Far Cry 3 - really disappointed with it.

[KaraFang]

Hi All.

So, I bought FarCry 3 in a recent steam sale and got around to playing it, as I really enjoyed the original FarCry. (except for the Trigens, prf).

But I am really not enjoying the story, at all. It's practically telegraphing its "ooh" moment to me. I have no expectations to be shocked.

Currently, I'm trying to do an enforced stealth mission so I can infiltrate "something" (no spoilers for those who have not played the game).

So far, I have failed this multiple times because:

1/ Soldier is standing in my way and would not move. Forced reload of mission due to mission fail. I am now STANDING WHERE HE WAS and he's miles back inside the cave bouncing off a table (sigh). So mission fail due to crappy programming.

2/ not allowed to use the water as I will be detected. Yeah? well I managed to slip into the water, nobody heard me, the game ACTUALLY allowed me to swim around. I only got the mission failed climbing the ladder with oblivious guards. Enforced fail. (Sigh).

3/ I am tired of being detected for no reason. I threw a rock (as the guide advised) = immediate detection (despite me being in shrubbery being hidden and the solider miles away) and fail.

This single mission has made me quit FC3 in literal frustration. Maybe I was spoiled early in my gaming life with Thief and Thief 2's gorgeous stealth mechanics. This mission sucks badly.

I have very little interest in completing FC3 anyway. It was becoming SOO dull (didn't really think the island was THAT impressive) and as this is my 1st experience in Ubi-tower climbing then I am thankful I didn't buy 4 instead.

I quite like open world, but I am not feeling this one... and Jason Brody is a twat. Rare for me to hate a character I am playing, but he comes across as a complete dick throughout the whole game.

It's not touching me people, so I ask... do I stick with it? Is the ending worth slogging through this very "meh" game. Anyone?

 

[BrawlMan]

The only FC game I liked was the Instincts port on the 360. I never played the original, hated 2, have no interest in 3, didn't care for Blood Dragon, and have zero interest in 4, nor its $60 mission pack sequel Primal. Ubisoft games are all boring at this point. The only one worth investing is Rayman Legends, and that was three years ago.

 

[Saelune]

Oh the story is garbage. I enjoyed FC3 cause I enjoyed -playing it-. The story was bad, the characters were lame, and I tired of how much it pushed drug use on me. But I had fun actually playing the game. I enjoyed 4 more overall though. Plot was still dumb, but less dumb, but I wont spoil anything just in case.

 

[PainInTheAssInternet]

I didn't really have trouble with that mission. I found it to be easy, though for the wrong reasons. It's too reliant on a single pathway when the whole point of the game is being open-world. Once you get the idea of where to go, similar to COD, you won't fail. To be perfectly blunt, you've already done the better missions. Just upgrade your guns and go nuts on the outposts.

 

[JaKandDaxter]

Well if you can't enjoy the gameplay, then its not gonna be your cup of tea. I ultimately finished FC3 and the story wasn't bad overall. The whole psychotic personalities help make FC3 different than other shooters at the time. FC4 main enemy turns out to be quite likable actually.

But going back to FC3, its not a hard game. And much easier when you collect the skins needed for upgrades. Along with unlocking the towers and capturing outposts, which I usually approached stealthy by choice and had little issues doing so. Idk how a fan of the original may view this new FC, but I personally thought the series was worth giving another chance after the mess FC2 was. Blood Dragon is also very well received.

 

[Ravinoff]

Oh the story is garbage. I enjoyed FC3 cause I enjoyed -playing it-. The story was bad, the characters were lame, and I tired of how much it pushed drug use on me.

The story is mostly dildos (with a Mass Effect-tier ending), but I gotta disagree about the characters...well, mostly Vaas and Jason, they're the only ones you ever really see much. Been a while since I played it, but I seem to recall the general feel being very Apocalypse Now, Vaas had the same "completely bugfuck nuts" vibe as Col. Kurtz (fat Marlon Brando) going on. And Jason's arc was fun as hell, going from a dumbass college kid in waaaaay over his head to a tatted-up, jungle-running tribal warrior fuelled by revenge and enough drugs to make Keith Richards think twice.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

Its an average game but porbably better than any ubisoft game in decade. but too many long, unskippable cutscene and jason bieng very annoy portagonist, weak shooting, see thorugh walls make it poor mans Crysis 1.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

I bought into the hype and was pretty impressed for the first few hours, then I got bored of all the samey missions and constantly being in danger.

After I got to the second island, I was just tired of it. I got all the major upgrades straight away, so there really was nothing else to but kill the real bad guy (my friend killed Vaas when he was playing with my laptop, that was annoying) and I wasn't motivated at all to do so.

 

[MysticSlayer]

Well, I put about 20 hours in, and I enjoyed most of them. I just got bored with it essentially being Assassin's Creed with guns. Once the formula, which I had already experienced twice in the AC games, grew tiring, I stopped. That said, given how much I enjoyed those first 20 hours or so, I would hardly call it an awful game. It was just a game that was way too long for how much actual substance it had.

 

[The Enquirer]

Well if you can't enjoy the gameplay, then its not gonna be your cup of tea. I ultimately finished FC3 and the story wasn't bad overall. The whole psychotic personalities help make FC3 different than other shooters at the time. FC4 main enemy turns out to be quite likeable actually.

Note what's below isn't exactly spoiler material but it may give some stuff away.

This is pretty much why I enjoyed it so much. Truthfully in Far Cry 4 I liked the main villain more than any other character, including your player character.

On the note of Far Cry 3, unless you really enjoy certain aspects of the game, it really isn't worth continuing. I enjoyed the characters in 3 simply because a lot of them were either batshit crazy or in the case of your player character, doing what he needed to out of necessity to see yourself turning into a villain of sorts. For me it was more so about the journey rather than the destination. I also never really encountered much in the way of bugs with it either so that could lead to drastically different views on the overall experience. I will say this though, the story missions themselves for the most part aren't the greatest. They're too linear when the remainder of the game is designed around being given an objective (kill "x", clear the camp etc) and leaving it up to you to determine how you want to do it given some slight rules at times.

I will say this though, if you complete the game, in the end, save your friends. The ending you get if you don't is shitty. Like really shitty.

 

[JaKandDaxter]

Well if you can't enjoy the gameplay, then its not gonna be your cup of tea. I ultimately finished FC3 and the story wasn't bad overall. The whole psychotic personalities help make FC3 different than other shooters at the time. FC4 main enemy turns out to be quite likeable actually.

Note what's below isn't exactly spoiler material but it may give some stuff away.

This is pretty much why I enjoyed it so much. Truthfully in Far Cry 4 I liked the main villain more than any other character, including your player character.

On the note of Far Cry 3, unless you really enjoy certain aspects of the game, it really isn't worth continuing. I enjoyed the characters in 3 simply because a lot of them were either batshit crazy or in the case of your player character, doing what he needed to out of necessity to see yourself turning into a villain of sorts. For me it was more so about the journey rather than the destination. I also never really encountered much in the way of bugs with it either so that could lead to drastically different views on the overall experience. I will say this though, the story missions themselves for the most part aren't the greatest. They're too linear when the remainder of the game is designed around being given an objective (kill "x", clear the camp etc) and leaving it up to you to determine how you want to do it given some slight rules at times.

I will say this though, if you complete the game, in the end, save your friends. The ending you get if you don't is shitty. Like really shitty.

Reminds me of Spec Ops The Line. A surprisingly good game as testified by others. But I somehow ended up with one of the worst endings, and I hated it. Was pretty cool seeing the transformation of a young college kid in FC3.

And yes, FC4 main villain is surprisingly the best character in that game.

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The other characters were just awful. Except for Longinus. He was still quite interesting, and he didn't have the crappy plans of the two golden path leaders. Or was as annoying.

Pagan Min was by far the best character in FC4.

 

[The Enquirer]

Reminds me of Spec Ops The Line. A surprisingly good game as testified by others. But I somehow ended up with one of the worst endings, and I hated it. Was pretty cool seeing the transformation of a young college kid in FC3.

And yes, FC4 main villain is surprisingly the best character in that game.

Spoiler

The other characters were just awful. Except for Longinus. He was still quite interesting, and he didn't have the crappy plans of the two golden path leaders. Or was as annoying.

Pagan Min was by far the best character in FC4.

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plus they didn't kill him off like they did Vaas halfway through the game. Hell, you can let him live and he just gives you a fucking kingdom because he wants to.

Also Longinus, he was the gun smuggler correct? I liked him quite a bit as well. The two resistance leaders both managed to make you feel horrible about yourself no matter what you did.

 

[JaKandDaxter]

Also Longinus, he was the gun smuggler correct? I liked him quite a bit as well. The two resistance leaders both managed to make you feel horrible about yourself no matter what you did.

Yes, Longinus was the gun smuggler.

 

[Kiardras]

Am in the same boat, just got to the second Island and I'm struggling. Its getting a little boring slogging my way half the map to an outpost, getting geared for a fight then 45 seconds later they are all dead and its over. Vaas was cool though.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I liked it for as long as it (Vaas) lasted. I know there's a lot of dislike for the characters, and Jason Brody in particular, but I actually really liked that I was forced to play this douchy college socialite who had to wake up to a harsh world.

 

[Kyrian007]

Yeah, FC3 took a brick to the face halfway through and the story gets really stupid at the halfway mark. Best just to unlock the second island and treat it as some fun new strongholds to take over and ignore the rest of the boring story. Seriously, the best part of FC3 were the dinosaurs with freaking laserbeams attached to their heads. Or the whole 80's neon futuristic atheistic. Or silly 80's action dialogue. Or the montage sequence. That's right, the best thing about FC3 is the short, campy, one off joke game they made with the game engine.

 

[Tanis]

You do NOT play the FC series for the story.
-Every last game has had a crappy story.
--Blood Dragon's story sucked the less, but it was still pretty bad.

All the games are also less than optimized.
-I recall FC2 were I popped a cap in some dudes head and damn near the other side of the maps alarms went off.

You play them for the solid game play and open world.

 

[Strazdas]

Its important to remmeber thatn Far Cry and Far Cry 2-and-up are entirely different developers reusing a popular name so everything is different. Far Cry was a straight up shooter, Far Cry 2 was a shitfest overall but Far Cry 3 managed to get into arcadey semi stealth game. That being said, your best bet tt stealth is actually snipe everyone with a bow.

Reminds me of Spec Ops The Line. A surprisingly good game as testified by others. But I somehow ended up with one of the worst endings, and I hated it. Was pretty cool seeing the transformation of a young college kid in FC3.

Which ending did you get? None of them are very uplifting and there is basically only two "real" endings and that does not count

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Suicide