No, it is understandable. I think
Far Cry is an incredibly fun, good game that really wowed me and beat a lot of the "big" developers to market.
Now, would I call it a great game? Absolutely not; it missed that magical something-ness, the story could have been better, you could argue another name for this could have been "Juarrasic Park: Monkey Mutants," the character was a bit generic, your teammates were a real liability at times, that last level was atrociously design and terribly anticlimactic, multi-player is missing anything truly special, etc.
Still, I just had a lot of fun doing whatever I wanted. Similar to
Thief, I had a thing about taking everybody out.

I would literally come at tings from one end of a level and then immediately backtrack to the entire opposite end of a level and clear out that route, too. Also, although not profound, I hold the game as a (relatively) good example of creating a world with rules rather than levels full of tired scripts. Some of the most fun or magical moments were ones that just happened from me/NPCs interacting with the world rather than being pre-set scripts.
It is damn good, but not quite great. However, I do personally feel that it has really set a standard for the things I listed before. The game looks absolutely fabulous on my P225fb and it gives me a huge world to play in with equally high performance. Obviously, I keep on playing games, but I cringe when I play another corridor-style game that looks worse, has less options, and runs worse.
Edit: I cannot stress the
Quake/Ghost Recon thing enough. If I played the entire game as an action game, it would drive me crazy. Alternately, if I tried to sneak my way through the whole game, I would easily give up. There are a few action bits, but akin to
Thief, I enjoyed sneaking from bush to bush or hiding spot to hiding spot and taking out the NPCs one by one... Like other games I enjoy, I realize it can be an acquired taste.
Switching between
Arcanum, XII, and 1337 Force 2 at the moment,
Ray (having nothing new to play)
P.S. Indiv is a big meanie!
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