To hell with HL2... Farcry is here!!!

[VIAN]

I can agree with the wild pig. I would blow the crap out of that thing will my entire arsenal.

 

[oLLie]

Far Cry needs more deformable terrain... it takes you out of the reality of the game when you shoot a rocket at a single leaf of a palm tree and the explosion does nothing to the tree, let alone the leaf that you shot. Maybe that's not possible until the next generation of games though.

Hmm... I thought something else I didn't quite like about it either, oh well.

 

[Luthien]

Quake ONE best multiplayer game ever. Lucas Arts Starwars FPS games Dark Forces series best game series ever. IMO

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Originally posted by: T-man
Johnyblaze---

" tried it again. it still sucks. for my system, p4@3.3 and a 9800pro, it plays like ass.

the control sucks, the ai sucks. the game is just trash.
________________________________
that's just sad....
try turning the rez down, or detail settings, geez.


Anyway, OK, here we go-

Things that are Kick-A** about the Far Cry Demo

1. The human modeling and in particular the ragdoll physics when capping someone are phenominal, it just looks "reaL"
2. The useage of multiple angles to approach the enemy/ objective
3. The texture quality for the island and the grass and bushes and trees and water are some of the best ever done
4. The weapon effects and sounds are really well done, with no stupid overdone "kick effect", once again they feel "right"
5 .Grenades and rockets will toss guys 30-40 feet =)
6. The sniper rifle and the binoculars w/ eavesdropping are done nicely
7. The attack boat, and helicopter, and hang gliders, and God-know what else they will throw in, are cool. (Jump the boat dock!)
8. The voice acting is pretty good/funny
9. The way someone drops when you place a single silenced Mp5 round at the base of their neck when they are just standing there, (I tried about a dozen different angle heights, and got the same # of different ways the guy fell =)
10. The Ai is pretty unpredictable.
11. Explosions and acompanying sounds are sweet
12. You know they are going to have some huge creepy freakish monsters to conquer.
13. The Wild Pig

Fell free to add to the List, I will be after palying awhile.

Couldn't have said it better myself :beer:

 

[Atlantean]

Farcry looks freaking awesome. I will be buying this one for sure.

 

[Gagabiji]

Originally posted by: VIAN
Serious Sam

That game is funny.

 

[Insomniak]

Meh. It's pretty, but the gameplay sucks.

 

[oLLie]

If you guys (with the beefy video cards) haven't done so yet, you should turn on dynamic water reflection. Find out how here (the real site is down at the moment... so that link is Google's cache of it).

 

[CaiNaM]

well, now that the retail version is out, i must admit i'm pleasantly surprised... perhaps the best sp fps since HL. been too busy enjoying it to really play around with performance on both the nv and ati (would like to know how to benchmark it properly, if anyone knows). also, a new patch will be avail tomorrow which, among other things, will offer "Improved shader speed (up to two times faster) for NVidia Geforce FX cards on very high settings".

the "save game" at checkpoints sure sucks tho

at any rate, great game despite some minor flaws. sound, music, graphics are all well done! it's even been keeping me away from ut2k4..

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: oLLie
If you guys (with the beefy video cards) haven't done so yet, you should turn on dynamic water reflection. Find out how here (the real site is down at the moment... so that link is Google's cache of it).

It doesn't work (the page)

 

[yhelothar]

TRUE DYNAMIC WATER REFLECTION

NOTE: This requires at least DirectX 8 level video card so, for example, GeForce 4 MX can't do this...

Go into "\Far Cry Demo\Levels\Fort\" and make a copy of the "level.pak" file. Next, open the non-copy in WinZip and extract the files to a temp folder. Open up "mission_fort.xml" in Word, Word Pad or whatever.

Press CTRL+F to find this line: Water="TerrainWater_OnlySky"

Delete the _OnlySky part so that it looks like this: Water="TerrainWater". Now, save that and repack those files in a .zip and rename it back to "level.pak". Replace the original file in "\Far Cry Demo\Levels\Fort\" directory with the new one and you're done.

Now EVERYTHING will be reflected in the water... your own body, trees, rocks, smoke, explosions... whatever. Everything will be seen in the reflections. It's really amazing.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
TRUE DYNAMIC WATER REFLECTION

NOTE: This requires at least DirectX 8 level video card so, for example, GeForce 4 MX can't do this...

Go into "\Far Cry Demo\Levels\Fort\" and make a copy of the "level.pak" file. Next, open the non-copy in WinZip and extract the files to a temp folder. Open up "mission_fort.xml" in Word, Word Pad or whatever.

Press CTRL+F to find this line: Water="TerrainWater_OnlySky"

Delete the _OnlySky part so that it looks like this: Water="TerrainWater". Now, save that and repack those files in a .zip and rename it back to "level.pak". Replace the original file in "\Far Cry Demo\Levels\Fort\" directory with the new one and you're done.

Now EVERYTHING will be reflected in the water... your own body, trees, rocks, smoke, explosions... whatever. Everything will be seen in the reflections. It's really amazing.

is it slow?

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
TRUE DYNAMIC WATER REFLECTION

NOTE: This requires at least DirectX 8 level video card so, for example, GeForce 4 MX can't do this...

Go into "\Far Cry Demo\Levels\Fort\" and make a copy of the "level.pak" file. Next, open the non-copy in WinZip and extract the files to a temp folder. Open up "mission_fort.xml" in Word, Word Pad or whatever.

Press CTRL+F to find this line: Water="TerrainWater_OnlySky"

Delete the _OnlySky part so that it looks like this: Water="TerrainWater". Now, save that and repack those files in a .zip and rename it back to "level.pak". Replace the original file in "\Far Cry Demo\Levels\Fort\" directory with the new one and you're done.

Now EVERYTHING will be reflected in the water... your own body, trees, rocks, smoke, explosions... whatever. Everything will be seen in the reflections. It's really amazing.

That's nice! I'll try it when my Mobo comes from RMA.

 

[PliotronX]

Originally posted by: Czar

Originally posted by: virtualgames0
TRUE DYNAMIC WATER REFLECTION

NOTE: This requires at least DirectX 8 level video card so, for example, GeForce 4 MX can't do this...

Go into "\Far Cry Demo\Levels\Fort\" and make a copy of the "level.pak" file. Next, open the non-copy in WinZip and extract the files to a temp folder. Open up "mission_fort.xml" in Word, Word Pad or whatever.

Press CTRL+F to find this line: Water="TerrainWater_OnlySky"

Delete the _OnlySky part so that it looks like this: Water="TerrainWater". Now, save that and repack those files in a .zip and rename it back to "level.pak". Replace the original file in "\Far Cry Demo\Levels\Fort\" directory with the new one and you're done.

Now EVERYTHING will be reflected in the water... your own body, trees, rocks, smoke, explosions... whatever. Everything will be seen in the reflections. It's really amazing.

is it slow?

Yes, it moidalizes the framerate. 9800XT's tremble in fear of it, 5950's jump off of bridges because of it. We won't even mention the 8500's and Ti4x00's.

 

[Ackmed]

I dont see what the big deal with the save system. It saves often enough, no more than 10 mins for me, and often times less than that. Saving around every corner takes away some of the immersion, and is just plain sissy... There is no challenge when you save too often, and you have no fear of dying.

 

[Czar]

Originally posted by: Ackmed
I dont see what the big deal with the save system. It saves often enough, no more than 10 mins for me, and often times less than that. Saving around every corner takes away some of the immersion, and is just plain sissy... There is no challenge when you save too often, and you have no fear of dying.

i realy like the save system, i just play for maybe 1-2 saves at a time.. ok maybe more but its a great way for me to quit the game, I just play to the next save point and then exit

 

[CraigRT]

I'll have to give it a try....

 

[NYHoustonman]

I got it too... Amazing. Just got up to the part where you start seeing the genetically altered stuff, and it starts to get really creepy. And it runs just fine on my First rig, and well enough with medium everything on my second in OpenGL mode. I'm definetly liking the experience so far... So much for "pretty but no gameplay/story," right?

And btw, that save problem really isn't a problem at all. In console (if nobody else has mentioned this), type "\save_game (insertnamehere)" then "\load_game (insertnamehere)" to load.

 

[ghekko]

FARCRY is doomed to be Ruind!!!!!
its plain ! what? just looks so STUPID it look Swimming with a Machinegun or a Huge knife
THE GAME WAS ONLY MADE TO DEMOSTRATE POWER OF THE FASTEST VIDEOCARDS ON THE MARKET
THE GAMEPLAYING IS BACK IN THE 1900 ,,,,,,,

Leave it in the boutiqe Shells ... it SUCKS ! :evil::frown::gift::heart::gift:

 

[kylebisme]

well ghekko, that was quite a first post there.

 

[Oakenfold]

Originally posted by: ghekko
FARCRY is doomed to be Ruind!!!!!
its plain ! what? just looks so STUPID it look Swimming with a Machinegun or a Huge knife
THE GAME WAS ONLY MADE TO DEMOSTRATE POWER OF THE FASTEST VIDEOCARDS ON THE MARKET
THE GAMEPLAYING IS BACK IN THE 1900 ,,,,,,,

Leave it in the boutiqe Shells ... it SUCKS ! :evil::frown::gift::heart::gift:

You know there are some of us that actually buy the games to see the graphics.
If you bought an expensive graphics card to sit around and play games that aren't using 2.0 shaders maybe you ought to figure out why you bought that new DX9 2.0 card?


Oh yea, forgot to say Far Cry bump!

 

[McArra]

Originally posted by: ghekko
FARCRY is doomed to be Ruind!!!!!
its plain ! what? just looks so STUPID it look Swimming with a Machinegun or a Huge knife
THE GAME WAS ONLY MADE TO DEMOSTRATE POWER OF THE FASTEST VIDEOCARDS ON THE MARKET
THE GAMEPLAYING IS BACK IN THE 1900 ,,,,,,,

Leave it in the boutiqe Shells ... it SUCKS ! :evil::frown::gift::heart::gift:

I play it only for the graphics. In fact, I use invulneravility... but that's just me. I love those graphics......

 

[Curley]

This thread reminds me of the Quake II and Unreal/Tournament threads. Everyone claiming that nothing will beat Quake I, II, Arena etc. Everyone that hated Unreal were the people with low to mid level computers (including myself). FarCry will rip your computer another blowhole just as Unreal did. I think it is great that we have something to play that is, or may be comparable to, Half Life 2 or Doom 3.

This is a sleeper game that no one expected so I consider it a plus for gamers. Everyone has dislikes about certain games and only the sales and player involvement will settle this debate.

The industry is forcing everyone to upgrade thier computers to play the next generation of games. I couldn't afford to buy all the hardware required to play newly released games so I would crap on games that I couldn't play on my machine.

To keep up with technology and have a married life of any kind is nearly impossible. So I divorced my wife and I play everything for as long as I want and with as much hardware the industry throws at me, without hearing about all the bullshit about loveing my computer better than her etc....

Life is good and I hope Half Life 2 is better.

 

[robertsmcn]

 

[robertsmcn]

Oops, didn't realize I was logged in.

I picked up my copy of FarCry last night at BestBuy. Still on sale for $30. Couldn't turn that deal down. That should be the deciding factor if anybody is thinking about getting it but is hesitant.