It's been said, but Far Cry 2. Which is a shame, because there was a fantastic game in there somewhere and when it managed to escape from the dirty fingers of the Devs for a few seconds it shone spectacularly. Then an enemy would respawn because you took half a second too long blinking, or an SUV would try to ram your enoumours military truck (with a grenade launcher bolted to the roof) off the road, or everyone would try to kill you for no reason, or an invisible wall would spring up on the fucking open-world sandbox and stop you from reaching the perfect sniper spot you could see....
Or you'd run into the lack of a 'climb' button, or your car would get destroyed leaving you to hike hours to the objective, or every enemy ever would hear your silenced weapon through the jeep driving by, or you could select the huge M249 machine gun as a fourth weapon but not a little MP5, or you couldn't just pull out a gun and shoot the guy you're meant to assassinate because he's importent, or you couldn't look and see how many maleria pills you had left, or you couldn't cure your maleria, or you actually GET maleria (seriously, who gives the protagonist maleria?) or you get kicked in the nuts once more by the devs not releasing the damn SDK so that people could mod the game.
Shockingly, I could actually go on. But I won't.
41 Damn hours I put into that game, because I refused to let it beat me. And all I got for it was
So yeah. There's my rant.
Or you'd run into the lack of a 'climb' button, or your car would get destroyed leaving you to hike hours to the objective, or every enemy ever would hear your silenced weapon through the jeep driving by, or you could select the huge M249 machine gun as a fourth weapon but not a little MP5, or you couldn't just pull out a gun and shoot the guy you're meant to assassinate because he's importent, or you couldn't look and see how many maleria pills you had left, or you couldn't cure your maleria, or you actually GET maleria (seriously, who gives the protagonist maleria?) or you get kicked in the nuts once more by the devs not releasing the damn SDK so that people could mod the game.
Shockingly, I could actually go on. But I won't.
41 Damn hours I put into that game, because I refused to let it beat me. And all I got for it was
the choice to blow myself up or shoot myself. What. The. Fuck?!?! Where's the third option where I say FUCK THESE PEOPLE, empty half a clip of 12 guage rounds into the fucking Jackal, and get out of that shit hole as fast as I can run?
So yeah. There's my rant.