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    Originally Posted by Pr0metheus 1962
    You're not alone. A Montana-based religious militia organization? Could they get any less imaginative? After Far Cry 4 and Far Cry Primal, both of which I loved for their imaginative settings and despite Primal's shortcomings (I really missed the ability to replay raids on villages and strongholds), I was hoping the next Far Cry would take me somewhere new and exciting. But Montana? I already live in the US - I can drive two hours out into the country and see the same scenery and meet the same religious nutjobs - I don't need to spend game time here. And yet another religious cult? I mean, this just looks so boring!

    After Primal, they could have taken us anywhere: if they wanted to go back to the religious-nut storyline, we could have gone to the medieval era with witchcraft and fanatical Christians, or Scandinavia in the age of the Vikings. Renaissance Europe during the Spanish Inquisition. We could have seen the human-sacrificing Aztecs during the era of the Spanish conquistador. The world and all of history is available, and they choose modern day Montana. Yawn!

    Well, Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming out at about the same time. I know where my $60 is going to get spent.

    Where's Far Cry 6 going to be set: Pennsylvania with an Amish cult making people drive horse-drawn carts? England with radical Church of England fanatics forcing people to sing hymns at gunpoint? Salt Lake City with a bunch of nutty Mormons forcing people to wear magic underwear?


    Originally Posted by Helforsite Go to original post
    I dont understand why some people are so butthurt about the setting and antagonist of FC5. Its fiction, not real life! If I threw a fit everytime a game or movie has Germans as villains (Nazi or otherwise) I wouldn't have time for anything else!
    Hellforsite is right. There is no point worrying about a fictitious game story line.

    I'm English, naturally looking back through history, we are the most evil country in the world, (even though we're rather polite ) We conquered and stole the resources of two thirds of the world and called it the British Empire.... we do not have English church of England fanatics, the most fanatical any English churchgoer would get, would be to politely ask if you would like a leaflet about religion (I said we were polite) but they would probably consider that rude and too forward and not do it.

    However, I have no problem with any game being based in England and it can be as demeaning as they like. English or I should say British people are very self deprecating, we do not take such trivial things seriously, a game could depict us all as psychopathic inbred blood crazed morons with poor bladder control and bad hygiene and I would absolutely love it if it as long as it had good game play. It's just a game.
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    Originally Posted by Helforsite Go to original post
    I dont understand why some people are so butthurt about the setting and antagonist of FC5. Its fiction, not real life!
    Which is precisely why the setting is so boring - it's real life, not fiction. We get enough real life in real life.
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    Originally Posted by Pr0metheus 1962 Go to original post
    Which is precisely why the setting is so boring - it's real life, not fiction. We get enough real life in real life.
    By this logic, anyone in the region of Nepal & the himalayas who had the chance to play it should've been just as annoyed with the setting of FC4 as you are with FC5, or anyone in Hawaii could've been just as bored by the setting of FC3 really, i mean, thats about how far your stretching your example. I actually live in Montana and I'm really looking forward to this. To me the concern is less about where it is set and more about what they do to really put that setting to use. Yes, there are plenty of other directions they could have gone, but the fact that they've gone in a direction that I don't think many of us anticipated a year ago I think is part of what makes the decision more interesting.
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