Nanor
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I'm making this thread so people can come along and say a few things on a game they've been playing recently.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
I quite enjoyed Far Cry 3. It was a visually impressive game, the guns were numerous and gun play was quite fun. My niggles were the story wasn't all that. It was passable but it didn't rope me in. What I think they really missed out on was allied NPCs; if they had brought in being able to launch an attack on an enemy camp with a few of your NPC buddies I'd probably have played it a lot more.
When Blood Dragon was released I still hadn't finished FC3 so I didn't pick it up. About a week ago it appeared on the weekend sale where I could get it and Call of Juarez: Gunslinger for a tenner so I picked it up figuring they've taken FC3 and expanded upon it. They haven't. The intro is incredibly unsatisfying. It starts with you in a blackhawk using a minigun to tear through chumps to Long Tall Sally for about a minute, then you're dropped and given a quick tutorial one the core mechanics and sent in to take out the guys in the base.
You have four weapons; machine pistol, assault rifle, sniper rifle and shotgun. When the gunplay started I elected for the assault rifle as my main weapon. It was terrible. The recoil was off the chart, bullets didn't seem to do much damage even though they seemed to be lasers and I kept thinking "I can't wait to upgrade this to something much better!". Fast forward about 20 minutes of, to it's credit, pretty witty and entertaining story and voice acting and I've lost all my weapons and all I have is a bow and arrow and I meet the namesake of the game: the Blood Dragons. Scary beasts that you can lure using hearts from your enemies to clear enemy garrisons for you. Pretty cool in fairness; a nice mechanic.
Ten minutes go past and I'm out of the intro mission and free to do as I please. I've been reacquainted with my weapons and I figure I'll start upgrading them. Upgrades work differently from FC3. In BD you get attachments from completing little side quests. A great reason for you to actually do them because in FC3 I just didn't bother. My first mission is to rescue a scientist (your allies) from a bunch of guys that have held him hostage. In return, I get a silencer. So I get up to the area and figure I'll pick a few of them off with my sniper rifle. Two are beside each other. I can take them down in a second. POW. POW. That's not the case. More like POW! Pull bolt back, chamber a round, back down the sights, oh he's gone. What the hell? I could have sworn this was a semi-auto. No matter, I'll close the distance picking them off with my laser blasting assault rifle. Ugh has this rifle gotten more inaccurate? Is it doing less damage? Maybe these guys are just more powerful. The lasers I'm firing are distinctively less laser-y. Semi-auto shotgun time! Oh, you're not semi-auto? I see what's happened here. I started with the best, fully upgraded weapons. I have to work my way back up to that wank. My god.
I stand atop the hill and decide to take in a view like I did in FC3. I look across the countryside and I get something akin to this. I can't see shit! What am I looking at here? BROWN. I open my menu to look at the new perks they have for leveling up. I'm level 5 and haven't chosen any. I open up the skills list and not only do I find that the skills are identical to the ones in FC3 but there's a linear progression through them. If you want a certain skill you're going to have to wait 'til you hit that level.
So what are you left with? A reskinned (and not for the better) version of FC3 with linear progression which would be alright if the gunplay was fun and the weapons were varied but they're not. Not a fan.
Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
I quite enjoyed Far Cry 3. It was a visually impressive game, the guns were numerous and gun play was quite fun. My niggles were the story wasn't all that. It was passable but it didn't rope me in. What I think they really missed out on was allied NPCs; if they had brought in being able to launch an attack on an enemy camp with a few of your NPC buddies I'd probably have played it a lot more.
When Blood Dragon was released I still hadn't finished FC3 so I didn't pick it up. About a week ago it appeared on the weekend sale where I could get it and Call of Juarez: Gunslinger for a tenner so I picked it up figuring they've taken FC3 and expanded upon it. They haven't. The intro is incredibly unsatisfying. It starts with you in a blackhawk using a minigun to tear through chumps to Long Tall Sally for about a minute, then you're dropped and given a quick tutorial one the core mechanics and sent in to take out the guys in the base.
You have four weapons; machine pistol, assault rifle, sniper rifle and shotgun. When the gunplay started I elected for the assault rifle as my main weapon. It was terrible. The recoil was off the chart, bullets didn't seem to do much damage even though they seemed to be lasers and I kept thinking "I can't wait to upgrade this to something much better!". Fast forward about 20 minutes of, to it's credit, pretty witty and entertaining story and voice acting and I've lost all my weapons and all I have is a bow and arrow and I meet the namesake of the game: the Blood Dragons. Scary beasts that you can lure using hearts from your enemies to clear enemy garrisons for you. Pretty cool in fairness; a nice mechanic.
Ten minutes go past and I'm out of the intro mission and free to do as I please. I've been reacquainted with my weapons and I figure I'll start upgrading them. Upgrades work differently from FC3. In BD you get attachments from completing little side quests. A great reason for you to actually do them because in FC3 I just didn't bother. My first mission is to rescue a scientist (your allies) from a bunch of guys that have held him hostage. In return, I get a silencer. So I get up to the area and figure I'll pick a few of them off with my sniper rifle. Two are beside each other. I can take them down in a second. POW. POW. That's not the case. More like POW! Pull bolt back, chamber a round, back down the sights, oh he's gone. What the hell? I could have sworn this was a semi-auto. No matter, I'll close the distance picking them off with my laser blasting assault rifle. Ugh has this rifle gotten more inaccurate? Is it doing less damage? Maybe these guys are just more powerful. The lasers I'm firing are distinctively less laser-y. Semi-auto shotgun time! Oh, you're not semi-auto? I see what's happened here. I started with the best, fully upgraded weapons. I have to work my way back up to that wank. My god.
I stand atop the hill and decide to take in a view like I did in FC3. I look across the countryside and I get something akin to this. I can't see shit! What am I looking at here? BROWN. I open my menu to look at the new perks they have for leveling up. I'm level 5 and haven't chosen any. I open up the skills list and not only do I find that the skills are identical to the ones in FC3 but there's a linear progression through them. If you want a certain skill you're going to have to wait 'til you hit that level.
So what are you left with? A reskinned (and not for the better) version of FC3 with linear progression which would be alright if the gunplay was fun and the weapons were varied but they're not. Not a fan.