Oh good
It is so annoying. Like they went to Cuba and actually talked to people who lived through the revolution in order to understand the environment.....but yeah not political. The fact that they went to Cuba to understand the revolution aspect and not the totalitarian gov the game is fighting against is a decent sign but still. They dont seem to have went to Miami is what I am saying
Better than Just Cause 3 at least
This sounds interesting at least. Also, could you elaborate about Just Cause 3? I am unfamiliar with it
Just Cause 3 has you single handedly start a revolution in generic small Latin American country ____, now it does dance around things by having the dictator there be a corporate guy whose military is literally his PMC company. The great man thing is a given for just cause so that's not my problem. What is annoying is how the "revolution" is something you supposedly help build but really just spawns out of nowhere with no ideology, no organization, and just a bunch of stolen equipment and an always active front line. It both gameplay wise misses the opportunity to feel like you built something up, but politically it manages to be anarchist without anarchism. Like the "revolution" is just neon spray paint on those equipment and calls itself the "chaos army". Cartoons from the 90s had more thought out revolutions and uprisings.
That's reading a bit deep. JC was never known for its story telling or whatever. I skipped every cutscene in those games. The Korean faction leader sounds like she's from Wales. They don't give a fuck.
That game is for blowing shit up and using grapple lines in fun ways. I can't think of anything I'd like less than them adding some kind of theory aspect to it lol. More shooty shooty.
I'm not saying it a game-breaking, hell I didn't even pay for it I got it through PSplus so I cant complain
You're thinking of 4, 3 was the Mediterranean setting (2 being Pacific islands, and 1 iirc being Caribbean island)
JC is really the Goldilocks franchise. I didn't play 1. 2 was awesome but compared to later entries your grappling hook abilities are super limited. 3 gives you tons more options, but the world has far less variety than 2. 4 has even more options and world variety, but the core gameplay loop is so fucked up compared to previous entries that I still can't make heads or tails of it
Ah yeah I see what you're saying. That's the kind of thing that wouldn't give me a second thought in the past but deeply irritates me now.
I'm so salty about how much they're going to fuck up this game :sadness-abysmal:
Look at what they did to Amita in 4, and now this? A people's revolution in a south american country? They're going to go even worse and pull a bioshock infinite.
I don't remember Infinite being that bad for a lib game, but I also played it before I became a third-world Maoist sooo
In the middle of the game, the lead black liberation fighter (who has been based and pretty chill the whole game), tries to slit a rich dude's child's throat in cold blood. Like, she's been fighting to end segregation, white supremacy, and poverty, but these libs need to be able to ~bOtH sIdEs~ that shit, so all the black/poor/irish fighters are actually just bloodthirsty and vengeful, and immediately turn on their allies and destroy the entire city. The rest of the game was pretty chill, but i remember that part just blowing me the fuck away.
I'm almost 100% certain that ubisoft is going to pull something similar here
tries to slit a rich dude’s child’s throat in cold blood.
:side-eye-1: :side-eye-2:
immediately turn on their allies and destroy the entire city
I agree this part is terrible.
There's a difference between if theres like a royal bloodline thing going on vs literally just self indulgent brutality and collective punishment of death.
In the middle of the game, the lead black liberation fighter (who has been based and pretty chill the whole game), tries to slit a rich dude’s child’s throat in cold blood. Like, she’s been fighting to end segregation, white supremacy, and poverty, but these libs need to be able to ~bOtH sIdEs~ that shit, so all the black/poor/irish fighters are actually just bloodthirsty and vengeful, and immediately turn on their allies and destroy the entire city. The rest of the game was pretty chill, but i remember that part just blowing me the fuck away.
lol 100% yeah but their victory song slaps
Honestly Bioshock gets a lot of praise around here but I just replayed it and noticed they both-sides'd the left by making Atlas (liberator, helper of the poor/homeless) a giant con man lol
But I think we all overlooked it so they had to go all ham-fisted in Infinite
I think people overlook it too cause Bioshock is basically a post-apocalypse, the city is essentially doomed before you even start. With Infinite the city is just Amerikkka+ basically, and the revolution directly mimics slave revolts and shit like that, so both-sidesing there feels particularly bad since it feels like a statement that can translate to real life politics.
Ubisoft tries to say that Tom fuckin' Clancy games aren't political.
My expectations are never high for any piece of foreign media that has Latin America as their setting. Thankfully nobody gives a shit about Guatemala and so Mexico takes all the beatings jajaja
Not to defend Ubisoft but that headline is way different to what they actually say,
“But we also fell in love with the culture and people we met. When we came out of that, it wasn’t that we felt we had to do Cuba, we realised it’s a complicated island and our game doesn’t want to make a political statement about what’s happening in Cuba specifically Beyond that, we’re drawing inspiration from guerilla movements around the world and throughout history. For us, it felt like doing the island of Yara would help us tell that story while being very open with our politics and inspiration.”
spoiler
In Far Cry 5, the cult turns out to be right and everything you did the entire game did nothing but get more people killed. The best ending to the game is the ending you get when you don't arrest The Father/don't play the game. In New Dawn, the cult are the good guys and your character from FC 5 is now a devoted member.
How about they "make a statement" by not releasing the same game twice a year for the last decade
The big baddy's name is Castillo, which sounds like a hilarious attempt to mashup Castro and Batista to me
Reminder to not buy from ubisoft because of the sexual abuse at their company
