Comments on: A Far Cry From What We Desire

By: Crispy

Crispy — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:41:35 +0000

“So you guys wanna see some gameplay? Get in a little bit closer.”
Low-res, pixellated shakeycam shuffles in a bit closer
Blatant cut to the same shitty low-res cam, now on a tripod

Why not just Fraps the video and show it to us in high quality. This pseudo voyeuristic style does little to show off the graphics, and the low quality did not make me feel like I was ‘at home with the dev team’ – it made me feel like I was watching a half-assed, low-quality internet video.

At conferences this sort of gonzo journalism is acceptable, but not when it’s a FIRST-PARTY production. >_>

By: Jonathan Burroughs

Jonathan Burroughs — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 16:34:25 +0000

Zuffox – Surely GTA4 earns that accolade.

By: Xirex

Xirex — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 06:06:13 +0000

I’m pretty sure thats an automatic shotgun he has there, Joe.

By: Q

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:07:38 +0000

it’s not shaky at all:)

By: Wickedashtray

Wickedashtray — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:41:27 +0000

“here, let me patronize you with 30 seconds of shaky cam gameplay video…..”

*walks off pouting like a little baby*

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:57:03 +0000

GameTrailers knew all a long. Their site says nov ’08. As I’m sure I’ve posted before. I thought you would have known your mistress better RPS. Shame on you

And how slow was that gun firing, and how many times did he reload. Me thinks he doesn’t play many games, cause he should have had a better gun.

Probably waiting to see the market penetration of the 9800GTX and the GX2′s to decide how good/scalable to make it. Personally I am not impressed.

Joe *crys into coffee*

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 19:08:03 +0000

His accent interests me more than anything. I’ve been trying to figure out what the French Canadian accent sounds like as I’m going to that part of Canada soon. In fact we’re going through Montreal, so we’re going to try and find the Ubisoft Montreal building, and the Eidos Montreal building for that matter to see if we can take a peek inside (isn’t Eidos leaving it’s offices open to the public for the duration of Deux Ex 3′s development?). Though knowing us, it will just be a really poor photo of the outside of the building and the company logo obscured by an Elephant or something.

By: Zuffox

Zuffox — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:49:28 +0000

Worst. High profile game. Marketing. Ever.

By: Mooey Poo

Mooey Poo — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:56:13 +0000

It’s because they haven’t got the Trigens right yet.

By: Captain Bland

Captain Bland — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:54:24 +0000

The rescheduling of Far Cry 2 to Autumn/Winter is the Least Surprising Announcement Of 2008. It was never going to make whatever ridiculous March/May date they set.

By: Raziel_AxD

Raziel_AxD — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:46:27 +0000

So… this is a developer blog? Uhuh… and… are those playgame seconds suppose to do the game justice or something? Do they really expect to turn someone up with this?

By: Optimaximal

Optimaximal — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:10:04 +0000

Just like the ‘last half of 2007′ was interesting… and by ‘interesting’, I mean over-saturated by must-have games!

As much as I love a busy release schedule, this whole idea of releasing everything around Thanksgiving/Christmas with the rest of the year being largely berift of quality is silly…
Publishers need to spread their releases across the year – after all, why bother competing with GTA4, MGS4 or GT5? You’re just going to lose.