Why is it so fucking bad? I like the setting but I can't stand how shit it feels to play

Are you playing on console or something? Because FC5/New Dawn on PC feels fantastic to play.

>Primal is the only one I haven't played, for good reason
What's that supposed to mean? It's one of the few Far Cry games not directed by visionary auteur Patrik Methe. So if you're not a fan of this style, you might like Primal.

>casual collect-a-thons
Did you even play Far Cry 5? Because I'm struggling to understand how FC5 could be characterized this way. It dramatically scaled back the amount of padding compared to FC3/4.

Really? You need to do a lot of trivial shit to get perk points and there aren't even big fortresses from FC4. All you do is wander around the map and pick up shit or fish.

>What really soured me on the game was the writing. It was all over the top and goofy, the missions specifically. Can't really get immersed in a dangerous wildlife setting when goofy nonsensical shit is happening left and right.
I somehow suspect you're not the target audience for Patrik Methe Far Cry games. At a fundamental level, his games revolve around the juxtaposition of serious and comical elements. The overarching narrative and the moment to moment storytelling is often completely at odds with each other, and this is intentional. Far Cry 5 is a game where you are the Lamb of God sent to trigger the end of days. But the moment to moment gameplay is interacting with a string of quirky characters. This is consistent despite the various games having different writers.

I was really bummed that they took out the actual skinning of animals. Like... seriously, hunting is sanitary now.

Boring missions; the environment being 50 square miles of trees that all look the same; only 5 enemy NPCs throughout the entire game. So in short, lack of variety or challenge.

I don't ever really care too much about story in games, but this was so bland and inoffensive (until that ridiculous ending) that it left a bad taste in my mouth.

>FC1
>that high

I just don't like the idea of replacing all the guns with extremely simplistic melee combat, but maybe I'll give it a try since I have a free month of uplay+

>Really? You need to do a lot of trivial shit to get perk points and there aren't even big fortresses from FC4. All you do is wander around the map and pick up shit or fish.
I think you might be misunderstand the core deign principles of Far Cry 5. Far Cry 5 is essentially a game with no "main missions". Instead, literally everything you do that isn't hunting or fishing acts to move the story forward. The little meter fills up as you casually wander around and then it automatically triggers the next story beat. That "trivial shit' as you put it is the entire game. AC: Odyssey is built largely the same way. You play the game by picking a random direction and seeing what random shit you can do there. Of course AC: Odyssey has main quests. Far Cry 5 doesn't, at least not in the traditional sense. Far Cry 4 was one of the last Ubisoft games to be built around the idea of a central narrative that is player paced/player controlled. And even FC4 confused some people because Pagan Min shows up at the start, shows up at the end, and shows up one or two times in the middle. It's the same narrative structure you find in Far Cry 2. And coincidentally, Metal Gear Solid V.

However, FC5 isn't a collectathon. It doesn't say, "Gather 50 beaver asses". It says "Do whatever the fuck you want until we come to abduct you."

i 100%ed this game for some reason

I liked it. World was cool, music was the best of the year, looked nice, gameplay was fun. Not going to act like the gameplay was excellent though. It had its moments but it's painfully easy, enemies spawn out of thin air right before your eyes, and the AI in general is atrocious.

For me it was one of those games where the sound and visuals came together to really engage me. That soundtrack is too good.

New Dawn was garbage. Shit music, even worse gameplay, dumbass story, annoying characters and the worst final boss I've seen in a while. Fuck me was it bad. I got burned on that and RAGE 2 at full price like a fucking moron. One day I'll learn.

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>Far Cry 5 is a game where you are the Lamb of God sent to trigger the end of days

the nuclear bombing would happen anyway, so you are the Lamb sent to prove the villain right. And just in time too, imagine how silly he would feel, when the bombs start to fall, without any of the "seals" he predicted being broken (open? can't remember the wording)

The same reason for every Far Cry: outside of a few set pieces the entire game is the same repetitive shit.

Skinning animals is a long drawn out animation. Same deal with patting down NPCs to loot them. Ubisoft got rid of that because it's kinda tedious. Maybe they should have added an option to re-enable it.
Methinks you didn't understand the story if you thought the ending was "ridiculous".

>RAGE 2
It was so bland as a game.

>I just don't like the idea of replacing all the guns with extremely simplistic melee combat, but maybe I'll give it a try since I have a free month of uplay+

Melee fucking sucks in Primal. You kill things using takedowns, bow, throwing spears and very handy traps.

There's still bows and shit.
>New Dawn was garbage. Shit music
Wrong. Wrong. Wrong.
youtube.com/watch?v=AiVSSK1Tu10
youtube.com/watch?v=FY8l5zgCc5E
youtube.com/watch?v=o6nYcra1Acs
New Dawn's soundtrack is pure Tyler Bates kino.
>even worse gameplay
Expeditions were awesome. The Instincts-inspired superpowers were awesome. It was a good hybrid of Far Cry 5 and FC: Instincts. Plus they bought back stuff like knife kills that were missing from FC5.

screw you
it's good

>the nuclear bombing would happen anyway
No. You are the cause. You are the Lamb of God. Only the Lamb of God can open the seven seals and cause the seven angels to pour out the seven bowls/vials/whatever, thus killing 1/3 of the planet and fulfilling God's plan.
>so you are the Lamb sent to prove the villain right
Joseph was wrong, though. That's the entire point. He's a false prophet who thought that he was the Lamb of God. (His beliefs are directly based on David Koresh.) However, he is mistaken, and this leads him to do terrible things. In actuality, YOU are the Lamb. As Faith puts it, "You were the start. You'll be the end." Ala, "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.

The events of Far Cry 5 happen because you MAKE them happen. That is your purpose. The entire game is a ritual. Completing the ritual burns the world because that is God's will. And only you can do it. As the angel asked, "Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?" You were worthy. Without you, the seals would never have been opened, and the world wouldn't have been punished, and that would have been a tragedy.

Did you guys fall for Ubisoft's yearly viral marketing campaign on Yea Forums?

I couldn't even finish it. It was a saltine sandwich with a tall glass of a water on the side. And everyone praised the gunplay which I didn't really feel was all that special.

I will go back and try to listen the soundtrack though. I doubt any of it will come anywhere close to Their Thrones Became Electric Chairs or Shackles I Wore. Anyway the superpowers never felt all that fun to use. They should have went a little further with them.

One good thing about New Dawn was the female Highwaymen with body-paint. That was pretty hot. Especially dark skin with white paint.

so if I didn't kill 2 guys and a girl, that was replaced several times until the right one, no bombing? Not arresting a criminal is a surefire preventative for nuclear warfare said criminal (sorta) predicted...who would have known

switch fc1 and fc2 and you got it

the only Far Cry that is any good was the first one, the rest are boring and extremely overrated

Walking around the world fishing in FC5 is really fun.
I liked the fishing contest too, wasn't reading any guides or anything I just noticed that some fish on a sign had a marker and some didn't, then later realized a different one had gained a marker, so I decided to figure out what the other fish on the sign were and fish a bunch of them until I caught a heavier one than on the sign.

Was absolute kino running around fishing different fish trying to find the one that matched the picture, learned a lot about fish from it too... Yeap... Far Cry 5 was a good game... *siiip*

Literally Trump supporters: the game

>so if I didn't kill 2 guys and a girl, that was replaced several times until the right one, no bombing?
No. The global nuclear meltdown is all part of God's plan. But only you can set it in motion. Only the Lamb is capable of opening the seals. So if you walk away and forsake your mission, then the world waddles along.
>Not arresting a criminal is a surefire preventative for nuclear warfare said criminal (sorta) predicted...who would have known
Pretty much every aspect of Far Cry 5 is based on Revelation. A twisted interpretation, but nonetheless. The events of the story happen because you want them to happen. Because you have been sent to make them happen. Joseph is the anti-Christ, of sorts. This is why he comes from Rome, Georgia. The city on Seven Hills. This is connected to the mystery of the woman that rides the beast.

The only way you can possibly misunderstand Far Cry 5 is if you lack some fairly basic Biblical literacy. It's babby's first Book of Revelation adaptation stuff.

I think Far Cry 5 would have benefited from less focus on quirky sidequests and more hunting and fishing and communing with nature. I think that Far Cry 5's supernatural subtext would have been more effective if the player had spend hours like some prophet in the wilderness hearing the voice of God though the birdsong and shit. Imagine a Far Cry game that totally abandoned the formula of FC3 and drilled down into the sense of place. Of nature. Of exploring the wilderness. I think Far Cry 6 really needs to shift away from the co-op and the "gamification" of it all. But unfortunately, Ubisoft aren't going to do that. Unless of course GR: Breakpoint blows up their faces and forces them to reconsider The Division-ining everything.

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I was very put off by the number of black and asian characters in the game set in deep rural America.. but Ubisoft has been "apologising" for Jason Brody for 7 years now, anyone who was genuinely offended by a white guy getting stuck on an island full of savages and mercenaries in a video game is an oversensitive faggot

>The only way you can possibly misunderstand Far Cry 5 is if you lack some fairly basic Biblical literacy.
Or if you're a puberty ridden teenager who thinks he's hot shit because he tries too hard to impress people with talk about the deepness and meaning of vidya game stories

>The only way you can possibly misunderstand Far Cry 5 is if you lack some fairly basic Biblical literacy

ah, there you go then...I, being from country known to be one of the most atheistic in the world, would completly missed any of the imagery it would try to shove on me.

What are you talking about? For all of the games problems the core gameplay is fine.

You'd really have to take it up with the game's lead writer, who coincidentally co-wrote Bioshock: Infinte and Burial At Sea. He endorsed the "Rook is Christ" interpretation, which is blindingly obviously regardless.

The fishing was nice. The fisherman NPCs felt like total Bros.

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I hate how the world is huge but there's a lot of vast emptiness. I liked how FC3 and FC4 felt smaller but more dense. The setting in 5 isn't that interesting desu

Also the difficulty is completely braindead. All these options with weapons, partners and vehicles, but you'll need none of it. Feels completely pointless

>Yup, just a little bit of peace & quiet in these bad times
>gunfire going off in the background, a bear eating a cultist, planes crashing
>Yup, peace & quiet.

blood dragon was the only good game debate me gaythiest

wrong

Let's talk about how far cry 1 had the best level design

play with the winchester, faggot.

Good story for ubisoft standards, But they stripped features to make it easier, Like hunting for equipment upgrades. Not enough gun variety for america as well, All though i did like the ww2 weapons

t. never played primal. Best after 5. So many retards on this board

not an argument gayboy, and being gay is a mental illness

fc2 > fc4 > fc1 > fc3 > fc5
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