Far Cry 5 Discussion

[JJ Styles]

Regarding the far cri 5 controversy, i felt my brain cells committing suicide upon reading all of the material related to it. Last year's cancer of "getting offended" seems to refuse to surrender aka calm the ?? @@@@ down

Also there is a change.org petition for the game's cancellation which i highly doubt to be serious.

 

[Hermione Granger]

Regarding the far cri 5 controversy, i felt my brain cells committing suicide upon reading all of the material related to it. Last year's cancer of "getting offended" seems to refuse to surrender aka calm the ?????? @@@@ down

Also there is a change.org petition for the game's cancellation which i highly doubt to be serious.

I'm not too bothered with the controversy since each installment I recall had some sort of one, but that petition is waste of time imo.

 

[Yukari]

Y'know, I don't get all the "controversy" surrounding this game...

For years upon years we've had games in the middle east slaughtering "extremists". When games try and break further forward or backwards in time (and this have newer equipment and a real militarized enemy) everyone seems to freak out to boot. Too futury I want to go back to boots on the ground desert storm times and there's no extremist to fight!

Now we are going to slaughter the same enemy everyone seems to never want to stop fighting, but in America and WHOA WHOA WHOA THAT'S NOT OK WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU THESE AREN'T ISLAM BASED EXTREMISTS THEIR CATHOLIC BASED EXTREMEST THIS IS SO WRONG HOW COULD ANYONE SUPPORT THE SLAUGHTER OF WHITE AMERICANS AND CATHOLICS ARE NOTHING LIKE THESE GUYS AND ARE PEACEFUL WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU ALL

It's a double edged standard. It's perfectly fine to go to war as long as its a Muslim extremest group but bring it home and the exact same thing is no longer ok.

What are others thoughts on this stuff?

Quite frankly I love the idea that this game has. It's a cult based on a bastardized version of Christianity which makes a lot of sense, really. Just like with any other religion it can be taken way too far.

The thing I like so much is that this is actually a lot more challenging. A lot of people in the west know a lot of Christians firsthand and shooting extremists based on that religion might make them uncomfortable. Not to mention that this is something we haven't seen much before and it's a lot more interesting than the enemy being "Generic brown person."

 

[JJ Styles]

And I'm glad that this subforum isn't in the same level as in NEOGAF when those people were disappointed that the enemies are not going to be conservative Christians. I mean, I didn't mind if I was going to partake in my fair share of sending the Christan Taliban to hell.

Also, from what I've read from outside sources including some cringy articles such as Polygon and FIFIMists, the common denominator among all of this is that they often point out that the this is a game that's going to be released under "Trump's America" which i'm sure that the actual USA/Americans in this subforum should have a higher and more valid opinion about.

But really, the people who are getting offended such as those "conservatives" AND feminists are overracting way too early when it should be considered that there is little info about the enemy faction. While we know their overall premise as a Doomsday Cult, we aren't sure of their political leanings and whatnot. We aren't sure of their overall character as a faction. But of cours there's always those people who lack the level of culture needed to appreciate a VIDEO GAME aka "concerned people" who love sticking up a stick up their asses.

But what I am positively sure, as a say it with a smile, I'm going to enjoy this game. I've always wanted to mow down a bunch of Cultists that resemble insanely bastardized versions of extremists Christian groups. Its a delicious change of pace from fighting the usual Far Cry Fodder, and to consider other first person shooters, the fodder of Demons, Nazis, Aliens, Bandits, PMCs, and Terrorists. ^^

 

[Hermione Granger]

I wished ubisoft would have shown more than what they did during E3 last week.

 

[Arsenic]

I wished ubisoft would have shown more than what they did during E3 last week.

They had it available to play! And I can tell you it's pretty fun. I can also tell you the majority of people there sucked at Far-Cry in general.

It plays like you'd expect, like the previous 2 games with some refinement. It also seems to have a neutered version of the buddy system in that if you bring Mary the sniper with you she can revive you once (in a lot less epic a fashion)