Comments on: Bullet Points: Far Cry 3 (Outposts Edition)

By: phenom_x8

phenom_x8 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:56:51 +0000

Nice writes up mr livingstone. The best 2012 game I’ve ever played. No matter how great dishonored and any other contender, Far Cry 3 is the only game give me a very chill feelings like when I was playing Prince Of Persia for the first time in my Junior High School PC (I know it seems disconnected, but I’m sure I remember how it feels back then).

By: :)

:) — Thu, 20 Dec 2012 08:32:35 +0000

All of this stuff … Is awesome information.
The thing that gets to me is the multiplayer. I can sometimes find CO OP to be a tad more fun than versus.

Some of the game’s pre-made maps are filled with options. A lot of players crouch in their stealthy positions and move around corners to pick off rushers. They end up staying there and waiting for that person to come back for revenge bringing along his allies.. Sometimes the enemy i’m shooting, can take an entire clip of my ammo, before another comes up and kills me while reloading. You run out of ammo fairly quick while online, and this leads you to pick up a fallen player’s gun.

The custom maps that are made by the community of Far Cry 3 is what’s best in my opinion. Most aren’t set up as an island but more of a complex building or city. These maps allow you to spot players easily, which then turns to an “who has better aim” situation.

By: Yuccadude

Yuccadude — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 03:58:36 +0000

One time I sniped the passenger-pirate out of a vehicle driving away from me, and the driver tried to turn around so hard that he flipped his Jeep and killed himself. Another time I was slowly walking down a cliff only to hear a giant crash off to one side. I looked over and it was a Jeep that had tried following me off the cliff(even though it hadn’t spotted me), killing both occupants.
Sometimes the .50cal sniper rifle you get will not kill a bear in one hit. Two allies found that out the hard way when I tried to save them.

By: Bullet Points: Far Cry 3 (Dislikes Edition)

Bullet Points: Far Cry 3 (Dislikes Edition) — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 23:27:46 +0000

[…] the tower so you respawn right at the base. That’s nice. Also, if you’re approaching an enemy outpost, it saves for you and respawns you where you were approaching from. These are handy. The rest is […]

By: H

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:03:34 +0000

In reply to Christopher. Thanks Doc.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 19:19:23 +0000

In reply to H.

I’ll get to that in detail tonight, but essentially: there’s no quicksave. There’s no multiple slots to save games in separately: every time you save, you’re saving over your last save, which is annoying. Loading up your save doesn’t start you off where you saved it, but instead starts you at the nearest safehouse, which can be confusing. If you’re doing a main objective, you can’t manually save AT ALL, it only uses checkpoint saving, which is spotty.

And the game’s menus are garbage, which doesn’t sound like a big deal, but is, since you have to use the menu constantly for saving and crafting and stuff. The on-screen notifications are constant and annoying: your main objective is constantly being flashed on the screen in a giant box, even if you’re doing some exploring and even if you’re currently doing your main objective. Combined, they’re major irritations, though the longer you play, they either become less of a factor or you just get used to them.

By: H

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:44:35 +0000

Good Mr. Livingston, what is the worst thing about Far Cry 3? I want to buy the delicious game but you keep talking about it’s shortcomings and I don’t want to spend Â£30 if it’s a terrible dealbreaker. Is the game fun regardless of what you might soon be mentioning?

By: Iain

Iain — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:29:44 +0000

The enemy camps really are the games icing. I would happily live in the game full time if the camps repopulated. I think my favourite encounter came from an alarm that rang out far too long. It was only late game that I discovered alarms can attract helicopters, and a well timed grenade can fill the role of a missing rocket launcher.

The smoke columns really do make up for the map downgrade. I found myself banning the map screen and using the smoke or radio towers as my waypoint, even when sidetracked I knew the view from a hill could reset my path. I also banned syringes, as they require more game pausing, but mostly because the amazing bone breaking animations only show when your out of health sticks. And I’m still not tired of the returning bullet bite from far cry 2.