Far Cry 3

Damn. That looks awesome.

I will buy that. I love every bit of it.

That looks f*cking amazing!

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I come bearing recommendations (Vanilla Far Cry 3):

Ziggys Mod
Immersive Sounds

I started a fresh game with those two mods (they're compatible with each other), and it's f*cking intense. I'm playing on Master and one of the biggest effective changes is that enemies are no longer color-coded. They all wear greenish camouflage and I swear, they really blend in. I mean, except for the constant yelling, which is actually necessary for your survival now.

I've only given it about 40 minutes, but it's an entirely different experience. Bullets hurt, both the player and NPCs. I've almost died on four separate occasions, which is pretty much how many times I died in my entire first playthrough.

If you're looking for "realism", then you need to give this a try. Read the description for Ziggys Mod. There's a lot of neat changes.

Edit: Also, new games start right at Dennis, so you skip the intro with Jason's brother.

Edit 2: Quick installation directions (backup the respective files):
1. Download Ziggys Mod - Regular
2. Download Immersive Sounds - Immersed Version
3. Move .dll files from Immersive Sounds to bin directory
4. Move .dat files from Ziggys Mod to data_win32 directory

Hyetal wrote:

I come bearing recommendations (Vanilla Far Cry 3):

Ziggys Mod
Immersive Sounds

These tweaks alone surely make the Immersive Sounds mod a must-have. The other changes it does seem like icing on the cake.

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Yes. It's fantastic. I just did a 10 minute stint in some random jungle area with disabled music and these mods. It was really something special.

Also, Ziggys Mod turns Hold E (default interact button) into simply Push E which makes looting stuff and opening doors much faster. A very nice alteration.

I'm preposterously excited about Blood Dragon

The game is easily three times better now. Ziggys Mod ripped out all the remaining HUD clutter, and with the gameplay changes, it's absolutely everything I want it to be. Actually, the only thing I'm missing is a Crysis-style option to change attachments outside of safe houses. I did the first mission and now I'm simply clearing outposts and crafting stuff. The game is so much harder that I'm nowhere near getting overpowered, whereas in the vanilla game I'd be slaughtering everyone right about now.

*shakes fist at console*

I think I'm gonna put FC3 on my Steam wish list and wait for a sale.

I've got it on console but it just never clicked with me, even after multiple attempts. The pre-patch version was a complete 180 from the exquisite sense of immersion found in FC2, my 2nd or 3rd favorite game the year it was released. By the time the no-hud patch was released months later, my enthusiasm for FC3 had vanished. And even after giving it a go, there were still intrusive elements in the hud, obtuse and overly-complex menu system, etc.

Maybe the modded PC version might prove to be the ticket for me.

I'd like to have a chat with the guy who thought that colorless icons would represent colored plants. Oh, wait, they're different shapes! That helps!

Here's a great interview with the creative director:

We have a Blood Dragon thread, by the way. It's right...

There!

I tried the Blood Dragon demo on the PS3 and liked the mechanics so much I bought Far Cry 3. It is not as pretty as the PC version, but it controls much better with game pad.

I am running with a bow, silenced pistol, and I plan on adding a silenced sniper rifle. I am going for a ninja assasin build. Encounters take a long time, but going undetected is very rewarding.

Anyone know how to bait animals into attacking baddies? I tried to use rocks to lead an enemy toward a big cat, but I could not get him close enough.

I keep trying the rock... but it is difficult.

heavyfeul wrote:

Anyone know how to bait animals into attacking baddies? I tried to use rocks to lead an enemy toward a big cat, but I could not get him close enough.

You are supposed to be able to lead animals with the rock but in the end I just let the tigers fall where they may. Very often there is a caged animal in bases and you can just shoot at the door (at first I though you had to hit a lock or bar on the door.)

Rolling with a silenced Sniper with high power optics (headshot), a silenced SMG, a Bow with fire arrows, and a lever-action Shotgun and Molotovs for when the S hits the F.

Off the meet the sister.

Finally broke down and bought Far Cry 3, thing that did it was a 5 dollar off certificate from Best Buy. Just finished installing and now I've gotta search high and low for my Uplay password and junk. Why is it that every publisher wans their own platform? All it does is cause the consumer hassle.

Wolfen Victrocious wrote:

Finally broke down and bought Far Cry 3, thing that did it was a 5 dollar off certificate from Best Buy. Just finished installing and now I've gotta search high and low for my Uplay password and junk. Why is it that every publisher wans their own platform? All it does is cause the consumer hassle.

Yup. I'm just glad they finally fixed Uplay so that the cloud saves don't interfere with the regular saves and randomly decide to set back your progress by half the game, or sometimes more. Literally. Luckily, FC3 didn't have any such issues for me.

I've found all implementations of cloud saves to be a bit hit or miss, or at least get in the way more than they should. That's from the perspective of someone who only ever plays on one machine, if steam says there's a more recent save than the on on the local machine I wonder what's up.

I bought Far Cry 3 way back in December after watching a Giantbomb Quick Look and falling in love with the potential it presented. I'd played through quite a bit of Far Cry 2 and enjoyed it but never got far enough in it to really be a diehard fan.

It's a whole other story with Far Cry 3 though. I'd only played about an hour or so up until the end of the first mission and then moved on to other games which has always been my achilles heel in my gaming life. Fast forward to this past week and on a whim I put the disc back into my PS3, grabbed my sniper rifle and started taking on pirate hideouts and radio towers. Next thing I know several hours have passed and I had to drag myself off to bed. The next night I did the same thing and the night after that. Each time I would start taking out a hideout or a mission which would lead to another one that was just a bit further off in the distance and enticing my character ever more onwards. Then I'd need to craft a new wallet or loot sack which meant I'd search out and hunt whatever poor animal was necessary. It's become like a stack of dominoes for me with one action / mission / adventure immediately leading into another one and hardly giving me time to pause between them.

I'm still not that far into the story in actual truth but I don't mind. I'm loving every second of my time on Rook island and everything that comes with it. Experimenting with different approaches to every mission or situation is fantastic and the tension of waiting for the exact right moment to perform a takedown on a guard or to sneak through a gap while a guard's back is turned is one of the most amazing experiences I've had in a long time. I can't wait to see what else Rook Island has to offer me.

Merkaba wrote:

I can't wait to see what else Rook Island has to offer me.

It never got old for me. Enjoy.

Not to dredge up an old thread, but I finally got this off my pile and finished it. After the 15 hour mark I have been slowly chipping away at this for months. Just cuz i ran out of steam along with the game after all the cool crafting bits were done. Finally saw the game to completion so I can take that off the ginormous pile in time for the Steam Summer Sale, so I can grow that pile even bigger!

Nothing to add about the game that already hasn't been said. But this game has greatness mired in some bad story and constricted story missions. And that ending...

Spoiler:

Picked the bad end at that point because, why not? Up until that point the story was all gobbledygook and nonsense with a dash of offensive power fantasy. After the choice, the whole thing felt icky and left me with eyebrows raised. So that's...something.

So just putting this out there for posterity's sake and putting it on a shelf.

I keep forgetting I have this, I blame Ubisoft and forcing Uplay on me. I mean, I know Steam still forces you to go to Uplay, but I'd much prefer starting in Steam at least. Guess that's what I get for buying the physical CD.

Wolfen Victrocious wrote:

I keep forgetting I have this, I blame Ubisoft and forcing Uplay on me. I mean, I know Steam still forces you to go to Uplay, but I'd much prefer starting in Steam at least. Guess that's what I get for buying the physical CD.

Why is buying the physical disc different?

cyrax wrote:
Wolfen Victrocious wrote:

I keep forgetting I have this, I blame Ubisoft and forcing Uplay on me. I mean, I know Steam still forces you to go to Uplay, but I'd much prefer starting in Steam at least. Guess that's what I get for buying the physical CD.

Why is buying the physical disc different?

It's only a Uplay code from what I can tell, it won't allow you to make it an official Steam game. While I know I can put games into steam unofficially, Steam doesn't like that when I switch between my PC and my Mac and quite often I'll get back on the PC to find all those new unofficial games are deleted from my library.

One thing about uplay is that it cooperates with steam. That is if you've got a steam version of a ubisoft game, launching it through uplay will just have uplay tell steam to launch (or try to, it'll put up an install prompt if needs be). I think the critera pretty much is that uplay has to be running for all ubisoft stuff, plus whatever client you installed it with, so having a separate non-steam copy is probably less trouble.

Steam sale, 40% off seem to be the biggest discount... Normal version is 24, deluxe 30$.

I feel cheap, but must I accept this price as a good price?

Live just had it last week for $20, so I suspect a better price soon. It's totally worth the price, though, regardless.

So I've been debating giving up on this one...

I really enjoyed it until

Spoiler:

I got to the second island... I killed Vaas and just don't see that the story is going anywhere anymore... go kill the other bad guy that isn't doing anything interesting like Vaas did.

Should I keep going or have I seen what I need to see?