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By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:01:45 +0000

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/01/uk-approves-pol.html

My English friends, stop this madness before you find guns a necessity.

By: Down Rodeo

Down Rodeo — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 19:55:52 +0000

I’d say a country which has an act named the Patriot Act (I believe it is actually an acronym, I mean, bloody hell) which allows the FBI to check which books any given person has rented recently and forbids the librarian from telling the person who was checked up on that they have been checked is fairly restrictive. But this is boring now, I’ll stop before I get started properly. Sorry.

By: mister slim

mister slim — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:03:30 +0000

Not that I have the slightest interest in being dragged into this silly discussion, but anyone thinking ‘Nazi Germany is the worst case scenario’ needs to actually read some history.

By: Larington

Larington — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:56:36 +0000

Alternatively, being a mercenary your character should be able to learn how to maintain guns. Cleaning them after or before a battle when their looking a bit tired couldn’t be that much of a chore, surely.
(In truth, I suspect it was to limit the chance that players would be running around with the best guns far earlier than the designers desired, but I don’t really see any harm in the loot and maintain method either), plus kadayi makes a very good point about the whole save thing.

I’m still not sure I’m comfortable with the idea of a technical limitation of the consoles impacting on a PC version, but since this ones fairly limited in terms of its impact on the overall game I’ll let it slide this time.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 20:47:50 +0000

It was a proposition made on the given that the overall quality of the weapons you’d acquire from the fallen would be much improved. As I say I’d of preferred it if it had gone down that route, however it’s probably a concession made because of the games inability to save on the fly in the console versions. They needed the save huts and having the weapon storage provides the player with an incentive to use them.

By: Pags

Pags — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:19:25 +0000

That would have been entirely possible, too, had guns not fired bullets made of jam and rust.

I had always wondered what those thick, splodgy liquids coming out of peoples necks when you shot them were, because they sure as hell weren’t blood. Not like any blood I’ve ever seen anyway.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:12:19 +0000

That would have been entirely possible, too, had guns not fired bullets made of jam and rust.

By: Kadayi

Kadayi — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:54:47 +0000

I think you’ll find it’s our RPS. Also I’m not sure where you get the idea it’s rabid nationalism. More a case of facts Vs hysterical fiction. Also I’m pretty sure there aren’t many people out there who think relaxing present UK gun laws are a good idea, save maybe arms manufacturers.

Back on Topic though. The only issue I have with Farcry 2 is the unnecessary artifices put into the game, which kind of break the atmosphere the developers worked hard to create. Fast travelling around by Bus I can handle, but the whole magic gun crates in safe houses and handy online arms dealer seemed kind of at odds with your mission to hunt down the Jackal. In some ways it would of been a lot better if you were forced to run and gun it, picking up guns and equipment as you progressed off the fallen rather than had recourse to the magic box.

By: Larington

Larington — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:11:33 +0000

@qrter: Yeah, I suppose it is an oversimplification, but it doesn’t change the fact that its more or less true. Both groups of folks seem to be used to their current state of affairs and its one of the reasons, though obviously not the only reason for why this debate is happening in the first place. I also regard it as a factor that complicates all the other factors because folks doing the debating are all the more likely to be defensive of their way of life.

By: Jochen Scheisse

Jochen Scheisse — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 09:53:33 +0000

Well, it’s not really rabid. And I think it’s high time RPS explains to me what to think about the Steinmeier/Brown split, Sarko’s half brother becoming a bigwig at the Carlyle Group and Nostradamus’ prophecies fulfilling yet again when my family had no duck on the second day of Christmas.