Zero Punctuation: Far Cry 3

[Casual Shinji]

A tiger with ties to Al Quida, now there's a thought. lol!

It's not just a thought, it's full blown duo on a magic carpet.

...what? What is that from?

Alfred Jodocus Kwak

A Dutch/Japanese cartoon from the late 80's about a duck named Alfred who gets into all kinds of political, racial, and environmental situations. It even has Hitler as a crow.

 

[blackrave]

Game sounds awesome, but till next paycheck I will enjoy it only in my fantasies

One thing that annoys me is how the character is already a "badass" (unless he opens his mouth) in terms of gameplay right at the start of the game. After they give you a weapon you can just go in a random killing spree and easily make out of it alive, I would have liked to have the guns sway more and have an increased recoil at the start of the game and having the character being slower and more easily tired, etc... Then with the upgrades he would become more like the character that he is.

That's more like YOU are the badass, not the character.

Making the character arbitrarily weak would be good in terms of artistic merit, but it won't garner any love from people just wanting to play the game.

Actually Fallout3 and New Vegas had similar beginning
But unfortunately after a few levels of right skill point distribution it ends

 

[WhiteFangofWhoa]

'Watch out for Vaas, he'll enslave your ass'. I want to see this on a de/motivational poster. Now.

Yes Mr. Banana Man, you probably have now fulfilled the prophecy you made back when you reviewed Halo 3 and lowered your standards a notch* so that not every new game is so much spunk for your sharpened tongue to cut up. I don't necessarily feel that's a bad thing though, at least when it comes to making entertaining reviews. Watching you eviscerate a game is amusing but if that's all you ever did we'd quickly get bored of it and you'd quickly exhaust your supply of negative descriptors and dick jokes... somehow. While some games don't give you the chance to be constructive, I personally find it more engaging when you highlight the parts of a good game that could use improving or a few interesting parts of a bad game that would be excellent if surgically transplanted onto a much more competent body.

*- For more recent example, see his comparison of Doom 3 BFG and Medal of Honour: Gunshooter Kill Dem ForeignersWarfighter. Spend some time with Spunkgargleweewee and suddenly an average game seems much better. See? It does have its uses!

 

[Farther than stars]

Well, that was a fun episode.

Yahtzee has proven that bananas can be funny without doubling as penis metaphors.

Oh... I thought that's what the cornflakes thing was...

 

[Keith Fraser]

So it's a sandbox game involving stealthy combat, with a dark and cynical character arc? Somehow I'm not surprised Yahtzee liked it. If jetpacks were involved he'd probably proclaim it Game of the Year.

(Also, is it just me or does the plot sound a lot like that of the upcoming new Tomb Raider, except with a guy instead of a girl?)

 

[daxterx2005]

Can't view this video because of the stupid advert for WoW...

-edit-
Works now, funny review as always.
Keep up the good work Yahtzee.

 

[EHKOS]

I lost my shit at the rosebush. I thought the whole thing was relaxing, the colors are vibrant and I like islands.

 

[Hyakunin Isshu]

What he said in Black Ops 2, made me *so* depressed, that it made me want to stop helping people, because nothing I can say or do will redeem myself for being "born lucky", or for the sins of someone else of the past. So Mr. Croshaw is telling me, he will hate me forever, because I wasn't born black or whatever, and he will continue to insult me for that.

 

[SirCannonFodder]

We have no cassowarys here. Is it still a holiday if I just flambe'd a pheasant?

We've got cassowaries here, I send you a leg.

 

[Cpt. Slow]

It's amazing that Yahtzee did not make a Charlie Sheen reference when it came to the tiger blood part.

 

[Kargathia]

ha ha ha, I never heard of a game where a random tiger can come in and essentially do a mission for you. That sounds awesome but I'm guessing you can't count on it...or can you? Maybe if you were willing to wait for several hours on a rock outcropping eventually a randomly generated tiger will just come in and eat everyone so you don't have to fire a single shot...I wonder if there's an achievement for that.

The more likely outcome generally is that the tiger decides you are the more tasty of the two options.

 

[lastjustice]

All I know is it's a "Far Cry" from being a good game heh.(Someone had to say it.)

 

[duchaked]

I kept thinking about whether or not I should get this game, and this might just have bumped me over the fence :}

 

[Furrama]

Maybe there is no good ending?

That would make some people mad I guess, but it would be interesting to explore.

 

[Furrama]

ha ha ha, I never heard of a game where a random tiger can come in and essentially do a mission for you. That sounds awesome but I'm guessing you can't count on it...or can you? Maybe if you were willing to wait for several hours on a rock outcropping eventually a randomly generated tiger will just come in and eat everyone so you don't have to fire a single shot...I wonder if there's an achievement for that.

The more likely outcome generally is that the tiger decides you are the more tasty of the two options.

Maybe you can lure a mob of them into the facility and then hang glide to freedom?

I'd play that game.

 

[TJC]

Sooooooo...
is the game good or is it just good compared to blops 2? Yahtzee wasn't entirely clear on that.

Just kidding... mostly

I am actually pretty intrigued by the title but I can only wistfully sigh as my laptop would probably melt by the mere attempt to run it and I don't have access to any recent gen consoles right now.

 

[Dead Seerius]

Well that does it. I was already considering buying this game, but my large pile of backlogged games made me hesitant.

But when a Yahtzee review states that a game is fun right off the bat, you can expect to be entertained. Curse you, ZP. Still, I probably won't be able to get around to playing Far Cry 3 for quite some time. Woe is me, right?

 

[jehk]

I really am the only person who hated this game. I've never played a modern military shooter so maybe this is good by comparison. Skyrim with guns this game is not.

No that would be fallout 3/newvegas with mods

True that. I was suckered in thinking this game would be more like those. Oh well.

 

[Major_Tom]

The most important thing about driving is to remember that bridge guard rails are destructible. Especially when driving that South African Golf, because it handles like... um... a South African Golf.

 

[ThatDarnCoyote]

Anyway, I'm just glad that he didn't take the racism angle with this one like some folks in the forum did.

Yeah, seriously. It's kind of funny that military shooters get condemned as Mein-Kampf racial power fantasies because they have Third World terrorists as the villains, but the game where you play a white middle-class college douchebag who ends up (over the course of a week or so) becoming a mythical warrior-king leading the oppressed natives in revolt and nailing a dusky-eyed island hottie doesn't merit a batted eyelash.

The game does sound good, though. And here I thought I'd have some breathing space to work on my unfinished games backlog.

Dammit, Yahtzee, you charismatic stallion! >.<