Do y’all know anyone who’s gotten to 100% on JC2? I haven’t, but bang for the buck it’s one of the most fun games I’ve played in ages. Even if I only got to 50%, that’d be dozens of hours of fun.
anaqer
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100% is irrelevant with these sorts of games. (Especially since IIRC it’s technically impossible to get 100% on JC2 due to some mapping snafu).
As for the list itself, bonus points for Amnesia.
Bullshit. If a game is that good, why would you stop playing it if there’s more of it to play?
Depends on how little or much direction you want, or how OCD you are I suppose.
Looking for ideas Matt? I got to about 80%, and I still fire it up on occasion. It’s really such a great sandbox for fluffing about. One of the earliest cool things I challenged myself to do was to get from one end of the map to the other using only land-based vehicles. It took many hours and many tries, and was a blast for each unsuccessful try.
Now, as much of a blast as that was, I’m glad I got that out of my system early on because I hadn’t yet discovered how to grapple-shute my away across landmasses. Once that smooth mode of travel was discovered, honestly, land vehicles didn’t stand a chance anymore.
Then there was the week or so that I got obsessed with riding around on a speed-boat with an uber weapon, causing mega-destruction everywhere. I used to get the speedboat with the weapon from a certain mission and then just keep it once I got to the boat and abandon the mission. I used that boat do destroy a lot of property and clear many a harbor. I also tried looking around at random little islands in the game and trying to find a beached (or is it? I don’t know) whale that people sometimes talk about, but to no avail. So there’s still a missing whale out there somewhere. But there’s still a lot of places I haven’t explored that are off the beaten path.
Every once in a while I’ll still get to some isolated little beach or cliff face or river valley or jungle village that takes my breath away, because this is a gorgeous game, and I just love exploring.
Grapple-shute? How do you do that?
Those are good examples. That’s what I was looking for, really. No, I don’t intend to enact those suggestions, but this at least helps me understand what people were doing with the game that left them with such highly positive impressions.
I’m not saying JC2 is bad, by the way. I did enjoy it quite a bit and I did actually buy the PC version for $5 on Steam during the winter sale just to be able to see it on a high end rig, because it is indeed one of the prettiest games anywhere. But as a full-fledged gaming experience, I had so many more memorable and richer ones than JC2 that it surprises me when people cite it as the best thing they played in 2010. The effusive praise for Saints Row 2 and Red Faction: Guerrilla strikes me as similar, so I guess I just prefer more structure to my games than what these provide.
Grapple the ground, reel in, pop chute before you reach the end of the line. It’s a basic transit technique in JC2.
The Spider-man-like thing you can do where you pull yourself forward continuously with the parachute deployed behind you. If you haven’t learned how to do it smoothly like Spiderman yet, there’s still time for you to take a land-based vehicle trek from one end of the game to the other!
Oh, I’ve done that a little bit. Is there a way to deploy the chute like that without having to jump off a cliff?
Ohhhhh, I’ll try that! Thanks!
My God, I was half-expecting you to say of course you knew how to do that, you just never thought to call it that before. How have you been getting around? Driving?
Yes, you start by hooking onto something in the environment in front of you, like a distant tree. Then deploy the shute before you get there. It’ll pop you above the tree usually, or just to the side. Then you just do the spiderman thing by grappling at things in front of you, pulling you forward and keeping yourself soaring at a relatively high speed. It’s actually faster than most land vehicles and some air vehicles in the game.
I’ve mostly been using cars and planes, and grappling to trees and the ground far away not using the chute.
Incorporating the chute really changes things. I’m pretty sure grapple-chuting is faster than almost any ground vehicle in the game.
Awesome, now I have to go try it!
bluemax
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Putting Red Dead Redemption in his top 5 seems so counter intuitive.
Wow, that wasn’t difficult at all. Had no idea you could deploy a chute while grappling from anywhere. Very neat, now I just have to get the hang of it, but yeah, it was speedy. Thanks guys!
sinnick
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And once your chute is deployed, grapple the ground to keep going. Like reverse spider-man!
J_Ore
4199
I’d say he accidentally switched Dead Rising 2 and Bioshock 2’s places, but it’s his list and he’s certainly entitled to order it however he wants. But the whole “Bioshock didn’t neeeedd a sequel” argument just seems completely specious to me.
Well…it didn’t. While I enjoyed BioShock 2 well enough, I didn’t feel it added much to the Rapture mythos. BioShock was an exception and singular game. BioShock 2 feels like a very polished fanfiction mod. I certainly wouldn’t call it the fifth worst game of the damn year, though. Probably not even the fiftieth worst.
