I was all hyped to get Farcry 3, until I watched a few gameplay videos on YouTube (As I often do to get a feel for what a game is like before I buy it). What I was noticing was echoed by Totalbiscuit in his video of it. Your character basically despite being new to this crazy situation seems to learn how to handle a gun really well, and in fact can hit spot on with pretty much any of the guns. On top of this, you can unlock many of the guns for free using the radio towers, and the gun shops are available all over the place. So basically, guns are everywhere. Real hard to survive eh?
It reminded me of Just Cause 2. I think that game is fun, but for me I became rapidly disinterested when I could just make a phone call and order in weapons, vehicles and the like. Money was so easy to get, combined with finding guns that it just became kind of boring to me. Now Just Cause 2 is not a survival game, but it kind of illustrates my point about guns being so easy to get. I've noticed a lot of games with emphasis on survival basically give you great weapons and make them easy to use that it's not even a challenge. To me I like some difficulty to come from having the adequate weapon for a battle, in finding ammo, food, and things like that. I know a lot of people liked Borderlands 2, and I enjoyed the first but for whatever reason I just became so bored with Borderlands 2 - just the constant overwhelming mountain of weapons you find made it a bit uninteresting to me (Combined with lots of the same enemies). I don't like any game where I can just throw guns away on the ground like "Eh, I don't even care about that". I want to value my gun dearly, like in DayZ where I'm scared to lose it but glad to have it.
I know some titles that offer bits of these, but I'm curious to know if there are any other good titles which can really give me a feel like this. DayZ is a notable example, difficult to obtain guns, lots of danger about, ammo is scarce, and you really get a sense of panic when you're roaming the map - not many games really make me want to kind of just hide in one spot or advance so slowly like DayZ can. STALKER was pointed out by Totalbiscuit, and I have played this game but I did not notice the difficulty quite so prevalently in that game. But perhaps I got lucky snatching up weapons early on. Metro 2033 to me had a nice element of survival to it, though it was definitely linear in nature. I enjoy that ammo is scarce and ineffective, that some is even used as currency.
I hate that SO many games about survival end up with you loaded to the gills with ammo. Part of what's so scary to me is having to find ammo and/or a gun in the first place. Farcry 3 looks fun, but it's not really scary for the most part. Your guns are plentiful, accurate, and ammo is readily available for the most part. The ability to just warp to a town and buy ammo negates any real survival need in the game. Most games make guns too easy to get, or rather GOOD guns too easy to get. If a game made weak underpowered guns readily available, that would be ok if it made effective ones much more hard to come by. It's so rewarding in those cases to find the better guns, ammo, and things like that. I also dislike that you can usually lug around several big weapons with you, as opposed to just one rifle and maybe a pistol - which is more realistic. It's also a bit cheap that you can usually just pickup the rifle of the bad guy you just took down if it's better than yours, but in part I like this survivalist approach - hard to explain but it has its ups and downs. I guess I'm thinking of an MGS way of obtaining new guns, by finding where they're hidden around the level but that would perhaps be a bit arbitrary and I think I'd take the gun nabbing over this (But it is kinda lame if you can rob an RPG or something off a dead guy and now you're blowing up everything super easy).
So this all leads up to my question, can any of you recommend me some good survival titles? I'm willing to hear out any options gameplay wise (FPS, Third Person, platformer, etc as well as multiplatform (PC, Console) that does these things. There are so many indie games made these days, and great titles and game mods that have fallen by the wayside these days that I feel that I may simply just be missing something that would be really enjoyable. I welcome discussion of these ideas too, but would like some game title or mod suggestions that I could try out. Some of the old Resident Evil games are great about the scarce ammo, a bit too much so though since it makes some enemies basically impossible to kill - but I never much cared for the old style of Resident Evil with fixed camera angles.
TL;DR version: Recommend me some survival games that don't baby you by giving you tons of guns/weapons and ammo.
It reminded me of Just Cause 2. I think that game is fun, but for me I became rapidly disinterested when I could just make a phone call and order in weapons, vehicles and the like. Money was so easy to get, combined with finding guns that it just became kind of boring to me. Now Just Cause 2 is not a survival game, but it kind of illustrates my point about guns being so easy to get. I've noticed a lot of games with emphasis on survival basically give you great weapons and make them easy to use that it's not even a challenge. To me I like some difficulty to come from having the adequate weapon for a battle, in finding ammo, food, and things like that. I know a lot of people liked Borderlands 2, and I enjoyed the first but for whatever reason I just became so bored with Borderlands 2 - just the constant overwhelming mountain of weapons you find made it a bit uninteresting to me (Combined with lots of the same enemies). I don't like any game where I can just throw guns away on the ground like "Eh, I don't even care about that". I want to value my gun dearly, like in DayZ where I'm scared to lose it but glad to have it.
I know some titles that offer bits of these, but I'm curious to know if there are any other good titles which can really give me a feel like this. DayZ is a notable example, difficult to obtain guns, lots of danger about, ammo is scarce, and you really get a sense of panic when you're roaming the map - not many games really make me want to kind of just hide in one spot or advance so slowly like DayZ can. STALKER was pointed out by Totalbiscuit, and I have played this game but I did not notice the difficulty quite so prevalently in that game. But perhaps I got lucky snatching up weapons early on. Metro 2033 to me had a nice element of survival to it, though it was definitely linear in nature. I enjoy that ammo is scarce and ineffective, that some is even used as currency.
I hate that SO many games about survival end up with you loaded to the gills with ammo. Part of what's so scary to me is having to find ammo and/or a gun in the first place. Farcry 3 looks fun, but it's not really scary for the most part. Your guns are plentiful, accurate, and ammo is readily available for the most part. The ability to just warp to a town and buy ammo negates any real survival need in the game. Most games make guns too easy to get, or rather GOOD guns too easy to get. If a game made weak underpowered guns readily available, that would be ok if it made effective ones much more hard to come by. It's so rewarding in those cases to find the better guns, ammo, and things like that. I also dislike that you can usually lug around several big weapons with you, as opposed to just one rifle and maybe a pistol - which is more realistic. It's also a bit cheap that you can usually just pickup the rifle of the bad guy you just took down if it's better than yours, but in part I like this survivalist approach - hard to explain but it has its ups and downs. I guess I'm thinking of an MGS way of obtaining new guns, by finding where they're hidden around the level but that would perhaps be a bit arbitrary and I think I'd take the gun nabbing over this (But it is kinda lame if you can rob an RPG or something off a dead guy and now you're blowing up everything super easy).
So this all leads up to my question, can any of you recommend me some good survival titles? I'm willing to hear out any options gameplay wise (FPS, Third Person, platformer, etc as well as multiplatform (PC, Console) that does these things. There are so many indie games made these days, and great titles and game mods that have fallen by the wayside these days that I feel that I may simply just be missing something that would be really enjoyable. I welcome discussion of these ideas too, but would like some game title or mod suggestions that I could try out. Some of the old Resident Evil games are great about the scarce ammo, a bit too much so though since it makes some enemies basically impossible to kill - but I never much cared for the old style of Resident Evil with fixed camera angles.
TL;DR version: Recommend me some survival games that don't baby you by giving you tons of guns/weapons and ammo.
[sub][sub]Amnesia: The Dark Descent, if you were actually wondering.[/sub][/sub]
