I remembered I gave it a quick try on PS3 but as my brain was very rotten with COD games at the time it never grabbed too much of my attention… But I still have it in my backlog.
The PC port of FC2 is a disaster though. I remember sitting through that long intro cutscene so many times, it just kept crashing before the first save point…
People complain about PC ports now (and rightfully so) but man there was a constant stream of garbage ports in the late ‘00s that were never fixed.
I have both the disc and the Steam version and I’ve never had a problem getting either to run. Especially that first cut scene never once crashed on me, and I must have started about a dozen playthroughs over the past 15 years, on vastly different hardware configurations.
To be fair the original might as well be a diffrent game. More simialr to crisis than today far cry whereas far cry 2 is basicaly the modern far cry with one incredibly stupid decision ruining the game thats probably fixed by some mods.
Which is the stupid decision. The malaria or the guns falling apart every fifth bullet they fire? I like the idea of both, but they’re far too fast with too few ways to deal with them.
There was a highly upvoted post on the cozygames subreddit which I’m paraphrasing from memory.
Every time someone shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there’s like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I’m seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.
Like, imagine any other genre having to deal with people like that? “Oh that looks like it’s ripping off Doom how unoriginal looks boring just play Doom”.
Every time a shares something in the Stardew Valley genre, there’s like a militant group of commenters who are outright hostile to that new game. And yes, I’m seeing that sprinkled in the comments on this post.
Oh definitely. It’s really funny though because these keyboard warriors that keep criticizing any game that looks similar to Stardew Valley, doesn’t realize that Stardew Valley faced those exact same criticisms when people said that crazy ape, the developer of Stardew, was heavily inspired by* harvest Moon. It was such a silly and absurd thing to say, but everyone started regurgitating it over and over again. Just because one game starts becoming successful people forget the other games that they were very similar to in the past
If people really wanted to go down the rabbit hole though, this all started when Farmville hit Facebook. That was the beginning of it all that I remember personally. Farmville made people lose their fucking minds. People were all over that shit, it was like cocaine. No one would shut up about it for years
It was, but the important thing is that it was conveniently located inside of Facebook, and generic enough that it grabbed people’s attention, which is exactly what you need sometimes. When it’s too niche or specific, that’s when people lose interest. That’s why fields of mistria is not necessarily as popular. It’s a little bit more niche and specific, with magic and washed out color theme, pastel colors, appealing to the cozy gaming crowd. And that’s okay! Not every game needs to be so generic that it appeals to everyone
People buy it. People then buy the skins. I play the free to play one sometimes and nearly every single person I kill has a $30+ skin and weapons. It's saddening.
One of the funniest things with cod too now, is that people always used to say it was the same game every year, but it is actually the same game every year now, with progress and weapons carrying over.
Gone are the days of a one time purchase and a solid game. (Well in the AAA space anyway)
“Those of you who volunteered to be injected with preying mantis DNA, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we’re postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we’ve got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men. Pick up a rifle and follow the yellow line. You’ll know when the test starts.”
There recently was a standalone mod for game 2 released that function like a new game, the voice acting was great too. You can download it for free on the steam store.
"Already" is doing a lot of heavy lifting, by the time the game comes out it will have been 9 years since Civ 6. That's 3 years longer than the gap between 5 and 6 which is the next longest gap in the series. At this point they're vastly limited in the things they can do without a complete overhaul on base mechanics we've been playing with for nearly a decade.
Would you rather they completely overhaul the current game and the original mechanics be lost to time? Of course not, the obvious next step is to make a new game.
I’ll give you that it’s been longer than I realized since the base game came out, however, Beyond Earth came out 10 years ago (2014) and Alpha Centauri was 25 years ago.
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