Comments on: Far Cry 2 – Which Engine Was That Again?

By: PoC

PoC — Sun, 15 May 2011 05:01:05 +0000

I mixed up “The World Is Not Enough” with the DS game “The World Ends with You,” and got very confused.

By: Lu-Tze

Lu-Tze — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:21:04 +0000

TWINE still has the best abbreviated title of any game ever though.

By: Man Raised By Puffins

Man Raised By Puffins — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 10:46:37 +0000

Just for you, I’ve dug out the issue in which the preview lurks (in truth I’ve been riffling through the back-issues of late and this I had this one fairly close to hand). It’s in issue 82 and the box-out actually has the slightly more pun-tastic title of ‘the words are not enough’.

Q: Will the game be purely first person, or will you be able to play from a thief-person [sic] (or other) viewpoint?
A: First-person

Q: Are any of the film’s actors lending their vocal talents to the game?
A: We are currently anticipating some participation. Nothing can be said now, however.

Q: How about the Garbage title track?
A: We have not made any announcement about music, yet.

Q: How many weapons will feature? Will they have alternate firing modes? Can you give us a few examples?
A: This information is still classified. MI6 have strict policies against me discussing this.

Q: Will you be able to control vehicles? If so, which ones? Will you be able to ski?
A: Again, this is classified information. Sorry.

By: Dr Snofeld

Dr Snofeld — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 21:45:47 +0000

However, I took the four worst answers to questions, and put them in a box-out called “THE ANSWERS ARE NOT ENOUGH” for public ridicule. And then turned it into a competion, so whichever reader sent in the best answers to the questions would win a prize.

Don’t suppose you could post those questions up here for the sake of history? If you remember them and it’s not too much trouble, of course.

By: Meat Circus

Meat Circus — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:08:48 +0000

I guess I’m arguing that the games industry can’t afford to pay for professionalism. That’s quite depressing but I believe it to be true, given the competition for programmers.

As a developer, there’s a reason I work for an investment bank not a game studio…

MONEY IS NICE.

By: Essell

Essell — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 10:38:35 +0000

“Meat: From what I understand, buying an Engine isn’t nearly the easy solution it sounds like, in terms of the amount of work you have to do to make the fucking thing to work.

KG”

Definitely not.

By: Wozza

Wozza — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:30:31 +0000

That’s how I would conduct every interview, total ignorance and full on assumptions of the subject matter, it’s abit like thinking John Romero was the brains behind Doom and the technology, which he was.

By: Lacero

Lacero — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:33:28 +0000

There is plenty of NIHism but still middleware like Havok and auido/video technology gets a fair amount of reuse.

I think that’s because they’re boring and tedious to write. Writing a game engine is fun, and modifying one needs the same skillset anyway. Between a choice of doing relatively boring work using someone else’s code in the games industry and doing boring work for goldman sachs people will follow the money.

I guess I’m arguing that the games industry can’t afford to pay for professionalism. That’s quite depressing but I believe it to be true, given the competition for programmers.

By: Hump

Hump — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:52:31 +0000

dumbest. bastard. ever.

By: No Picnic

No Picnic — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:31:27 +0000

If I had a system that could run it, I’d be very excited about FarCry 2, more so than Crysis, which I have not played. (BioShock barely runs, but it still manages to look good.)

Crysis went and did the whole tropical island again. It seems more like FarCry 2 than FarCry 2 is. So you can turn invisible and speed run. Meh. I remember the disappointing alien battles in FarCry, and battling the squid from the Matrix just doesn’t get me excited.

FarCry 2 is in a completely new environment for me: the African savanna. Tropical islands have been done to death in TV and games. FC2 is going to be realistic with no zombies or aliens, only people. It seems like a big sandbox where you can do anything you want. It seems like it has a lot of potential.

By: Leeks!

Leeks! — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:47:53 +0000

I went into an interview with a playwright before thinking she was someone else entirely. That was fun.

By: Masked Dave

Masked Dave — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:42:28 +0000

Haha, it’s interesting, ’cause I’m a programmer, and I’m kind of rare in that I will *always* look to see if someone else has done it first before bothering to write my own.

Coding is just a means to an ends for me though, as long as it works, I don’t care who did it.