Game: Far Cry 2

[Joe]

Picked this mutha up today, here's some first impressions!

It's tough! The AI is shockingly good at times, if you rush in guns blazing you'll get your ass handed to you on a silver platter, even on normal difficulty. You gotta use cover, got to move around, got to pick them off one by one. Don't stay put, they're hella aggressive and they'll flank you. I was shooting at some guy, and I didn't see there was another guy to my right, but instead of shooting at me, maybe failing to kill me and just alerting my attention, he got in a jeep and fucking smashed my ass with it. It was pretty funny at the time.

Graphics are totally roidin', world is fucking huge, guns feel good. Dirty and rusty weapons can and do jam in a firefight which is a huge OH FUCK OH SHIT moment. If you get hurt badly, you have to heal yourself, which usually involves a gross animation of yourself digging out a bullet/pulling out shrapnel or whatever else.

I like it!

 

[Tarvis]

i wanna run you over with a jeep

 

[Joe]

Oh and multiplayer is fun though I've only done a couple rounds of deathmatch/team deathmatch.

 

[Joe]

I'd really like to emphasize how impressed I was at the jeep running me over

 

[Joe]

Man these healing animations are brutal, watch this but mute the sound unless you like shitty rap songs

YouTube - Far Cry 2 Healing Animations

 

[Tarvis]

those hands look like they are made out of putty

otherwise gross lol

 

[Joe]

I like the one where he pulls the nail out of inbetween his fingers

 

[Joe]

Oh lord, the flamethrower

Oh lord so much fun

This game is a pyromaniac's wet dream. Shit burns! Seriously this game is so much fun. Why ain't you fuckers buyin' it?

 

[Tarvis]

cuz too much shit to buy now

 

[Joe]

Fuck those games!

 

[Dave]

I'll definitely rent it down the road, but I'm trying to hustle and get as much as I can out of Fable 2 before FallOut 3 on Tuesday...and Gears right after that.

 

[Joe]

How 'bout that Mirror's Edge?

 

[Logan]

Fallout 3 is going to be king. Left 4 Dead is gonna be a shitload of fun. Gears is gonna be classic. and mirrors edge.

!!!!!!

 

[Joe]

Ahhhh SHIT! SHIT! PIIIIIIIIIIIIISS!

 

[Dave]

Thank God I have Fall Break next week...and Thanksgiving right after that. And who can forget a month off for Christmas. I'm gonna need all the time I can get with all these games.

 

[Joe]

Man. So there's a buddy system in the game where you can pair up with some NPCs, do missions with them, if you bleed out they can save your ass, etc. They're really smart, well-voiced, well-animated, etc. Your buddy can get shot too, at which point you have the option of healing him or putting him out of his misery, with a bullet. It probably says something about how good the animation is that when I tried saving my best buddy Paul, but he was too heavily wounded, that was probably the most moving moment in a game since Shadow of the Colossus.

I got pissed and fucking rambo-flamethrowered the motherfuckers that shot him. I reloaded my save, cause I can't let Paul die, but that was a pretty amazing moment. I can't remember the last time I gave a shit about an NPC, at least since SotC like I said.

 

[Joe]

Man I should prolly finish this bitch up sometime. It's fun but it really gets repetative.