Farcry 3 for me, 2 was repetitive and annoying, 1 was good but them stupid looking monsters killed it for me!

Far cry 3 for the amount of detail that has gone into the world.

So much going on all the time, gunshots in the distance, animals hunting each other. I've spent as much time throwing grenades at turtles and saving pigs from dogs as I have doing missions =p

Its an interesting world to travel. Unlike Farcry 2, I'll never understand the hype for that game once the initial excitement of attacking a base at night was gone, it turned out to be a boring and repetitive world filled with boring and repetitive missions.

One of the greatest disappointments this gen after all that hype...

Vaas: 'Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?'

Jason: Far Cry 2?

FC3 by far the best one. IMO is one of the best games of the generation and the best FPS of this generation.

I guess I'm in the minority - I really liked Far Cry 2. Had it for both the PS3 and 360 because I like it so much and loved the user made maps etc.

I hated the stupid malaria burden and the instant respawn soldiers. That was annoying! Throwing molotovs into the grass in front of a group of soldiers is awesome!

Liked Far Cry 2, but have yet to play FC3

Far Cry 1 was great due to it being the very first free roaming, sandbox shooter. Though 3 surpasses it in every possible way (won't even mention the second, cause, ya know... cancer!)

How many of you actually played the first game on PC? The console version is not the same... it's different though still very fun imo

Far Cry 2 was terrible.

I think that due to the blockbuster releases of Halo and Black Ops II, Far Cry 3 received less attention than it could've gotten.

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FarCry 2 absolutely sucked! On the other hand Farcry 3 is simply amazing its so much fun.

FarCry 1 was great, FarCry 2 sucked, FarCry 3 seems to be okay, but it really should have been named something else. They should have just started new franchise with last two games, while also continuing with story of FarCry 1.

Seems like a lot of FC2 bashing. I think in part, it is because normal was the worst difficulty. Easy was more simple fun with the ability to act reckless and carry a lot of ammo, yet hard and infamous forced you to play the game properly. Normal didn't really strike either cord and played like a generic fps with more driving.

Really, before anyway completely disregards FC2 (though it is getting old now, so you might as well) try it on infamous - you have to be a lot more cautious and planning and make sure you properly scout.

I loved pull off cruel tactics like instead of opting for the 1 hit kill .50 cal, taking the svd to wound the enemy in order to lure out more of them to try and save him. It's an old adage in some cultures that wounding an enemy is more harmful killing and I liked how FC2 showed that.

Granted the game had a lot of flaws, but it was a very unique FPS that actually required a lot of thought to play properly without having a complex tactics system.

I was a bit worried because I haven't played the FC2 campaign yet.

Thank N4G for the warning before hand about it could turn out.

lol

It was unfortunate what happened with FC2, I saw a developer demo at an expo about 6 months before launch and it looked amazing. Basically their idea was to have an open, living world populated by people who actually reacted to your actions. So if you went into a village nobody would react negatively, but as soon as you tried stealing a car (for example) people would start shouting at you and any guys who were armed would open fire. Then they got hit by the racism scandal and had to refocus the game in a few months to keep to their launch schedule. Still had a great setting, but it clearly wasn't the originally intended product and should have been delayed longer to get it up to scratch.

far cry 1 was the best, but far cry 3 is awesome as well. Far cry 2, im trying to forget about that one.

Considering Far Cry 2 and 3 are just graphical updates on Far Cry 1... I'd say the latest (with the best graphics), Far Cry 3.

Far Cry 1: Amazing, beautiful, immersive experience for its time.

Far Cry 2: Great ideas, but fell flat on execution due to annoying features (respawning checkpoints, malaria, etc)

Far Cry 3: Almost a great game, but took too many steps back from FC1 to be considered amazing.
+Great visuals and open world
+Great first person immersion
+Lot's of variety
-Worse physics than FC1 (seriously WTF?)
-WAY too much handholding (why can't I move 20 feet outside of the "mission area" in an open world game???)
-The save system (worst implementation ever)
-Only one or two NPC types (this is just lazy as hell)
-The HUD (seriously, do I need giant flashing arrows, highlights, and text covering every square inch of the screen? I'm not 5 years old)

Overall, If the above issues were fixed, I would give FC3 a 10, but as is, I would rate it a notch below FC1 in terms of its competition at the time.

Far Cry was more fun but had bad controls
Far Cry 2 looked the best but was boring and annoying
Far Cry 3 is Assassins Creed and Red Dead but had the best controls

Its interesting how they hav upped the quality each time and by the third, they r in goty realm. Its almost better to do it this way, though u wont sell as much. Far cry 4 will probably sell the most copies because of 3's success. Anyway, i think of uncharted and mass effect. So many were disappointed with the 3rd installments, when the reason was that the 2nd ones were so good, both getting goty. I recently replayed ME series and uncharted. I must say, i liked the 3rd games the best in both cases. Though there are aspects about ME1 that i loved because i am an rpg fanatic, but thats another story.

Anyway, i think games r judged by their separation from the previous title. It becomes hard to love the next one, even if its better, because the jump in quality isnt as great. I think bioshock 2 was better than 1 but obviously the first stands out because it was so enthralling and new. I loved New Vegas too but most will only remember Fallout 3. So heres to far cry 3 for taking the natural progression and putting it all together. Good luck with 4, though u will have new hardware. That will help, though it may also make the expectatikns sky high.

Far cry 3 is by far the best one in the series

People that do not like Far Cry 3 should just go and play some Monopoly or Barbie or something . It is the most fun game this year by far.

Far cry 2 was the best in the story and africa
far cry 3 is ugly shit idiot character (protagonist) rich idiot guys...

only vaas was good.. citra is annoyin irritating bitch... hell even the whole stoty is zero irritating shit tatau this tatau that lol.. gameplay same as fc2 or fc1 repetitive side missions.. only played the story but that is a dissapointment... afterall fc2 is better...

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Anyone who thinks Far Cry 3 comes anywhere near Far Cry 2 really doesn't underestand what makes games great. Far Cry 3 is boring and iterative. The games protagonist is just another trite white male superhero power fantasy. There is never any real sense of peril,just some whiny guy who just happens to be an unstoppable killer. You clear out areas one at a time and thats that. My brother was murdered and my friends are being held captive and sold into slavery or worse but if I can mark one more shark with my camera and shoot said shark with a sniper rifle safely from the shore I can get a bigger wallet which in itself is meaningless because the economy in this game is broken.
Far Cry 2. What a beautiful game. You play as a rugged mercenary who does know how to fire a gun and is combat savvy but still you find yourself in a truly oppresive situation. Malaria, gun jams, backstabbing collegues; this game drops you into its world and says try your best but you may fail.

Lol Im skipping Far Cry 1&2 and getting 3! Is that okay? Dont think Im missing out....

I only got a couple hours into Far Cry 2 before it became extremely boring. Far Cry 3 didn't start to get a little boring until the 25 hour mark (it's still fun, just repetitive).

Up until now I thought this franchise was total garbage, 3 changed my mind though. Hopefully the next one has more variety in missions.

Far Cry 2 was one of those games you had to force yourself to finish. It was so much driving they called it Far Drive 2. The missions got really repetitive and the story wasn't that great. Now, Far Cry 3... that's a game you have to force yourself to stop playing because it's so damn fun!

Far Cry Instincts! I loved being able to do the map editor split screen.

Ah yes because that will save this stale series.

Yea because that’s what people want from a Far Cry title…

Maybe tencent can buy them as a whole ?

Sure sure UBI have fun going out of business with these stupid moves. These people can't be this out of touch with gamers, like don't they know what made these popular to begin with and try fixing their shortcomings in that genre

Nope not interested I'll avoid FC games from now on.

Noclusoft.

And ima check out

They could potentially save the series by taking that big budget and using it to focus on a new, high quality concept for the franchise, nothing else is going to do it. All concentrating on MP will achieve is to kill it off quicker.

Please don't

Game known for it's antagonists in cool open world environments shifts to focusing on it's crap multiplayer. Does Ubisoft just like to F up?

HA!

YES!!! More trash!!!

This CEO is so out of touch, and cluess. People want a enjoyable single player campaign, and memorable villains. No one ask for multiplayer to be pushed and shoved in.

That headline reads like crap.

Only reason I love Far Cry is because it gives me that open world sandbox shooter experience in a SP story-driven game with lots of freedom. I have -zero- interest in a MP Far Cry.

But hey, I’m sure these suits know best … (!)

If they want to create a MP game, just make one. But they shouldn’t need to use and destroy the Far Cry IP to do so …

Far Cry will be somehow be more boring. Astonishing.

Ubisoft will never learn.. 😒