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26. September 2008 @ 17:27 |
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Yeah.
I have to start, Brothers in Arms and Army of Two. I need to finish Ninja Gaiden 2, Battle Field Bad Company, Bioshock, Viva Pinata, Elder Scroll's Oblibion, Burnout Revenge, Resistance: Call of Man, and Table Tennis. I also want to give Mass Effect another play through.
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26. September 2008 @ 17:47 |
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I don't think you can every really "finish" Oblivion. Even after the story ends, you can keep playing almost indefinitely as there are tons of quests :P
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26. September 2008 @ 18:04 |
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Well you can. There are only so many quests. Every town only has like 3 or 4 right? I mean it's a lot of quests but there is a finite supply.
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27. September 2008 @ 08:38 |
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hmm, what is BiA like? Never played it before, but recently i read a preview of Hells Highway and it sounded fun, even though its another WWII game.
Warhead is quite good, if you liked the first game you'll like this one too. I manage to run the game on "Mainstream" setting, cool!
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27. September 2008 @ 09:18 |
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Well I just played it for the first time, and it's FUN. I'm playing on the 360 and there are some framerate problems but the game is really good. It's squad based and you can flank the enemy, suppress them, etc.
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27. September 2008 @ 09:29 |
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ok, but hows the graphics? Is it kinda like COD4? This game sounds really fun, i wonder if you can LAN
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27. September 2008 @ 09:32 |
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The graphics in Vegas 2 are varied. Vegas 1 on the whole looks better, but has a worse interface. Vegas 2 from a playability perspective is much improved, and features a few nice looking bits, such as the climbing wall section, but there are a lot of VERY poor textures in there, which Vegas 1 didn't have. Performance is greatly improved in Vegas 2 from the original, which is just as well, but it's still not that great. I enjoy the games just because they are such a cool idea, but honestly, they could hardly be programmed any worse for the PC versions.
I've not had the breaking glass bug thankfully, but I played it over Hamachi with my cousin, with crippling lag, so that sort of makes up for it... :P
Abuzar, stick with Vegas 2, the snow level is the worst looking one of the lot, it does improve from there - the oil facility level near the end is good fun, good looking, and kind of creepy, almost FEAR style, which I like.
I've never looked at Brothers in Arms, so I will have to try the latest incarnation I suppose. WW2 games never did much for me, but then they were too basic with the exception of COD2, maybe a newer adaptation wil get me more involved. The graphics in the trailer looked awful, but who knows, maybe some high settings will improve things.
I want to play Mass Effect on the PC too, it looked pretty dull on the 360, but then a CRT TV makes a lot of things look dull...
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27. September 2008 @ 10:14 |
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The performance in Vegas2 is better than Vegas1, it's because of the graphics engine, it is weaker than the first one, not as demanding. When i first played Vegas1 i can hardly run it, so i was scared i couldn't run Vegas2 but i can and it's pretty smooth in some areas.
Dont' fully believe in the trailers. You must play the game itself to knwo if you like it or not.
Mass Effect on pc is great! the graphics looks much better than on the XBox360.
and yes Abuzar play Vegas 2 you will love it, it's challenging as well
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27. September 2008 @ 10:20 |
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Not as challenging as the original though. That game got HARD in places.
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27. September 2008 @ 10:22 |
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yeah thats what i mean, especially near the end, like you said it's creepy
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27. September 2008 @ 10:24 |
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27. September 2008 @ 11:40 |
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i got in that kind of situation before, it's qute scary. if you pop out of cover a sec later than the AI you're dead or heavily wound.
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27. September 2008 @ 13:54 |
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You just have to learn the virtues of blind fire then :P
Some of those guys are easy shots.
I agree that the first one was harder though. But not as hard as the original Far Cry :P
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27. September 2008 @ 14:11 |
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oh yeah! Far Cry, i've never played the first on but i can't wait for Far Cry 2! That game looks sweet!
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27. September 2008 @ 16:57 |
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The original Far Cry was brick. Crysis isn't so bad, but turn it up on highest and you'll get very angry... lol
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27. September 2008 @ 18:11 |
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I couldn't even beat Far Cry on easy. The soldiers could make accurate shots on full auto at 100 yards plus. I couldn't get past the half way mark. Good graphics, good gameplay, terrible game.
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27. September 2008 @ 18:15 |
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As it happens, I stopped playing the game quite early on because I found it too hard, but I really ought to try again and ignore that fact.
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28. September 2008 @ 00:23 |
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You can't ignore that fact. The difficulty makes the game extremely broken. I have only one friend that can beat it above easy and that's only because he's been playing it religiously for 4 years.
As far as graphics, Far Cry was excellent for the time and can still be impressive and immersive with all the settings absolutely maxed. It outpaces a lot of 360 games in graphics. It still has some of the best water seen in a game yet. Only Crysis and Half Life 2's water beat it, IMO.
Gameplay wise, have you ever jumped into a food processor head first? That's Far Cry. It's HARD! I get killed quickly unless I swim out to a far island and clear the level with a sniper rifle before I advance. When you get to the Trigens... forget about going any further. They'll kill you before you get a few shots off.
I had to cheat to even see the end... ugh... I hate cheating...
Edit: Oh yeah! Beat Warhead! The story is WAY worth it, IMO and is quite a bit more explosive than Crysis. I'd say it's at least as good overall as the first game. Some of the last parts got a bit choppy, but you should have no problem with your 4870X2 sam :)
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28. September 2008 @ 02:02 |
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Estuansis, that's some really nice review work again on the new cheaper crysis with Psycho Sykes doing his thing, twice as much action you say as being Nomad in the first game - it sounds great! When you say you lose the sandbox - that's the feature that lets you customize your own maps - is that right? If so, no loss to me because I don't take advantage of that anyway.
Also, you mentioned the post-processing haze is removed. Do you mean that Warhead comes that way - or do you have to enable a hack or a patch?
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but some parts of Warhead make Crysis look like a quiet morning in church... yeah, it's just that awesome.
Yeah, Sam, I think you're going to have to join in and see what estuansis is raving about with Warhead.
Hey boozer, you just picked up Hells Highway? I'm like estuansis - I'm all into WWII. I've been waiting for Hells Highway for over a year.
Sam, it's a different experience because of your ability to control the two squads under your command, which I take it is how the action really was. The principal is FFFF - Find them, Fix 'em, Flank 'em, and Finish 'em. The BIA games are based on the HBO TV series, Band of Brothers. Did you guys get that in the UK? I heard so much about it from a family member - Like estuansis, being a WWII "nut" I bought the 10 DVD pack on ebay for about $30.
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If so, do you remember the first day after they jumped into France, the evening before D-Day. Remember when their first real combat was to take out the three big guns that were firing on the troops coming ashore on the beaches. The main guy in the picture above - a Lieutenant at the time - he ends up a Major by the end of the TV series, commanded two separate groups of guys - one group fired from trees on the machine gunners and on the gun crews, while the assault squad threw grenades and jumped in the trenches.
So that's what the squad-based gameplay of Bia is all about. I think the two squads are called the fire squad and the assault squad. In the first two Bias, using those two squads to keep the Jerries occupied, I myself, of course, usually had the pleasure of doing the final "finishing."
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You know what they say, "The only good Nazi is a dead Nazi." I don't think that's a political statement, the Nazis have become pariahs, like the KKK - universally condemned and vilified and held up as an abberation - "haters" who embodied the worst qualities of a people who otherwise have many good qualities. Of course not all German soldiers were Nazis, members of the Nazi party, but I believe the majority were 100% behind the Nazi effort to take over the world. Ok, no more politics! You won't hear me ranting about the Japanese in the same way - the Samarai were always warriors who went about conquering everybody in sight - Korea, China, etc. A lot of Chinese still hate the Japanese for one particularly brutal massacre that took about 400,000 lives early, I believe, in WWII, as I read in National Geographic recently, but I don't put the Japanese into the same "evil" category as Nazis.
Anyway, back to BIA, I see that they returned to the sergeant of the first Bia and put the red-head sergeant of the second in charge of the other squad that you run into occasionally. Just as well, although I did like him, red's voice got kind of scratchy from time to time as he screamed "Get that f**king tank over there RIGHT NOW!"
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So I'm glad we're back to the first voice. I'll be waiting for some enlightening reviews from Booze and estuansis.
Regarding Far Cry 2, yeah, I'm waiting for that with anticipation also. Dinc did a good job reviewing the new trailers in the other, nearly dead, thread.
Far Cry had some very very challenging places - but if you didn't use a bunch of stealth, you're right estuansis, you ate it. With stealth - the game became easier - MUCH easier.
I am pretty much a Far Cry expert. You guys, Sam and Estuansis, if you ever go back to the game, I am your resource for beating it on highest "realistic" level of difficulty. I will get you through any tough spot - as long as you have some patience and use some stealth when it is required.
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Remember how I told Shaff how to beat - on hardest - that one section on COD4 at the amusement carousel in the sniper section. After playing that thing from every position, and getting wacked, I found that I could easily beat it by taking a position on the bumper car stage behind the booth. But don't ask me how to beat Mile High Club on hardest in 45 seconds. Almost impossibly hard - I gave up after two hours. Maybe there is a secret trick. Far Cry - if you know a couple of the secret tricks - is not that bad and is very beatable on realistic.
One problem with the COD4 thing, is the 45 seconds of timing. I am not wild about timing things - most of Far Cry doesn't have timings, except a really hard part where you have to take out a helicopter as your ship is sinking and the water is up to your neck. That part stopped a lot of players - but I can show you a bunch of ways of beating it - whether you stay on the boat, or you jump off.
You mentioned, Estuansis, about a guy who played it for four years - I played the demo-only for almost 4 months, and I was so addicted to it I was afraid to buy the full game - I waited a year. I got so good at the demo in realistic mode - at one time I had all 3 helicopters shot and burning up on top of the fort - I went around and took screenshots to prove it - and also to try to get myself to stop playing that sequence, which I had played literally hundreds of times. I only did it successfully once - shooting down the helicopters was not the problem, but getting them to crash on top of the fort required split second timing - taking out the machine gunner who is in the 'copter, then still having enough time to shoot the thing before it heads over the mountain out of range. That says a lot about AI, that you can play a very challenging sequence hundreds of times to totally "beat" it. Kind of like you, estuansis, when you head out for several hours in the bush on crysis and watch the korean patrols.
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The only place you couldn't use stealth was on the deck of the old Japanese aircraft carrier, where you alternated between the colt and the p90, on the Q key, adding a good measure of grenades - this is one of the very best, Counter-strike like action sequences. On the realistic setting, you will be tested.
(But, again, if you didn't first already eliminate the helicopter - that's the trick that makes that part passable - then no way could you play that part on the hardest setting. I always jumped off the second level, got down to the front machine gun, took the blasted helicopter out, then climbed into the cabin, and the save game spot was as I climbed up the ladder to the top deck - I played it over and over again - great fun!)
I ended up going to a Far Cry forum, and the forum leader kept emphasizing "Throw rocks." I tried it. The idea of the rocks is to distract the soldiers so they think you're somewhere else. I had already beaten the game all the way through on realistic except for the very end. At the forum I learned two tricks that allowed me to finish on realistic: don't read this red text in the quote box below if you don't want the answers:
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shoot the main bad guy in the nuts, and prop the elevator open.
Throwing rocks made it much easier, but the thing that made Far Cry eventually easy to beat, even on realistic, was hiding in bushes. I learned to kill the damn monkeys without knowing this - but from the forum I learned that you can also hide in the bushes from the monkeys - I automatically had thought they would sniff you out, but the forum said "no." Also there are parts where you can wipe out almost everybody from one of the little boats - for example, the part before you climb onto the radar ship. Trying to beat that level on foot is much harder - I've played it for hours before only to get killed near the end.
Estuansis and Sam, as I said above, if you guys ever go back to it, I'll get you through the almost impossible parts, and you'll find it enjoyable even on realistic.
The one thing also that made it a little easier, was watching the indicator that helped you know if an enemy was around and if the enemy was aroused. Far Cry had a nasty habit of keeping one or two merc soldier AIs around, who also employed stealth, and all of a sudden, if you got at all careless, you were instantly dead an hour into the game play, just before you would have made it to the save-game point. But throwing rocks flushes out those bastards, and paying attention to the indicator lets you know a little more easily if anybody is actually around.
At the very end - there is an almost impossible section - the one that made me discover the Forum - where you just have to use a little trick - it's the second trick in the red text above that I said "don't read if you don't want to know the secrets." If you don't use that trick - there is absolutely no way to get past that part - I don't care how good of a counter-strike shooter you are - I don't think it can be done. I said to myself in great frustration - "Are they f**king CRAZY - no way can this be done - I have come this far on realistic but this is such an unbalanced impossibly hard level!"
Then I went to the forum and learned that trick, and about re-supplying myself from an armory I hadn't even noticed. Then it was trivial and I laughed at my earlier frustration and anger. Sometimes there is just nothing like "knowing the tricks." Right?
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28. September 2008 @ 02:17 |
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Even with my sweet system, I am sad to say I'm not a very good gamer. I usually play on normal or hard because very hard kills me :(
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No, you lose the sandbox gameplay. It's less free roaming than Crysis so it can focus more on the action. I thought it was a good trade.
Nice reviews also ;P
I really like WWII games. So much so that CoD2 is my #1 game of all time. I love that game :D
Far Cry is sadly beyond my means though. I tried stealth. In fact, I use stealth in every game that can facilitate it. I just suck at Far Cry. Congrats to you for your accomplishments though. Very impressive, beating it on realistic.
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28. September 2008 @ 04:42 |
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Edit: God another long post - did somebody use the word obsessive??
Hey Estuansis, thanks much for the compliment.
You know, it's almost a philosophical point. Everybody plays these games differently. From my point of view you are a great gamer, because your excellent reviews show how well you appreciate the subtle essences of these games - the qualities of the graphics, textures, 3-D effects like POM, etc. - that others of us who are so busy "beating" the game hardly even notice.
I think boozer said it one time when we were discussing graphics - maybe along the lines of AA - he said he was usually so busy staying alive that he didn't notice.
I wonder if that's part of my syndrome - which is why I am attracted to the way that you look at gaming, and I think I need to pull back from the "beating" part a bit. The whole idea is to have a good time, right? Everybody approaches that differently.
With my weak card, x850xtpe, I have to dial back the effects in COD4 multiplayer, because I went back up to 1600x1200 which makes the textures look so much better, and also hopefully makes it easier to kill the other players way down at the other end of the map with my G3, so I can get a helicopter from time to time.
It may be a good quality to not be so obsessive about the "beating" part - I told myself a year ago or so that I had no business trying to play these games on super hard, because it meant that it took hours and hours to try to beat the game - time that I should be spending on real estate.
But when I play it below the hardest, then I want to see if I can beat it at hardest - I think there is some amount of unhealthy obsessiveness at work. If I didn't know from the first Half Life that you could kill the beasts by throwing things at them, I would not have been able to get through the EP2 house with all the little strider buddies (I forgot their names) coming in - which I finally did at the hardest setting, by stockpiling radiator grates in the cellar and making my stand there. I was petrified the first time the big ant lion king showed up in the prison of Half Life - I ran like hell and I have never been more scared since. Then, playing that sequence over and over, I learned to kill the stupid thing without one shot - just by throwing sinks at it. I learned that the gravity gun and a heavy object is more powerful than anything else you could do. And then in the EP2 final strider battle, I learned that you just have to use your car to run over the little guys - kill as many as you can that way - and stockpile the bombs - OH I LEARNED THAT FROM YOU - and then you just barely have time to save the missile.
So I'm always going to be the idiot who has to play the shooting sequences over and over and try to beat them on the hardest level. And I'll pick up tips from you - like stockpiling the bombs near the missile gate. And you and Sam will be the guys who are not that obsessive about that aspect of the game, but who are wayyyy more into maximizing the aesthetics, which I want to do more of, and less of the other.
Anyway, I'm trying to get control by limiting the gaming to only Wednesdays. And I have decided to come back to this forum on all the other days, besides Wednesday, because my one day fix has to run from morning through about 8:00 at night to last me for another week - about 12 hours of multiplayer COD4.
On single player mode, like playing through Far Cry, I kind of like the challenge of playing on super hard - but it's not really the same as going through and not dying. I have the very real advantage of knowing where the bad guys are the second and fifth and fiftieth time I play the sequence.
For some reason I don't mind dying, finding out where all the enemies are, and then using split second timing and tactics to beat them, even if I have to play the same sequence dozens of times, over and over again. "Wow, I beat it, now let me see if I can do it again."
Like I said above, I don't know if it's a good quality, or if this kind of bull-dog tenacity is really kind of stupid. When you smoke a joint, (which I don't do anymore and haven't done for a long long time) then you get the munchies, and you can eat the same little treat over and over and over again, without getting sick of it. So is that good, or bad? I took traffic school today, and the lady teacher said weed reduces your short term memory. Is that what is going on with me? Permanent short term memory disruption which allows me the ability to play something over and over again before the boredom factor sets in?? Is that good, or is that pathetic?
I got Condition Zero to improve Counter Strike. But when I played Condition Zero, that was a different type of single player experience. Mike Booth, Miles' boss, the guy who programmed the bots, programmed them to randomly change their game play all the time and adapt to my tactics. So getting through those maps at the hardest level was in some cases REALLY challenging. You have to win the round by two games. I couldn't just perfect one strategy, because they kept changing theirs. It was HARD, HARD HARD - for hours and hours and hours.
I don't know if it made me a better Counter Strike player or not. All I play these days if COD4. And I am not that good - but sometimes I'm pretty good. But so what? What if I were the best in the world. So what? Would that make me a great gamer? I don't know. It's something to do - something quite addictive - and I do it on Wednesdays. I enjoy it, I think.
And with your help I'm appreciating more the eye candy part. I am left with the conclusion that I absolutely have to upgrade in order to "smell the roses" as I try to get full enjoyment from this fascinating virtual reality that my family member Miles, the Valve guy, is such an integral part of creating through his animating, and that you and Sam are such great connoisseurs of, in terms of your appreciation and ability to distinguish the subtle qualities of the graphics.
One last thing about the potentially boring "beating" part. Having to play something over and over again can of course become fatiguing and boring - which is how I started to feel about trying to "beat" Mile High Club at the hardest level - I got up the stairs twice over a two hour period.
For some reason Far Cry never got to that too boring stage. I loved COD2 also. But there was one place in COD2 which was virtually unbeatable at the hardest level, and I had to backtrack and play one level below to beat it, and even then I just BARELY beat it, so I could move on in the game.
That was on top of the silo defending against all the mortar crews that kept showing up. My assistant had beaten it on the hardest level, as I found out later. The game was also one of his favorite of all time. I asked him how he could possibly have beaten it at the hardest level. Here was the answer: He had not thrown away the sniper rifle like I did early on, and so he took it up to the silo with him. There is another one already up there. So he had two sniper rifles, meaning ten rounds of sniper bullets. Timing it just right, with a break to reload both guns, he was able to replay and replay, and anticipate the crews, and finally beat it. I never went back. Do you remember that silo part?
One last thing I want to say about Far Cry. You are absolutely right - those guys are dead on accurate shooters from quite a distance away. But I found out that they are stupid, I mean REALLY STUPID, in terms of not throwing grenades all over like would happen in real life, when you have some dude hiding in a patch of bushes blowing all your buddies away. That is where the AI in Far Cry fails, and that is the trick to beating the game. Just plant yourself in a particular type of bush that makes you virtually invisible, and kill them at your leisure. Kind of idiotic, actually, and as I said, not how real life would work. But that's the trick to beating Far Cry.
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28. September 2008 @ 06:09 |
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ok guys, i'm sorry, but i'm too lazy to read the long post...
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28. September 2008 @ 06:43 |
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Post processing haze was a bit of a downer on crysis' graphics, I'm pleased to see that removed. I'm buying Crysis Warhead and the Rockstar pack on Steam next week. :)
I have seen the majority of the band of brothers series, up until episode 8 - watched it in 1080p high def... :)
I'm very interested by your in-depth knowledge of Far Cry, and on that basis I will certainly go back to it. Hiding in the bushes was the staple diet of my Crysis tactics for quite a while, trying to hide from the damn chopper... man that got frustrating!
Estuansis: lol, sadly, that is also true of myself. All the gear and no idea! LOL!
Rich: Hunters, and by god are they a pain... :P I've never played Condition Zero, perhaps I should, the AI does actually sound pretty good. All you really need to know for real CS:S is how to beat the Camping Awp-whores... :S
As for enjoying graphics, while it is nice, good graphics are nothing without good gameplay, and there's no sense of satisfaction playing a game, no matter how good it looks, unless I enjoyed playing it as well. If a game keeps you coming back again and again, then it's a sign of a good game, not a sign of a borderline obsessive!
GTR: Apalling... :( Make time for Rich's tomes, they're good reads! Even if they do take up three entire pages at 2560x1600... :O
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@Sam you're right, it's interesting...although i never played Far Cry, that post really makes me want to play, i want to see how "hard" can the game be.
And in Crysis, i'm like you, Stealth is the only way to survive in that kind of game.
"All you really need to know for real CS:S is how to beat the Camping Awp-whores... :S" F*** yeah!
@Rich "What if I were the best in the world. So what? Would that make me a great gamer? I don't know" I understand what you mean...so you must accept your defeat and be humble in your victories, thats what make you a great gamer. Unlike some people, they get so pissed because they're losing and vice versa. It happens, but hey! ignore them and play your game. It doesn't matter if you're losing or winning, it's just a game and games are suppose to be fun
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You know, it's almost a philosophical point. Everybody plays these games differently. From my point of view you are a great gamer, because your excellent reviews show how well you appreciate the subtle essences of these games - the qualities of the graphics, textures, 3-D effects like POM, etc. - that others of us who are so busy "beating" the game hardly even notice.
I like the way you put that. You hit it dead on. Too many people just say that they're willing to settle for lower quality to achieve playability. But we're reaching a point where not only do the graphics look amazing, they make an impact on your experience. I certainly like to turn down the difficulty and just soak it all in. Not to say I don't play to win. I enjoy games for their gameplay too. Starcraft on a 24" widescreen anyone? Ugly...
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I think boozer said it one time when we were discussing graphics - maybe along the lines of AA - he said he was usually so busy staying alive that he didn't notice.
Resolution and AA make a big difference for me. Jaggies and squashed textures are ugly and distracting. I've honestly gotten killed because I've been distracted by jagged lines. AND a higher resolution means much greater detail on screen. The difference between 1024 x 768 and 1920 x 1200 isn't just jaggies. Everything looks pixellated and butt ugly at low res. *points at console games*
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If I didn't know from the first Half Life that you could kill the beasts by throwing things at them, I would not have been able to get through the EP2 house with all the little strider buddies (I forgot their names) coming in - which I finally did at the hardest setting, by stockpiling radiator grates in the cellar and making my stand there.
Eh, I just conserved ammo a lot. So when the time came, the 357 magnum got some use. I never had issues beating that part at all.
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When you smoke a joint, (which I don't do anymore and haven't done for a long long time) then you get the munchies, and you can eat the same little treat over and over and over again, without getting sick of it. So is that good, or bad? I took traffic school today, and the lady teacher said weed reduces your short term memory. Is that what is going on with me? Permanent short term memory disruption which allows me the ability to play something over and over again before the boredom factor sets in?? Is that good, or is that pathetic?
Being an avid smoker myself, I don't think the memory problem has a damn thing to do with it. You're way over-analyzing it. You just like games a lot, plain and simple. As far as short term memory disruption? It stops after you stop smoking weed and really isn't as bad as people make it sound. Worst I've done is forget my headphones on the way to classes. Repeatedly :P
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That was on top of the silo defending against all the mortar crews that kept showing up. My assistant had beaten it on the hardest level, as I found out later. The game was also one of his favorite of all time. I asked him how he could possibly have beaten it at the hardest level. Here was the answer: He had not thrown away the sniper rifle like I did early on, and so he took it up to the silo with him. There is another one already up there. So he had two sniper rifles, meaning ten rounds of sniper bullets. Timing it just right, with a break to reload both guns, he was able to replay and replay, and anticipate the crews, and finally beat it. I never went back. Do you remember that silo part?
I just played that part a few hours ago actually. On ?veteran?(one step below hardest) difficulty I had little problem taking out the mortar crews. Again, play realistically and conserve ammo for your sniper rifle. One shot, one kill. This applies to any shooter I play. If you can't make sure the guys dies in the first round or burst(for assault rifles) don't take the shot. You'll only attract attention.
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One last thing I want to say about Far Cry. You are absolutely right - those guys are dead on accurate shooters from quite a distance away. But I found out that they are stupid, I mean REALLY STUPID, in terms of not throwing grenades all over like would happen in real life, when you have some dude hiding in a patch of bushes blowing all your buddies away. That is where the AI in Far Cry fails, and that is the trick to beating the game. Just plant yourself in a particular type of bush that makes you virtually invisible, and kill them at your leisure. Kind of idiotic, actually, and as I said, not how real life would work. But that's the trick to beating Far Cry.
IMO the AI is cheap cheap cheap cheap CHEAP!!!! I found it to be a broken and unplayable game even at lowest difficulty.
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