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I really want to play Far Cry 5! I played 1 for not very long but thought it was cool at the time. 2 I couldnāt even get into. It was probably the setting. So I donāt know why it is so revered. I mean I do know because I read about it but I havenāt gotten far enough to experience it myself. 3 was pretty nice because of the bad guy but climbing towers and hunting and all the clutter on the map turned me off it. 4 and Primal I never played. Somehow the good reviews make me want to give it another shot though and Iām in the mood for shootmansā¦
No wait, I never played 2, I played Crysis 2 or something
I think Iām the only Far Cry 2 fan on the board. Iām aware of all its flaws but somehow none of them give me pause at all. I sorta want to go back and play it again sometime.
More EUIV. Started as rich spice island nation Pasai, turned into Malaya after some work and founded Colonialism, screwing over the European countries for a good 50 years (They were slow to reach the New World and Mamluks beat them handily into my corner of the world). Profits soared, techs were researched before their historical times and I eclipsed most of the other countries of the world. The surprise one was France getting a Personal Union on Castile which they eventually integrated (getting the other half of the New World colonies in the process) and taking the Commonwealth for their first big Imperialist war, nearly doubling their great power points in the process.
Anyway, this was the first time I was bold enough to declare on a stable Ming. It did not go well the first time, having to burn professionalism and absolution to maintain enough manpower and reduce war exhaustion to keep fighting. Since I couldnāt stand against an army three times my size, I did a rolling looting spree through China, stopping only to siege down forts directly in my way. I think I only got a lot of cash that time.
The second time went better as I took the Idea Quantity to make manpower something I didnāt have to worry about, pushed my army numbers to the limit, and declared when Ming was already busy with a second great power Russia. That time I took a state, released a couple tributaries and stayed in the war long enough to make the devastation hurt their Mandate substantially (a scaling number that affects their unrest, mercenary availability and how much damage their troops take in battle). Around that time France decided it wanted more of the New World from me and declared, which added a small wrinkle.
The third time I really put in the screws, using one of their nearby tributaries as an excuse to draw them in while I had a truce directly with Ming. After that it was cutting off sections and completely reducing their army to zero so rebels could take over and become their own nations (which meant I could declare on them while waiting for the truce on Ming to run out). I had only a couple years left before China was completely mine and the Celestial Empire was dismantled.
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Iām playing Far Cry 5 right now and really enjoying it. Story-wise I think Eurogamer has the best take:
Iāve just finished taking back the first region and the villains are not very compelling or interesting characters. Some of the side characters you do missions for or unlock as partners are though. The setting is the main draw, as usual, and with regard to the game itself it is basically like Far Cry 3 or 4 but without the minimap or the towers. In lieu of a minimap there is a Fallout/Skyrim style compass at the top of the screen. There is still all the clutter of things to do but those get marked on your pause menu map as you explore the world at your own pace. Like looking at a road sign warning of nearby wildlife will mark a hunting spot and such. Talking to people you rescue from the cult will notify you of other characters you should go talk to or collectible things you can go find or side quests you can go do.
Thereās also a fishing mini-game that is really good. Also one of the first things I encountered once I got out of the tutorial bit and into the game proper was a Firewatch reference, which was nice. There are actually a lot of references to other games, movies, pop culture things and some are a lot more subtle than others.
I havenāt made any maps in the map editor yet but Iām glad itās returned and it looks really deep. Thereās some neat maps Ubisoft has made and I played a few fan-made maps that had some interesting ideas if poor execution. I think six months from now there could be some really cool stuff once more people get a feel for it.
Speaking of Far Cry 2, Eurogamer also has an article on that one as well:
I like Far Cry 2. I hope it gets a remaster some day. Iād play it again, respawning checkpoints and all. This quote in particular seems to sum up the gameās āproblemsā:
āThe outposts are one of the things we wished we had done differently,ā Rivest admits. At one point in the project the team had opted for āfull on persistencyā; in other words, if you blew up everything in your vicinity and came back ten in-game days later youād still be faced with the smouldering remains of your handiwork. āAnd we realised that you could empty the whole game world and have nothing else to do,ā Pierre says, āand that didnāt work too well, so we turned the knob, but we turned it too far the other way.ā
Using a method called sectorisation, Ubisoft would reload assets the minute they were out of sight and return them to their original state. āSo if you went and did your mission and were far enough away that the outpost was not visible, it would reload when you came back.ā
Rivest continues: "At one point we were drawn to the idea that all the outposts would slowly be rebuilt; so you would destroy one, and once you returned after X amount of in-game time youād go back to a half-repaired outpost. Unfortunately for different reasons that kinda slipped; so we went with pure technical solution of sectorisation, or resetting.
There were a lot of new ideas at the time that went into the creation of this game. It sounds like they really just needed a bit more time to implement (and maybe a bit more discipline to decide to stick to one or two core ideas over others and focus on refining just them instead).
Either way still a very good game. I wish Far Cry 5 would have done the physical in-game map thing that Far Cry 2 did. I mean I wish every game would do that really but it would have been nice to see it in Far Cry 5 as well.
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Thatās a good rundown on 5 and 2 and Iām looking forward to 5 even more now
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Quantity OP
It balances out the AI being able to support 100+ mercenaries and being incredibly in debt without apparently worrying about eventual bankruptcy. Iāve seen Ottomans in something like 8k in the red after some hellwar with Europe (and then being unwilling to join offensive wars afterward because of it but perfectly happy going to war for themselves the selfish bastards).
The West Will Never Get Kyoei Toshi and that is a Crime.
I just stole a Harley to escape a bridge collapsing because Mothra and ?Evil Mothra? Were fighting. I also bought some Lawsonās chicken that was going bad and need to inform a dad his now definitely dead daughter and boyfriend wanted to get married. The BF was a video game developer but wanted Dad to know it was just a normal office job.
Also I am a lesbian and with my girlfriend.
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Iām upset that this exists because I know Iāll never play it.
If I canāt have it, no one should.
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i played axion verge over the weekend. itās ok. by the numbers metroidvania with wildly variable art. thereās plenty of bad stuff in it but i dont think itās worth thinking about so iāll say: i like the bullet sponge bosses. they hit the pattern recognition part of my brain good
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This Game is Incredible.
battra?
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how playable is it if you donāt know any japanese?
I think the answer is ānot at allā
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profound sadness
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i felt myself approaching burning out on code again so i decided to take a few days break and play some videogames. was in the mood for rockemsockem robots so i got around to trying front mission 5.
thereās a fan translation patch but i decided not to play it in english. finding the jp rather hard to read; not because itās difficult, but because they decided to choose the jp equivalent of Comic Sans for the font. for a Serious Military SF Game. also the é type kanji, and only those kanji, use traditional chinese glyphs instead of japanese glyphs. look at this nonsense!
thatās å„éćē„ć, which is to say itās wishing me good luck, but look at that second kanji! my brain hurts.
so far itās very dull even by FM standards, itās just You And Your Military Bros Talking Shit While Excuses For Fighting Happen. protagonist characterās a jerk. i think heās supposed to come off as friendly-joking but it read more like heās just giving back-handed insults to his friends. then [event] happens and he turns into a jrpg protagonist where he speaks entirely with ellipses. and oh look would you believe thereās a super soldier program who would have ever guessed that.
the combat is kind of not that interesting. the main focus appears to be link skills, where you cause nearby allies to join in the combat, because you do basically nothing for damage without them, so most of your ātacticsā boil down to āget everyone to pummel on one enemy while spread out enough that aoes donāt kill them all.ā
really this just makes me want to play fm3 again. fm3 was a good videogame and had a good fake internet on it.
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Is 3 unequivocally a/the good one? Every time Iāve dipped my toe in I got an insultingly slow and simple tactics game supporting the neat customization.
iāve played 1 and 3
i donāt hate 1. itās brisk and fun and full of dumb gundamy pathos. itās not complicated or anything.
3 isā¦ i wonāt say itās deep because itās not, but thereās a lot of interesting things going on with the meta-level. the whole fake internet thing, the weird places the story goes, the characters being nonsense caricatures, the two paths thing (protip: play emmaās path, not alisaās path)ā¦ itās a fun romp and takes itself roughly as seriously as it should.
itās definitely more on the easy side of srpgs. which is actually why i picked one, i wanted to shut my brain off for a bit!
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Iām about to wade into microtransaction hell and shell out money for some gems in Cartoon Network Matchland 
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