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Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - Morgoth has Pre-ordered
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Gregz
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Mistakes were made.
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Seriously? Let's be realistic. This seems to be a standalone expansion kinda deal, which means the actual core of the gameplay is unlikely to be very different from Far Cry 3. Also, it's for consoles, so it's guaranteed to be very slow in comparison to something like Q3 or UT99. Sure it's wrapped up in some really fun cheesy 80s aesthetics, but the game itself is incredibly unlikely to be the sort of old-school FPS gameplay revival some people in this thread think it is.
That said, I did enjoy derping around in FC3 stabbing tigers to death, so I'm likely to buy it. I'm just not gonna pretend it's not popamole.
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MetalCraze
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Behelit
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This. However if these awesome tracks play from beginning to finish, some campy dialogue sprinkled here and there and over the top weaponry and enemies (even if they're mere reskins) this DLC will be boss for atmosphere alone. Hell, I may even set the difficulty to easy to be that invulnerable hero out in the open, mowing down a dozens of henchmen behind cover with a minigun.
Day one buy.
More screenies over here.
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/201...od-dragon-is-totally-bonkers-an-actual-thing/
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Well I be damned.
Just curious... why?
Zeriel
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I did say it would probably be shovelware, so I don't get what that seriously? is about. That said, it obviously has a significantly different vibe than any FPS made in the last few years, we can only hope that the gameplay design will be included in the aesthetic.
Stabwound
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It's an open world game that is completely void of exploration because everything is laid out for you on the map. The crafting is just busywork. Side missions are all repetitive.
To be fair, my save got corrupted after about 10 hours of play so I gave up, but that was my impression after playing that long.
I doubt it would have changed, my opinion was roughly the same. It felt SO repetitive because every area and every mission was identical to the last, more or less. I was surprised how many people loved it... it was better than a lot of other modern shooters, but still really meh for me.
The reason I asked though is because this expansion seems to address a lot of those problems by simply making itself more unique. The quests might be repetitive still but the presentation could counterbalance it.
I'd rather they go linear with this DLC - not CoD corridors, but in the vein of Painkiller or Serious Sams shooting arenas. As cool as the visual style, and possibly unique weaponry, might be, the best way to drive them into the ground is to have you backtracking through the areas doing repetitive X of Y quests, reusing assets to fill out the "sandbox".
My only gripe with this expansion is that I'll have to buy Far Cry 3 to play it - the base game doesn't look appealing to me. I'd rather it was standalone like Episodes from Liberty City.
I hope Steam has a special sale on FC3 around the time this thing is released.
I hope Steam has a special sale on FC3 around the time this thing is released.
It might be standalone, we don't know yet. The artwork says arcade at the top, not DLC.
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Ubisoft is French, Far cry 3 internal team is also french, no wonder they have such awesome back to electro 80's soundtrack.
Also Far Cry 3 was mediocore at best, I skipped all the world exploration stuff because it was tedious and boring, i was just doing the main missions. Hope this drops all this open world BS and silly crafting etc, but seeing as it has 'Far Cry 3' in the title it is HARDLY possible that they would go totaly in different direction of 'old school shooter', because why would they if FC3 sold 5 million copies.
Blood Dragon will be just more of the same in a different setting, that's all.
Also Far Cry 3 was mediocore at best, I skipped all the world exploration stuff because it was tedious and boring, i was just doing the main missions. Hope this drops all this open world BS and silly crafting etc, but seeing as it has 'Far Cry 3' in the title it is HARDLY possible that they would go totaly in different direction of 'old school shooter', because why would they if FC3 sold 5 million copies.
Blood Dragon will be just more of the same in a different setting, that's all.
Hobo Elf
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Hope this will be as awesome as it looks and sounds.
I really like the screenshots. Lots of color.... FINALLY, a shooter that isn't a one color palette (brown, gray, neon yellow, etc.). There have been very few FPS games released in a decade that I've liked and almost no pure shooters without added pseudo-RPG crap added on. Last pure shooter that I enjoyed was Serious Sam 3 which I thought was a lot of fun.
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