Far Cry 5 - Where the rural Americans are the good guys and liberals go nuts

I also didn't see any ad for Far Cry 5. Mainly because i haven't watched TV in years. My laptop pretty much became my TV.

If we're talking about ads on the internet, don't remember seeing any. Because i use Adblocker.
 
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CT Phipps said:
I don't see the correlation.
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Because even with adblocker, you can still get ads on some sites. And those usually promote some game. Don't remember any promoting Far Cry 5.

Even if i watched TV, very rarely any game would get promoted where i live. Maybe the new Call of Duty every now and then.
 
Only channel I've seen FC5 adverts is on AMC. No other channels really.
 
Wow.... Oh the AI in this game. I was trying to shoot down a Reaping Van and got close enough to see the people in the back. I tried desperately to shoot the driver.... And Hurk blew it up with a Bazooka.
 
CT Phipps said:
Fun fact: Far Cry 5 has outsold all other Ubisoft games but the Division.

Which is a shame because the Division sucked.
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I'd like a source on that, but wasn't that Ghost Recon: Wildlands? It sold like damn hot cakes. As for the Division, it's not THAT bad, its skill systems are one of the best I've seen in any MMO but thr state of the game on release was pretty shitty at best. Heard it's pretty good now.

Norzan said:
Only reason the Division even sold well was because of Ubisoft's misleading marketing. Making the game too be far much better than it really is.

Plus multiplayer games from "AAA" companies tend to sell well. With some exceptions, of course.
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That's what marketing is, though. Even if it's good already you need it. Then on it's completely up to the people if to get it or not; nowadays it's REALLY hard to get completely scammed when there's pre release gameplay and Day 1 reviews and complete gameplays. Of course unless it's Bethesda where you don't know what to think because of the retarded release modus operandi, which helps the shit and buries the gold nuggets.
 

Italian rednecks are something I didn't know I needed in my life.
 
Far Cry has always been a hit and a miss. 2 came close to perfection but dropped the ball midway with the story.

This seems to be the most polished after Primal but the endings suck. Being Marked also sucked.

The apolitical thing is a blessing and a curse. It allows a breather from these trying times...but it could be seen as a cop out, unwilling to make any real stand, which might be useful to some. Especially as it's, you know, you killing scores of a religious cult. That has actually happened in America and those damn rancher-BLM standoffs are still sort of fresh.
 
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I actually forgot about that article despite having read it. Honestly this is an unassumingly incredibly huge fact to just drop:
"Digital distribution accounted for more than 50 percent of those sales."

Wow.
 
Arnust said:
That's what marketing is, though. Even if it's good already you need it. Then on it's completely up to the people if to get it or not; nowadays it's REALLY hard to get completely scammed when there's pre release gameplay and Day 1 reviews and complete gameplays. Of course unless it's Bethesda where you don't know what to think because of the retarded release modus operandi, which helps the shit and buries the gold nuggets.
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True, but Ubisoft is pretty much the king of overhyping their games to absurd levels. So much that they are now infamous for their misleading previews.
 
Norzan said:
True, but Ubisoft is pretty much the king of overhyping their games to absurd levels. So much that they are now infamous for their misleading previews.
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I'm not sure what you even mean with overhyping, but downgrades are indeed a good point. Albeit since they got severly burned by Watch Dogs', they seem to have pretty much given up on that as also part of their slow crawl back to earning people's respect especially when compared to the other AAA firms. The Division also had it but it ws painfully obvious how each new preview stepped down further and further. I'd say it kind of makes sense that fidelity decreases the further tested it is with the two fold benefit of having more enticing non-bullshot advertising material. Honestly, I'll rather take still game footage over yet another fucking CGI trailer that means absolutely nothing and is selling smoke, but people seem to be WAY happier with those. See: Last E3's Beyond Good and Evil reveal.
 
Danuis said:
Far Cry has always been a hit and a miss. 2 came close to perfection but dropped the ball midway with the story.

This seems to be the most polished after Primal but the endings suck. Being Marked also sucked.

The apolitical thing is a blessing and a curse. It allows a breather from these trying times...but it could be seen as a cop out, unwilling to make any real stand, which might be useful to some. Especially as it's, you know, you killing scores of a religious cult. That has actually happened in America and those damn rancher-BLM standoffs are still sort of fresh.
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It's also bullshit because this is an adaptation of the Waco-FBI siege (the same way Far Cry 4 was loosely based on the Nepalese Civil War), one of the events which led to the Oklahoma City Bombing. That's an immensely political thing as it's one of the biggest failures of the FBI in its history.

It's just not about Trump or Nazis so people who SHOULD have strong political opinions on the subject don't care.

Wtf, people.

Speaking as a rural liberal, I feel offended on behalf of both.
 
The only issues I have with this game are the endings. To me, the endings were pure ending DLC bait and I for one am getting really sick of it. When I first heard about the game I thought, "Oh cool so the setting is in rural America where the bad guys are Jim Jones, Davidians and FLDS like cultist with the good guys being rural working class Americans? This peaked my interest."
I also like that Ubisoft came out and pretty much said that the game is apolitical and is not the Trump supporter killing, Antifa simulator that the game journalist were hoping it would be. But despite the good will that Ubisoft garner they just couldn't help but make a DLC bait ending. This wouldn't be the first time that Ubisoft has done this but its really disheartening none the less. Just because Bethesda did it once and it worked for them after the backlash they got for Fallout 3 ending doesn't mean that game developers should make the effort to make ending DLC. Its really scummy and makes the game incomplete.
 
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RangerBoo said:
The only issues I have with this game are the endings. To me, the endings were pure ending DLC bait and I for one am getting really sick of it. When I first heard about the game I thought, "Oh cool so the setting is in rural America where the bad guys are Jim Jones, Davidians and FLDS like cultist with the good guys being rural working class Americans? This peaked my interest."
I also like that Ubisoft came out and pretty much said that the game is apolitical and is not the Trump supporter killing, Antifa simulator that the game journalist were hoping it would be. But despite the good will that Ubisoft garner they just couldn't help but make a DLC bait ending. This wouldn't be the first time that Ubisoft has done this but its really disheartening none the less. Just because Bethesda did it once and it worked for them after the backlash they got for Fallout 3 ending doesn't mean that game developers should make the effort to make make ending DLC. Its really scummy and makes the game incomplete.
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I wish it was a DLC bait ending but none of the DLC look to be related to the ending.

Mind you, the only time I've ever seen it done was by accident (Broken Steel) and Dead Rising 4.
 
CT Phipps said:
I wish it was a DLC bait ending but none of the DLC look to be related to the ending.

Mind you, the only time I've ever seen it done was by accident (Broken Steel) and Dead Rising 4.
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Ubisoft did this one before with their Prince of Persia reboot. I also believe that Capcom did this with one of their games as well too. This is one of the reasons why I wait until GOTY editions for games to come out and be on sale before I buy it. You just can't trust triple A studios anymore.
 
Lal, peoples meltdowns over this was the sole factor of making me go buy it, and as usual, I can see nothing worth melting down over. I sneak around the bush shooting baddies. That's what I do in every single game anyway

It goes right back to the whole "outrage culture" in general, where everything causes outrage instead of a mere reaction... If people react with 100% outrage to news about a war atrocity or a terrorist act, then react with another 100% of outrage to a defective yo-yo they bought or some shit, don't they comprehend that they are actually sabotaging their own neural pathways? That they are conditioning their own brain to just fall a-fucking-part!? That's also why nobody gets jokes anymore, everyone's just so intelsely wired, just shaking with rage, looking for something to explode at, and if it's not a recent game, then it's their sneakers or their cat or crumbs between the sofa pillows, see even I'm outraged now, I hate people more and more, and I allready hated people 20 years ago

*pant pant*

But yeah, amusing game... I sneak around popping baddies, it's fun. I tried FC2 and Primal respectively, some times ago, but I wasn't really prepared for the play style, so I dismissed them, especially FC2 kind of prematurely, shoulda given it more of a chance I guess
(I think I expected more RPG, possibly cus a friend kept trying to sell it to me as an RPG)
 
zegh8578 said:
Lal, peoples meltdowns over this was the sole factor of making me go buy it, and as usual, I can see nothing worth melting down over. I sneak around the bush shooting baddies. That's what I do in every single game anyway

It goes right back to the whole "outrage culture" in general, where everything causes outrage instead of a mere reaction... If people react with 100% outrage to news about a war atrocity or a terrorist act, then react with another 100% of outrage to a defective yo-yo they bought or some shit, don't they comprehend that they are actually sabotaging their own neural pathways? That they are conditioning their own brain to just fall a-fucking-part!? That's also why nobody gets jokes anymore, everyone's just so intelsely wired, just shaking with rage, looking for something to explode at, and if it's not a recent game, then it's their sneakers or their cat or crumbs between the sofa pillows, see even I'm outraged now, I hate people more and more, and I allready hated people 20 years ago
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What has changed is the integrity of journalism. Media companies know that sensationalizing things makes them more money, so they do it constantly regardless of the consequences.

Irresponsible, greedy, and careless. Everything has become the fucking tabloids.
 
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