You've already played: Far Cry 6 (Review)

Far Cry 3 has been a blessing and a curse to the Far Cry series

"Don't rush out and buy it, because you've probably already played it" tell that to Fifa fans.

On the topic of companions, it baffles me that they got rid of the gun for hire system 5 had. It fits so well into 6, possibly moreso than 5. Also, no human companions really annoys me. I loved that about 5 and New Dawn. Your teammates would actively converse with one another as you explored Hope County (Even if they would repeat a tad too often.) They also allowed more variety and flexibility in your gameplay style. Plus they were actually useful and could actually rack up a kill count, Instead of running up to a soldier only to get kicked in the face and shot to pieces like the Amigos in 6.

17:00 The Architect of Games has a video talking at length about exactly this idea. Players don't feel antagonized by characters they are just told are horrible villains, they feel antagonized by characters who actually interact with them and limit their sense of agency. For example, Doom Eternal players hate the Marauder much more than they hate the Icon of Sin, or that alien angel boss.

Vaas : Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity? Ubisoft : No please do tell Players : 🥴

Boss: Alright Far Cry. Any more fresh ideas? Dev: Hmm.. cockfighting? Dev: gets promoted to Chief Creative Officer

The far cry games have been extremely similar ever since three. The only one I skipped was primal and I can say I've thoroughly enjoyed all of the other ones. I think the big thing for me is I don't typically play far cry games at release; so when one comes out, while it may be a little stale, I can still enjoy the moment to moment gunplay. What really disappoints me about 6 is the de-emphasis on stealth. Sure I can stealthily take out and outpost, but why would I do that when I get barely anything for it. Especially when I can have a lot more fun just blowing everything up

I was super excited to get this game until I saw 2 things. Health bars and gigantic map. Why must Ubisoft turn every franchise into a 60 hour RPG? What's wrong with having a really fun and complete 20 hour experience?

The lack of innovation in the Far Cry series is expecially ironic when you look at the origin of the series. All the first 3 games are significantly different from each other in story and gameplay (honorable mention Far cry 3 dlc "blood dragon"). This is a series that kept changing until it found a huge success and then...it stopped.

Crazy that chopping down trees and breaking rocks would be considered innovation in this series.

'Something closer to Far Cry 2' I've been waiting for a Far Cry game like that since forever. Loved FC3, loved Blood Dragon, but then it just got the same. Far Cry 2 is a gem, and thankfully it's been resurrected on PC recently with mods. Still nothing like it.

I look forward to picking this up as my free PS+ game in about five months.

The def f insanity line now hits different

Ubisoft aren’t the insane ones, we are. Ubisoft does the same thing over and over and us players keep expecting them to change. That is crazy

There is no larger narrative crime than wasting Giancarlo Esposito.

Fortunately for me, this was my very first far cry game, so the gameplay loop wasn't something I'd already played to death and I've been having a super fun time. Totally valid take on the game though, Skillup. Love all your videos.

One thing that I find really frustrating in Far Cry games is the world's are so large and the sniper scopes have almost no zoom

It's amazing how scared Ubisoft is with this game and is too afraid to call it Cuba when they had no problem doing that with other games but then again they happily changed historical events, paintings and artifacts because "it was offensive, we're better now"

They added a much needed quality of life change, swapping ammo types on the fly using the weapon wheel, this should have been here at launch, would have greatly improved people's tolerance with the combat system.

I felt the same frustrations with bullet types and helicopters as you until I learned a couple things. 1. Armor piercing bullets kill everyone fast, more so with headshots, it’s the only one I use 2. You can change out your weapons and armor anytime even mid fight when you need an rpg 3. Special armor like fire armor and poison armor sets actually come in really handy for certain missions