come to realise that some people will Never be please no matter what a developer/publisher put out

If asking for a story that would be deemed to simple be put in a teenage tv show is too much to ask for then I'm sorry for having such "high" requirements. Personally I prefer to have a bit more story and less copy and paste with shiny graphic; make the game the size of the first island but a much more in depth story and I'd have no complaints to the change.

This is where the game fell down; after the first island they had blown everything already; sure you got a new heavy (flamer) but it was simply more of the same rather than building the game further with new challenges. Why not continue to ramp up with new vehicles, new base layouts, new ways to approach things rather than having the hero be a one man rambo army?

Why are there always pirates to be killed after taking every flipping base? How about I go and blow up an ammo depot instead? Or incriminate a commander of his army? Or steal a cocaine shipment and sink it? Support an ambush? Rescue civilians who've been taken to be killed? There are a ton of mini missions they could have added with minimal effort but instead we got copy and paste missions to every single base consisting of one pirate, one hunter (and sometimes two instead of one) mission every time. If you can't see the difference between that complaint and "troll posting" then I'm sorry for your lack of understanding of game play and how to make it varied.