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This IS scary, i'm really starting to enter that BJ-zone ox mentioned. What are the exact symptomes if i might ask?
Oh and ox, on my gf's list are currently a dinnertable and chairs, a new table to go with the new seats (in the salon), a garden-set (table, chairs), a dryer, ... and maybe then we'll be considering a new pc. 
I might buy a good PS2-game, but fps isn't the same if you don't have a mouse to aim with. Maybe Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. Maybe.
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tyranus
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well, judging by that list you're pretty much already in the zone  she looks like she won't let you spend money, just like mine. bah.
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| Thu Apr 15, 2004 5:03 am |
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Rinox
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  lol...found a piece of text that expresses some Far Cry feelings very well:
 | | | | Quote: Oh man, Far Cry is hard. For me, a man who is "average" at FPS games, it's hard on "normal" difficulty comparative to most games on "You'll break your mouse on the wall" difficulty settings. That doesn't make me enjoy it any less, however. I started out playing it on the hardest difficulty level, after reading a post on QT3 about how it made the game transcendantly cool or something. Yeah, whatever bud.
Now, back in the beginning when it was just me vs. the pretty tough mercenaries it was borderline frustrating. However [Spoiler Ahoy!] now that I've encountered the "Jurrasic Park" style treehouse level and the mutant ass-rape monkeys that populate it... well, this game has taken on a whole new definition of abusive. Yeah, these little Tasmanian Devil clones with their face full o' teeth and ability to leap several country miles to swat you once and blow half your life bar away... they're just little assholes. Bascially, take a headcrab and mix it with a bionic sasquatch, then piss it off real bad and you've got an idea of what you're fighting about 6 levels into the game. Scientists wielding crowbars need not apply.
It's a situation of you spot them the same moment as they spot you, and you've got about as long as it takes the little shit to think "Yarr... lunch!" to bean 'em in the head with about half a rifle clip before they're launching through the air to give you a big sloppy kiss. Miss or hesitate and I'll see you on the reload screen. Boris is way into these levels by now, since he was describing this sort of beating the other day - and he is, I believe, still playing on "You're Ultra Stupid" difficulty too. Either he's a twitch-ninja or has broken several mice by now.
Anyway, to give you an idea of what I was facing prior to getting into this mess, the previous level consisted of about 30 Rambo clones on a small strip of beach between myself and a door I had to get through. Now, you must understand that to shoot one is to summon them all, and each one fights about as well as the Halo blue Covenant guys - so you know I was reloading for an hour or so. The waypoint save-system means that death = restart the level from the beginning, and I think that about sets the tone of difficulty for you. Now, realize that the demonic monkey funhouse I'm currently a resident of makes this other level look like the plastic ball-pit at Chuck E. Cheese and you've got the picture.
Yes, I'm frustrated. In fact, I'm taking a needed break from it right now to write this before I head back in there and take my lumps again. However, this game's fantabulously grand playability and atmosphere combine to make a controlled substance that once you've had a taste of it, compells you to get back in there and take your beating. I've got it on good authority that I've "not seen shit yet - just wait". I'm scared.
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| Fri Apr 16, 2004 8:26 am |
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Satis
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lol. I usually playa my games on normal difficulty.... maybe I'll play hard on this one. I wanna get ass-raped by a monkey on crack.
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Rinox
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hehe.. above normal difficulty there's hard, very hard, and realistic. I don't even wanna imagine what realistic is like, seriously. The key is that you don't always have to fight and/or kill everyone. For example, I once just ran into a mercenary camp, grabbed explosives in a tent, and ran off again in the jungle, jumped in my rubber boat and took off to another island, without them bitches following me because i blew up their crappy patrol boat first. But obviously all the running was done in a hail of bullets, plus they shot and deflated my rubber boat when i was some 10 metres into the sea.  So i had to swim to the other island, but blah, i was clear and had the explosives.
And like i just did, just sprinted past a Fat Boy (huge monster that takes 3 whole assault rifle clips to go down and sports a rocket launcher on its arm) in a hallway, cos fighting one of those in a secluded area is suicide. And obviosuly there's the fact that mercenaries and mosnters fight amongst themselves.
And those crack monkeys are my least favorite opponent...they can whack an unarmored full health bar into zero in one blow, plus spring some 5 metres far. The other "twisted" things (i.e., not mercenaries) are way less difficult to beat. Even if they have their own...peculiar abilities. lol. My favorite way to fight them is in a 4x4, flattening them on my bumper. Damn bitches.
Anyhoo, back to far cry, ass monkeys, here i come!
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Rinox
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Ok, i just finished it, and about the end fight i gotta say:
HOLY FUCKING FREAKING CRAP JESUS GODDAMN!! I've never played a harder endfight on "medium". Did some 3 hours over it. And to say that my tactic actually was running past just about everything, carefully spending the stamina bar. I wonder what it would take to actually take everyone(-thing) on. I still can't believe i made it, in fact. fucking hell.
The "realistic" setting has "you must either be amazingly skilled, or foolish. Forget paradise, this is hell." That should be about right.
But what a game...one for the all-time top 10!
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| Sat Apr 17, 2004 9:29 am |
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Satis
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I'm playing now. I haven't gotten all that far yet. I think I'm in the bunker or something... the little ape bastards you're talking about are everywhere. I hate those fuckers. One whack and your armor's gone, another and you're dead.  Still, good game. The AI's not bad, but there are some holes in it. Like once some dude ran past me when I opened a door (so I shot him in the back). It's quite annoying how they hide behind poles and trees and shit though. heheh.
Anyway, good game so far, I guess I'll keep you posted.
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Rinox
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Make sure you do.  You mean you're in the jurassic park-ish part? That's MAJOR crap, cos you've only just met the buggers and suddenly you're surrounded with them lol. Best tip i can give you is that you absolutely don't have to kill everything, just find a 4x4 and hold a meeting between your bumper and those bastards. 
Tis true about the AI...saw a very few weirdnesses myself too...but a whole lot of very cool stuff as well, like you mentioned the hiding, i had several guys waiting with their backs against the wall next to the doorpost, waiting to shoot you in the back when you come in. Those are things you don't immedeately expect from an AI opponent.
P.S. i might as well mention that i found the monkey-bitches the most f*cked enemy to fight in the entire game. Well, them and the fully-armored elite mercenaries mebbe.
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Satis
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heh. I've gotten to the 'steam' part, whatever that is. Rescued the bitch and all, now I'm trying to find some way across a very long bridge to a fortified looking area. They don't hand out enough sniper ammo.
The treetop area wasn't all that bad. I just grabbed the 4x4 when I first got outside and drove to the other place...none of that Tarzan shit for me. I've got a system worked out for those ape bastards too... empty M16 in it, if it's still moving switch to that submachinegun (p90?) and fill him full of holes. I rarely have to switch to the shotgun after that.
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Rinox
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Hehe...it's a P90 yeah, or an MP5, depending on what you drag along. In the end, shotgun will be your best friend, or at least it was to me. You playing on "medium" btw? The bridge part is pretty hard yeah, in the end i just took a dive from 20 meters high and swam under the entire thing to the other side. The choice of solutions is what makes this game so great. You seem to be advancing pretty damn quick tho lol. Must be liking the game or be ultra bored.
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Satis
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I'm liking the game quite a bit. I'm not playing on medium, I'm playing on one notch higher. I didn't realize the game would be so freakin' hard. There's a level right after you rescue the chick where you're going into the forest... there's like 3 monkeys, and if you hang out on the beach too long a boat comes along too. I must've replayed that section 10 times before I managed to kill everyone.
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Rinox
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Can't say I didn't warn you about the difficulty. Like I said, it's hard on medium as well. But the biggest fux0rs when it comes to killing are them elite riot-polcie type of mercenaries. You'll see soon enough what i mean. I'm taking that the patching worked out fine then.
Wouldn't you agree that the other mutants aren't nearly as hard to fight than the monkey ones? I mean, the invisble ones with p90s can be a pest, but once you know their drill they're easy. The guys that make them HUGE jumps are hard to hit but aren't really very dangerous. Fat boys can be pretty fucked up when you meet them in a hallway, but still...ass-rape monkeys biggest bastards of them all.
You're in a fun part now, the jungle river. And you finally get to whack that bitch Crowe.
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Satis
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errr...I'm not as far as you think I am, I guess. The little monkey bastards are the only mutants I've WaX0rEd so far. I've run into some dudes in riot gear...they go down pretty quick with a head shot. I'll pretend I didn't read the rest. 
Oh, haven't patched yet either. About to, though.
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Rinox
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Oops, sorry bout that. Getting lvls mixed up in my head and all i guess. In any case, act like you're surprised. I'll try to think twice before swamping you in spoilers next time.
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Satis
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heh. The fights are getting kinda psychotic. I finally got outta that death facility (well, about to) and fighting mutants with rocket launchers and machineguns and whatnot. Those rocket-launcher bastards are tough... I used up all my ammo except my sniper rifle killing them all. Had to use three bullets from that too, actually.
Fun game. I'm a little fearful of what later levels will bring.
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