Feedback on FC4, for any interested
I bought FC4 a couple of days ago and after some technical hiccups proceeded to spend an absurd amount of my free time immersed in this Himalayan wonderland. For the most part I'm loving the game. It has an enjoyable story, characters I'm starting to like, hell, I even like Ajay, which is a nice change cos I despised Jason Brody. There are a couple of things that annoy me, though.
First, the HUD. I love how much of the HUD I've been allowed to turn off. I'm one of those people that just hates all that crap all over the screen. I want it pristine. Keep the minimap, keep the reticule. Keep the health bar. I like how the ammo counter shows up when I reload or when I fire the weapon, and then goes the hell away. So, damn good job... but you stopped on the one yard line. Give me the option to get rid of objective markers completely. If I want it I'll go to the map and set a waypoint. Seriously! The landscape is beautiful! The artwork is amazing! And for the first time ever I have a rig that can really handle it. And then there's this objective marker. This ever present, pulsing yellow blot on the landscape. It's not an issue when I'm going straight there, but often, in a sandbox game, I'm not. In many cases my objective will be, for all intents and purposes, in the next county. Meaning it'll take me a while to get there. In the meantime I've got a map full of loot and collectables to work my there with. So let me get rid of the glowing yellow headlight. Please?
Add to the above request the vehicle control layout that appears every time I get on a bike or in a car or hovercraft or climb on an Elephant. It's good info to have... but it doesn't take long before I've got that info down. Yet every time I get in a vehicle that info shows up... and stays. At one point I remember thinking that my girlfriends blind, r*t*rded Irish Setter could have made sense of the control schematic within the length of time allotted. Seriously. I know how to pilot a hang glider with my keyboard. You can give it a rest. Then of course there's the wingsuit icon that just stays.... forever.
Okay, last complaint: The Eagles.
Really? I mean: Really? The Eagles are worse than the bloody Cliffracers from Morrowind, and those things were so bad even Bethesda joked about 'em. And the absolute worse thing about 'em? They skip the last thirty feet of their attack run. Meaning right about the time a shotgun feels right, the bird has teleport into an animation where Ajay is fending the damn thing off with his forearms.
Okay, /rant. I'm done. Thanks for an awesome game. I suspect I will spending an unbelievable amount of time exploring Kyrat.
Cheers!