For the past few days I’ve been playing this pretty much nonstop. Coming off of Yakuza 6(which will eventually have its own thread), this was a pretty different experience. Repetitive, addicting but repetitive. For awhile I’ve thought about whether to call this a review or just general thoughts, but since I will go into the ending, and get to gameplay, may as well go with that.
At first I was pretty dead set on avoiding it. I tend to boycott anything that seems to either promote SJW bs or have Anita Sarkeesian involved, if I can help it. I hadn’t even seen a single trailer or screenshot, just by word of mouth alone put me off this game, having assumed all it was, was bashing republicans. However, since release I’ve heard a different story. Something about more nuance. I had finished Far Cry 3 before, and have played a bit of 4, Blood Dragon, and Crysis, so perhaps I should have given them the benefit of the doubt.
I can’t say for sure or not if it’s actually representative of anyone out west, since I’ve only been once in my life. Seems an odd mix between 3 and Blood Dragon, where a ton of it is obviously over the top, but some of it tries to be a little serious.
Having seen complaints from leftists about it being apolitical, I would somewhat agree with that; I’ve not done everything, but in around 20-30 hours I’ve only heard one name mentioned and nothing else. Some stuff about globalists and new world order, etc. but it’s all just poking some fun at stereotypes. In any case, it’s not really a negative for me. I think liberals are butthurt that it wasn’t a game about killing a Trump stand-in.
The cult that serves as antagonists, the Project at Eden’s Gate, remind of something more akin to Jonestown, if anything. The name Christianity is never said outright, but it’s definitely implied. Even so, it could have been anything else and not make much a difference, because it seems these characters aren’t presented as your typical Christians even within the world the game takes place in.
This is where some of my thoughts stray from the more right leaning, I guess. Funny I was raised both a democrat as well as Christian and switched both, though to be honest I never believed in the first place. I would understand those that might take offense at this game, but at the same time I think they wouldn’t be giving it a fair chance. Bioshock Infinite is much in the same position, and there I think the connection is even weaker and not the point of it.
To talk about the characters themselves, well, it’s a bit of a mixed bag. If I’m recalling right, Far Cry 3 had a linear story progression. Here it’s more open, and you get multiple crazies instead of just one. And honestly I thought Vaas was overrated, in that people who raved about him didn’t really get the point of 3’s story. Not necessarily deep, also predictable, but still. I won’t say 5 is much better, though. I think the villains are a bit more fleshed out, but unfortunately they don’t get much time to do it in. This is a case where gameplay seems to ruin it, because you get stuck doing a bunch of different missions that all feel like they should be side content, until you reach a threshold of “points” where an arbitrary event occurs, forcing you to do something relevant to the plot. A little hard to explain, but to put it simply, a lot of this game feels like filler.
The ending was a bit more interesting than your usual black and white choices, I’ll give it that much – especially wherein 3 I got the bad one just because I liked sexy island native – but I was still disappointed by it. Judging from the other optional endings, I wouldn’t have liked them either. None of them seem definitive or to give closure on any character development. It’s really odd because it seemed like the rest of the game at least tied up loose ends in decent ways.
Lastly, as I said at the start, addictive and repetitive. The basic mechanics are fun but a bit too simple and not enough variety. Perhaps it could have benefited from a smaller scale as I don’t recall being burnt out by 3 as much. Definitely needs a better ending…maybe they got something planned for DLC but eh, not interested if that’s the case.
Anyone else here play it? Or decided not to support? I’d imagine most MGTOW would be on the right or entirely independent, but the amount of those religious have surprised me a bit. Don’t want to start anything awful about religion, just curious of different perspectives on this game.
"I have the fury of my own momentum." "With this ring I thee wed. Fire walk with me."
MonkSimon 1 year, 9 months ago.
