Re: Games Discussion Thread
Anybody with Dragon Age Inquisition for PC willing to help me get off the default worldstate (yay for single-player games that are incomplete without the internet!) ?
In other news, Far Cry 4 is pretty cool, I definately recommned giving it a try . Once you've managed to fix the mouse controls on PC that is. A large diversity in wild-life, though they typically don't act like animals should (eagles don't just go out and attack humans, we're too big for them to see us as prey) and are real-bullet sponges, it really shouldn't take more than 15 AR rounds to put down a leopard or a wolf but it constistently takes 30 or so without headshots (outside of stealth, seems like you get a sneak-attack boost to damage or something). And certain animals can stun-lock you, large things like rhino, yak, and elephants I get, you get knocked over when they hit you, but damn I've died 4 times from wild boars knocking me over repeatedly, and you can't shoot while knocked over.
The game is huge, and the devs recognized that, giving you things like auto-drive for cars (more handy in getting around the map than trying to shoot someone while driving as the game keeps telling me it was intended for) and miniature helicopters that allow you to go over (some) mountains, and other terrain pain in the assness, and for me this is a huge plus. The grappeling hook that allows you to climb or descend certain sheer terrain surfaces is a neat addition, but often I found myself un-willing to even bother getting off of the helicopter so I ended up just landing on the narrow entrances to caves in mountain-sides and the like.
Combat... ends up being pretty hectic, once the enemies know where you are, and like almost all FPS games stealth ends up being like playing battleship without the divider (read- hurr I wonder where that silenced sniper rifle round that killed the guy I'm nowhere near came from, as the rest of the living enemies hot foot it to your position). One thing that's bugged me alot is that without body-armor your health goes down crazy fast, this is realistic but a problem because body armor doesn't last for shit and if you even survive the encounter you have to trudge back to an outpost to buy more (it's really rare to find it just laying around), then to further compound the issue, if you're just flying around on your helicopter random enemies spot you quite often, and are damn good marksmen.
For characters, the friendly ones aren't too special, and kind of the same for the lesser antagonists, might just be my taste though. The main villain is quite a hoot however. Even if you don't play this game you should find a video of the opening sequence and give it a watch.
Unfortunately I feel like there's just a little too much side-stuff to do, so much that as a consummate completionist I've just decided that I don't care if I don't finish all the "go kill animals for meat" and the like quests. I think this is more of a problem of where these quests end up being found, if they'd been around in the earlier parts of the map I would have done them and then got the skins for the upgrades, but I sure as shit wasn't waiting till end-game areas to get my carrying gear past half level. And after about 100 collectables I just started throwing molotoves out of my chopper for propoganda and grenades for yalung masks.
Even though I've got more than a few gripes with Far Cry 4 the game is really quite enjoyable, I give it an 8/10.
