b9 wrote:
it seems that my time in the world of "far cry 2" maybe coming to a sad "fork in the road".
i am forced to accept a mission (in order to continue the game) that will result in retaliation that kills my "best buddy ...michele dachs".
after i assassinated the drug lord (the mission objective), i get a call from the person who gave me the mission and he tells me that things have gone horribly wrong, and there has been a massive retaliatory response, and that michele is "holed up" in mikes bar, because they are surrounded by hostile "retaliators" (probably a coined word).
i must say i am ashamed of myself for spending so much consideration on the welfare of the female ai "michele dachs".
i want to protect her because her presence adds an element to the game that i like.
if i lose her, then the game will be less compelling to me. i am mostly always alone in the game, but sometimes i do missions with her, and she is well designed, and i do not want to lose her.
anyway, when i got to mikes bar (after ruining the suspension of the jeep with inconsiderate recklessness of impatience), i heard shots and i got up on the machine gun on the jeep and i cleared them away.
all was quiet, and everyone outside was dead.
so i got off the jeep and went into mikes bar, and there was michele and she asked me to move a fridge so it blocked the door (there was no alternative. i had to or else the game would not have progressed)
i moved the fridge, and then it was on for young and old.
just before i moved the fridge, i saved the game, and i have tried 30 or more times to play from there in a way that michele does not get killed.
i can not do it. it seems that the game designers had to kill her off.
maybe because they could not write a descent evolving personality for her. who knows.
so i am sad that i have to soon give up thinking of new ways to play where she will not be killed, because she always manoeuvres her way into an area where she will certainly be killed in this last time frame.
i have to play past the point where i see her die and that is a problem. i just do not think i can drive away from her body never to see her again with ease.
god life is hard.
but i got the game for free, so i guess that is some consolation.
You have great tastes in games

, this game reminds me theirs still life in the FPS, though I suspect I will come here and say how much I hate Far Cry 3 and I think I wont be alone

I suspect it will be "dumbed down" aka CODified for a mass audience , it's sad but true.
What difficulty do you play I play "infamous" because it makes me feel superior.
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