Far Cry was basically a tech demo from Crytech who created the Cryengine. Nobody really cared about the story, it was all about the open-game huge maps and graphics. And yeah the story was purposely ridiculous. It also had amazing bump mapping and real time lighting that most people had never seen before, and it beat HL2 and Doom to the market. The game was far ahead of it’s time.
Pagb666: Max pPayne had dialogue drowning in cliches too but the tongue in cheek manner in which it was presented along with the gameplay made it a masterpiece just like Far Cry.
I finished this game 7 times, my favorite in the series. Last time I finished it on realistic without quicksaves, without any mods. The only thing that makes possible to finish it on realistic is to hide in the round bushes, they make you invisible, the enemies will not attack you even when you use loud weapons, that`s pretty much the stealth system and is kinda hidden. You have to use the heat vision and binoculars a lot to pinpoint all enemies, you have to play a medium to long distance to have a chance. The last missinon is very hard because you don`t have any bushes to hide, but is doable.
One thing I really liked about this game apart from the space to approach and manoevre was the armour hitboxes. Games even now don't have armour that characters actually wear and protect that area but Farcry does and it's very satisfying to have to aim around those areas and see sparks fly as bullets impact on them. That and little touches like the modelled wounds really give more weight to the gunfighting
This game's graphical standards still looks great ! And I have never played another game which is as challenging as this. That background music when enemies spotted us was chilling and exciting at the same time.
I had the same experience with Far Cry that I had with Crysis. Good times during the first half but as soon as the mutants/aliens show up it loses its charm.
same here. also, i had this weird issue that one type of enemy could handle half a mag in the head, and the exact same one later on could handle 3 full mags in the head. it is really weird why i had this. my friend thought i am playing poorly, not hitting my targets, but after seeing it and playing it for him self, he agreed that it is indeed weird.
@Honey badger It's because what most people loved about the first half wasn't the difficulty, but the tactical planning, sneaking through camps and experimenting with the open environment. The second half pretty much threw that sandbox appeal out the window and turned into a pretty basic shooter where you killed whatever jumped at you from behind a corner.
Well if you played Doom 3 with the flash light like showed in the video, you missed out big time. In the original release you could not use the light and a gun at the same time, added a lot to the atmosphere.
Obviously every one played doom 3 vanilla when it first came out. Having to hold the flashlight didn't make doom 3 scary, it just made it annoying. Duct tape mod is mandatory if you want to play doom 3 and actually enjoy it.
That problem you mentioned at that door near the volcano, what I always did was use the Sniper to kill any far off enemies and then lure those brutes one by one by letting them see me and kill them inside. It worked for me. I remember dying a lot there but at the end, I finally completed that part.
Thats funny cause facial animations and physics aside, I always thought Far Cry was the best looking game back in 2004....there were some who argued that Doom 3 was the best looking game of all time back then, but I would say that Far Cry was almost if not quite at the same level in 2004 as Crysis was 3 years later. That being said, Black Mesa (HL1 remake) and something like TitanFall 2 have proven that games can still look rather good on Source engine....I just always wondered why would Valve have been developing Source 2, if they didnt plan to use it themselves on something more bigger than just VR games. Anyhow when it comes to original Far Cry and Far Cry 2, there seems to be clear rift among players who think that those games were shit and the franchise only became good from FC3 onwards, while there are those who also think exactly the opposite, that from FC3 onward it became generic Ubisoft open world franchise.
Far Cry came out shortly after I had finished military service, and it was the first FPS I played where I could implement all the infantry combat tactics I had learned in a game... concealment vs cover (i.e. bush vs wall), both squatting and lying prone (that was a big one that many games today still don't implement), and the open-world environment allowing you to approach the objective from any number of directions.
I've played the game many times with Czech voice overdub, since that's how it was released in Czech Republic. It made the story much more plausible compared to original voice acting. - Great video!! Thank You!
As we speak I am playing this game. I love it so much I sometimes think I am a part of it. As you rightly point out I have cursed so much that neighbors think I am mad. For example, when Val shows up, your whole play strategy disappears because she is tied to you. Many times you fire the mortar an inch in front of you and it doesn't trouble you. Another time you fire that mortar two miles down the road and it kills you. I have ALL the other FAR CRYs and I dont even install them. I JUST LOVE THIS GAME. Sometimes I dont play the game. I just float through the lush peaceful vegetation evident throughout the game, or swim in the clear waters. No matter the faults , I adore this game. I love the A.I. I love the built in story and most of all I love the strategy you have to employ to play the game. The first time I played the game it took me at least six months of intertwined work and play to finish the game. I have played and completed the game at least seven times, but I am still playing this game. I love it. What vexes me is that the ability to walk past a health pack or a gun and it is automatically yours, is lacking in the other Far Cry games, and that pisses me off. However I love all Far Cry games, but this one is my personal favorite.
Good vid. Fun fact: a LOT of people keep ending up in that place of "WTF is going on?" when talking about the Far Cry game plots (all of the games) I think people missed the point of the title: "Far Cry" - from the really OLD saying "Far cry from reality" -- Like when you were a kid telling your dad how cool it would be if Star Wars or Star Trek were real and how you would live in that world... my dad would say "Sounds awesome.. it it's a far cray from reality." -- in other words: "WTF is going on?" is EXACTLY the point of the plot... I think it's that dichotomy that makes the game so appealing: A game engine that immerses you into a very real feeling world, while simultaneously abandoning all sense of reality itself. Anyway - Good vid. Was nice to reminisce one of my favorite old titles! Thanks for the wonderfully nostalgic moment :)
Far Cry was probably the first or the second FPS I've ever played when I got my PC in 2004. I was 7 so this game kicked my ass hard to the point, where I finished it only a few years later. I plan to replay it one day for nostalgia reasons. About the last mission, you're right, it's a huge pain in the ass but there is a way to do it easily. You just have to lure the enemies to this entrance, where you start and then hide behind the wall. That way you can be in a spot where you can shoot all the mutants but they can't shoot you. I found this solution when I also had problems with it. Without it, we would be really screwed.
What happened to unique single player experiences ? The 2000’s had a bunch of amazing games, some are classics today , but a lot of them are overlooked or forgotten. I remember me and my friends buying the first Stalker (pirated of course,cause Eastern Europe)and everyone instantly hated it but still I kept playing it amd it’s probably my favorite game ever to this day.
The first time I played this game felt like an absolute chore and I didn't have much fun with it, and I would get so frustrated with how many times I would die. But then I came back and tried it again, and some thing clicked and I really enjoyed it a lot, it was one of the funnest times I had playing a game. The game can be super hard, but when get past the hard parts it can be really satisfying.
I'm currently playing this, looking for beating the entire Far Cry series. This game is really hard, and I think the "zoom in" kind of aim, instead of iron sights helps a lot on open environments, as it gives a much clear vision of what you're aiming at. Also, invisible enemies can be seen with the "night goggles (more like heat vision)" on, and the big sponges are easily taken down with a good spray of bullets, instead of rockets (as I felt the RPG just worked well against vehicles).
True, a good ragdol system makes a shooter so much fun. That's why I fell in love with sniper rifles in Halo 2. Watching those jackals fly after hitting them with a 50 cal was so satisfying and fun.
1:50 - ooooooh this makes so much sense now. I went back to FC1 a while back to see if it was like I remembered it, and I couldnt even get into the first camp because I would get sniped and oneshot no matter what approach I took. I just I must have gotten really bad at games haha
Honestly I love far cry one the most the funny thing is I never played it until recently I was about 5 years old when it came out and I used to watch my uncles place that game turn by turn and I used to get so excited! I used to be scared of the trigens🥺 when I was young cuz some of them were such sneaky buggers and used to kill my uncle all the time hahaha ah! The god old days now it’s pretty sad not seeing my uncle that munch n seeing how times have changed and how he’s got his own life and seeing that slowly I’m not playing games that much now 😌🥺 but far cry 1 probably the best game ever out of the far cry series! Hope kids of the later generation will play this game haha and actually feel the enjoyment and frustration I did. Ps- haha sorry if there are any mistakes
@deadwolf king I share your feelings buddy, when I was about 9 years old this game was the first shooter I played and really made that feel where you are "the soldier" with weapons and enemies, as well as monsters (trigens) who are not easy to kill (specifically at the level 6 Treetops, first encounter), I was so scared and kinda felt like I was part of the game... the dread, the adrenaline, even nightmares... 5 years later, I'm back and I finish it ... even TODAY (to be honest I play on the hardest difficuly - Realistic just for the heck of it), childhood, very fisrt definition of a real game for me !!! Keep your head up (also nice comment) !!! （Φ ω Φ）
This was amazing back in the day. Probably the first game where i saw lights reflect on walls as you moved ..also very challenging. I replayed this few month ago in 8k and still enjoyed it. Yea the AI was cheap, but it didn't stop me from finishing the game.
I gave Far Cry another go a couple of years back and was baffled by the AI magically seeing me through walls, making stealth impossible. I was certain the game was more playable when it came out... but yeah, had no idea patches caused this. Thanks for the explanation (and suggested fix)!
I turned 30 this year and I found out I was much more patient as a kid than I am as a adult when it comes to bs in games. I remember ghosting some of the missions in this game that you would not thing are even ghostable.
Far cry 2 is my personal favorite of the series. It's so damn good. Cars get damaged my driving off-road, gonna get dirty and can break, fires spread like crazy, you have Malaria and need to get medicine along with only saving at certain spots.
Recently finished the game on the hardest dificulty witout mods ot anything. That felt like the biggest achievement I got in my gaming history. So freaking hard.
So that’s why it was so fucking hard! I thought it was just plain made that way, made me wonder why there are even different difficulty levels when they seem the same
The turret section in the prison is the bit that stops me replaying half life 2 when I think of it. I don't know who thought it would be fun to watch enemies walk into fire and just push your turrets over.
Hey every one, thanks for watching this video! I streamed all of Far Cry 1 over the last few days and I stream often so if you want to hang out then come give a follow! www.twitch.tv/jarek4gamingdragon
12:50 is at the end of the game. Is in the last area, before finishing the game to give you one last challenge. Some random critic, who can’t take a challenge: “This is bad design” I’d like for you to talk play and talk about Dark Souls 1, where you’ll end up saying that the game is unplayable.
I DO play dark souls. They're great games with a proper challenge. Artificial difficulty is not good design. I can guarantee I am better than you when it comes to shooters. Get your dumbass fanboy comments out of here.
First Far Cry and all Crysis games all have literally the opposite problem of Aliens: Colonial Marines. They are all fun and interesting until the aliens (or mutants) show up.
12:50 remind me that section in Clear Sky when you need to sneak near military post when you enter cordon first time. I played this like 9 years old and didn't understood how to beat this
Wow I tried playing this game around when this video was made and had no idea about the aim bot enemies… I played five minutes and gave up because I literally couldn’t proceed lol
I loved this game. It ran beautifully on my good old Geforce 4200Ti I did the mistake of starting the game in Hard, and I was stuck at a Matrix Movie fight scene (the one in the office building before taking the elevator) As you said, 1 door to get in. And behind that door, not enough cover and SO MANY Overly armored enemies. I did have a lot of fun trying and trying and trying, but yea, totally unfair and borderline impossible at the hard setting.
Man, this game holds a special place in my heart. My step dad and I really bonded over this game. But the later levels do become stupid hard, after the big trigens are introduced. For the last level my stepdad downloaded the dev kit and enable console commands.
I remember 5-6 year old me beating this game. How do I remember? I remember the ending where the fucker jumps at you in a chopper or something. It is the reason I downloaded it again.
This was the best game I played for a lot of hours during my childhood. I really loved it to the point where I had to skip weekend tutions just to play this game. Watching the gameplay really brings back a lot of memories. hmm nostalgia !..
I've literally made entire videos critiquing both Half-Life 2 and Halo 2. In fact I literally made a whole video on why Half-Life 2 didn't age very well. Perhaps, and this is a crazy thought, you're just being a Far Cry fanboy, with doom 3, HL2, and Halo 2 all being better games.
I'm pretty sure Farcry 1 came out in 2003. I remember playing it before Doom 3 which came out late 2003 from what I remember. Edit: March 2004, my bad. Maybe I played the demo/leak first? Farcry had this creepy feature that the AI would look at you (in the eyes) when you moved around them in 3d in the level editor with the game running. It was pretty good graphically at the time.
I remember how good Far Cry looked at the time. My computer barely met the minimum requirements for a few years when after an upgrade things got really awesome. Until Crysis came along anyway :D
The best part about this game was making your levels from scratch in multiplayer. To this day I've never scene another game do it better. It was build your own skatepark in Tony Hawk Pro Skater on steroids.
I choose third difficult level without this mod. I regret my decision as I was new to PC gaming. I completed the game but Oh God it was such a brutal experience. Good experience but aimbot enemies and op trigen are major drawbacks.
This game rocks. When I first got into pc gaming like 10 years ago this was one of the only games I could run. I played it up until the weird mutant things, wish I finished it all though
Invisible enemies can be seen with heat vision.
Back then I remember the graphics were awesome.
Yeah I renember getting this on xbox and was blown away by the graphics and gameplay.
7 year old me never beat the game cause I was too fucken scared to fight the "trigens"
And big rocket monsters
makes sense you shouldnt have been playing it the first place
@@kshmr_k9 legit everyone plays first person shooters when they’re kids
@@oddmovies696 I played this when I was around 14 or something I'd say no younger than that
@@oddmovies696 right WTF 🤣 I was playing Gta vice city before I was 3 and GTA San Andreas the day it came out when I was 3 with my step dad
Way back when, I could look at that Far Cry water forever.
And now we need the SilentPatch to even see reflections.. Broken because of a DirectX regression apparently.
oh totally ! also at night the atmospheres were awesome with bright moonlight ! beautiful !
Still do
Ah,a fellow outlaw star fan! Have a like!
That true. Good time
Far Cry was basically a tech demo from Crytech who created the Cryengine. Nobody really cared about the story, it was all about the open-game huge maps and graphics. And yeah the story was purposely ridiculous.
It also had amazing bump mapping and real time lighting that most people had never seen before, and it beat HL2 and Doom to the market. The game was far ahead of it’s time.
CRYTEK İNSANE GAME YEAR THE 2004 2008 ❤
This game looked incrediblle for its time
Still it is also in 2020
@@ra-0238 even in 2020 its still my favorite fps
You know... part of the charm of Far Cry's plot and setting is that it reeks of cheap b-series action movie clichés, just like...SiN, for example.
exactly!
Pagb666: Max pPayne had dialogue drowning in cliches too but the tongue in cheek manner in which it was presented along with the gameplay made it a masterpiece just like Far Cry.
"DOYLE, MY ARM IS TURNING GREEN."
Honestly I don't know why I always found that so funny. But yeah, I love the game.
"This is easy difficulty!?" - Dunkey
Far cry 1 is my fav in the series.
SESWRT 2 is mine.
Far cry 2 is my favorite
@@jackk.79632 very boring
I finished this game 7 times, my favorite in the series. Last time I finished it on realistic without quicksaves, without any mods. The only thing that makes possible to finish it on realistic is to hide in the round bushes, they make you invisible, the enemies will not attack you even when you use loud weapons, that`s pretty much the stealth system and is kinda hidden. You have to use the heat vision and binoculars a lot to pinpoint all enemies, you have to play a medium to long distance to have a chance. The last missinon is very hard because you don`t have any bushes to hide, but is doable.
Man . . . that doesn't sound fun to me. To each their own I suppose.
One thing I really liked about this game apart from the space to approach and manoevre was the armour hitboxes. Games even now don't have armour that characters actually wear and protect that area but Farcry does and it's very satisfying to have to aim around those areas and see sparks fly as bullets impact on them. That and little touches like the modelled wounds really give more weight to the gunfighting
One thing I loved was the bullet holes in the enemies shot showed you how well your aim was.
that was my fav thing too, made the gunplay just that much more satisfying! cool to see someone else appreciated it lol
My favorite far cry!
I was and still am scared of the trigents
This game's graphical standards still looks great !
And I have never played another game which is as challenging as this.
That background music when enemies spotted us was chilling and exciting at the same time.
I had the same experience with Far Cry that I had with Crysis. Good times during the first half but as soon as the mutants/aliens show up it loses its charm.
same here. also, i had this weird issue that one type of enemy could handle half a mag in the head, and the exact same one later on could handle 3 full mags in the head. it is really weird why i had this. my friend thought i am playing poorly, not hitting my targets, but after seeing it and playing it for him self, he agreed that it is indeed weird.
@Honey badger It's because what most people loved about the first half wasn't the difficulty, but the tactical planning, sneaking through camps and experimenting with the open environment. The second half pretty much threw that sandbox appeal out the window and turned into a pretty basic shooter where you killed whatever jumped at you from behind a corner.
@@matman000000 took the words right out of my mouth. Corridor shooter. Not the entire 2nd half but most of it.
I didn't like it in far cry but I loved it in crysis
That part when u open the door to the volcano was really bs lol
I never had the issue when I played. At least I don't remember it happening that way. Maybe it was one of the mods he was using.
@@1005rhys nah that last area was always pretty challenging
Well if you played Doom 3 with the flash light like showed in the video, you missed out big time.
In the original release you could not use the light and a gun at the same time, added a lot to the atmosphere.
Obviously every one played doom 3 vanilla when it first came out. Having to hold the flashlight didn't make doom 3 scary, it just made it annoying. Duct tape mod is mandatory if you want to play doom 3 and actually enjoy it.
Well I see you are using quicksave which wasn't in the original game, imagine how frustrating the game is without it.
Quicksave actually exists in the original game. You just have to type in the dev console to save. FCAM simply adds it to the menu.
Oh that's cool, I played the game without it and gave up at the helicopter boss.
Yeah the helicopter boss is such a tough and unrealistic part. I'm currently also stuck there.
I actually did play and completed Far Cry 1 in Realism Difficulty without the patch for the AI
And I didn't realize lmao
That problem you mentioned at that door near the volcano, what I always did was use the Sniper to kill any far off enemies and then lure those brutes one by one by letting them see me and kill them inside. It worked for me. I remember dying a lot there but at the end, I finally completed that part.
Thats funny cause facial animations and physics aside, I always thought Far Cry was the best looking game back in 2004....there were some who argued that Doom 3 was the best looking game of all time back then, but I would say that Far Cry was almost if not quite at the same level in 2004 as Crysis was 3 years later.
That being said, Black Mesa (HL1 remake) and something like TitanFall 2 have proven that games can still look rather good on Source engine....I just always wondered why would Valve have been developing Source 2, if they didnt plan to use it themselves on something more bigger than just VR games.
Anyhow when it comes to original Far Cry and Far Cry 2, there seems to be clear rift among players who think that those games were shit and the franchise only became good from FC3 onwards, while there are those who also think exactly the opposite, that from FC3 onward it became generic Ubisoft open world franchise.
Half life alyx is a lot more than "just a VR game".
I remember my brother playing this in 04 and then switching to MGS3 and I was confused that video games could look so different
You, in the shirt...
Far cry 1 plays alot like Kiling floor imo. Shooting is satisfing
Ive spent so much time in farcry level editor, learning game desing and having fun creating my own levels, was sooo cool
They also made a movie based on far cry 1 in Germany
Far Cry came out shortly after I had finished military service, and it was the first FPS I played where I could implement all the infantry combat tactics I had learned in a game... concealment vs cover (i.e. bush vs wall), both squatting and lying prone (that was a big one that many games today still don't implement), and the open-world environment allowing you to approach the objective from any number of directions.
I've played the game many times with Czech voice overdub, since that's how it was released in Czech Republic. It made the story much more plausible compared to original voice acting. - Great video!! Thank You!
As we speak I am playing this game. I love it so much I sometimes think I am a part of it. As you rightly point out I have cursed so much that neighbors think I am mad. For example, when Val shows up, your whole play strategy disappears because she is tied to you. Many times you fire the mortar an inch in front of you and it doesn't trouble you. Another time you fire that mortar two miles down the road and it kills you. I have ALL the other FAR CRYs and I dont even install them. I JUST LOVE THIS GAME. Sometimes I dont play the game. I just float through the lush peaceful vegetation evident throughout the game, or swim in the clear waters. No matter the faults , I adore this game. I love the A.I. I love the built in story and most of all I love the strategy you have to employ to play the game. The first time I played the game it took me at least six months of intertwined work and play to finish the game. I have played and completed the game at least seven times, but I am still playing this game.
I love it. What vexes me is that the ability to walk past a health pack or a gun and it is automatically yours, is lacking in the other Far Cry games, and that pisses me off. However I love all Far Cry games, but this one is my personal favorite.
Good vid. Fun fact: a LOT of people keep ending up in that place of "WTF is going on?" when talking about the Far Cry game plots (all of the games)
I think people missed the point of the title: "Far Cry" - from the really OLD saying "Far cry from reality" -- Like when you were a kid telling your dad how cool it would be if Star Wars or Star Trek were real and how you would live in that world... my dad would say "Sounds awesome.. it it's a far cray from reality." -- in other words: "WTF is going on?" is EXACTLY the point of the plot...
I think it's that dichotomy that makes the game so appealing: A game engine that immerses you into a very real feeling world, while simultaneously abandoning all sense of reality itself.
Anyway - Good vid. Was nice to reminisce one of my favorite old titles! Thanks for the wonderfully nostalgic moment :)
Games can be a far cry from reality and still make sense. Blood Dragon is a great example of that.
The A.I.’s aim botting system in this game, makes the terminator’s aim look like a stormtrooper’s.
2019 and valve still hasnt learnt to count to 3
:(
Valve will never learn how to count to three!
2019 and they learned to count to Alyx
Far Cry was probably the first or the second FPS I've ever played when I got my PC in 2004. I was 7 so this game kicked my ass hard to the point, where I finished it only a few years later. I plan to replay it one day for nostalgia reasons. About the last mission, you're right, it's a huge pain in the ass but there is a way to do it easily. You just have to lure the enemies to this entrance, where you start and then hide behind the wall. That way you can be in a spot where you can shoot all the mutants but they can't shoot you. I found this solution when I also had problems with it. Without it, we would be really screwed.
Jack is a spec ops badass but gets exhausted after sprinting for 5 seconds and needs 5 minutes to recover, lol
What happened to unique single player experiences ?
The 2000’s had a bunch of amazing games, some are classics today , but a lot of them are overlooked or forgotten.
I remember me and my friends buying the first Stalker (pirated of course,cause Eastern Europe)and everyone instantly hated it but still I kept playing it amd it’s probably my favorite game ever to this day.
I kinda love Far Cry 1's story. 90's action movie meets Island of Dr. Moreau.
The first time I played this game felt like an absolute chore and I didn't have much fun with it, and I would get so frustrated with how many times I would die. But then I came back and tried it again, and some thing clicked and I really enjoyed it a lot, it was one of the funnest times I had playing a game. The game can be super hard, but when get past the hard parts it can be really satisfying.
I'm currently playing this, looking for beating the entire Far Cry series. This game is really hard, and I think the "zoom in" kind of aim, instead of iron sights helps a lot on open environments, as it gives a much clear vision of what you're aiming at. Also, invisible enemies can be seen with the "night goggles (more like heat vision)" on, and the big sponges are easily taken down with a good spray of bullets, instead of rockets (as I felt the RPG just worked well against vehicles).
worked on windows 10?
@@genegene7028 yeah
True, a good ragdol system makes a shooter so much fun.
That's why I fell in love with sniper rifles in Halo 2. Watching those jackals fly after hitting them with a 50 cal was so satisfying and fun.
The live background showing through the OICW scope is badass
I absolutely love it when games do that! Its such an amazing graphical effect!
They need to make a remaster FarCry
1:50 - ooooooh this makes so much sense now. I went back to FC1 a while back to see if it was like I remembered it, and I couldnt even get into the first camp because I would get sniped and oneshot no matter what approach I took. I just I must have gotten really bad at games haha
I started playing FC1 out of curiosity for the older games only ever playing from FC3 and i love it but dam them enemies are op
Honestly I love far cry one the most the funny thing is I never played it until recently I was about 5 years old when it came out and I used to watch my uncles place that game turn by turn and I used to get so excited! I used to be scared of the trigens🥺 when I was young cuz some of them were such sneaky buggers and used to kill my uncle all the time hahaha ah! The god old days now it’s pretty sad not seeing my uncle that munch n seeing how times have changed and how he’s got his own life and seeing that slowly I’m not playing games that much now 😌🥺 but far cry 1 probably the best game ever out of the far cry series! Hope kids of the later generation will play this game haha and actually feel the enjoyment and frustration I did.
Ps- haha sorry if there are any mistakes
@deadwolf king I share your feelings buddy, when I was about 9 years old this game was the first shooter I played and really made that feel where you are "the soldier" with weapons and enemies, as well as monsters (trigens) who are not easy to kill (specifically at the level 6 Treetops, first encounter), I was so scared and kinda felt like I was part of the game... the dread, the adrenaline, even nightmares... 5 years later, I'm back and I finish it ... even TODAY (to be honest I play on the hardest difficuly - Realistic just for the heck of it), childhood, very fisrt definition of a real game for me !!!
Keep your head up (also nice comment) !!! （Φ ω Φ）
This was amazing back in the day. Probably the first game where i saw lights reflect on walls as you moved ..also very challenging. I replayed this few month ago in 8k and still enjoyed it. Yea the AI was cheap, but it didn't stop me from finishing the game.
I gave Far Cry another go a couple of years back and was baffled by the AI magically seeing me through walls, making stealth impossible. I was certain the game was more playable when it came out... but yeah, had no idea patches caused this. Thanks for the explanation (and suggested fix)!
I turned 30 this year and I found out I was much more patient as a kid than I am as a adult when it comes to bs in games. I remember ghosting some of the missions in this game that you would not thing are even ghostable.
12:22 Man what are you? Rambo?
One of the first FPS games I've ever played
Gosh dang it, I want Ubisoft to remake FC1 with FC5's movement.
Childhood game, I started playing it again just for the nostalgia
Far cry 2 is my personal favorite of the series. It's so damn good. Cars get damaged my driving off-road, gonna get dirty and can break, fires spread like crazy, you have Malaria and need to get medicine along with only saving at certain spots.
I finished FC1 a few days ago on medium and I almost lost my damned mind, the game is good for the nostalgia but god am I never playing it again
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Loved this game growing up this was all i played for a long time.
Recently finished the game on the hardest dificulty witout mods ot anything. That felt like the biggest achievement I got in my gaming history. So freaking hard.
Man, I love Halo 2...
So that’s why it was so fucking hard!
I thought it was just plain made that way, made me wonder why there are even different difficulty levels when they seem the same
I played this on the xbox back in the day and it was bugged so that you had to watch the entire intro vid every time booting up
I really want a remake of this with co op elements
Far cry 1 is the crysis of 2004 !!
Remember suffering in this game.
And here am i, 14 years later and still salty that i never got to beat the game because the last level in so atrociously bad.
The only giant bullet sponge with an automatic rocket launcher that matters is The Cyberdemon
The turret section in the prison is the bit that stops me replaying half life 2 when I think of it. I don't know who thought it would be fun to watch enemies walk into fire and just push your turrets over.
My first ever Far Cry experience was Far Cry 4 on the Ps3. For a 2004 game, Far Cry 1 looks awesome!
5:56 Nice Megadeth shirt.
You! In the SHIRT!
FarCry had the dopest multiplayer of '04 no doubt. They were ahead of their time with the multiplayer for sure it was fun as fuck
When I played Farcry for the first time I wondered why it was so good, well you can thank Crytek for that. :D
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F.E.A.R. was one of the best hands down ;)
12:50 is at the end of the game.
Is in the last area, before finishing the game to give you one last challenge.
Some random critic, who can’t take a challenge: “This is bad design”
I’d like for you to talk play and talk about Dark Souls 1, where you’ll end up saying that the game is unplayable.
I DO play dark souls. They're great games with a proper challenge. Artificial difficulty is not good design. I can guarantee I am better than you when it comes to shooters. Get your dumbass fanboy comments out of here.
First Far Cry and all Crysis games all have literally the opposite problem of Aliens: Colonial Marines. They are all fun and interesting until the aliens (or mutants) show up.
12:50 remind me that section in Clear Sky when you need to sneak near military post when you enter cordon first time. I played this like 9 years old and didn't understood how to beat this
13:30 seriously? Dude those are warzones just wait for the AI to kill each other
No, no they are not. There are many areas with only mercs or only mutants like this. Like the exact encounter playing in the video.
The graphics blew my mind back in the day
Subbed just because of the ps1 startup intro
Wow I tried playing this game around when this video was made and had no idea about the aim bot enemies… I played five minutes and gave up because I literally couldn’t proceed lol
I loved this game. It ran beautifully on my good old Geforce 4200Ti
I did the mistake of starting the game in Hard, and I was stuck at a Matrix Movie fight scene (the one in the office building before taking the elevator)
As you said, 1 door to get in. And behind that door, not enough cover and SO MANY Overly armored enemies. I did have a lot of fun trying and trying and trying, but yea, totally unfair and borderline impossible at the hard setting.
Man, this game holds a special place in my heart. My step dad and I really bonded over this game. But the later levels do become stupid hard, after the big trigens are introduced. For the last level my stepdad downloaded the dev kit and enable console commands.
I couldn't get a lot further than the first time you hopped in the car.
Far Cry was awesome when it came out, I remember sniping people from 800 meters away in that game.
I remember 5-6 year old me beating this game. How do I remember? I remember the ending where the fucker jumps at you in a chopper or something. It is the reason I downloaded it again.
"what happened to you valve..."
Alyx: may I introduce myself
Map maker was awesome.
This was the best game I played for a lot of hours during my childhood. I really loved it to the point where I had to skip weekend tutions just to play this game. Watching the gameplay really brings back a lot of memories. hmm nostalgia !..
"Hello im Jarek and im HL2 and Halo fanboy! Wont gonna be impartial at all. Nah-ah."
I've literally made entire videos critiquing both Half-Life 2 and Halo 2. In fact I literally made a whole video on why Half-Life 2 didn't age very well. Perhaps, and this is a crazy thought, you're just being a Far Cry fanboy, with doom 3, HL2, and Halo 2 all being better games.
Thanks for the video!!!
I finished it when I was 7yo the only thing I remember well was last level lol
I'm pretty sure Farcry 1 came out in 2003. I remember playing it before Doom 3 which came out late 2003 from what I remember.
Edit: March 2004, my bad. Maybe I played the demo/leak first? Farcry had this creepy feature that the AI would look at you (in the eyes) when you moved around them in 3d in the level editor with the game running. It was pretty good graphically at the time.
12:21 nice shot
Took me a whole year to finish this game back when it came out on a potato pc
I remember how good Far Cry looked at the time. My computer barely met the minimum requirements for a few years when after an upgrade things got really awesome. Until Crysis came along anyway :D
The best part about this game was making your levels from scratch in multiplayer. To this day I've never scene another game do it better. It was build your own skatepark in Tony Hawk Pro Skater on steroids.
I choose third difficult level without this mod. I regret my decision as I was new to PC gaming. I completed the game but Oh God it was such a brutal experience.
Good experience but aimbot enemies and op trigen are major drawbacks.
At least you can mod in "Quicksaves" and HDR officially via the console.
I did vanilla Far Cry one year ago. Was a bit harsh but rewarding
This game rocks. When I first got into pc gaming like 10 years ago this was one of the only games I could run. I played it up until the weird mutant things, wish I finished it all though