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Posted January 11, 2013
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timppu: Was that on the original XBox, or was there a PS2 version too? Hmm, since I still have a working XBox console, maybe I should try to get the game for it. I see someone selling it second hand for 7€ or so.
Yeah it came out on the original xbox and it came out as Farcry Predator for the 360 included another campaign.
Posted January 11, 2013
How does it hold up graphically?
My brother bought it a few months after release & I remember it looking amazing, but what about now?
Posted January 11, 2013
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FantasyNightmare: How does it hold up graphically?
My brother bought it a few months after release & I remember it looking amazing, but what about now?
Despite that my computer can handle Battlefield 3 at max, Crysis 1 still a powerhouse when I put Very High the frame rate is slower, but just High its at 60 frames per second. You almost never notice the difference between High and Very High though since they almost look the same.
Posted January 11, 2013
I don't get the Farcry hate either. The only real issue i see with it is the lack of quick-save.

Now, i just really don't understand the complaints about the difficulty. If a game is too easy like COD, people bash it, if a game is harder than the average FPS, people bash it too. I guess it's impossible to please some people.

It has been a long time since i played Farcry, and i remember it being pretty difficult, but not that much. The difficulty felt just right, it never felt cheap or anything.
Posted January 11, 2013
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timppu: I don't get the Far Cry 1 hate. I've played it through long time ago but decided to retry, and now I got hooked up in it (currently in the Bunker level, level 7 I think). Played it until 2:30AM last night...

I was suprised the gameplay and even graphics impress even today. Sure the plants look quite fake nowadays and there is obvious pop up even with maximum settings, but it all still manages to look so lush and nice.

And I still adore the gameplay. Yeah, the enemies gang up on you... just as they are supposed to. The principles that I feel would work in real combat situation seem to apply, ie. hit the deck for better aim and coverage, snipe one or two enemies with your assault rifle or the sniper rifle, and instantly crawl to another place because the enemies will come inspecting your last known position. Then shoot them to the side from your new position. :)

I don't even mind the mutants, in fact I feel they are a nice diversion from human enemies, even though I enjoy more shooting the humans to head. :)

The lack of instant save is indeed a problem... until you realize it is there, kinda. Go to console and give command like

\save_game 1

With that "cheat", I find the hardest difficulty level just right for me. Without it, there would be too much replaying for my liking.

I'm not arguing though that e.g. Crysis games aren't even better. The same basic formula is refined further.
I'm quite a big fan of Far Cry's gameplay, when it remembers what it's good at. Namely, when the action and stealth meld together seamlessly for brutal games of cat and mouse in wide open jungles, where you're constantly having to think on your toes and try to outsmart the uncanny AI. Sadly, that only makes up about half of the game. The first half. After that, the occasional frustrating moments start to become more and more frequent, with a few notably bad setpieces (the Osprey boss battle and the part where you're dropped into the mutant-infested jungle are two that come to mind) to sour things even further. And the fact that it starts to get really interior-happy doesn't help matters. Sure, it's still playable, and inspiration sometimes shines through. The mutants can sometimes be exciting, some of the levels are still enjoyable. I don't really think it's a bad game so much as it's a game with a ton of good ideas and a ton of flaws.

I didn't actually know that you could save via console, though. That would certainly alleviate some of the frustration, since the checkpoint save system was one of the biggest annoyances (although not the only one). Maybe I'll give the game another try some time (I've played it at least twice over the past few years).





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FantasyNightmare: How does it hold up graphically?
My brother bought it a few months after release & I remember it looking amazing, but what about now?
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Elmofongo: Despite that my computer can handle Battlefield 3 at max, Crysis 1 still a powerhouse when I put Very High the frame rate is slower, but just High its at 60 frames per second. You almost never notice the difference between High and Very High though since they almost look the same.
Really? 'Cause my system isn't really top of the line, but I don't seem to have any problem maxing the game out. It might have something to do with my resolution (I game at 1280x1024, which I know some people consider to be low).

It still looks really good, by the way. Not the single best-looking game on the market anymore, but still quite pretty.
Post edited January 11, 2013 by jefequeso
Posted January 11, 2013
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Elmofongo: My personal experiance is that the stealth is somewhat broken like one time I am at a good distance from a tower with a rocket launcher soldier and I decided to prone on the tall grass (which the game says to hide from enemies, you crouch and prone on tall grass) but somehow despite the distance and the thick foliage the tower soldier still fires a rocket launcher at me.
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timppu: Looking at it logically, it is probably not so hard to spot you lying in the grass, if someone is looking at you from a tower from a higher position. :) That's why I try to get the enemies in towers first.

But I agree the enemies sometimes seem awfully observant from great distances and can hit you too... but then I feel the game would probably be far too easy even in the highest difficulty level, if it wasn't like that. After all, you can see and shoot them from great distances too. Just lying in the grass shouldn't make you totally invisible to enemies, especially if you have already fired on them.

I still get lots of exhilarating gaming moments in Far Cry 1, where I am anxiously trying to crawl backwards to a new position when two enemy soldiers are slowly approaching me. We both know we are there somewhere, but can't quite see each other yet. Should I just shoot through the grass hoping to hit the enemy, before he can see my eyeballs?

That said, the game definitely has lots of instant death situations (at least in the highest difficulty), which doesn't sit well with the save game point system. Luckily it is still possible to save anytime too, with a workaround.

I'll get back to Crysis after I'm done with my current Far Cry playthrough. Maybe I should also play Far Cry 2 somewhat, so far I've tried only the first half an hour or so.
Funnily enough, I never had an issue with the enemy detection sensitivity. I always thought that it worked fairly well, given the nature of the game :P. And yes, those moments like you describe are awesome. Times like that make up for the many, many times where the game is just a slog.

Far Cry 2... well, I'm a big fan, but I know many people aren't. It's not really as unique as Far Cry 1, and not as focused on the tense stealth-and-shoot gameplay. It's more like a violent action FPS with some stealth elements and a lot of entertaining ways to create mayhem. To me, it's the perfect game to just jump into for an hour or so and kill stuff. I dunno. The action feels great, no matter how you decide to approach it. It's worth a try if you can get it cheap, although statistically you're probably more likely to think that it's boring than anything else.

I won't go into my "Far Cry 2" defense spiel this time. Unless someone provokes me ;)
Posted January 11, 2013
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Elmofongo: My personal experiance is that the stealth is somewhat broken like one time I am at a good distance from a tower with a rocket launcher soldier and I decided to prone on the tall grass (which the game says to hide from enemies, you crouch and prone on tall grass) but somehow despite the distance and the thick foliage the tower soldier still fires a rocket launcher at me.
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timppu: Looking at it logically, it is probably not so hard to spot you lying in the grass, if someone is looking at you from a tower from a higher position. :) That's why I try to get the enemies in towers first.
Same thing happened to me regularly with the snipers in Far Cry 1. It's not outlandish at all. It's just that you REALLY have to think "okay, where can I be seen from?"

It's tough, but it's far from impossible, in any case.
Posted October 10, 2013
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Yeah to everyones surprise I have not purchased Crysis Warhead and I am thinking of getting it, but I like to know what are the differences between the original? Yes I understand its basically "More Crysis 1 with new stuff" but what exactly, what are the new weapons, what are the new vehicles, what are the new suit abilities (if any) any changes to the graphics and enemy AI and small changes like did the allow you to look backwards while driving a Car vehicle?
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