The most amusing hunt for me was.. Far east end of island 1 spoiler?
Having to kill 4 bears with an smg. You show up at the point and they try to give you a fucking skorpion. I figured that had to be a joke, and just used my signature smg. I couldn't imagine doing that with a skorpion.
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The most amusing hunt for me was.. Far east end of island 1 spoiler?
Having to kill 4 bears with an smg. You show up at the point and they try to give you a fucking skorpion. I figured that had to be a joke, and just used my signature smg. I couldn't imagine doing that with a skorpion.
Meh, I did it with the given Skorpion and didn't have a problem. Bears rear up once you get close enough and run away if you shoot them from too far away, so you can hose them from a distance with one mag, sprint up to them while reloading, and then unload the second mag while they try to be menacing. Not bad at all.
But whoever mentioned the leopard bow hunt, yeah, that one was dumb. Even pumped with the anti-animal juice, it still took way too many arrows to kill them, and they would frequently run off really fast. Just glad I camera-tagged them all before-hand; I think the last one took something like 5 arrows to bring down, which I didn't even realize until it died and I went to collect the pelt. I thought I'd just been missing it a bunch, but nope, I nailed it with every shot; it just happened to be an ultra-leopard. Glad I had my quiver way upgraded for that mission.
I feel like the game is kind of a mix of all of the following:
-Far Cry 2 (engine/basic gunplay and driving bits, as well as little touches like the way fire works)
-Assassin's Creed 2 (I get a huge vibe of this from all of the bases you can capture and climbing the radio towers... and some of the cave exploration)
-Just Cause 2 (stupid explosions and open world fun)
Personally, I'd say any Skyrim comparisons are a bit tenuous... I mean, I guess the game does have crafting, skill trees, and quests, but I wouldn't consider those experiences as core TES stuff, just sort of part of the general trend of RPG creep into games of other genres. It feels more like inspired by World of Warcraft, if anything.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
@Dehumanized: Does it have the "issue" (problem?) that JC2 has in that the open world game is wonderful, and it's fun to load up and just run around in...but the actual story is kind of meaningless and crap?
I loved JC2, but after sinking probably 50 hours in to it, I never did "beat" it. I just ran around causing as much chaos as possible and taking over areas, but the entire campaign itself felt completely meaningless in that game.
@Dehumanized: Does it have the "issue" (problem?) that JC2 has in that the open world game is wonderful, and it's fun to load up and just run around in...but the actual story is kind of meaningless and crap?
I loved JC2, but after sinking probably 50 hours in to it, I never did "beat" it. I just ran around causing as much chaos as possible and taking over areas, but the entire campaign itself felt completely meaningless in that game.
Huh, I'm not sure. I've been plugging along on the single player at a decent enough pace. Others who are further in the game than me have been saying that it gets really stupid (right now, it feels like an okay level of stupid to me). At this point, it's definitely feeling like a game where I could complete the story. I never finished JC2 either... and I don't think that all of the optional/side content in FC3 is quite as utterly engrossing as running around Panau and destroying every single gas tank that ever existed. I've ignored most of the side quests in FC3 aside from taking over bases for safehouses, and climbing radio towers to unlock more of my map.
From where I'm at, though, the protagonist in FC3 has a lot more invested into completing the story than Rico ever seemed to in JC2. You're trying to save your friends and bring down the bastard that killed your brother. It's a personal war, unlike JC2's "hey maybe overthrow this dictator, I guess?"
Man.....after bearing witness to three hit and runs I've decided that if my car every broke down on this island I wouldn't stand around waiting for help. It's bad enough that not only did one guy get run down and tossed a few feet from his car but his buddy got taken down by the same car coming back later.
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KlykaDO you have anySPARE BATTERIES?Registered Userregular
I wouldn't play this game if it didn't have the story it does.
I get bored of open world games extremely fast.
I wouldn't play this game if it didn't have the story it does.
I get bored of open world games extremely fast.
I'm with you on that. I don't typically do too well with open world games unless there's a decent amount of narrative momentum. Sometimes I just want the game to tell me a story, even if it turns out to be a kind of stupid story (or a REALLY stupid story, like Saints Row 3). So far, FC3 has had enough of that to keep it interesting.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
I wouldn't play this game if it didn't have the story it does.
I get bored of open world games extremely fast.
I do to, but Just Cause 2 was special as Dehumanized and I have pointed out. There just something about Panau that made it so amazingly fun to goof off in, even if you never followed the main story.
Good to know that the story in this is hook-worthy though.
The leopard bow hunt is easy: just tag them with binoculars, get a lot distance, snipe them from afar. If you're bad at long range bow sniping I can see how it would suck. Practice! The bow is stupid good at stealth assassinations.
So this game is overall pretty great. There are a few things I wish it had:
1) Grappling hook and a parachute (basically every game with a dramatic vertical element needs them)
2) Vehicle delivery (basically every open world game needs one)
So this game is overall pretty great. There are a few things I wish it had:
1) Grappling hook and a parachute (basically every game with a dramatic vertical element needs them)
2) Vehicle delivery (basically every open world game needs one)
I did the black panther mission today and almost rage quit the moment I saw that I had to use the bow. Fortunately, I decided to try the animal repellant. So. Easy. I had assumed the repellant would stop working once I attacked, but nope. The animal runs at you and then just stops. Wish I'd known about this for the 4 leopards...
So i've been playing for a bit now, not too far into the game. But i've been doing hunting...tons of hunting. And I'm starting to think Jason may have the weakest stomach of any protag i've ever seen. After about the 50th dead animal, not to mention then 100th or so person killed, you would think he would stop saying "Ew" when he had to skin one, the animals not the people.
He just seems genually weak willed to be doing that still. I've done some hunting in my time, not alot mind you...not this much to be sure. And yea, the first one or two times you skin something it can be distrubing. But after 50+ times of doing it...you would think he would start whistling or something. I know I enjoy making jokes, pretending the animal has a voice...you know, just funny stuff like "why did you shoot me" and move the lips a little....ok TMI...
So did you guys know, everytime you load the game it resets to medium difficulty even if you select hard? Isn't that great?
Kind of like how it doesn't save your custom loadouts?
Edit: Are you sure the difficulty resets? Mine still says Warrior (Hard).
Mine has reset twice now. Even last night I commented that it went to medium on skype, then this morning it was medium again. I have the uplay version not steam.
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GnomeTankWhat the what?Portland, OregonRegistered Userregular
So i've been playing for a bit now, not too far into the game. But i've been doing hunting...tons of hunting. And I'm starting to think Jason may have the weakest stomach of any protag i've ever seen. After about the 50th dead animal, not to mention then 100th or so person killed, you would think he would stop saying "Ew" when he had to skin one, the animals not the people.
He just seems genually weak willed to be doing that still. I've done some hunting in my time, not alot mind you...not this much to be sure. And yea, the first one or two times you skin something it can be distrubing. But after 50+ times of doing it...you would think he would start whistling or something. I know I enjoy making jokes, pretending the animal has a voice...you know, just funny stuff like "why did you shoot me" and move the lips a little....ok TMI...
Point is this dude needs to grow a pair.....
I dunno, I've killed probably six or seven bucks in my life, and I've never skinned one, always had my dad do it. I could never get over the gross factor, I just never could. If it were a life or death situation, I guess I would get over it...but yeah.
It's probably why I don't hunt anymore, now that my dad is older and doesn't hunt himself.
In general, though, the lack of variety in the barks in the game is a little disappointing. For something that they clearly expected you to do over and over and over, maybe they could have record like... at least two different things for you to say? I guess it's at least not as bad as the random pirate barks, where they appear to have recorded about 8, for every pirate ever.
Maneater must be killed with a bow. If you jump in the water and punch it to death, you fail.
Sorta sucked.
yea that one was kind of a pain. theres some sort of ruin... thing in the mission area that you can stand on to take shots, assuming youre lucky enough that he spawns near it.
Maneater must be killed with a bow. If you jump in the water and punch it to death, you fail.
Sorta sucked.
yea that one was kind of a pain. theres some sort of ruin... thing in the mission area that you can stand on to take shots, assuming youre lucky enough that he spawns near it.
So did you guys know, everytime you load the game it resets to medium difficulty even if you select hard? Isn't that great?
Kind of like how it doesn't save your custom loadouts?
Edit: Are you sure the difficulty resets? Mine still says Warrior (Hard).
Mine has reset twice now. Even last night I commented that it went to medium on skype, then this morning it was medium again. I have the uplay version not steam.
This happened to me just the once. I make it a habit to check my difficulty when loading it up.
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Meh, I did it with the given Skorpion and didn't have a problem. Bears rear up once you get close enough and run away if you shoot them from too far away, so you can hose them from a distance with one mag, sprint up to them while reloading, and then unload the second mag while they try to be menacing. Not bad at all.
But whoever mentioned the leopard bow hunt, yeah, that one was dumb. Even pumped with the anti-animal juice, it still took way too many arrows to kill them, and they would frequently run off really fast. Just glad I camera-tagged them all before-hand; I think the last one took something like 5 arrows to bring down, which I didn't even realize until it died and I went to collect the pelt. I thought I'd just been missing it a bunch, but nope, I nailed it with every shot; it just happened to be an ultra-leopard. Glad I had my quiver way upgraded for that mission.
-Far Cry 2 (engine/basic gunplay and driving bits, as well as little touches like the way fire works)
-Assassin's Creed 2 (I get a huge vibe of this from all of the bases you can capture and climbing the radio towers... and some of the cave exploration)
-Just Cause 2 (stupid explosions and open world fun)
Personally, I'd say any Skyrim comparisons are a bit tenuous... I mean, I guess the game does have crafting, skill trees, and quests, but I wouldn't consider those experiences as core TES stuff, just sort of part of the general trend of RPG creep into games of other genres. It feels more like inspired by World of Warcraft, if anything.
I loved JC2, but after sinking probably 50 hours in to it, I never did "beat" it. I just ran around causing as much chaos as possible and taking over areas, but the entire campaign itself felt completely meaningless in that game.
Huh, I'm not sure. I've been plugging along on the single player at a decent enough pace. Others who are further in the game than me have been saying that it gets really stupid (right now, it feels like an okay level of stupid to me). At this point, it's definitely feeling like a game where I could complete the story. I never finished JC2 either... and I don't think that all of the optional/side content in FC3 is quite as utterly engrossing as running around Panau and destroying every single gas tank that ever existed. I've ignored most of the side quests in FC3 aside from taking over bases for safehouses, and climbing radio towers to unlock more of my map.
From where I'm at, though, the protagonist in FC3 has a lot more invested into completing the story than Rico ever seemed to in JC2. You're trying to save your friends and bring down the bastard that killed your brother. It's a personal war, unlike JC2's "hey maybe overthrow this dictator, I guess?"
It's TPSou on origin but you're right about UPlay, I don't even know my own name. Add me, I'm TPSout!
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I get bored of open world games extremely fast.
I'm with you on that. I don't typically do too well with open world games unless there's a decent amount of narrative momentum. Sometimes I just want the game to tell me a story, even if it turns out to be a kind of stupid story (or a REALLY stupid story, like Saints Row 3). So far, FC3 has had enough of that to keep it interesting.
I do to, but Just Cause 2 was special as Dehumanized and I have pointed out. There just something about Panau that made it so amazingly fun to goof off in, even if you never followed the main story.
Good to know that the story in this is hook-worthy though.
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1) Grappling hook and a parachute (basically every game with a dramatic vertical element needs them)
2) Vehicle delivery (basically every open world game needs one)
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Hey... I know a game that has those! Wait...
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Edit: Are you sure the difficulty resets? Mine still says Warrior (Hard).
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He just seems genually weak willed to be doing that still. I've done some hunting in my time, not alot mind you...not this much to be sure. And yea, the first one or two times you skin something it can be distrubing. But after 50+ times of doing it...you would think he would start whistling or something. I know I enjoy making jokes, pretending the animal has a voice...you know, just funny stuff like "why did you shoot me" and move the lips a little....ok TMI...
Point is this dude needs to grow a pair.....
Mine has reset twice now. Even last night I commented that it went to medium on skype, then this morning it was medium again. I have the uplay version not steam.
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I dunno, I've killed probably six or seven bucks in my life, and I've never skinned one, always had my dad do it. I could never get over the gross factor, I just never could. If it were a life or death situation, I guess I would get over it...but yeah.
It's probably why I don't hunt anymore, now that my dad is older and doesn't hunt himself.
Then a base attack that escalated pretty quickly
Sorta sucked.
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yea that one was kind of a pain. theres some sort of ruin... thing in the mission area that you can stand on to take shots, assuming youre lucky enough that he spawns near it.
Holy crap, I've been playing the whole game wishing I had bait, never realizing you could manipulate animals just like people!
I'm also hoping at some point to blow up a group of deer with a land mine + rocks...i think that would be fun...
I just drove a RHIB out there and shot from that.
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This happened to me just the once. I make it a habit to check my difficulty when loading it up.
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