I made my way through Far Cry 3 some more today. I did another one of those dream sequences and it made me walk through this trippy underwater bridge. Someone before said that they get boring, and after accidentally bugging it out and having to do it twice, i completely understand that. They are very slow and a major pace breaker.

Shortly after the drug sequence, the game gave me a flamethrower and told me to go nuts. This moment was a lot of fun and i can understand why this is the most highly praised Far Cry game. It's so tacky that you can't help but love it. The entire time there's this catchy song playing in the background and you just get to go on this power trip of burning drugs and enemies with the flamethrower. It's probably one of the best moments in this game yet.

I had a few more screenshots i wanted to share, but Lemmy doesn't seem to want to upload them, but they basically boiled down to that my only complaints are that the game is bright as fuck (like someone turned up the saturation) and that any-non essential lines sound crunched to hell. Besides that though i'm having a lot of fun with it.

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[–] paschko_mato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 3 days ago (4 children)

I will never forget burning the weed plantage, one of the best missions in gaming history for me!

Are the sequels as good as FC3? I never touched them.

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

I liked 4, it’s very much a victim of being a Ubisoft game though, as in it’s more of the same. I’d say the only difference is the setting.

5 is similarly pretty good, I feel like it removed a lot of the “Guerrilla Warfare” feel of the combat but the villain is really good and the setting is pretty solid too. I haven’t played 6 though. If I had to guess though it’s the same. More of the same.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

4 and 5 are good, 6 is a piece of trash.

[–] frigidaphelion@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Completely agree. 6 has some fun elements and really cool guns, but the enemy health system they implemented completely ruined the game and franchise (among other shitty things)

[–] Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Reasons why Ubisoft is in the shitter, facing hostility from both gamers and shareholders alike. It seems the Guillemot familly is hellbent into destroying every last shred of good will left.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

4 is very similar to 3, in my opinion. It generally ranks lower than 3, but I'd attribute that to 3 defining expectations and 4 meeting expectations rather than pulling another groundbreaking move. 3 shared some notable elements with 2 but refined the direction of FC. 2 doesn't have magic and FC enjoyers begroaned 3's supernatural element, but here we are.

5 removed the supernatural element and got some mixed feelings. I'd put some of that on the fact that they brought the white American savior trope home to America. Instead of a foreign land under a whimsical authoritarian regime the West likes to go to war with, it's a religious cult in classic Americana rural towns. It's like changing from 1990s Batman movies to the Nolan trilogy. Gritty, more realistic, closer to historical fiction than fantasy. It harks back to the 1993 Waco Massacre.

I've played 6 on and off over the last few years. I read lots of hate but still enjoyed it. It's in Cuba, so it was back to being a far-off fantasy for me, with lots of story rooted in the 1960s revolution (though the game is present day). That is until the Gaza war flared up. Suddenly the game got uncomfortable for me. You play as a terrorist group fighting the military. That's not exactly different from 4. Sure, if you win, it's a revolution, but if you lose, historical speaking, the winners call it terrorism. I suppose the story could be considered weaker, but it's a change up. Instead of basing the story on you vs the big bad, it's rooted more in the friends you make along the way. You're building a revolution as one faction gathering 3 more.

There's also 3 half-games. Between the main titles, half of the prior maps for alternate experiments. I'd wait for all the titles to be discounted but would say the halfsies need to be discounted more. Granted, they're probably all regularly under $20 now anyway.

After 3 came Blood Dragon, using one of the islands for an over the top 1980s synthwave action comedy. It has corny 80s moves in lieu of superpowers. It's fun.

After 4 came Primal, a prehistoric version of the FC formula. I think it's neat that they developed a proto-proto-indo-european language for a 10,000BC setting. Spears, slings, clubs, and knives are the weapons here with some grenade-like items. There's spiritual elements resembling living a mythology. It's also fun.

After 5, New Dawn is actually a continuation of the story. A quasi-Fallout/Mad Max post-nuke-apocalypse world in which Joseph Seed still lives - and becomes an ally. I think it brought in supernatural powers from nuclear stuff. Probably my least favorite of the 3, but still enjoyable. It also introduced a number of the elements people begroaned in 6, so maybe that's why I don't mind 6 as much.

I'm surprised there hasn't been a halfsies between 6 and, presumably, an upcoming 7. 6 does have some extra story (dlc?) that has you relive parts of the prior titles. I haven't done them nor read about them much so I can experience them myself.

[–] proceduralnightshade@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There was a similar mission in GTA San Andreas btw, I think they took inspiration from that. It wasn't nearly as cool as the FC3 one though

https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Are_You_Going_to_San_Fierro%3F

[–] chrislowles@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Probably my least favorite section of SA looking back on it, David Cross' appearance kind of makes it bearable.

[–] spicytuna62@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Far Cry 3 was absolutely a high point in the series. At least until the second half of the game. But the first half is incredible. The 2010s had some amazing video game villains. Vaas, Handsome Jack, Flowey, Father Comstock...hell, I'll even throw in Andrew Ryan and GLaDOS.

I liked Far Cry 4 and 5. I'll argue that Joseph Seed is the closest to a second Vaas the series has come. He's not as melodramatic as Vaas, but he is a solid B- villain in my book. Pretty convincing, menacing, and rooted in his beliefs. Plus, I ran co-op a lot with my wife. So lots of good memories there.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

I really didn't like how railroad-y 5 was. Mechanics and gameplay wise its great, but the forced kidnapping story formula was so bad.

I felt Jacob Seed was more compelling as a villain than Joseph. Survival of the fittest extremism in the wilderness.

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I’m a sucker for 4’s main Villain, but damn did Joseph do a really good job. I’d have to place Vaas above him though because the dude seems genuinely unhinged.

You’re right about the 2010s villains too, I really hope we get some really good ones this decade too

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Make it Bun Dem by Skrillex and Damien Marley

I'm glad you enjoyed the song. I don't know your age, but seeing that screenshot made me realize how hard it'd be to explain the popularity of dubstep and, in particular, Skrillex to anyone who wasn't there. Same goes for the immortalization of the "oh my god!" featured in Nice Sprites and Scary Monsters, screamed by the girl who stacked cups in record time. Or stacking cups. This feels like the making of an "onion tied to my belt" type of rambling story. I imagine most of this platform was there for dubstep and that the young adults today had way more internet access than I did as a kid, so it's probably not even unknown yet.

The song shuffles into my playlist sometimes and takes me back to both that game moment and the generalized memory of blasting that from my ipod nano into my grandpa's handmedown Ford Taurus with the headphone wire I hardwired into the cassette deck. If you think dubstep sounds bad now, I made it sound worse.

What a coincidence. I looked up the Key & Peele skit about dubstep. My exact generation of Taurus is involved, identified by the circular rear window. The skit is worth it on its own, of course

https://youtu.be/5Kod1q39ddE

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think I was too young to be there for Dubstep. Though I feel like I was there for stacking cups. So maybe I didn’t miss it and it was more so my internet access at the time. But damn, this song definitely made Dubstep click for me. One of the last things I did last night was add it to my music library.

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Idk, maybe I'm the one who phased out of cup stacking by being old. But still, we can't be that far off from when explaining cup stacking will sound like how I feel about pole sitting.

Skrillex is sort of the face of mainstreamed dubstep. I just learned his subgenre is brostep. The work that came before him was... Gritty. Close to the Key & Peele skit. The FC3 song is closer to common EDM.

Sierra Leone by Mt Eden is probably what I'd use as an example of the best of traditional dubstep

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 days ago

All o remember from far cry 3 is that the bow is super fun to use. I don't think i used the other weapons at all.

[–] ExtraMedicated@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Far Cry 3 was the game that got me to stop buying Ubisoft games. I enjoyed the game, but when someone invited me to an online match (something that almost never happened for me) I found that playing online required some U-Play account or whatever they called it, and it cost $10. I tried the free account code that came with the game, but my brother already used it. So at that point I was pissed. I didn't play online often, but it would've been nice to play with one of the very few friends I had without being expected to pay more money for the game I already paid for.

Fuck Ubisoft. I hope that company burns.

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Fuck. I completely forgot they used to do that bullshit thing for Multiplayer. I think I still have a card for it that came with my childhood copy of AC Revelations somewhere