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Permanent Death in Far Cry 2

Popmatters writes:

"Ben Abraham over at SLRC started an experiment with Far Cry 2 that has since been picked up and repeated by other bloggers. The experiment: Play Far Cry 2 on normal difficulty and stop when you die. You only have one life. Death is permanent.

Ben's posts, and those by others who have taken up the experiment, read like a normal game of Far Cry 2. The introduction and the tutorial always play out the same, and while everyone's first mission is different, what happens to them isn't all that different than what happened to me when I played the game: They get in a shootout and kill a lot of people. That's essentially every mission in Far Cry 2. So what makes this experiment so interesting?"

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Published: 117 days 11 hours ago | Article | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | PC

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Pandamobile - 117 days 13 hours ago

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Far Cry 2 is a pretty cool game for a while.

I stopped played because I died of malaria...

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OtherWhiteMeat - 117 days 11 hours ago

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The only thing worse then malaria in Farcry 2 is being a vampire in Oblivion.Both sucked.

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Rifle-Man - 117 days 10 hours ago

1.2 - @OtherWhiteMeat

Y'know what's even worse than being a vampire in Oblivion? Being a vampire in Oblivion: Game of the Year Edition for PS3 and spending a whole evening asking around about how to cure vampirism, gathering the necessary ingredients, finding the house of the woman who can make a cure, running into a bug that doesn't let you give an ingredient to the woman, researching how to fix the bug on the internet, driving to Blockbuster to rent the regular edition of Oblivion, loading up the GOTY save in the regular edition, get cured, take the game back to Blockbuster, load up the GOTY edition again and enjoy the sunlight.

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Nitrowolf2 - 117 days 5 hours ago

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that is unless of course u somehow become vampire again

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Poopface the 2nd - 117 days 4 hours ago

1.4 - I guess the experiment is to see how you change your play style when you cant just relaod last checkpoint

if thats the case, it would be like a lot of older games where you have limited lives or continues. Like the games that didnt have saves.

This idea was a huge part of games back in the day, so its interesting to see it applied to modern games.

however, it isnt an original idea at all. Probably the best example of this is the "hardcore" characters in Diablo 2. Once you die you loose your character and any loot you got. I never made a hardcore char, but im sure people were really upset when they died and lost their characters.

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zagibu - 116 days 17 hours ago

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Yeah, Hardcore Diablo had (and still has) quite the following. They even introduced new rules on top of the "hardcore" game mode to make it even harder, called Iron Man. IIRC, you weren't allowed to trade in this "mode", nor talk to anyone in town except when it was required to advance in a quest.

Also, Diablo Hardcore PVP was pretty intense. Two enter, one leaves.

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skip2mylou - 117 days 11 hours ago

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i died because i drowned how the fuk did i drown when i was still walking through the water

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zagibu - 116 days 17 hours ago

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Maybe because your character was an a$$face?

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Rifle-Man - 117 days 10 hours ago

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I would try this, but I already know how I'd die: I'd set the grass on fire with the blowback from my rocket launcher, which would in turn set my jeep on fire, which would in turn blow up and kill my sorry ass.

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ironwolf777 - 117 days 7 hours ago

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They take this stuff waaay too seriously.
Playing a game with one life doesn't need to become some existential
wank fest.

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FantasyStar - 117 days 5 hours ago

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I think it's all about the pressure now. Knowing that you only have one life will definitely make you think twice about some firefights and raiding on guard posts for fun. I think I might want to attempt this challenge.

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dchalfont - 117 days 5 hours ago

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yeah it just sounds like pseudophilosophy b.s to me, we get it, 1 life, if you die you die, there was no need for that article.......oh i mean, what a deep concept, a tale of life and death...heroism, and s&m

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Poopface the 2nd - 117 days 4 hours ago

4.3 - yeah Its not even an original idea

seems interesting, but its been done before with much worse consequences(diablo 2) and back in the day most games had limited lives as opposed to saves anyways. Alot of people already know the feeling of having to start a game over if they die.

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Nitrowolf2 - 117 days 5 hours ago

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so if u die u die? no continuing from the point you saved?

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poindat - 117 days 5 hours ago

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Wow... I hope you're kidding. When people say, "there is no such thing as a bad question," they were lying.

To answer your question, nope, no continuing on. That was sort of the whole point of this essay and experiment...

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dirthurts - 117 days 5 hours ago

6 - It's the same concept as gears of war

Multiplayer anyway.
The first time I played warzone and realized I didn't respawn, at least until the next round, made me far more cautious than any other game.
I like it :)

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zagibu - 116 days 17 hours ago

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It's not quite the same thing, no. In GoW MP you have to wait maybe 5-10 Minutes, in Far Cry 2, you can lose 20 hours, if you die later on in the game.

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timestoby - 117 days 5 hours ago

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the blogger needs to get out more

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aaron5829 - 117 days 4 hours ago

8 - I had fun with FC2 for a while...

And soon it got really boring....

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Jason 360 - 117 days 3 hours ago

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They should try it on hard it would make a very short game. I have tried games before to see how long I could survive but Far Cry 2 is the last game I would try it on. Just play Left 4 Dead survival mode or a multiplayer game like Rainbow Six where you only get one life per round.

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Ellessdee - 117 days 2 hours ago

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great article. i should try it some time on another game, like dead space or something, since i only rented FC2.

though, i think they should be doing the experiment on hard mode, not narmal mode. that would be more intense.

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execution17 - 117 days 2 hours ago

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anyone else glitch the game whenever you got revived by your buddy, seconds later they start shooting you?

had to start all over, since i couldn't get those buddy trophies

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PS360WiiRocks - 117 days 2 hours ago

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Pssh how lame. I play games so I can do those things and NOT die.

edit:: show ur face disagreer!! So I can disagree back, seriously wtf r u disagreeing with?

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