[Far Cry Primal] - Your thoughts on Expert Mode.
Hi everyone.
Now that players have had enough time with Far Cry Primal, we'd love to hear your thoughts on how you found the games "Expert Mode". Did you find it too easy? Too hard? Are there any changes you would have made?
With all of these questions in mind, please answer the poll based on your experience and leave any additional feedback you may have on the topic in the comments below.
Thanks!
Expert Mode isn't the answer.
First I want to say I love this game, and had a great time with it in the last few weeks. But you are not going to make gamers happier by trying to re-balance the difficulty level. That isn't the big problem. The problem is that you cut and pasted the same 7 or 8 side quests to fill the game with content. The game is actually so good that this can be forgivable, but severely limits the replay value. I have saved the same Wenja from captivity more than 100 times now. What was the purpose of having two starting points for every side quest? That is confusing and annoying.
This could have been one of the best games ever made, but you should have taken a page from the Grand Theft Auto series on quest progress and development. You didn't need to make advanced quests with fancy programming, gamers just want something interesting to do even if its finding a unique animal, plant, or item in the game. The Urki quests were fantastic. The most important guidelines to developing side quests should be to make every one different enough so gamers won't notice cut and paste programming, and to challenge us through quests to use all the great features, skills, and game mechanics. If you are going to make us do the same quest, limit it to two or three times. There should have been a quest designed around every animal, weapon, skill, and mechanic in the game to force us to use them. Because of the repetitive nature of the quests there is very little incentive. It's really a shame that many people will play Far Cry Primal only using the Sabretooth tiger and only taking enemy territories by bombing and attacking with the owl, and then stop playing.