Bonus Sin The characters spend the entire game calling Castillo a fascist (although technically he's just a despot with no ideology) but the LEADER OF THE RESISTANCE turns out to be a fan of Pedro Albizu (a guy who by definition was ideologically a fascist). And she commits this sin literally in her introduction.
He does sort of put the nation before anything else, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state, and nothing but the state does apply to his actions like not giving viviro to America and crushing rebels with chemical weapons.
@@chriskopp1361 and all the people his soldiers kill at the beginning? All the people his nephew raped and tortured? Not all of them are rebels. The orphans the doctor brags of manipulating and torturing? As the leader the buck stops with him.
Since when was Pedro Albizu a fascist? He was a nationalist more than anything. And he was a LAWYER. How does a lawyer have a fascist ideology when that ideology roots itself in autocracy, military persecution, and a dictatorship at the helm of it?
The single advertisement I saw for this game made me think we would play as the son. Which would have been far more interesting story wise than playing as some random orphan.
Same here & I have a theory: This was the direction the story was originally going to go in. I think this because Ubisoft is constantly switching things up during development of their games.
@@venmosh4822 It's actually more what game developers do actually. They release teasers so they can see what is a possibility. People are too self centered about their opinions and it shouldn't matter what it looks like or anything. Games like this is supposed to challenge the mind and capability to adapt and switch techniques. These Far Cry games are more strategic knowledge games
@@AJ-jq3hm yeah but it doesn't help when he just murders everybody he sees in front of the protagonist so that was his failure and all these characters failures
@@chiapets2594 understandable. On a side note, and I've said this same thing many times under many videos/threads.. Wtf is up with these plastic looking characters' facial animations with current ubisoft games? I played ac unity some time back and facial animations looked absolutely fine. Yet, the current ones look so damn stiff. Half life 2 in 2004 had better animations than this. Focusing on any character's face in cutscenes , it feels as if there was no budget spent on facial movement at all. This jarring effect is less pronounced in Valhalla but its still there nonetheless.
@@AJ-jq3hm Did you know they actually were going to give people a campaign allied with Pagan Min and his forces, but the game was rushed, so they could not add it?
What I specifically like about Vaas is that his character wasn't a Ubisoft creation. It was mostly the actor doing his best. So, the best part about the best Far Cry they have put out isn't even their work, it's just ONE DUDE.
I heard the game sent emails to players who stopped playing, mocking them for letting Castillo win. It sounds a little psychotic, especially when you look at how pointless the ending is with almost everyone dying.
@@dakotakulha8376 Why do you attack anyone who makes even the slightest criticisms of the game? Aren't you supposed to respect players' diverse mindsets, you happy pills-chugging shill.
Ubisoft seems to lack understanding of nuance. Their concept of moral ambiguity involves turning everyone into one or two dimensional caricatures, with the second dimension being whether or not the caricature is sociopathic enough to crack a joke after they shoot someone in the head. Or whatever their gender/racial identity is, because in their eyes, representation boils down to "Hey, did you know I'm *insert racial/gender identity here*, okaybai!" And they will exhibit no other character trait beyond that and being annoying NPC's to do missions/escort for. Hard to take any character seriously when the only people who are capable of being empathized with are the damn slaves getting tossed around like cattle. Ubisoft needs to learn that placing every character in your world at the extreme ends of the morality alignment chart doesn't automatically create a grey zone between them. In fact, it creates a vacuum of nuance & makes the player not want to partake. Which is the best way to play this game: by not playing.
The same problem that exists in Ubisoft exists in all companies everywhere: They do not want or care to innovate. As long as you're willing to buy any piece of merchandise they pump out they will gladly sell you the exact same thing over and over again even until it stops being profitable because innovation takes time, money, originality, and the ability to accept feedback and recognize when you've hit the wall. And companies would rather do as little as possible to reap the maximum amount of profits they can with doing said little as possible.
This is a great comment. Ubisoft seems to want to incorporate moral ambiguity, but they are really lost on how to accomplish it. After far cry 4, almost all the characters have been unlikable or confusing.
I liked Pagan Min. I tought he was very funny. And he actually explains it well of how/why he became the way he did (depending on your choice during intro/his mountain)
And unlike Vaas he was the main villain and constantly in contact with you the entire time, making him have a much greater presence in the story. Hell, 4 managed to do the whole "black black morality" thing better.
Yeah, too bad the game demotes him to a prank caller as soon as his opening section is up, and doesn't become a presence in the story again until almost the very end.
Also something the game never acknowledges is that the rebels blew up the Viviro factory sending a huge cloud of that poison in the sky that would contaminate the entire island. Looks like Lorenzo and Anton were right, they really are "terroristas". Of course, neither the game nor the character acknowledge an act of bioterrorism that would realistically cause one of the most catastrophic chemical leaks in history and praises you as a hero instead. On top of that you blow up Yara's whole oil supply in the next mission and sink a cargo ship full of those chemical weapons, contaminating the ocean as well. So in the end Yara is left with no oil supply, no vision, even worse poverty, an ecological and humanitarian disaster for decades to come and the ones in charge are a bunch of psychotic entitled rappers, college students and a psychotic farmer. Yeah. The country is royally fucked.
I'm glad finally someone said it "any time Ubisoft gets even a small whiff of something getting a sliver of approval, they go all out on it and it's in every subsequent game". That's one of the overlooked or understated things when people make game critiques that really pisses me off about game companies, especially Ubisoft.
"Hey did you know Murica racist!?" this is like 15 lines of dialogue in the game. I really wish the regime was strictly fascist or Communist and that the CIA was more heavily involved rather than just hinted at while one guy is Canadian.
Literally the one time they don't have the CIA guy is the one time where him being there actually makes sense it could have maybe had something to say about American involvement in the global South
I was hoping Castillo would win the whole time. I find it impossible to support an army of Reddit users trying to destroy a revolutionary cancer treatment.
Honestly, after that dumb as dirt concert mission, I was hoping for a point where Dani says screw it and books it to Miami while all the other morons get themselves killed.
Honestly, by the sheer ignorance, disregard and psychopathy the guerrilas acted throughout the entire game, I thought there'd be a point where Castillo would monologue to Dani about how insane they are. Then Dani would go to Clara and Clara would like shoot a baby and they'd battle to death. But no. The resistance is fucking brutal and homocidal. Like when they hang the general woman, that scene was... Disturbing to say the least. And they're suppose to be the good guys and you're apparently not suppose to question this 'cause the game itself never does
first of all, im pretty sure the game implies the 'cancer treatment' is pseudoscience snake-oil. It makes you pee purple. Is that healthy? Second of all, why is the resistance redditors? Is it because one of them is trans?
My main problems are that Diego died and one of the reasons I wanted this game was because Ubisoft said there was a city in this game I thought that city was Esperanza. That was the main thing keepin me playing I wanted to liberate Esperanza and explore the city and find chests and new quests to do but after I beat the game literally nothing fuckin changed. Still crawling with soldiers it feels like all the effort and time I put into it was completely wasted. the closest thing I saw to a city was a medium sized town I forgot the name and location. Every Far Cry game does this I really did think they were going to change this time I’m probably done with far cry. Sorry about the horrible punctuation I’m on mobile I’m done fixing my comment.
I didn’t finish the game, but didn’t farcry 5 end in the whole state getting nuked and apparently the main villain was “right”…which also somehow makes the hero of the game suddenly the bad guy for daring to defend the locals of Montana from crazy cultist committing brutal crimes on people? “Oh no you killed bad people in defense of innocent people? that must mean your a violent protagonist that loves killing. Im just the villain that is trying to help people and prove a point…by using violence against innocent people” Then again I never finished the game, so maybe I’m speaking lies.
@@anotherrandomguy8871 There are two endings + one secret ending at the beginning but i don't know what the differences exactly are because i was completely stoned when i played the game and can't remember a thing...
"Whaaaaat you mean people don't buy games for the sole reason we spent insane money on actors guild members for voices? Preposterous!" - The AAA industry and some indies who have the really bad idea to burn most of their budget on high status voice talent
They did us and Carlos so wrong. If you're trying to go for a heroic death at least give Carlos something that makes sense instead of makes him look stupid in his last moments.
@@antoniobrown247 the funny thing is that Cuba exists in the far cry universe, so I'm wondering if Castro was a chill guy running Cuba while Yara fell to shit.
@@moonlightwarriorgaming743 I think Yara is meant to basically be a politically-flipped Cuba, so instead of having a Castro yelling about the class struggly, you have an Anton yelling about moral degradation of society and how the Covid virus is fake news. Also, Canada is cool for working with them.
25:12 Also, Castillo got his dates wrong. Slavery is older than the U.S., and European colonies (not just British) in the Americas had slave labor working sugar and tobacco plantations. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, another Ubisoft game, taught me that!
@@HaterzMD unironically this. The M9 with AP rounds an a suppressor carried me through the entire game, thing could one shot heavies if you aimed for the head, broken tactic.
@@reddeaddude2187 It's not difficult at all to predict what will happen in a Ubisoft game anyway if you've played their other titles. Almost all the games they make are the same open world structure with the same gameplay elements and the same plot structures and mission designs. Also, the whole "prediction" thing is meant to be a joke reflecting on how Ubisoft keeps making the exact same games over and over again. Far Cry 6 is not an exception.
Nah, Far Cry 4 had a very unique setting, a memorable villian, and a very introspective narrative for its beginning and ending, in regarding its secret ending. The only thing its missing is less busywork and the Pagan Min allied storyline!
im fairly certain the "walk away" ending of 5 was the canon one and new dawn served solely as an expansion pack marketed as a game (why it wasnt full price) to shut up people whining that you couldnt "win" against joseph
Forgot to mention how the boat they left on at the beginning of the game traveled for maybe 5 minutes before getting ambushed and some how dani and much of the rest of the ship as well as its passengers all ended up on the exact opposite end of the map. I dont know how ocean currents work very well but i dont see how that could've happened. They had to have circled around half the map
Sin 17: There is 0 point in Julio blindfolding Dani. Where she's standing, not only is Clara's camp visible, it is a steps from where she's standing. Sin 18: Yeah, I'm still not sure why Clara wants Dani to get Juan. In the mission briefing it outright says he just fucked off after the failed operation. Sin 26: They don't even do that. If you go back to the island, the ships are still there, completely intact. Sin 27: I actually liked Clara's character. Smart, knew what she wanted, knew what it would cost her, and knew the consequences of her actions. It's just a shame that she eventually contracted the stupidity disease that infected every single major character in this game. Sin 39: It's even funnier when you remember that Carlos is dying from cancer. The guy wants us to destroy the only means to save his life lol (and yes, I am aware that he'd rather die than accept help from anyone, but it's still stupid.) Sin 52: No they don't. Especially since the explosion shouldn't have happened because Jose's mouth is stopping the grenade from working. Sure they pulled the pin, but the handle is still being held down by Jose's mouth, meaning it won't explode. Sin 54: Don't get me started on how fucking useless Maximas Mantanzas was. Good god I hate them. All the revoluitionaries in this game are pretty stupid, but they take the cake. Also Sun 54: They left a note at the fort indicating where they were going and then left an actual trail to Camp Maximas. Sin 55: One of the best characters in the game. Bicho is useless, knows he's useless, and doesn't pretend to be anything BUT useless. Sin 72: This argument between Talia and Paolo is...something. First off, Paolo made it very clear to us (Dani) that the second his debt to Bembe was paid off, him and Talia were gonzo. So I don't know why Talia is saying he's all of a sudden against Libertad. Actually I take it back, I do know why she's saying that. She's only saying that because she made the revolution all about her. All of Yara's problems, she has made about herself, and so if you disagree with her, you're either racist or misogynistic. Sin 90: 1. The antibiotics are stuff he could walk into any pharmacy to grab. 2. They're found at checkpoints for some reason. 3. THERE IS ONE CHECKPOINT LESS THAN 1 KILOMETER FROM HIS CLINIC! AND IT'S ONE THAT DANI HAD LIBERTATED EARLIER (at least in my game)! Why can't he take the 5 minute walk to grab them himself? Sin 99: Up until Dani told you, you had 0 idea that the legends of '67 were up on that mountain Jonron. Sin 102: I love how Castillo admits that he'd rather tick the diversity and inclusive card that actually have someone more qualified for the job of ADMIRAL FOR THE YARAN NAVY Sin 103: And let's not forget, Karlito is sitting outside, uncovered, and exposed to the elements. Forget the fact that the FND didn't remove the engine or it's weapons, the fact that it's able to function without problems is also sin-worthy. I will also say, I'm surprised you didn't sin the game for having Dani create an ecological disaster in order to shut down McKay's operations.
As a writer, this game pissed me off so much. And as a gamer, this game made me so bored, I played for five hours and then set the game down and never played it again.
The main villain will be played by Bryan Cranston because it’s a trend for this franchise to borrow actors from another franchise to make it interesting.
I wonder what you could even do to far cry to make it feel new. Make it a drastically different thing like the switch from 1 to 2? Maybe return the game mechanics from 2, like inworld map and gun durability, but make the game actually tolerable to play?
At this point, why doesn't Ubisoft just remake Far Cry 3 every time they want to release a new game? Just update the graphics and touch up the gameplay a bit. Everyone else releases the same game every other year, there's less work, and it's clearly what they want to do which becomes more and more apparent with every release.
idk is that fair? this one is quite different. I will say though Ubisoft pandered to the wrong crowd, as the Far Cry base doesn't care about what they think matters most
If they did, people would start to notice that Vaas was only about 50% of the game, and that it still wasn't fun. In fact, Far Cry 3 aged kind of poorly, and is really hard to go back to for anyone who hasn't played it back then.
32:19 Interestingly, a museum T34 was used in a protest in 2006. The driver was an ex military tank driver who knew that the tank had an emergency engine starter. Still doesn't explain the live rounds, though.
No one blamed Jaun for getting clara shot. The whole end scene I was waiting for Dani to mention it. Even tho Clara sat on her ass for the whole game and only stopped by for a quick "hello", (Ubisofts in game reminder that she exists), no one brought up her death or the cause.
Yeah I wondered the whole game if they were leading up to Clara being another one of El Presidentes kids or if she was a CIA plant or a secret traitor or something. She was pretty pointless the whole game
The underlying themes are actually discussion worthy in the game. But the ending was "you always do all of this for nothing". I think the best ending is the boat ending
One of the things I could never stand about this game, was the fact that it seems like Dani is permanently filthy. Even the "Hidden Ending" has her looking in desperate need of a shower.
What pissed me the most was when concert lady took propaganda lady hostage on live television. Her aim was to gain sympathy and support for the rebels, but she does just the opposite. She could have confronted the propaganda lady about the use of slave labor, human experimentation, executions, and concentration camps. No instead she gets into a yelling match about being sent to an academy that tried to take away her creativity. In the yelling match she executes the lady on live TV. This would prove to everyone who watched the video that the rebels are nothing more then terrorists, and their support would drop across the globe. Foreign countries would be incentivized to help Castillo put down the terrorists as a terror group plunging a country that produces cancer treatment dugs into chaos is against most foreign countries interest. There’s no consequences in game for this.
The thing that i hate from a lot of games is that we can never be the villain of the game. We always have to be an strong independent man/woman that came out of nowhere and destroys an entire army by itself with no explanation other than "i MuSt PrOtECt EVeryBody!1!1" In far cry 6 i thought that we were going to be the main villain of the game and destroy the opposition along with Giancarlo Esposito. Maybe in the end we can stop ourselves from doing bad things and help the "heroes" But nooooooooo we need strong independent orphan that speaks English but actually speaks Spanish or whatever Also, people from USA needs to understand that if a character for example speaks Spanish, they should speak Spanish to the people that speaks Spanish too (like Javier in red dead 2 when he got captured in Guarma), not mixing it with the English language because that makes me feel like I'm playing with a dumb ass that speaks English to Spanish people in a disgusting and exaggerated spanglish tone, like I'm making fun of them and the Spanish language
Meh, they do point out, Juan in particular, that Dani isn't isn't in this for more than the thrill of war. That's why Dani doesn't stay at the end, they want to go and have more adventures...like Juan or Willis.
The entire game feels like what 30 year old dumbasses in california think a revolution is like, these types all have the same style, characters can never ever speak full english if they understand a second language, one or the other, Its not the end of the world but its noticeable and annoying, I've met spanish people, I've met mexican people, they might greet me in spanish but the conversations are purely in english, its probably some dumbass "MUH REPRESENTATION" on their end when they right like that, it doesn't feel natural, I'd rather the whole game be in spanish if anything
I love the Elder Scrolls as you are literally allowed to be any playstyle, only use your bare fists -yes, or you want to be a bloodthirsty vampire necromancer assasin-Yes
38:02 The endings of Far Cry 4 already taught me the futility of playing their games, so that's why I didn't play Primal, 5, New Dawn, or 6. Didn't see that one coming, did you, Ubisoft?
@@louisduarte8763 Even if you play through to the end of the game the ending is a good one. Pagan never really wanted to kill you and takes you to where your sister is so you can leave the ashes and then GIVES you a country and leaves. I mean, as far as endings go, that one isn't half bad. All he takes is the "fucking helicopter".
@@jimthar17 "never really wanted to kill you"? Did he, just, not tell any of his soldiers who shoot me on sight that? Some leader. But yeah, I watched my brother play up to that part, and it let him shoot an explosive arrow at Min's chopper after putting the ashes away, killing him. In my playthrough, when I pulled a gun on Pagan in his palace's dining room, I pulled R2 to see what would happen, and I shot him. Like, "Holy shit! I can't believe the game let me do that!" But I also remember having to schlep back up the mountain to the palace, to get to the tomb, the only way to read Mohan Gale's final journal entry.
Am I the only one who found it ironic that this Far Cry game was in-part made by Ubisoft's Toronto Studio, while you fight a Canadian businessman in this game?
That's usually a good warning sign for anything nowadays: if you're bombarded with trailers promoting a thing for months and then hear absolutely nothing from anyone who cared about the thing when it's finally out, just run.
I saw one ad for it a year ago then nothing. When it came out, I already figured it was bottom of the barrel trash since they didn't even market it very much
13:20 - Jesus Christ! That map is too big. If this was Just Cause or something, I'd understand the size because there's always something to do but Far Cry games with big maps gets very unfocused. It's why I'm glad that after the Nuke fell, New Dawn sized down Far Cry 5's map. I'm glad you're doing this video, Dartigan. You saved me a ton of money. 😀
I actually really liked the post-apoclayptic world of New Dawn, and I have been thinking of a sequel game for a hypothetical "New Dawn 2" However, I know that if I actually pitched it to Ubisoft, they would give me so many terms and conditions, my vision for the story would be unrecognizable by the end. Long story short, it was intended to follow the surviving teens from Far Cry 3, which we mine as well call Far Cry 1 at this point.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 I liked the post apocalyptic world too and to be honest I really wanted them to continue the Far Cry series in that world. 😢 New Dawn was so fun to explore and compare after exploring the regular version in FC5. I know New Dawn was supposed to be what Primal was to FC4 like a side story game but New Dawn actually felt like Far Cry 6 continuing on Far Cry 5 , there was so much potential especially with it being included in the Splinter Cell universe and potentially Watch Dogs 2 with the inclusion of San Francisco and while it would mean turning all the Ubisoft library into Post Apocalypse adventures... I'd be pretty much okay with that to be honest. Your idea sounds quite cool but yeah you're right, if you pitched it, Ubisoft would twist and turn it to unrecognizable content.
Which still doesn't fix much. You're still left with a cult that has taken over AN ENTIRE COUNTY and has caused probably tons of damage. Even if you leave, and kill all of your buddies in a fit of rage, the main character can still come back to normalcy after the song ends and would've surely let everyone know of what is happening. And if the National Guard would come storming in Hope County I'm certain Joseph would've detonated the nuke. So it technically has to happen either way which once again still puts the FC series into a major corner.
There is a hidden ending where if you wait for 15 minutes, Joseph Seed stops fighting and says "I've lost. You truly are the Dragon Warrior." And then he drops dead.
I'm probably gonna get alot of hate for saying this but.....Vaas wasn't that interesting of a villain. All he ever does is "have I ever told you the definition of insanity? It's doing the exact same thing over and over expecting a different outcome" but how many times could he have killed you only to "leave" thinking you had no way to escape. I never liked Vaas as a character and the fact they brought him back as a DLC made me just roll my eyes. Honestly? I'm kinda glad I stopped playing far cry games after 4.
What i find really funny is how, despite Cuba havign been crippled by the US blockade (a blockade that is still going on today for no reason), the game never really tries to say the US are partly to blame for Yara's current situation. Nevermidn that a revolutionary overthrowing the communist regime like Castillo did would have been *showered* in US and CIIA support for his revolution, so the blockade would have ended as soon as he got into power.
Ubisoft didn't know if they wanted to make the Castillo regime an US backed dictatorship or a communist former soviet puppet state so they made it both so no one would be offended.
Right because Cuba doesn’t have the whole of the rest of the world to trade with. It’s totally not just that Cuba was ruled by a despotic imbecile and has a lack of highly valued natural resources or technology production.
Dartigan, years passed and your content gets better than CinemaSins. I remember you were taking the CinemaSins template back then but now you're did a far better job than them. Sad that Algorithm is not as kind. We need this kind of unique content for game reviews as this is not only funny but also spot on for purchasing considerations.
@@N0pr0fit Literally just like listening to Squidward moan for 39 minutes. He's got a lot in common with Cinemasins in that Dartigan and Jeremy both think they're witty and funny but they're not
I lost it when they said they call the chemical “The poison”, Yeah no shit, it’s a pesticide, it kills shit, “We call Pg42, the poison, cause it fucks you up”, it’s just such an awful line
If you think about it guard/soldier AI is pretty easy to make. If they see a body make them radio for help. If they know where you’ve been last time make them surround the place and slowly close in simultaneously. If you’ve barricaded yourself in a room make them frag the room. It is not space engineering.
No, but also yes, there's literally an entire engineering title to coding programs, and that also includes games, it's not as easy as to write "if X sees Y, it will do Z" and yes, Ubisoft has a team that already works on that, and I'm not excusing them, I'm just trying to say that it's a little annoying to see people underestimating how hard it is to code a game's AI
"It's like you forget that I'm trans!" No Paolo, we really didn't. The game has been explicitly pushing that as this video says. The first thing you mentioned when you and Dani were alone together, the mission involving your surgeries as stated by the surgeon, not to mention your entire character motivation is basically "I'm trans". Oh and let's not forget the TH-camrs who basically celebrate Paolo for being a trans DJ, and basically calling anyone who's pointing out this little fact a transphobe. It's like Ubisoft KNEW this would happen.
I’m necroposting to point out that they could’ve just made the character trans and mention it once (like an actual trans person would) and it would be so genuinely less damaging than to handle it the way they did. But I don’t doubt they did it on purpose.
11:39 I find it weird that Far Cry repeated the same story about violent revolutions even though they said all they needed to about in the 4th game. 13:07 I also don't get the point of those secret endings that negate the point of playing the games as they were designed (then again, were they cries for help from overworked developers?). Especially if they accidentally made the villains look like they were right. But then again, I don't think Ubisoft's writers get politics.
If you think the Villain was right that says many bad things about you. You obviously did not pay attention to the evidence in game of what they were really doing and only bought into Castillo's boastful speeches. Makes me wonder who you vote for in reality also.
@@violabeaumont3758 I did not say the villain of FC6 (which I didn't play) was right. I said the story writers of FC's 4 (which I did play) & 5 (which I didn't) suggested THOSE games' villains were right.
@@louisduarte8763 Joseph Seed was a disgusting psychopath who created a self fulfilling prophecy. I would not say that made him 'Right' either. As far as the Pagan goes I cannot say much on him, as I did never play Far Cry 4.
Holy shit... and I thought Ubisoft games couldn't get any shittier after AC:Odessy... Poor Giancarlo Esposito. That man deserves FAR better than this. The marketing campaign with him was a million times better and more enjoyable than the game itself. At this point I'm just happy that the only connection I had with Ubisoft games in the past few years is through videos like this one. :'D
So as a 20 dollar purchase this was a good game to get into. I mostly liked exploring for weapons and gear and the fluid combat. I do not like that moves that were once unlocked through leveling up are now tied to equipment pieces, as multiple moves are relegated to the same equipment type making for an either or scenario that makes things more frustrating than intriguing. One of the highlights for me was the Stranger Things mission that has you helping a Russian woman that is clearly supposed to be like 11.
The slave argument doesn't hold a lot of weight in my opinion - IF the treatment is guranteed effective to cure cancers of any type; most of those countermeasures you mentioned are widely variably less effective, or require a good deal of money/pain and a gamble as to whether they will work. My aunt, my blood grandmother, and my Mom probably wouldn't have liked the idea that the treatment was grown by slave labor (the root of the word is "Slavic" according to Thomas Sowell - so as a racial point it's not a great fit in all cases either) If any of those three could have been guaranteed to be saved from what they'd gone through in treatment considering one died of breast cancer when my Mom was 15; one died of complications to misdiagnosed ovarian cancer at 41 and Mom had it twice but survived because she was willing to sacrifice her breasts (and was lucky enough to catch it quickly both times) If I could save my sister from that concern or my daughters or hers, should we have them some day, from that... I don't give a fuck who made it. I'd get it for them. It's less a question of morals than they want it to be. For a whole lot of people, it's a question of preventable scars, and actual survival. Heck in Saints Row 4 they present you with Cure Cancer, or End world hunger. Guess which one I took. One is a problem we can solve with effort, a bit of sacrifice in work and overall human compassion. The other can happen to literally ANY cell in the body, of every freaking type. At any random point. So which is the bigger problem?
I bought this game to support Giancarlo Esposito. One of my favorite actors since i was a kid. I maybe finsihed a 3rd of this game and never played it again. Giancarlo, proformed amazing but other characters, task, open world, bases, ect was so old and ran down i couldn't finish the game
I love how the game plays the fact the trans dude was expelled from the academy as nonsense, but instead you’d know that hormone treatment, testosterone and all the other mental complications would obviously make him unfit for service.
Whats tragic is that if you really look into the far cry games, you can tell that there really are some genuinely talented people working on this series but all too often it gets swept under far cry's more undesirable aspects.
The removal of any kind of levelling is baffling. I never felt like I was progressing because I could already do most everything, and the perks tied to clothing felt very un-noteworthy. Same with a lot of the weapons; I only got joy from maybe 3-4. If adventuring yields such lackluster treasures, what's the point of even exploring?
The first time I came across paulo and it started rabbiting on about being trans my initial response was "why should I care?", after the 50th time I actually said "I wish I could feed you to the crocodiles".
Great video as always. However, as a history buff, I have to point out, the first ever handgun and first ever cannon invented were both in Song Dynasty China. Europeans only started to further develop them after the Mongols took it over there in the 13th century.
Thanks for taking this grenade for us, Dart. I’m excited to see how the DLC campaigns for Vaas and Pagan Min (my favourite villain!) play out. I wish we could get full-blown games featuring these two….
@L I haven't played them, but from what I can tell, they're the same games. You play as the villain, going around an island with themes to the game it was from, respectively. This sounds cool, however it's a treasure hunt looking for 3 pieces of a puzzle to complete the main game. The ending is also lackluster, with just a wave upon wave system of enemies. If it was up to me, I'd play Vaas' DLC since he's the most memorable, and not play anymore.
I'll admit that I agree with a lot of the points made, especially about the ending, it was just really disappointing overall. Honestly though I did enjoy the rest of the game, it was a fun experience. Not a fantastic or completely enthralling experience, but it was fun for what it had. I am a glass half-full kinda person though so that might have something to do with why I think this way.
The saddest sin about Far Cry games is that it's like their telling you not to play their games when there are endings where not doing anything is actually the better ending. And i honestly WANTED the secret ending to Far Cry 4 to be an alternate path where you destroy the golden path and help pagin min. But instead it was just a weird homage to the song "Should I Stay or Should I go" funny but i expect you to follow through on that shit. This trend got even worse with Far Cry 5 when all the endings result in nuclear annihilation or your character getting brainwashed as opposed to buying a full price game for the best ending to happen in the first 15 minutes of the game resulting the rest nigh unplayable. And now this game tries to say walking away from the revolution was so bad it tries to guilt you into playing the full game only to find walking away was the better ending. Just stop making this series if the tagline is "Play the full game for the worst ending!"
This game was comically bad, "Were fighting a war against one of the worst tyrants in history, lets break into his house and throw a bitching party. That'll learn him..."
7:16 this observation was so fucking accurate and the whole change weapon aspect so annoying that they gave up on it, the change ammo type thing, that they let you do it on the fly like less than a year later with a patch. Here's hoping they learned something for FC7
Well the agriculture part you contradicted yourself on. You said this place served as Cuba, so the blockade would be in place. That would stop the farms from having that new high tech equipment you talked about, you always pad the sin count lol
Its not that the FC5 ending was 'swept under the rug', just the canonical ending is the secret ending, where Rook never tried to arrest Joseph and walked away at the start. The apocalypse never happened. New Dawn is a 'what if' spin-off in the same vein as Blood Dragon.
I mean, far cry 1 to 4 were admittedly pretty isolated (even if I don't know what Val did with the far cry program thing at the end of 1, and I really didn't beat 2 to confirm it). And I think there are comics where castillo talks about Vaas, Pagan and whoever the villain in far cry 5 was, which I guess is where this point comes from. If castillo knows who they are, then the games are Canon. I suppose primal could be Canon too, just not blood dragon.
@@Rogeryoo Anyone remember the CIA Agent from 2 that helps you locate the Jackal ? He shows back up in 3, 4 and has a brief cameo in 5. Same with Hurk who is in 3, 4 and 5 and his ancestor is in Primal. Thats how the game keeps its canon keeping all these characters within the universe that in some roadtrips to missions recall the shit storm from other games.
@@samueljones3668 ah right, I forgot about Willis, and I can't believe I forgot about Hurk of all people. Though I didn't know Willis appeared in far cry 2.
Not going to lie Watch Dogs 2 hacker challenge mission piss me off, like "Bitch, let me progress!" After that I stop playing Ubisoft games, all it takes is for one bad video game design to make on trash a game.
The gun economy was broken, no idea why developers think making you chance ammo types during combat is "fun" that sh*t was infuriating. I loved far cry for its weapons and the variety of them
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Bonus Sin
The characters spend the entire game calling Castillo a fascist (although technically he's just a despot with no ideology) but the LEADER OF THE RESISTANCE turns out to be a fan of Pedro Albizu (a guy who by definition was ideologically a fascist). And she commits this sin literally in her introduction.
He does sort of put the nation before anything else, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state, and nothing but the state does apply to his actions like not giving viviro to America and crushing rebels with chemical weapons.
@@chriskopp1361 and all the people his soldiers kill at the beginning? All the people his nephew raped and tortured? Not all of them are rebels.
The orphans the doctor brags of manipulating and torturing?
As the leader the buck stops with him.
Since when was Pedro Albizu a fascist? He was a nationalist more than anything. And he was a LAWYER. How does a lawyer have a fascist ideology when that ideology roots itself in autocracy, military persecution, and a dictatorship at the helm of it?
that's just standard dictatorship, ask hussein
The single advertisement I saw for this game made me think we would play as the son. Which would have been far more interesting story wise than playing as some random orphan.
yeah i actually got that vibe as well.
Yet, how would it be portrayed if their is no true evil in games
Same here & I have a theory: This was the direction the story was originally going to go in. I think this because Ubisoft is constantly switching things up during development of their games.
@@venmosh4822 It's actually more what game developers do actually. They release teasers so they can see what is a possibility. People are too self centered about their opinions and it shouldn't matter what it looks like or anything. Games like this is supposed to challenge the mind and capability to adapt and switch techniques. These Far Cry games are more strategic knowledge games
Thought the same but they would have ruined it.
You can't expect Ubisoft to deliver what you want.
Here’s an extra sin, in the scene where Castillo is shooting birds with his son, they shoot 3 shots out of a double-barrelled shotgun.
The Double-Barreled Shotgun once fires once just like in Red Dead Redemption 2
Yeah, they copied Moe's strategy for when someone's dissin' ya fly girl.
You shot my sons bird......Run
@@Diesel_Hydro117 where you gotta give ‘em one of these?
If only it had been an M30 Luftwaffe
When the most interesting character is the antagonist while the rebels are crazy sadistic morons destroying the country faster than him
Basically same as Pagan Min in far cry 4. Like fk, Min was the interesting and sane one all along.
@@AJ-jq3hm yeah but it doesn't help when he just murders everybody he sees in front of the protagonist so that was his failure and all these characters failures
@@chiapets2594 understandable.
On a side note, and I've said this same thing many times under many videos/threads.. Wtf is up with these plastic looking characters' facial animations with current ubisoft games?
I played ac unity some time back and facial animations looked absolutely fine. Yet, the current ones look so damn stiff. Half life 2 in 2004 had better animations than this.
Focusing on any character's face in cutscenes , it feels as if there was no budget spent on facial movement at all. This jarring effect is less pronounced in Valhalla but its still there nonetheless.
@@AJ-jq3hm Did you know they actually were going to give people a campaign allied with Pagan Min and his forces, but the game was rushed, so they could not add it?
Sounds a lot like reality.
What I specifically like about Vaas is that his character wasn't a Ubisoft creation. It was mostly the actor doing his best.
So, the best part about the best Far Cry they have put out isn't even their work, it's just ONE DUDE.
Yeah, Gincarlo and Michael Mando are just awesome actors who do well in a video game format.
@@CT_Phipps And both were present in the BrBa series and I like this
WOW
Both pagan min and Joseph seed are just as likeable as vaas so I don't understand why vaas is the only great character in the far cry series
@@mohabalserafe3795 Pagan Min was only a voice over a radio for most of Far Cry 4, which diminishes his character to a great extent.
I heard the game sent emails to players who stopped playing, mocking them for letting Castillo win.
It sounds a little psychotic, especially when you look at how pointless the ending is with almost everyone dying.
So what. That's your take on it. There are people out who enjoy it and enjoys challenges
@@dakotakulha8376 so you don't find that disturbing at all ?
If a Reply was possible, I'd have said, "I Support Castillo." Just as a fuck you to them.
@@chillhour6155 Nope
@@dakotakulha8376 Why do you attack anyone who makes even the slightest criticisms of the game? Aren't you supposed to respect players' diverse mindsets, you happy pills-chugging shill.
Ubisoft seems to lack understanding of nuance.
Their concept of moral ambiguity involves turning everyone into one or two dimensional caricatures, with the second dimension being whether or not the caricature is sociopathic enough to crack a joke after they shoot someone in the head. Or whatever their gender/racial identity is, because in their eyes, representation boils down to "Hey, did you know I'm *insert racial/gender identity here*, okaybai!" And they will exhibit no other character trait beyond that and being annoying NPC's to do missions/escort for.
Hard to take any character seriously when the only people who are capable of being empathized with are the damn slaves getting tossed around like cattle. Ubisoft needs to learn that placing every character in your world at the extreme ends of the morality alignment chart doesn't automatically create a grey zone between them. In fact, it creates a vacuum of nuance & makes the player not want to partake.
Which is the best way to play this game: by not playing.
The same problem that exists in Ubisoft exists in all companies everywhere:
They do not want or care to innovate. As long as you're willing to buy any piece of merchandise they pump out they will gladly sell you the exact same thing over and over again even until it stops being profitable because innovation takes time, money, originality, and the ability to accept feedback and recognize when you've hit the wall. And companies would rather do as little as possible to reap the maximum amount of profits they can with doing said little as possible.
Ironic then that after FC4, "not playing the game" became part of the games.
This comment is accurate.
This is a great comment. Ubisoft seems to want to incorporate moral ambiguity, but they are really lost on how to accomplish it. After far cry 4, almost all the characters have been unlikable or confusing.
I completely agree, the writing in this game is atrocious
The fact that more people are looking forward to the DLC where you play as the fun villains from previous games, says a lot tbh.
It was meant to happen.
I liked Pagan Min. I tought he was very funny. And he actually explains it well of how/why he became the way he did (depending on your choice during intro/his mountain)
And unlike Vaas he was the main villain and constantly in contact with you the entire time, making him have a much greater presence in the story. Hell, 4 managed to do the whole "black black morality" thing better.
Yeah, too bad the game demotes him to a prank caller as soon as his opening section is up, and doesn't become a presence in the story again until almost the very end.
@@SigmaSyndicate Because he isn't needed to be a presence? his role in the story isn't a constantly antagonizing force unlike Vaas.
Agreed! I like how he's so funny. And he actually is pretty much the only one who cares about you, not your actions, but you as a person.
Agreed 👍🏽
Also something the game never acknowledges is that the rebels blew up the Viviro factory sending a huge cloud of that poison in the sky that would contaminate the entire island. Looks like Lorenzo and Anton were right, they really are "terroristas". Of course, neither the game nor the character acknowledge an act of bioterrorism that would realistically cause one of the most catastrophic chemical leaks in history and praises you as a hero instead.
On top of that you blow up Yara's whole oil supply in the next mission and sink a cargo ship full of those chemical weapons, contaminating the ocean as well.
So in the end Yara is left with no oil supply, no vision, even worse poverty, an ecological and humanitarian disaster for decades to come and the ones in charge are a bunch of psychotic entitled rappers, college students and a psychotic farmer.
Yeah. The country is royally fucked.
Sorry, but Juan rule no.11.
I'm glad finally someone said it "any time Ubisoft gets even a small whiff of something getting a sliver of approval, they go all out on it and it's in every subsequent game". That's one of the overlooked or understated things when people make game critiques that really pisses me off about game companies, especially Ubisoft.
"Hey did you know Murica racist!?" this is like 15 lines of dialogue in the game.
I really wish the regime was strictly fascist or Communist and that the CIA was more heavily involved rather than just hinted at while one guy is Canadian.
I know. The only glimpse of any CIA in the game is a dog tag charm that has Willis Huntley (CIA agent from fc3, 4 & 5) written on it
Literally the one time they don't have the CIA guy is the one time where him being there actually makes sense it could have maybe had something to say about American involvement in the global South
I was hoping Castillo would win the whole time. I find it impossible to support an army of Reddit users trying to destroy a revolutionary cancer treatment.
Dont forget the human traficing
I swear to the GAWDS that I thought I was the only one to feel this way
Honestly, after that dumb as dirt concert mission, I was hoping for a point where Dani says screw it and books it to Miami while all the other morons get themselves killed.
Honestly, by the sheer ignorance, disregard and psychopathy the guerrilas acted throughout the entire game, I thought there'd be a point where Castillo would monologue to Dani about how insane they are. Then Dani would go to Clara and Clara would like shoot a baby and they'd battle to death.
But no. The resistance is fucking brutal and homocidal. Like when they hang the general woman, that scene was... Disturbing to say the least. And they're suppose to be the good guys and you're apparently not suppose to question this 'cause the game itself never does
first of all, im pretty sure the game implies the 'cancer treatment' is pseudoscience snake-oil. It makes you pee purple. Is that healthy?
Second of all, why is the resistance redditors? Is it because one of them is trans?
Far Cry always brings out the best in Dartigan. I vote for Guardians of The Galaxy. I also hope for that True Colors sins video.
Damn, I don’t think I’ve seen a game that pressed “nothing you do matters in the end” so hard- honestly a viciously disappointing ending
far cry 2
My main problems are that Diego died and one of the reasons I wanted this game was because Ubisoft said there was a city in this game I thought that city was Esperanza. That was the main thing keepin me playing I wanted to liberate Esperanza and explore the city and find chests and new quests to do but after I beat the game literally nothing fuckin changed. Still crawling with soldiers it feels like all the effort and time I put into it was completely wasted. the closest thing I saw to a city was a medium sized town I forgot the name and location. Every Far Cry game does this I really did think they were going to change this time I’m probably done with far cry. Sorry about the horrible punctuation I’m on mobile I’m done fixing my comment.
I didn’t finish the game, but didn’t farcry 5 end in the whole state getting nuked and apparently the main villain was “right”…which also somehow makes the hero of the game suddenly the bad guy for daring to defend the locals of Montana from crazy cultist committing brutal crimes on people? “Oh no you killed bad people in defense of innocent people? that must mean your a violent protagonist that loves killing. Im just the villain that is trying to help people and prove a point…by using violence against innocent people”
Then again I never finished the game, so maybe I’m speaking lies.
@@anotherrandomguy8871 There are two endings + one secret ending at the beginning but i don't know what the differences exactly are because i was completely stoned when i played the game and can't remember a thing...
"Whaaaaat you mean people don't buy games for the sole reason we spent insane money on actors guild members for voices? Preposterous!" - The AAA industry and some indies who have the really bad idea to burn most of their budget on high status voice talent
Well it's not like Ubisoft ever spends anything on writing.
You mean the Film Actors Guild?
*Dying Light 2*
Gotta love how the final assault is you fighting FLAME UNITS in close quarters combat up a staircase.
He took out the bomb and ran away with it and thrown the guy from the horse instead of throwing the bomb away... wtf, Ubisoft
THIS!
They did us and Carlos so wrong. If you're trying to go for a heroic death at least give Carlos something that makes sense instead of makes him look stupid in his last moments.
The devs should have just called it Far Cry 6: Come on guys, it's not a play on the Cuban Revolution Edition.
😂😂😂 honestly tho I would have brought the game if it had that name.
@@antoniobrown247 the funny thing is that Cuba exists in the far cry universe, so I'm wondering if Castro was a chill guy running Cuba while Yara fell to shit.
Or laternatively they could've just called it Just Cause 3 Lite.
@@moonlightwarriorgaming743 I think Yara is meant to basically be a politically-flipped Cuba, so instead of having a Castro yelling about the class struggly, you have an Anton yelling about moral degradation of society and how the Covid virus is fake news.
Also, Canada is cool for working with them.
25:12 Also, Castillo got his dates wrong. Slavery is older than the U.S., and European colonies (not just British) in the Americas had slave labor working sugar and tobacco plantations. Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag, another Ubisoft game, taught me that!
Geez, slavery is nearly as old as the human race.
Yes, and apparently Muslim slave traders were selling Africans as slaves to the New World!
Slavery was a pretty big deal in eastern Europe, from the dawn of time to the late middle ages, but they had the serfdom until mid 1800s.
might be the point showing Castillo being some twat making ad-hoc justifications for his actions.
@@bunnystrasse I find that plausible, and question why THAT part didn't come up in my history classes talked about the 17th-18th Century slave trade.
All enemies are vulnerable to ARMOR PIERCING AMMO. Easy to kill them with that.
They are not. Unarmored enemies pretty much don't feel them.
@@sebastianalhares Nah. Armor piercing is all you need. Can easily clear the game with a muzzled m9 pistol. No need for soft target shells.
Yep, I used only AP ammo
@@sebastianalhares They die in one headshot still
@@HaterzMD unironically this. The M9 with AP rounds an a suppressor carried me through the entire game, thing could one shot heavies if you aimed for the head, broken tactic.
The next Far Cry should have Lance Reddick as the charismatic villian.
Side note that was a super pathetic ending by far cry standards
I'm afraid Horizon Forbidden West beat Far Cry to that idea.
@@TheHufflepuffSaint yeah , I recall he did a sins video on it
@@TheHufflepuffSaint the game's not even out
@@TRG_R17 But it's already confirmed that Lance Reddick's character is in charge of one of the enemy factions that Aloy has to face.
RIP
Love that Dart can predict the people that will be in Dani’s dreams. Ubisoft has turned into a rusted factory.
He had already finished the game, he didn't predict shit
@@reddeaddude2187 It's not difficult at all to predict what will happen in a Ubisoft game anyway if you've played their other titles. Almost all the games they make are the same open world structure with the same gameplay elements and the same plot structures and mission designs.
Also, the whole "prediction" thing is meant to be a joke reflecting on how Ubisoft keeps making the exact same games over and over again. Far Cry 6 is not an exception.
@@superplayerex2431 K
@@superplayerex2431 Yes but he still didn't predict it if he'd played the game, stop deepthroating the channel dude.
Yeah, it's crazy how you can literally set your watch to what will happen in a Ubisoft game 🤣🤣
Far Cry 3 was definitely the peak of this franchise.
What a genius.
I enjoyed Primal
I didn't played 3 yet, is it on steam, or there are ps4 editions?
Nah, Far Cry 4 had a very unique setting, a memorable villian, and a very introspective narrative for its beginning and ending, in regarding its secret ending. The only thing its missing is less busywork and the Pagan Min allied storyline!
far cry 4 was better.
im fairly certain the "walk away" ending of 5 was the canon one and new dawn served solely as an expansion pack marketed as a game (why it wasnt full price) to shut up people whining that you couldnt "win" against joseph
Forgot to mention how the boat they left on at the beginning of the game traveled for maybe 5 minutes before getting ambushed and some how dani and much of the rest of the ship as well as its passengers all ended up on the exact opposite end of the map. I dont know how ocean currents work very well but i dont see how that could've happened. They had to have circled around half the map
"A suppressed rifle."
...yep, sounds reeeeeeeeeeeeally familiar.
I missed the joke. Can you tell me what it is?
@@thunderbird3304 Not a joke so much, as that's the strategy I went with and apparently a bunch of others.
@@chefbreccia2642 hehe, I see
A bow is more fun...completely silent and strong af
I used a suppressed deagle with a sniper scope
Sin 17: There is 0 point in Julio blindfolding Dani. Where she's standing, not only is Clara's camp visible, it is a steps from where she's standing.
Sin 18: Yeah, I'm still not sure why Clara wants Dani to get Juan. In the mission briefing it outright says he just fucked off after the failed operation.
Sin 26: They don't even do that. If you go back to the island, the ships are still there, completely intact.
Sin 27: I actually liked Clara's character. Smart, knew what she wanted, knew what it would cost her, and knew the consequences of her actions. It's just a shame that she eventually contracted the stupidity disease that infected every single major character in this game.
Sin 39: It's even funnier when you remember that Carlos is dying from cancer. The guy wants us to destroy the only means to save his life lol (and yes, I am aware that he'd rather die than accept help from anyone, but it's still stupid.)
Sin 52: No they don't. Especially since the explosion shouldn't have happened because Jose's mouth is stopping the grenade from working. Sure they pulled the pin, but the handle is still being held down by Jose's mouth, meaning it won't explode.
Sin 54: Don't get me started on how fucking useless Maximas Mantanzas was. Good god I hate them. All the revoluitionaries in this game are pretty stupid, but they take the cake.
Also Sun 54: They left a note at the fort indicating where they were going and then left an actual trail to Camp Maximas.
Sin 55: One of the best characters in the game. Bicho is useless, knows he's useless, and doesn't pretend to be anything BUT useless.
Sin 72: This argument between Talia and Paolo is...something. First off, Paolo made it very clear to us (Dani) that the second his debt to Bembe was paid off, him and Talia were gonzo. So I don't know why Talia is saying he's all of a sudden against Libertad. Actually I take it back, I do know why she's saying that. She's only saying that because she made the revolution all about her. All of Yara's problems, she has made about herself, and so if you disagree with her, you're either racist or misogynistic.
Sin 90: 1. The antibiotics are stuff he could walk into any pharmacy to grab. 2. They're found at checkpoints for some reason. 3. THERE IS ONE CHECKPOINT LESS THAN 1 KILOMETER FROM HIS CLINIC! AND IT'S ONE THAT DANI HAD LIBERTATED EARLIER (at least in my game)! Why can't he take the 5 minute walk to grab them himself?
Sin 99: Up until Dani told you, you had 0 idea that the legends of '67 were up on that mountain Jonron.
Sin 102: I love how Castillo admits that he'd rather tick the diversity and inclusive card that actually have someone more qualified for the job of ADMIRAL FOR THE YARAN NAVY
Sin 103: And let's not forget, Karlito is sitting outside, uncovered, and exposed to the elements. Forget the fact that the FND didn't remove the engine or it's weapons, the fact that it's able to function without problems is also sin-worthy.
I will also say, I'm surprised you didn't sin the game for having Dani create an ecological disaster in order to shut down McKay's operations.
As a writer, this game pissed me off so much. And as a gamer, this game made me so bored, I played for five hours and then set the game down and never played it again.
I can’t imagine Far Cry 7 being any different.
Where are they even going to set the game though? Antarctica?
The main villain will be played by Bryan Cranston because it’s a trend for this franchise to borrow actors from another franchise to make it interesting.
I wonder what you could even do to far cry to make it feel new. Make it a drastically different thing like the switch from 1 to 2? Maybe return the game mechanics from 2, like inworld map and gun durability, but make the game actually tolerable to play?
Unless they grow a pair and finally make Blood Dragon 2.
Our current world isn't long for this world
We ignore how Dani stranded on an island in the southwest of Yara.
She escaped from Esperanza, but how could they drift so far?
At this point, why doesn't Ubisoft just remake Far Cry 3 every time they want to release a new game? Just update the graphics and touch up the gameplay a bit. Everyone else releases the same game every other year, there's less work, and it's clearly what they want to do which becomes more and more apparent with every release.
idk is that fair? this one is quite different. I will say though Ubisoft pandered to the wrong crowd, as the Far Cry base doesn't care about what they think matters most
@@Bitmaid What was quite different about this game?
@@thefreshestslice4105 Nothing. Nothing is different about this game. Same tired ass gameplay, tired ass story, tired ass "open world," etc.
If they did, people would start to notice that Vaas was only about 50% of the game, and that it still wasn't fun. In fact, Far Cry 3 aged kind of poorly, and is really hard to go back to for anyone who hasn't played it back then.
Even better - remake Far Cry 2, set the game in Africa, but make it intense, 100% serious, gritty and with no whacky antics.
32:19 Interestingly, a museum T34 was used in a protest in 2006. The driver was an ex military tank driver who knew that the tank had an emergency engine starter. Still doesn't explain the live rounds, though.
No one blamed Jaun for getting clara shot. The whole end scene I was waiting for Dani to mention it. Even tho Clara sat on her ass for the whole game and only stopped by for a quick "hello", (Ubisofts in game reminder that she exists), no one brought up her death or the cause.
I was all for shooting Juan.
Yeah I wondered the whole game if they were leading up to Clara being another one of El Presidentes kids or if she was a CIA plant or a secret traitor or something. She was pretty pointless the whole game
@@cannibalbunnygirl Idk if it was just me but she was a pretty unlikeable character as well
@@Zubstep1315 she was a lot more likeable than Talia but that's not difficult
@@Zubstep1315one of her first "memorable lines" is spouting xenophobia. It's hard to come back from that lol
I had hope.… They punished me for having hope!
I will never buy another far cry game again, after all… What is the definition of insanity?
Doing the same Fucking thing
Over And Over and over
@@victorcharles27 read that in his voice
@@nolanc9432 he sounds uninterested in this game.
Can't blame him😅
And yet you will buy Far Cry 7 anyways.
Repeating already over used and repeated phrases over and over again that were spouted by an over rated villain in an action game?
The underlying themes are actually discussion worthy in the game. But the ending was "you always do all of this for nothing". I think the best ending is the boat ending
One of the things I could never stand about this game, was the fact that it seems like Dani is permanently filthy. Even the "Hidden Ending" has her looking in desperate need of a shower.
Ubisoft's vision of a struggling individual is that, just filthy.
What pissed me the most was when concert lady took propaganda lady hostage on live television. Her aim was to gain sympathy and support for the rebels, but she does just the opposite. She could have confronted the propaganda lady about the use of slave labor, human experimentation, executions, and concentration camps. No instead she gets into a yelling match about being sent to an academy that tried to take away her creativity. In the yelling match she executes the lady on live TV. This would prove to everyone who watched the video that the rebels are nothing more then terrorists, and their support would drop across the globe. Foreign countries would be incentivized to help Castillo put down the terrorists as a terror group plunging a country that produces cancer treatment dugs into chaos is against most foreign countries interest. There’s no consequences in game for this.
The thing that i hate from a lot of games is that we can never be the villain of the game. We always have to be an strong independent man/woman that came out of nowhere and destroys an entire army by itself with no explanation other than "i MuSt PrOtECt EVeryBody!1!1"
In far cry 6 i thought that we were going to be the main villain of the game and destroy the opposition along with Giancarlo Esposito. Maybe in the end we can stop ourselves from doing bad things and help the "heroes" But nooooooooo we need strong independent orphan that speaks English but actually speaks Spanish or whatever
Also, people from USA needs to understand that if a character for example speaks Spanish, they should speak Spanish to the people that speaks Spanish too (like Javier in red dead 2 when he got captured in Guarma), not mixing it with the English language because that makes me feel like I'm playing with a dumb ass that speaks English to Spanish people in a disgusting and exaggerated spanglish tone, like I'm making fun of them and the Spanish language
Meh, they do point out, Juan in particular, that Dani isn't isn't in this for more than the thrill of war. That's why Dani doesn't stay at the end, they want to go and have more adventures...like Juan or Willis.
The entire game feels like what 30 year old dumbasses in california think a revolution is like, these types all have the same style, characters can never ever speak full english if they understand a second language, one or the other, Its not the end of the world but its noticeable and annoying, I've met spanish people, I've met mexican people, they might greet me in spanish but the conversations are purely in english,
its probably some dumbass "MUH REPRESENTATION" on their end when they right like that, it doesn't feel natural, I'd rather the whole game be in spanish if anything
Don't lump us all in the same boat. The lefties think that way
I love the Elder Scrolls as you are literally allowed to be any playstyle, only use your bare fists -yes, or you want to be a bloodthirsty vampire necromancer assasin-Yes
38:02 The endings of Far Cry 4 already taught me the futility of playing their games, so that's why I didn't play Primal, 5, New Dawn, or 6. Didn't see that one coming, did you, Ubisoft?
What happened in Fra Cry 4? Never played any Far Cry games and am not interested in playing. So spoilers can't hurt me. haha
@@TheMordgan the "secret ending" where you do nothing is the "best" ending, even though you don't really play it as a game.
@@louisduarte8763 Even if you play through to the end of the game the ending is a good one. Pagan never really wanted to kill you and takes you to where your sister is so you can leave the ashes and then GIVES you a country and leaves. I mean, as far as endings go, that one isn't half bad. All he takes is the "fucking helicopter".
@@jimthar17 "never really wanted to kill you"? Did he, just, not tell any of his soldiers who shoot me on sight that? Some leader.
But yeah, I watched my brother play up to that part, and it let him shoot an explosive arrow at Min's chopper after putting the ashes away, killing him.
In my playthrough, when I pulled a gun on Pagan in his palace's dining room, I pulled R2 to see what would happen, and I shot him. Like, "Holy shit! I can't believe the game let me do that!"
But I also remember having to schlep back up the mountain to the palace, to get to the tomb, the only way to read Mohan Gale's final journal entry.
I’m surprised he didn’t sin the no Dani said at the end cause it wasn’t dramatic it was more “no, stawp it”
Am I the only one who found it ironic that this Far Cry game was in-part made by Ubisoft's Toronto Studio, while you fight a Canadian businessman in this game?
maybe that's why
Isn't it spoopy how Abstergo is in like.... the same place as Ubisoft Montreal
It's also even worse because they go on and on about "Murica bad"
@@visassess8607 to be fair, they have a point there.
Haven't heard a peep about this game outside the ads which says it all.
That's usually a good warning sign for anything nowadays: if you're bombarded with trailers promoting a thing for months and then hear absolutely nothing from anyone who cared about the thing when it's finally out, just run.
Oh for sure, all the ads made me think was yeah cool Chicken guy from BB is in it but do you have anything else? Thanks to Dart I know they do not.
I saw one ad for it a year ago then nothing. When it came out, I already figured it was bottom of the barrel trash since they didn't even market it very much
The franchise is running out of steam. Far Cry 7 may actually be the first bomb in the series.
@@MTdaBlacking Reminds me of the Marvels: Avengers game. Constant ads for it, nobody talking about it.
So, for the next one, either one is a good one
COD:V for the typical WW2 safe retreads and
Guardians of the Galaxy for the Marvel shilling
I feel sorry for the bad guy's son. Nobody deserves that haircut
no one deserves the dora hair
It's basically the '50s Chick haircut from the Fallout character creator
And the whole being killed by his father to prevent him from getting into the rebels hand thing.
SAD
@@melvinmerkelhopper5752 Yea yea yea that's bad an all
*BUT LOOK AT THAT HAIRCUT!*
I guess you could say.... you can hear the player's farther cry.
I'll take my leave now.
Ba dum kss
13:20 - Jesus Christ! That map is too big. If this was Just Cause or something, I'd understand the size because there's always something to do but Far Cry games with big maps gets very unfocused. It's why I'm glad that after the Nuke fell, New Dawn sized down Far Cry 5's map.
I'm glad you're doing this video, Dartigan. You saved me a ton of money. 😀
I actually really liked the post-apoclayptic world of New Dawn, and I have been thinking of a sequel game for a hypothetical "New Dawn 2" However, I know that if I actually pitched it to Ubisoft, they would give me so many terms and conditions, my vision for the story would be unrecognizable by the end. Long story short, it was intended to follow the surviving teens from Far Cry 3, which we mine as well call Far Cry 1 at this point.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 I liked the post apocalyptic world too and to be honest I really wanted them to continue the Far Cry series in that world. 😢 New Dawn was so fun to explore and compare after exploring the regular version in FC5. I know New Dawn was supposed to be what Primal was to FC4 like a side story game but New Dawn actually felt like Far Cry 6 continuing on Far Cry 5 , there was so much potential especially with it being included in the Splinter Cell universe and potentially Watch Dogs 2 with the inclusion of San Francisco and while it would mean turning all the Ubisoft library into Post Apocalypse adventures... I'd be pretty much okay with that to be honest.
Your idea sounds quite cool but yeah you're right, if you pitched it, Ubisoft would twist and turn it to unrecognizable content.
4 words I use to describe far cry: new faces same places
The nuclear ending of Far Cry 5 I believe is just a "What If" scenario.
Which still doesn't fix much. You're still left with a cult that has taken over AN ENTIRE COUNTY and has caused probably tons of damage. Even if you leave, and kill all of your buddies in a fit of rage, the main character can still come back to normalcy after the song ends and would've surely let everyone know of what is happening. And if the National Guard would come storming in Hope County I'm certain Joseph would've detonated the nuke. So it technically has to happen either way which once again still puts the FC series into a major corner.
There is a hidden ending where if you wait for 15 minutes, Joseph Seed stops fighting and says "I've lost. You truly are the Dragon Warrior." And then he drops dead.
Nope that still happens but canonically Far Cry 6 takes place some time before even Far Cry 3, hence the Vaas cameo at the end of 6.
@@Chaotic_Jackal no that’s just the DLC being baited
Both Nacho and Gus have been in the Far Cry universe. I'm smelling a cross-over
I'm probably gonna get alot of hate for saying this but.....Vaas wasn't that interesting of a villain. All he ever does is "have I ever told you the definition of insanity? It's doing the exact same thing over and over expecting a different outcome" but how many times could he have killed you only to "leave" thinking you had no way to escape. I never liked Vaas as a character and the fact they brought him back as a DLC made me just roll my eyes. Honestly? I'm kinda glad I stopped playing far cry games after 4.
Far cry 5s ending was only in Montana and was probably quarantined after pagan min died
What i find really funny is how, despite Cuba havign been crippled by the US blockade (a blockade that is still going on today for no reason), the game never really tries to say the US are partly to blame for Yara's current situation.
Nevermidn that a revolutionary overthrowing the communist regime like Castillo did would have been *showered* in US and CIIA support for his revolution, so the blockade would have ended as soon as he got into power.
Ubisoft didn't know if they wanted to make the Castillo regime an US backed dictatorship or a communist former soviet puppet state so they made it both so no one would be offended.
Right because Cuba doesn’t have the whole of the rest of the world to trade with. It’s totally not just that Cuba was ruled by a despotic imbecile and has a lack of highly valued natural resources or technology production.
Commie cope
Im saying this about to pay full price for Riders Republic but Ubisoft should be an Automatic sin
Dartigan, years passed and your content gets better than CinemaSins. I remember you were taking the CinemaSins template back then but now you're did a far better job than them. Sad that Algorithm is not as kind. We need this kind of unique content for game reviews as this is not only funny but also spot on for purchasing considerations.
How do you find this funny? I'm not hating, I just don't see any jokes, just complaining, which again, I don't hate,
@@N0pr0fit Literally just like listening to Squidward moan for 39 minutes. He's got a lot in common with Cinemasins in that Dartigan and Jeremy both think they're witty and funny but they're not
I lost it when they said they call the chemical “The poison”,
Yeah no shit, it’s a pesticide, it kills shit, “We call Pg42, the poison, cause it fucks you up”, it’s just such an awful line
If you think about it guard/soldier AI is pretty easy to make. If they see a body make them radio for help. If they know where you’ve been last time make them surround the place and slowly close in simultaneously. If you’ve barricaded yourself in a room make them frag the room.
It is not space engineering.
No, but also yes, there's literally an entire engineering title to coding programs, and that also includes games, it's not as easy as to write "if X sees Y, it will do Z" and yes, Ubisoft has a team that already works on that, and I'm not excusing them, I'm just trying to say that it's a little annoying to see people underestimating how hard it is to code a game's AI
Good to see that my complete apathy for this game was justified.
I stopped caring about the franchise after Far Cry Primal. That was the final decent entry as far as I was concerned.
"It's like you forget that I'm trans!"
No Paolo, we really didn't. The game has been explicitly pushing that as this video says. The first thing you mentioned when you and Dani were alone together, the mission involving your surgeries as stated by the surgeon, not to mention your entire character motivation is basically "I'm trans".
Oh and let's not forget the TH-camrs who basically celebrate Paolo for being a trans DJ, and basically calling anyone who's pointing out this little fact a transphobe. It's like Ubisoft KNEW this would happen.
Yeah, when you create a character whose whole personality is being a trans person, you fucked up.
@@MultiKamil97 It's also damaging and a middle finger to real trans people.
idgaf if Paolo is trans, im too busy trying to not get my head blown off by a 7ucking tank
I’m necroposting to point out that they could’ve just made the character trans and mention it once (like an actual trans person would) and it would be so genuinely less damaging than to handle it the way they did. But I don’t doubt they did it on purpose.
@@HabitualThinker yes, ubisoft aren't that good when it comes to storytelling
11:39 I find it weird that Far Cry repeated the same story about violent revolutions even though they said all they needed to about in the 4th game.
13:07 I also don't get the point of those secret endings that negate the point of playing the games as they were designed (then again, were they cries for help from overworked developers?). Especially if they accidentally made the villains look like they were right. But then again, I don't think Ubisoft's writers get politics.
If you think the Villain was right that says many bad things about you. You obviously did not pay attention to the evidence in game of what they were really doing and only bought into Castillo's boastful speeches. Makes me wonder who you vote for in reality also.
@@violabeaumont3758 I did not say the villain of FC6 (which I didn't play) was right. I said the story writers of FC's 4 (which I did play) & 5 (which I didn't) suggested THOSE games' villains were right.
@@louisduarte8763 Joseph Seed was a disgusting psychopath who created a self fulfilling prophecy. I would not say that made him 'Right' either. As far as the Pagan goes I cannot say much on him, as I did never play Far Cry 4.
I watched your stream for vanguard, I can’t wait for that vid to come out!
Holy shit... and I thought Ubisoft games couldn't get any shittier after AC:Odessy... Poor Giancarlo Esposito. That man deserves FAR better than this. The marketing campaign with him was a million times better and more enjoyable than the game itself. At this point I'm just happy that the only connection I had with Ubisoft games in the past few years is through videos like this one. :'D
thanks, I'm not even going to pirate this
So as a 20 dollar purchase this was a good game to get into. I mostly liked exploring for weapons and gear and the fluid combat. I do not like that moves that were once unlocked through leveling up are now tied to equipment pieces, as multiple moves are relegated to the same equipment type making for an either or scenario that makes things more frustrating than intriguing. One of the highlights for me was the Stranger Things mission that has you helping a Russian woman that is clearly supposed to be like 11.
I'll never forgive them for taking away my shovels from 5. It's bullshit
Seriously why they remove the melee weapons!?
Castillo doesn't act like Esposito's regular characters he has no subtlety whatsoever
The slave argument doesn't hold a lot of weight in my opinion - IF the treatment is guranteed effective to cure cancers of any type; most of those countermeasures you mentioned are widely variably less effective, or require a good deal of money/pain and a gamble as to whether they will work. My aunt, my blood grandmother, and my Mom probably wouldn't have liked the idea that the treatment was grown by slave labor (the root of the word is "Slavic" according to Thomas Sowell - so as a racial point it's not a great fit in all cases either) If any of those three could have been guaranteed to be saved from what they'd gone through in treatment considering one died of breast cancer when my Mom was 15; one died of complications to misdiagnosed ovarian cancer at 41 and Mom had it twice but survived because she was willing to sacrifice her breasts (and was lucky enough to catch it quickly both times) If I could save my sister from that concern or my daughters or hers, should we have them some day, from that... I don't give a fuck who made it. I'd get it for them. It's less a question of morals than they want it to be. For a whole lot of people, it's a question of preventable scars, and actual survival.
Heck in Saints Row 4 they present you with Cure Cancer, or End world hunger. Guess which one I took. One is a problem we can solve with effort, a bit of sacrifice in work and overall human compassion. The other can happen to literally ANY cell in the body, of every freaking type. At any random point. So which is the bigger problem?
I bought this game to support Giancarlo Esposito. One of my favorite actors since i was a kid. I maybe finsihed a 3rd of this game and never played it again. Giancarlo, proformed amazing but other characters, task, open world, bases, ect was so old and ran down i couldn't finish the game
10:48 I dont think a rag tag group of rebels would have any knowledge of operating two giant battleships
you don't NEED to fish. the objectives on the island allow for hunting
Cant lie vass and pegan ar one of my fav far cry enemys
22:53 also if fire was spread that quickly you would think that El Presidente and his son would be caught in it too
I love how the game plays the fact the trans dude was expelled from the academy as nonsense, but instead you’d know that hormone treatment, testosterone and all the other mental complications would obviously make him unfit for service.
This game's only real selling point was Giancarlo Esposito, and nothing else
Did you forget that the Resolver weapons and Supremo backpacks were promoted a lot and people were really excited about those?
Whats tragic is that if you really look into the far cry games, you can tell that there really are some genuinely talented people working on this series but all too often it gets swept under far cry's more undesirable aspects.
The removal of any kind of levelling is baffling. I never felt like I was progressing because I could already do most everything, and the perks tied to clothing felt very un-noteworthy. Same with a lot of the weapons; I only got joy from maybe 3-4. If adventuring yields such lackluster treasures, what's the point of even exploring?
You only have to be at camp to mod weapons, you can change equipment at anytime.
The first time I came across paulo and it started rabbiting on about being trans my initial response was "why should I care?", after the 50th time I actually said "I wish I could feed you to the crocodiles".
"I wish I could feed you to the crocodiles" that's how I felt about the majority of the side characters. I wanted them all dead
"it" brutal 💀
But yeah when i first heard it say trans, I thought it was talking about transport of something I wasn't really paying attention.
yikes. couldn’t avoid the transphobia and give the valid criticism of the writing being ass, could we?
@@HabitualThinker
There's no such thing as "transphobia".
@@HabitualThinker
Stop using made up terms like "transphobia" because it doesn't exist.
Great video as always.
However, as a history buff, I have to point out, the first ever handgun and first ever cannon invented were both in Song Dynasty China. Europeans only started to further develop them after the Mongols took it over there in the 13th century.
The chemical they spray on the tobacco ALSO causes cancer.
Thanks for taking this grenade for us, Dart. I’m excited to see how the DLC campaigns for Vaas and Pagan Min (my favourite villain!) play out. I wish we could get full-blown games featuring these two….
@L I haven't played them, but from what I can tell, they're the same games.
You play as the villain, going around an island with themes to the game it was from, respectively. This sounds cool, however it's a treasure hunt looking for 3 pieces of a puzzle to complete the main game. The ending is also lackluster, with just a wave upon wave system of enemies.
If it was up to me, I'd play Vaas' DLC since he's the most memorable, and not play anymore.
Oh this evil dictator asked to meet saying the war would be over. And you believed him?? My god these games...
I'll admit that I agree with a lot of the points made, especially about the ending, it was just really disappointing overall. Honestly though I did enjoy the rest of the game, it was a fun experience. Not a fantastic or completely enthralling experience, but it was fun for what it had. I am a glass half-full kinda person though so that might have something to do with why I think this way.
I've only played Far Cry Blood Dragon but somehow it feels like I've already played every Ubisoft game
The saddest sin about Far Cry games is that it's like their telling you not to play their games when there are endings where not doing anything is actually the better ending. And i honestly WANTED the secret ending to Far Cry 4 to be an alternate path where you destroy the golden path and help pagin min. But instead it was just a weird homage to the song "Should I Stay or Should I go" funny but i expect you to follow through on that shit. This trend got even worse with Far Cry 5 when all the endings result in nuclear annihilation or your character getting brainwashed as opposed to buying a full price game for the best ending to happen in the first 15 minutes of the game resulting the rest nigh unplayable. And now this game tries to say walking away from the revolution was so bad it tries to guilt you into playing the full game only to find walking away was the better ending. Just stop making this series if the tagline is "Play the full game for the worst ending!"
This game was comically bad, "Were fighting a war against one of the worst tyrants in history, lets break into his house and throw a bitching party. That'll learn him..."
Surprised you haven’t done primal yet. I loved that far cry
Still my favorite far cry game
@@Slayerformayor1983 it’s too good of a game he can’t sin it lol
7:16 this observation was so fucking accurate and the whole change weapon aspect so annoying that they gave up on it, the change ammo type thing, that they let you do it on the fly like less than a year later with a patch. Here's hoping they learned something for FC7
Well the agriculture part you contradicted yourself on. You said this place served as Cuba, so the blockade would be in place. That would stop the farms from having that new high tech equipment you talked about, you always pad the sin count lol
because farming equipment wasn't invented in like the last 60-80 years I guess.
Its not that the FC5 ending was 'swept under the rug', just the canonical ending is the secret ending, where Rook never tried to arrest Joseph and walked away at the start. The apocalypse never happened. New Dawn is a 'what if' spin-off in the same vein as Blood Dragon.
Wait… the far cry games are all supposed to be one simultaneous canon??
How???
I mean, far cry 1 to 4 were admittedly pretty isolated (even if I don't know what Val did with the far cry program thing at the end of 1, and I really didn't beat 2 to confirm it). And I think there are comics where castillo talks about Vaas, Pagan and whoever the villain in far cry 5 was, which I guess is where this point comes from. If castillo knows who they are, then the games are Canon. I suppose primal could be Canon too, just not blood dragon.
@@Rogeryoo
Anyone remember the CIA Agent from 2 that helps you locate the Jackal ?
He shows back up in 3, 4 and has a brief cameo in 5.
Same with Hurk who is in 3, 4 and 5 and his ancestor is in Primal.
Thats how the game keeps its canon keeping all these characters within the universe that in some roadtrips to missions recall the shit storm from other games.
@@samueljones3668 ah right, I forgot about Willis, and I can't believe I forgot about Hurk of all people. Though I didn't know Willis appeared in far cry 2.
Not going to lie Watch Dogs 2 hacker challenge mission piss me off, like "Bitch, let me progress!" After that I stop playing Ubisoft games, all it takes is for one bad video game design to make on trash a game.
insanity is to buy a ubisoft game and await something new
just Cause 2 was a better game by far, but it runns very bad at windows 10.
Ubisoft does new stuff. Like immortal fenyx rising, or riders repuclic. Just Ubi doesn't do any marketing for them.
The gun economy was broken, no idea why developers think making you chance ammo types during combat is "fun" that sh*t was infuriating.
I loved far cry for its weapons and the variety of them
Yeah. This is pretty much what I expected from this game. The only way to win is not to play at all
Hey hey! You take your tic tac toe reasoning and go, sir!
I’ve got to wonder how many gaming sins videos were never made because of either a bunch of glitches or crashing causing you to restart the sins video
damn im like 1 mission away fr finishing and thought i was gonna finish before this came out! so close
I love how the marketing kept hyping up the fact that a famous actor plays a villian that barely appears and does stuff in the game.
A very detailed critique of a video game. This is why I am a fan. Sin away mate
My favorite is the fact that the parachute BARELY WORKS! I drop out of the sky more often then not