Far Cry 5 - Welcome to Montana

Vice mentioned Ubitsoft Montreal is lead on this. Clint is in Toronto.

I am pretty damn excited for this.

Certis wrote:

Vice mentioned Ubitsoft Montreal is lead on this. Clint is in Toronto. :(

Damn. Still, it means we have a Clint Hocking game to look forward to. He might be on Far Cry Primal 2: Valley of the dinosaurs.

I could also go for a new Splinter Cell game. The last one was brilliant.

Time to sound stupid (bear with me). This is supposed to be a first person game, right?

Mario_Alba wrote:

Time to sound stupid (bear with me). This is supposed to be a first person game, right?

All of the previous Far Cry games have been first person shooters. With open-world content. (Okay, technically the first one was a bit more constrained, with just really big, open-levels.)

Gremlin wrote:
Mario_Alba wrote:

Time to sound stupid (bear with me). This is supposed to be a first person game, right?

All of the previous Far Cry games have been first person shooters. With open-world content. (Okay, technically the first one was a bit more constrained, with just really big, open-levels.)

Thanks, Gremlin! It's what I thought. I wish this one was third person, because it looks very interesting. Oh, well...

Reported that the entire game will be co-op enabled. That should be a blast if true!

Have you guys seen this petition to cancel Far Cry 5? People are saying it's fake, even though I'm sure there is someone somewhere who does feel this way and would actually like to see these changes made. It's pretty funny, especially when the author quotes the great "Boltair," haha.

Mario_Alba wrote:

this petition

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From the petition...

Us Gamers have had to endure a lot of crap over the last few years. The targeted harassment by the mainstream press through Gamergate, the terrible launch and outright lies of highly anticpated video games, the outright censorship of art through “localization” policies, the continued rejection of romantic partners when they find out our hobby, the appropriation of our culture by so-called “gamers” on twitter. NO MORE!

This is satire right? right?

Tyops wrote:

From the petition...

Us Gamers have had to endure a lot of crap over the last few years. The targeted harassment by the mainstream press through Gamergate, the terrible launch and outright lies of highly anticpated video games, the outright censorship of art through “localization” policies, the continued rejection of romantic partners when they find out our hobby, the appropriation of our culture by so-called “gamers” on twitter. NO MORE!

This is satire right? right?

Poe's law?

Who even knows at this point.

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Tyops wrote:

From the petition...

Us Gamers have had to endure a lot of crap over the last few years. The targeted harassment by the mainstream press through Gamergate, the terrible launch and outright lies of highly anticpated video games, the outright censorship of art through “localization” policies, the continued rejection of romantic partners when they find out our hobby, the appropriation of our culture by so-called “gamers” on twitter. NO MORE!

This is satire right? right?

That's the thing. It's so hard to tell, right? I think it is? I hope it is... but is it?

- Change the villains. It’s not so hard, really. Just change the villains to something more realistic. Islam is on the rise in America, as is the violence of inner city gangs. Are you scared to do so? In the words of Boltair – “To learn who rules you, simply find out who’s not being criticized.”

This is amazing... and I'm going to go with satire.

Tyops wrote:
- Change the villains. It’s not so hard, really. Just change the villains to something more realistic. Islam is on the rise in America, as is the violence of inner city gangs. Are you scared to do so? In the words of Boltair – “To learn who rules you, simply find out who’s not being criticized.”

This is amazing... and I'm going to go with satire.

I've decided this response belongs more in the D&D thread...

tanstaafl wrote:
Tyops wrote:
- Change the villains. It’s not so hard, really. Just change the villains to something more realistic. Islam is on the rise in America, as is the violence of inner city gangs. Are you scared to do so? In the words of Boltair – “To learn who rules you, simply find out who’s not being criticized.”

This is amazing... and I'm going to go with satire.

I don't. I know too many people personally who think this way. That whites/Christians are being brutally persecuted and oppressed and they must rise up and kill anyone who stands in their way. I've had a gun pulled in my face for telling someone they were racist for saying "all Muslims are evil and must be destroyed". They offered to start with me.

Did I mention it was my stepson? And my wife supported him?

That is awful, tanstaafl. But you are right: there are so many people like you just described in this country (many of them live right here in Georgia) that I simply can't dismiss this as satire.

Mario_Alba wrote:
Tyops wrote:

From the petition...

Us Gamers have had to endure a lot of crap over the last few years. The targeted harassment by the mainstream press through Gamergate, the terrible launch and outright lies of highly anticpated video games, the outright censorship of art through “localization” policies, the continued rejection of romantic partners when they find out our hobby, the appropriation of our culture by so-called “gamers” on twitter. NO MORE!

This is satire right? right?

That's the thing. It's so hard to tell, right? I think it is? I hope it is... but is it?

I doubt it, it reads like standard GamerGate "Our hobby is ours, not yours," with some of the more recent explicit white nationalism that the movement has been adopted by.

That said, I'm equal parts excited/worried about the topic for this game. It could be really cool, it could also fall flat completely.

The three ally introductions though give me some hope... along with reading about how Ubisoft consulted with folks who study and examine cult formation and propagation.

Tyops wrote:
- Change the villains. It’s not so hard, really. Just change the villains to something more realistic. Islam is on the rise in America, as is the violence of inner city gangs. Are you scared to do so? In the words of Boltair – “To learn who rules you, simply find out who’s not being criticized.”

This is amazing... and I'm going to go with satire.

There is a significant chance this was written by a Russian speaker. The letter "B" in Russian is the sound "v", and this person was clearly trying to quote Voltaire.

What that says about this petition, I don't know. Russian hackers?

There's a good chance this will be the best selling Far Cry game ever.

Tyops wrote:

There's a good chance this will be the best selling Far Cry game ever.

I started with 4 and have enjoyed it and Primal... when I saw we were fighting a potentially white nationalist cult, there was no way I wasn't going to buy this game.

It is so silly that this game is being petitioned! I am pretty darn excited to put down some bible thumping hillbillies! While I am praying this game doesn't do any SWJ nonsense, it will still be a blast to have a far cry game based in the US.

This is G&P, not D&D, but "hillbilly" isn't a nice way to describe someone.

Kurrelgyre wrote:

This is G&P, not D&D, but "hillbilly" isn't a nice way to describe someone.

Wanting to shoot at hillbillies and apparently not liking SJWs in the same post actually threw my brain out of gear. I wasn't quite sure how to respond there.

Sidenote: Hillbilly refers to folks in the Appalachians... doesn't really apply to folks in Montana.

SJW Sidenote: Apparently your protagonist can be either male or female and there will be a racial choice too. Time to take out a discriminatory cult as a badass black woman.

Demosthenes wrote:

Sidenote: Hillbilly refers to folks in the Appalachians... doesn't really apply to folks in Montana.

I don't think that's been true since at least the Beverly Hillbillies (from the Ozarks, not Appalachia)

@ the 'petition' thing

HAHAHA. Uh, absolutely satire. Well, trolling really, albeit masterful. The piece is framed to come across as an angry, frothing, manifesto in tone but as a whole it's a playful snake that's happy, enthusiastic even, to devour its own tail.

", the continued rejection of romantic partners when they find out our hobby,"

"We Americans have so few games to call our own, and we’re tired of losing them to multi-cultural bullsh*t."

Say what? The bones of the petition rail against FC5 being a hit piece caricature of Joe Whitey's America as perpetrated by the French because Anti-American sentiment sells in France... then suddenly, in the last sentence, FC5 [and thereby this elleged portrayal|association of one piece to the whole] is what? As American as Jack soaked apple pie? ;-P

ps. I love the part where he implies commiseration with Ubi over the loss of a buck (the American way?!) and suggest that, hey, you can still totally lambast 'Merica but just change our localized version so that the cultists are Canadian ;-P

Demosthenes wrote:

Apparently your protagonist can be either male or female and there will be a racial choice too. Time to take out a discriminatory cult as a badass black woman.

FC2, noted Best Far Cry Ever, also had a choice of a races for the protagonists. Alas not genders though. IIRC Flora, Michele, and Nasreen were intended to be playable but something flimsy came up preventing that.

Okay, well, they are bible thumpers at least from what I have seen, and I do not think hillbilly is a negative term anyways. And all I mean by no SJW nonsense is not something like the protagonist being a black woman killing white men. Be that proud black woman, be super badass, but lets not let the fact that your character is black and/or a woman be the defining role for her character, let the fact that she wants to stop these idiots be important.. Any focus on race is just a waste of time. We are all of the same genus.

Have a nice day. ^^

You'll likely not find much traction using SJW as a pejorative here. We overwhelmingly see the label as a compliment.

Stengah wrote:

You'll likely not find much traction using SJW as a pejorative here. We overwhelmingly see the label as a compliment.

Though we also don't limit ourselves to warrior... you'll find the full gamut of classes, dual class, and prestige classes up in here.

Any expectations of a AAA Ubisoft manshoot game addressing white supremacy or xenophobia in America in any meaningful way are probably way overblown, as are GG's usually insipid takes.

It'll be a nice change of pace from the usual setup of 'go to exotic land and kill the mostly brown natives', but that's about it.