[quote=Dynamo Frokane]
someone preferred far cry 2
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FC3 had very empty villains. They had no point or higher-reaching motive to their characters. They were flat and shallow as a puddle. Even the natives were. In comparison, The Jackal was actively a critique against the voter-culture and the culture of war.

Game-wise FarCry 3 allowed too much to open early on in the game and you can very quickly tilt the game in your favor early on. Where as as far as FarCry 2 went there was a constant demand for survival. Off the bat you couldn't go and max out your storage and health. And then go about liberating the world map to where you can walk across the island with no fear of being shot (save for being viciously mauled by those god damn birds).

FC3 also has against it the simple fact there was too much stuff to do. And all of it as tedious as the previous mission. I got to a point where I wanted to finish the game so I can drop it and leave it behind. It was the game that ended my faith in the Far Cry series as a whole. And nothing ever connects back to Far Cry, which is the most frustrating. They just dropped all open-ends in the first game's plot as if they never happened.

Any connection to the first was distant and at this point mere fan-theory in regards to FC2 and The Jackal.

The only thing FC3 had to it are the pretty looks.

I would rather the Tomb Raider reboot and Wolfenstein: New Order over going back to Recycle-Soft and Far Cry. Deathshead and Mathias (to their respective titles) were far better villains than Vaas and what's-his-pointless-face.

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