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Nealio said:
I just found it all a bit tedious.
Nealio said:
Yes I completed it and found it reasonably entertaining in the main.
The only games I finish are the ones that are fun enough to warrant playing through to the end. If I found a game tedious then I wouldn't bother to complete it, as I prefer not to spend my free time on something that I consider to be tedious.
Maybe my life is richer than yours? Difficult to say. But it's a possibility, I suppose.
I've recently been playing this from the Steam sale having played 1 & 2 extensively over the years.
It is great fun, but I'm not getting the same enjoyment that I got out of the first one- obviously in fully embracing the open-world style the games have lost some of the structure that the first game had, but I kind of enjoyed that structure as I feel it paced the game better.
Don't get me wrong I am having a heck of a lot of fun in number 3, but I still can't get over the fact that every outpost you take is largely the same- every tower you activate is largely the same, each environment you visit is largely the same.
In number 1 I enjoyed how it guided you down certain paths but then gave you a lot of scope for how you tackled those areas. In number 3 you never feel fully immersed in the story- you do a few of the missions then you can just wander off and do your own thing for a while, as if the whole purpose of you being there is just forgotten.
I know the sandbox style probably has wider appeal but to me it seems that going down this route always dumbs down the depth of any single-player experience. Then to make matters worse, the times in the main story that you are guided down a certain route are so frustratingly hand-holding (for instance the section in the burning house) that it simply becomes an exercise of pressing buttons in the right order as prompted on screen.
For me some of the all-time great single player experiences (Farcry 1, Deus Ex) guided you along a general path but gave you an element of freedom in how you tackled the areas- but crucially kept you in the story the whole time.
Farcry 3 never seems to hit this sweet spot, it's either total sandbox freedom where you can do what you like but without really affecting anything that will make you care about what happens, or it's a 'Simon-says' button pressing routine which leaves you wanting to punch the screen when you are replaying that section over & over without being able to do anything differently in the hope of achieving better results.
I've realised it sounds like I am not enjoying it but that simply isn't the case. I'm having a lot of fun driving around, ambushing patrols, luring dangerous animals to outposts, and blowing stuff up in creative ways- in this sense it really is fantastic.
But I imagine within a week or two the novelty of this will have worn off and I'll be wanting to play something with a bit more depth, and crucially structure.
I do really enjoy sandbox games, but they just never seem to work as 'involving' single player experiences. (If anyone can recommend any decent 'story-led' single player shooters that I may have missed recently I am all ears!)
I am still really looking forward to Farcry 4 though!
It is great fun, but I'm not getting the same enjoyment that I got out of the first one- obviously in fully embracing the open-world style the games have lost some of the structure that the first game had, but I kind of enjoyed that structure as I feel it paced the game better.
Don't get me wrong I am having a heck of a lot of fun in number 3, but I still can't get over the fact that every outpost you take is largely the same- every tower you activate is largely the same, each environment you visit is largely the same.
In number 1 I enjoyed how it guided you down certain paths but then gave you a lot of scope for how you tackled those areas. In number 3 you never feel fully immersed in the story- you do a few of the missions then you can just wander off and do your own thing for a while, as if the whole purpose of you being there is just forgotten.
I know the sandbox style probably has wider appeal but to me it seems that going down this route always dumbs down the depth of any single-player experience. Then to make matters worse, the times in the main story that you are guided down a certain route are so frustratingly hand-holding (for instance the section in the burning house) that it simply becomes an exercise of pressing buttons in the right order as prompted on screen.
For me some of the all-time great single player experiences (Farcry 1, Deus Ex) guided you along a general path but gave you an element of freedom in how you tackled the areas- but crucially kept you in the story the whole time.
Farcry 3 never seems to hit this sweet spot, it's either total sandbox freedom where you can do what you like but without really affecting anything that will make you care about what happens, or it's a 'Simon-says' button pressing routine which leaves you wanting to punch the screen when you are replaying that section over & over without being able to do anything differently in the hope of achieving better results.
I've realised it sounds like I am not enjoying it but that simply isn't the case. I'm having a lot of fun driving around, ambushing patrols, luring dangerous animals to outposts, and blowing stuff up in creative ways- in this sense it really is fantastic.
But I imagine within a week or two the novelty of this will have worn off and I'll be wanting to play something with a bit more depth, and crucially structure.
I do really enjoy sandbox games, but they just never seem to work as 'involving' single player experiences. (If anyone can recommend any decent 'story-led' single player shooters that I may have missed recently I am all ears!)
I am still really looking forward to Farcry 4 though!
Squirrelofwoe said:
I know the sandbox style probably has wider appeal but to me it seems that going down this route always dumbs down the depth of any single-player experience. Then to make matters worse, the times in the main story that you are guided down a certain route are so frustratingly hand-holding (for instance the section in the burning house) that it simply becomes an exercise of pressing buttons in the right order as prompted on screen.
I'd be inclined to agree with you. Also, once you start one of the main story missions, they tend to go on for ages and due to the checkpoint saving of the game, you have to complete them in one sitting or else start over next time. And they're rather too long for that.Squirrelofwoe said:
I do really enjoy sandbox games, but they just never seem to work as 'involving' single player experiences. (If anyone can recommend any decent 'story-led' single player shooters that I may have missed recently I am all ears!)
Have you played "Wolfenstein: The New Order" yet?Squirrelofwoe said:
JonRB said:
Have you played "Wolfenstein: The New Order" yet?
Funnily enough that is next on the list- once I've upgraded my cpu later this month.http://steamcommunity.com/app/201810/discussions/0...
Big download.
FourWheelDrift said:
Make sure you have enough disk space too. According to this they are using uncompressed non repeating textures that take up at least 30GB of the download.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/201810/discussions/0...
Big download.
http://steamcommunity.com/app/201810/discussions/0...
Big download.
I've got a 2tb HD sat in it's packaging waiting to be installed as we speak.I've been making do with a 250gb HD on my gaming PC for about 4 years now and I recently came to the conclusion that this just wasn't cutting it anymore!
JonRB said:
I enjoyed most of "Metro: Last Light" as well, although it is *very* on-the-rails and parts of it were pretty tedious in places. Overall, it was quite good though.
I played one of the Metro games- the first one I think. I also played Homefront which was very 'on rails' too, not the greatest game but was short disposable fun. I've recently been re-visiting some of the older games in my collection too- Quake 4, Doom 3, Fear etc. Going to have another play through Crysis at some point too.
(I use the term 'older' very loosely as the first shooter I put serious time into on the PC was Star Wars: Dark Forces...
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