I have seen "bro culture" and the 3 protagonists in the trailer come off to me as no more than 3 everyday young tourist folk.
I dunno mang, if I go to some exotic tropical island and I see an AK-47 sitting on some dude's table, my first instinct would not be to pick it up, pull the charging handle, and mug for the camera at how awesome I am. And then call the guy a dick when he tells me to piss off. Just sayin'.
You can do a quick google image search of people just posing with weapons, unobtainable women/men, historic buildings, expensive vehicles and what not on trips. Someone is always saying, "Hey! Hey man! Get a shot of me with this stuff! It'll look cool when we look back on it!.......Ah fuck! No flash photography! Lame."
And on the Nathan Drake thing, yeah the guy can commit genocide and climb sheer walls but he looks like a guy you would see in everyday life and not Marcus Fenix. Apparently FC3 guy was prior military (of course) so that gives some slide to how he at least knows how to blow people away.
Oh and yeah...stupid American backpackers. There are a fuckton of those guys always going the wrong way and ending up on the news.
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Are you guys being serious? I think some of you guys are being serious, right?
"The music the kids are listenin' to these days, I tell ya..."
"If some little hooligan like that came my way, well I'd let him know, I sure would. I'd tell him to get off of my lawn and get a job!"
Oh and yeah...stupid American backpackers. There are a fuckton of those guys always going the wrong way and ending up on the news.
You mean like the backpackers who were held by the Iranians, one of whom (backpackers) was from my highschool? Yeah. This shit happens where tourists / adventurists fuck up.
Maybe he joined the marines and got dishonorably discharged for throwing a knife into his superior's neck. So now the goal is to drown our sorrows in alcohol on some remote island.
But then things go terribly wrong and the main character must embrace the monster he became in basic and use his primal instincts to survive! The story is about his internal struggle with survival and maintaining humanity. In the end he finds the girl, but she recognizes him for the animal he has become and throws herself off a cliff.
I was more dissapointed with FC2 than anything. I was introduced with instincts: predator for the 360 and loved it. . I wish they would have kept going in that direction. Gotta say, this game is looking very promising.
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I have seen "bro culture" and the 3 protagonists in the trailer come off to me as no more than 3 everyday young tourist folk.
I dunno mang, if I go to some exotic tropical island and I see an AK-47 sitting on some dude's table, my first instinct would not be to pick it up, pull the charging handle, and mug for the camera at how awesome I am. And then call the guy a dick when he tells me to piss off. Just sayin'.
You can do a quick google image search of people just posing with weapons, unobtainable women/men, historic buildings, expensive vehicles and what not on trips. Someone is always saying, "Hey! Hey man! Get a shot of me with this stuff! It'll look cool when we look back on it!.......Ah fuck! No flash photography! Lame."
Then he's a tourist asshole in a long, prestigious line of tourist assholes. That still doesn't endear him, because an insufferable jackass is still an insufferable jackass no matter if he's in good company of insufferable jackasses.
Realtalk, though, I really don't care about whether he's a "bro" or a general dillweed or whatever the fuck silly stereotype people like applying for a two minute trailer or whatever. I'll suffer through worse if the game is in anyway compelling. But I remember disliking the last FarCry game tremendously, that's the reason I'd be down on this game right now, not the main character. Who knows though? Maybe they've learned and this game will actually be awesome if Ubisoft could pull another AssCreed 1->2.
But then I remember I play on the PC and this is made by Ubisoft. Ooops!
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edited February 2012
Ubisoft, after much focus group testing has decided to respond to the outcry against the music and main protagonist of the latest installation of the AAA Farcry franchise. Gamers simply found the character "someone they couldn't relate to, a douchebag. Most likely a hipster too." So artists have gotten to work to create something more in line with their perception of the modern gamer. Accompanied by a more conventional soundtrack, Ubisoft hopes to repair this breach with their audience.
A commenter on RPS noted how the game has an experience system (I forgot, but yeah, you get XP for pew pewing), so it could make a bit of sense that after escaping by freak accident, your character appears more and more skilled within the narrative as it progresses as well. Or, you know, he could be ex-military (although this is not typically how that type of character is portrayed in these sorts of things).
Yeah, but it would be a nice change of pace.
I, and I imagine various others around here, have been in the military, and the vast majority of people in the armed forces aren't typically hulking brutes, even if they are special forces or are trained to kill. Many would appear just like someone who happens to take care of themselves, who also just happen to be capable of killing your face. Think Matt Damon in Bourne before he hulked up himself. Or hell, most humans in Mass Effect pre:Jacob/Vega. Given the look of the guy in the trailer, he could easily be that smaller, well physiqued guy, who happened to have been a Seal or something.
I wouldn't mind. The marine cut military brute is way past a cliche at this point. And it's not even realistic or reasonable.
=brody quest v1=
Jason's gotten good at shrouding his past, having had lots of practice as he continued to woo his new best friend. But when his best bro hit the floor, never to bro again, Brody could feel his mind snap. In an instant, the comforts and fixtures of his new life fell away. Stripped to his rawest form, he descends into an orgy of violence!
=brody quest v2=
Ex Navy Seal Jason Brody was planning on having a nice brocation in the brohamas, but there just had to be bad guys to screw everything up.
Too bad for them, Jason's a standard killing machine, and messes all the indigenous hooligans right up.
=brody quest v3=
Man! I sure like fun video games and am not judgmental or anything!
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edited February 2012
I think we're looking at this bro hero (or as I shall call it, "he-bro") all wrong. Maybe we get to play as the insane madman bent on forcing his rule on everyone "freedom fighter" and these American douchebags show up. As valiant patriots, we then have to fend them off using our inferior resources but superior cunning. Also, we get to murder random people to keep the populace in line.
Okay I've been reading along but you guys really should watch the interview videos that also came out. That'll straighten out a whole bunch of mistaken assumptions I'm seeing.
But that would require coming out of our Judgmental Cave and paying attention! I want to blindly hate things and call things "bro" because it's what *I'm* into. Fuck your logic, man!
Personally, the E3 trailer sold me on this game. Everything else just has to maintain that.
Also, dude is a little bro-y, but not more so than Drake. I saw no half-tuck.
The Far Cry 3 trailer made me think "The Punisher Goes Hawaiian." Friends dead/captured and there's noway off the island? Fuck it, time for some rageahol induced wholesale slaughter.
As long as the protagonist isn't as amazingly retarded as the one in FC2 I'll be good. Controlling a mercenary with a massive case of down syndrome is never entertaining.
Apparently console footage? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT-QQcBNQeA
I'm liking what I see so far; just keep the action Far Cry PC/FC2 style and I'm sold. Don't really agree with the regenerating health; given the kind of brutal nature the game's trying to convey I'd prefer at least some kind of system where real medical attention is required if you get banged up too much.
I think they're keeping the system where if you get shot too much eventually you'll have to bandage yourself or worse, pull a bullet out from an arm. And that footage looks very, very promising.
What strikes me, though, is just how easy it looks. I mean, I understand the guy showing it off probably spent hours doing it, and it's on the easiest setting... but, damn, it's less like a video game and more like a movie where you press buttons.
Also, not a fan of dubstep. Sounds cool in Syndicate, futureworld, where clearly nobody uses real instruments anymore because future. In this it just makes me think of Syndicate and how I'd like to be playing that.
We don't even care... whether we care or not...
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
edited February 2012
For the whole bro-rage thing, yeah, obviously people are overreacting to it. It wouldn't be any fun to have a reasonable response. Plus, even a mild bro is a pretty stupid character to have considering the stereotype is supposed to incorporate lobotomy levels of stupidity.
Regardless, an ex-military guy would still be the only thing that actually fits in a game like this. Some random dude getting mad doesn't just automatically gain super-training; at least an ex-military guy has years of training and experience as a reason for why he can do crap like chuck knives with perfect accuracy and run-and-gun with an AK47. I'd say calling an ex-military character for this kind of game "cliche" would be like calling a machine gun "cliche" for this type of gameplay. Yeah, you could give muzzle-loading muskets or nerf guns, but then it just doesn't make any sense.
Personally, my hope is that we get to see the open environments of Farcry 2 without the gamebreakingly bad design flaws like insanely short respawn times and enemies being able to rubberband chase you all through the jungle. Whatever good there is in Farcry 2, I can never find it because I get so sick of those awful mechanics that I just give up on the game.
Far Cry 2 is at it's best when you've done and found everything, with only the final mission left. When you have access to everything you want, and don't have to pay any regard to objectives.
Here's hoping that if Far Cry 3 has any sort of openness, RPG mechanics or upgrades, that it comes with a "fuck it all and freeroam" mode at the end.
I have NO idea where they are going with that psychedelic stuff. But I'm pretty sure I need to get this now!
Hrm. I think the psychedelic/drug stuff could add a lot and make the story and action really interesting, if done right. But it was kind of jarring to have all the narration i the video be about the brain and drugs, but then have 90% of the actual video be pretty generic FPS action stuff.
Learning so far that people have issues with guys who look like everyday modern guys in video games. Can't remember but was there a backlash for Nathan Drake when he first came on the scene? What about Gordon Freeman or Kyle Katarn?
Guessing the games main character would appeal more to some of you if he was a 30 something hulk of a man and a ex-special forces?
I have seen "bro culture" and the 3 protagonists in the trailer come off to me as no more than 3 everyday young tourist folk.
It's not that he is a normal dude, it's that he seems like a pretty dumb and annoyingly naive normal dude. And if you've seen the gameplay trailer, it doesn't gel at all that a normal guy would be so good with guns and weapons and hunting dudes alive, unless he has a really terrible secret origin as a circus performer or something. Basically the story feels like it will be really poorly tacked on to a game that is all about varied precision combat, and I am not ready to suspend my disbelief that much.
Gordon Freeman was a physicist. Kyle Katarn was a space bad-ass. Nathan Drake is a professional adventurer. Jason Brody is a really annoying tourist who chose to do a kegstand and some shots on the wrong island. There is no way for me to care about or relate to him at all when his own stupidity gets him into this whole thing.
Love Half-Life, but that always confused me. WHY can Gordon shoot so well?
Learning so far that people have issues with guys who look like everyday modern guys in video games. Can't remember but was there a backlash for Nathan Drake when he first came on the scene? What about Gordon Freeman or Kyle Katarn?
Guessing the games main character would appeal more to some of you if he was a 30 something hulk of a man and a ex-special forces?
I have seen "bro culture" and the 3 protagonists in the trailer come off to me as no more than 3 everyday young tourist folk.
It's not that he is a normal dude, it's that he seems like a pretty dumb and annoyingly naive normal dude. And if you've seen the gameplay trailer, it doesn't gel at all that a normal guy would be so good with guns and weapons and hunting dudes alive, unless he has a really terrible secret origin as a circus performer or something. Basically the story feels like it will be really poorly tacked on to a game that is all about varied precision combat, and I am not ready to suspend my disbelief that much.
Gordon Freeman was a physicist. Kyle Katarn was a space bad-ass. Nathan Drake is a professional adventurer. Jason Brody is a really annoying tourist who chose to do a kegstand and some shots on the wrong island. There is no way for me to care about or relate to him at all when his own stupidity gets him into this whole thing.
Love Half-Life, but that always confused me. WHY can Gordon shoot so well?
He probably played murder simulators FPS games all day.
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Speaking of Half Life, anyone else get a G-Man vibe from the narration in this trailer?
I would be comfortable with this game having at least the option of doing a Heart of Darkness type of deal where I eventually become a jungle island warlord in my own right.
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You can do a quick google image search of people just posing with weapons, unobtainable women/men, historic buildings, expensive vehicles and what not on trips. Someone is always saying, "Hey! Hey man! Get a shot of me with this stuff! It'll look cool when we look back on it!.......Ah fuck! No flash photography! Lame."
And on the Nathan Drake thing, yeah the guy can commit genocide and climb sheer walls but he looks like a guy you would see in everyday life and not Marcus Fenix. Apparently FC3 guy was prior military (of course) so that gives some slide to how he at least knows how to blow people away.
Oh and yeah...stupid American backpackers. There are a fuckton of those guys always going the wrong way and ending up on the news.
"The music the kids are listenin' to these days, I tell ya..."
"If some little hooligan like that came my way, well I'd let him know, I sure would. I'd tell him to get off of my lawn and get a job!"
You mean like the backpackers who were held by the Iranians, one of whom (backpackers) was from my highschool? Yeah. This shit happens where tourists / adventurists fuck up.
But then things go terribly wrong and the main character must embrace the monster he became in basic and use his primal instincts to survive! The story is about his internal struggle with survival and maintaining humanity. In the end he finds the girl, but she recognizes him for the animal he has become and throws herself off a cliff.
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That would be a hell of a lot more appropriate.
Is this the main antagonist?
Then he's a tourist asshole in a long, prestigious line of tourist assholes. That still doesn't endear him, because an insufferable jackass is still an insufferable jackass no matter if he's in good company of insufferable jackasses.
Realtalk, though, I really don't care about whether he's a "bro" or a general dillweed or whatever the fuck silly stereotype people like applying for a two minute trailer or whatever. I'll suffer through worse if the game is in anyway compelling. But I remember disliking the last FarCry game tremendously, that's the reason I'd be down on this game right now, not the main character. Who knows though? Maybe they've learned and this game will actually be awesome if Ubisoft could pull another AssCreed 1->2.
But then I remember I play on the PC and this is made by Ubisoft. Ooops!
Yeah, but it would be a nice change of pace.
I, and I imagine various others around here, have been in the military, and the vast majority of people in the armed forces aren't typically hulking brutes, even if they are special forces or are trained to kill. Many would appear just like someone who happens to take care of themselves, who also just happen to be capable of killing your face. Think Matt Damon in Bourne before he hulked up himself. Or hell, most humans in Mass Effect pre:Jacob/Vega. Given the look of the guy in the trailer, he could easily be that smaller, well physiqued guy, who happened to have been a Seal or something.
I wouldn't mind. The marine cut military brute is way past a cliche at this point. And it's not even realistic or reasonable.
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Jason's gotten good at shrouding his past, having had lots of practice as he continued to woo his new best friend. But when his best bro hit the floor, never to bro again, Brody could feel his mind snap. In an instant, the comforts and fixtures of his new life fell away. Stripped to his rawest form, he descends into an orgy of violence!
=brody quest v2=
Ex Navy Seal Jason Brody was planning on having a nice brocation in the brohamas, but there just had to be bad guys to screw everything up.
Too bad for them, Jason's a standard killing machine, and messes all the indigenous hooligans right up.
=brody quest v3=
Man! I sure like fun video games and am not judgmental or anything!
Personally, the E3 trailer sold me on this game. Everything else just has to maintain that.
Also, dude is a little bro-y, but not more so than Drake. I saw no half-tuck.
"Oh that's real original, jeeze... why can't we get something different?"
Its lose/lose, man
As long as the protagonist isn't as amazingly retarded as the one in FC2 I'll be good. Controlling a mercenary with a massive case of down syndrome is never entertaining.
If the answer is yes, they have my money.
I'm liking what I see so far; just keep the action Far Cry PC/FC2 style and I'm sold. Don't really agree with the regenerating health; given the kind of brutal nature the game's trying to convey I'd prefer at least some kind of system where real medical attention is required if you get banged up too much.
What strikes me, though, is just how easy it looks. I mean, I understand the guy showing it off probably spent hours doing it, and it's on the easiest setting... but, damn, it's less like a video game and more like a movie where you press buttons.
Also, not a fan of dubstep. Sounds cool in Syndicate, futureworld, where clearly nobody uses real instruments anymore because future. In this it just makes me think of Syndicate and how I'd like to be playing that.
Regardless, an ex-military guy would still be the only thing that actually fits in a game like this. Some random dude getting mad doesn't just automatically gain super-training; at least an ex-military guy has years of training and experience as a reason for why he can do crap like chuck knives with perfect accuracy and run-and-gun with an AK47. I'd say calling an ex-military character for this kind of game "cliche" would be like calling a machine gun "cliche" for this type of gameplay. Yeah, you could give muzzle-loading muskets or nerf guns, but then it just doesn't make any sense.
Personally, my hope is that we get to see the open environments of Farcry 2 without the gamebreakingly bad design flaws like insanely short respawn times and enemies being able to rubberband chase you all through the jungle. Whatever good there is in Farcry 2, I can never find it because I get so sick of those awful mechanics that I just give up on the game.
Here's hoping that if Far Cry 3 has any sort of openness, RPG mechanics or upgrades, that it comes with a "fuck it all and freeroam" mode at the end.
I have NO idea where they are going with that psychedelic stuff. But I'm pretty sure I need to get this now!
Better than the dubstep trailer, though.
Hrm. I think the psychedelic/drug stuff could add a lot and make the story and action really interesting, if done right. But it was kind of jarring to have all the narration i the video be about the brain and drugs, but then have 90% of the actual video be pretty generic FPS action stuff.
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Love Half-Life, but that always confused me. WHY can Gordon shoot so well?
He probably played murder simulators FPS games all day.