Oh fuck this game then. Unless they have a lot of ways to traverse the area (Biplanes. Make them) then I'm not buying it. I don't have time to go to one end of a huuuge as map in an FPS to complete fetch missions.


Also, add bears.

Scale was one of the issues I had with FarCry 2. Well, besides the horrible stealth system, gun degredation, missions structure and the fact that everyone only exists to kill you and only you.

Just Cause 2 did scale right. It made the world humongous, but it allowed you to literally transport yourself anywhere quickly whether through the arms dealer, hijacking a heli/jet or just grappling hook+parachuting across the world at a quick pace.

Drakenguard knows his shit.

So now u spend 10 times more wasting going from then centre of the map to 1 side then back for bad missions with enemies which respawn for no reason.

I never had a problem with the guns but that being said every mission i got a new set of guns so maybe thats why, ah well.

If ther isn't anyone to shoot could it still be fun? Answer: shadow of the colossus.

They claimed the first one was about 30km2 and the second one had a map size somewhere in the region of 50km2. So what, 500km2 for Far Cry 3?

Hmmm, generally I'm actually not that big a fan of ridiculously large open worlds. It usually means they're far more empty, and it ends up just being a lot more distance I have to cross to get to something interesting.

Still, the only thing I feel they HAVE to change, is that stupid edit they made to the voices in the last game where they took the pauses out from between each sentence the characters spoke. It made them sounds like a bunch of crazy and mentally deficient assholes.

@ZeniGeva

Not really. If they have a good streaming system, it won't be more costly, no matter what the size of the world is. Same thing than with movies ; you don't need more memory to watch a longer film on Netflix because it's streamed. Content that you don't need is not loaded. Or else, Minecraft would take INFINITE CPU RESOURCES! :P

On another note, I find this a weird marketing claims, considering one of the most criticised part of Far Cry 2...

"Hey, most people told us that Far Cry 2 was boring because it was about driving around a huge world 90% of the time"
"Well, let's make the world 10 times bigger and everything will be solved" "GENIUS!"

Bigger =/= better. FC >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> FC22. Sandbox games are fucking tedious and overrated. Throw some RPG stuff into the sandbox and you might have me interested, however.

really some of you are complaining about the guns degrading and respawn of guardpost guards? so realism isnt welcome now but Im sure if COD had that there would be no complaining those are good things about the 2nd game the thing they did need to fix was a better way to travel the area besides buses and vehicles

@masterbrief

don't worry, there's always room for complaining about call of duty

I dont know why everyone complains. I loved traveleing around in far cry 2 esp by the boat. Exploring and enjoying the pure nature.

5 things on my wishlist for far cry 3:

1. keep the safehouses/hideouts - i loved the ability to unlock weapons and the option to equip myself as i liked to

2. Respawning checkpoints yes...but not every 30 seconds so please set up the rate

3. repairing the vehicles, why not with a qte? In FC2 you were able to spend money for getting better at it but you only got faster at it. Make it a qte in 3 dificultys. Would add more thension.

4. Finaly give us that damn pretators everyone wanted since FC2!

5. Ruins, since part 3 is settlet in an asia like terrain why not exploring ancient buildings? I traveled through allot of dungeons, my axe and swords battle ready...but with an mp5...i dont think so.

A short sidenote.
In times of kinect, why not switching shooting from the hipp and with ironsight via head leaning? Also the reload could be done with a quick push from youre palm to the controller. Kinect... so much potential, wastet for the casual(tys)

@ lastdual

That's fine. I simply couldn't stand playing it. I'm all for beautiful lush open environments. But the game just wasn't fun to play. It wasn't fun to drive, it wasn't fun to constantly run into things that wanted your head on a stake, it wasn't fun period.

The missions were some of the most tedious crap I've ever played which is really why I stopped playing it. It and Disgaea 3 are the only two games I can't finish. Disgaea 3 mainly because I can't force myself through the grind again. Disgaea is just dead to me. Great for people who love the grinding, but I can't do it a third time.

farcry 2 was a pretty good game despite all its flaws but hey all games have flaws from halo to metal gear to gearsof war to any game, period. but it feels like Farcry3 was the sleeper hit of E3 i didnt knew about it until a couple of days after e3. i was blown away at the trailer/gameplay footage. by far one of my favorite games from e3 i cant wait to see more of it.

Agree w/Drakengard.

Also if you're going to include stealth, make it a viable option. Stealth in FC2 was BS.

I keep wanting to finish the game then I remember how slow it is getting from one point to another. Even the bus stops seem out of the way.
I think he needs a little gyro-copter, little bird or something if the map is going to be huge.
Also the inhabitants of the world need a reason to exist of than wait fit me to show up. Maybe more faction skirmishes you could chose to either ignore or take part in.

I don't want size I want quality of content. And maybe some damn AI that made any sense this time.

Drakengard:
"Scale was one of the issues I had with FarCry 2. Well, besides the horrible stealth system, gun degredation, missions structure and the fact that everyone only exists to kill you and only you.

Just Cause 2 did scale right. It made the world humongous, but it allowed you to literally transport yourself anywhere quickly whether through the arms dealer, hijacking a heli/jet or just grappling hook+parachuting across the world at a quick pace."

'ten times' this.

eckers569: The game has many downfalls, I don't deny that. But it is one of the best openworld shooters I have ever played; even with it's issues.

They made stealth a little better with subsequent updates, and also upped the checkpoint respawn timer (not enough, though), and made it so enemies can't see you from half a mile away.

If you like really immersing yourself in to a game, FC2 is one of the best.