Console shooters aren't that bad compared to PC ones. Sure, you lose a bit of aiming control, but its nothing you can't compensate for with a few hours of getting used to the game.
This game is flying pretty under the radar compared to Fable II and Fallout 3. Fable II is going to be really short guys, and I fear Fallout is going to have the same crappy AI and same dead world as Oblivion. So if you can only pick one game, pick this. Watch some videos, look at how good the AI is, look at the choices in the missions. I'm telling you, this might be better then even Crysis.
Speaking of, was there ever any kind of confirmation that Crysis would be making its way over the console?
(I'm absolutely ecstatic that Far Cry 2 will be coming out multiplatform, by the time I had upgraded my PC for the first one the game was kinda dated and rough around the edges. That won't be happening again!:P)
I just went into my local EB store (I live in Australia, just so you know), looked at the pc coming soon section and saw the price of the game. 200 fucking dollars ! Now, I know games are more expensive in Aus due to the 'having the better beaches' tax, with an average PC game being between $90-100, but seriously, that is INSANE. It was looking like such a good game, but how on earth do they expect to sell games at that price? Has anyone found out the price in the US, or UK?
I just went into my local EB store (I live in Australia, just so you know), looked at the pc coming soon section and saw the price of the game. 200 fucking dollars ! Now, I know games are more expensive in Aus due to the 'having the better beaches' tax, with an average PC game being between $90-100, but seriously, that is INSANE. It was looking like such a good game, but how on earth do they expect to sell games at that price? Has anyone found out the price in the US, or UK?
In the US it's the usual $60 for consoles and $50 for PC.
I went into some different EB stores today. One of them had TBA written over the $199.99 prices, and the other had some with the $199.99 scribbled over with black marker (but still slightly visible) and others with the price as $90, which is cheaper than crysis is currently. o_O
I checked the price tag on the 200 and 90 dollar versions, and they were exactly the same, except for the price, so I hadn't read the special edition by mistake. So maybe it was just a screw-up by eb.
I just went into my local EB store (I live in Australia, just so you know), looked at the pc coming soon section and saw the price of the game. 200 fucking dollars ! Now, I know games are more expensive in Aus due to the 'having the better beaches' tax, with an average PC game being between $90-100, but seriously, that is INSANE. It was looking like such a good game, but how on earth do they expect to sell games at that price? Has anyone found out the price in the US, or UK?
UK will be around.. £40 I'd guess. Probably find it £35 in most places online.
I just went into my local EB store (I live in Australia, just so you know), looked at the pc coming soon section and saw the price of the game. 200 fucking dollars ! Now, I know games are more expensive in Aus due to the 'having the better beaches' tax, with an average PC game being between $90-100, but seriously, that is INSANE. It was looking like such a good game, but how on earth do they expect to sell games at that price? Has anyone found out the price in the US, or UK?
Its simply a printing thing they do with "Coming Soon" games for whatever strange reason. I remember seeing GH3 in this section at EB games for $500 once. Don't worry about it I'd imagine the retail will be AU$100-110
Speaking of, was there ever any kind of confirmation that Crysis would be making its way over the console?
(I'm absolutely ecstatic that Far Cry 2 will be coming out multiplatform, by the time I had upgraded my PC for the first one the game was kinda dated and rough around the edges. That won't be happening again!:P)
Nope, the only news that wasn't complete fabrication was that they supposedly showed a version of the engine working on PS360. It's really unlikely that crysis itself would come over because of RAM alone, not even mentioning the other constraints.
I think I'm going to pick Warren as my first time character.
American, couldn't make it in the armed services or police, but still shows up in mother frakking Africa to kick ass and maim arms dealers with a bandanna and a motorcycle shirt.
America, **** YEAH!
You gotta have some kind of balls, or some kind of stupid to try to pull that off.
I think I'm going to pick Warren as my first time character.
American, couldn't make it in the armed services or police, but still shows up in mother frakking Africa to kick ass and maim arms dealers with a bandanna and a motorcycle shirt.
America, **** YEAH!
You gotta have some kind of balls, or some kind of stupid to try to pull that off.
It's gonna be great. :winky:
I may have missed something, but where did you get the character descriptions from?
I think I'm going to pick Warren as my first time character.
American, couldn't make it in the armed services or police, but still shows up in mother frakking Africa to kick ass and maim arms dealers with a bandanna and a motorcycle shirt.
America, **** YEAH!
You gotta have some kind of balls, or some kind of stupid to try to pull that off.
It's gonna be great. :winky:
what do you mean pick as your first character? those are buddies right? npcs that help you?
well in that case I'd have to pick the french chick with the m79. don't piss off a french chick. especially one with explosives effective up to 400 yards
The 94% PC Gamer UK review said quite enthusiastically that buddies were great. They *will* save your ass if you screw up and will cover you on certain missions and if they die on your watch, they won't come back.
I think I'm going to pick Warren as my first time character.
American, couldn't make it in the armed services or police, but still shows up in mother frakking Africa to kick ass and maim arms dealers with a bandanna and a motorcycle shirt.
America, **** YEAH!
You gotta have some kind of balls, or some kind of stupid to try to pull that off.
I'm going to find all the buddies and try to keep them all alive. Also, I'm going to be an all around good guy. If you can find the buddies without doing any missions, I'm going to do that.
anyways, with the animations, thats generally done through skeletal models with a 3D model overlaid on top of it. or something along those lines. so really, it could easily be done with female arms or whatever.
I'm assuming you can't play as the girls because then they would have to make twice as many self-surgery animations?
Why's that?
Male ones and then female ones? Or at least two more sets, if they did specific ones for each character (which I doubt... but that sure would be neat).
I mean it would be odd if you were playing as Michelle or whoever and then you reached down with your hairy man-hands and pulled shrapnel from your beefy man-thigh...
anyways, three or so shooters aside, there's certainly a habit of male only roles for fps protagonists. its not like I'm a campaigner for gender equality or I want to see sexy female arms, I'd just like to see something different is all. the huff n gruff marine with balls of steel gets kind of boring after the millionth time, ya know?
then you get into third person shooters and not surprisingly enough, the female to male ratio gets closer to even. I attribute this to actually being able to see their asses in tight fitting clothes. also third person shooters I find tend to be a lot more story driven, you know, I guess. but mostly asses.
I could have sworn I heard that there were originally 12 characters, three of which were women, and it was cut down to 9 as playable, removing all the women. I'd love for this to not be true though, since i'm tired of games that give you a choice of character types limiting that choice to just guys within all the choice. I hope we find out soon.
I'm assuming you can't play as the girls because then they would have to make twice as many self-surgery animations?
Why's that?
Male ones and then female ones? Or at least two more sets, if they did specific ones for each character (which I doubt... but that sure would be neat).
I mean it would be odd if you were playing as Michelle or whoever and then you reached down with your hairy man-hands and pulled shrapnel from your beefy man-thigh...
:winky:
yeah but if there are like 12 different types of men and respective beefy manhands it's not much more work to model some dainty flower picking nail polished female arms and a pair of tits
I'm assuming you can't play as the girls because then they would have to make twice as many self-surgery animations?
Why's that?
Male ones and then female ones? Or at least two more sets, if they did specific ones for each character (which I doubt... but that sure would be neat).
I mean it would be odd if you were playing as Michelle or whoever and then you reached down with your hairy man-hands and pulled shrapnel from your beefy man-thigh...
:winky:
Every character isn't animated individually; they're all assigned to a generic skeleton, which itself is animated. Females could have the same self-surgery animations as men, unless the mean reach through a portion of space that would contain breasts on a woman.
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(I'm absolutely ecstatic that Far Cry 2 will be coming out multiplatform, by the time I had upgraded my PC for the first one the game was kinda dated and rough around the edges. That won't be happening again!:P)
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In the US it's the usual $60 for consoles and $50 for PC.
I checked the price tag on the 200 and 90 dollar versions, and they were exactly the same, except for the price, so I hadn't read the special edition by mistake. So maybe it was just a screw-up by eb.
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You could hook that 56" up to your pc though!
UK will be around.. £40 I'd guess. Probably find it £35 in most places online.
Its simply a printing thing they do with "Coming Soon" games for whatever strange reason. I remember seeing GH3 in this section at EB games for $500 once. Don't worry about it
Nope, the only news that wasn't complete fabrication was that they supposedly showed a version of the engine working on PS360. It's really unlikely that crysis itself would come over because of RAM alone, not even mentioning the other constraints.
American, couldn't make it in the armed services or police, but still shows up in mother frakking Africa to kick ass and maim arms dealers with a bandanna and a motorcycle shirt.
America, **** YEAH!
You gotta have some kind of balls, or some kind of stupid to try to pull that off.
It's gonna be great. :winky:
I may have missed something, but where did you get the character descriptions from?
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Edit: Ah, here they are:
My second and third picks are Paul Ferenc (Israeli) and Hakim Echebbi (Algerian) both of whom look quite badass.
what do you mean pick as your first character? those are buddies right? npcs that help you?
Partners who can permanently die if you let them.
Here's hoping the AI doesn't suck.
You can't play as the girls last I heard.
Also, they're all terrible character models, what the hell? is this 2004 or something.
I haven't heard much. There isn't a lot of info for FC2 out there, so I wouldn't doubt it.
yeah its Far Cry, not Far a bloo bloo bloo
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unless they're covered head to toe in armor and you can only find out their gender while google image searching them
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Why's that?
anyways, with the animations, thats generally done through skeletal models with a 3D model overlaid on top of it. or something along those lines. so really, it could easily be done with female arms or whatever.
Male ones and then female ones? Or at least two more sets, if they did specific ones for each character (which I doubt... but that sure would be neat).
I mean it would be odd if you were playing as Michelle or whoever and then you reached down with your hairy man-hands and pulled shrapnel from your beefy man-thigh...
:winky:
http://lexiconmegatherium.tumblr.com/
then you get into third person shooters and not surprisingly enough, the female to male ratio gets closer to even. I attribute this to actually being able to see their asses in tight fitting clothes. also third person shooters I find tend to be a lot more story driven, you know, I guess. but mostly asses.
yeah but if there are like 12 different types of men and respective beefy manhands it's not much more work to model some dainty flower picking nail polished female arms and a pair of tits
Every character isn't animated individually; they're all assigned to a generic skeleton, which itself is animated. Females could have the same self-surgery animations as men, unless the mean reach through a portion of space that would contain breasts on a woman.