Oh good

  • Vncredleader
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    3 years ago

    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

    • CommunistRanma [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      This sounds interesting at least. Also, could you elaborate about Just Cause 3? I am unfamiliar with it

      • Vncredleader
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        3 years ago

        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.

        • MaoTheLawn [any, any]
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          3 years ago

          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.

          • Vncredleader
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            3 years ago

            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

        • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          You're thinking of 4, 3 was the Mediterranean setting (2 being Pacific islands, and 1 iirc being Caribbean island)

            • Terkrockerfeller [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              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

        • CommunistRanma [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          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.

  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    3 years ago

    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.

    • Jadzia_Dax [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      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

      • Lerios [hy/hym]
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        3 years ago

        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

      • VernetheJules [they/them]
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        3 years ago

        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

        • Huldra [they/them, it/its]
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          3 years ago

          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.

  • Frogmanfromlake [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    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

  • OnlyDrinksMercury [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    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.”

  • Piqued_Pirates [he/him]
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    3 years ago
    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.

  • GuyWTriangle [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    How about they "make a statement" by not releasing the same game twice a year for the last decade

  • blly509 [he/him,any]
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    3 years ago

    The big baddy's name is Castillo, which sounds like a hilarious attempt to mashup Castro and Batista to me