The Internet seems to be crawling with bloggers documenting their attempts to finish Far Cry 2 without dying once. I often attempt such self-imposed challenges myself when playing various games, and it's a good way to earn the mastered-status for the game in my backloggery, so I decided to join the crowd and try the same thing myself. Some seem to be doing this as a kind of social exercise, to see how their actions in the game change when they know they can't reload a save after failing. I myself do this just to make the game more interesting. It's more entertaining to me this way, when I know all decisions I make and actions I take are permanent and I have tip-toe my way through the enemies in the game. The downside of course is the frustration of dying 15 hours in.
Once I get an idea in my head it is hard to get it out of there, so even if I fail now I will probably try it again some day, and keep doing it until I succeed. My original idea was to finish the game first and only then publish the blogs to avoid a situation where I'm blogging my fiftieth time of securing my first safe house, but I decided to change my mind. For no special reason, really, I just... changed my mind.
I have read the first entry of Ben Abraham attempting the same thing, but have otherwise not followed the other players imposing the same challenge on themselves. I haven't finished the game yet myself and I want my games unspoiled. My plan is to write in much, much shorter segments and publish a recorded gameplay video of each segment.
Once I get an idea in my head it is hard to get it out of there, so even if I fail now I will probably try it again some day, and keep doing it until I succeed. My original idea was to finish the game first and only then publish the blogs to avoid a situation where I'm blogging my fiftieth time of securing my first safe house, but I decided to change my mind. For no special reason, really, I just... changed my mind.
I have read the first entry of Ben Abraham attempting the same thing, but have otherwise not followed the other players imposing the same challenge on themselves. I haven't finished the game yet myself and I want my games unspoiled. My plan is to write in much, much shorter segments and publish a recorded gameplay video of each segment.
The rules of the game are as follows:
-PC platform
-Infamous difficulty (the hardest available)
-No DLCs installed
-Dying once means game over
-No reloading saved games to undo actions or change decisions or anything to that effect.
Please note that the gameplay videos are edited: I've cut out most segments where there is something else than actual gameplay footage, such as menus or help screens instructing me to jump/crawl/throw grenades or whatever. The purpose of this is to give more immersive watching experience, I guess. It can cause some anomalies, though, such as the background music skipping forward a lot between two frames. As a side effect it also makes the videos shorter and take less hard disk space, I'm running low on that. That was one factor that made me upload the videos now already and not after I'm finished: now I can upload the videos and then delete them from my hard disk as necessary.
Please note that the gameplay videos are edited: I've cut out most segments where there is something else than actual gameplay footage, such as menus or help screens instructing me to jump/crawl/throw grenades or whatever. The purpose of this is to give more immersive watching experience, I guess. It can cause some anomalies, though, such as the background music skipping forward a lot between two frames. As a side effect it also makes the videos shorter and take less hard disk space, I'm running low on that. That was one factor that made me upload the videos now already and not after I'm finished: now I can upload the videos and then delete them from my hard disk as necessary.
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