Far Cry 3

[Twigg4075]

You picked it up off the table during your escape at the very beginning. Press up on the d-pad.

I've been pretty diligent about hitting the start button every time one of those prompts pops up telling you that you have new information about something or there's a tutorial and I don't remember ever seeing one about that.

[j.hen]

I love that you actually have to scope out the area a lot of the times with the camera before going in guns blazing. I use the bow and my silenced pistol most of the time and sneak up on them all and take them out. I'm actually pretty far. I have a good majority of the upgrades from crafting as well. This is definitely an immersive game, more so than I've experienced in a long, long time. And I usually prefer 3rd-Person games to 1st-Person, but this has really blown me away thus far.

Vaas was such an excellent villain ("Have I ever told you the definition of Insanity?") I really don't want to say too much... but just wait till you meet Hoyt.

[BrntO4Life]

I've been pretty diligent about hotting the start button every time one of those prompts pops up telling you that you have new information about something or there's a tutorial and I don't remember ever seeing one about that.

You pick up the camera in the VERY beginning. Like Swarley said, just press up on the D-Pad and you'll be looking down the viewfinder.

[SethMode]

Just started this thanks to another RedBox promo code thing. Liking it so far, but man, the framerate on the 360 is butt.

[jms493]

I am leaning towards the PC version.....supposed to be pretty amazing.

[SethMode]

I am leaning towards the PC version.....supposed to be pretty amazing.

Yeah, wish my ancient PC could handle it. All of Ubisoft's games now are supposedly pretty amazing on PC.

[JayDizzle]

Friday can't come soon enough.

Reading tales of setting Tigers and Bears upon pirates and using C4 for makeshift I.E.D.'s intrigues me.

Also, I wanna hang glide.

[BrntO4Life]

Just started this thanks to another RedBox promo code thing. Liking it so far, but man, the framerate on the 360 is butt.

I haven't had any framerate issues yet. It's running nice and smooth for me.

[SethMode]

I haven't had any framerate issues yet. It's running nice and smooth for me.

I didn't think it was a situational thing. I thought it was kind of lambasted for running at like 20 FPS on consoles (even worse on PS3 from what I've heard)? I don't care, but it has definitely been sluggish at times.

[BrntO4Life]

I didn't think it was a situational thing. I thought it was kind of lambasted for running at like 20 FPS on consoles (even worse on PS3 from what I've heard)? I don't care, but it has definitely been sluggish at times.

I haven't looked closely, but it feels like a steady 30FPS. I know 20 would look abysmal and I would definitely notice that.

[BrntO4Life]

Double.

[SethMode]

I haven't looked closely, but it feels like a steady 30FPS. I know 20 would look abysmal and I would definitely notice that.

Yeah like I said, not really hurting my enjoyment of the game, but it's been choppy. Who knows. I'm a little irritated at myself for bitching about framerate in general.

[Twigg4075]

You pick up the camera in the VERY beginning. Like Swarley said, just press up on the D-Pad and you'll be looking down the viewfinder.

I believe you guys, but never once did I see any prompt about it at all. I've seen every other prompt but none about the camera.

Just started this thanks to another RedBox promo code thing. Liking it so far, but man, the framerate on the 360 is butt.

I am leaning towards the PC version.....supposed to be pretty amazing.

I haven't noticed any framerate issues on PS3. I do have someone on my PSN friend's list that was asking me about it because he has the PC version and said the framerate sucks. But I think he also said that his PC isn't amazing either.

[Twigg4075]

This actual;ly shows that both console versions have their share of issues. Maybe I haven't seen the framerate issues because I'm so early in.

http://www.lensoftruth.com/heads-up-far-cry-3-screenshot-comparison-and-analysis/

I'm trying to find the actual comparison but apparently the shadows like like shit on the PS3 version.

[BrntO4Life]

Twigg, I don't think it ever notifies you about the camera. It certainly doesn't tell you about it when you get it, because that's right before things get really crazy. I just stumbled upon it by checking out all of the controls.

EDIT: Well, I'll be damned. Seth is right and it does run at a steady 20 fps.