Far Cry Primal

[PZ]

Anyone know of this title?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ2iH57Fs3M

[mandru]

Posted by UBI.  It says Feb/23/2106 is the European release date.

And if it's a romp through paleolithic times hand holding a tribe of troglodytes (read that as a huge pain in the butt escort mission) each with varying levels of competency count me out.  :-\\

I really hate escort missions.  ::)

[PZ]

I totally agree - was just interested because I had not even heard rumbles of this one. Seems that lots of games I never expected are being released - just saw another Assassin's Creed title as well.

[Art Blade]

Ubi? ah, good, nothing I need to worry about. I'm not going to buy any of their crap ever again (I hope)  :-D

[fragger]

I suppose it will be the usual procedure with an Ubi game - buy and install game, immediately download massive patch to complete installation, DL patches to fix known bugs, DL patches to fix other bugs, patch this, patch that... patch... patch... patch...

[Binnatics]

I will sit out thisone just as I did with FC 4 I think :-D

[mandru]

The game site comments I've come across seem to be in agreement along the lines of "UBI off year between big releases" and "A one-off quick dump like Blood Dragon" and "Nothing to see here, move along."

It seems that the release announcement was bollixed up by lack of communication between UBI departments.  The team releasing the trailer may have jumped the gun and cut the legs out from under UBI's website development team who had put up a slowly revealing stick figure cave painting tease page.  The effect being the quick video reduced UBI's nearly static teaser web page to having the impact of a wet fire cracker fuse.

[Dweller_Benthos]

Yeah I will wait to see on this one.

[PZ]

I'm personally not that interested because I don't care for spears and arrows - never used them in FC3 and FC4 unless required to do so.

I get the feeling that the game publishers do market research on who purchases the games, and discover that the youngsters (who likely have unlimited purchase power) are not purchasing titles like FC2 and AC2.  Consequently, the publishers cater more to the run and gun mentality and change the subsequent releases of the series. All I know is that each subsequent iteration of a game is less interesting than the prior one.

As I play the few games I have decided to purchase, I've been mostly disappointed, and have not completed even a single play through.  For now, I'm anticipating FO4 and JC3, but am prepared to be disappointed.

[Binnatics]

Agreed PZ, but I make an exception for GTA. That game keeps developing, keeps giving the best they have, and they don't expect you to keep paying and paying for every lousy bit of content you'd come across. They probably are one of the few developers who honour their PEGI rating and thus, the somewhat mature gamers ;)

[Art Blade]

yes, indeed :) plus the updates are often full-blown DLCs yet they don't charge you for them. :-X

[PZ]

Yes, indeed - that is one thing I appreciate about Rockstar  :-X

[OWGKID]

The GTA community is a little pissed off though. The DLCs often includes items which is quite expensive and people accuse R* for "scamming" since people have claimed they need to buy shark cards just to afford the new items. ???? Those people should spend their time grinding rather than complain :D On the other side, this means that R* can give people FREE DLC (the Shark Cards provides them with income) rather than splitting the player base with PAID DLC packs, since not everybody would buy/can afford a Season Pass or individual DLC  :)


Personally, I would spend some hours playing heists rather than complain about expensive items and R*'s Shark Card "scam"...

[PZ]

There is always someone pissed off - can't please everyone  :D

[Art Blade]

those people complaining are people who don't want to spend time earning in-game money yet they want the stuff that is the most expensive. And then they complain that they'd have to buy in-game money. Why don't they add to it and complain that they had to pay for the game? Even blame the devs for having to buy expensive computers or consoles..

OK, they are just some mindless trolls, then. :-()

[PZ]

... or complain that it is sunny outside so they have no time for playing their current game - must be the suns fault

[Binnatics]

lol, indeed.

This shark cards thingy is quite something though... with all the time spent in the game, I did a bit of saving. I have now the ingame equivalent of 3 of the most expensive shark cards on my account, which would cost me roughly €225,-

:-D

[Art Blade]

hehe, that means that I spent so much hard-earned in-game money on cars that if I had had to buy those shark cards to do that, I would have had to spend around 700€ worth of real money. LOL 

[fragger]

Spend real money in order to buy non-existent products. Er, yeah... OK... ::)

What is it they say about fools and their money?

[Art Blade]

"A foole & his money,
be soone at debate:
which after with sorow,
repents him to late."

By Thomas Tusser in Five Hundreth Pointes of Good Husbandrie, 1573.

Does that answer your question?  :-()

Spoiler

..and yes, I knew it was just a rhetorical question. :-D

[OWGKID]

... or complain that it is sunny outside so they have no time for playing their current game - must be the suns fault

:-D Or they simply DON'T want to put any effort into the game  ::)


I hope Far Cry Primal will take advantage of DX12 as there are some games designed for this API right now (Deus EX: Mankind Divided and Star Wars: Battlefront) and DirectX 12 will boost GPU performance and multithreading performance  ;)  ^-^

[Binnatics]

You need win 10 for that, right?

[Dweller_Benthos]

Yeah Win10 required for DX12.

[Art Blade]

I might wait for win12 in order to get a proper dx10 performance.

[Binnatics]

 :-D