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The game railroads you in the most bizarre way and it annoys the shit out of me by Rey Mysterio Jr. 03/29/2018, 10:54pm PDT
There are three regions and every region has a revolt-o-meter ala Just Cause 1-3. Each meter has four bullet points to fill up. Every time you reach a threshold the regional goon boss decides he's had enough of your shit and sends a death squad to one-shot kill you. I don't even know why they bother warning you "YOU'VE BEEN MARKED" or "YOU'RE BEING HUNTED" because there is fuck-all you can do to avoid it. I was in a freaking Spitfire dive-bombing the shit out of enemies when I got tagged with one of those tranquilizer bullets. No matter what you're doing, no matter where you are in the game you will instantly be transported to a cutscene.

It's really just such sloppy fucking storytelling that it grinds my teeth.


The story is who gives a shit - it's Far Cry material but it's super polished and to its credit it does open up faster than Far Cry 4 (and that weird pseudo-mystic White Man's Burden bullshit is gone, too). Dive-bombing silos full of fertilizer in a vintange WW2 plane with machine guns, rockets, and bombs is pretty fun. Your companion death squad is pretty fun. Hunting is fun, but not necessary at all because you can just go around digging up bunkers for 1k cash each and a lot of the fun toys get unlocked just by exploring.

But goddamn the "You've caused enough damage for one day, have 10 minutes of cutscenes" method of storytelling here is just so heavy-handed.
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Far Cry 2 was the best in the series by An open world fan 03/27/2018, 1:05pm PDT NEW
    Disagree. FC2 was very narrow and cramped. NT by Far Cry 3 was best 03/27/2018, 1:13pm PDT NEW
        Re: Disagree. FC2 was very narrow and cramped. by An open world fan 03/27/2018, 1:22pm PDT NEW
    One was the last good game. by Worm 03/27/2018, 2:03pm PDT NEW
        Re: One was the last good game. by An open world fan 03/27/2018, 2:22pm PDT NEW
            My recollection of Farcry 2 just seems pretty faulty. by Worm 03/27/2018, 8:31pm PDT NEW
    I've only played Far Cry 2 and Far Cry Classic. by Dream Cast 03/27/2018, 8:43pm PDT NEW
        Re: I've only played Far Cry 2 and Far Cry Classic. by White woman cucking you with nigger 03/28/2018, 9:48pm PDT NEW
            Might as well call them luncheon meat bucks because that's what I spend them on. by Jerry Whorebach 03/28/2018, 11:47pm PDT NEW
                Jerry is scared of n*ggers NT by White woman cucking you with nigger 03/31/2018, 4:15pm PDT NEW
                    Why did you censor one use of nigger and not the other NT by Ninja from Twitch 03/31/2018, 4:29pm PDT NEW
                        Sorry I'm new here NT by White woman cucking you with nigger 03/31/2018, 8:59pm PDT NEW
    Do you want to have xray vision, or do you want the goons to have xray vision? by Mysterio 03/28/2018, 12:04pm PDT NEW
    I bought #5. So we'll see, fellas. We'll see. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/28/2018, 8:51pm PDT NEW
        The game railroads you in the most bizarre way and it annoys the shit out of me by Rey Mysterio Jr. 03/29/2018, 10:54pm PDT NEW
            And it's got such a crappy set of endings I think Rian Johnson ghost-wrote it NT by I can see why Polygon got mad at it 03/30/2018, 9:20pm PDT NEW
                The endings of Brick and Looper were fine. Great, even. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 03/31/2018, 7:21am PDT NEW
 
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