I played every Far Cry game, so I can say I know the franchise. The following is my personal opinion.
So far FC4 seems to be a huge step back, into the FC2 era (I never finished that one due to the extremely bad game design as well). Honestly, you guys should fire your game designers, they have no idea what they are doing. This game has so many annoying parts, it simply kills the FUN OF PLAYING.
You have a realistic looking environment, characters, etc. Yet the game mechanics are so abstract, that they create dissonance.
A few examples:
Eagles should never attack humans, except if the human is trying to climb into their nest. Eagles should never fly into a firefight. Every time an eagle attacks me, I get annoyed and frustrated and hate you for it. Especially that the game prevents you to attack it when it gets real close.
Honey badgers should die when you shoot them at point blank range with an AK. In the game you need like 5-6 shots to kill it. WTF???
I understand, that you need some natural enemies in the wilderness, otherwise it would be boring to move around. But why eagles and honey badgers? Much less people would be annoyed if you would have sticked to predators which have the size and/or numbers to actually attack a human (which is still stupid, but more acceptable in a game).
Dragunov SVD: I shot a deer or goat with it and it didn't die. I shot an enemy with it and didn't die. I had to shoot it like 5-6 times to kill him. ???
AI reaction: An enemy soldier is escorting a prisoner on the road. Suddenly someone shoots him with a dragunov (so he lost like 20% hp). "Natural" reaction: let's kill the prisoner! WTF??? He should go for cover or try to attack back. It would be okay, if a specific enemy type would go for the prisoner when attacked (like those crazy pyro guys), but all? Another design fail.
Unskippable splash screens. Really? Why do I have to create a custom shortcut to avoid all that corporate BS?
Unskippable cutscenes. Really??? In 2014???
Bad Handsome Jack ripoff. Feels forced, uninspired and it is not funny.
I'm absolutely sure I will find more annoying, illogical things, which destroy the immersion, but the above ones most likely will already prevent me from finishing this game. A game should be fun, this one is annoying. Even when it starts to get fun, some game mechanic turns it into annoyance very soon. You are working hard on making the gamers annoyed and I would say you succeeded brilliantly. A lot of the above are no brainers, yet you made the wrong decisions.
I will definitely won't buy the next FC and warn off any friends of mine. It is really sad that a good looking game like this can be so bad. FC2 all over again.
Tango
I agree with the OP
I think FC4 is a massive step back,
It's broken
the story is really bad,
the characters are utterly terrible
the AI and character behaviour is a joke
the stuttering and performance is terrible (I have 980 GTXs in SLI)
FC4 is an example of a game produced by a boardroom,
Load of trash.
I think the game is a step sideways. The map is beautiful and fun to explore, but other than the graphics, it doesn't offer much more than FC3 did. Yes basically a FC3 clone.Originally Posted by Din0boy Go to original post
Wait 3 or 4 years before FC5 please and bring us something new to the table.
I will say that the game runs very good on PS4. There are some definite lighting flickers that are annoying, but frame rate is very good
Next one should be set 60's Era Vietnam war. That game would be a hit especially if a huge area is made with more access to different vehicles like the Huey chopper, etc. It would be an awesome survival story depending on what is done, could be a lone survivor of a crashed chopper in the jungle or use movies like Apocalypse Now as a reference, like a colonel going rogue with his men in jungle. I think it would be a hit. My cousin and I have actually been making Vietnam based levels in the map editor, but they don't give you enough options for a jungle setting. But they are turning out badass.
I was writing something similar, so will make it requests:
Can we please get an option in preferences to turn off the eagles?
There's no single other thing in this game that I hate as much as these birds, they ruin the exploration value of the game.
Was it really necessary to attack us every 5 minutes from the air, ripping away half our health?
Most of the times it's even impossible to anticipate the coming of the eagle, most I hear its screech and am immediately mauled. I even get attacked in cars, on quads and in buzzers and it's not good for my language use at the time.
The other day I got out of my car to skin a badger I'd run over, walking over I was attacked by an eagle. Why? Just to annoy me?
Or what of having survived half a mountain cliff with three or more grappling points, only to get to the top and get attacked by a leopard, then immediately after that get attacked by an eagle and if you're unlucky like me, a yak in the neighborhood doesn't like your face either, and it will attack you. Yep, happened: before I could heal myself to full health I was dead. Not much fun after having spent the better part of an hour to get up that mountain to get to the letter hidden there.
So please please, for the ultimate reality buffs of this game, put the eagle in the preferences for them to turn on. I'd rather be attacked by a pack of wolves, or any other animal as the annoyance rate is way lower with their attacks than the useless eagle.
And while we're talking useless...
Can someone please complete enable or disable auto-steering?
Now whatever vehicle you're in on a road will auto steer the first 3 corners, and then it'll stop doing so. I've went up and off cliffs quite a lot, due to the car all of a sudden no longer auto-steering. This is aside from the "Autodrive" function. I found that doing high speed drives, a lot of the times your steering is countered by the computer, it'll steer counter to where you want to go. The car will steer by itself, even through the S'es up a mountain. And then when you least expect it it will stop doing so, so the next corner you go straight. Problematic if there is a cliff there.
So either enable this auto-steering all the time, or just disable it all-together, except for when in autodrive mode.
I doubt you're still laughing at being pecked at by the eagles. And since it's complaint numbero uno around here, maybe we all got owned, but you're just in denial.Originally Posted by kirksteruk Go to original post
I was just in a firefight to liberate a hard outpost, got 4 heavies against me, 3 flamers and a heavy machine gun. Also 3 snipers, two of which with very accurate rocket launchers. Nothing said about the mortar crews. But they didn't hurt me as much as the freak eagle, which attacked me in the middle of a firefight, and not just once but twice in a row. And there's nothing you can do about it than just undergo the attack and see your health slip away. At least with any other animal attacking, you can empty your gun into them.
So for things like this, yes, put the eagles as an option in preferences. Heck, put all animals as an option in preferences. Then those who don't mind they trip over a yak-pack buffing them to death, or honey badgers ferociously claiming this 25 square feet of gaming territory, or who love to be attacked by eagles over nilly-Willy whatsoever a reason, can do so to their heart's content. And I can disable eagles. I don't mind the rest of the animals, they get killed by the mortars, just as Ajay is. But not those pesky eagles, they soar on...
While I am enjoying Far Cry 4's campaign, uniqltango's complaints are valid. If you're going to write "tl;dr", then it's best for you to never reply at all.Originally Posted by kirksteruk Go to original post
I wrote a response in your topic.Originally Posted by jsweaty009 Go to original post