nah, being bored & miserable is part of the fun
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Miserable yes. Bored no.
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The boring is necessary for the particular kind of fun that Far Cry 2 creates. It is important!! The wild times are predicated on all the boring moments driving and checking your map.
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Itâs really obvious once you play Far Cry 3 and theyâve attacked the boredom head-on while trying to tell a similar story and the theme park aesthetic runs over everything
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I donât think we share the same definition of boring.
*or the times you died surprisingly and have to march back through all the stuff you just did, or the several stops you take along the way to clear a camp at an intersection because someone will faithfully follow you down the road with a mounted gun raining on your ass if you donât, or each time you see an important TOP PRIORITY tanker in a caravan loop endlessly along one road like itâs waiting for someone to just come and blow it up
one of those?? Fixing your engine is the build up to dodging rockets, I maintain.
Itâs more this. The constant requirement to engage in low-interest (but high-stakes) engagements is a replacement for the robust factional system that is obviously missing and that your post interacted with the remnants of. The way later Far Cry games doubled down on Always Be Doing Something is exactly whatâs so boring about them.
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Iâm fully with you there. It is stupid busy work and feels ridiculous how trained I am by this point to come at every intersection with the plan to bale out of my car to use it like a missile, then lob grenades in and pick off anyone whose in the bushes. Every time.
But I donât know, it manages to be fun sometimes, and somehow. Canât deny that.
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Thereâs undeniably a better game to be made out of what Far Cry 2 is, but nobodyâs hit all its marks quite the same way. And those flaws are reflective of the game narrative itself, rough and messy and feeling much cheaper (read: honest) than the very large and expensive production it actually was
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One time I hit a Zebra with my dune buggy, THUMP
And nothing happened! It just fell over and then righted itself sans any animation and ran away.
Absolutely hilarious.
edit: my preferred mode of transport was always the little shitbox hatchbacks though
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i am gonna unescape these here apes
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Your kingdom being infested with termintes in Romancing SaGa 2 will always be hilarious to me
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cleared pokemon super mystery dungeon, which is a 3ds-ugly 15 hrs of baby time kindergarten hangouts and then 5 hrs of collective, generationally accumulated sin is doing climate change and your partner is jesus farewell, i have absolved the worldâs sins and am going to heaven now. im not really sure how the pacing got so wonky for the fourth entry in a series with a well established formula but when it chills out the actual dungeon crawling is hugely improved. explorers is a dungeon crawling pads out the story scenes deal where this is rlly the opposite
impulse bought every pmd game so i guess this is my life now
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I am playing Shovel Knight: King of Cards and I am enjoying it a lot. I know the series is not so popular here, but why is it so? I think itâs really enjoyable (apart from âa plague of shadowsâ, which was forgettable and⌠broken), the music and character design are lovely, the difficulty level just right.
I remember this series has been called cynical, at some point⌠but I donât feel that when playing it. Is it because the press considers it too much of a darling? Or because of the heavy inspiration from Mario / Wario / the first Castlevanias? ⌠although, if so, if I put them side by side, I would prefer playing Shovel Knight to most Mario / Wario titlesâŚ
By comparison, I have many more problems with Celeste, which I found a lot more confusing (the many B levels and so onâŚ) and too difficult.
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By the way, I have completely ignored the Joust card minigame.
Iâm a shovel knight liker personally. Itâs a weird game - I enjoy it a lot in the moment but tend to forget it exists after 5 minutes of not playing it.
Weirdly, my opinions on the sequels are opposite - Plague of Shadows is my favorite and King of Cards I found to be fiddly and unrewarding. The card minigame is, uh, bad I think?
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I started KoC when it came out but lost interest because idk itâs such an old game. Love the original though, and the Specter (?) Knight quest with the weird dashing lock on stuff in the air. And yes, Plague was too obtuse for me to bother with
uploaded my journeyman project playthru so far. i would really prefer to play this via Mac emulation as opposed to dosbox (the mac version is way better from what i remember) but itâs extremely non-trival to setup.
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Havel Ring on these hoes
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