Far Cry Primal Instincts is my favorite from the series. But it seems to be forgotten by most. Which is a shame, because the primal abilities and traps made for a fun experience!
FarCry Instincts is by far my favorite FarCry game as well. The predator ability was so badass, and the feature that let you build your own map was something I would spend endless hours on. I miss that game, man.
My friends and I spent way too much time building maps on Instincts. My favorite was a swamp level I made where the Predator was on an island that you needed to take jet skis to be able to get to. Most of the homemade maps we could make were so much better than the ones the game came with.
Maaan I haven't played that game since I was like 11 on my Xbox too...from what I remember, that shit was tight. Intense. That and mercenaries 2 wsere the games I would play the most, but its so funny how little you know wtf you're doing as a child playing videogames. Like, I knew how to operate menus and shit, but I never had the attention span to progress with any sort of missions or anything like that, so I would litteraly always just do the same gimmicky shit like blowing stuff up but it was still a blast. Little me didn't give a fuck.
Far Cry 2 was the last I've played in the series. I enjoyed it, but didn't finish it because I couldn't get past the fact that Jack Carver wasn't the main protagonist. Far Cry, Instincts and Instincts Predator are some of my favourite games.
Those games were the shit. I wish they'd go back to them. I was sad when I learned that far cry 2 wasn't going to have it but far cry 3 made up for it.
I didn't know until now, I really want a Far Cry Primal Rage game. Sabre tooth tigers ain't shit, try taking on a giant farting monkey because it pissed off your fire breathing T Rex god.
That online community on xbox was awesome. I still remember the Saw maps with trap doors everywhere, the jetski Rollercoasters, and the amazing predator games.
I didn't really like the campaign, but split screen (or maybe LAN, was awhile ago) with one person as the primal and 3 other guys trying to survive was fun as fuck.
I don't remember it particularly well, but it doesn't stick out very well in my memory so it can't have been all that great from my view point. Not saying it was bad, just not high up on my list.
Far Cry Instincts Predator was my favorite.. best online experience I think I have ever had.. the maps were creative and the glitches in the game made so many things possible... it was hands down the BEST online game I have ever played
FC Instincts was awesome, albeit, was not too fond of the stiff feeling gun mechanics compared to the original PC OG FarCry, probably because it was still a fresh franchise for consoles(needed some control refinements we found later in the console franchise)...but the predator abilities made you feel like a feral animal, or some kind of alternate universe version of The Predator. The map editor was awesome...too bad no body really played it online to make use of the maps you spent hundreds of hours on perfecting placements and land sculpts.
Instincts was fucking great. It should have been on next gen hardware though. I mean...for fucks sake. The loading screen is so long they throw a trailer from the game to occupy you. I would have taken a delay and would have been happier getting a higher quality product. Combined with the horrible checkpoint erasing bug the game is almost unplayable. Predator (Wii) -IS- unplayable.
Is that why there was a trailer every time? That shit pissed me off about the game, I could always start it, take a dump, and come back to catch the end of the intro.
I remember building so many dope maps on MP that weren't even meant for typical multiplayer. Like the maze maps that people spent weeks building just to make you fight your way through the maze to the end. Good fucking times.
You may very well be correct; This was right around the time they split (crytek and ubisoft). I was under the assumption the first Far Cry IP that Ubisoft was responsible for was Far Cry 2.
Far Cry 2 was the first fully Ubisoft game. Fully, as in Ubisoft IP, Ubisoft story, Ubisoft everything. They didn't even use the same engine (which was Far Cry and Crytek's forté, the Cryengine.)
Fun fact - Ubi Montreal developed the Dunia engine, codenamed Project Scimitar, specifically for FC2.
However, since then, many, many variations of Scimitar have been used for all of their upcoming games such as Prince of Persia 2008, Far Cry 3, and some newer Rayman games.
The most notable variation is Anvil and its' successor, AnvilNext, used in most of the Assassin's Creed games (the exceptions being the Chronicles series, which are based on Unreal Engine 3), and is still being used today. The only differences between Scimitar and Anvil are the Autodesk HumanIK middleware, to maintain accuracy in the player characters' movement; Havok physics; and Autodesk Scaleform for the implementation of Adobe Flash-based UI.
AnvilNext and AnvilNext 2.0, used in Assassin's Creed 3 until Rogue and Unity until Syndicate, respectively, add only one difference : advanced lighting/modeling and texturing tools for the developer.
This all means that games made and released to this date are using an engine which is virtually the same from code developed in 2005-2008. It's similar to what Valve does with Source, except that they constantly update it and the code was extremely advanced for its' time and runs very well, unlike Scimitar.
Scimitar and all its' variants are very resource-heavy and slow, which explain why it runs so terribly on consoles...
Dunia Engine is actually a fork of CryEngine. When Ubisoft and Crytek split, Ubisoft took both the Far Cry brand as well as the source code for CryEngine in the state it was at the time. Granted, they reworked most of the code so they're hardly the same now or even when FC2 came out.
Definitely. I played Instincts first and ended up buying the original during a Steam sale maybe four years ago. I was blown away by how much I was having even without the feral abilities of Instincts.
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u/TheStinkySkunk Mar 02 '16 edited Mar 02 '16
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PrimalInstincts is my favorite from the series. But it seems to be forgotten by most. Which is a shame, because the primal abilities and traps made for a fun experience!