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The resist ending is absurd

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All the endings are dumb. The best interpretation is that it's one last Bliss-induced dream sequence and the post game where you get informed of your success is canon... Anything else is just disappointing...
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An ABSURD ending! A CONFUSING ending!
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DuneMan posted...

All the endings are dumb. The best interpretation is that it's one last Bliss-induced dream sequence and the post game where you get informed of your success is canon... Anything else is just disappointing...

yeah for sure. I don't even think the endings are bad, they just serve no point to the journey. It felt very un-Far Cry where our actions really didn't lead us towards our final choice

SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

An ABSURD ending! A CONFUSING ending!

a bad ending, TERRIBLE ending!

good guy, GREAT guy @SSJ2GrimReaper

*audience cheers*

The ending is terrible, but at least I can pretend nothing happened after starting the post-game

Suddenly, nukes!

The bad guy was right all along! What a twist! Bet you didn't see that one coming!

Nothing you did mattered

Honestly, I find it far worse than Mass Effect 3's ending because in that one you still stop the Reaper invasion, which is something
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To be fair, some people are supportive of the ending as a telling of the Book of Revelation. But as part of a game, where you as the player have your feeling of agency stripped away for 'lol nukes' and 'lol personal time together in a bunker' or an alternative of 'lol mind control', it's a poor fit.
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Also, the biggest problem is that there's only two sources of foreshadowing in the whole game: the radio messages that you'll likely miss (I only heard them after beating the game) and the cult leaders, which are batfuck insane, so why should I trust what they've been saying?

"You can't solve all your problems with bullets", says the guy in a game where you can only solve problems by killing people and the one who started killing and torturing people against their will.
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Despite the ending, I really had a lot of fun with it and still recommend it
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chill02 posted...

The ending is terrible, but at least I can pretend nothing happened after starting the post-game

Suddenly, nukes!

The bad guy was right all along! What a twist! Bet you didn't see that one coming!

Nothing you did mattered

Honestly, I find it far worse than Mass Effect 3's ending because in that one you still stop the Reaper invasion, which is something

The nuke thing is what did it for me. Where the fuck did that come from? And if Seed had it the whole time why did he wait the entire time to set it off? He's the one who let his people get killed,

Even though he had a NUKE the entire time... so he let his own family get senselessly killed, even though the game limply tries to pin it on the player, when the family could've just hid in the bunker.

TheDarkCircle posted...

DuneMan posted...

All the endings are dumb. The best interpretation is that it's one last Bliss-induced dream sequence and the post game where you get informed of your success is canon... Anything else is just disappointing...

yeah for sure. I don't even think the endings are bad, they just serve no point to the journey. It felt very un-Far Cry where our actions really didn't lead us towards our final choice

Have any of the Far Cry's actually had endings you had to earn through choices though? I mean, aren't all of them just you picking A or B at the last minute?

DuneMan posted...

All the endings are dumb. The best interpretation is that it's one last Bliss-induced dream sequence and the post game where you get informed of your success is canon... Anything else is just disappointing...

According to Ubisoft, the ending was real because apparently the writer had a real hard on about the end of the world coming.

Which means the post game makes no sense, but I get the feeling that everyone else involved probably didn't care about his ending so they just treated it as a joke.
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Dash_Harber posted...

TheDarkCircle posted...

DuneMan posted...

All the endings are dumb. The best interpretation is that it's one last Bliss-induced dream sequence and the post game where you get informed of your success is canon... Anything else is just disappointing...

yeah for sure. I don't even think the endings are bad, they just serve no point to the journey. It felt very un-Far Cry where our actions really didn't lead us towards our final choice

Have any of the Far Cry's actually had endings you had to earn through choices though? I mean, aren't all of them just you picking A or B at the last minute?

4 did I felt. Especially with the post-game

Dash_Harber posted...

TheDarkCircle posted...

DuneMan posted...

All the endings are dumb. The best interpretation is that it's one last Bliss-induced dream sequence and the post game where you get informed of your success is canon... Anything else is just disappointing...

yeah for sure. I don't even think the endings are bad, they just serve no point to the journey. It felt very un-Far Cry where our actions really didn't lead us towards our final choice

Have any of the Far Cry's actually had endings you had to earn through choices though? I mean, aren't all of them just you picking A or B at the last minute?

well, with 5 it's either pick ending A because B sends you back to the main screen and back to the point where you're supposed to pick A
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TheDarkCircle posted...

Dash_Harber posted...

TheDarkCircle posted...

DuneMan posted...

All the endings are dumb. The best interpretation is that it's one last Bliss-induced dream sequence and the post game where you get informed of your success is canon... Anything else is just disappointing...

yeah for sure. I don't even think the endings are bad, they just serve no point to the journey. It felt very un-Far Cry where our actions really didn't lead us towards our final choice

Have any of the Far Cry's actually had endings you had to earn through choices though? I mean, aren't all of them just you picking A or B at the last minute?

4 did I felt. Especially with the post-game

But wasn't it just a 'side with one sub-faction or the other at the last minute' sort of deal?

Dash_Harber posted...

Have any of the Far Cry's actually had endings you had to earn through choices though?

Yeah, aside from the hidden 'skip the game' endings, they're mostly just picking something at the last minute. There's always some disappointment with some of the endings. Far Cry 3 punished you for 'going native', Far Cry 4 asked you to make the country into either Afghanistan or Iran, and Far Cry 5 doesn't offer you any real choice at all because 'lol prophesy'.
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honestly, I would have been ok with the ending even if it involved nukes if you still got to shoot Joseph in the face when the bombs dropped and the last thing he'd said was "...I was right all along"
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It's a bad ending all around. It's unsatisfying, it doesn't really get across any real point or message, and it was foreshadowed in the worst way possible (blink and you'll miss it radio snippets that (randomly?) play on the regular radio).

It's made even worse when the lead writer doubled down on it being legit when he had such an easy out by blaming the bliss (which I feel will end up being the explanation when they inevitably continue Far Cry and it isn't Fallout) just because he's really sad at how the world is turning out.
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the games story was weak anyway

you go around, destroying shit while the heralds just capture you over and over, letting you escape each time while telling you how violent you are in a game where you have no choice but to put a bullet in people, and even while you kill their family, they still find it in their heart to not kill you while they have you incapacitated, almost making it seem like they're letting you live on purpose, only to have their minions go after you with planes, helicopters, etc..

Far Cry writers really need to get over this "you're the *real* bad guy" shit because it is less and less effective each time and makes less and less sense in every game.

I love how they keep making this point of "you could have just walked away, all this bloodshed is your fault"

Even though the pre release stuff and side missions indicate that Edens Gate was kidnapping/torturing/murdering people long before you showed up.

But yeah, I'm the bad guy for killing the killers.
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For real, there is such a disconnect between the main story and the rest of the story presented in the game that I have to believe there were two separate teams that worked on main missions and the rest of the game, and they barely ever interacted with each other.
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AlecSkorpio posted...

just because he's really sad at how the world is turning out.

Obviously it's better if a drug pushing, kidnapping fanatic were to run it.
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so which FC game has the best story
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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

so which FC game has the best story

4 IMO

The secret ending worked better there.
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SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

so which FC game has the best story

Blood Dragon

Followed by Far Cry 4

Most will probably say Far Cry 3 though
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JustMonika posted...

SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

so which FC game has the best story

4 IMO

The secret ending worked better there.

Definitely not 5 lol

I think 4 is the best story imo. But 5 is still super fun as a game

The backstory on "Faith" is kinda sad imo
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is FC5 better than Primal
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JustMonika posted...

SSJ2GrimReaper posted...

so which FC game has the best story

4 IMO

The secret ending worked better there.

I wanted THAT to be the game. Pagan Min was right, after all: the Golden Path were terrorists. One head ran it like a drug cartel, and the other wanted to install himself as a divinely chosen ruler that would reshape the country into his personal plaything.
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I mean that's basically the point of FC4, Ajay has no point to be involved with the Golden Path and more the game progresses it's obvious that the two leaders are hardly better than Pagan just in different ways. He's literally there for one purpose and it has nothing to do with overthrowing the government.
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JustMonika posted...

I mean that's basically the point of FC5,

Except not at all... You're a sheriff's deputy there to serve an arrest warrant for a crazy cult leader guilty of kidnapping and murder. To reject that is to embrace anarchy.

Edit: Though it seems more likely that you just had a typo and meant to write FC4. In which case, yeah, the entire game is you essentially joining a gang...
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Bio1590 posted...

The backstory on "Faith" is kinda sad imo

Yeah Faith is the only one I gave a shit about. John was generic as hell, and Jacob was interesting but dull.

They need to stop trying to do *anything* serious with Far Cry. (which is why I'm glad to see the Season Pass seems to be so wacky)

The perfect Far Cry 6 would take place in the 80's and would basically be Commando the game. Just some over the top bullshit but in an open world.

Youngster_Joey_ posted...

The perfect Far Cry 6 would take place in the 80's and would basically be Commando the game. Just some over the top bullshit but in an open world.

So... Blood Dragon 2?
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DuneMan posted...

Youngster_Joey_ posted...

The perfect Far Cry 6 would take place in the 80's and would basically be Commando the game. Just some over the top bullshit but in an open world.

So... Blood Dragon 2?

Yeah, except not fake psuedo 80's.

TheDarkCircle posted...

Bio1590 posted...

The backstory on "Faith" is kinda sad imo

Yeah Faith is the only one I gave a shit about. John was generic as hell, and Jacob was interesting but dull.

The craziest thing is learning how many "Faith"s there have been and the whole like...history? behind that "position". The one in the game is actually named like Rachel or something and was friends with Tammy.

Also her scenes when you're in her area make me uncomfortable.
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Youngster_Joey_ posted...

They need to stop trying to do *anything* serious with Far Cry. (which is why I'm glad to see the Season Pass seems to be so wacky)

The perfect Far Cry 6 would take place in the 80's and would basically be Commando the game. Just some over the top bullshit but in an open world.

The best part of the DLCs is that they're obviously going to include characters from the main game. I'm just not sure who will be in the Zombie one.
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Is Primal worth playing
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I loved the ending and loved the game personally, but I realize I'm in the underwhelming minority there :\
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TheDarkCircle posted...

chill02 posted...

The ending is terrible, but at least I can pretend nothing happened after starting the post-game

Suddenly, nukes!

The bad guy was right all along! What a twist! Bet you didn't see that one coming!

Nothing you did mattered

Honestly, I find it far worse than Mass Effect 3's ending because in that one you still stop the Reaper invasion, which is something

The nuke thing is what did it for me. Where the fuck did that come from? And if Seed had it the whole time why did he wait the entire time to set it off? He's the one who let his people get killed,

Even though he had a NUKE the entire time... so he let his own family get senselessly killed, even though the game limply tries to pin it on the player, when the family could've just hid in the bunker.

He didn't have nukes. It's just coincidental.
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They talk about global conflict on the radio.
Which is really easy to miss if you're not paying attention to the car radios, or you don't happen to catch the broadcasts, or you're traveling on foot or fast traveling a lot.

And you can miss it all and I like that.
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it's also impossible to listen to the radio when there's a gun fight every 10 seconds
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chill02 posted...

it's also impossible to listen to the radio when there's a gun fight every 10 seconds

Alright that's probably about one of two things I didn't like about the game.... it was crazy when they kept pulling up in front of you. It was fun in co-op when you have a friend to screw around with and can shred them but by yourself it just turns into a hassle.
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Yeah, it got to the point where I was starting to feel combat fatigue
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I typoed the name, meant Tracey, the black chick at the jail.

There's a letter at the jail from "Faith" to Tracey that's from before she became the "Faith" you encounter in the game.
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Bio1590 posted...

The best part of the DLCs is that they're obviously going to include characters from the main game. I'm just not sure who will be in the Zombie one.

They've said that Hours of Darkness features Wendel Redler, the guy that gives you the lighter collection quest.

Dead Living Zombies features Guy Marvel, the director that gives you the Blood Dragon quest.

And they didn't say it, but it seems obvious that Lost on Mars is going to feature Larry Parker from his questline.

Youngster_Joey_ posted...

Bio1590 posted...

The best part of the DLCs is that they're obviously going to include characters from the main game. I'm just not sure who will be in the Zombie one.

They've said that Hours of Darkness features Wendel Redler, the guy that gives you the lighter collection quest.

Dead Living Zombies features Guy Marvel, the director that gives you the Blood Dragon quest.

And they didn't say it, but it seems obvious that Lost on Mars is going to feature Larry Parker from his questline.

Okay yeah I missed their confirmation, but it's awesome you can basicslly figure it out just by playing the game.
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Youngster_Joey_ posted...

Guy Marvel

fuck that guy
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Youngster_Joey_ posted...

They've said that Hours of Darkness features Wendel Redler, the guy that gives you the lighter collection quest.

Also, people keep mentioning Wendel, but Dutch is explicitly a Vietnam veteran. When you wake up in his bunker, not only does he have a ton of war memorabilia, but there is a veteran's award that explicitly depicts Vietnam on it.

Dash_Harber posted...

Also, people keep mentioning Wendel, but Dutch is explicitly a Vietnam veteran. When you wake up in his bunker, not only does he have a ton of war memorabilia, but there is a veteran's award that explicitly depicts Vietnam on it.

Dutch might be in the Hours of Darkness DLC because they specifically say you'll "save your friends" in it, but Ubisoft has flat out said you play as Wendel in the DLC in the trailer for it.