Far Cry 2 was more of a prehistoric game than this...It had minimal UI, a map that was drawn on paper, diseases that could kill you, and you couldn't understand a fucking word anyone said without subtitles.
Far Cry 2 is actually a pretty good game. It had a ton of potential but was bogged down by the A.I. and those constant respawning enemy outposts to a name a few of its cons.
Like a good game should be. Games tend to treat you like you have Dow Syndrome: "you go there where that auntie is and you do what she says and go where she points but since you could get lost while crossing this straight corridor i will grab you by your hand and when we finish it i will reward you an ice cream and tell you did a good job"
Hey I know this comment is a year old or whatever, but my name is Keenan, and you're the first other person named keenan I've seen on TH-cam. Idk, just thought that was cool I guess.
+VapidMaus I don't think he's jaded with games, he's certainly jaded with same-y corporate games. Check his recent Superhot review to see him giddy as an 8-year-old because he found something that actually surprised him.
+VapidMaus Same here. I've been playing games since 2001 and I'm starting to feel the weariness. FPS was the first genre that I started to feel the fatigue, the RTS lost its luster soon after and now RPGs and Third Person games are starting to showing severe cracks of familiarity. Just yesterday I spent my night alternating between playing several games, making scale models and watching videos with each activity lasting around 20-40 minutes. The Witcher 3 and MGV The Phantom Pain are the only games last year that were able to get me play each of them for over 200 hours straight without getting distracted by other games.
And after four year I hope they dont. Because I am enjoying their games far more than those scripted shit Rockstar Games are releasing or any other open world video games.
I thought you would mention that this game was actually a different game, not a Far Cry game, and that the creator of the that game was fired from Ubisoft and they took his game and made it a Far Cry game. it's worth mentioning that the creator who got fired is working independently on a game with the same idea, and it's called Wild.
Was interested in the title, but afraid Ubisoft would water it down like they always do these days. The points brought up here don't surprise me in the least but I still feel let down. The worst part is that Ubisoft will look at the mediocre reception the game got and they will not think "I guess our worn out formula can only work this many times. We will actually bring something new next time!" but instead "People don't like the setting, that's why it flopped. Back to the usual stuff then."
Fallout 3: Oblivion with guns Skyrim: Fallout 3 without guns Far Cry 3: Skyrim with guns Far Cry Primal: Far Cry without guns Far Cry 3=Fallout 3? Skyrim=Far Cry Primal? 0_o
Blood Dragon was great. It was also only 15 bucks and 4 hours long. I think it says a lot about a boring, overused formula when the four hour spin-off is the only way to keep it fresh for an entire game.
I can't say I agree with you at all here. Turn off the HUD and turn the difficult up to expert and Primal becomes an entirely different game. The audio and art design do an amazing job of encouraging immersion. I have played all of the previous Far Cry games and I have to say this is my favourite. It may even end up as my game of the year. Far Cry: Primal gives you the freedom to approach the game in the way that you want. My approach was as an immersive survival game and as such I found it highly enjoyable.
I remember seeing the cover art for this game everywhere when it came out and being pretty excited. I'm only just now doing my first play-through though. I started it on Survival mode and it's just the right amount of thrilling, terrifying and exciting kind of a primitive, gritty, gory, explorative survivor I was hoping it would be. This game is honestly fantastic!
So, You have done some of the most thoughtful, insightful reviews I have ever had the pleasure to watch. But... well, this review made me think of what frank Sinatra singing a medley of AC DC's greatest hits would be like.
As someone who didn't play much of Far Cry 3, and didn't play the 4th one at all, I found Primal to be quite fun. Chucking spears at people is fun, and I thought the melee felt meaty enough. A dodge function would have been pretty good though. I think genre fatigue plays a big importance in the enjoyment of any Ubi sandbox these days. It can be fun to pick one up here or there, but if you play every release they put out I can see how it can turn into a real slog. It also didn't hurt that I got it for about 30 bucks.
Weaverdrone yeah mate. Been after it since it came out and just ended up forgetting about it. Really enjoying it tho. Pity for the people that think a game can’t be good just cuz it doesn’t have guns in it.
got the game for about 18 on Amazon new and gotta say I enjoyed it as much as this comment section did besides story for me but gameplay and map is good
I'd actually enjoy the Space variant if they get the combat right, don't have checklist-objectives, some sort of market/building system to pick a home planet... y'know, not Farcry. (Here's to hoping Star Citizen succeeds.)
+damon22441 collect seven nanograms of antimatter to open the quantum gate climb the quantum gate to unlock the Comcast™ Xfinity™ Speed challenge to unlock a mini-nuke. spend your XP to unlock the Ubisoft Uplay Fun Store, and buy the DLC to use the mininuke.
George made a video about this exact topic. It's called ***How Design Trends Ruin Great Games***. Basically talks about how almost every AAA game today is somewhat action based, with a light progression system and some degree of open world with contextual controls and a weapon wheel. He used The Evil Within as an example of this 'homogenisation' of games.
+Michael Crowe This. Far Cry 3 recieved a full four years development time. FC4 and Primal received less than two years each. This is why FC4 felt like a reskin of FC3, and Primal felt like a reskin of FC4. FC3 compared to its successors had by far the best storytelling, most intelligent missions, most entertaining characters, best voice acting, and basically best everything sans pure graphical prowess. I just wish Ubisoft would give a full four years to the next iteration, or we'll be playing the same reskinned game over and over again for the next decade.
***** Absolutely agreed. Far Cry without the gunplay is just an awful, awful idea in my opinion. It's sad as hell we could have had a Wild West Far Cry or Blood Dragon 2, but instead we got "FC4: Ooga Booga Edition" where they spend thousands of dollars recreating an ancient language just to spoil it by giving the protagonist full GPS, wallhack vision, and the supernatural ability to control animals.
+PraiseTheSun20 It's the only one I ever played and I was still bored of the gameplay by the end. Blood Dragon was great but I just do not see what keeps people coming back to this series
+PraiseTheSun20 Yeah maybe my favorite too, mostly just because of its silliness and that it didn't drag on for too long. Or Far Cry 2, because it had some more daring ideas put into it. And no minimap glued to your HUD! How amazing is that!
The whole HUD and item collection stuff is the opposite thematically to what it should be. If you imagine a game based on being a caveman, what should stick out in your mind immediately? What kind of world do you want to be escaping to? - as little help as possible (no maps, not much inventory, hardly any carry equipment) - minimalistic but good music - much more spiritual than the modern world - based around family and cooperation - constant struggle for survival (high-level enemies, highly smart enemy AI which works together, having to be constantly alert) - food and warmth essential - becoming powerful is based on in-game discoveries of the locations of plants and animals - navigating by landmarks and the spoken word Sounds like this game is the opposite.
+stuckupcurlyguy The game has most of this stuff if you play it (the challenge and need to survive and be stronger, your trive, the music, etc, etc). About the map, you can disable the mini map (witch is anoying) and you find new stuff the more you explore.
Ah, AAA game design...taking novel ideas and diluting them with mundane, repetitive mechanics that have been done over and over to the point of making them and the game as a whole absolutely boring. That's a shame, but Ubisoft is easily one of the most egregious devs when it comes to bland game design. Also, one save slot!? Fuck that. I need dozens of save slots for almost every game because of that mantra "Save often and in different slots".
+Cactuar512 Personally I tend to have one save slot for the first playthrough, then one for a "completionist" playthrough. Then several saves for "just for fun" playthroughs. Thanks to Ubisoft and their trend of the one-save-slot, I don't feel like playing the game again after my completionist run, since all of that progress is gone when I want to begin a new game. I don't know why the hell they do that, honestly, why?
+GahMyEyes The first time needs to be the "completionist playthrough". Players can no longer have the possibility of missing content, and you need to fill out every progression path at once to become the Ultimate God King Badass by the end.
+Nison545 Same here. Every complaint listed in this video was a cynical complaint I made when Ubisoft first announced this pathetic little game's existence. For the first time I am sad to have been right.
I predict......Checklists, Outposts, Minimaps cluttered with icons, Radio Towers, a flamboyant and shocking bad guy who ends up feeling phoned in and pointless, Crafting, and finally, Microtransaction Lootboxes. If any one of those elements ISN'T in either game, I will be absolutely flabbergasted.
MwieZorro Morrowind didn't age well and new players can be easily alienated by the atrocious combat and lifeless Wiki dialogues. Oblivion was kind of ruined by level scaling, which broke immersion (bandits in glass armor) and defeated the point of an RPG.
marlonyo Really? I tried to get into Morrowind a while back, but couldn't get past the combat system. Do you know of any mods for that, mainly something that would remove the chance to miss and improve hit detection?
This is spot on. Many are deluded by the setting but the setting offers nothing but a beautiful imagination that is only in our mind and not played out on the screen.
I got excited for Far Cry Primal when it was first announced and then it was released like 2-3 months later and I realized it was money grab and not an attempt at a new instalment.
If they make a Far cry primal and Blood Dragon crossover, i'd buy it. Imagine shooting lasers from your eyes while riding a pterodactyl to destroy a terrorist cyber t-rex camp...The t-rexes would obviously have tiny AK-47s that shoot guns-shaped lasers
It is not a bad game, it is simply a soulless AAA example of modern game design. Instead of going all the way and actually developing a good melee system (which Condemned and Chronicles of Riddick got right 10 years ago) having some actual tracking and hunting skills for setting up traps and lures for enemies and animals, and doing away with all the modern Ubisoft open world bs (detective vision mini map hud etc) to give you a caveman simulator (like Ark) it is just a barebones effort despite the seemingly creative premise. Most people cite EA as beign evil but to be honest at least they have an agenda other than beign just by the numbers, souless crap like what Ubi does with their franchises
+GreenOnionBrother Same here. Enjoyed them both (Blood Dragon more than 3). And I had fun playing through 4. It sounds like Primal is a "wait until it's 20 bucks or less" deal. Which is fine, but it sounds like I'd be a bit miffed if I plunked down $60 for it on day 1.
AydarBMSTU It had a lot of different elements going against you (weapon degradation, malaria, etc.) Kinda reminded me of Stalker in a lot of ways. It was by no means perfect, but FC3 just felt like it was pandering to you in every way possible.
+DrearierSpider1 Far Cry 2 felt much more mature in some sense The setting was great, the combat was violent and visceral Even the jackal character and his biaised moral was good But all of these ideas were under exploited Instead far Cry 3 went on the road of over the top action, ecological disaster and animal cruelty
+Janootz It was going to be, but since Assassin's Creed is no longer a cash cow, Ubisoft needed something to replace the lost income, which is why Primal was beefed up with extra collectables and crap and shipped out as a full priced game, it was going to be a lower cost Blood Dragon before that.
+Janootz Yep, I think it would have been much better as a short experience, not padded out to "full game length". That would have been a good excuse for the lack of survival elements etc. as well. As it stands, it looks like an idea that they couldn't commit to fully.
You had me chuckling with the C-130 audio behind the owl. But I've been playing this game on hard with the map, prompts and reticle turned off and it sounds like it's much more fun when the map isn't streamlining you everywhere. It makes you listen for footsteps and actually scan the trees for enemies.
+ot63 Yes. Or simply pre-history. It sounds a bit odd, but it just means "History before we started writing shit down". Historic eras are often riddled with written accounts of the world, and its events. Making it way easier for us today to decipher. While records of pre-historic eras will have to stand on archaelogical evidence alone. There is a difference between the word historic, and history. As soon as writing was invented, we enter the historic era.
So now we know what UbiSoft is short for. Ubiquitous Software. Every game they make is the fuckin' same, all the mechanics shared across all of their games, even when it looks different. Lovely.
+Aedan Clarke The map reusing was really the icing on the cake. Ubishidiot, ladies and gentlemen, so concerned about the environment they recycle their games to completion.
+DeepSpaceBass1 That would mean firing the thousands of people that make up their international team of pipeline, something that leads to lots of stock dropping. I'm seriously waiting for the announcement of layoffs in large amounts because that IS what's going to happen, Divison, Siege and Blacklist along with Far Cry point to them wanting to make another golden little series like Assassin's Creed and not really knowing how to go about that, since for every one good idea they have two overly safe contradicting ideas killing it.
+vman339 No it wouldn't, it would require you to tell your staff to THINK UP AN ORIGINAL GAMEPLAY FORMULA other than clear the camp and do the campaign missions ad nauseum that is in every ubisoft game.
It's not my favorite game in the series and i do think Ubi should change and improve more mechanics in the sequel, but the HUD and collectathon doesn't really bother me. I feel like there's enough variety to keep it pretty fresh. If it was this similar to the previous 2 FC's with jungle or forresty terrain taking up a lot of the map, i'd be complaining more, but the stone age time period is one of my favorites in history, and i can't think of another game that's brought it to life this well. Even if it's not entirely accurate with things like sabertooth riding, lol. I'm willing to suspend disbelief because those things make it more fun.
+Dave Starr No, It's Skyrim with out magic. And based on an entirely different time period. And no rpg elements, instead a skill mill. So it's demonstrably not like skyrim.
I play this game with no minimap and the objective markers set to "smart", which hides them until you're a few dozen meters away. I'm also playing on Expert. With those settings, this game is a masterpiece, and my favorite Far Cry game by miles.
Ubisoft need to seriously go back to the drawing board, no more stupid towers, collectatons, repeated land masses and recycled gameplay from their earlier games. im so burnt out on ubisoft
I feel my relationship with shooters is now: Ooh its fun to hit that guy, ooh I shot him, the reaction animations feel great, oh boy this combat is amazing Oh shit I have to craft Oh shit I have to stealth Oh shit I have to manage a town UGH...shooters are usually only good at combat and story and if the crafting really only serves itself and not the combat/story than its essentially darn cookie clicker. Ugh I guess that was a jumbled weird rant whatever...
First thing I did was turn off all the HUD elements, with the exception of quest reminder thingie in the top left. Felt it really helped improve it. I found the characters a bit hard to care about because I was forced to pay attention to subtitles rather than them. I got the game for 40 on GMG, and I think 20 would have been far more fair. The animations are terrible, no good melee abilities like dodge, parry, etc meant I pretty much used the bow exclusively, and finally the PC port is only adequate at best. Needed another year of development to make the game feel properly fleshed out IMO.
You know what I think would be a unique setting for the next Far Cry game or any open-world game? The desert lands of Manchuria of China, around the 1930s. If you saw the movie THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD you know what I'm talking about. Also has anyone else notice that the Spear animation is pretty much the same as the Spear animation in the King Kong: Video Game.
Have you ever played UnReal World? It's a roguelike/survival game set in Iron Age Finland, I think that might have a bit more of what you were (sort of) hoping for this would've been.
+FreefTheUltimate I don't hear anything either. Just character-motions or something. He really should have just stood there and moved the mouse as to not have any other sounds.
Thank you for confirming my doubts, George. A lot of people asked me if I was going to play Primal because I love 4 so much. I was like, no weapons? Meh. I'll save my money and play through Blood Dragon instead lol
Skyrim with guns without guns
+Marty Mcfly Skyrim with spears.
+Marty Mcfly thanks kovic
+Russell Brown that's called skyrim.
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Far Cry 2 was more of a prehistoric game than this...It had minimal UI, a map that was drawn on paper, diseases that could kill you, and you couldn't understand a fucking word anyone said without subtitles.
Seriously, though, why did EVERY character speak in such a fast, rushed manner?
+Lian Vesdan I remember reading that the amount of audio would not fit on the disk, so they had to speed it all up.
2 Lainz I just assumed they were paying the voice actors by the hour.
Far Cry 2 is actually a pretty good game. It had a ton of potential but was bogged down by the A.I. and those constant respawning enemy outposts to a name a few of its cons.
Like a good game should be.
Games tend to treat you like you have Dow Syndrome:
"you go there where that auntie is and you do what she says and go where she points but since you could get lost while crossing this straight corridor i will grab you by your hand and when we finish it i will reward you an ice cream and tell you did a good job"
that airstrike thing was hilarious
AC-130 from COD MW2.
+THEAETIK It was actually from the first Modern Warfare
I stand corrected then.
Hey I know this comment is a year old or whatever, but my name is Keenan, and you're the first other person named keenan I've seen on TH-cam. Idk, just thought that was cool I guess.
Drone-strike OWLS!! :o
That Owl-C 130 sequence made me giggle.
+Your Friendly Yandere Awesome idea and very fun execution. Kudos to George, it's a good joke.
+Your Friendly Yandere Good kill, good kill...
_The owls are not what they seem!!_ :o
George sounds so done and jaded with games. It's great.
+VapidMaus These aren't games. They're products.
+VapidMaus I don't think he's jaded with games, he's certainly jaded with same-y corporate games. Check his recent Superhot review to see him giddy as an 8-year-old because he found something that actually surprised him.
+cwookdev nailed it. products. and we're not gamers anymore, we are consumers.
+VapidMaus He sounds done and jaded with Ubisoft games.
+VapidMaus Same here. I've been playing games since 2001 and I'm starting to feel the weariness. FPS was the first genre that I started to feel the fatigue, the RTS lost its luster soon after and now RPGs and Third Person games are starting to showing severe cracks of familiarity.
Just yesterday I spent my night alternating between playing several games, making scale models and watching videos with each activity lasting around 20-40 minutes. The Witcher 3 and MGV The Phantom Pain are the only games last year that were able to get me play each of them for over 200 hours straight without getting distracted by other games.
I have giggled way too hard at the Tactical Owl.
Call of duty 4: MW 's legendary Gunship mission. :DD
I honestly thought they'd do AC: Primal before anything else. Just imagine cavemen fighting Templars over the Rock of Eden.
+Strider119119 doesn't make any sense
+Ergo Voyager I'm sure Ubisoft would try to make it work.
Lol
And now Assassin's Creed Odyssey exists lol
thedarklordx FUCKING UBISOFT WILL DO EVERY IDEA EXCEPT FOR JAPAN they seriously are saving for when they get bankrupt
"I could be playing FarCry 3 right now"
+Pyrocynical Furries aren't allowed to play Far Cry 3. ;)
+PumpalerroPops You're completely right, only tasteless swine play Farcry 3
damm didnt expect to see pyro here
It's like Skyrim, with gu-.... wait
+CreepsMcPasta I accidentally "stole" your joke.
it's like Skyrim with guns but without guns
yes it is confusing
+Helmstif, the Sarcastic Asianman
skyrim wasnt this bland or boring
+CreepsMcPasta but it's with spears!
+CreepsMcPasta It's like Skyrim, but less fun!
Ubisoft. Ubisoft never changes.
War , War never changes
It's no longer about fun, crativity, inovation.
FernestHall At least Rainbow Six: Siege is really good, and For Honor is a lot of fun. Probably not gonna buy another sandbox game from them though.
And after four year I hope they dont. Because I am enjoying their games far more than those scripted shit Rockstar Games are releasing or any other open world video games.
I thought you would mention that this game was actually a different game, not a Far Cry game, and that the creator of the that game was fired from Ubisoft and they took his game and made it a Far Cry game.
it's worth mentioning that the creator who got fired is working independently on a game with the same idea, and it's called Wild.
Cool !.. I didn't know that.. thanks for the Info !
Cancelled :(
so they WERE thrown out the window
Enemy owl-c-130 above ?
Was interested in the title, but afraid Ubisoft would water it down like they always do these days.
The points brought up here don't surprise me in the least but I still feel let down. The worst part is that Ubisoft will look at the mediocre reception the game got and they will not think "I guess our worn out formula can only work this many times. We will actually bring something new next time!" but instead "People don't like the setting, that's why it flopped. Back to the usual stuff then."
Fallout 3: Oblivion with guns
Skyrim: Fallout 3 without guns
Far Cry 3: Skyrim with guns
Far Cry Primal: Far Cry without guns
Far Cry 3=Fallout 3?
Skyrim=Far Cry Primal?
0_o
+hopscotchoblivion IS A CONSPIRACY!
+hopscotchoblivion Skyrim = Far Cry Vikings
inb4 Far Cry Vikings = Skyrim without magic (or Dragons).
hopscotchoblivion
Illuminati conformed!
Far Cry Primal: Oblivion with guns without guns with guns without guns
The owl segment with _Call of Duty 4_ sounds made my day. Fucking Brilliant!
:DDD
Laughed so hard with the eagle part with CoD sound hahaha. Great review as always. And the game is actually set in an ancient Kyrat.
+Rui Ataide Yeah that Part was Pure Gold :D
+Rui Ataide That was an owl, dude. It's kinda sad that you recognized the sound but not the animal...
+Rui Ataide "Clear to engage!"
+Rui Ataide That's an owl. Anyway, I guess it is set in Kyrat. But why did it say Central Europe?
+dudelookslikeagirl I know its an owl I was just distracted while writting the comment and wrote eagle
Lol that owl shit was hilarious.
Wait, who didn't like Blood Dragon?
+Legather It was ok but same problems any Ubi game has.
+mustekkala Not really, the open worldy stuff wasn't intrusive
Blood Dragon was great. It was also only 15 bucks and 4 hours long. I think it says a lot about a boring, overused formula when the four hour spin-off is the only way to keep it fresh for an entire game.
Greetings from the future. What possible problem would a supposed "SJW" have with Blood Dragon?
Nick Hunter sjw is the new boogie man, it just means "someone who disagrees with me" at this point.
I can't say I agree with you at all here. Turn off the HUD and turn the difficult up to expert and Primal becomes an entirely different game. The audio and art design do an amazing job of encouraging immersion. I have played all of the previous Far Cry games and I have to say this is my favourite. It may even end up as my game of the year. Far Cry: Primal gives you the freedom to approach the game in the way that you want. My approach was as an immersive survival game and as such I found it highly enjoyable.
I remember seeing the cover art for this game everywhere when it came out and being pretty excited. I'm only just now doing my first play-through though. I started it on Survival mode and it's just the right amount of thrilling, terrifying and exciting kind of a primitive, gritty, gory, explorative survivor I was hoping it would be. This game is honestly fantastic!
So, You have done some of the most thoughtful, insightful reviews I have ever had the pleasure to watch. But... well, this review made me think of what frank Sinatra singing a medley of AC DC's greatest hits would be like.
As someone who didn't play much of Far Cry 3, and didn't play the 4th one at all, I found Primal to be quite fun. Chucking spears at people is fun, and I thought the melee felt meaty enough. A dodge function would have been pretty good though.
I think genre fatigue plays a big importance in the enjoyment of any Ubi sandbox these days. It can be fun to pick one up here or there, but if you play every release they put out I can see how it can turn into a real slog.
It also didn't hurt that I got it for about 30 bucks.
Got it from friend...as gift.
Got it for 9 quid
@@JBW_UK Now that sounds like a pretty good deal :)
Weaverdrone yeah mate. Been after it since it came out and just ended up forgetting about it. Really enjoying it tho. Pity for the people that think a game can’t be good just cuz it doesn’t have guns in it.
got the game for about 18 on Amazon new and gotta say I enjoyed it as much as this comment section did besides story for me but gameplay and map is good
The next Far Cry games:
Far Cry: Medieval
Far Cry: Western
Far Cry: Industrial Age
Far Cry: Space
+epicgamer9000 id actually like a far cry western..
+ThreeDaysOfDan We already have Call Of Juarez.
I'd actually enjoy the Space variant if they get the combat right, don't have checklist-objectives, some sort of market/building system to pick a home planet... y'know, not Farcry. (Here's to hoping Star Citizen succeeds.)
+damon22441 collect seven nanograms of antimatter to open the quantum gate
climb the quantum gate to unlock the Comcast™ Xfinity™ Speed challenge to unlock a mini-nuke. spend your XP to unlock the Ubisoft Uplay Fun Store, and buy the DLC to use the mininuke.
+epicgamer9000 Space or Western could be interesting.
CoD4 reference was pretty hilarious.
Glad i've skipped those recent Far Cry and Assassins Creed games. Mediocracy taken to a new level.
+Din Mammma They'll probably try and monetise disappointment for all you know, watch out.
+RawAustin Gaming Play 3, its good. everything after it is gash
George made a video about this exact topic. It's called ***How Design Trends Ruin Great Games***. Basically talks about how almost every AAA game today is somewhat action based, with a light progression system and some degree of open world with contextual controls and a weapon wheel. He used The Evil Within as an example of this 'homogenisation' of games.
+Michael Crowe This. Far Cry 3 recieved a full four years development time. FC4 and Primal received less than two years each. This is why FC4 felt like a reskin of FC3, and Primal felt like a reskin of FC4. FC3 compared to its successors had by far the best storytelling, most intelligent missions, most entertaining characters, best voice acting, and basically best everything sans pure graphical prowess. I just wish Ubisoft would give a full four years to the next iteration, or we'll be playing the same reskinned game over and over again for the next decade.
***** Absolutely agreed. Far Cry without the gunplay is just an awful, awful idea in my opinion. It's sad as hell we could have had a Wild West Far Cry or Blood Dragon 2, but instead we got "FC4: Ooga Booga Edition" where they spend thousands of dollars recreating an ancient language just to spoil it by giving the protagonist full GPS, wallhack vision, and the supernatural ability to control animals.
Blood Dragon was definitely the best in the series at least.
+PraiseTheSun20 It's the only one I ever played and I was still bored of the gameplay by the end. Blood Dragon was great but I just do not see what keeps people coming back to this series
+PraiseTheSun20 Yeah maybe my favorite too, mostly just because of its silliness and that it didn't drag on for too long. Or Far Cry 2, because it had some more daring ideas put into it. And no minimap glued to your HUD! How amazing is that!
Indeed but FC3 was great too
Fc2 was best
I love that "Quest for Fire" was mentioned; such an underrated film!
9:15 Gotta love the fact you took that our of CoD 4
Every time I see a video from you in my feed it feels like Christmas :)
Stating that a modern Ubisoft game is UBIquitous is just so painfully true. At least I understand their name now.
The whole HUD and item collection stuff is the opposite thematically to what it should be.
If you imagine a game based on being a caveman, what should stick out in your mind immediately? What kind of world do you want to be escaping to?
- as little help as possible (no maps, not much inventory, hardly any carry equipment)
- minimalistic but good music
- much more spiritual than the modern world
- based around family and cooperation
- constant struggle for survival (high-level enemies, highly smart enemy AI which works together, having to be constantly alert)
- food and warmth essential
- becoming powerful is based on in-game discoveries of the locations of plants and animals
- navigating by landmarks and the spoken word
Sounds like this game is the opposite.
+stuckupcurlyguy The game has most of this stuff if you play it (the challenge and need to survive and be stronger, your trive, the music, etc, etc). About the map, you can disable the mini map (witch is anoying) and you find new stuff the more you explore.
it's like skyrim without guns!
+Tagxo platnumberg i was hoping to find this comment.
+Tagxo platnumberg And 10 times worse.
+Tagxo platnumberg troll
Wait Far Cry without guns?
Don't you mean Skyrim? :P
^ this
+The Bellman Far Cry Primal: "Like Skyrim - with worse melee combat!". Rejoice?
+The Bellman Far Cry Primal - Skyrim with guns but now without guns
No that's bethesda's fallout without guns
Ah, AAA game design...taking novel ideas and diluting them with mundane, repetitive mechanics that have been done over and over to the point of making them and the game as a whole absolutely boring. That's a shame, but Ubisoft is easily one of the most egregious devs when it comes to bland game design.
Also, one save slot!? Fuck that. I need dozens of save slots for almost every game because of that mantra "Save often and in different slots".
+Cactuar512 Personally I tend to have one save slot for the first playthrough, then one for a "completionist" playthrough. Then several saves for "just for fun" playthroughs. Thanks to Ubisoft and their trend of the one-save-slot, I don't feel like playing the game again after my completionist run, since all of that progress is gone when I want to begin a new game. I don't know why the hell they do that, honestly, why?
+Cactuar512 desearia poder decir que opino diferente ;n;
+GahMyEyes The first time needs to be the "completionist playthrough". Players can no longer have the possibility of missing content, and you need to fill out every progression path at once to become the Ultimate God King Badass by the end.
The part with the owl and the CoD 4 gunship dialogue cracked me up. Great stuff.
I feel like a fucking psychic when it comes to predicting what Ubisoft games will be like.
+Nison545 Same here. Every complaint listed in this video was a cynical complaint I made when Ubisoft first announced this pathetic little game's existence. For the first time I am sad to have been right.
LOL can we do a little exercise please??
How will the next Far Cry or AC be like?
spoiler alert: they're all shit
I predict......Checklists, Outposts, Minimaps cluttered with icons, Radio Towers, a flamboyant and shocking bad guy who ends up feeling phoned in and pointless, Crafting, and finally, Microtransaction Lootboxes.
If any one of those elements ISN'T in either game, I will be absolutely flabbergasted.
What, you mean shite?
"Witcher senses" is basically detective mode.
which is pretty much eagle vision
stupid productions
Except Detective Vision is actually useful.
***** yea
Far Cry Primal - Like Skyrim without magic, swords and monsters.
+Max Payne and no fun either
+Max Payne I wonder if any Skyrim-fan even played Oblivion or Morrowind, because Skyrim is just as bland, repetative and boring.
MwieZorro Morrowind didn't age well and new players can be easily alienated by the atrocious combat and lifeless Wiki dialogues. Oblivion was kind of ruined by level scaling, which broke immersion (bandits in glass armor) and defeated the point of an RPG.
+Max Payne all the stuff in morrowind can now be sovel by mods i never got mods that where able to fix skyrim for me
marlonyo Really? I tried to get into Morrowind a while back, but couldn't get past the combat system. Do you know of any mods for that, mainly something that would remove the chance to miss and improve hit detection?
Predator OWL ready for deployment!
After buying farcry 4 I am so skeptical to buy Ubisoft games. It literally feels like they are just re-skinning their maps game after game.
+Corbin March They've been doing that for far longer.
They need a new driver game
This is spot on. Many are deluded by the setting but the setting offers nothing but a beautiful imagination that is only in our mind and not played out on the screen.
I got excited for Far Cry Primal when it was first announced and then it was released like 2-3 months later and I realized it was money grab and not an attempt at a new instalment.
If they make a Far cry primal and Blood Dragon crossover, i'd buy it. Imagine shooting lasers from your eyes while riding a pterodactyl to destroy a terrorist cyber t-rex camp...The t-rexes would obviously have tiny AK-47s that shoot guns-shaped lasers
*raises hand* Excuse me but are the lasers gun shaped or do they shoot lasers in the shape of guns?
They shoot lasers that look like guns, obviously
Someone please give this man a game studio.
+Cookie the Cutter i have an artistic vision, and I intend to keep it
OR OR OR:
They shoot guns that shoot guns that shoot guns that shoot bullets.
It is not a bad game, it is simply a soulless AAA example of modern game design. Instead of going all the way and actually developing a good melee system (which Condemned and Chronicles of Riddick got right 10 years ago) having some actual tracking and hunting skills for setting up traps and lures for enemies and animals, and doing away with all the modern Ubisoft open world bs (detective vision mini map hud etc) to give you a caveman simulator (like Ark) it is just a barebones effort despite the seemingly creative premise. Most people cite EA as beign evil but to be honest at least they have an agenda other than beign just by the numbers, souless crap like what Ubi does with their franchises
+Raul Vito
I think you pretty much summed it up pretty well.
9:28 "Good kill, I see a lot of little pieces down there"
"Oopsie-daisy"
"You think that guy's pissed?"
"Nah, he's scared shitless"
So basically, its a Ubisoft game. Different setting, same generic gameplay and story.
correct
Look up "Ubisoft game" review
It's several years old but even more relevant.
Andre A I saw that the other day. So true.
+Andre A ''Look up "Ubisoft game" review'' - where?
Andre A yeah link it in a comment i wanna see it
Finally! A proper review!
right? nice to see ign and gamespot haven't brainwashed everybody.
Wesley Tomsky Well I haven't even found their reviews yet (before this one came out).
Can't wait for the Far Cry Primal: BloodRaptor spin off.
I lost it at 9:20. Great stuff, mate.
I liked Blood Dragon. To be fair, I got both FC3 and Blood Dragon when they were heavily discounted.
+GreenOnionBrother Same here. Enjoyed them both (Blood Dragon more than 3). And I had fun playing through 4. It sounds like Primal is a "wait until it's 20 bucks or less" deal. Which is fine, but it sounds like I'd be a bit miffed if I plunked down $60 for it on day 1.
Far Cry Primal is a reskin of Far Cry 4, which is a carbon copy of Far Cry 3, which is a dumbed down, "pander to the peasants" version of Far Cry 2.
+DrearierSpider1 Finally someone said it! Thank you!
How can something as dumb as Far Cry 2 be dumbed down? That game was a mess!
+AydarBMSTU Far Cry 2 had great ideas i think, but the actual realisation of those where quite the mess sadly yeah.
AydarBMSTU
It had a lot of different elements going against you (weapon degradation, malaria, etc.) Kinda reminded me of Stalker in a lot of ways. It was by no means perfect, but FC3 just felt like it was pandering to you in every way possible.
+DrearierSpider1 Far Cry 2 felt much more mature in some sense
The setting was great, the combat was violent and visceral
Even the jackal character and his biaised moral was good
But all of these ideas were under exploited
Instead far Cry 3 went on the road of over the top action, ecological disaster and animal cruelty
If this was 1.4x the length of Blood Dragon and focused on the story with a $20 price point it would be more appealing.
+Whirlwind Spiral 30$ maybe?
This really should've been Far Cry 4's Blood Dragon.
+Janootz
It should have, yeah.
+Janootz It was going to be, but since Assassin's Creed is no longer a cash cow, Ubisoft needed something to replace the lost income, which is why Primal was beefed up with extra collectables and crap and shipped out as a full priced game, it was going to be a lower cost Blood Dragon before that.
+Janootz Yep, I think it would have been much better as a short experience, not padded out to "full game length".
That would have been a good excuse for the lack of survival elements etc. as well. As it stands, it looks like an idea that they couldn't commit to fully.
They re-used more than sounds and animations - the map is the same, too.
+IVIaskerade okay now thats a load of bullshit
www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/03/03/far-cry-primal-recycled-far-cry-4s-entire-map-layout/#649298155641
+IVIaskerade He mentioned it.
+ThreeDaysOfDan someone didn't watch the video
Holly shit i stand corrected! Thats some bullshit . I still dont get why ubi charged full fucking price
Thank you for reviewing this so timely but doing such a solid job.
Just found you're channel, and I'm glad I did!!!
You had me chuckling with the C-130 audio behind the owl. But I've been playing this game on hard with the map, prompts and reticle turned off and it sounds like it's much more fun when the map isn't streamlining you everywhere. It makes you listen for footsteps and actually scan the trees for enemies.
Prehistoric history? u wot
+ot63 Yes. Or simply pre-history. It sounds a bit odd, but it just means "History before we started writing shit down". Historic eras are often riddled with written accounts of the world, and its events. Making it way easier for us today to decipher. While records of pre-historic eras will have to stand on archaelogical evidence alone. There is a difference between the word historic, and history. As soon as writing was invented, we enter the historic era.
Lol
Farcry without guns? You mean Skyrim?
That Civ 3 music was nostalgia. Perfect soundtrack to the review.
As someone who reviewed the game a few weeks ago, I can finally feel a fleeting sense of legitimacy by watching your video. Thanks, George!
I find it funny that we're now considering video game sequels to be meaningful past mechanics. That's rarely the case.
You're on a roll with these reviews, and its only March.
So now we know what UbiSoft is short for. Ubiquitous Software. Every game they make is the fuckin' same, all the mechanics shared across all of their games, even when it looks different. Lovely.
+Aedan Clarke The map reusing was really the icing on the cake. Ubishidiot, ladies and gentlemen, so concerned about the environment they recycle their games to completion.
+Aedan Clarke Even Just Dance?
PE for 3 Well, obviously. It's plain to see, isn't it? WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
Aedan Clarke Ubisoft #Exposed
That COD owl joke was just Hilarious but it did also prove your point very nicely.
Ubisoft just needs to put the fucking Ubisoft formula away and reevaluate themselves.
+DeepSpaceBass1 That would mean firing the thousands of people that make up their international team of pipeline, something that leads to lots of stock dropping.
I'm seriously waiting for the announcement of layoffs in large amounts because that IS what's going to happen, Divison, Siege and Blacklist along with Far Cry point to them wanting to make another golden little series like Assassin's Creed and not really knowing how to go about that, since for every one good idea they have two overly safe contradicting ideas killing it.
+vman339 No it wouldn't, it would require you to tell your staff to THINK UP AN ORIGINAL GAMEPLAY FORMULA other than clear the camp and do the campaign missions ad nauseum that is in every ubisoft game.
I love the audio from the CoD 4 AC130 mission during the owl thing.
Wait, "car engine revving"?? That's not...I just heard a drum beat.
+TheScyphozoa Turn up your volume. Before the drum beat there's a revving sound, but it isn't that loud.
+dudelookslikeagirl Ah, I didn't hear that sound before. But STILL, it doesn't sound much like an engine. More like a wooden scraping sound.
YOR'S WORLD HE'S THE MAAAAN YOR'S WORLD HE'S THE MAAAAN!
skyrim with gun without guns
IGN-"Literally Skyrim"
Fantastic review as always George! Even in something as redundant as far cry, you still manage to have a fresh perspective every single time. Cheers!
"Greatest sin is that it's boring" Eh i think it's quite a lot of fun,
It's not my favorite game in the series and i do think Ubi should change and improve more mechanics in the sequel, but the HUD and collectathon doesn't really bother me. I feel like there's enough variety to keep it pretty fresh. If it was this similar to the previous 2 FC's with jungle or forresty terrain taking up a lot of the map, i'd be complaining more, but the stone age time period is one of my favorites in history, and i can't think of another game that's brought it to life this well. Even if it's not entirely accurate with things like sabertooth riding, lol. I'm willing to suspend disbelief because those things make it more fun.
Karoosh the Warrior sounds like a typical Magic the Gathering goblin legend. Also: One save slot, good to know they didn't learn from Watch Dogs.
"It's Far Cry without guns." So it's Skyrim?
+Dave Starr That would be an insult to Skyrim.
It's okay buddy... I get the joke.
+Dave Starr Oblivion with guns (Fallout 3) without guns (Skyrim) with guns (Fallout 4) without guns.
+Dave Starr No, It's Skyrim with out magic. And based on an entirely different time period. And no rpg elements, instead a skill mill. So it's demonstrably not like skyrim.
Clearly no one remembers the time when everyone was shouting "It's like Skyrim with guns!" about FC3.
Another spot on video with nice touches of irony, well done as usual ;)
Don't fall for the myth of the Noble Savage.
Dying over here, that Call of Duty audio sample is killing me. This is overall one of the best game reviews I've heard in a long time.
I don't hear the car engine revving.
It's very quiet, you've gotta watch (or play, presumably) with headphones to hear it
Excelent review george! really missed you, keep it up!
George is like the opposite of IGN.
+Bo Hillers What - good?
+breasthound Honest?
+Herp Derpminador Ethical?
+Bo Hillers Non-casual?
+Bo Hillers A periodist?
Wow. How did I just notice that was a cameo of Yor, Hunter From the Future. Good to know George has an excellent taste in cinema.
Now I want to replay Blood Dragon
Totally! Such a fantastic game!
I play this game with no minimap and the objective markers set to "smart", which hides them until you're a few dozen meters away. I'm also playing on Expert. With those settings, this game is a masterpiece, and my favorite Far Cry game by miles.
Ubisoft need to seriously go back to the drawing board, no more stupid towers, collectatons, repeated land masses and recycled gameplay from their earlier games. im so burnt out on ubisoft
as usual thanks for your work on this video. always look forward to your perspective and how you frame it.
I feel my relationship with shooters is now:
Ooh its fun to hit that guy, ooh I shot him, the reaction animations feel great, oh boy this combat is amazing
Oh shit I have to craft
Oh shit I have to stealth
Oh shit I have to manage a town
UGH...shooters are usually only good at combat and story
and if the crafting really only serves itself and not the combat/story than its essentially darn cookie clicker.
Ugh I guess that was a jumbled weird rant whatever...
The owl drone sequence was easily the best thing I've seen all day.
It's "meh".. Sorry for my bad scottish
First thing I did was turn off all the HUD elements, with the exception of quest reminder thingie in the top left. Felt it really helped improve it.
I found the characters a bit hard to care about because I was forced to pay attention to subtitles rather than them.
I got the game for 40 on GMG, and I think 20 would have been far more fair. The animations are terrible, no good melee abilities like dodge, parry, etc meant I pretty much used the bow exclusively, and finally the PC port is only adequate at best. Needed another year of development to make the game feel properly fleshed out IMO.
I think if they made it a small 30€ spin-off like Blood Dragon it would've worked much better.
You know what I think would be a unique setting for the next Far Cry game or any open-world game? The desert lands of Manchuria of China, around the 1930s. If you saw the movie THE GOOD, THE BAD, THE WEIRD you know what I'm talking about.
Also has anyone else notice that the Spear animation is pretty much the same as the Spear animation in the King Kong: Video Game.
9:15 Oh god, that was hilarious
Great channel dude, great review, refreshing honesty...
Have you ever played UnReal World? It's a roguelike/survival game set in Iron Age Finland, I think that might have a bit more of what you were (sort of) hoping for this would've been.
Am I the only one who can't hear the "car's engine revving"? At 10:55. th-cam.com/video/WKDhuFliFB8/w-d-xo.htmlm55s .
I don't hear it either. I think it is more like the sound of cloth whipping around.
+FreefTheUltimate There certainly isn't one. Either that or George specifically meant the starter key turning sound.
+FreefTheUltimate I don't hear anything either. Just character-motions or something. He really should have just stood there and moved the mouse as to not have any other sounds.
Thank you for confirming my doubts, George. A lot of people asked me if I was going to play Primal because I love 4 so much. I was like, no weapons? Meh. I'll save my money and play through Blood Dragon instead lol
Far cry = skyrim with guns. Far cry - guns = Far Cry Primal. Far Cry Primal = Skyrim???
+Joe if you added magic maybe
+Joe
Wrong. Fallout = Skyrim + guns
Far Cry = Sh*tty sandbox game.
+ReynoldSparkton Fallout 3 to 4 = Skyrim + guns * thank you very much.
+ReynoldSparkton
Fallout 3 & 4 = New Vegas is better, stop wasting your time
The owl flying with the AC130 audio from Modern Warfare had me fucking dying.
ah, triple A games, where ideas go to die.
The sight of Yor: Hunter of the Future makes me wonder if Bunnyhop is a Spoony fan.
Yor's world, he's the man!
Far Cry 3 is worth a play, the others not so much... Though I will say this game intrigues me...
Its so good with survival mode and expert difficulty xD