Friday, November 30, 2012

Far Cry 3

Some early thoughts. Probably going to review it, just need to make some time and get some inspiration. The game is amazing so far. I've been playing it for about 10 hours and have explored maybe a sixth of the island, and barely scratched the campaign.

The campaign isn't as good as I thought it'd be story wise, but it really shines during some missions. The gameplay is extremely well polished, it's just flat out fun hunting animals and killing pirates. I've actually chosen to travel on foot over car sometimes so I can hunt animals and kill pirates along the way. And unlike say, Skyrim, I don't use the fast travel the moment I get a new quest. Even if the new quest is right next to a travel point, I usually choose to travel there just because exploring is so much fun.

Although the game is shaping out to be a 9/10 or possibly a 10/10, I do have a lot of complaints, though all of them fairly minor.


-The controls are disturbingly poor sometimes. Why Ubisoft has issues with climbing in games I'll never know. I've fallen off radio towers and missed out on looting at least a dozen bandits because of the silly hold E thing they have.

-The UI is a little ugly. It's large and close to the center of the screen. And there's no in game map anymore. The game is less immersive than Far Cry 2 sadly. But that's a tough game to top UI wise. At least it's better than Skyrim's.

-The voice acting is hit and miss. The main character personally annoys me.

-Hunting is frustrating sometimes. It's annoying looking everywhere for an animal to hunt for a new holster. At least they let you carry 4 guns instead of the 2 guns thing games seem to embrace today.

-Some performance issues. I can run the game on medium/high settings okay, still a few FPS drops.

-Needs moar Vaas

-Hunting missions require you to use a specific gun for them. It's just a minor annoyance and they usually give you a good gun but come on.. I want to use the new AK-47 I just got, why are you making me use a shotgun?

-Check points can be frustrating

Oh, and black ops 2 will still be coming. Just waiting for a patch to fix my performance issues.

Saturday, November 17, 2012

Sorry-Delay

I know I said I should have the video up today/tomorrow but I haven't even begun working on it in truth :V. I'm really sorry, I was completely spaced out this past week and then today I checked the calender and surprise... I'm now a year older.

Yeah, I actually forgot my birthday for a while there, but I promise I WILL start working on this soon. If anyone is curious or impatient enough I'm going to give a projected score of 9.6-8.8. Probably on the upper end of that scale. Yes, I like the new Call of Duty, yes, I'm aware it's the cool thing to hate it right now. No, I haven't bought every Call of Duty game and I haven't enjoyed every one.

Also I need to get some practice with my mouse, just got a new one from my sister and it's waaaaaaaay bigger than my old one. Also it's wired :(. Going to take a while to get used to aiming.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

Youtube

I'll still be posting news here, but I'm going to occasionally be using http://www.youtube.com/user/deathguardian08/featured for some reviews. Just a heads up. Blops 2 review around the coming weekend.

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Still Alive

I'm making a note here...

Sorry, I'm still alright and planning on working on this, been a little busy and unsure of what to review next though. MIGHT make a move to Youtube and do video reviews thanks to some suggestions, I need a way or someone to edit the videos though. And I still need suggestions for what game to do next.