Far Cry 6 Impressions - Amazon broke street date!

[CriticalGaming]

Destiny 1, Star Citizen, Far Cry 6, and Cyberpunk 2077. Anytime a game features amazing Hollywood actors, it's compensating for something.

You don't see BOTW, Dark Souls 3, Skyrim, Halo 3, Saints Row 2, and Battlefield 2142 needing amazing TV and movie actors.

Didnt Saint's Row star Keith David?

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Didnt Saint's Row star Keith David?

Who the hell is that lol.

 

[CriticalGaming]

Who the hell is that lol.

Go to Google, type in "keith david", get answer.

 

[BrawlMan]

Didnt Saint's Row star Keith David?

The 4th game did.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Go to Google, type in "keith david", get answer.

Yeah but, the point is not knowing who he is in the first place.

 

[CriticalGaming]

Yeah but, the point is not knowing who he is in the first place.

The problem is, he is one of those actors nobody KNOWS by name. But you know who he is if you see his face.

The 4th game did.

I thought he played a gang leader guy in 2 as well.

 

[BrawlMan]

I thought he played a gang leader guy in 2 as well.

It's been too long, I don't remember. I just know that he was really prominent in the fourth game, because he played the vice president.

 

[Dalisclock]

It's been too long, I don't remember. I just know that he was really prominent in the fourth game, because he played the vice president.

He's also Julius from the 1st and 2nd games, though he barely appears in the 2nd game and a lot of people can't/won't play the first one. I think they do make jokes about Julius and the VP sounding the same in the 4th one.

Also I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Daniel Dae Kim. He may not be a megastar but he's not a complete unknown.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

The problem is, he is one of those actors nobody KNOWS by name. But you know who he is if you see his face.

*googles* Well, I’ve definitely seen him before, but still not familiar enough to put the face to a movie. I guess I suck at people.

 

[BrawlMan]

*googles* Well, I’ve definitely seen him before, but still not familiar enough to put the face to a movie. I guess I suck at people.

Childs in John Carpenter's The Thing.
Frank in John Carpenter's They Live.
Goliath in Gargoyles.
The Black Cat in Coraline.
Dr. Facilier/Shadow Man in The Princess and The Frog.
Al Simmons/Spawn in Spawn: The Animated Series and Mortal Kombat 11.

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[Dalisclock]

Dr. Facilier/Shadow Man in The Princess and The Frog.

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Don't you disrespect him!

Also, the US President from Rick and Morty. The one implied to be Obama or NOT-Obama, I should say.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Childs in John Carpenter's The Thing.
Frank in John Carpenter's They Live.
Goliath in Gargoyles.
The Black Cat in Coraline.
Dr. Facilier/Shadow Man in The Princess and The Frog.
Al Simmons/Spawn in Spawn: The Animated Series and Mortal Kombat 11.

And probably more familiar to "the kids these days": The Arbiter in the mainstream Halo series.

 

[CriticalGaming]

He was also in "There's Something About Mary."

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Childs in John Carpenter's The Thing.
Frank in John Carpenter's They Live.
Goliath in Gargoyles.
The Black Cat in Coraline.
Dr. Facilier/Shadow Man in The Princess and The Frog.
Al Simmons/Spawn in Spawn: The Animated Series and Mortal Kombat 11.

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Ah Spawn in MK. I really need to rewatch The Thing as I don’t even remember much of it watching way back in the 80’s. Sadly I don’t think I’ve ever seen They Live so that’s on my list to watch too.

 

[BrawlMan]

Ah Spawn in MK. I really need to rewatch The Thing as I don’t even remember much of it watching way back in the 80’s. Sadly I don’t think I’ve ever seen They Live so that’s on my list to watch too.

See that you do.

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[Avnger]

I'm several hours into FC6, and there isn't much that's surprising me so far. It is a very typical Far Cry experience. I've seen others complain about the weapons and progression... and I'm not seeing a problem. You get weak weapons early in the game, you can improve them as you go along... shocking. You get better ones later, and you can improve them too. It isn't a "radically different" system than you get in a lot of games. I haven't had any problems yet... then again I'm not a speedrunner rushing into high security and late game areas with my starting weapons and crying about headshots not being instakills either. As long as you follow along and actually play at a measured pace, the balance is fine. The easiest way to deal with the "different resistances and bullet types" that people are complaining about... JUST GET THE ARMOR PIERCING ONES. Soft bullets are better against unarmored opponents... but the armor piercing ones are still plenty effective. You can get fire, poison, or explosive rounds... and there's no reason to bother. As long as you have some kind of explosives or launcher to deal with vehicles, all you ever need is to outfit guns with the armor piercing ones, and you can deal with anything.

The most surprising thing, they are not obtrusive with the microtransactions and nothing in the game has tempted me to bother with them. I really haven't seen a lot to complain about, but there isn't anything that stands out as particularly good either. Just more mindless shooting and really, that's all I expect or want out of a Far Cry game anyway. I even like the "perks" being tied to equipment change. In previous FC games you just become OP and able to do everything and the game loses all challenge pretty early on. At least in 6 you have to make a plan, outfit accordingly, and can still mess up and have to leg it if things go wrong.

This largely matches my experience. At the end of the game, my usual loadout was silenced pistol w/armor piercing, silenced sniper w/armor piercing, and assault rifle w/armor piercing (and a missile launcher on standby for tank/heli). Always aim for the head, and most enemies are down in 2 shots (1 for sniper).

My recommendation: If you liked Far Cry 5, pick up the Ubisoft+ subscription for $15 and play it till you beat it then unsubscribe. If you didn't like Far Cry 5, skip it as it doesn't do anything radically different.

 

[Kyrian007]

This largely matches my experience. At the end of the game, my usual loadout was silenced pistol w/armor piercing, silenced sniper w/armor piercing, and assault rifle w/armor piercing (and a missile launcher on standby for tank/heli). Always aim for the head, and most enemies are down in 2 shots (1 for sniper).

My recommendation: If you liked Far Cry 5, pick up the Ubisoft+ subscription for $15 and play it till you beat it then unsubscribe. If you didn't like Far Cry 5, skip it as it doesn't do anything radically different.

I generally add an SBS with the "Gut Shot" modification. At lev 2 it does more damage per shell than even the lev 3 and 4 shotguns. I haven't met anything in the game yet that can take both barrels w/o going down. I will say, I like that there are checkpoints and assaults as well as bases to take over. I go in quiet on bases, for the undetected and no alarms bonus. But for some catharsis and reward for my patience I love walking up to a guard at a checkpoint and just gutting him before gutshotting everybody else at the checkpoint out of their boots with no regard for stealth.

And I love the ultralight, with the exception of the gator tuk-tuk, the ultralight is the best Far Cry vehicle ever.

 

[BrawlMan]

Well fuck it then, I care and I'm ranking them!

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1. Far Cry 1 - This is the best Far Cry, but also not really Far Cry. Complete freedom, no real story. Just blow stuff up and run around in the Jungle I actually went back and replayed this a couple years ago because I never beat it and I thought it was great fun until the end when it kind of turned into doom with devil monsters and it gets kind of linear in the last hour of the game.

2. Far Cry 4 - Found the best balance of all things. The plot doesn't seem interesting at first, but it gets real into Indian Sky god stuff and it has a strong set of side characters that force you to go on hallucinogenic dream quests. I feel like a lot of people who think its a generic reskin of Far Cry 3 must not have played in the whole way through as it becomes quite trippy with a lot of twists and turns. I found myself exploring largely for the sake of curiosity because the Nepal like Mountainous region in game was built to entice you to explore. I wouldn't say the ending is exceptionally weak, but it does drag you around a bit and could have been 30 minutes shorter.

3. Far Cry 3 - Far Cry 3 is perfectly solid game. It felt a lot like if you took Far Cry 1 and took away some freedom for the sake of storytelling. It lacks the more immersive freedom of Far Cry 4 and 5, but the gameplay is solid. I recall problematically that while I liked the protagonist, I didn't really give a shit about his friends and that hurt the story. Its like one of those dumb teenager horror movies, but the protagonist gets their shit together.

4. Far Cry 5 - generally felt very freeing. I never felt dragged along. It gets a large pass because they did an amazing job of representing the landscape & culture of Montana. I adored the gameplay. It ranks so low because I Ultimately felt cheated by the villains. Living in Montana I've actually encountered a ton of religious, borderline terrifying, fanaticism and racism. Also I grew up in Kentucky, home of Kim Davis and an actual life size goddamn Ark and if you really wanna get creeped out google six flags over jesus, so when Far Cry 5 pulls the rug out from under you and says "Naw its just a scam" I immediately felt like Ubisoft started out with something far more insidious and disturbing, but pulled back when theyd realized they would actually offend the evangelicals who might actually have the power to affect their bottom line.

5. Far Cry 2 - Far Cry 2 is a strange animal for me. I played it while recovering from heavy duty surgery and hallucinating on morphine. I'm confident this is true - the game only has like 4 mission types. You do these same missions to unlock stuff over and over and over and theres around a hundred of them. Drive to a place snipe a guy, drive to identical place snipe a guy etc. I don't even remember the actual game missions. It felt absurdly repetitive. Worse when you defeated a roadblock, they respawn a bit later so you get to a point where you just start driving past and not bothering. Eventually as I spaced in and out from the morphine the game became a complete I haze. I just remember sniping dudes in towers. My wife came one day and thought I was just sitting on the couch watching TV, but when she looked over it was just fire. Apparently I'd spent all day just setting the grasslands on fire and sitting there watching it burn. I think they took that option out of Far Cry, I kind of miss it.

6. Far Cry 6 - My friend just showed me that when you find new guns, you dont get them immediately. You actually have to fast travel back to some base and equip them before you actually can put them in your hand. It really sucks all the life out of the gratification you get from exploring. You also get sucky guns and have wander around collecting scrap to upgrade them to useful weapons, but you need specific crap to upgrade them which means you need to actual search for crap, but its like random, which means youre not searching in some specific place on your map you just gotta wander around picking up bullshit. WHEN THE FUCK DID FAR CRY BECOME AN MMO??? This is the literally the epitome of intentionally padding your game. Creating completely unnecessary artificial grind. The game also has a a bunch of clothing and gear and other tired Tom Clancy Mechanics and microtransactions. Im sure Far Cry 5 had some of that, but I dont recall it literally making me go "Ugh I gotta do what now?" and fucking Wax over what bullets I need to equip to go do something. I also noticed you cant get instant kills on even regular dudes unless you're X level or gun or whatever. I selected action mode because I'm experienced FPS player. I play at Gold Eagle on competitive CSGO so I thought Id get actual difficulty. Maybe swarm of enemies using smart tactics. Instead its just the same bullet sponges from The Division with equally stupid AI. Im wondering if I should have chosen story, but its not that I'm looking for an easy mode. I'm looking for better design. So far the story is not drawing me in either. It takes itself way too serious. I keep praying that guy keith or whatever shows up from Far Cry 5. Its just generic movie rebels WE GOTTA KILL EL DICTATORIO VIA LIBERTO or some generic shit. Yeah I get it, let me stand here bored out of my mind while you yammer on about free elections. So much fun.

Now hows that for some "eye of the beholder" shit?

I forgot to ask: Have you ever played the console spin-offs, Far Cry Instincts, or Far Cry Instincts: Predator (360 version that comes with both campaigns from the XBOX versions)? These games are still stuck on the old consoles, but FCIP is playable on XONE and SERIES X.

 

[Piscian]

I forgot to ask: Have you ever played the console spin-offs, Far Cry Instincts, or Far Cry Instincts: Predator (360 version that comes with both campaigns from the XBOX versions)? These games are still stuck on the old consoles, but FCIP is playable on XONE and SERIES X.

Naw, I own Farcry Instincts for XBOX, but I played about 5 minutes and tossed it back on the shelf. GGMANlives did a really comprehensive review of all the ports and that was kind of enough for me. They just don't really justify the effort imo.

I keep trying to talk myself into playing all the spinoffs like Primal, blood dragon and..whatever the far cry 5 one was but I cant talk myself into it.

 

[Dalisclock]

Naw, I own Farcry Instincts for XBOX, but I played about 5 minutes and tossed it back on the shelf. GGMANlives did a really comprehensive review of all the ports and that was kind of enough for me. They just don't really justify the effort imo.

I keep trying to talk myself into playing all the spinoffs like Primal, blood dragon and..whatever the far cry 5 one was but I cant talk myself into it.

Only played Blood Dragon but if you like the idea of Neon 80's action movie cheesy up the fucking ass for 10 hours, well this is your game. Anything else you're gonna be disappointed.