Never played it.

Aww.. can I just have ONE air vent? Pretty please?

 

I love them so. =)

NO

 

How would you redesign it, if that were the case, without vents?

 

My favorite single player shooter title over the past years wasen't even a particularly good shooter, but man, the freedom of not having to solve a puzzle every other minuite to open the manhole cover to the next toilet, and then the next toilet over made me play Farcry over and over again.

 

The city maps in Halflife were excellent, as was the Mesa facility minus the vent crawling.

Edited June 11, 200718 yr by Gorgon

I hated Farcry with a passion. I still hate Farcry with a passion. My friends are with me in hating Farcry with a passion. It was the worst paced and balanced game I played in years. It's techncal merits many, it's game design merits almost nonexistant. Puzzles ultimately serve as a pacing mechanic, with appeal beyond just that, by giving the player good downtime to recover from combat fatigue.

 

I think Doom 3 might have been the only game I played with worse pacing than Farcry. Doom 3, however, tempts me to give it an excuse for that.

Edited June 11, 200718 yr by Tale

Can you give me an example why FarCry had horrid design?

 

Other than that goddamn helicopter in that cursed sinking ship which had me using cheats for the first time in years.

The second to last encounter of the game was exclusively snipers and the rocket launcher monsters in a wide open area with little to no cover. They are fully capable of killing you the moment you pop your head out, yet somehow you have to go through them. There are actually quite several moments like this, but that one was the worst and it occured the last so it is easiest to remember.

 

Another moment has you going up a volcano while also fighting your way through the cyberdemon's cousins, but you start off in a jeep. There's no indication which passage is the right one, you just have to try 15 billion times until you luck upon a course of action that gets you through it.

 

Lest we not forget the oft despised "monkey" monsters that can kill you with a few quick swipes which you are consistently given no warning of and placed in tight corners with.

 

And last, probably least among my complaints, are the silly rocket snipers who shoot you from great distances and the only way you know they are there is after they blew you up and you've reloaded your most recent save.

 

The creature design and the level design are horridly incompatible in that game. There are far too many moments where success depends on blind luck after a billion retries or memorization of the encounter.

Edited June 11, 200718 yr by Tale

In the future, people don't need air.

 

True story.

In the future, people don't need air.

 

True story.

Then how will they talk?

Yes, Farcray has many many flaws, but it also has some awesome jungle areas and speedboat driveby shootings.

My list of demands solely consists of including a full-sized-battery-operated-face-hugger with the purchase of this product. And none of the cheap stuff, but a proper one which duly loops around the victim's neck as well. Can you imagine the horror of placing one of these babies on a sleeping person's face, only to have them wake up and regress into some kind of basal pang of terror? It would be glorious I tell you, glorious!

In the future, people don't need air.

 

True story.

In the future people might even have doors that aren't mysteriously blocked off so one doesen't have to crawl through air vents.

What about Crawlspaces? Can we have crawlspaces? Or nooks?

 

I'm trying to get a sense of if your edict applies only to passageways made originally for ventilation purposes.

In the future, people don't need air.

 

True story.

Then how will they talk?

 

Voiceboxes. You know, like those people with who had throat-cancer

In the future, people don't need air.

 

True story.

In the future people might even have doors that aren't mysteriously blocked off so one doesen't have to crawl through air vents.

I think it's been established even in the Alien films that people do crawl through air vents.

What does that matter, if it's exciting in a film and a major drag in a computer game.

 

One can't avoild a measure of crawlspaces I suppose, but miles and miles snaking through air vents and staring at textures close up. This is BAD

I think I have made myself as clear as i'm able.

In the future, people don't need air.

 

True story.

In the future people might even have doors that aren't mysteriously blocked off so one doesen't have to crawl through air vents.

They'll be too distracted by the flocks of cloned-out dodos.

 

That's ****ING SCARY

Edited June 12, 200718 yr by metadigital

HADES!

 

 

Don't deny it!

He is back by the way

Stop spamming my thread you apes.

So ... you agree that vents are essential, and -- if done properly -- excellent RPG value.

You have to take your pills at the intervals indicated on the bottle, otherwise they may lose their effectiveness.

It is audacious of you to remember that. And act accordingly.