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Posted: May 30th 2008 3:13AM mezzaninex said

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No online co-op...BUT THERE'LL BE MULTIPLE CLASSES AND THAT'S JUST AS GOOD!!!

Weak.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 3:15AM (Unverified) said

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CREAMED
twice.
Damn I'm gonna love playing this game on PC. Single player games are a favorite of mine. I wanted to love STALKER, but I came off with the impression of shitty, broken mess. Hopefully this'll be that game... only good.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 3:38AM Blaquebeird said

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I thought STALKER was a nice change from the linear shooters like Half-Life or Call of Duty. Open-ended freedom FTW!
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Posted: May 30th 2008 6:09AM GenGrievous said

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STALKER not main stream enough for ya?
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:11AM HighFiveJesus said

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download the latest patch, download oblivion lost 2.0 mod, and find out how to tweak the console dev to enable motion blur, and turn on dynamic lighting. it instantly becomes about twice as intense and sweet as it is normally. and you'll get a good 40 hours outta it if you do a majority of the side quests (and its worth it with the mod, money is hard to keep saved up).
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:27AM Pojomofo said

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WOW, I really liked STALKER, but to each there own. This games seems way different than STALKER so it should be right up your ally. Especially if you liked the first one
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:41AM (Unverified) said

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stalker was possibly the best game of last year. update it and try again.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:28PM (Unverified) said

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Sometimes I wonder if I'm talking about the same game. I could barely stand the graphics, the gameplay was lackluster for the first few missions I played.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 3:38AM (Unverified) said

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100 hours seems way to far fetched to me.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 4:28AM (Unverified) said

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Well... duh

You actually believe those guys when they tell you the length of a game?

General rule, the bigger their extimate, the more they are exaggerating
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Posted: May 30th 2008 11:44AM (Unverified) said

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So..that means you can probably beat the game on your lunch break.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 2:01PM (Unverified) said

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I don't really care how long a game is, as long as the replay value is there. A game fun enough that right when i finish, i want to play through it again because it was that good. There's a few games like that, such as half-life 2 and halo 1, and others that aren't coming to me right now. If far-cry 2 has boring gameplay, then 25 or 50 hours is useless. Far cry 1 had an extremely long single player campaign, but the difficulty and other gameplay flaws hindered the game.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 3:46AM einhanderkiller said

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Remember what they said about Assassin's Creed and its 40 hour game length?

I'm going to guess that Far Cry 2's main game is around 15 hours long.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 4:29AM (Unverified) said

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That depends on the style of play. I liked collecting all the objectives per mission so I spent quite a while doing the main story. Easily took me 40hours+ with all the distractions like messing with the beggars and rooftop guards.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 4:30AM (Unverified) said

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Flags
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:30AM Pojomofo said

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Gehodra, you win the prize for mentioning the most meaningless thing to ever be in a video game. I loved Assassins Creed, but if they think Im going around and finding the 500 flags in that game, their on crack (especially when I have the PS3 version so I dont even get nerd points for it)
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Posted: May 30th 2008 1:18PM (Unverified) said

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I hate to say it, but "nerd points" is funny.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 3:48AM (Unverified) said

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The game is 100 hours long .. if you leave it running unoccupied for at least 4 days. :P
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Posted: May 30th 2008 3:51AM (Unverified) said

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Far Cry was a good day.

Far Cry is a bad game.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 4:35AM (Unverified) said

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25 hours sounds good to me. I like to get lost in these big non-linear games and believe I've done some sequence breaking to find that NO! I was in their hands all the time.
Just hoping there are collectables to make exploration fun.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 5:17AM markhill66 said

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I don't believe that longer equals better. I would rather have shorter, better developed games (Portal) than long, drawn out ones. I think the God of War games were just about the perfect length; long enough for the value, but not too long to make me lose interest.

Of course this is going to vary between different types of games, but to me, anything over 15 hours is too long.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:42AM (Unverified) said

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agreed. Games like Okami (and even zelda at times) have way too much filler.

they need better editors in games, to cut out all the crap and reduce it to a finely paced product like Portal.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:45AM (Unverified) said

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though of course, sandbox games are kind of different, as I can easily spend ages pootling around and not advancing the storyine at all.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 5:32AM falcomadol said

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Why do I get the feeling that someone's going to find a way to fly over a mountain and kill the end boss in under 20 minutes?
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Posted: May 30th 2008 5:52AM (Unverified) said

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Oh ho ho, I love speedruns.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 6:12AM (Unverified) said

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Having played Far Cry and Crysis I can tell you that Crytek's definition of open-world gameplay is basically "linear gameplay except the corridors are wide enough to get lost in and waste 30 minutes walking back to the path."
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Posted: May 30th 2008 8:14AM (Unverified) said

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But this game isn't developed by Crytek
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Posted: May 30th 2008 7:14AM velocitystrike said

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Only game I've played for more than 100 hours is Pokémon.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:07AM Vcize said

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Online multiplayer easily puts games in the thousand hour mark. I've spent over 1000 hours on Tribes 2, Gears, Counterstrike, and probabably Madden '04.

I'd imagine many have done (or will do) the same with Halo and CoD4.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:33AM Pojomofo said

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I think I clocked in about 450 hours of Battlefield 2 back in the day. I have also probably played more than 100 hours of Starcraft LTD im sure
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Posted: May 30th 2008 3:10PM RobLink said

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Final Fantasy 7. Clocked just over 100 hours, got beat by Sephiroth. Went back to try again a few days later. The memory card had got corrupted. I haven't touched the game since.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 7:15AM AwesomeTown said

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It's Oblivion with guns.


Oh wait...
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Posted: May 30th 2008 8:06AM erh said

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Sorry, but I have a job and I try to have a life. I'm not going to dedicate 100 hours of my free time to one game! I personally find 15 hours to be the sweet spot, anything over 25 hours is too daunting for me.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 8:18AM baby sea tuna said

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tl;wp
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Posted: May 30th 2008 9:00AM (Unverified) said

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One Million Hours!
*rests pinky upside down at side of mouth*
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Posted: May 30th 2008 12:22PM (Unverified) said

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Uh, playwhutyalike, one million play hours doesn't go as far as it used to...

I'm dissapointed to see no co-op.

I'd really like to know if they have fixed the horrendous aiming/targeting system. In Far Cry (1), you could sit in the brush with your gun pointed at a trail, wait for the reticule to turn red, indicating a passing enemy was in your sights, squeeze the trigger, and frag an enemy. As long as your opponent was within the rather large circle of your reticule, the bullets would home in on him. I loved the artwork and atmosphere of the first game, but I couldn't stand the shooting mechanics. Here's hoping they fix it in the sequel.

Which brings me to a larger point, why do devs reinvent the wrong parts of gameplay? Leave well enough alone the ones that already work well and need no variance. Make your own artwork, yes. Groovy story line? Great. New powers? Awesome. Funky new shooting mechanics? What in Samuel Helsinki are they thinking?
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:05AM Vcize said

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25 hours is way too long for a first person shooter's campaign. They just don't work like RPGs and there's no way to keep them fresh and from feeling like a drag for that long.

Most start to drag bigtime around the 10-12 hour mark if they make it there.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 10:47AM (Unverified) said

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well, between work, girlfriend and mates, I have about 3-5 hours a week to dedicate to games... so this is gonna take me, er... FIVE-SEVEN MONTHS?

Jeez, I was really looking forward to this too.. sigh.

More short games please...
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Posted: May 30th 2008 11:11AM (Unverified) said

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I wants to shoot a lion.
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Posted: May 30th 2008 11:16AM Deck said

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25-50 hours for the main portion of the game should be great. My guess is it'll be on the higher section of that spectrum but who knows. Longer games are great! YAY!
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Posted: Jun 1st 2008 11:00PM (Unverified) said

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There's actually only one mission, but you have to walk everywhere in realtime.. so the 50 hours is just to walk the 50km to the mission and back after.
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Posted: Jun 5th 2008 4:50PM (Unverified) said

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This game is gonna be crazy i thought gta4 was good and now this year is gonna be awesome for games we also have Fallout 3.
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