What are you playing?

[Xeogred]

I enjoyed Far Cry 3, Blood Dragon, and 4 quite a bit. But they are definitely modern era AssCreed "checkbox" blueprint plastic styled games. Million icons on the map, rinse and repeat every concept and collectible several times over. The gameplay is good though, minimal story, and compared to some of the AssCreed games it just feels like you're more free to just have fun. 2 was a separate team from these as well though and still not very comparable, other than being sandbox open world.

It's interesting that the new Prey is running on some Cry Engine. Let's pray it actually works and the Texas Arkane knows what they're doing with it, unlike the other team that were forced to use idTech5 for Dishonored 2 and churned out something awfully broken.

[Ack]

Yeah, have fun with the Crysis aliens. I didn't like Crysis nearly as much as Far Cry, but I managed to beat both, and let me tell you, the devs did not learn a thing.

Anyway, lately I've been playing a ton of Warframe on Steam. I don't often go for TPS games on PC, but the mobility the game offers me gives me such a burst of adrenaline that I'm hooked for the moment. Which means I'm not trying to beat other games in my collection! Haha, oh well, such is life.

[Tanooki]

get ready for aliens to ruin the late game, just like the monsters in Far Cry 1.

Seriously? They didn't learn the first time?

I legit bailed on Far Cry once the Trigens showed up. Lovely game until that point.

Ugh seriously? I loved that game back in the day until that point and it got so cheap, frustrating and broken had it not been for a cheat code for ammo I'd have quit. I've never played the sequels because of this and ignored Crysis under similar assumptions. Looking into it I've never done either as there's so much more out there, but this late nugget of news reinforces I missed nothing but fury.


But on a nicer note, whenever the USPS gets here today I'll have a physical copy of I Am Setsuna for Nintendo Switch to play.

[Fragems]

get ready for aliens to ruin the late game, just like the monsters in Far Cry 1.

Seriously? They didn't learn the first time?

I legit bailed on Far Cry once the Trigens showed up. Lovely game until that point.

Ugh seriously? I loved that game back in the day until that point and it got so cheap, frustrating and broken had it not been for a cheat code for ammo I'd have quit. I've never played the sequels because of this and ignored Crysis under similar assumptions. Looking into it I've never done either as there's so much more out there, but this late nugget of news reinforces I missed nothing but fury.


But on a nicer note, whenever the USPS gets here today I'll have a physical copy of I Am Setsuna for Nintendo Switch to play.

Far Cry 2 and forward are mostly focused around human enemies. Some side stuff involving spirits and monsters pops up occasionally but it's never the central focus and aside from maybe 1-2 forced missions those encounters are relegated to side missions that are avoidable.

[Exhuminator]

I didn't like Crysis nearly as much as Far Cry, but I managed to beat both, and let me tell you, the devs did not learn a thing.

So far I would agree that Far Cry was funner than Crysis, but that's mainly because Crysis is such a rehash of Far Cry. And to be clear; I didn't stop playing Far Cry because it was too hard, it just stopped being fun enough to bother. Hopefully the same won't happen with Crysis, but it might.

[Tanooki]

So it may be worth wishlisting it for a future sale on GoG just to see how it feels maybe after all. The first one was fine, it had bugs but wasn't a problem really until it went off the rails. I tried playing the old one last year via gog but that paid purchase was broken, something glitched with the version they put up and oddly never addressed (wish I read into comment as there's LOTS of complaining.) Some people offered up ideas how to fix, followed it and it had no effect on the GoG release so I erased it.

I should be clear too, it wasn't so much the challenge which did suck when it went off the rails in the first (due to the comment above me) but I also just got fed up with it because of that. The balancing went out the window as did the story and just got annoying. I look at it like hot sauce. I can handle the stuff with a warning on the bottle, and I'll happily use stuff like that, but if the taste sucks, forget it. That's how Far Cry went -- it was spicy, but when the taste went sour I wasn't going to burn myself with no benefit to it.

[Ack]

I didn't like Crysis nearly as much as Far Cry, but I managed to beat both, and let me tell you, the devs did not learn a thing.

So far I would agree that Far Cry was funner than Crysis, but that's mainly because Crysis is such a rehash of Far Cry. And to be clear; I didn't stop playing Far Cry because it was too hard, it just stopped being fun enough to bother. Hopefully the same won't happen with Crysis, but it might.

I'm sorry to tell you this, but in my opinion it does. I powered through, but when I think back about them, I seriously question those decisions.

[isiolia]

I stopped playing Far Cry for similar reasons too, but wound up beating Crysis. I think there was just more the mentality of avoiding the aliens that helped, but there are also some ill-advised flying sections and stuff if I recall.
At best, it's a tonal shift that is just far too common considering how poor a design decision it tends to be (figure, even Half-Life pulls it). Switching from combat with stealth, tactics, and what have you to superpowered stuff that just beelines for you is just a bad choice. Not sure why developers seem to like doing it. Some have done it less and less though. The Uncharted games for example.

[Exhuminator]

Did anybody play this one?:



Thoughts?

[isiolia]

Played, yes, beat, no.

What I played of it was pretty good, but I couldn't say if it stays that way.