What's Been Going On With Far Cry 5's DLC?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.พ. 2019
- This is a video review and critique of Far Cry 5's DLC. It tries to puzzle out how they came to be, what they have to do with the rest of the franchise, and if they're a memorable way to spend time.
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I know the setting isn't exotic to you but as someone living in suburban Dublin miles of bear infested North American forest is pretty darn exotic to me. I know its the kind of thing people say without thinking but remember the game is being played by people all over the world.
As someone whose backyard looks like Witcher 3's no mans land, I found far cry 5's world to be quite a nice change.
Overall enjoyed the game despite its flaws too.
It had a better setting than FC4 as well, that kind of tried to push "exotic" to 11, didn't work out so well far as im concerned. Enjoyed FC5s setting quite a bit more.
Agreed.
Fair point.
I think they say that because you can find forests and grass lands in alot more places in the world than you can find jungle islands or the Himalayan mountain tops.
Honestly the arcade of all things has been a better enjoyment extender than any of the dlc combined just with how great it's map creator is.
the multiplayer combat however is a bit broken, considering the optimal strategy is just to find an automatic weapon and wave it vaguely in the direction of your enemy's head
well intil the zombie dlc came out, everyone start putting zombie into there maps but they didn't give enough ammo to fucking deal with the zombie and the zombie just felt like bullshit to deal with, also i never got any of the dlc.
Sadly it’s said to not be returning in new dawn :(
More For Honor u bastard
tannerroxursox it's not returning in new Dawn because new Dawn isn't a main series game, it's a spin-off title
It all stems from a poll Ubisoft ran about future locations for Farcry back in 2015. The choices were:
A Far Cry game in remote Alaska about surviving extreme wilderness
A Far Cry game in a futuristic, sci-fi setting on another planet
A Far Cry game set in the Vietnam war during the 1960s
A Far Cry game set in the cocaine trafficking jungles of Peru
A Far Cry game where you can fight against or join vampires
A Far Cry game in the Spaghetti Western style set in the late 19th century Americas
A Far Cry game that is set during a zombie outbreak
Blood Dragon 2. A sequel to Blood Dragon with more Rex Power Colt
A Far Cry game set in a Mad Max style post-apocalyptic world
A Far Cry game in the present day, set in a Jurassic Park Style island of dinosaurs
A Far Cry game based on the world of Shangri-La from Far Cry 4
I wouldn't mine Alaska or peru or Vietnam
A western Farcry doesn't sound half bad
Western farcry would be awesome. Also a zombie one would be nice if done right. Like your prayers of the military and have to clear out a city or something
A Western Far Cry at this point would be relentlessly compared to RDR2 & it wouldn't have a chance of holding up. I feel like they used the Central American drug trade idea on Ghost Recon Wildlands. Alaska sounds interesting though. I honestly wouldn't mind the vampire one either.
@@ChaosRaych I liked rdr2s story and graphics but the gameplay and missions weren't that great tbh, I think farcrys gameplay would be more fun
a crab + massive damage
b o y no you didn't
so here's a giant enemy crab
It's exotic to people who don't live in America. Or even those who have never been to that corner of the country.
Very good point. 👍🏻
Damn, an episode running under a HALF-hour? Never thought I'd see that from you, sir.
I remember when people released like 25 minute videos and were like "If you don't have time to watch this behemoth of a video in one sitting, I've left timestamps in the description"
I would LOVE to see a stand alone Far Cry Vietnam game or an open world Vietnam game in general. It’s such a dark moment in American history and was absolute pure hell.
It could work if they made it more dark and morally ambiguous like FC2. But these days Ubisoft would probably not be able to help themselves but to make the blood-soaked jungles of 'Nam into a wacky fun-ride.
It would be bold if they let you play as the Vietnamese, but I doubt they would do that.
Not I read the things we carried and I absolutely loved it. Not because it was dark, but because it was complex with no real right answers and it gave this sense of raw realism with its different character’s different musings and interpretations of events. The guy thinking about his friend sinking into the septic run off was one thing that had a depth of meaning all to it’s own, while there were things like the solders nice interactions with an old Vietnamese man, or the morality of fighting for something you do not particularly believe in (that last one really stuck to me because it didn’t just preach the cliche ‘only fight for what you believe in’ narrative but it delved into what it meant to do something you didn’t want to do because respecting the law means that you can’t always choose what you want to respect, as well as the role of peer pressure).
Not I'm not sure that an open world game would really work in Vietnam, but they could make a game set in Vietnam with an amazing story. Though I am not sure that Ubisoft could pull it off.
Rightt im tired of seeing games about ww2 i miss some of the old school Vietnam games then need to make more games about Vietnam change it up alittle
I won't ever play it. But damned if I won't watch you review it!
This. And yet there's some things he's reviewed that I ended up playing because of what he said.
For me, it was Fear.
I have this vision of him scribbling ideas for future reviews between making pizzas. Every once in a while going out the back to smoke a reefer.
And I would probably like the pizzas he made even if I didn't normally like the toppings.
This man has the gift of gab. Reminds me of Terence Mckenna.
John Russo only wrote the initial script for RotLD, which was heavily rewritten by its eventual writer/director Dan O'Bannon, and most of that mentioned comic, slapstic lightheartedness comes from his rewrite, not Russo's, wanted to point that out
That doesn't fit the narrative.
Best use of giant enemy crab meme. Another job well done.
The season pass was the biggest waste of money I have ever spent
Cod Brothers so true like wtf aliens and zombies but its fking boring shit
Cod Brothers good thing I got the standard edition instead
a true cash grab
they dont know what to do with the game
Local Man says more about bold American media than said bold American media cares to say itself
In fairness, it's bold Canadian media trying to parrot bold American media concerns.
@@Alexander_Kunitz BOLD LIBERIAN MEDIA SAYS EBOLA JUST WESTERN PROPAGANDA
It's always a treat to see you upload :)
And there are 3 more videos coming... hell yeah
wait what? Like this month or week?
@@darklsn The original plan was to release 4 videos that Noah postponed because of various reasons, but he had problems uploading because of snow in his town so... we just have to wait.
@@Josefo99 I'm Excited
Was just about to ask, he usually uploads 1 biggie or 2 smaller ones. 4 vids on 1 month is better than i expected
Well this just made my week already lmao
I was watching your ME Trilogy Retrospective last night, for the umpteenth time, and wondered when we'd be gifted with more content. This is great, dude. Even if it's not your usual long form content. Been waiting for this for about a month.
Edit: Did I mention a franchise retrospective of Fable would be a dream come true? Just up to 3. No need to play that "Fable: The Journey" Kinect garbage.
Ubisoft just need to get working on the one thing we all want to see.
Blood Dragon 2
A wild question you guys, how would people feel if Noah did a retro review on Dawn of War and its expansions (Dark Crusade, Soul Storm, Winter assault and so on)?
Or even better on the whole series and how it fell apart
@@leejuicy He could but my fear is that he wouldn't be able to go into as much detail on the first one and its expansions if he decided to do all of the first one and its expansions, then the second and its expansions and finally the third and its expansio- ow wait. Anyways its a nice idea but I feel that the video would be better if he just focused on the first and it expansions with the possibility of the others later on.
I'd be interested to hear what he has to say on them. Replaying the first one last year for a video taught me a bit more on moving out of my comfort zone when it comes to RTS gameplay.
I love Far Cry 5, one of my favorite games of all time. I think it was very worth the $60 and had a good time with it.
But oh my god the Far Cry 5 DLC is some of the worst AAA gameplay I've ever experienced. The Vietnam one was kind of ok, but the other two feel like they don't know what fun is. It's very obvious that Ubi did not give a fuck about the quality of the DLC.
No matter how much I stress that it's awful, the first time you play it you'll still be astounded at how bad these DLC's are.
Same with me.
Far Cry 5 was one of the best games of 2018 for me, but the DLC is just... horrible.
I liked "Lost on Mars" but the other ones were just a waste of money.
Blood dragon and Valley of The Yetis are probably the only 2 good DLC's
Congrats on 100k my dude. You're very good at this!
Listening to Noah and Mauler breakdown video games and movies has been keeping me quite entertained lately.
I want You to talk about Resident Evil 2 and Mortal Kombat.
Missed your 'review's good to see ya back :3
some of the best content on youtube. Thank you!
Based entirely on New Dawn’s trailers, we’ve exited historical subtext and gone straight to the Mad Max weirdness. I can’t even tell if the new villains represent anything beyond “chaotic and proud”
The script of thie video is incredibly well written, you got a sub outta me :)
Been waiting forever for a new NCG piece! Got something good to listen to on my drive from D to H-town :)
hello fellow texan
I do love how much juice you get out of things I wouldn't play. I love when you review games I like, but it's more interesting that you can explore something I have no interest in and encourage rumination.
Pretty neat of TH-cam to not let me know that you've uploaded since December. Awesome.
Great rhythm in your words. It reminds me very much of the old radio speakers. Such a delight. 🙂
Noah, I am always happy to see you. Take all the time you need。
I liked the Vietnam dlc, the others were okay. For the price, really good value.
Great stuff as always :)
I love your videos Noah!! And I actually have met Tim O’Brien and received a signed copy of The Things They Carried
Welcome back, Noah!
I liked the mp34, vehicles and costumes that came with the Vietnam dlc. I started up a new play through of the base game just to play as a vietnamese person tearing through the U.S.
Thanks Noah for the analysis although I haven't played these and probably never will your insights are interesting to me
Your analysis was well thought out, accurate, but one thing you may have overlooked, regarding the Vietnam DLC, is in the main game, a guy asks you to find 12 lighters that were his buddies as he's the last one of his unit still alive, and wants to ensure these lighters are secure.
Most would immediately think, I am not combing a county sized map, spending many many hours looking for some damn lighters.
The point of the story is to give you context as to why these lighters are important, and once you gain perspective, the reward is not the cache, but doing something for a veteran who has barely survived hell, lost friends, all while collecting tokens so that those men are never forgotten, at least by their brother Marine, and while he's old and that's old history, that old Marine is still there for some random moments every day, and there for hours every night. Those lighters would represent some closure, and those who live with, and love enough to tolerate a severe PTSD vet, would get those lighters without hesitation, because they know they represent the stuff their vet can't talk about.
Now that might pull at your heart strings, but as a severe combat PTSD veteran, I quickly realized that awhile on the surface, that would appear to be what the devs were going for, in fact, their motivation was trying to get players motivated, by putting them in the Marine's shoes, in reality they put a lot of effort into a boring overly long fetch quest, that is forgettable at best.
Shawn Kendrick that was amazing. Bravo😊
Mans dropping giant enemy crab references in 2019 what a legend
Congrats on 100k -- but you deserve at least 4-500k imo... please keep up the amazing content.
"gaming's own superfund sites"
that line made me laugh, thank you.
Needs a banter frequency slider. Baldur's Gate has one I think, but that game needs a separate banter frequency slider for each individual character.
Unlike homefront the revolution, I don’t feel these really improved the game
I really enjoyed home front man. I had a lot of fun playing through it and got it in a bundle with like both of the metro games and one other.
Only 25 mins? Was ready for a multiple hour odyssey.
He posted on his Patreon about what has been going on. He was getting really burnt out and depressed so he has a back log of 4 videos that he never really felt good about. So to move forward with the channel he'll be posting them any way as a kind of apology for his absence. He's got a few things planned. Like a West coast fallout road trip. So you'll get 3 more likely shorter videos real soon.
@@leathery420 Honestly, I think I prefer these shorter form videos. While I love Noah's work, the longer a video goes over an hour or so, the more tired I become with the vid (apart from episodes where it's the breaking down of a series or franchise). For someone with limited time, these shorter form ones are more convenient to watch and easier to digest than jumping back into the much larger ones. I can't imagine the tremendous amount of work that it would've taken to produce the Neverwinter Nights or Far Cry video, so I can appreciate the burn out. I don't mind seeing shorter videos in the future if it leads to more of them as a whole.
@@James-rc8wr I'd have to mostly agree. I mean I really do enjoy the long ass videos, but I do understand if it turns some people off. I can also see how overly long videos may become productivity hurting effort dumps. Plus some topics like Far Cry 5's DLC just don't really warrant an hour long plus video.
Noah deciding to release the unfinished videos was really a pleasant surprise. I and I'm sure others noticed he was struggling to meet the deadlines he had imposed on himself. I kind of thought we'd just lose a month or two worth of videos, but he still has something to show for it even if it might not quite be up to his regular standards. It's really quite impressive the amount of professionalism he is putting forth. I know myself and like many others would have trouble trying to not just glossing over our creative difficulties and saying we'd do better in the future.
Microcastle forever
Great video sir, and well thought out. I'm sure everybody's said it, but, because it became nightmare fuel for me as a kid, I'm going to (shudder) quote the line as I remember it: "Send... more... (long pause) para-med-ics". I've just conquered a fear on my list typing that! Have a good day sir, and again, excellent video.
As a canadian where everything is snow anything that is above -20ºc is warm and exotic
For a second there I thought you were dissing Space Quest IV because I confused "Time Bandits" with "Time Rippers". Give a thought to doing Sierra adventure games sometime, I would definitely find that awesome.
Great analysis. I got fleeting enjoyment out of Lost on Mars, but the other two were fairly lacking.
The zombie one was particularly painful. I thought the first couple of "pitches" were amusing, but it's clear they stopped trying. I also found the voice acting in this zombie DLC really distracting. Like, did they even use professional actors, or was it just whoever was around in the office that day?
Good stuff, I'm looking forward to your Red dead video as well.
I would be curious to hear your thoughts on New Dawn if you ever felt so inclined!
They put so many blood dragons in these games I wish they'd just make a full game already. It's like ubisoft is aware that was one of the only times they really nailed the far cry concept.
It feels like they were tech demos or intern projects. Someone worked a summer making the things and some senior devs had to go in and finish it to justify the cost, and to make sure the interns had a publication on thier resumes.
Anyone else remember them saying there would be 5 dlc? The 3 we got plus 2 "mystery" dlc
Noah's back ! Would have preferred a Stalker retrospective though
I wasn't even sure they came out. I didn't care about them after FC5's ending, but there was no advertising of them anywhere to be found, so when New Dawn was announced i was like "what happened to the DLC? Oh, i guess it already happened"
The quote was actually, "Send more paramedics." One of the coolest lines in any movie, ever.
I was one of the dumb bastards that bought into the idea that "They're getting the Blood Dragon devs to make it so it _has_ to be good!" and pre-ordered the Season Pass.
I will not be making that mistake ever again.
I can't wait to see you do New Dawn
This game takes place in a fictional blood-soaked version of Montana? I always thought it took place in a real blood-soaked depiction of rural New Jersey!
You can attack it's weak point for massive damage? The giant enemy crab? I'm convinced this is the best DLC of all time
Do you play FPS with the numpad? 8456 instead of WASD? I used to do that back in the Unreal days because we had a "left handed" keyboard.
The king returns!
Now I'm curious to see your take on New Dawn.
Sometime in 2015, the Far Cry devs polled players on what future settings they would like to see. Vietnam, sci-fi on another planet, and zombies were all part of the poll. www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-01-05-ubisoft-polls-public-on-future-far-cry-settings
I literally didn't even know that there was DLC for this game. I've watched multiple analyses of the main story and no one has ever mentioned them!
Can believe I pre ordered the gold edition... They all looked cool on paper.
Nice Newcastle Brown Ale plaque, as someone from Newcastle I appreciate it. way-aye wor lad ;)
It's rare to see an essay on this channel that looks at a subject and comes up with "well, I tried, but this is really just disposable," but congrats, Ubisoft, you've made a slate of DLC so fundamentally vapid it has reached that high bar. I really do feel for the writers who had to write six hours of banter and the designers, modelers, animators, etc. working in the video game industry's shite conditions to produce AAA-polished versions of Giant Alien Crabs and Yet More Zombies. I look forward to the inevitable New Dawn video, the marketing attention that expansion has received makes me at least hope there's some more creative ambition behind it.
Stay warm Noah! Much respect from 253
great video mate! Your voice sounds a little like the Internet Historian :)
Rantoni???!!!
I thought so too!! 🤗💕
I love your videos btw!! Especially mortal kombat videos!! 😻😻🥰❤️
Noah do you ever even try stealth in videogames? i've never really seen it. Especially in farcry it's really rewarding
I would love to see him wax poetic about Thief.
Noah tends to focus on a game's story and presentation, but has reviewed several games that have stealth mechanics. He expressed his disdain for the broken stealth systems in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.
Noah has previously said he doesn't like stealth games.
He said he doesn't have the patience for stealth.
Which is mighty ironic for a guy with 8 hour long fucking video game essays.
@@chris.hartliss admittedly, bad stealth can be really fucking tedious. Even good stealth can be pretty boring at times. It's a lot of memorizing patterns, looking for openings, and save scumming until you find a perfect solution where everything just clicks into place. It appeals to a very specific Rube-Goldbergian instinct that some people either have or they don't.
Always love these videos. Noah is The Man With The Words. I'm not, that's why I could only describe him that way.
Does anyone else think Ubisoft hired some of the same artists that also worked on the DLCs for Wolfenstein 2? Sketches like the one on 6:56 look incredibly similar to the art in Wolfenstein 2’s Captain Wilkins DLC, for example. Just cool drawings imo.
Aw, i was actually hopeful some of them might be fun. Damn shame. Lovely review, tho, and keep up the great work!
Hours of darkness is really good if you try play realistic. E.g playing on survival on the hardest difficulty, disabling HUD’s etc. Maybe even health regeneration.
I know nothing about Far Cry 5, let alone its expansions, and this was still totally engaging to me
I wished for a Vietnam game on this engine since FC2. It's incredible that we have a wonderful tropical features for years now, but we can't get a serious single player game like Vietcong or Bad Company 2.
The story-driven DLC you're looking for is New Dawn. It is the spiritual successor to blood dragon. These were specifically supposed to feel like arcade games, hence the cartoon cutscenes and lack of narrative direction
I actually really liked far cry 5’s setting and gameplay, I’ve been a fan of the series since 3 and I still don’t really find it that boring, however far cry 5 lacked outposts, there were sweet fuck all and what little they had was pretty boring. But I’ve gotta say that running around blowing up vans, fishing and hunting, blowing up more vehicles and setting psychotic jehovah’s witnesses on fire was really fucking fun. Overall despite the disappointing amount of large gunfights. I really liked far cry 5 and it’s map
Oddly enough, The Things They Carried is in my peripheral on my bookshelf as I watch this video.
Maybe someone at Ubisoft hated Hurk soo much, that the end of the DLC mainly featuring him wittering on at you was killing 100 of them? should of been 101 tbh
i bought the gold edition of the game, not played any of the dlc's. As soon as the first dlc came out i thought it looked like it was made inside the editor and they all basically seem like it, disappointing considering i was one of the few who liked farcry 5 and the ending but the only thing i can see worth from the gold edition was you got farcry 3 free with it, which i haven't played yet.
So would you do a Resident Evil franchise video? It’s a good time for it
I love your voice, you sound like you should narrate an audiobook.
I'm pretty sure Farcry New Dawn was supposed to be DLC
“All I had to waste was my limited time here on earth”😂
Surprised someone made a whole essay about a video game dlc. TH-cam has been recomending me those a lot lately,i need to reset my view history
7:46 Ah yes, my favourite Doctor Who, Christian Eckelstien. Just above Thomas Butler and Danny Tennis
Thanks for putting in the work so we don't have to waste our money.
I thought the base game was exotic. It's in some distant land i've never been to.
When the zombie DLC was coming out I thought we were gonna get something similar to state of decay an open world zombie campaign set in the beautiful Montana wilderness. I was so wrong, and so sad.
No but haven't you heard? The New Dawn DLC comes out on the 15th! They keep advertising it as its own game though, not too sure why...
The Mars DLC is trying to teach us that a progress bar can't measure suffering, because suffering is eternal.
It's worth mentioning that Russo really didn't have much influence on Return of the Living Dead's final product
You can blame all of the people who scream 'KEEP POLITICS OUT OF GAMES AND COMICS' for these kind of narrative failures. In the AAA gaming space, there is literally no room to make an artistic statement. Everything is sanded down and made inert so as not to piss off either 'side,' whether or not there is a side to arguments like this. This is the primary reason there has never been a good game about Vietnam because to acknowledge the US involvement there as anything more than an abject moral failure is at the very least not a great gaming experience and at worst it creates a conversation that no one is ready to have. Great vid, subbed.
Noah will you be reviewing Far Cry New Dawn?
Just got all dlc base game and new Dawn with weapons and vehicles for 40 bucks can't beat that $120 value. Never played 5 but I couldn't let that deal go.
...hey! The ending of Time Bandit's is RAD!
(Yes, I will fight you on this!)
I was sold on the vietnam DLC, I think I'll try it
I think you're interpreting the sunk cost fallacy wrong. In economics, if there's a costless alternative investment or venture that yields a better payoff compared to one you've poured vast resources or time into, you should always jump ship; it doesn't matter that you've sunk all this time or resources into the original venture, go take the more profitable venture.
Related to this video: it doesnt matter that you've already sunk hours into Far Cry 5. If theres an alternate activity that would yield more utility/satisfaction, go do it immediately; read a book, drink some Johnny Walker, play anything other than an Ubisoft game.
GO GIRRRRRRLLLLL!!!!!! On the treadmill watching this for inspiration.
daddy noah has returned
Thank you Noah. I raise a glass of Newkie broon ale to your good health!