Far Cry 5 is a tour de force.
The world is beautiful. When jetski-ing across a lake at moonlight, it was so beautiful that I had a moment.
Far Cry 5 lets me experience a bigger world, where I can blast away the bad guys (and feelings), have gentle fun and adventurous fun, be reckless and abandoned (without consequence), achieve something meaningful (saving the day) and of course, blow **** up.
It's a step out of real life where I have to swallow daily soul-crushers, live with mundanity, handle the impending mortality of my loved ones and myself, handle helplessness in the face of the global juggernaut and deal with my responsibilities responsibly.
This is our compact - you give me this golden glowing experience in exchange for my money and I game the hell out of it, throwing myself into the wonder you have created, with joy and openness to experience as fully as possible whatever stories you want to tell and experiences you want to give me, confident that it will all be worth it because I will solve the puzzles and save the day (even if tinged with regret aka Far Cry 4).
In Far Cry 5, you've broken the contract.
I don't trust you any more.
I'm also a tad confused.Originally Posted by SofaJockey Go to original post
It's a beautifully written piece, but the last two lines contradict the rest.
PS I played it through a second time straight away to see what it was like from the other side. I realised how much the story is on a rail. Clearing John"s bunker was heartbreaking - hearing the Peggies say 'we have to protect these people. They're safe here" and knowing it was true (for a given definition of safe) and not being able to progress without doing it. Yeah. Nah. Not doing that again.
The context is clearly what happens at the end - as designed by Ubisoft, versus you the player.Originally Posted by OurJud Go to original post
If I could just play the rest of the game and all the cutscenes were skippable with ESC, it would make replaying the game much easier.... I am co-oping the game again with my son, as we like the fun of romping around the world.....it is just that we can only take so much of the story before we have to turn it off and play something else....lately that has been Ghost Recon Wildlands...Originally Posted by leroy198532 Go to original post
That's not a bad way to look at it. After all, it's a Far Cry game, Story content (especially endings) haven't been its strong suite over the years.Originally Posted by leroy198532 Go to original post