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Far Cry 2, no mutants so far. (Released)

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  • PancakePancake Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    4rch3nemy wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Looks good as a game, but I don't get why FC2 looks like it has West African building styles in a seemingly East African landscape.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    This is not an issue in a world that is loosely based on Africa, rather than a world that is meant to BE Africa.


    EDIT: Anyways, this game looks pretty good. I want to catch fire to the entire world.

    The fires in Far Cry 2 aren't very realistic. They spread too fast and go out way too quickly.

    Trust me, I've been there.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    I really felt like installing Far Cry earlier and playing it a bit. Searched around for it, turns out my older brother still has it.

    DAMMIT

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  • DarlanDarlan Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Pancake wrote: »
    4rch3nemy wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Looks good as a game, but I don't get why FC2 looks like it has West African building styles in a seemingly East African landscape.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    This is not an issue in a world that is loosely based on Africa, rather than a world that is meant to BE Africa.


    EDIT: Anyways, this game looks pretty good. I want to catch fire to the entire world.

    The fires in Far Cry 2 aren't very realistic. They spread too fast and go out way too quickly.

    Trust me, I've been there.
    Is that ultimately a bad thing, though? I haven't played it of course, but it sounds like that would be a more game friendly way to go about using fire.

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    From that interview, it sounds like stalker would be a much better comparison than crysis

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  • Zilla360Zilla360 21st Century. |She/Her| Trans* Woman In Aviators Firing A Bazooka. ⚛️Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    I really felt like installing Far Cry earlier and playing it a bit. Searched around for it, turns out my older brother still has it.

    DAMMIT
    Full game, contains ads though:
    http://www.gamershell.com/download_20867.shtml

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  • SkutSkutSkutSkut Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    This actually looks good, I'm for buying it.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Awesome. Between this and Resident Evil 5, my need for black-person-killing simulators will finally be sated. Can't wait.
    /sarcasm

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Looks good as a game, but I don't get why FC2 looks like it has West African building styles in a seemingly East African landscape.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    Because the people in East Africa built houses to match the ones in west africa.

    kinda like how there is a mosque half a mile from my apartment, people can copy buildings.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Looks good as a game, but I don't get why FC2 looks like it has West African building styles in a seemingly East African landscape.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    Because the people in East Africa built houses to match the ones in west africa.

    kinda like how there is a mosque half a mile from my apartment, people can copy buildings.

    He's talking about the tribal looking village, which is distinctly west African (specifically, Dogon) and I doubt that people building a new village in East Africa would decide to copy the dated architecture of a tribe hundreds of miles away. Still, the setting could be West African. There's savannah over there too.

    Food on
  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    In the hands-on that I linked, they state that it's not set in any specific area because firstly they didn't want to risk bringing real-world politics into things, but also there was no one set location that covered all the types of land and architecture that they wanted to bring in.

    Guess that answers any questions.

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  • randombattlerandombattle Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Food wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Looks good as a game, but I don't get why FC2 looks like it has West African building styles in a seemingly East African landscape.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    Because the people in East Africa built houses to match the ones in west africa.

    kinda like how there is a mosque half a mile from my apartment, people can copy buildings.

    He's talking about the tribal looking village, which is distinctly west African (specifically, Dogon) and I doubt that people building a new village in East Africa would decide to copy the dated architecture of a tribe hundreds of miles away. Still, the setting could be West African. There's savannah over there too.

    I dont think mutant alien monsters that turn invisible make a lot sense either but those exist in Far Cry.

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  • PancakePancake Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Food wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Looks good as a game, but I don't get why FC2 looks like it has West African building styles in a seemingly East African landscape.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    Because the people in East Africa built houses to match the ones in west africa.

    kinda like how there is a mosque half a mile from my apartment, people can copy buildings.

    He's talking about the tribal looking village, which is distinctly west African (specifically, Dogon) and I doubt that people building a new village in East Africa would decide to copy the dated architecture of a tribe hundreds of miles away. Still, the setting could be West African. There's savannah over there too.

    I dont think mutant alien monsters that turn invisible make a lot sense either but those exist in Far Cry.

    It doesn't take place in Africa so it's a non-issue.

    It's a fictional place based on Africa that looks like a variety of different African environments, but it's still not Africa.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Zilla360 wrote: »
    darleysam wrote: »
    I really felt like installing Far Cry earlier and playing it a bit. Searched around for it, turns out my older brother still has it.

    DAMMIT
    Full game, contains ads though:
    http://www.gamershell.com/download_20867.shtml

    With both this and Psi-Ops available, I am very happy indeed.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Food wrote: »
    The_Scarab wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Looks good as a game, but I don't get why FC2 looks like it has West African building styles in a seemingly East African landscape.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    Because the people in East Africa built houses to match the ones in west africa.

    kinda like how there is a mosque half a mile from my apartment, people can copy buildings.

    He's talking about the tribal looking village, which is distinctly west African (specifically, Dogon) and I doubt that people building a new village in East Africa would decide to copy the dated architecture of a tribe hundreds of miles away. Still, the setting could be West African. There's savannah over there too.

    I dont think mutant alien monsters that turn invisible make a lot sense either but those exist in Far Cry.

    But how can you be sure they don't exist? They're invisible.

    Food on
  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited June 2008
    Pancake wrote: »
    4rch3nemy wrote: »
    Mortal Sky wrote: »
    Looks good as a game, but I don't get why FC2 looks like it has West African building styles in a seemingly East African landscape.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    This is not an issue in a world that is loosely based on Africa, rather than a world that is meant to BE Africa.


    EDIT: Anyways, this game looks pretty good. I want to catch fire to the entire world.

    The fires in Far Cry 2 aren't very realistic. They spread too fast and go out way too quickly.

    Trust me, I've been there.

    Yeah me too. Family farm was on the edge of a nature reserve. Multiple scares.

    Far too fast without any heavy wind.

    I just realised that I played through Far Cry 1 on realistic, so I may get at least one enjoyable playthrough of this.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    So this will could probably use a new thread, especially as the title talks about tropical islands. Far Cry 2 is clearly not set on a tropical island.
    Anyway, the reason for my bumping this is because Eurogamer got their hands on a recent build, and wrote lots of interesting things about it.
    http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=176347

    I can't be doing with copying it all over, or extracting the important stuff, but basically it sounds like a completely kickass game and I'm now waiting to see what kind of specs will make it sing, so I can build a new pc.

    late edit: Guess who didn't read the OP!

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    The title talks about tropical islands, but did you read the OP?

    I posit no.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited July 2008
    ........

    Got me good.

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  • MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zilla360 wrote: »
    darleysam wrote: »
    I really felt like installing Far Cry earlier and playing it a bit. Searched around for it, turns out my older brother still has it.

    DAMMIT
    Full game, contains ads though:
    http://www.gamershell.com/download_20867.shtml

    I downloaded it, and installed it, made an ubi.com account, and started the install... and got a message saying you must live in the US to play this game. I found that odd, since I do live in the US. Turns out this was an older promotional thing. Downloading it now will get you exactly nowhere unless you're willing to apply a crack or something.

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  • freakish lightfreakish light butterdick jones and his heavenly asshole machineRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Yeah, they couldn't find an effective way to limit the game download to the US, so they stopped distributing genuine unlock keys.

    They did the same thing with Tomb Raider Anniversary.

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Before I watch it, and this is incredibly important, did Far Cry 2 get any nominations for awards by the press at E3?

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  • ArrathArrath Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Sweet mother of christ that looks awesome.

    And Lewie, the intro to the trailer said it got quite a few. Who knows if they're telling the truth though.

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  • LewiePLewieP Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I refuse to watch the trailer without concrete information. This is the most important thing about the game to me.
    I am of course being facetious

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ubi sure know how to make a trailer

    assassin's creed and all that

    also some of those environments looked bitchin' cool

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    It kind of looked like Crysis, but with some added stuff

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  • SpoitSpoit *twitch twitch* Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    It kind of looked like Crysis, but with some added stuff

    Completely different kind of game from crysis. It's an open world game, kind of like GTA: Afrika

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    well I was talking about looks

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  • PancakePancake Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Zzulu wrote: »
    well I was talking about looks

    Not really? Crysis was very much on a tropical island. Far Cry 2 covers a large variety of African environments.

    When I see savanna, I don't think tropical island, for one.

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ...and crysis looked awesome

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Pancake wrote: »
    Zzulu wrote: »
    well I was talking about looks

    Not really? Crysis was very much on a tropical island. Far Cry 2 covers a large variety of African environments.

    When I see savanna, I don't think tropical island, for one.

    You don't seem to understand

    the graphics, as in STYLE, TECH and DESIGN looks almost identical. I'm not talking about content here. Like the dude above me said, this is not necessarily a bad thing. I was just suprised to see them look so similiar.

    If I had no knowledge of FC2, and someone told me this was an expansion pack to Crysis, I'd totally believe it

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  • NuzakNuzak Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    argh, stick in his leg

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  • UrianUrian __BANNED USERS regular
    edited August 2008
    darleysam wrote: »

    holy shit

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  • darleysamdarleysam On my way to UKRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Yeah, just watched it a second time, and it is awesome.

    So want a good PC for this now.

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  • HaikiraHaikira UKRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Fuck ubisoft, there i was not caring about this game and then this trailer comes out. Now i need to get this also?

    Seriously, not cool.

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  • LamoidLamoid Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    LewieP wrote: »
    I am of course being facetious
    There's a bathroom right over there.

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  • EliminationElimination Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Topical goodness?

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  • GrudgeGrudge blessed is the mind too small for doubtRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    darleysam wrote: »
    Woo, new trailer!

    holy fuck

    I'm getting this. Fuck yea, I'm getting this.

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  • YorkerYorker Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    If anything it reminds me of STALKER, hope they manage to nail the atmosphere like GSC did.

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  • MorninglordMorninglord I'm tired of being Batman, so today I'll be Owl.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I...

    I've changed my mind. I want this. A lot.

    Whoever said it reminds them of Crysis, the only thing I could see similar was the gun recoil physics and positioning and the animation.

    That's....pretty much it. If that's gameplay video, it blows Crysis out of the water in every other department imaginable, much like Crysis did to Farcry 1.

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