Just started the game, seems bloated...

I've just started playing it a bit. I loved Far Cry 1, I skipped Far Cry 2. Didn't look appealing.

Now this one so far has some promise but good lord... it's going to take a lot of ignoring of certain things for me to end up enjoying it.

I would've preferred to just have it be more of a straight forward shooter like the original. I'm not opposed to doing some sort of open world with mission hubs... but man alive, I'm so early in and it's already clear this is an overbloated gimmick-fest.

I can't go 2 seconds without something popping up, some update on crap... another tutorial, another key that will need pushing periodically... streamlined this is not.

I realize the early parts of games always are loaded with tutorial, but c'mon. This has gone too far.

Achievement for every time you breath...

I'm surprised it's not popping up options for me to interface the game with twitter and facebook to relay every inch my character walks to all my friends!

For the love of god, just let me play the game. I don't need all this **** it detracts from the fun honestly.

I intend to power past these annoyances and expect to enjoy the game, but even Skyrim which has a much better claim to including all this stuff in it because of it's genre, was much more subtle and elegant about it.

[QUOTE="mufaa"]I guess you have never played any Assassin's Creed games. Same devs, same game structure. It is not overwhelming or confusing to me, and I am the guy that gets confused and overwhelmed pretty quick in games if there is just too much s***t on screen for me to see, read and take-in and process. Basically, it boils down to this: You have outposts to capture and Towers to climb to unlock map areas. These two are vital for survival. Outposts will have basic sidequest like fetch or kill. And then you have the story missions. That's it. You have hunting, which I recommend you get it out of the way as soon as possible. Get a bigger wallet, holster slots and medicine syringes. Hunting is super easy. Another thing is skills. You need XP and that should come by easily.[/QUOTE]

You're correct, I have never played an assassin's creed game.

It's not that I can't handle a complex game with lots of tasks, I loved Skyrim, I've played MMOs since Ultima Online. But I wasn't looking for a crafting, errand running MMO game here I was looking for an FPS.

I loved the first Far Cry, I didn't need all this crap grafted onto it.

I don't reject the idea that FPS games can evolve over time, I'm not asking for everything to just be Doom with better graphics forever. But, I don't think this is the right direction to head in. Maybe I'll change my tune as I play further into it.

[QUOTE="mufaa"]If you looking for a nonsense FPS, then I guess FC 3 is not your cup of tea. Have you tried other games out this year? BLOPS II is surprisingly good. Halo 4 is excellent too. Dishonored is agreat, too, not a shooter but so satisfying.[/QUOTE]

I've played Halo 4, which I enjoyed (but not as good as the Bungie efforts) and I've played Dishonored (which was really good, that's a good example of an FPS type game with lots of hub stuff, objectives, etc which I feel executed it better)

I don't play COD and MW stuff.

I haven't written off Far Cry 3 yet.

Just an update from the OP:

(not that anyone even remotely cares or remembers this thread)

But I ended up liking Far Cry 3 a *lot* - fantastic game. Really, just about flawless.