Jason Moyer on 24/5/2009 at 11:45
The difficulty in Far Cry had less to do with things effected by the difficulty level and more to do with the AI being able to shoot you in the head while lying prone in tall grass from 500 yards away. They'd beat Stalker's AI in long range firefight.
steo on 24/5/2009 at 11:55
Quote Posted by Shadowcat
I would say that in general games
should enable you to switch difficulty in mid-game (I'm looking at you again, Sam), as difficulty settings obviously aren't going to be consistent between games.
Oh, good lord yes. Especially since far too many games lack harder difficulties, and 'hard' is far too often closer to 'normal' (I'm looking at you Half-Life). Then you factor in that games are usually easier at the start, so when I played through about two thirds of Far Cry on the second hardest skill, I generally found it to be an adequate challenge. If I had been able to quick-save though, I could have always abused that as much as I had to to get past the incredibly frustrating difficult bits. Instead I just got pissed off and stopped playing, though granted, if it were a better game I might have persevered. Alternatively, I could have easily lowered the difficulty a notch and then done the hard bit, upped the difficulty and carried on, if the game had allowed it.
Speaking of difficulty, I'm wondering how in the name of sinning fuck anyone ever managed to get past the Tony Montana level of Hitman 1. It's a real shame, because I'd like to complete hitman before playing hitman 2, mostly for the sake of story, but it looks like the only way I'm going to do that level is by cheating.
crazy_Clown on 24/5/2009 at 14:04
Yea, that level was so fucking frustating in Hitman 1 so I just used cheats. :p
Malleus on 24/5/2009 at 15:38
Quote Posted by steo
Speaking of difficulty, I'm wondering how in the name of sinning fuck anyone ever managed to get past the Tony Montana level of Hitman 1.
Which level is that? I remember I finished the game without cheats, though I checked some walkthroughs to pass the harder parts.
steo on 24/5/2009 at 16:39
It's the third jungle level, where you have to kill the coke lord, blow up his lab and then escape in a plane. The coke lord in question is heavily based on Tony Montana from Scarface, and a quote from the movie is the name of the level: "Say hello to my little friend." I can get into the mansion and silently take down almost every guard in place, before moving onto Tony, but after that, guards start being alerted and as soon as you start shooting back at the tower guards that are shooting at you, more and more guards start shooting you until you've got most of the base onto you. I have managed to get to the underground lab with a minimum of guards trying to kill me, but it's guarded by about ten or twelve soldiers in the lab, and there's more in the towers and everyone else in the complex comes after you as soon as you open fire.
Malleus on 24/5/2009 at 16:58
I think I killed the guy with a sniper rifle. There's a spot near the place you arrive to the level, from where you can see into his room. A headshot with a sniper rifle and it's done. Then you can proceed with the lab bombing option without the guards bothering you - they'll only go ballistic once you attack the lab. But then it's just cleaning the lab, placing the bomb, get out, boom, run to airplane. At least that's how I remember.
steo on 24/5/2009 at 19:44
Yeah... I don't have a sniper rifle. I have an M60.
ZymeAddict on 24/5/2009 at 21:52
Quote Posted by steo
Yeah... I don't have a sniper rifle. I have an M60.
And that shouldn't alert the whole base at all...
steo on 24/5/2009 at 21:56
Yeah well, the problem isn't the M60, I can take out the guys in the mansion with a knife and a silenced beretta, but once people start shooting, more people get alerted, and so on and so on.
