Far Cry 3

[Twigg4075]

Twigg's getting a Speed Boost when he finally stops ducking.

Can one really "duck" a co-op mode?

[Swarley]

I love the soundtrack to this game, which is comprised of mainly dubstep... And I fucking hate dubstep.. But when you go to burn down some marijuana fields and JR Gong + Skrillex comes on:

Just finished doing that. Great music for that mission.

Flaming arrow right to that fat dude's head there at the end of the mission.

[j.hen]

Vaas is starting to climb my character of the year list. Dude is crazy, scary and fucked up, and it's awesome haha.

Have I ever told you the definition of insanity?

Vaas is the shhhiiitt!! Wait till you meet Hoyt though..

[Maynard]

great game. the more you play the more fun it is. i love games like this that play as an action FPS but sprinkle rpg elements. crafting and alchemy is cool, plus leveling up and building up your skills.

not in love with any one skill tree...anyone know how many skill points can be earned through the game?

finding boars was a pain in the ass. i had to work my way through 5 camps and towers to view the area where boars can be found so i could upgrade my ammo pouches. got all four weapons slots open now too.

i bought a bow...then right after that i unlocked it for free...FML

[Swarley]

i bought a bow...then right after that i unlocked it for free...FML

Don't buy any of the weapons. You'll unlock everything you need (weapons wise) by activating radio towers.

[JayDizzle]

Heh.

I went to go liberate Mosquito Yard to open up part of the map and came across a sea of Tapirs.

Nothing but tapirs for at least a good 1,000 feet as I trekked towards the camp... until I came across a pair of Tigers.

One of those monsters started stalking me as I tried to sneak into the camp myself and then when I thought I got away, the fucking thing lunges at me.

So I do what any sane man would do and ran screaming into the camp, tossing a grenade towards a set of pirates along the way as I hid.

The tiger proceeded to do my dirty work for me when it ginzu'd through 5 of the pirates plus a sniper.

Now I have a tiger left to deal with, a new basecamp and a trophy that says I liberated a camp while not setting off the alarm.

[ralaw]

I played a few hours over the weekend and I really enjoy it. I really enjoy the randomness of the game. I was chasing a deer through the woods, because I was trying to get a larger pouch/holster for my weapons, but I couldn't just shoot it, because I learned that alarms the hostiles. So, I was chasing it around and it ran into the street where hostiles on a jeep ran it over and kept going. After they left I went and got the skin. LOL.

[j.hen]

I'd highly recommend grabbing the Recurve Bow and the bow skills and having it with you for your game. I'll have ammo for all of my guns but still just decide I feel like taking a camp down with arrows, Legolas style. I have the entire north island liberated and all but 1 of the enemy camps in the southern island liberated. I was 2 minutes away from going to the last camp and taking it over but the girlfriend showed up so I shut it down and saved it for another day's journey.

I've had the entire map open from the radio towers for awhile now and am about to have all of the camps cleared, honestly it never felt like a "grind" to get both of these tasks completed either. Each and every radio tower is subtly (and sometimes not so subtly) different from the rest and some of the ones on Hoyt's island will do their best to give you that adrenaline rush if you're afraid of heights.

Although the missions do get a bit frustrating towards the end, I've never platinum'd a game yet but this one might be it.

[j.hen]

Also... the wingsuit is SO FUCKING COOL, I was in a jeep being chased by pirates, noticed there was a cliff coming up so I drove right off of it, hopped out of the jeep and hit the wingsuit and just fucking took off into the air straight Ironman style and landed with the parachute perfectly overlooking the next enemy camp I'd liberate. Total erection and I may have even pee'd a little bit, which as you all know is quite hard to do.

[Twigg4075]

Also... the wingsuit is SO FUCKING COOL, I was in a jeep being chased by pirates, noticed there was a cliff coming up so I drove right off of it, hopped out of the jeep and hit the wingsuit and just fucking took off into the air straight Ironman style and landed with the parachute perfectly overlooking the next enemy camp I'd liberate. Total erection and I may have even pee'd a little bit, which as you all know is quite hard to do.

Holy shit that sounds rad as hell.

Also, I'm guessing since Jay mentioned that there is a trophy for liberating a camp without setting off an alarm, there are other missable trophies? I guess you would be screwed if you opened up all the camps and didn't do one silently? Any other trophies like that?

[j.hen]

Holy shit that sounds rad as hell.

Also, I'm guessing since Jay mentioned that there is a trophy for liberating a camp without setting off an alarm, there are other missable trophies? I guess you would be screwed if you opened up all the camps and didn't do one silently? Any other trophies like that?

Just looked at the list of trophies and that's the only one you could miss, but it'd be pretty damn hard to miss it considering you have over 30 chances to pull it off. You get +1,000 more xp if you're undetected in liberating a camp anyway so you should always be trying to stay undetected.

[mgoblue2290]

The rock you can throw is my best friend in this game. I got the silent liberation thing too.

[JayDizzle]

I only got 550 XP for liberating the camp.

Got the trophy but it was due to nobody being left alive to set off the alarm after the tiger had his way with the pirate camp.

The best part was after the camp swapped to being under my control, one of the Rakiyat let a caged Tiger out (it was also in the camp) like a fool and it slaughtered everyone.

All I could do was laugh while I got another pelt to add to my collection.

[JayDizzle]

Prison Break Mission (currently in progress):

I took out two of the guards out on the beach proceeded towards the cabin that happened to have a snake in it.

Guard #3 followed the siren sound of my infinite rock collection and made spoons with said snake.

From what I gathered, the snake's got quite a mouth on her and it put him right out when she was done...

Now I paused as I about to teach a tower guard a fatal lesson in asset management.

i.e., I'm going to give one of his vital organs my knife while I take his life.

 

Figures the protagonist's name is Jason and I'm skulking in the dark, freezing rain... murdering platoons of pirates.

[Twigg4075]

Lots of talk about this game on episode #59 of the VSN Arcade podcast...