... is an other title I'm really looking forward to
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/just-cause-3-release-date-revealed-in-new-trailer/1100-6425290/ (http://www.gamespot.com/articles/just-cause-3-release-date-revealed-in-new-trailer/1100-6425290/)
The graphics are excellent. The entire map is available from the start of the game, unlike Ubisoft titles where you need to endure the annoying "locked" areas until the developers deem it appropriate to let you have access. Kind of reminds me of Apple - they know best what you should do with their product.
In an open world environment, I still do not "get" the logic of having areas locked until you accomplish what the moron developers want you to do.
I don't really get Just Cause series, I know it has usually alot of things to do, but to me its just mindless chaos and destroying that just doesn't bring me anything. JC2 also had really boring story, I didn't even finish it because it got too boring to even concentrate to it. :-(
Hope they bring something that I can actually use my brain on, not just running, flying and destroying things. :D
The world of JC2, the size, detail and design, shocked me when I first entered the game. But the game mechanics scared me away from pushing through the campaign, so I wouldn't know about it.
If they deliver a similar world, with enhanced graphics of course, and a good campaign, I bet it will be a lot of fun. They at least have the proper approach of an open world ^-^
I had a lot of fun with JC2, and later with all those mods for it :-()
I still play JC2 (modded on the PC), and with the new PC, playing on ultra is a breeze. Right now JC3 is my most eagerly anticipated game of this season
hehe, it's good to have something to look forward to :)
Indeed - I'm disappointed with the Ubisoft titles, and dismayed with Rockstars release of GTA-V with the 5 gb "update" because I see those as the the wave of the future in gaming. However, from a simple gaming perspective, I love the features of JC2, and JC3 appears to be much the same, which is perfect in my book
I understand that 5GB is a bit heavy for someone with limited internet access, I'd be dismayed too. Regarding UBI, those greedy bastards finally convinced me to not spend any money on any of their products again until I hear that they have constantly improved their whole concept of customer care and quality assurance to a point that it is safe to buy their products again.
Me too - I'll wait until FC4 is bargain basement even though I already appreciate the game - the same with AC5. I want Ubi to receive as little profit as they can from my purchase. I realize that my silent protest makes no difference, but it makes me feel better.
:-D
I saw the trailer for JC3 and it looked intriguing.
I'll have to wait until one of you guys are kitted up and into the game to see if it builds on the character you've developed through the first two games or (preferably) if it is genuinely a stand alone title.
That will be a "Must Have" condition for me. I'm cool with missing some of the inside jokes drawing from earlier series titles but I've no interest in being penalized (by the developers) through things like reduced abilities or combat stats because I haven't purchased their previous products.
And please, oh please. Tell me it's not Trojan horsed up by being locked into Steam dependency. That's a deal killer.
Steam is okay Mandru, learn to live with it :-()
:laugh: :-X even AB has learned to live with Steam, which I must admit, is one of the better brokers of games. Some of the deals are absolutely killer - my "watch" list contains titles that are not too often available for $5 when the same title on Amazon is $19.95
Quote from: Binnatics on July 04, 2015, 09:43:30 AM
Steam is okay Mandru, learn to live with it :-()
Hmm... :-\\
When I look at a game in a store the first thing I check is to see if a Steam account is listed in the requirements. Sometimes never again means
never again. I'm funny that way.
Back in the mid 70's I had a conflict with the phone company in Seattle. It was one of the Bell Telephone tentacles. I'd gone into a local service and billing office to try to get an unauthorized Person to Person call for $75 removed from our bill. The call had originated from another state 1500 miles away and had given our phone number as the "Bill To" number. There was
no record of a confirmation call to our home phone seeking authorization before connecting the call.
The caller and the recipient (as they were far removed from where I lived) were completely unknown to me. The caller who had requested the considerably higher priced Person to Person connection (through a live Operator) hadn't used my name so it should have been clear to the receptionist I was trying to explain this situation to that I really was not the one who had authorized the call and that it shouldn't be on my bill. I'd never even been to the locations where these two strangers were from.
The receptionist refused to assist me and make the adjustment to my account. I asked for a supervisor and was told that they'd all gone for a long lunch and wouldn't be back that day.
When I told the receptionist that if I was forced to pay for the call I would cancel my service to which she (in her best attempt at a haughty taunting tone of voice) replied
"You can't live in this day and age without a telephone!""What I really can't live with is a tyrannical company that refuses to correct obvious erroneous billings." I asked her "Are there any outstanding fees for long distance calls on my account so far this month?"
She confirmed that there was only the current month's connection fees there were no additional long distance charges.
"I'm cancelling and cutting all connections with you. I'm paying off the full balance for this month as well as the bill for last month with its clearly incorrect billing that you refuse to correct. Tell me what I owe you."
I paid the quoted amount and said "I need a termination of service notice stamped paid in full with today's date, time and your initials. Oh! And you can send out someone to collect the phone I'm renting from you. I'll pull it out of the wall when I get home and it will be on the front porch so they won't even need to knock.
It was ten years later and only after I had moved far enough away so that I was no longer under the influence of either that phone service or its parent company before I reestablished telephone service.
But then as I said above, I'm funny that way. :)
you're a funny guy, mandru, do you know that? :-()
That's a good story, mandru, and I can relate. Decades ago I had a Discover card and I was foolish enough to put a Time/Life subscription on it. I tired of the subscription and called Time/Life, but they would not cancel it, which prompted me to call Discover and tell them not to pay that bill any longer. I was told by the fool on the other end "I'm sorry sir, you agreed to pay and we cannot stop paying" to which I replied "Fine, cancel my card"
Quote from: Art Blade on July 06, 2015, 01:36:50 PM
you're a funny guy, mandru, do you know that? :-()
???
I think you misspelled Fungi. ;)
PZ, escaping the clutches of Time/Life is tough. I had to w@&k my way out of one of their subsidiary companies after signing up for one of those old music cassette tape of the month contracts. It was no easy task and I had simplified things over your situation by paying orders with checks.
It's as rough as trying to cancel a service contract with Comcast Cable. Their operator's word track is "I'll connect you to Cancellations" but the department they transfer you to is actually their "Customer Retention" office. Expect a labyrinthic game of questions, stalls and diversion tactics. ::)
Quote from: mandru on July 07, 2015, 08:46:34 AMI think you misspelled Fungi. ;)
I think you spelt funghi wrong. It's
un fungo for singular or
diversi funghi for plural. :-()
Moldy dinkel wheat? (spelt funghi ??? )
Firefox spell checker and it's regional variants and its constant surprises. For us here in the U.S. it's fungus singular and fungi plural.
Though moldy dinkel wheat ( spelt which is a 5000 yr old European hulled cultivated wheat ) did give me a giggle. ^-^
Most EU countries, and rest I suppose try to teach the international English by default, and it has these small quirks usually.
American Express is another fun crowd to try and get away from. I was coerced into getting one of their cards when I went to w@&k for them as a database administrator many years ago. I only worked for them for six months (they were insufferable), cancelling my card very soon after I left. I was expecting to get, and did get, the first of many calls from their "Anti-Attrition Squad" who tried to talk me into reacquiring said card. Yep, that's what they called themselves - not "team", not "group", not "department" - "The Anti-Attrition Squad" (insert wanking emotie here) which I think is intended to call to mind images of Kevlar-clad jarheads kicking down doors and throwing flash-bangs inside before storming the joint. In actual fact they were a bunch of weedy snotnoses who would have been hard put wrestling an inflatable clown to the floor ::) I already knew about them from when I worked there and I knew what a mob of pestering little grubs they could be.
They bugged me for weeks before they gave up. The threat of an anthrax love-letter FedExed to their offices may have helped persuade them to knock it off >:D
Incidentally, we have always spelt it "fungi" here too :) I was tempted to write "I grew up with fungi" but I was afraid it might have given the wrong impression :-\\
I used the Italian spelling. Like, pizza con prosciutto e funghi.
Might have to do with the phonetics. In my area, "Fungi" is pronounced as "funj-eye" while funghi would be pronounced "fun-geye". Both are accepted as correct.
I always tell people that it really does not matter the pronunciation because somewhere in the world it is pronounced the way it is spelled even if it sounds differently. For instance, in college I had a histology professor from Australia that pronounced a term that sounded like: "skull-leet-al". Can you guess what she meant?
@ Fragger
You only averted couple of bad jokes 8)
:-D :-D Hence the disclaimer :-()
PZ, can't figure that one out (don't tell me, I want to try and guess!) May I request a clue please - which syllable was the emphasis on?
Quote from: fragger on July 09, 2015, 06:24:25 AM
:-D :-D Hence the disclaimer :-()
PZ, can't figure that one out (don't tell me, I want to try and guess!) May I request a clue please - which syllable was the emphasis on?
Emphasis on the second syllable :)
Funny thing was that it appeared that most of the class were looking at one another in puzzlement as to what she meant, but no one was brave enough to raise a hand. We stumbled through the lecture until she displayed an image and then we immediately understood.
Skeletal?
skeletal.. my guess, too
hehe fragger and I were at it at the same time but he beat me to it :laugh:
:-D
You guys got it! :-()
It was a big guess on my part because I've always pronounced it "SKEL-et-al", with stress on the first syllable. So does everyone else I know - dunno how that lady came up with skelEEtal ????
agree. When I first read it, I thought of skeletal and, as a non-native speaker, I researched it but couldn't find anything else.
Quote from: fragger on July 15, 2015, 12:02:33 AM
... dunno how that lady came up with skelEEtal ????
:knockout
Here's a 5-minute YouTube with game play footage. This one is scheduled to release in December, less than a month after Fallout 4. It's a good thing we're heading in to winter when it is not so much fun outside - allows me to game a bit :-()
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D959AUDL6ho (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D959AUDL6ho)
I certainly hope that you'll find a bit more time for gaming than you have so far :-X :-()
lol, it can't be any worse! Likely, I've games a total of less than a couple of hours during the past 4 months
that's not enough. :)
Since April of this year, I spent over 1,800 hours on GTAV alone 8-X :-()
:laugh: :-X I envy you, AB!
is that so :-()
I just try to enjoy my spare time as best as I possibly can. :-D
Yes, indeed. I plan on retiring in less than a year, and I will definitely have gaming as a top priority :-()
Sounds good in theory, but there are so many other things that you can spend your time on.
Like me, almost 120 hours clocked on my boats engine this year alone, usually its around 40-50 hours only. >:D
One thing I have learned in my relatively pathetic life is that no matter what you plan, the ultimate outcome is different than what you expect.
which means, congrats on another couple of years at w@&k. :-()
:laugh:
No, I'm counting down the days :-()
alright.. let's hope then that they'll let you go when you want to :-()
:-()
A nice bit of game play video
Spoiler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D959AUDL6ho#ws
Can't wait for this one! The only problem for me is that it appears to be only available as a digital download :'(
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Man, that looks nice! And big!
Pity about that download-only biz though ::)
Yeah, I'll likely need to employ D_B's technique of downloading the game using another hardware resource because I suspect that I will give in to temptation. Besides, winter is just around the corner and I'll have time to game a bit.
Quote from: PZ on October 22, 2015, 10:03:40 AM
The only problem for me is that it appears to be only available as a digital download :'(
I feel sorry for you guys who can't get a high speed and uncapped fiber connection 8-X :D
I haven't tried any of the Just Cause games. Do you guys recommend them? Right now, I'm waiting for Call of Duty: Black Ops III, but I could try an open world game where you can
DEMOLISH everything :-D >:D
Although I have only played JC2, I love it. There is a significant modding community that has created excellent (and sometimes funny) mods. I personally recommend it highly, but as we all know, gaming is an individual preference.
In the JC2 world, you can go from desert to snow capped mountains and everything between. The world is huge, and you can spend hundreds of hours just doing side missions and exploring the world. Some time ago, I uploaded a save game that has the minimal number of requisites done, and revealed the entire map with all of it's locations. I still play the game using that as a starting point.
Okay. I enjoy open world games and I have played a similar game called Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. You can collect stuff like cash and bombs and almost everything in the world can be destroyed >:D There are some side missions that can be done (taking outposts and capturing bounties).
I will see if I'm going to buy JC3, but not now. Will probably watch some reviews and take it from there ;) Can't wait until November 6th :-D
Graphical options for Just Cause 3 has been revealed :-()
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Now those are options ??? Maxing them out would probably make my poor old aging GPU catch alight or something :-()
Looking forward to it :-X
Quote from: fragger on October 28, 2015, 06:01:01 AM
Maxing them out would probably make my poor old aging GPU catch alight or something :-()
How old? You could probably run the game at low/medium settings and with reduced/no anti-aliasing and other postFX options ;)
GeForce GT 545.
I could run the game OK like you said, with settings turned down, reduced res and AA and post off. But with everything maxed, I might get a couple of FPS if I'm lucky :-() I can't run FC4 maxed - well I can, but I get a lousy frame rate.
Nice. I managed to make GTA 5 run at my i7, although it was on 800x640 and everything on low/normal settings :-D :laugh:
4K trailer - really impressive world in which to "play"
Just Cause 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDjeTrTT0Fk#ws
First hour of game play in Just Cause 3
Spoiler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu8qLysK5zM#ws
that is really looking good. I'll keep it in mind for when I run out of games. :-X :)
I watched the first 40 minutes or so of the game and LOVE the setting - so much better than Panau. The wing suit in combination with the grapple hook is killer transportation.
Because they are not offering physical media (not that it matters much) I plan on pre-ordering on Steam because they have a 10% discount going on right now.
Fantastic-looking game :-X
Dang... just started the download of JC3 and it is over 51 gb ???
well, there's going to be lotsa nice graphics I s'pose, then :-()
I guess so ^-^ The world is rather large - am looking forward to seeing how it looks on screen rather than through YouTube
Well, the game is now backed up onto my computer and will play with different ways to get it onto a USB 3.0 external drive so I can bring home and install
The actual download was only 38.6 gb, but the backup is the 51.4 gb - a little compression goes a long way
Took about 30 minutes to get it onto my standard USB 3.0 Seagate drive.
Evidently AMD users are experiencing significant frame rate issues as are the consoles (worst is XBox)
nVidia already has a new JC3 game ready driver, and I'll install it just before I run the game to see what "optimal" settings the Geforce Experience app selects for me.
The game also DOESN'T SUPPORT SLI/Crossfire support (which absolutely necessary for 4K @ ultra settings and 60 fps) :angry-new:
I have not even installed the game at home yet because I haven't been able to leave FO4 yet. I thought I would be so excited about JC3 that I'd put FO4 on the back burner, but maybe this weekend - I'd at least be interested in discovering what issues I'll have.
Sometimes the obvious escapes me - Today I copied the Fallout4 game files from my w@&k PC to the Surface Pro 3 and it took only 7 minutes - shoulda done this the first time :D
just at least try to remember it the next time ^-^
Wish me good luck with that! :-()
I much rather recommend a note book. :-D
Problem is that I would forget where I put it, or even that I had one :-()
Have someone remember it for you and advise when to remind you, then. :-()
It would probably be better for me to just have them do it for me and take out the middle man :-()
Steam's backup/restore method is a bit clunky. Looks like a much faster to copy games from one PC to another is to simply copy the game folder from it's location on the PC where it is installed plus it's associated appmanifest file to the destination PC. That way the Steam client on the destination PC already thinks the game is installed.
The backup procedure allows you to compress and chop into sizes for CD, DVD, etc, but the space savings is minimal. For instance, the game folder for JC3 is a little over 50 gb and the compressed backup files total a little over 40 gb
Easter eggs in Just Cause 3 - some are kind of funny
http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/12/seven-cool-just-cause-3easter-eggs/ (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2015/12/seven-cool-just-cause-3easter-eggs/)
Doge mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjQS4m5Xk70#ws
TotalBiscuit's WTF Is... - Just Cause 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghclK4Gd-sw) is a nice watch.
I like TotalBiscuit, he's entertaining to listen to :-D
Interesting comments he made, particularly when he was going on about how the game should be fully open world mayhem instead of forcing a bunch of challenge missions on you to let you get at the really fun stuff - and those "frenzy" missions do look pretty darned boring. Racing through hoops has been done to flipping death :D Just once - just once - I'd like to see a developer make a game like this with the fewest possible restrictions, even none at all, just design it around a philosophy of letting the player totally do and get whatever they want to have the sort of fun they like. Does a game like this even really need a story? Does there have to be a point to it? If it says chaos on the box, then chaos is what you should find in it.
At least it doesn't bar you from half the map for half the game like Ubislop does.
Still, there should be tons of stuff to find, try and do, with heaps of fun to be had if you make it so. Once you jump through the hoops to get to the good stuff, it could be an experimenter's paradise :-() And graphically it does look fantastic. And huge.
Heh, I liked that giant transport plane he dropped on the highway :-() It might have been an Antonov An-124, couldn't quite tell. Pity it blew up... Those things are ridiculously big. I walked through one once at an air show. A bunch of people could have played cricket in there ???
I copied the game folder to the Surface Pro at w@&k and then came home to copy it to my gaming rig. Interestingly from W7 (w@&k PC) to Surface took twice as long as from the Surface to the gaming rig, both W10 (took only a few minutes for 50gb). The network switch was the same. Started up Steam and it was there, ready to play with nothing else to install - what a refreshingly simple method.
Well, I played for a couple of hours last night and tend to agree with TB. The side missions become available as you liberate areas, and I did not see one of them that piqued my interest. I hate races, and many if not most of them were such. I did not see any side missions appear that looked like it had any substance to it like what was in JC2.
The graphics are beautiful, and despite the bad press regarding frame rates, bugs, etc., I had no issues and everything ran smooth as silk with all settings fully maxed. I'm thinking that the developers programmed the game with nVidia in mind - who knows.
I'm not fond of the music like I was in JC2, and Rico looks more like Rico from JC2 transformed into a pedophile.
So far I've liberated 2-3 towns which represents an entire region. The liberation part is the most fun because of the new way the grapple hook works and the wing suit. For instance, if you have two tall fuel tanks, you can hook to one holding R mouse button, target the next and let go of the button. The two are now connected (same as in JC2). However, if you hold L shift, you can see the wires straining as the two tanks are pulled toward each other finally exploding. I also did similar with generators, and it pulls the doors off, then you can see the transformers within and do the same as with the fuel tanks - cool.
So far, underwhelming
Well, I'm warming up to the game. The side missions are not nearly as infuriating as in JC2 where you had to start over if you failed. In JC3, if you die, you start over at the last checkpoint, which is reasonable. Also, in the races you simply rack up points rather than a simple win/fail as in JC2. Consequently, the side activities are not so bad, and I am now willing to play them.
The grapple hook ability to reel in is fabulous - you can destroy most objects by doing so. The combination of wing suit, parachute, and grapple makes it so you can rather effortlessly move rapidly across the landscape.
All in all, still not the best game, but it grows on you. Here are a few random photos
https://goo.gl/photos/fm3PC1sTn62NY96R7
nice parking job :-()
That was a funny side mission given while I was in another. A stranded motorist asked me to get his car to the gas station, which was across the bridge. Hooking a cable between the two vehicles, I started across the bridge, but my wire was too long - his car went off the bridge >:D
The sarcastically thanked me saying that he needed that car :laugh:
:)
:-D
Just Cause 3 modding site is up and running. Gibbed has already uploaded mods that make the game more interesting by taking out some of the foolishness.
http://justcause3mods.com/ (http://justcause3mods.com/)
So Gibbed decided to w@&k on JC3 this time ???? If I were to mod the game, I would add the "Portable Airstrike", an extremely overpowered rocket launcher from a game called Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction. It fired a mini nuke and it had 999 ammo in the magazine and reserve >:D :laugh: :-D
I recall the multiple target rocket launcher mod in JC2 - was very effective, especially when super explosions were enabled
The further I get into the game, the more I like it. You don't need to find all those annoying "collectibles" as in JC2, which were more of an eyesore than obstacle. This version has a really clean look. You can also make the HUD go away altogether or have just the reticles.
The game is massive - I was just getting to the end of the 9 areas to liberate and was then going to go after the main missions. Opened the map and zoomed out to discover that I'd only completed the smallest of the large land masses - one of them alone has 13 towns/bases to liberate.
This game will last a long time, and now that it is official that Gibbed is developing modding tools, I guess the sky will be the limit.
Here's the EXTREMELY LETHAL AND OVERPOWERED WEAPONS (https://youtu.be/3JSPlHF8wXY?t=829) from Mercenaries: PoD I'd like to add in JC3 >:D :-D
Now, those are my kind of weapons >:D
Glad to hear you're getting into it and enjoying it PZ 8)
The game world in JC3 is reportedly quite a bit bigger than the one in JC2, and that was huge.
The way things are going, before long gaming worlds will be planetary in scope :-()
Thanks, fragger,
There was one mission that was initially a bit over the top - jets were flying overhead carpet bombing the area so there was no way you could walk around, so here I was, being attacked by air and land. The only good thing was that as the jets kept trying to kill me, their friends on the ground suffered collateral damage, so I had little to mop up.
This appears to be truly open world in the best sense - you really need to figure out where to go and what to do.
:-X