Most FPS titles that I'm playing on the side right now, I'm mostly interested in their campaigns. Have you tried out the PC version of the map editor Grift? Is that something that interests you?I haven't tried it yet, but I probably will in the future.

Other than that, I'm glad to hear the positive impressions. Going between it and other games will only make it harder to manage. I'm going to wait until I can dedicate my entire attention to the game before I play any further. To be honest I'd have to fire up COD4 and really pay attention to find out the degree of it but anyway, this is beside the point. I have to look at an in-game item, and be all immersed and shit, whenever I get lost in Africa for two seconds and start panicking because my hand isn't being held every step of the way? That's just not how things are done.Yeah, the MP definately has auto-aim, but the iron sight doesn't automatically lock onto a target if your crosshair is about 2 metres in the wrong direction. This is an in-world item you have to look at, it's what fancy people call a diegetic item, because it's acknowledged by the characters and the fiction, unlike your map SCREEN.īut my question is, where are the gigantic nav beacons? Where are the big dots?

Your goal in Far Cry 2 is to track down The Jackal, a notorious arms dealer, which I hear is expensive and really just the pits.įirst, let's talk about the map, if you dare to call it that. Far Cry 2 is an open-world first person shooter set in Africa, developed by Ubisoft Montreal and overseen by designer Clint Hocking. I'm going with Far Cry 2, and here's why. Then I had an epiphany, I yelled, 'Eureka! 'and someone said, 'Shh, this is a library, keep your revelations to yourself.' Or, what about games that overcomplicate and abstract simple, physical actions, like QWOP, Surgeon Simulator and Octodad? Is that bad game design? Is God of War so bad, because they let you rip out a monster's medulla oblongata and then bash their head in with it and then you're like, 'This violence is a bit mindless isn't it?' Most games are good despite their bad qualities, like story and controls, and not because of them.Īt first I thought: Okay, what about games that give the player all the power and then back away? In a game, if your actions don't align with your expectations or what the game is about, it's frustrating. It's too late to stop the tragedy, so now you are allowed to enjoy it. The thing about bad movies like Plan 9 is that you're looking at an event so awkward and terrible for the people involved that you want to instinctually stop them and protect them, but you can't because it's already committed to film. I tried to be considerate about this, and cognizant of why bad qualities can lead to pleasure.

Far cry 2 controls