Which Dopers are playing?
I have it installed but, since it’s a Christmas present, I’m waiting until the 25[sup]th[/sup]. Too busy working toward 100% in JC2 & having fun in Elite: Dangerous, anyway.
About the same. I own it but I’m wrapped up in Fallout 4 right now so haven’t fired it up yet. Sounds as though some people are getting performance issues that the developers are trying to fix so maybe it’ll be good to go in a few weeks when I’m ready for it.
To forestall the “why buy Day One?” debate, I bought it because I was able to get it pre-ordered for around half price and figured it wasn’t going to be that cheap for a good while so why not drop the money now. I do intend to play it soon – in 2015 for sure.
Ditto - except that I haven’t bought, but 100% sure that I will. I’m just so caught up in FO4 and Elite Dangerous I don’t want to divide my attention even further.
AFAIK, these issues are pretty much limited to AMD cards.
I have a new Nvidia card and it’s fixed an issue I was having in JC2. Some vehicles, such as the 2½-ton truck, were bouncing. Even while parked.
I bought it on PS4 as Christmas present for someone else. I’ll probably play some of it eventually, but she really likes just running around the open world in Just Cause 2 and collecting things, as well as just screwing around. Personally, I think I’m still going to be on my first Fallout 4 play through by Christmas.
Something that no review so far has addressed: how is the driving? I loved JC2 but the driving was just atrocious. The cars seemed to lose all friction after reaching a certain speed.
Can I have a enjoyable drive around the island in this one?
I’ve been playing it a fair bit on PC the past few days.
There’s a great game in there, but it really is a technical mess at the moment. First it didn’t play nice with my multiple monitor setup for some reason. Then it kept crashing after the intro video. Had to change one of the default graphics options and then it loaded up. In game, I was getting stuttering problems. Running it from Steam’s offline mode so it wouldn’t connect online mostly got rid of that. Now it’s playable, but seems to have some occasional performance issues (maybe memory leaks) and will at times simply crash. And this is all with an nVidia GPU.
But, I’ve been putting up with all those problems because it’s damn fun to play. Flying around with the parachute and wingsuit is exciting and things blow up so very nicely. The driving controls are pretty terrible with keyboard and mouse.
Anyone on the fence I would suggest holding off until it gets a few performance patches.
Thank you. I loved JC 1 and 2 but will wait until 3 gets sorted out on PC.
100% in JC2?? Are you a wizard? An immortal wizard? I can’t even imagine how much time that would take. I could barely 100% complete a single base camp. :smack:
Looking forward to my JC3 christmas present. JC2 was a blast.
235 hours to reach 75% and a bunch of that was just dicking around.
Got it on PS 4. Enjoying it, but I don’t think it’s going to be a ‘play till i finish it game’. I think it’s going to be a screw a round with it an hour here, 20 minutes there, and two hours one rainy afternoon. It’ll probably take me 6 months to finish. But it’s a perfect game for short sessions and as a palette cleanser.
Other tip, hopefully patches will improve this, but for the moment if, on PS4, you disable your internet connection on your Settings, the loading times become less outrageous. Playing it online they can be ridiculous.
Wasn’t even on my radar, though the JC games have never really done it for me. They always feel like the epitome of “just another open world” game to me (I know they’re innovative in several ways, but there ya go).
I bought JC3 day one. It might be the most fun game I’ve ever played. Its not a game with much of a story to pull you into it. But that really doesn’t matter in this game. The fun comes from all the ways to liberate towns and destroy increasingly massive military bases. It took about 30 minutes to destroy a massive base last night and every minute was truly fun. The bases are definitely designed to be fun and interesting to destroy for a guy in a wing suit with a grapple hook attached to his arm. Some are very expansive with sea ports and hugely vertical structures built in. Others have extra challenges added in like being constantly carpet bombed while your attacking, forcing you to stay on the move. When you feel like screwing around the world there’s tons to do. But not like gta5. No strip clubs or raunchy humor and no crack heads cursing and making drug runs. I don’t let my kids play gta5 but i let them play just cause 3. All that being said the driving is maybe a 6/10. But i also don’t like the driving much in gta5 so take it for what its worth. I bought my copy for ps4 and it is beautiful on my 55 inch screen. Dolby 5.1 sounds amazing. You can feel the guns and explosions in your chest. I’d give it a solid 9/10 overall. It’s sort of repetitive in the same way that street fighter is sort of repetitive. But it’s not a bad thing.
Apart from helicopters and the occasional mission/challenge requirement, i’ve hardly been in a vehicle since the game began. When you get a few upgrades, and a feel for the rhythm it’s way easier and more fun to paraglide/wingsuit everywhere.
The game is a technical mess, but I’ve been putting up with the problems because it really is such a blast to play.
I love grappling into enemies and kicking them off buildings. I do it every chance I get. I’ve probably done it a hundred times and I still giggle a little when they go over. I do not claim to be a mature person.
I don’t know if it’s just me but i’m hardly bothering with the grapple gun as a weapon, it’s mostly just quicker and easier to shoot stuff. It’s a fantastic maneuvering system though.
My favorite time-wasting thing to do in JC2 is surf some friendly soldiers’ vehicle (typically a Dalton N90 or open-top Marten Storm) and fire on the opposition.
I never played any other just cause game so i don’t know what the differences are. But i think, judging by the beginning of the game, the grappling hook has been upgraded in JC3 and the squirrel suit is also new. Couldn’t imagine the game without either of these so…
Does the game have the same simplistic helicopter controls as JC2? They were so bland that they just took away any joy of flying. Going around in a helicopter in that game blowing everything up should be a joy, but it’s like flying with training wheels. And it’s not like you can’t have some reasonable helicopter flight model in a console game, GTA 5 is fine.
Helicopter controls on ps4 are R2 to go up and L2 to go down. L3 to maneuver and R3 to look around. L1 and R1 fire infinite mini guns and infinite missiles. Very similar to GTA5. Airplanes are also similar to GTA5. Roll pitch and yaw with L3 and left and right with L1 and R1.