I haven't played since 2, but it was definitely "make your own fun". At the time everyone was playing the 2 hour demo over and over, and that was some of the most fun I've ever had.
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Yeah, they're great to just spending some time in them. They're not deep or complex, but sometimes simpler games are great, especially if you have other thing going on. It's a bit like fast food.
Oh me! Loved Just Cause 2 and had an even better time with 3. I love it specifically because of how mindless it is.
No one plays Just Cause for the story (since it’s the same every game just pick a different part of the world). Flying, gliding, and blowing shit up. Bonus points for tethering a moving police car to another object and blowing even more shit up!
I guess the reason I bring this up is because Just Cause feels uniquely, gloriously pointless to me.
I love 'em. Just Cause 3 practically has Gmod in it's DNA. But at the same time, I'm strangely aware of the loop.
I’m pretty sure the game doesn’t take itself seriously haha. Which is a good thing.
I only played JC3 but the player is basically invincible - the lack of a health bar and the quick recovery lean into the fact that the game isn't trying to be serious, but instead lets you have fun messing around with stuff. When I played I was mostly just trying to do fun trick shots/find ways to do fun nonsense with the phyisics engine. A few of my friends and I had a fun time trying the max out the random task scores (free falling the longest distance, grappling up the most, etc) without looking at online strategies
Exactly! Absolutely love games like this. Really let’s you play.
The wingsuit in Just Cause 3 might be the most fun traversal I've seen in any game, it's just a shame there's nothing much to explore and the world is pretty boring. I've always enjoyed playing it for a little bit but the game's kinda shallow to warrant ever finishing it or actually taking quests seriously.
I play Just Cause 4 every once in a while, and ironically because of that mindlessness it's almost the perfect game to pick up and play in short bursts - go in, blow some shit up, be done in 20 minutes. It has its appeal because I know I can just pick it up, where bigger story games like Cyberpunk or Fallout you spend a few minutes every time you start up going "now where was I..."
I just wish JC3's scenic setting was a mix of 2 + 3 but retained the mechanics of JC3. That would be& perfect Just Cause game.
2 on its own was pretty revolutionary for its time, though. I had so much damn fun playing it for years, including the online one.
Never finished 3, or even bought 4, but I've spent so much time in JC2. I made my own objectives, such as riding different vehicles down a mountain, or strapping them to planes taking off. The actual objectives, like outposts were secondary, only sometimes clearing them when encountered.
JC2 is my baby XD
My main reason is the different biomes of 2. A desert, a massive city, snowy mountains, an island archipelago. I love seeing it all sprawl out in the distance and knowing that it's all mine to explore and do whatever.
Wingsuit (jet powered one from the dlc) in 3 was so good, I spent a long time just cruising around in that game
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