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Re: FAR CRY 2 - Update: Far Cry games = 50% off on Steam (Reply 76)
« Reply #80 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 04:52:50 PM »
Sounds good to me. I watched a couple vids and it looks like something I could enjoy. I'll probably pick it up.

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Re: FAR CRY 2 - Update: Far Cry games = 50% off on Steam (Reply 76)
« Reply #81 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 05:46:38 PM »
Sounds good to me. I watched a couple vids and it looks like something I could enjoy. I'll probably pick it up.

I'll take STALKER: SOC and COP over Far Cry 2.

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Re: Far Cry 2
« Reply #82 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 07:03:44 PM »
I have the first Stalker...just couldnt get into it.

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Re: Far Cry 2
« Reply #83 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 07:12:52 PM »
I have the first Stalker...just couldnt get into it.

Too hard?

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Re: Far Cry 2
« Reply #84 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 07:22:10 PM »
I couldn't get into STALKER either. It wasn't a difficulty issue, the game just didn't appeal to me. Lord knows I tried to get into it.

Far Cry 2 certainly had some issues, technical and creative. It felt soulless, like the development didn't even want to make it but they were obliged to by the corporate office.

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Re: Far Cry 2
« Reply #85 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 07:41:36 PM »
It wasnt difficulty. Something just didn't click for me. Plus it was kind of buggy and I hit some of those right off the bat so it made me not want to invest a bunch of time into it.

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Re: Far Cry 2
« Reply #86 on: Monday, May 24, 2010, 07:46:25 PM »
It wasnt difficulty. Something just didn't click for me. Plus it was kind of buggy and I hit some of those right off the bat so it made me not want to invest a bunch of time into it.
Far Cry 2 was quite buggy too, when it came out. I had a handful of saved game that were no good - where some missions couldn't be finished. I had to throw the game aside just b/c of these issues - where you couldn't finish some "Buddy Rescue" missions.

Hell, there were some bugs that happened just b/c you hit a certain number of percentage completions...

At least, they fixed those issues w/ Patch 1.03...

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Yeah, I can totally understand bugs driving you nuts. One thing STALKER: SOC and Far Cry 2 had on it early on before they got all patched-up - BUGS and technical performance issues.

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Re: Far Cry 2
« Reply #87 on: Sunday, April 01, 2012, 07:48:21 PM »
I've had this from some Steam sale for a while,  and just put about an hour into it.  The concept is great - drop your ass off in warn torn Africa and try to take out a target in a free roaming world.  The execution, however, is kinda weak.

The map system is kinda cool, but at the same time kind of a huge piss off because you are constantly having to switch area maps/map types...which can be a bitch when the map takes up half the screen.  The weapons all feel good...until you start shooting dudes and realize how much damage these shitty ai robots can take...and stealth is never really an option.  I was also bored of driving around place to place after an hour and see that there's no real fast travel (there's a kind of half-assed one that doesn't seem like it would help).

I'm probably not going to touch it again, but maybe Farcry 3 will fix a lot of this.