[Felix]

so, this game is aesthetically pretty wonderful, but I'm not any good at the shooting.

it does have a guy basically doing a bad David Hayter impression muttering under his breath "UNNH! I HATE TUTORIALS!" so there's that

[diplo]

Isn't this just Matt Hazard

[allensmithee]

matt hazard but you can probably enjoy shooting people more
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[Mr. Mechanical]

So is it open world like regular Farcry 3 or what?
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[allensmithee]

i saw a screenshot with all those hunting signs and stuff on there, but that's all i know.
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[Brooks]

All this needed to be was some screenshots on allgamesbeta

[Ronnoc]

I said this in the news thread, but too bad: the game has some pretty cute animation jokes. I particularly like the shotgun loading animation.

[Swarm]

Oh, so this has leaked, or what? Should I torrent this?!

[Felix]

go ahead, but a) it's not clear to me that saving works, and b) speaking as someone who's not particularly great at FPSes, the game doesn't seem to be very good

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

C.A.T.

[CubaLibre]

Well it's just Far Cry 3 but with neon right. So that's an improvement, but it's still Far Cry 3.
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[Dark Age Iron Savior]

That's a pretty useless observation.

[CubaLibre]

Apparently not, because it seems some people in this thread were expecting it to be really cool? As though putting neon paint on Far Cry 3 is going to make for a good shootman all of a sudden.
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[Victor]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[thestage]

one would imagine that when someone says a game "is still Far Cry 3," they actually do mean that it, you know, contains the things from Far Cry 3 in it.

[Felix]

it seems pretty linear but I only got about half an hour in, and like I said, it appears not to save

the stealth is sorta fucked; you seem to be majorly incentivized to stay hidden but using any of your weapons alerts everyone? and the level design is almost interesting/complex but never in such a way that you can actually make good use of it?

I dunno, I've never played a far cry game before

[Tulpa]

sounds exactly like every single far cry though

incentivized stealth but weirdly overly alert npcs has been a staple of the series since the very first game. Almost interesting level design too.
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[field balm]

enjoying how fast the retro-future thing is being driven into the ground post-nightcall
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[Rud31]

the fact they used motherfucker twice in the trailer took me out of it.
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[Felix]

it is cool that they actually got michael biehn, I hadn't noticed that

the production is really well-executed and fun, it's just the fact that it's far cry that kind of sucks

[remote]

it is kind of interesting how the trailers for both this and the retro game thing in guild wars 2 kinda cashed in on the currently popular wave of nostalgia for the '80s VHS aesthetic. i could be cynical about that, but i'm actually not really complaining since it is a thing i'm pretty into.

i don't think i actually want to give ubisoft any money, but i do kind of want to try this.
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[Brooks]

Can't quite believe it's still a "current wave" so much as a perma popcultural feature now like rockabilly I mean we've been being hit with 80s-ism for over a decade now feels like

[remote]

i'm kinda talking about the VHS thing specifically, not just general '80s nostalgia
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[Brooks]

Fair enough. Certainly it's retaining a kind if novelty in the videogame space, though this seems like a late sell signal

[Felix]

VHS tapes are great though

I never actually owned a TV with anything other than coax input; I hooked my playstation, dreamcast, gamecube, and ps2 up through the RCA jacks of a VCR

and I used the dreamcast to play divx VCDs

I think the number of DVDs I owned, total, was like ... <20. the time period during which I had the means to play them before it became preferable to just acquire and store higher quality rips on the computer was like ... six years? 2002-2008?

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[Felix]

I also first played gears of war by hooking up my athlon xp / radeon 9600 machine through s-video on that same VCR, because I could only get acceptable framerates at 640x480 and I didn't have any display on which that resolution didn't look like a smeared mess apart from the old coax tv.

[Mr. Mechanical]

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[Felix]

I trust RPS, it may actually be a good game, I just couldn't get into the rhythm of what they were doing between the stealth and the level design at all

if memory serves, the SNES shipped with an RF adapter? I don't recall that I ever bought an RF adapter separately (I had the VCR, after all).

[thestage]

RPS loves everything unless it has DRM that isn't steam or someone tells them it mistreats the womens, which they are incapable of noticing on their own.

[luvcraft]

pfft, you kids. Back in my day you had to screw the RF adapter from your Atari 2600 to the back of your TV, and climb around behind your TV and flip the switch if you wanted to play Adventure after you watched Super Friends.


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[Moogs]

Man, I remember the first time I made the switch from coax to composite with the SNES. Then composite to s-video with the PS1. Those were amazing days. Now we have all this 1080p shit that isn't really 1080p whatever I don't get it.

[notbov]

[Brooks]

Was on RF until I think the Dreamcast's VGA out, a switchover that really spoiled me

[Rud31]

So I actually played through this today. It was pretty cool! I still think the swearing was excessive. "Eat Monkey Shit Cyber-Fuck" was the best I heard. The ending credits have gone on long enough that my 360's screen has gone dark?

It was a perfect weekend afternoon game where you sit down and play and beat and go "okay." I had the soundtrack on my ipod for a while and didn't think much of it so deleted it. now kind of want it again. Maybe. hmmph.
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[Mr. Mechanical]

Having played this to completion some time ago I agree with Rudie. It is a great game and way better than regular Far Cry. Music is ace when combined with those visuals!

To answer mine and Victor's question the game is in fact open world like Far Cry 3 in that it all takes place on the first big island from Far Cry 3.

However, UNLIKE Far Cry 3, it does not feature many of the same activities etc. and all the locations are changed, as well as enemy types and animals. Also the story does not attempt to take itself seriously and is better for it (as is the case with just about every video game that has a story part to it).

Beyond the general vibe and personality, as well as Michael Biehn growling about "Vietnam 2" and such as among his remaining memories, I think I like the healing animations the most. I don't remember if you could pick up health packs or not because I just hit the heal button whenever I needed to top off my health, doing so plays one of three or four special animations.

One is Cyber-Biehn digging a bullet out of his arm. This one is the most boring.

Another is him resetting a broken thumb back into its joint. Ouch!

The other two involve making in-the-field repairs to his cyber-arm, reconnecting loose hoses/wires and pulling out a welding torch to touch things up. This one I always laugh at or at least smile because it's usually happening in the middle of a firefight and that's just hilarious to see.

In short Blood Dragon is the best Far Cry and needs to have another one with Cyber-Biehn reprising his role. I think I got all the trophies except for the one where you kill so many Blood Dragons and the other one where you headshot each enemy type.

After I finish up with BioShock 2 again I'll probably replay Blood Dragon to cleanse my palette. It's a pretty good experience that stays with you long after you've had it and might just be one of those games I come back to every year or so when I'm in need of a smile.
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[Victor]

I appreciate closure.