Far Cry 5

Hime wrote:

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Not bothered by it being "more Far Cry" as it's not like Far Cry 4 came out last year (Or even the year before) and I skipped Primal. I do really enjoy the formula they have for these and I'm looking forward to jumping in. The DLC looks sufficiently interesting as well so I may go for the season pass when I get paid.

I watched Gamespots video over the weekend and they basically described the exploration as the same as BOTW and that there are proper side missions now. These sound like good changes to me.

Metro GameCentral -8 / 10

The best Far Cry yet and one of the best open world shooters of any kind, with an impressive variety of missions and non-linear structure.

http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/26/far-cry-5 ... e-7417274/

Buffalo wrote:The 2 I’ve read (EG & The Guardian) have the exact same criticisms - it’s tonally inconsistent, touches on a wide range of subjects but bottled it when actually having something to say about them, the environment isn’t as good, it can be too chaotic (I’ve mostly stealthed my way through FC games) and that it brings too little new to the Far Cry table. But gutted but I’ll still be playing it when I can.

There was a moment towards the very end of my time with Far Cry 5. In an effort to 100% one of the game's regions, I took to exploring some of the hills that none of the quests had taken me to hoping to find the one last mission I'd somehow missed. Suddenly, I caught the sound of guitar over a ridge, and came across a trio of folks at a campsite. One was playing guitar and singing "In the Pines (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)," while the other two danced.

It was a quiet moment, and more than that a confident one. It wasn't sticking its tongue out at the intimacy of the couple, or treating the musician's performance as a joke. And it was unmarked on the map, and that made it feel more true somehow. This was, in a sense, not for me to find. It was simply a routine this trio would repeat until the end of time, undisturbed. Meant as a curiosity, yet in effect one of the rare times that the game felt like it understood what it could have been. Even writing this now, I feel a pang of regret that I didn't stay longer, that I didn't get a better video of the them.

I never found anything else like that moment, but again and again, Far Cry 5 served up its opposite: Moments that were incredibly loud, but increasingly timid. And because of that, Far Cry 5 itself will always be more of a curiosity than a destination.

Saint of Killers wrote:I was expecting another Wolfenstein 2 outcome (in that the game implied it would touch upon important messages which it then didn't) and it seems that's what we got, but at least with FC5 the core gameplay will likely be as good as previous games. (Wolf 2 not being a patch on Wolf TNO and TOB.)

Saint of Killers wrote:

Hime wrote:

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Not bothered by it being "more Far Cry" as it's not like Far Cry 4 came out last year (Or even the year before) and I skipped Primal. I do really enjoy the formula they have for these and I'm looking forward to jumping in. The DLC looks sufficiently interesting as well so I may go for the season pass when I get paid.

I watched Gamespots video over the weekend and they basically described the exploration as the same as BOTW and that there are proper side missions now. These sound like good changes to me.

That's what I wanted as soon as I was done with 4: same excellent shootbanging with a few changes here and there. Add in the aforementioned gap between 4 and 5 and I am ready for more goofy gunplay larks.

Buffalo wrote:The 2 I’ve read (EG & The Guardian) have the exact same criticisms - it’s tonally inconsistent, touches on a wide range of subjects but bottled it when actually having something to say about them, the environment isn’t as good, it can be too chaotic (I’ve mostly stealthed my way through FC games) and that it brings too little new to the Far Cry table. But gutted but I’ll still be playing it when I can.

Tafdolphin wrote:

Saint of Killers wrote:I was expecting another Wolfenstein 2 outcome (in that the game implied it would touch upon important messages which it then didn't) and it seems that's what we got, but at least with FC5 the core gameplay will likely be as good as previous games. (Wolf 2 not being a patch on Wolf TNO and TOB.)

Eh? Wolf 2 doubled down on subjects that were merely hinted at in 1 and was thematically twice as daring as it's predecessor. Granted the actual gameplay wasn't as good (due mainly to the poor level design) but narratively it was far more radical, and successfully so, than the first.

Saint of Killers wrote:

Tafdolphin wrote:

Saint of Killers wrote:I was expecting another Wolfenstein 2 outcome (in that the game implied it would touch upon important messages which it then didn't) and it seems that's what we got, but at least with FC5 the core gameplay will likely be as good as previous games. (Wolf 2 not being a patch on Wolf TNO and TOB.)

Eh? Wolf 2 doubled down on subjects that were merely hinted at in 1 and was thematically twice as daring as it's predecessor. Granted the actual gameplay wasn't as good (due mainly to the poor level design) but narratively it was far more radical, and successfully so, than the first.

It wasn't nearly as confrontational with the alt-right gooseberry fool on US soil as I (maybe wrongly?) expected. I meant TNO and TOB > 2 in terms of its core gameplay.

Saint of Killers wrote:They sat on the strawberry floating fence? Seriously?! Ubi should have left the story/dialogue to whomever was responsible for it at Ubi Montreal on Watch Dogs 2.

JimKT wrote:Very close to going and getting this today..