Far Cry 2 had some wonderful elements to it, but it became really dull and uninteresting.
The AI was horrible for stealth, or full on assaults. The respawning was abysmal. The brown graphics everywhere was horrendous. The gun gameplay was.. Eh.
They could advance on those things, and it'd have been a great game.
Obligatory:
FUCKING MALARIA!!!
Still, I had fun with it.
Also the light speed dialogue was pretty annoying.
far cry 2 was extremely hard to find fun
you literally had to make it a career to have fun
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also the ending is god awful
I still never beat Far Cry 2. I liked the first one, and I loved Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon, but 2 was just so horrendously boring that I just couldn't be bothered. The fact that enemies respawned if you walked 10 feet away from them didn't help, either.
I loved Far Cry 2 despite everything it had going against it. This post perfectly summed up my feelings on the game:
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/OxpFakr.png[/IMG]
Wasn't there some mod that makes Far Cry 2 really good?
[QUOTE=Agoat;43919484]Wasn't there some mod that makes Far Cry 2 really good?[/QUOTE]
If there is i'm installing it back right now.
[editline]15th February 2014[/editline]
[url]http://www.moddb.com/mods/dylans-far-cry-2-realism-mod/downloads/dylans-realism-mod-14[/url]
Could it be this?
I really enjoyed Far Cry 2 personally...
i didn't enjoy the random cars full of angry africans every few minutes
[QUOTE=LaTrefle;43919551]If there is i'm installing it back right now.
[editline]15th February 2014[/editline]
[url]http://www.moddb.com/mods/dylans-far-cry-2-realism-mod/downloads/dylans-realism-mod-14[/url]
Could it be this?[/QUOTE]
thats it.
tbh I prefered the African landscape much more than the jungle landscape of FC3.
Plus I feel like FC2 did bushfires much better than FC3
The only good thing about FC2 was the [URL="http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Far_Cry_2"]IMFDB page[/URL].
[t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/9/9d/FC2-machete.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]"I made you a door, boss."
"Get out of this Wiki you are a knife."[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/8/87/FC2-Ithaca-kB.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Scorned by a world that doesn't understand it, the Ithaca takes its own life.[/QUOTE]
The malaria, the AI and having to travel far only to see the same thing over and over is what killed Far Cry 2 for me after 5 hours
[QUOTE=Griffster26;43920012]The only good thing about FC2 was the [URL="http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Far_Cry_2"]IMFDB page[/URL].
[t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/9/9d/FC2-machete.jpg[/t]
[t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/8/87/FC2-Ithaca-kB.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
This wiki is so surreal
The thing I hated also with FC2 is how everything in the game is so flatly shaded. It's like Cellshaded with no outline.
Vegetation and grass looks like plastic.
I hated this game so much.
The missions were bland, the padding was obnoxious, and the malaria... oh god the Malaria.
I always felt like there was a good game in there somewhere, but I could only catch glimpses of it, as if it were an elusive sasquatch.
Probably my main gripe is that it's so goddamn [i]brown[/i]. Look at any ol' FC2 screenshot and you'll see about 80-90% of the game world is some shade of brown or orange. The invisible AK shipments you had to blow up were amusing, at least.
Never finished the campaign. Spent hours upon hours in multiplayer.
It was the coolest thing that you got the full editor on consoles.
[QUOTE=mchapra;43920547]This wiki is so surreal[/QUOTE]
I think the best thing about that wiki are the image captions. Especially in movies/games where weapons are used completely wrong.
[QUOTE=Griffster26;43920012]The only good thing about FC2 was the [URL="http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Far_Cry_2"]IMFDB page[/URL].[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/thumb/0/0e/FC2-Ingram-idle.jpg/600px-FC2-Ingram-idle.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Idle animation; no matter how much you want to look like a tough guy, picking your nose with a loaded MAC-10 is still a bad idea.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=cdr248;43921826][quote]Idle animation; no matter how much you want to look like a tough guy, picking your nose with a loaded MAC-10 is still a bad idea.[/quote][/QUOTE]
Could be worse. I remember in the first Jedi Knight, an idle Katarn would start shaving with his lightsaber.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/upby2ga.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Griffster26;43920012]The only good thing about FC2 was the [URL="http://www.imfdb.org/wiki/Far_Cry_2"]IMFDB page[/URL].[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/f/f9/FC2-MP5-kB.jpg[/t]
[quote]The MP5SD blows up; the magazine even falls out as Frank discards it. Because he sucks. And H&K hates him.[/quote]
This is a goldmine
[QUOTE=Rent-a-BoxHouse;43922229][t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/f/f9/FC2-MP5-kB.jpg[/t]
This is a goldmine[/QUOTE]
[T]http://www.imfdb.org/images/6/6a/FC2-AK-borked.jpg[/T]
[QUOTE]Some of the low-condition guns have obviously seen better days. This AK has seen better centuries.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/7/77/FC2-FAL-kB-2.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]By the end of the game, Frank probably has so many of these things sticking out of his head he looks like some kind of NRA-sponsored Sonic the Hedgehog.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://www.imfdb.org/images/3/32/FC2-SVD-kB.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]The SVD blows up. Seemingly, the front end of a rifle in Far Cry 2 is held on mostly with chewing gum.[/QUOTE]
I think they could have done alot better had they stuck with FC1's ideas, just expanded.
[QUOTE=Covalency;43911285]Far Cry 2 had some wonderful elements to it, but it became really dull and uninteresting.
The AI was horrible for stealth, or full on assaults. The respawning was abysmal. The brown graphics everywhere was horrendous. The gun gameplay was.. Eh.
They could advance on those things, and it'd have been a great game.[/QUOTE]
I actually thought it worked fine for stealth. I managed to clear out entire bases undetected by taking advantage of stealth. And when you got caught, it was entirely possible to hide again. For me, it really toed the line between possible to stealth, and intense and real fear of discovery that few games can capture.
[editline]15th February 2014[/editline]
I distinctly remember one scenario. I was playing on the hardest difficulty and I was clearing out that fort on the mountainside at the very southern part of the island. I was breaking in undetected and got a ways in. The sun had come up during the attempt and it was broad daylight. I found my way to a sniper perch and shot a guy, and he saw me. I quickly ran down the tower to re-position myself becausde I had been made. I was still inside the tower but on the ground floor, and an enemy walked up the steps looking up at the top of the tower, [I]directly in front of me[/I], but didn't see me because he was looking up. I was extremely impressed with this before I shot him in the head with my silenced pistol.
I much preferred Far Cry 2 to 3, which felt like it was made by an idiot who was sure he could explore FC2's issues better. Even 2's admittedly weak ending was better than "choose whether to save your friends or team up with the lunatic murderer who raped you".
Far Cry 1's stealth was more impossible than Far Cry 2's
When I think of FC2 I think of how awesome [url=http://www.pentadact.com/2008-10-24-far-cry-2-what-id-like/]this game[/url] would have been
As a mechanic I liked the idea of guns blowing up if they were shit. In practice ak 47s shouldn't explode after firing 5 shots.
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