FAR CRY 3 (Zero Punctuation)
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024
- Subscribe to Escapist Magazine! bit.ly/Sub2Esca...
This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Far Cry 3.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
Escapist Magazine!
The latest from Escapist Magazine: escapistmagazin...
Subscibe: bit.ly/Sub2Esca...
Like us on Facebook: / escapistmag
Follow us on Twitter: / theescapistmag
Find us Google+: bit.ly/Escapist...
Follow us on Pinterest: bit.ly/Escapist...
Check out our Merch: www.splitreason...
"I appreciate given the setting you can't have them piloting giant robots, but still. . . "
And thus, Far Cry 3 Blood Dragon was conceived.
+Michael Kemel Butt* still.
Kokopelli I’ve never seen a correction spelt wrong before what is wrong with you
@@ciaranhayes3212 *B4
@@ciaranhayes3212 also 4:23
Oh yeah sorry I didn’t see that
It's wild going back and watching a review of this game where Ubisoft was just pioneering their modern formula and it actually felt fresh and fun. Imagine if they'd been putting that level of talent and creativity into continuing to play with and evolve the franchise instead of making the same game in a different location for the past 8 years.
I actually bought FC3, and started watching ZP, because of this review. I then bought FC2, not realizing it was less fun and actually was the template Ubisoft was forcing. It just lacked the insane adrenaline in parts, so Ubi thought "that's what we need" and started forcing the set piece and press left to not die everywhere, ruining the actual nuance and balance. Edit: Fixed FC3 twice.
@@psugab Did you mean to say Far Cry 3 twice?
@@graphite7898 no. I meant FC2 the second time
@@psugab Figured, it was just difficult to tell exactly what other FC you were talking about since the majority blow.
Never did play 2 but it always looked like it was trying too hard with realistic concepts (ex: guns jamming) and with the technical limitations of its time ends up being janky.
@@psugab From a systems standpoint I really like Farcry 2 since it has that parable quality of war (civil war in this case) is always hell and there is no good morality left to judge.
The game is far harder than facry 3 or any subsequent ones due to having respawning enemy checkpoints and imperfect weapons (not just weapon breakage - the silent sniper has very limited ammo and is very very slow as well as hard to use, the rpg puts the area behind you in flames due to backblast, very few wepons have suppressors and all of them have one problem or other).
You go from infrastructure destruction to infrastructure destruction, and your companions betrays you in the end since they are also just mercenaries paid to fight the war and has no loyalty for you.
Farcry 3 is the blueprint that ubisoft has been using for everything hunting, towers, rpg upgrades, the heroic character, personal dialogue, largely disparate set pieces from the gameplay - these are all Farcry 3
Farcry 2's key mechanics were never iterated upon - Arma 3's campaign (especially chapter 2) is the closest to Farcry 2 than any subsequent Farcry games, very diegetic systems like physical maps and mortar aiming sights, player disempowerment and chaos that deliberately harms players than enemies so every fight is a scrap for survival even with your best plans and equipment.
I once had that happen, where the tiger started clearing out a stronghold, and i decided "fuck it, I like the tiger better" and decided to give him covering fire. Unfortunately Mister Angry Whiskers didn't survive :'(
Mr. Angry Whiskers fought bravely and died a hero's death.
Bliffity agreed. Mr Angry Whiskers is a better character than everyone in Far Cry 2 put togehter
+Arthas Menethil i had pretty much the same experience, apart from i had no ammo with anything bar my rocket launcher, and i didn't want to get close enough to smell the pirate's breakfast while there was a tiger, so i shot one rocket. and i see 2 human bodies and one tiger body flying across the stronghold. i will always remember you deus ex flyingtiger!
My experience wasn't as pleasant. I was about to hit a base when the fucking tiger attacked me and spoiled the surprise attack. The other time I shot the Tiger's cage inside an enemy base and the motherfucker ran straight towards me. It didn't attack me but it sure as hell brought all the enemies to my position.
soviet womble had something like that happen too.
"I, am a banana."
Off to a roaring start aren't we.
nah, you swallow.
It’s probably been mentioned a few times but the reason Vass dies off halfway through to be replaced by Mr. Snetterton is Vass was never really in the original design doc to begin with. Michael Mando showed up to audition for one of the random pirates and the casting guys were so impressed by his hamming it up that they ended up making Vass from him. But by this point the character of Hoyt as the big bad had already been established so they made Vass his hench lunatic instead.
That genuinely explains so much and why since Far Cry has never had a great villian since. They never plan on making them that engaging but accidentally did in FC3
@@arthurdurham Gotta disagree with that one. I really like Pagan and Joseph in Far cry's 4 and 5.
@@dbfan199 Pagan is barely in 5. Joseph is pretty good I'll give you that but you spend a lot of time dealing with his disciples instead of him
@@arthurdurham pagan does at least have the benefit of calling you and making quips over the radio. which IMO makes him more present then Vaas was.
@@dbfan199 That is true but still he kind of felt like a secondary character. He didn't even really seem to care what you did (he's barely even the villian really) and thematically his only connection with you was knowing your mom.
Vaas may have been under utilized but not only was he a direct threat to Jason that Jason had no choice but to deal with, he was his thematic foil.
Vaas was someone who became cruel and unhinged due to always living a life of hardship and violence. And kind of the classic dark reflection of the protagonist.
He wanted to torture and you bc you basically represented everything he hated, a spoiled rich kid who never suffered. And then as you progress you become more like him as you are forced into a world he was groomed in.
The same issue with Pagan is there with Joseph, and even less of any narrative connection. He's interesting in a vaccum but in contrast to you, you're just a cop delaying with his cult, there's no personal throughline between you and him or anything going on really.
You're basically an empty shell and it makes the villian less compelling bc of that lack of any real connection. Even the best cop vs criminal stories try to make it somehow emotionally resonant with the cop.
These disconnects make the impact of Pagan and Joseph so much less, bc you're just kind of there (esp with Pagan, like you have literally no reason to get involved, the game even acknowledges that with the secret ending).
Not a boss fight, more like a middle management disagreement. That line is a stroke of genius writing. I'm going to remember that.
Im a little ashamed at how long it took me to get that joke
Don't be. I don't understand a lot of things he says.
4 years and I still dont get the joke.
Me : _Far Cry 3_ :: Yahtzee : _The Last of Us._ I never got the appeal of the story. Vaas seems to be the main draw for most, but to me, he's about as cliche and boring as a villain can get, hopping around bug-eyed and setting up "crazy" perils with no impact that just ran the clock down, like a sidekick antagonist from a bottom-tier 007 rip-off. He might as well twirl a curly mustache with Muttley laughing behind him. The other villains are a snooze, the backstory seems to mean nothing as the hero could (and did, in my game) constantly ignore the friends he was working to save. Yet when I was given the choice to kill them & help rule the island, I still thought, _"...who on earth would kill to _*_stay_*_ here? This place _*_sucks."_*
"A guy who machetes bears while high..."
I once had an enemy base cleared by 2 Komodo dragons, the best part though was they both survived then murdered the shit out of the friendlies when they showed up, kind of makes you wonder how the hell these people are still alive on an island filled with the fucking things
tfw when you drive over a komodo dragon and you have the horrible feeling that that bumb you heard was it attaching it's self to the underside of the car biding it's time to when you get out.
+tgsachris
I find it hilarious that the animals are so dangerous that they are practically a third party able to take territory.
"Ok heres the plan! We own the lands to the west, we need to push further Vaas's sector in the East."
"What about the north commander?"
"...That belongs to the Tigers now..."
"Urrrm what?"
"We don't speak of it."
+Charlie Brown I love this idea. I will have to steal it for use later.
I thought Komodo Dragons had a venomous bite. Considering how many times I've been bitten by one (about 5 or 6 times, I think), I'm surprised my legs never turn to jelly.
I once unleashed a bear on a group of pirates, but after one of Vaas's grunts died, the bear followed.
Goodbye, Teddy. :'(
James Reid Well it's not exactly vemon, just really high in bacteria so not effectively cleaning the wound will cause it to eat away at flesh. And the infection you get will kill you
"Watch out for Vaas, he'll enslave your ass"
I came back again after watching this like 20 times in the past just to hear that again.
also the tiger thing happened to me as well, I went "oh a tiger, cool maybe he'll just kill a few guards and make it easier on me" then I snuck in close and suddenly it says "outpost cleared" without me firing a single shot...
That happened to me but with like 3 Komodo Dragons. I just sat back and watched it play out then boom, stealth cleared the base.
***** Probably because it didn't give a shit.
It was actually really disappointing when it happened. It's not fun to watch the game win itself. Still a great game though. Best of last gen
The good/bad ending is a testament to the game's theme of insanity - that is doing things over and over again without learning anything.
See, the island is used to war and death. The Chinese did it, the Japanese did it, the pirates are doing it. They all ended up dying in the end because they never stopped fighting. They never stopped taking lives and trying to kill each other. If you go through the entire game killing everything, culminating with killing your friends, then you die as well. But if you do something different - spare lives - you get a different result.
I think it would have been better if Jason became a blood-thirsty pyschopath at the end.
He's already killed too many people to just...stop.
***** arrow
***** kid dressing up as pirate: Trick or trea- *snap*
+Nonuv Urbeeznus I thought the entire game was leading to him becoming Vass.
+Culture 045 Or, you know, a GTA mod or something :D
+Nonuv Urbeeznus I dunno, some psychology stuff I've read says it's possible to kinda-reintegrate even after drug-fueled combat, although you'd always have issues, kinda like how soldiers are able to go back to regular life, although most battle PTSD and depression.
Honestly, he should go home and write a book or do interviews and make a ton of money off the publicity, or just sign up for Survivor, and just leave all the other contestants in the dust.
Or join a Swat Team and shame literally everyone. XD
Jason Brody should have a drink with Captain Walker sometime.
Or at least a crazed murder-fest.
+coolcat001100 I'd adore that as a sequel or some sort of follow up.
Didn't expect to see you here.
First time I encountered a crocodile was when it pulled me under as I attempted to traverse a river. Both my brother, who was watching, and I screamed and swore respectively. We were not expecting that, and for the remainder of the game I rarely traversed rivers due to a new found crocodile paranoia.
The first time I ever met a croc, it was when I was in a river gathering Blue Leaves. I swear, I felt like my heart was being ripped out of my chest as I mashed buttons to get rid of the scaly son of a bitch.
In fact, all aggressive animals in this game have caught me off guard at least once. When I was a kid, I was terrified of enemies that come up close and use melee attacks, especially animals and dudes with machetes. If I played this around the age of 6-11, I would be too scared to go anywhere without a vehicle.
At least, unlike traditional hunting games like the Cabela series, you're free to bring an LMG with you when you explore the islands.
May I remind folks that within the video there is an image of a ''Butt Still''
I deeply enjoy and appreciate Yahtzee's comedic talents.
Plus he's fucking awesome :D
Butt still, he is a banana.
Go collect your friend while the others repair a boat. They repair the boat while you steal hundreds of boats. MAJOR plot hole?
It's the only boat that has the mystical power to pass the buoys without getting mysteriously turned around.
Haha must be. I love the game I was just like wtf when they started fixing it
what about all of Hoyts yachts and other fancy ships theft seems more convenient haha
Didn't you blow up Hoyt's boat in one mission?
I don't remeber I dont know why they wanted to leave that place I mean plenty of pot...
I really found Far cry 3's second villain a real disappointment as well. I mean, if I wanted to go up against a South African maniac who only cares about making money and making others lives miserable, I would go complain to my next door neighbour.
When was Hoit South African? He looked pretty white to me.
Michael McCormick Have you ever met a white South African?
+The One and Only Michael McCormick %8 of South African Population is white, and about 15-20% in big cities.
the only thing i liked about hoit was that his army was an actual paramilitary organization in contrast to the well armed but poorly trained and disciplined pirates. i also like the idea that the main villain was in reality, a lap dog to another. however more time could have been spent making hoit relatable and hateable like vas. vas was a unique villain in such a way that he was, on some twisted level, relatable and human whilst being just enough of a monster that we killed him with both glee and pity. the jason's character arch after he kills vas is also amazing, he feels like he is becoming the monster he killed. the problem was that hoit was just some generic villain who had generic villain motives. i felt nothing when i killed him, the only reason it was fun was because of his army, the new but familiar setting, and the upgraded gear. just i love how the game setting changes to that island we see in the distance and gives us even more weapons, and shit to do. its enough to make the game amazing, i only wish the face of this otherwise respectable and worthy paramilitary opposition wasn't so dull and standard. i found my self missing vas honestly.
Alternatively, you could play Far Cry 2
Far Cry 3 needed a third ending, where You kill Citra, claim leadership of the tribe, send your friends back to civilization and turn Your girlfriend into a warrior queen so You two can rule the island.
FarCry 3 and 4 actually are pretty good social commentary in my opinion.
3 - "So those people are bloodthirsty dickheads that live by "might makes right" rule and you decided to stay there. Why are you surprised they fucked you over? What, you thought you will live among them in harmony with nature?"
4 - "Look at this dictator! He kills people! He tortures people! He's a dick! Go join the freedom fighters. Look how much they care about their people, look how nice they are to you! Oh, what's that? They turned out to be much worse than this secular dictator? The country is completely fucked now? Well, he did call them terrorists, didn't he?"
The best thing is that Far Cry 4 is very aware of this. If you sit quietly and wait for the Dick Dictator to get on with it, you will then get to deliver the ashes where they belong and then go shoot guns with your new rich Bro without all that drama, dictator or crawling in the bush and getting a mortar in your face business.
Of course, it is entirely possible that the gun is mounted to a helicopter and your targets are villagers but that would not be worse then anything the Rebellion has you do.
Jonathan Lundkvist more like rich uncle.
Heart of Darkness ending
Nah preferred the 1st person sex
I thought the Second half of the game was pretty good storywise. We lost Vaas but in return we got Sam. I liked Sam.
BLITZKRIEG!
I was sadder when he died than when my brother died or when I was told my other brother died.
Sir Slam i liked vaas better, he would have semi calm conversation and read book while shooting someone that wasn't me with a gun, then he would try to kill me, and i would escape to dance this same dance again. but alas what was supposed to be a great boss fight with him shooting you while reciting poetry all the while we try to hit him with the double rocket launchers, *sighs deeply* but it was a single button press that ended him and not Jason his own madness. so the cycle would continue in it's ever downward spirale.
sorry got a bit overly poetic at the end.
+themutantgerbil That's because we get more time with Sam than with Jason's brother.
+themutantgerbil For a second I thought you meant your actual brothers
I opted to go with my friends, obviously. But when I watched the other ending, it seemed like the Jason Brody in that ending was an entirely different person to the one from the rest of the game.
Spoilers
Jason wanted to save his friends! He risked his life for it multiple times! He wouldn't just let that go, and even if he did, he wouldn't murder them all!
Then he fucks Citra ,dies but at least has a good word in for his kids
Oh wait this comment is 6 years old
@@jayvanx154 It happens
@@jayvanx154
Doesn’t matter, had sex
@@Linosek279 Couldn't have said it better myself
I would not have complained at all if the game had ended when Vaas disappeared. As soon as Jason swears himself to Citra and goes to the second island is where it started going downhill for me.
***** I was hoping that when his friends were kidnapped, there was going to be a third, small section of the game where he has to fight to get them back. I also think you should not have had a choice at the end. That is the only main-quest moral choice in the game, and it seems like it was put in because someone said "this needs to be like Mass Effect/Skyrim"
*****
The ending had a lot of potential. The way they play out Vaas' death sort of hinted that he hadn't really died. I mean the character goes onto a freaking acid trip after getting stabbed, and then all you hear is that he has died, but.. that's all the evidence people give to you. They only mention that he is dead and you fittingly enough wake up from that temple again, and last time that happened wasn't even that long ago.
They could've thrown Vaas into the bad ending, showing up all of sudden, saying outloud one the themes of the game which is "You only see what you want to see" and then be the one to stab the main character to death. Now that would've worked well. But still, Citra stabbing the player to death works as a grim reality call as well, but.. could've been much much better.
Oh and actually having the choice there is somewhat nice. I mean it's the first moment in the game when Jason is finally questioning what he is becoming and the trippy sequence before this choice is manipulative and narrow minded, and it's very obvious about trying to brainwash you. So you could say the moment you get the choice is the moment when Jason questions if he has been treated like a tool by others, if he is turning into a monster.
Or that's what I think they were trying to do, there's just so much wasted potential in the story and the atmosphere contradicts with the gameplay so much that it just ends up being a mess of ideas which were poorly executed.. Good start, but quickly fell apart.
Arexion5293 I was thinking, that there would be the generic-by-now Fight Club reveal.
Arexion5293 Have to credit you on those ideas, would have very much liked to have witnessed those moments in the game! A good use of the material and characters there, and you are right, all the pieces were there to make it happen!
***** they could of made vass go to the second inland that would have been a better ending.
hold on i can't keep up with this, IS YAHTZEE A BANANA?
Zettabeam62 yes
And he has a banana ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
+AlexRed95 I'd eat that banana
+Zettabeam62 At least he's not a potato.
Potatoes are asses.
+Andre Gon and tomatoes. god i hate tomatoes. what a bastards
The only thing I didn't like about this game was that at the beginning, Jason basically knows nothing about combat or guns or survival. Ten minutes later, he's wasting pirates with all kinds of weaponry and tracking wildlife like a seasoned hunter. There's no real transition between the two.
yea, that and an experienced gamer can pick people off from 400 meters away with an ak 5 minutes in.
There is a gradual transition in his character just not gameplay-wise. Jason still doesn't like doing those things until much later. I think the first time I realized that he was enjoying himself was when he rescued Liza and was driving away in the Jeep.
I kind of like the way they did it since the game was fun from the start instead of being forced to play hours while being horribly inaccurate and bad in combat. Like so many RPG's do. Sure it doesn't makes sense but it wouldn't be very fun.
That would also completely kill replayability for me.
***** I think there is a half decent transition there, because in the very beginning, you can basically shoot a gun and swing a machete. Now guns aren't easy to use so the fact that he can even handle a fully auto weapon is a little dumb, but the totally normal gun toting dude you are in the beginning, is no-where near the badass you are by the time you kill Vaas, much less beat the game.
Anthony Vitera When he takes mushrooms it's mentioned that Grant taught him how to use a gun, so he's not completely ignorant of how they work. That's the reason given for his initial proficiency with firearms.
In a single day you could use a gun
Not be proficient with it
I will admit, more endings would be nice. I didn't want to go back to civilization with Lisa who only proves to be a bitch, or stay with the even crazier Citra, leader of the Rakyat, who did absolutely nothing ever. I would appreciate an ending where you become the full monster, or even make a power-hungry 180 and rebuild Vaas and Hoyt's pirate empire. Those sort of evil endings should exist and should be as disgusting as they need to be to drive moral people off, but the whole "take the really obvious good ending or die unexpectedly" is just stupid. With Far Cry 4 around the corner, returning with a multiple character system again and all that FC3 money, I hope we can do things like that this time around.
I thought FC4 has only 1 main guy in story and random merc in co op
BlaZing sol I was wrong about that. Didn't see any gameplay until just a few days ago. I confused co-op for multiple characters. Sorry.
Yeah, _Far Cry 3's_ ending is nonsense. The game starts off with a hero who has friends, freedom to see the world & a close-knit family. He loses everything, and the game gives the player the goal of regaining most of it. There's a tragic death & he falls out with his girlfriend, which might change his outlook if she were his whole world, *_if he weren't trying to save his kid brother from Murder Isle._* There's a flashback that I think was meant to show his old life was hollow, but... _sexy nightclub vs. _*_killer birds that kick holes in your chest?_* Then the ending says, _"Ah, but he _*_loves_*_ Hell Island now, he might just..._ (squinting) *_not save the kid brother he just saved? So he can rule it?!_*_ That can't be right... Jeff, am I missing pages here..?"_
3:40 to 4:00 is so relatable. Every other game waits until the end to let you have the best weapons and then you only get to use them in one firefight
I'm way behind obviously, but I just played this game. This review pretty much perfectly captures the experience for me, right down to the tigers who are way better at killing pirates than me.
As someone currently writing an essay on character archetypes in video games, Yahtzee talking about Jason's character arc has been more useful then 3 different Teacher approved PDF's.
Cheers Yahtz.
About the bosses, someone actually pointed out a good idea to fight the bosses in Far cry 3 besides quick time events. Since drugs and hallucinations are a major part of the game, the bosses could be hulking demons towering over Jason in some sort of weird dream. Sort of like the level where you have to kill that demon with a mask in your dream
A tiger can do all the work of a shooter protagonist
The only problem is actually getting it to do so
It is a cat after all
Well, I trained 4 of our barn cats to come to a whistle whenever it was time for me to feed them, so it's probably easier than you think. Of course, there IS a downside in that now whenever I happen to whistle, all 4 will swarm me, regardless of me being anywhere near their food, trapping me in a vicious cycle of rewarding them with ear scritches whenever this happens because I want to keep the thought in their minds of "hear this noise = good things happening." but at the same time it's annoying as hell, especially when I'm already doing something. Sorry about that mini-rant, by the way.
@@justinrolls9526So hypothetically how would you go about training your cats to wipe out bases of armed pirates on command?
@@ProjectEkerTest33 Start small, as in only one pirate at a time. When they've taken it out, reward with scrithes or a favorite treat, then slowly up the scale until they're wiping out whole bases.
@@justinrolls9526 Far enough. If pirates ever start turning up dead and smelling of cat food, I'll know who to thank.
@@ProjectEkerTest33 Yeah. Though one of my cats, Little Shyte, is partial to figs...
I seem to suffer from some form of early onset alzheimers, I continue reading youtube comments and thinking "Jesus christ these people are idiots, why can't I reach through the screen and beat them until they stop breathing?" Then I go and watch a few more videos and I find myself scrolling down the comments again eventually. Have I ever told you, the definition, of insanity?
It's doing the exact same fucking thing over again and expecting a different result!
I feel you; I do the same thing :(
Jeez! I was wondering whether or not to get this for £5 on the steam sale but if even Yahtzee likes it it's a go!
Beauweir ARE YOU SERIOUS?? 5?
You're a banana, Yahtzee? I'd say that's a *far cry!*
Right? Right? Eh?
(Sigh) The guillotine is too good for me.
RarefoilB still alive mate?
The reason FC3 was so spliced is because it was just that. They never intended to Vaas in the game until MIchael Mando tried out for Hoyt, and knowing he wasn't what they wanted he did something totally off script and they liked it so much that they made Vaas and even modeled him after Michael's likeness. So yeah, I think Vaas was a great villain even if he was a bit shoe-horned into the game. I think a better route would of been to have the Vaas fight actually not a Vaas fight, (maybe while on drugs from Citra or something wacky, FC4 did something like this but no spoilers). So thinking Vaas is dead you go and kill Hoyt, but turns out Vaas isn't dead and he comes back to takes Hoyt's place then you have the actual fight with him. I will say that Ubisoft certainly did learn from their mistakes with FC3 and main antagonists. FC4, while still not perfect, seems to have a much smoother conflict with the villains, and while the "boos" fights are little essentially cut scenes they are so well blended and concealed within actual game play that is is something very believable. I think the more accurate "boss endings" are more events that anticipation builds up to and the realism of the game blends it in to a point that makes it so believable. With having 4 actual "bosses" as the antagonists (only 2 of which I have defeated after 30 some hours of gameplay), Having each boss death be different really adds to the game. So even though the story feels slightly choppy and kind of mediocre at sometimes gotta say FC4, easy 9.5/10. Well shit, FC3 rant turned to FC4 review, ah well.
I found that in an all out firefight you can run into a building, hide behind the doorway and shotgun everyone in the back of the head as they bumble in looking for you oblivious to the massive pile of bodies just in the doorway.
"Watch out for vaas, he'll enslave your arse"
"It's not a real holiday until you've napalmed a Cassowary."
So true. 🤣
3:00
You know what happened to me? I was scouting around the base, found a spot where I was inside the base, but hidden, and a TIGER appears! Sadly, it attacked me, so I ran out of cover, towards the jerks who immediately started shooting at me rather than the Tiger, trying to disable the alarm and hoping the Tiger goes after someone else. After turning off the alarm, healing up and running away a bit more, I turned around to find that the Tiger never left me alone, so I died! Q_Q;
Also, gravity is the biggest monster on that Island. It certainly killed me more than anything else.
I had 1 base mauled by a wild tiger and 1 killed by 2 monitor lizards...
@@BoostedMonkey05 *LMAO*
anyone else here after seeing his Far Cry 6 review?
The fact that Yahtzee likes this game is relieving. I plan on getting it soon. Everywhere I look says it's a great game, but then turns around and complains about huge portions of it.
"The game is the best thing since breathing!...oh but wait, the assassins creed style map filling towers are stupid. Oh and this is bad. Oh and fuck these things over here. And this other thing is ridiculous."
So I can't really tell if it's supposed to be good or not.
I do like that you get most of the upgrades that early though, if that is indeed the case. Having time to actually use the upgrades I spent the whole game working towards, would be nice for a change.
TXF I think the thing to take away from that is that yes, the game does have flaws, but the positives outweigh the flaws by a massive margin.
Muffin Yeah. Well, any game has flaws. I actually just bought the game. Just started it. The intro, running bit, was pretty damn cool.
TXF I give you my word that while it does have some small flaws, the overall game will have you overlook them unless you decide to actually try to be nitpicky. I played farcry 2 and didnt really like it, but Farcry 3 deserved all the hype and positives people said about it. Remember, this dude is supposed to be nitpicky as that is his joking/serious style, but if you check with many others they'll give it super high ratings. I myself give it about a 9.
If you see it for $30 or less, get it. You can also play Farcry 4, but I suggest getting 3 first.
Tyler Warren Why? The story isn't connected in any way.
Basically because Farcry 4 is a straight upgrade from Farcry 3, and if you play 4 then 3, you might find that on a gameplay aspect alone can be a little disappointing.
God... Whew... Yahtzee sure knows how to pick 'em.
Even though I haven't beaten Far Cry 3 yet, I'm in love. I have trouble tearing myself away from it once I get started!
So far, I think my favorite part was that mission where you had to burn coca fields with a flamethrower. And then, that cool Reggae music playing in the background was so fitting, I was grinning like the Cheshire Cat.
I'm glad Yahtzee and I have so much in common when it comes to good game design.
I just finished the game. They totally are coca fields.
I played the entirety of far cry 3 without a single quicksave.
It's your fault for using them if you did, and if you didn't want to use them *then don't fucking use them*
you're creating your own problems with the game, and that (very obviously) is your fault.
Heey, shout out to you and 13 other people worldwide who played Vietcong ! Great Game !
Reggae huh?
Coca fields? those are marijuana fields, if they were coca you would be a bastard that destroyed a perfectly healthy plant that helps with headaches and dizziness
This was the best episode of Zero Punctuation I have seen, and I've been looking.
the game would have been so much better if you wouldn't kill vaas and he was the main villain and in one of the endings you realize how horrible person you are and you could just kill citra and your friends and join vaas's pirates
but by said time you've killed many many many pirates and taken their pirites
thegreenfaction you can also kill rakyats in the game and nobody cares
czechhunter68 i kill everyone and thing cuz mysanthropy
or or ORRRRRRRR
you could have another ending were you kill everyone and you see your character 10 years later still flamethrower bear hunting while high
dayman223 I just wanted to become the island's new boss and become the main villain for the next game in the series.
"what do you want from me, i am a banana!" i have to use this when someone demands i do something for them
I lost it at, "My bum hurts!" LOOOOOOOOOL
0:43 Unintentional anachronistic Deltarune reference, hoooo!
You know I've never had someone block me from a conversation for saying something they do not agree with before. I do not know whether to be impressed, annoyed, irritated, or most likely smug because the point I was making was that he reacted really badly to something that did not require such a bad reaction and he responded by... you get the point.
Oh yeah, great game aswell... just thought I should get that out there
Are you referring to invesibel? I actually wanted to reply to him too when I saw your conversation, but it looks like he's changed his settings to where no one can respond to him. What a crybaby.
I didn't like the endings either, but I'm in total agreement with you that the previous 30 hours of the game more than make up for it. "you won't recall anything except the ending itself alone. so why should you plant a bad memory in your mind?" Hah... Dead wrong for me. What I'm going to remember are all the fun adventures I had in the time leading up to the ending. Far Cry 3 is by far one of the best first person shooters I've ever played.
My only real complaint with the game is its lack of replay value. Once you've done everything and bought everything in the shop, there's little incentive to play the game again. The only real change you can make is the ending, and in that case it's a lot easier to just come to RUclips and watch the ending you didn't choose.
NailStrafer
Thanks to the updates, they have added a new difficulty setting and the ability to reset the outposts. So if you're a creative player and like setting challenges for you and such, you can get a lot out of redoing the outposts again and again.
And about the endings.. Well, I see what they were going for. The supposed good ending makes logical sense, since you finally break free from the addiction that has been controlling you the entire time in the islands, break free from the manipulation and finally stop being a tool. Of course it won't be a happy ending, reality doesn't work like that. Yes, the game has plenty of reality meets fantasy moments, but it doesn't use these that well.
The bad ending is a missed opportunity. Sure, it's a reality wake up call, reminder that Jason has a savior complex, that Citra is no damsell in distress and that you were never in power. Killing is your drug and Citra is the drug dealer that is controlling your life. "Killing feels like winning." "I'm finally in control of my life." Jason pretty much goes through different phases of heavy addiction..
But it's not exactly done well enough for it to work that well. Jason sees only what he wants to see, which is one of the reasons I questioned Vaas' death. It would've been perfect if he had showed up in the bad ending, had repeated the definition of insanity or said that you see what you wish to see, and then would stab you to death. Now that's a much more effective ending.
So yeah.. the endings feel dissapointing but I think that's kinda the idea behind them. Doesn't change the fact that they feel rushed and have plenty of missed potential.
Personally I can't believe he's moaning so much about the endings of a game he never even fucking played. He wanted the ending but had no opinion of any of the characters or any idea about any of the events in the game that gave you said opinion about such characters.
So in the end the ending would be bad to him because he had no idea what any of the game was about and never will because he refuses to invest the time into it and play it because , as you said, was missing the point entirely.
Sure a game is supposed to be played and finished but it's not all about the ending. Even the absolute worst games you ever played could have the most amazing endings you've ever witnessed, but if the game is really so bad you'll never get there anyway because you don't link anything about the game you've encountered thus far.
In the end ending are virtually meaningless. Of course we'd all love a good ending, but as long as you enjoyed the rest of the game then who cares? There's so much more to experience than an ending to a game. And if you're an LP maker then the whole point is to play even the most boring game and make it entertaining for those who are watching not sit silently through said game thinking people are watching your entire LP just to see an ending which, to be honest, they wouldn't. Because they'd just do the same thing he did and look up the ending.
Arexion5293
I got to say, I never knew there was an update with a new difficulty level. Maybe I finished it before that update came around. But a new difficulty is one of the things I wanted, since the difficulty below that was much too easy for me. Thanks for telling me. I'm replaying the game on master difficulty now and having a great time :)
The good ending is definitely the logical conclusion to the story. I have to admit there's not much else you could do with that ending once Jason and his friends have escaped the island. Perhaps there could have been one last fight with Citra and her personal guard before you can escape?
Your idea for the bad ending sounds good too, where Vaas reappears. I'm with you in that I didn't feel like I really killed Vaas, considering you fight him in one of those bits where you're all drugged up and you're not sure what's real and what's not. I don't know what else they could have done, but I feel like something more should have happened besides Citra just killing you.
NailStrafer
You can change the difficulty on the fly, so just reload your most complete save, put on the Master difficulty, reset all the outposts and have fun. The more creative you get, the more you'll have fun.
Eh.. I think it's better without any sort of fight. Unless it would've been another hallucination scene.
I read one of the interviews where the point out how Jason sees Citra as a princess needing her white knight, when in reality she is a powerful and controlling woman. I mean how would she be a princess if she isn't good at controlling people?
I have to admit that I like that there's a choice at the end, kinda showing metaphorically that Jason is starting to see through the manipulation and is able to think for himself for once. And I'm pretty sure that making the player feel cheated was the goal of these endings, so they succeeded in that part. Still.. could've been much better.
absolute masterpiece of a video
It's a great game. Freeing outposts is pretty great, but I've been avoiding the story at all costs. So far that's been the source of my disappointment. Otherwise, I'm starting to enjoy it.
Ever finish the story?
Flamethrower bear hunting...how could anyone not love this game :D FC3 and FC4 shine in their maddest, most insane moments.
I just brought this game. While I have a strong hatred for First Person Games, this game can be pretty fun at times. Though at most times, I'm yelling at my tv "this shit wouldn't be happening if this wasn't in first person and I could fuckin' see!"
Ya can't beat a good FPS tho.
Abdullah Al-maiyah True that.
1:40 LOL "My Bum Hurts" LOL XD I know what he's talking about HAHAHAALOL X'D
4:39 Oh really, yahtzee. I thought you hated having regenerating health and now you're complaining using medkits in a firefight is too hard?
He's gotten soft, that old banana.
He hates static health that's tiny in a game otherwise telling you you're superman.
If the interface is dogshit and the buttons are awkward, then yes, it's awkward to use medkits in the middle of a firefight
'I'd give him a week before he's making wallets out of fat people's ears'
How did you know my occupation?
Im a banana too. Well, more precisely cat inside a banana, bananya if you like.
I LOVED the first person driving. When you drive your car off of a cliff, you feel like you drove you car off a fucking cliff.
This is the best thing to happen to game reviews
That intro is hilarious! "I am a banana!"
I swear that this is the last one...
Not only is Yahtzee hilarious
but he recommends games for me
and I actually enjoy them afterwards
woah
I have to agree with this review
"watch out for Vas, he'll enslave your Ass" LMAO...... dead XD
Also, I once watched a base get cleared out for me by cassowaries*.
*not sure if spelled correctly but was taught to spell with fonix and usually gets new words right, and therefore has faith in own abilities*
Joshua Payne oh these fucking birds
You can reset the outposts in the option menu when you beat the single player and capture all of the outposts.
Is it just me or does this game seem like pretty much a copy of Farcry 4?
Nicholas Wu Good one
Nicholas Wu definition of insanity
It's the other way around
Real patriot Shit changes, you know? People don't really like FC4 as much.
+Nicholas Wu I'm surprised nobody has lost it like airport luggage at this comment.
"Noah in parallel universe" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
I swear you get more potassium in milk than a banana
I'm really fun at parties
It is honestly my favourite game of all time. I have played through it three times, and each playthrough was about 40 hours. This game is just great, I don't really know how to describe it. Character development is excellent, as Yahtzee points out. Graphics are amazing, even now, storyline is interesting and compelling, but the open sandbox world means you can choose to do it whenever you want, and spend the rest of the time hunting goats with RPGs. it has basically everything I look for in a game, and it is what I base my view of other games off. I love it, and I've been hard-pushed to find anybody who doesn't. I bought it for the low price of £3.74 through Steam sales, but I'd happily pay 10x that much when I look at all the fun this game has given me. Just go and buy it...
ending was bad and the story to me was just a little too jarring...outside of the story i am some high as fuck tosser hunting bears with a rpg because that is fun and that is what i want to do, have fun but then you get to the story bits and it is all slaves and death and abuse and rape and it just kills the fun instantly for me...but the rest was pretty fucking gold,
hopefully farcry 4 is going to be as good if better.
I'm a gold gunning fuck!ng machien I cleared the second island and declared it mine
You should play Blood Dragon.
***** i have, did and it was bloody good fun.
I feel like a mad alchemist now, because plenty of commenters never seem to have indulged in the more obscure syringes. For a trivial amount of leaves you can: see crocodiles ahead of time, run unharmed through a forest fire, increase your health twofold, spot every ostrich, tiger, hippo in range for those hunting missions, etc. I felt like superman throughout, syringes are crazy.
See I'll be honest, Story ENDING was where Far Cry 3 really flopped. Gameplay was good, character progression was neat, sandboxing was fun, yada yada, but the ENDINGS were absolute SHIT. And I think this is so for a couple of reasons, (SPOILERS BELOW)
Okay so when I first beat the game I went with the "Save your Friends" option. Made a lot of sense, I did all this shit TO save them I might as well get them home, before Jason Brody eventually loses his shit and ends up, dead, in prison, or on death row because he can no longer function in a normal society. But then comes the awkward twist where Dennis ACCIDENTALLY kills WhatsHerFace (I honestly can't remember at the moment, wasn't it Citra?). And to me this felt like a really cheap tactic to give both endings weight. Sure you save your friends but then this lady who helped you save them dies, albeit in an incredibly stupid and avoidable way.
And then theres the 2nd ending. Also known as: "Kill the people you became a warrior to rescue, so that you have some nice PG-13 sex with WhatsHerFace, impregnate her, and then get KILLED." Do I even HAVE to explain why that endings a load of shit? Honestly both of these endings are just bad. Which upsets me because this game actually had a fairly strong OST behind it, to the point where the credits theme has that nice crescendo that sends a little chill down your spine, but it all went to waste on the awful endings.
Michael Mando should get a cut of EVERY Far Cry game sold since 3. He sold that game and the entire series concept as it currently exists based solely on his titanic charisma.
This guy is like a funny version of Toatalbicuit.
Circum Soilder but totalbiscuit is funny...
Puking Dog more like the living version of totalbiscuit
ooft
So I finally had time to get around to this and so far I'm liking it. Stealth is fun, the stuff like freeing tigers in enemy bases to cause mayhem is great, the environment is really pretty even on the lower graphical settings, and stealthily ganking individual enemies until there's only one guy left and you can walk up behind him, go "Yo" and bust his shocked cap in with a shotgun is incredibly fun.
So far, my only complaint is "Why the hell do these badass island locals need the help of a civilized dude who has no real experience in anything warrior-y to handle 90% of their heavy lifting for them?!" I mean, Jason's almost literally fresh off the boat and they leave all the outpost-liberating to him! I can understand the radio towers bit, because as the tutorial guy says "Our people generally don't give a shit about stuff like that", but why do they want me to free all these outposts on my own?!
I say 90% though because they DID at one point help me with something. I'm there taking on a "wanted dead" mission, and I'm stealthily approaching the roadside farm where the target is, when suddenly a car with 4 Rakyat Fighters squeals down the road, and they all jump out and murder the guy I was on my way to assassinate. XD
Ironically, if they DID give a shit about the cell towers, they probably wouldn't be getting their arses kicked as much, due to having access to only the basic AK-47 (which is for some reason terrible in the game)
"I opted to stay on the Island rather than go home but without wishing to spoil that ending is shit!"
Just finished the game and after seeing that ending Yatzee talked about from RedBard, that ending IS total shit that it's stupid. It's just so out of place and out of context of what plays out in the first ending.
But I found Jason's little monolog after making the better choice make me feel vindicated. It's like the ending of Tomb Raider. (Funny because Far Cry 3 and Tomb Raider's stories are very similar to each other)
hahaha these last jokes man.. amazing everytime
I love the game but playing the story makes me cringe. I can't stand Jason Brody. I just can't. You don't gradually gain skill as a fighter. one moment he stabs a guy in self defense and freaks out. His next kill is when he empties an entire base without a single word. To put it elegantly, Jason Brody, while having a believable character, is an insufferable douche and I would have preferred a badass with military training in his place. Who could I suggest? Oh maybe his brother that dies in the first 5 minutes of gameplay.
(SPOILER ALERT) (SPOILER ALERT) The ending was bad either way but at least with the good ending I got to watch Citra die. While Farcry 2 lacked in characters, the gameplay is way better. It's like comparing STALKER to Fallout. One is for the smaller group of hardcores that like a challenge, and the other is for people who prefer being a walking badass. I'm not saying one is better than the other, but I feel FC2 is and will remain the best.
I loved FC2 the best as well.
The fact that the missions let you do things YOUR WAY is just so awesome. I was hoping they would have done that for the 4th game. But they ofcourse went for totally scripted "wander outside this zone and it's game over!"-style again. Sad to see that.
This said, I didn't have any problems with Jason's persona, he seemed just fine.
I know, to quote Jason Brody; "At first, killing someone felt wrong...that's normal right? But than, I killed again, and it started to feel like winning." He is such a poorly written dope.
Sir Ferglewergle i agree. He has less emotion than Ben Affleck.
Zack Argonov Atleast Jason Brody doesn't have to play batman.
Sir Ferglewergle XD i cannot +1 that enough.
One of my favorite moments so far in FC3 was when I scoped out a pair of pirates on the road near some jeeps. I sniped one guy, but before I could down his friend another vehicle showed up and joined the fray.
After quickly dropping one of the new dancers to our roadkill tango, the two remaining fellows decided to jump in the car and run me over. So after a quick shot to the driver's forehead, the car spun out of control and flung the passenger out before rolling on top of the guy. T'was great.
I was disappointed with the the story of Farcry 3 :(
They should've introduced Hoyt much earlier and made Vaas kill him by the second half and as such, he would take over and fuckin rip the islands some new assholes!
They could have also added a secret ending in case you concluded everything and make Jason explain to Citra that a warrior and hunter kills with a purpose and refuse to kill his friends, thus sending them off to their home while he stayed behind.
It would've worked out so much better... :\
I personally think that Far Cry 3 is best when Dennis or Citra AREN'T around and you can just run around, brutally killing pirates and mercenaries. Sorry if you liked those two. I couldn't stand Citra or Dennis.
the problem though is how the game ended, and how Vaas was so easily killed off, it woud be fun though if ocasionally some of your previously conquered bases were taken over by the pirates again, cuz that way the game would keep its fun for much longer, in fact, the moments when you were scouting the area for the best way to approach is incredibly fun and satifying. :)
KRIMZONMEKANISM There is an option to reset all the outposts without effecting anything else in the game. It was included in a patch earlier in the year, along with an extra hard difficulty mode! ;)
Lol, unfortunately i took out the game cause it was slowing my PS3, but maybe i'll play it again just for the lolz :)
KRIMZONMEKANISM i agree with this guy. i mean, in most firefights between the Rakyat and the pirates, i see the pirates win, and having them retake bases would be cool. however, it could be seen as irritating/repetitive or padding to extend the game, and just gives the idea Jason has to do everything. but if introduced correctly, i think it's a good shout
Ah, good times, when "taking outpost and climbing tower s" was still new...
I hated the ending(s). The gameplay was fine, but the ending(s) really killed it for me.
'SPOILERS'
1) Kill the hot chick and save the douche friends who I could've cared less about by that point and go back home to a life of normalcy rather than king-hood.
2) Stay on the island as a king, only to get gut stabbed and told my kid will be the new ruler.
Why can't I just let my "friends" go and stay on the island as the drug infused warlord I made myself, and while I'm at it, not get stabbed by the chick and live to see my kid become the new king after me.
+bait4sale9001 i disagree i think both endings are a perfect anti climax that work for jasons character arc and the themes of the game.
Mr. Orangeaide Maybe on themes that is true, but as the player who literally watched and made Jason go through the game, it was disappointing.
bait4sale9001 yeah it was meant to be. thats what an anti climax does
Mr. Orangeaide As in the bed, an anti-climax is the worst kind
bait4sale9001 i disagree
I think the story was waaaaay too much up it's own as for my taste (the lead writer even made a butthurt comment in an interview about people "not getting it") so I didn't even finish it.
BUT at that point I basically did all there is to do in the game. Freed all the outposts, did all the sidemissions, got all the weapons and unique variants and fully leveled up my character so the game definitely was a ton of fun and very creative in many cases. The story and the 30FPS Console version is really the only issue I had.
I hate this game so much but the review almost made me go back and play the game. ALMOST.
lol this game s great, why would you hate it?
MCHellshit I found the villain very anti climatic. The gameplay bored me. I don't like the characters. The Co-op and Multiplayer are terrible. UI sucks. The missions were way to linear. I didn't like the hunting system.
***** But what was anything from this game really that amazing.
***** The story is meh, only very few characters were decent, the gameplay was nothing special, the content outside of the game consisted of a few side quests which were disappointing, hunting animals that was not satisfying because i already knew where to find the animals because the map told me where to find them, very few mini games, and those rocks that gave you a boring challenge to beat for XP that you won't even need if you beat the game.
***** Well that was a very disappointing year then.
Games like this and Skyrim are games that I truly love. You honestly set your own adventure. If your adventure was awesome, you had cool stories to tell your friends. If you experience sucked, you have only yourself to blame
"I'd give him a week before he's making wallets out of fat people's ears."
Yahtzee's never heard of therapy
Lily's never heard of therapy not working. Specially not for a guy that likes killing.
I honestly don't know how he does it, his videos are consistently laugh out loud funny even after 5+ years
Am I alone in thinking vass was annoying?
yes
Thank you
i liked him a lot, wish there was a "befriend" option..
You don`t count, you died (Spoilers)
Great, all I wanted to do was ask one simple question and I kill a guy twice. Why is the internet so complicated?
Your metaphors never ceases to amaze
Am I the only one who didn't like vaas and his whole "Do you know the definition of insanity" speel
I just... I have no idea what to say... This.. this was the most amusing review I ever watched xD Awesome work and humor xD
What I liked about FarCry games is there was no happy ending.
"I am a banana." Is the best opening line I've ever heard. But I haven't heard many, so what do I know. 😂
Most of the camps have pretty unique layouts, so when you spend a bunch of time on an awesome plan and a tiger comes in and beats you to it you can't use the awesome plan you made. The developers said that they're making a reset function so you can re-take all the camps but until then it's kind of annoying to waste a good strategy.
To be fair though, the QTEs in this game are the best I've seen (though that's not saying much)
The Tiger part cracks me up every time XD
Ah yes, the RUclips algorithm brings me back to this video after 8 long years, thanks to the Vaas DLC dropping on FC6 today. I forgot how good some of the old school ZP's were!
If he calls a game "alright, it's fine", then you know it has to be awesome.
3:07 THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED TO ME XD
Probably one of your best reviews yet Yahtzee XD
My favorite aspect of this game is The Machete! You know that feeling you get when you Clear out a heavily fortified Enemy Camp using ONLY a couple of rocks and you're Machete?. Stealth is FUN in this game :D
I love this game and he summed it up perfectly. I also think this is one of his funniest videos.
By far the best talking banana on youtube.