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    People on Reddit love FC2 more than FC4

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    I enjoyed FC4, but I still prefer the gritty tone and setting found in FC2 and still play it all these years later (with Dylan's Mod, thank you Sir!!!).
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    After replaying FC2 so many times, I just have a hard time going back. It's really just a case of having played as every character multiple times, and having legitimately seen what is probably every square foot of real estate. If I thought there was even one more surprize left hiding from me, I'd play again.

    But in terms of game play, yes, IMO, FC2 is the best of the series. FC3 was great, except we had the return to the supernatural BS with the "Ink Monster". But the hunting and crafting were quite excelent, so much so that I've played several times to where I craft up to 100%, and replay from the start. FC4 is really quite beautiful, but with the HUD, tagging, and wall hacks, I can't take FC3 or FC4 very seriously, simply too easy.

    At least they allowed most of the HUD and whatnot to be disabled in FC4, but what they really need is a return to the perfection of the GPS as put to use in FC2.

    Eventually, games will have to start including radio comms between the bad guys(and I mean constant, not like the sparsness of FC3 when Jason's GF excapes or the Medusa call for help). If we have that, no hacks, and intelligent AI like FC2 had, we will have a level of difficulty that would make most people give up in disgust, but at the same time, we'll have a game that finally plays like reality. I remember virtual terror in some of the predicaments I got myself in playing FC2, FC3 and FC4 have nothing like that at all. In that regard, FC2 was a FPS, while FC3 and FC4 are more akin to interactive movies.
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    I don't get why people had such a huge ***** fit about the guard respawning outposts in far cry 2, in far cry 3 and 4 you may be standing around and have a jeep of bad guys appear out of nowhere and attack or walk so much as a step and have a damn eagle,tiger,bear,honey badger, want to knaw your face off. I enjoy having things and people around me to kill and it was not annoying to me in far cry 2 for enemies to repopulate their outpost as it made the game feel hostile, discomforting since you were not on either factions side.

    maybe far cry 4 does do things differently I mean the far cry games it's usually you versus the elements and an army of mercenaries but far cry 4 changed that concept by letting you call for help, join a faction and took you away from the unknown tropical island setting to some foreign dictated country that has very little to do with the title other than playing as a character that is a far cry from civilization.

    you cannot really say without hatred for the series that there is a bad far cry game but all of them are different games.
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    Far Cry 2 is better. I replayed the game 3 times, which for me is rare. I loved how gritty the game felt, I loved how human and vulnerable you felt. That is all totally gone in both 3 and 4. I run around like Rambo now. My deaths are 90% of the time from falling accidents. Not so in FC2 - one could get overwhelmed quickly with no magical regeneration or super syringes to save you. Plus enemies didn't get highlighted on the minimap.
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    Since when is Reddit, or any social media related site, the end all be all of opinions?

    Let us not forget the lamest distraction and disgrace to the gaming industry in recent history came from social media in fighting, GanmerGate.

    The day the gaming industry turns into what is basically a derivative of so called "reality TV", that's the day you can pack it in. I applaud the professionals in the industry whom stand up against such atrocities.

    At the end of the day, Reddit is nothing but a user version of a wannabe NeoGAF.
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    I agree with everyone, even if FC2 wasn't perfect it was really unique and full of potential. FC3 was a poor RPGs and FC4 is just a copy and paste with some new features, but the gameplay is the same... I hope that Ubi will take more time to work on FC5 and hopefully not about dinosaurs, I don't want another FC 3.5 v2, I'm thinking about making a feedback thread focused on FC2 mechanics and survival features. When I have time i'll start it.
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    FC2 was, and still is, a better game than FC4. The new game may be prettier, but it's far too linear and contrived.

    And with the SweetFX mods out there, FC2 looks pretty damn good too.
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    As is always the case when franchise sequels change formulas significantly, I think the reality is there's a handful of retro grouches, esp on the official forums, that want to skew actual public opinion into something other than it is to influence a reversion to the old ways. Same thing happened on the Splinter Cell boards.

    If Far Cry 2 really is so much more preferable to the new formula, tell me why does Metacrtitic show user scores on Far Cry 2 PC at only a 5.7 average out of 1183 ratings, and Far Cry 3 at an 8.2 ave user score out of 2680 ratings?

    Now granted Far Cry 4 user scores are considerably lower than Far Cry 3, but it's primarily due to the technical problems at launch, which for most have been fixed, and even WITH that, it's 6.5 ave is still above that of Far Cry 2.

    For all intents and purposes though, no one can argue that Far Cry 4 is just a more elaborate, very similar formula to that of Far Cry 3, which easily has far better user reception than Far Cry 2.

    The outcries of a handful on official forums and social media sites do not tell the whole story, not by a long shot. If anything they tend to distort it somewhat.
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    Infact Ubisoft must think to improve the FC2 formula because that game has so much dropped potential. That game wasn't perfect and I agree but FC3 and FC4 aren't perfect as well, they still share the same things that make the game easy (like towers and free weapons) and useless (like hunting that is useful only for upgrade your equipment, the backpack where most of the things inside are junk, the treasures and money yes they are even useless after you unlock all the towers and get free weapons) etc.
    If the series brings back FC2 formula with survival features (which FC2 needed) the game would be great and more immersive. IMO

    I would continue to write more but I'm busy.
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