Well it was probably the best of the series.
Ubisoft Randomly Gives Far Cry 3 A 60FPS Current-Gen Upgrade
Submitted 20 hours ago by setsneedtofeed@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://wolfsgamingblog.com/2026/01/18/ubisoft-randomly-gives-far-cry-3-a-60fps-current-gen-upgrade/
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some_designer_dude@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Klear@quokk.au 19 hours ago
I enjoy a good power fantasy as much as anyone, but I have a soft spot for the crushing bleakness of Far Cry 2. Everyone is a shithead. You’re a shithead. You will always end up taking missions for both sides in the conflict, perpetuating it. Most of them involving war crimes. The only missions where you don’t do evil are the ones where you’re paid in malaria medicine which you need to not die.
You get a bunch of buddies which will likely get killed one by one, possibly by you as a mercy killing. And those who survive will end up betraying you.
It’s such a nihilistic game. No hope, no redemption. I couldn’t get into FC3 after that. Even though it was a ton of fun mechanically, Far Cry 2 just hits different.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
Easily my favorite enemy ai, too. Actually fanning out to find what made a noise, playing dead so you may need to double-tap to be sure, etc
And the “physical” map to get around with was great
Katana314@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I appreciate that the other games, even if they’re 90% power fantasy, retain a tiny bit of that nihilism in the story of each game.
3: Jason becomes totally disconnected from society and almost feels like he can’t come back from the killing. 4: Help the rebels, and they become despots just like Pagan Min. Give up on the rebellion at the beginning of the game, and even Min admits he’s tired of the cycle. 5 I won’t even spoil, definitely a bit less of an artistic message even if it’s a huge twist.
tuckerm@feddit.online 14 hours ago
My opinion about Far Cry 2 did a complete 180 over the last few years. When it first came out, all I remember thinking was that it was less technically impressive than Crysis. (I was just obsessed with graphics in 2008. There were many of us like that. I have changed.) Now I see it as the most distinct entry in the series.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 19 hours ago
Far Cry 2 is really underrated imho.
passepartout@feddit.org 19 hours ago
My favorites are 2 and 3. 4 was OK. 5 was garbage. Haven’t played 6.
- FC2 because of the kind of “horror” element being thrown into a oppressive and immersive open world.
- FC3 because of the gameplay overhaul and the brilliant storytelling.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
2 was a bit repeptitive and rough around the edges for me, but still a ground breaking game.
3 is my favorite, also one of my all time top games, though I haven’t replayed a while.
4 is just 3+ in my opinion, so good but not unique.
I was surprised that I liked 5, I expected not to.
6 is quite bad, you are not missing anything.
Evolushan@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I enjoyed 5 in coop, 4 was too much like 3. 6 was utter garbage.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 hours ago
Nah. If they patched it up real good and modernised the graphics, 2 wins that prize. They’d absolutely fuck it up though.
ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I guess I should play it then (and 2, judging by the replies). The only one I’ve played is 4, which has some really fun gameplay, and one of my favorite villains ever, Pagan Min. I didn’t care much at all for the overall conflict or most of the other characters. What kept me going was taking out the outposts, climbing the towers (until it got repetitive), hunting, and flying around in that dinky little helicopter.
Guess I gotta replay that one too now…
Zatore@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Cool, FC3 doesn’t even launch on my PC because my CPU core count is too high.
TheHobbyist@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
Funnily enough, this is the type of issues proton solves beautifully and transparently on linux, making it a great gaming platform in general but particularly so for aging video games! If you own this game on steam, just launching it on linux should work out of the box.
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 hours ago
“suffering from success”
msage@programming.dev 14 hours ago
I still remember playing this game, after purchasing it on Steam, then it launched uPlay to start the game. And randomly drops connection during playing to uPlay, not saving any progress, shutting down my game. Steam was still online, everything else worked.
After two minutes uPlay logged back in, so I restarted from last save, lost like 30 minutes of unsaved stuff. So I get to it, and whatdoyaknow, it drops AGAIN.
Uninstalled the game, and never bought anything from Ubisoft ever again.
Fuck that company. And I still love Prince of Persia Warrior Within.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Pirate it. Fuck Ubisoft.
TalkingFlower@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
This along with Blood Dragon, are the best Far Cry games for me, that was when Ubisoft was still the good guys…
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Agree. 3 got me back into single player fps at the time. Blood dragon was just extra icing.
Hapankaali@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
The definition of insanity: continuing to run your game company horribly and expecting different results.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
This was the best farcry there was
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
WHERE THE FUCK IS A WILDLANDS PATCH?
garretble@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Man, that’d be sweet.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
The only FarCry game I ever played is FarCry 3: Blood Dragon DLC, that was launched as a separate game later on Xbox 360. Good memories. :-) If that counts as FarCry 3, then I agree, its the best game in the series. wink
Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 hours ago
The main game is also good, just not as cool aesthetically.
devolution@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
so they removed Denuvo. Lol