Just Cause 2

[biohazard]

Get the fucking game.  Best sandbox game I have ever played, better than Saints Row 2.

[Holkeye]

It's fun. I don't know if I'd call it the best anything yet, but it is fun.

[biohazard]

It's fun.

Exactly.
More fun than Saints Row 2, which is the alternate most fun sandbox game I've played.
All a game has to be is fun.  That's the point of games.  Don't get artsy on me you fags, I understand that it's a medium that can communicate very important messages, but I prefer physics that don't make much sense, and using 10,000 parachutes in an hour.

[Holkeye]

Who are you arguing with?

[biohazard]

Who are you arguing with?

Pre-emptive arguing, because everybody will pick a fight with me just for posting anything.   

[strike]

 better than saints row 2? it better have some amazing mission design to top that game. the variation in missions was CRAZY in SR2 it's a reason it's far and away my favorite sandbox of all time. but hey who knows. just cause 2 looks good.

[biohazard]

Strike, I'd say the missions were better in saints row 2, but whereas all of the sandbox experience of Saints Row 2 is more or less in a city, Just Cause 2 has arctic environments, deserts, jungles, cityscapes, islands, and the scope of the world is huge.

[strike]

true that. but one of my favorite thing about saints row 2 was the mission design and the variation. the fun of blowing shit up for no reason was just a bonus.

that said i'd really like to play JC2 but i am super busy this week, give me a couple weeks and i'll get around to it.

[haloOfTheSun]

that said i'd really like to play JC2 but i am super busy this week, give me a couple weeks and i'll get around to it.

You better. The whole reason biohazard got this game was because he thought you were going to play it.

[biohazard]

Well, I'd been playing it on 360.  Also
>Just Cause 2 thread
>Thread is entirely about operating systems

Oh you. 

[Holkeye]

I have it for 360, too. This is the kind of game that is better with a controller.

[biohazard]

I generally like third person games with a controller.  And since it has lock-on type features, aiming isn't much of a priority.

[Holkeye]

If you like this, you should try Crackdown. It's not as involved, but the exploration is fun.

[SirJackRex]

Circular arguments FTW!!!

This game looks fantastic! I'm going to have to wait for the price to drop, but I really want to pick this up. The variety in landscape is great, compared to your typical limited landscape in most sandbox games. How is the combat? I hear all the shit you can do is insane.

[chewey]

Circular arguments FTW!!!

This game looks fantastic! I'm going to have to wait for the price to drop, but I really want to pick this up. The variety in landscape is great, compared to your typical limited landscape in most sandbox games. How is the combat? I hear all the shit you can do is insane.

I've only played the demo but it's a lot of fun. I can't really get into sandbox games anymore though, so I had my fill after a few playthroughs of the demo.

Grappling all over the place and using an infinite supply of parachutes is awesome.

[biohazard]

If you like this, you should try Crackdown. It's not as involved, but the exploration is fun.

Yep, beat the game a while back.

And as for the combat, you can upgrade the weapons, there are a lot of them, you can grapple and pull people off things to their death, tether them to things like a pinata, or to a helicopter, then fly up and let go
I'd like a bit more focus on the melee, but whatever.

[Kebin]

I have it on PC, and I think the controls would be easier to work with on 360, but you get used to it after a bit.

That said, it's still a great game, and there's so much to do in it.

[Irock]

360 controllers happen to work with Windows.

[strike]

can't. stop. playing. demo.

[biohazard]

can't. stop. playing. demo.

Game's ten times as awesome.  There is a floating airship called the mile high club, it's a fucking dance party in the sky.  Plus, there is one of the fastest jets on it, and a runway so you can take off from the ship.  THE GAME IS FUCKING AWESOME.

[SirJackRex]

Just played through the demo, and this game is insane. I gotta get this game asap.

[Irock]

I hear there's an island you always crash on, and on that island there's a hatch.

[Sophist]

I hear there's an island you always crash on, and on that island there's a hatch.

This is confirmed.

[Kebin]

360 controllers happen to work with Windows.

I know, but at this point, I'm already good with the keyboard and mouse, so I'll stick with it.

[strike]

so good i had to buy it. it's not worth renting a game this large.5 hours in i've found like 44/350+ places and i've only actually landed at like 10 of em. if there was one thing i loved about the saboteur was the fact that there were a bunch of things you got rewarded to blow up. it's like a cross between saints row, the saboteur and mercenaries. this game is awesome.