Just Cause 2 - More Open World Utter Insanity

Otagan · 2010-10-04T10:38:50.000Z

Drastic:

This is how the movie should work:

Bolo SantoZEE: Ohhh, ScorpIAN! You only have eighty minutes to get to the other side of Panau! Watch out for the evil military! Go!

CUT TO: EIGHTY MINUTES of CONTINUOUS EXPLOSIONS and PARASAILING and VEHICLE HIJACKINGs and VEHICLE EXPLOSIONs and several FLASHBACKS (to EARLIER EXPLOSIONS) and SEVERAL THOUSAND FACELESS MINIONS DYING.

Bolo SantoZEE: Good job, Rico!

CREDITS.

It writes itself!

Add in hundreds of snarky one-liners and fund it.

Kalle · 2010-10-04T10:42:26.000Z

Not enough Santosi dialogue.

sinnick · 2010-10-04T10:46:09.000Z

Not to disparage Just Cause 2 at all, but man I will never understand why big, dumb, blow-uppy action movies based on video games get made, but original scripts for big, dumb, blow-uppy action movies don’t.

What exactly needs to be “optioned” here? The right to use an unlimited parachute backpack?

Jarmo · 2010-10-04T10:47:31.000Z

Kalle:

Not enough Santosi dialogue.

Hear, hear!

BrianRubin · 2010-10-04T12:22:36.000Z

Drastic:

This is how the movie should work:

Bolo SantoZEE: Ohhh, ScorpIAN! You only have eighty minutes to get to the other side of Panau! Watch out for the evil military! Go!

CUT TO: EIGHTY MINUTES of CONTINUOUS EXPLOSIONS and PARASAILING and VEHICLE HIJACKINGs and VEHICLE EXPLOSIONs and several FLASHBACKS (to EARLIER EXPLOSIONS) and SEVERAL THOUSAND FACELESS MINIONS DYING.

Bolo SantoZEE: Good job, Rico!

CREDITS.

It writes itself!

You just spoiled the game for me. Thanks! :P

Jab · 2010-10-04T16:06:10.000Z

Finally got around to playing the demo on my new PC, wow I can’t believe what I missed. Now I’m really kicking myself for not jumping on this on the last steam sale. Stupid question, for hooking up a 360 controller to my computer do I just need a USB cable and it will just download the drivers or do I need to do anything else?

barstein · 2010-10-04T16:10:53.000Z

Jab2565:

Finally got around to playing the demo on my new PC, wow I can’t believe what I missed. Now I’m really kicking myself for not jumping on this on the last steam sale. Stupid question, for hooking up a 360 controller to my computer do I just need a USB cable and it will just download the drivers or do I need to do anything else?

If you’re wireless, you’ll need one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-Wireless-Gaming-Receiver-Windows-Pc/dp/B000HZFCT2. Not sure of the options for wired controllers.

And yeah, I keep coming back to this game again and again and it never gets old.

Marcin · 2010-10-04T16:27:24.000Z

Jab2565:

Finally got around to playing the demo on my new PC, wow I can’t believe what I missed. Now I’m really kicking myself for not jumping on this on the last steam sale. Stupid question, for hooking up a 360 controller to my computer do I just need a USB cable and it will just download the drivers or do I need to do anything else?

If it’s already wired then yeah, you just plug it in.

Omniscia · 2010-10-04T16:56:56.000Z

Editer:

Okay, so someone just optioned a Just Cause movie.

Now, Just Cause 2 is one of my favorite console games ever. I love it more than I should, probably.

But I have trouble figuring out how it would work as a movie.

When was the last time you watched Commando?

flyinj · 2010-10-04T17:15:49.000Z

Jab2565:

Finally got around to playing the demo on my new PC, wow I can’t believe what I missed. Now I’m really kicking myself for not jumping on this on the last steam sale. Stupid question, for hooking up a 360 controller to my computer do I just need a USB cable and it will just download the drivers or do I need to do anything else?

The “charge and play” cable that you might have on your 360 isn’t a USB cable. It just charges the battery.

You can’t connect a wireless 360 controller to a PC without buying a special USB wireless dongle thing that was posted earlier in the thread.

Wired 360 controllers work fine though.

RepoMan · 2010-10-04T17:17:09.000Z

sinnick:

Not to disparage Just Cause 2 at all, but man I will never understand why big, dumb, blow-uppy action movies based on video games get made, but original scripts for big, dumb, blow-uppy action movies don’t.

What exactly needs to be “optioned” here? The right to use an unlimited parachute backpack?

The difference between a movie called “Just Cause” and a movie called “Gratuitous Action Flick” is that 2,000,000 geeks have already bought something called “Just Cause” and most of them liked it. They will associate your movie with that previous pleasant experience. That instant audience recognition is really really fucking expensive to get any other way.

sinnick · 2010-10-04T17:21:48.000Z

RepoMan:

The difference between a movie called “Just Cause” and a movie called “Gratuitous Action Flick” is that 2,000,000 geeks have already bought something called “Just Cause” and most of them liked it. They will associate your movie with that previous pleasant experience. That instant audience recognition is really really fucking expensive to get any other way.

Well I may have to understand it, but I don’t have to like it!

BrianRubin · 2010-10-08T14:20:20.000Z

So I’m an hour or so into the game and tried my first mission taking over a compound for a gang…and got my ass handed to me repeatedly. I went back a bit to my only saved point and now am gonna get used to the controls first before I do anything like that again. Still loving the game though, but yeah, I still suck at console games. ;)

Marcin · 2010-10-08T14:37:57.000Z

Yeah, I get that syndrome when I swap back and forth between mouse+keyboard and console controllers. Good first half hour is spent on WTF does this button do AGAIN? until I retrain my muscle memory.

Some games never get really comfortable, but they’re usually brawlers/platformers when there’s a lot of disparate actions. Shooters/open worlders fortunately tend to similar schemes for their shootey/drivey.

BrianRubin · 2010-10-08T15:44:55.000Z

Too true, I’m also fairly new to console games in general, so it’s a big step sideways for me.

JeffL · 2010-10-08T19:52:07.000Z

Brian, right there with you on the newbieness in consoles. My first few hours with JC2 made me feel like I’d never “get it” or be able to enjoy the game. But now I’m zipping around cities like Spiderman and reeking havoc and taking names. I still suck at anything that requires driving fast and accurately and shooting while doing that.

I’d recommend just wandering and being the rogue guerrilla until you build up some skills and get comfortable with the weapons and systems (and learn how to use the grapple hook to get you out of just about any bad situation.)

Editer · 2010-10-08T20:27:17.000Z

Console gaming was like typing to me… Just as one day I suddenly realized that I was touch-typing, one day I was playing a 360 shooter and realized I was just moving my character wherever I wanted him to go, rather than consciously struggling with the controller. It just gets easy with time.

BrianRubin · 2010-10-09T01:11:09.000Z

Thanks for the encouragement guys. :-)

BrianRubin · 2010-10-12T08:28:50.000Z

I just played some more of this (two hours in now) and had a blast ripping apart a military harbor with a stolen helicopter, jumping out of said stolen helicopter when it was about to get totaled, then boating back to the mainland to a small city to pull down a big statue with a fire truck, only to spend the next hour playing cat and mouse with the cops and limited ammo. Tons of freaking fun. :)

Hunty · 2010-10-12T09:15:52.000Z

Brian Rubin:

I just played some more of this (two hours in now) and had a blast ripping apart a military harbor with a stolen helicopter, jumping out of said stolen helicopter when it was about to get totaled

I still play this occasionally, and I often set myself little challenges. For example, when I am in a helicopter, I never fire the weapons at other aerial vehicles. Instead, I try and get any that attack me to shoot each other down by grappling between them like a demented trapeze artist. Then I nick the winner.