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Far Cry 5 Trailers: Feb 27, full 2 player co-op, custom lead, map editor, more info
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Well, the former is a given, but I don't think the specified on the latter.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Waco the game.
What would you rather have, an entire week where your game has been the biggest news, or an appearance at E3 with three to four other large games at your own conference, along with a ton of other games at other conference to boot.
Perhaps to make more time to show off the game beyond the basic premise, if I had to guess.
moerser
Member
bought.
Soldiussnaku
Member
Hoo boy customisable main character has me interested.
Going around as a bearded brown man in trump's America fucking up racists peoples shit is going to be great.
Going around as a bearded brown man in trump's America fucking up racists peoples shit is going to be great.
WordsintheWater
Member
Any word on if the protagonist is silent? I know you can create your own character, but silent protagonists especially when others interact with you is a pet peeve of mine
bonesmccoy
Banned
My guess - to make it plausible (lol, this is a Far Cry game), they'll have the US military/security forces occupied with some overseas threat. Kinda like how the war depicted in DMZ started.
This. They've stimulated interest (for most of us at least) and then will probably do a deep dive into the game - doing a play through of an area/map.
Probably going to hold it till E3.
Only reason Unity was announced early seemed to be because Kotaku leaked those alpha build screens.
Their original plan seemed like it was supposed to be announced at E3.
ScaryShark
Banned
I mean this has literally happened before in the US and the ATF/military has had to use loopholes to combat it after allowing the groups to fester for years.
Read up on the Aryan Nation/Ruby Ridge.
Neat scenario. Kudos to Ubisoft!
I'm potentially interested but I will just have to see if there is less tediousness and repetition in this game than in the usual Ubi-open-world games. Horizon: Zero Dawn had a much better balance, for example. I'd like open-world games to be kind of like that!
Also, coop is always welcome. Couch-coop would be a killer argument for me and guarantee an instant purchase.
I'm potentially interested but I will just have to see if there is less tediousness and repetition in this game than in the usual Ubi-open-world games. Horizon: Zero Dawn had a much better balance, for example. I'd like open-world games to be kind of like that!
Also, coop is always welcome. Couch-coop would be a killer argument for me and guarantee an instant purchase.
Real_Madrid
Member
Sounds good and I'm glad it's fully playable solo.
Stone Ocean
Member
Well, they seem to have nailed the setting, I'm kinda hyped
Going by the trailer racism isn't the focus of the game. Lots of people jumped the gun on that one
Yeah it was kind of weird.
keltickennedy
Member
Will there be horses?
Obliterator
Member
Yeah this game is gonna be awesome
I want to know this, too.
Fredrik
Member
Extremists or cultists seems irrelevant, any kind of christians as villains will probably not go down well in the US and many other western countries. This is a risky choice imo. It'll be controversial enough as it is.
Stiler
Member
None of them were literally going around openly killing people and taking over cities...
they held up at their own place and it usually ended in sieges like most cults and other similar things.
If they were going around, like in this trailer, and taking innocent people and killing them the the government wouldn't need "loopholes" to do anything, you'd have swat and all kinds of people ready to go.
Jack Scofield
Member
The twist is that the cult leader is actually Longinus from Far Cry 4.
Risk Breaker
Member
Papacheeks
Banned
Guess I'm in the minority that thinks this game and it's setting looks uninspired.
Axonometri
Member
I don't know about this. A religious nut job is a religious nut job. No matter what religion. I think if this game was a scenario where a leader and group of terrorist refugees who take over an area of back bone USA and start killing off Americans, raping the young girls and forcing young boys into their extremists camp... it would be a hell of a lot more controversial.
A true Christian isn't going to be offended by a story of a cult Christian whack job. It doesn't matter what side your on when someone comes for your family.. you kill or be killed.
I'm sure they will come up with some rather silly explanation. Maybe they have some crazy machine that jams all communication or something, so the people outside don't even know that it's happening.
BleedOrange
Banned
Browse The_Donald subreddit on Reddit for any amount of time and you'll learn that a lot of people don't think this way about certain religions in particular.
ScaryShark
Banned
First of all, you're arguing for 'realism' in the latest Far Cry entry.
Secondly, you don't seem to know what you're talking about. The Aryan Nation was/is a paramilitary group that has murdered, committed armed robbery and ran a large counterfeiting outfit. They've been deemed a terrorist network by several outfits.
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/aryan-nations
https://www.adl.org/education/resources/profiles/aryan-nations
The things you said if they happened, would result in immediate 'ATF backup' is more far fetched than a lot of what was actually in this trailer and the idea of what the story is. This stuff has happened and has festered for decades in these remote corners of the US.
my first thought too was "how long could they drive around in their armed pick-ups, before the national guard would show up?".
the Aryan Nation isn't killing people in plain sight of every one and drives around with guns on their cars.
this is some kind of unrealistic, but oh well.
the Aryan Nation isn't killing people in plain sight of every one and drives around with guns on their cars.
this is some kind of unrealistic, but oh well.
So totally customisable protagonist?
Highly doubtful
Ubisoft isn't trying to make people uncomfortable with their game. They want to entertain and I think it's fine for them to set that target for their games.
I'm not opposed to having more politics in games either but I can see for a big budget game made for mass market appeal making strong political statements is not in their best interest.
The Dutch Slayer
Member
This looks really fun 
Custom lead might as well not be there. It is a first person game. In the past we almost never saw the face of the MC. Even in co-op you are never going to see your character. For the story purposes they would have been better off making a definite character with defined back story. As it is they might as well make MC silent protagonist because s/he is just going to be conduit to tell the story of the three main NPCs.
Assassins Creed II and Bioshock Infinite sold well~
Garrett Hawke
Member
Agreed. Disappointing
7DollarHagane
Banned
Positioning the villains as a fanatical doomsday cult is a relief. I was really hoping the game wouldn't portray them as evangelicals or just "Christians".
We shouldn't applaud sterotyping any religion based on their extremist faction. This actually makes me way more interested in the game. I was a bit skeptical they would lean too heavy into stereotypes like far cry has a bit too much in the past.
We shouldn't applaud sterotyping any religion based on their extremist faction. This actually makes me way more interested in the game. I was a bit skeptical they would lean too heavy into stereotypes like far cry has a bit too much in the past.