Summary of my thoughts. If you want mindless mayhem with some pretty strange guns then it's worth a buy for sure. If however you are looking for a decent First person shooter where you have to think about how to assault the many different fortresses and garrisons like you did with the older FC games then stop right there. The Ai is literally blind, stupid and suffering from dementia, they react slower than an asthmatic three legged Hippo with cataracts and thats on max difficulty. This is the easiest FPS I have ever played in my life, it offers no challenge, you just go along for the ride, it's really disappointing. So it really depends what you want out of the game, good gunplay with tense firefights or a Just Cause game, this is the latter.
Well the only real protagonist in Far Cry i care about is Jason Brody, at the beginning he is only college guy but when game is progress and start to upgrade, he turn into badass killer want to revenge against Vaas who killed his big brother. That alone is better than rest of Far Cry after 3
Yes, AAA funded games should have wonderful forests similar to Kingdom Come. It is pitiful game development. I wonder if their reusing the badly optimized game engine over and over to save money is the root of the cause.
Mack! It's really weird you didn't like the chaotic, dynamic nature of the FC 5 world. One of the best parts was travelling by foot and enjoying the scenery, while simultaneously getting into skirmishes with the enemy, watching allies fight battles, fishing, hunting, collectibles, mini stories, bunkers, outposts... There was never a lul in the action or purpose, with enough differences to give the impression of fresh scenarios, and the ai would at least give you a relative time of it all. Then POW, all of it gone when the game forces you to kill the boss. Both the best implementation of an idea and the worst at the same time. Mindboggling. And nuts you dont enjoy random skirmishes as well. In FC 5 at least. Also, i think you confused 5 with New Dawn. New Dawn had the "special operations."
Have you noticed a new trope in recent years of the "I'm like sooo quirky smart and cool!" archetype? It's almost universal. They even have the same odd high pitched kind of voice.
Hilarious. Man, great stories, but RECORD what you're talking about. If you're talking about the old woman going over her own trip mines, record that shit! Makes it funny for us, too! lol.
I work with a lad who is 22, a huge, obsessive gamer. However he is of the DLC/microtransaction generation. He bought this and spent time last night telling me how great it is and how he can't wait to start buying all the add on packs and cosmetic items. I asked him if he thought that just paying for the actual game should be enough. He said that's not how games work...... this is the problem. Its a whole generation now of kids who think that games like this are actually good and that paying extra for all the shite add ons is part of the experience...... I'm 43, grew up on c64/amiga/PC gaming as well as consoles, I lived through the golden days of late 90s/early 2000s PC gaming when story, plot, gameplay was vital. Things like this are just a sad indication of the way things are going and that people think it's ok
i get you. all my best social and gameplay experiences in gaming are in the long past. not because the games back then ran better, controlled better and gods knows they didn't look better but the UI, concepts, willingness to challenge the players and the no punches pulled level/enemy design (and AI) make the modern shooting gallery and lobotomised RTS genre games look like the brainless faceroll games that they are. in the 2000s i was dropping into an MMO shooter base from a dropship, killing the generator and holding that location while the zergs took unknowing advantage of the enemies inability to replace their tanks. I was playing MMOs with 24 man raids where every class had 5-7 rows of hotkeys half just for the damage rotations and the rest for utility, items, long cooldown abilities and passive buffs recasts I was driving and flying around in warzones that had warships, bombers, fighters, jeeps, tanks, AA guns, sensible base layouts and 32-64 players all having fun while blowing things apart from modest ranges (no quickscope or pixel perfect cross-map instakills in sight) I was sneaking around space stations, feudal towns/houses, city alleys and secret bases while being actively afraid of discovery by the Ai set to interesting patrol routes and moderately sensible AI. i was conquering planets one hex at a time while desperately trying to avoid mindworms or raising sprite armies to siege fully 3d castles in realtime. and that's but a fraction of what was. Now i'm lucky to run down a coridoor without a jumpscare, canned animation, weapon model taking up 1/3 of my screenspace or snarky quip by a side-shaved mental patient interfereing with my transition between rooms as i' forced to quick-scope for added accuracy and spam 2-3 magical abilities constantly to make up for the anaemic weapons that are describes as firearms but act more like nerf-guns with pins on the tips. there are exceptions but every one is an indie title, a homage, an iterative series from japanese deveopers finally releasing on PC (EDF!) or was bought 3-4 years after release at a fraction of the total cost and with 90% of the timesink mechanics ignored/cherry=picked for the most interesting rewards (ubi titles or some of the "live service" games like warframe).
Nobody thinks anything is okay, dude, we just don't have the power to do a fucking thing about it. Is the video game industry metaphorically raping all of us? Absolutely. Still better than watching politics.
It's a shame I am 24, I grew up with 90s and early 2000s game, but never supported this shitty ass microtransaction.And I am already sick with modern gaming.
If you think game companies wouldn’t have added stuff like this back then if they could you are crazy. I personally don’t care if a game has mtx or not sometimes it extends the life of a game or other times people can use a skin that they want to. I’d rather have this generation where at least they can fix the game if it’s messed up instead of some of the buggy messes that I’ve played that we’re older games. And I also understand that games are getting harder to make now with investors and boards breathing down developers necks to get the games out. Because at the end of the day it is a business and people are in business to make money
Wth that's sad. I'm 25 but I'm not as brainwashed as that guy wth happened. I mean I get bored so easily these days with how games are all the same, full of mtx bullshit and "buy buy buy" everywhere. I am happy I can enjoy games like Control and get into the story and spend 2 hours in the evening chilling and immersing myself into my hobby. The cod/mtx generation is really sad.
bro im a long time left 4 dead 2 player i still play it today i particularly enjoy versus but the entire game has set a high standard for me. i can not wait to see your review of back 4 blood, i'd say im ready to be disappointed but i dont get excited or hyped for anything anymore.
I played the game for like 3 hrs and had the exact same tought. He hit the nail exactly on the head with this one. I'm completely unimmersed. Shouldve waited for his review before buying
Honestly for me the mere existence of the store is enough to stay away. Props to Mack, I didn't even know about the store and missing missions from other reviews.
Yep, I've taken a hard stance on mtx. If I see them and it's not an MMO, it's an INSTANT no-buy. Although Ubisoft already disqualified themselves with forcing this onto Uplay too. Fuck Uplay. You're gonna compete with Steam? Then COMPETE WITH STEAM. Ransoming your game behind your special snowflake DRM platform is unacceptable. I love competition and we need a lot more of it, but I'm not going to shed a tear for these wankers when Gabe Newell finally runs them over with the Steam tank.
The store has been in the Far Cry series for a while. Game reviewers don't mention it because if they do, they know they won't get a free early review copy. Same thing about the missing missions. They go like "oh well it says they are coming soon so it's just like they are in the game, no need to mention it".
Same. Mack is the first reviewer to actually mention it. And its disgraceful because if they're not calling it out every time, it means its become normalised and accepted. Which it shouldn't be. I loved FC3, was disappointed with FC5 (though had an okay time in co-op). Gonna pass on this one. There's a million other games in my backlog which I hardly have time to play, this one doesn't seem like bothering with
Your the only reviewer on RUclips that has mentioned that the game is too easy. I'm playing co op with a friend and i have been so disconnected from the combat. It almost plays itself its so easy. Thanks for being an honest reviewer. There are no games out so I bought this game...regretting it for sure
@@WorthABuyreviews yes sir not a one. I even Googled and typed it in on RUclips yesterday 'farcry 6 too easy.' Got nothing. I always watch at least 10 reviews on a game I'm thinking about getting. Pretty sure most are bought and paid for anyway. Glad ya messaged me. I've been a fan for a long time man stay cool 😎👌😌
I've been playing it solo, its not an easy game at all. That part of the review wasn't accurate at all. The only problem is enemies do spawn all around you from nowhere. They do try to flank you and they do use cover (around trees etc.)
@@purefoldnz3070 then... you are just bad at fps games if you think far cry games are hard :))). The Ai is from 1980... and you cannot deal with them?.. if i put you in a battle royal match... i bet you hide in a bush and wait to die... man metal gs 3 has the best AI in a tactic game...
Yup me too , the dictator was believable and i want to know his story. But those other retards? erm i'll pass , those hipster types have 'mental health' problems just dealing with life and you expect me to believe they can organize and execute a guerrilla war insurgency? Hahaha what a load of bollox.
Once again Mac you have nailed this on the head. Gone are the days when gamers had to think about strategy. But developers don't want gamers these days, they just want mindless Neanderthals with a bulging wallet.
Bruh that's more rockstar than ubisoft these days I mean at least ubisoft dosen't spam calls to make you buy property's and try to make you buy microtransactions to the point it's pay2win. Ubisoft is basically more tame with the microtransactions than other companies in my opinion since they don't force you to buy them and they just say "Hey here's this pack you can buy if you want you don't need to though to enjoy and pass the game."
@@justifano7046 20 years ago? yes. full game? yes plenty. 40-50 freedom bucks? fuck no and if you account for inflation games are cheaper now than they ever have been.
@@justifano7046 Yup games "should" be 90-100 USD if they went up in price with everything else. Half a game for half the price is fair it just feels bad because the standard hasn't changed.
This woke shit in literally EVERYTHING now is starting to get exhausting. Mack is right, it’s so immersion breaking. Diablo 2: Resurrected even got hit with this a bit with the Maamazon and the Assassin’s “pants” lol. Will we ever have nice things again, or is the new world standard to just make everything shit?
@@SAMSARALIVEEEEEE Harem Girls in Act 2. Censored and removed. Also, the Assassin and the Amazon have been "tweaked" to look more masculine. Still a good remaster overall though.
But he is wrong saying these characters are there for politics, they are not, they are there simply to catter to a younger crowd, so kids get hooked into the franchise, period, nothing politics. Being honest doesn't mean being right.
@@shilombaba He was talking about how it's all brown people who look like South American Antifa members. It's just _"woke"_ BS as usual. Tons of young people hate that crap.
These characters are like "yay! Revolution, wooo!" Making these young people think that "revolutions" are fun and cool. They think they're the cool freedom fighters.
They seem to forget all the countless fucking revolutions that have taken place before theirs, all for the same reasons, all failed for the same reasons.
Kind of a missed opportunity not giving people the option to fight for the "bad" guys. Felt the same way in 5 after reading some of the notes left around the map.
Remembering how amazing Far Cry 3 was, how could they fuck it up so bad? It's so extremely ridiculous at this point, with all the weird weapons and animals fighting for you.
Last good Far cry game for me was 4. Loved how endless the setting felt, and loved the multiple endings. The game made you feel like what you were doing was questionable and all ends. Although it wasn’t a perfect game, it was a atmospheric game.
Yep. The setting was beautiful and the 2 rivals Amita and Sabal felt like they belonged to that world. In FC6 the rebels just look like college teens who would get their ass handed out to them within minutes, but of course we want some woke 'inclusive' people. Who the hell is in charge of managing these Ubisoft franchises?
Far Cry 3 and 4 felt over the top, yet also realistic. The premises we're believable. Far Cry 5's premise was completely ridiculous and FC6 has cringetastic Gen Z wanna rebels supposedly winning a fight against a dictator.
The new generation of developers keep creating characters and stories that are consistently targeting the wrong audience, or at least not the one the franchises were initially created for. While the quality of our hardware keeps getting better very few studios understand or respect the franchises they are working on. I don't even think is what higher-ups are pushing or demanding we have to come to terms that the developers that created most of these franchises are my and Mac's age and have long moved on. This is how the new generation of creators and developers feel the IP should look like... P.S I haven't played FarCry 2 in years but I still remember the realness, gritt and feel the game conveyed, you literally felt the danger,environment and overall seriousness of the world you were in. Everyone that thinks this is anything more than arcade fun and a 9/9 or10/10 should play FarCry 2 or 3 and maybe their opinion will change
@@pauperslament3467 Lol...fully agree that's why I think is a generational thing everything has to be fruity and fun but yet they still want a villain 🤔 lol
@@pumachomper6456 It was one of the first games that had details such as wind spreading fire. But that goddamn malaria mechanic was like dealing with inserting a catheter while having the clap.
@@lupusprobitas I was kind of expecting that to be honest. I had this weird idea that the dictators son was gonna grow to rebel against his dad, like see how evil he is. That would have been so much better.
I don’t play games anymore, I just watch your reviews. I feel like I get the whole disappointing experience of modern gaming with a shorter time investment.
Look at metacritics top user score games with the most votes on them, not like 1 random anime game that's had 3 votes 10/10 so it's top, check for ones that have like 10000 reviews n go off them, have a look at RUclips vids and see if you like it but today's gaming is pretty shit, people just blinded by graphics over quality of the actual story, characters, dialogue, missions etc.
Far Cry 2 was my favourite - especially once I learned to slow down a bit and not rush round everywhere by car. I quite enjoyed FC3 also but it was already beginning to feel a little too on the 'zany for the sake of zany' side of things character wise imo. Still a really good game. 4, meh, OK but really more of the same from what I remember... Have been burned out on the series since and I can't see this dragging me back in anytime soon, certainly not at full price.
This is correct. There was also a hardcore mod for it but that still made it piss easy to headshot entire camps. Mack always hates X-ray vision in shooters, but as usual he tends to forget these things were also in games he likes/thumbs up.
I have an urge to replay FC2, I haven't played that game in about 11 years now. I remember that game being really fun. I didn't like the Malaria aspect of it, I remember being easily annoyed by it. I'd still recommend anyone to play it though, it's super fun.
0:40 holy fuck what did they do to that Dragunov?! - Charging handle, safety, and ejection port on the wrong side - Scope on the wrong side - Scope mounted on some dumbass riser and then mounted to a rail rather than just mounting directly to the rail
"I wouldn't follow these fuckers into a shop, let alone a fucking battle" hahaha I feel you Mack. That is a real, real shame. I was hoping this would be a spiritual successor to FC3 but apart from the setting it seems it's not even close. "Fun if you disconnect your brain" about sums up the past 2 games in this series (or any game from Ubisoft in the past few years for that matter)
Maybe it's a fun game, but if the gameplay is too mindless with non-memorable characters, then perhaps it's not for me. I tried out Just Cause, and also earlier Farcry didn't grip me as much. Before I try a new title, I should maybe play though FC3 at least once. Haha.
i look around RUclips with gamers playing Far Cry 6, sponsored streams, trying to tell people how great it is, and then i see this. A good honest review. I know where to come for real honest reviews now. Good stuff, and what an ending to the video
Used to watch GmanLives for that as well, but ever since he got his special "invitations" by publishers and devs his reviews have softened dramatically and are nothing but meme fests with zoomer/boomer humor - boring and annoying.
@@Bunkerknacker_Retro-Nostalgie I'm really glad you brought that up because I used to watch his channel as well, but like you said it just hasn't been the same.
i feel like mac was depressed making this review. the disappointment of seeing what the gaming industry has slowly been transforming into is effecting his mental health
@Coolsteel He does this for a living, he reviews games, he loves some games and he hates others, he hated this game and i can see why. If you don't like his reviews or you have purple hair maybe you should watch some other channel.
@Coolsteel Mack hates games? He's been playing games since before most of us were alive. He's trying to combat and call out the bullshit that every triple A company spits out these days instead of sucking their ****s like every other reviewer on the internet. Sometimes I disagree with him but he has experienced many decades of games, and I 100% agree that the industry has gone down the shitter over the last 10 years
So because you can see a health bar, that makes it a terrible shooter? Because all shooters, the characters all have hit points. You just aren't shown a health bar in all those games.
@@skyesfury8511 man, half the subs on this channel are like 40 year olds who want every game to be a milsim lmao, don’t even waste your time with them 😭
Well said. Really makes it disconnected. What’s even the point in a casual shooter like this. It’s like when they added perks, crafting and other stuff in far cry3, just felt tacked on and superficial just to bloat the game enough for you to get distracted from the lacking gameplay. But that’s the hallmark of Ubisoft games, superficial bloat and barebones gameplay.
5:53 Bruh, why would I want a high TTK and a health bar and hitmarker like that in a singleplayer game? Stuff like this is okay in a multiplayer shooter, but not in a singleplayer game that is supposed to be immersive.
@@ploppyploppy he's acting all surprised about political agenda in an ubisoft game as if he lived in a cave the last 10 year. This is not since 3 years. He gave Far Cry 5 a thumps up. A Game that even the intro was so bad that I refunded it asap. And Far Cry 3 was an absolute shitfest aswell. But he acts like it was the best thing ever since they invented the wheel. Far Cry 3 was absolute trash. Satanic bullshit where you could literaly sacrifice your own girlfriend with a dagger to her heart after you have slept with a satanic high priest while being on drugs. I mean WTF?? And Vaas was just a psycho with no real motivation but he keeps jerking on him as if it was the best villain ever. Far Cry 6 is probably the best Ubisoft Game in years and they have built an amazing openworld with great details. By no means it was meant to be an mil-sim or has an oscar worthy story and characters but it has A LOT to offer for a co-op game. If you disagree name me ONE good open-world co-op game since dying light. There is none. Wildlands is repetitive as fuck and boring and even unplayable because of an audio bug, but guess what: He gave it a thumbs up. And I am by no means an Ubisoft Fan, I hate most of their games because it's social engineering and satanic crap but if he wanna be bitching about graphics and shit: Don't buy it Day1. NO GAME NOWADAYS runs fine and has no bugs when it releases. He should know that. And if you want to play in the best looking way possible, buy a 3090 or at least a 3080 because the industry is evolving quick graphic-wise. If you think you can run any Game in 4K Ultra with an outdated 2080ti, then you haven't played any tripple A game in 2 years. He plays tons of shit games I wouldn't even touch for free and want's every tripple A game to be like it was 20 years ago. Guess what: NOTHING is as it was 20 years ago. You better deal with it, because this is just the beginning. He said no word about the keybindings and the HUD settings which are probably the best I've ever seen in a game regardless of if you play with a controller or mouse. Also no word about the world and it's asthetics, the movent, the vehicles, the activities, the sound-design, the fact that you can actually watch your co-op friend do every hand movement they do in real time, which I have never seen in a game. If you only wanna see bad things, you will, but this review-video was just bad and useless.
@@nge9621 No need to rant, LOL. This WAB review told me everything I needed to know about the generic pile of woke sh1te that is FC6. If you don't like his reviews, don't watch them.
But he is wrong saying these characters are there for politics, they are not, they are there simply to catter to a younger crowd, so kids get hooked into the franchise, period, nothing politic. Being honest doesn't mean being right.
I found it so boring that I erased it after two days of playing. I lost interest after playing far cry 5 over 30+ hours. I could skip the cutscenes, but the bland enemies, no gore, no seriousness, and magic respawning constantly flowing enemies just got dull and annoying.
@@GlazedInfants Yeah I call games like this "low common denominator gaming" aka gaming for simpletons who dont wanna think just breeze through content. And thats fine, don't get me wrong I've had times after a long day at work when i just wanna space out for a few hours, but this game takes the piss in regards to that.
@@CommDante far cry 4 was pretty good and pagan min was pretty remarkable in my opinion , my favorite far cry , loved the arena horde mode and the elephant riding , but you’re right , after 3-4 far cry should have ended
@@Supadrumma441 these games just want to exist doing the absolute bare minimum at being a game. However the cash shops.. you can best your ass they work just fine.
@@youareasock9752 Maybe "Woke" isn't the perfect term to describe all Ubisoft characters. But as Mac said, the characters in this game don't fit. And I believe that these types of characters is a common trend for Ubisoft games. Even Assassin's Creed Valhalla, a game about Vikings was filled with safe, PC, hipster, cringy characters who don't fit the setting. To expand even more on what Mac said, these characters don't fit the setting of revolution. The reason why I used the term "woke" is because I believe that far left liberals see hate groups such as antifa as revolutionaries. The characters in this game resemble radical leftist weirdos more than the type of people who would commonly be found fighting a war. By the way, as a former Infantryman I can verify that there aren't many purple haired war fighters. That's just my opinion.
Agree 100% about the characters. I enjoyed every far cry from number 1. These characters are written so terrible. They obviously are trying to appease a certain type of person. I instantly didn’t care about the story. The story for all the other ones were so good. I’m not that far in and I already don’t care about the story
It seems like they wanted to back off world building and just create a shooter, I don't know whats up with that the atmosphere of these games is what pulls you in. I loved hope county and going from a place that has history soaked into every cabin in the woods or shop to a generic shooter, i think I'll pass on this till its dirt cheap
@@dabblerdeluxe775 Its worth it IMO if you have the Ubisoft subscription thing but NOT worth buying full price. Its like valhalla, full of jank and clogged to shit with tedious time wasting bullshit. Perfect game to play after a bunch of beers, but if you have a semi-functioning brain, pass.
@@Supadrumma441 sad, the main protag is a gun runner right? that seems like a perfect opportunity to bring back the Jackal who was recently confirmed to be Jack Carver. Wish they took the game seriously
Can anybody tell me how they are supposed to innovate with this franchise? Would we stop bitching if Far Cry 7 was a side scrolling, turn based, massively multiplayer, beat em up, with 16 bit graphics? What do we want Far Cry to be? I have no idea but I do know what it’s always been. A sure thing. I’ve been turning my brain off and shooting things since FC2. As much as it’s all the same, somehow I have enjoyed them all, even New Dawn. Nobody else does Far Cry better than Far Cry in my opinion. This franchise is a product like Coke or Lays. You have your fill and wait for the next similarly tasting flavour.
@@justifano7046 Nope. It’s in South America. The trouble is, is the degenerate characters which is now deemed mainstream in the entertainment business. Deliberately making characters stupid and whore-like for the sake of it being 2021. Like Mac said, no of these characters would have been in the game had it be 2017
@@justifano7046 No, it's because the so-called resistance fighters in this game appear to be unlikeable degenerates who still wouldn't be able to organise a bum in a bath-house. It's a South American setting, so of course they're going to be non-White. The problem is that Ubisoft's target market basically adopts their political stances from modern Star Trek and Marvel capesh*t trash, so naturally they write the characters to reflect the audience.
The thing is we use "fascist" way too loosely. The revolutionaries in all these games are meant to be modern versions of the Cuban communist revolutionaries. And when they won their government wasn't exactly "free". Fascism doesn't mean "one bad man has power and the government is mean". It's an actual ideology with distinct ideas. Not all dictators are fascist.
The thing that pisses me off the most is clearing out camps or bases cause you go 30 feet one way and then back and enemies have just randomly appeared again. And when you kill someone say behind 2 enemies who are 20ft away and looking the opposite way, in about 15 seconds they somehow know and are alerted and then track everywhere you go.
It just plain sucks that big publishers like ubisoft are focusing almost exclusively on turning their established franchises into live service style, bloated open world games with RPG-lite looter shooter mechanics. Far Cry used to be special, but not anymore. It's a by the numbers, tickbox exercise chasing current popular industry trends and desperately trying to appeal to mindless young gamers who aren't interested in solid story or realism. It's the lowest common denominator, the Fortnite or GTA5 online crowd that Far Cry is made for now. Sigh. I remember when this series used to be good, but now I don't even know what it is anymore, it's completely lost its identity and has just turned into a cookie cutter parody of other games.
If you experienced Far Cry at its launch, it's a sad day indeed. Used to be a benchmark for other games to achieve. Now it's just a manufactured fast food snack for the soy-latte crowd.
Mac, I want to thank you, from one Northerner to another, for always speaking the truth. You have saved me from buying many games I would have regretted purchasing, this being one of them. There hasn't been a good triple A game since the playstation 2. It is a shame to see games pandering to the isms and schisms of today, rather than featuring risque and thought provoking characters. Keep on fighting the good fight!
The moment I saw the "resistance" I knew this game was a hard pass. I'm no longer looking past the woke for if the game is otherwise good. Nuh-uh. When you include your immature non-functional political statements in the game, I'm not buying or playing it and that's the end of it.
I just D-Load preachy PC games for free. I'm not gonna pay to get lectured to, but thanks for the fun! Respectable, respectful companies get my money. ( P.S. - I'm Canadian. Our laws allow it )
@@CannoneerDmitry I'll let you know if it's crap when I play it. It's next game on my list. ( I'm currently playing Witcher 2 for the second time, which I gladly paid for )
Once you know a game has gone woke, you *know* that quality has been de-prioritized. It's such a reliable indicator, that evidence of wokeness is basically a good enough reason to ignore a game.
When "the experts" wax lyrical and predict a dystopian future run by a super-advanced AI that mankind itself foolishly developed, I point them towards games like Far Cry 6.
you do realize that kind of AI has nothing to do with NPCs in games right? RIGHT?!! Humanity will be defeated because people like you are beyond stupid....
lmao I was thinking about Watch Dogs 2 crew also, and I forgot it's also an Ubisoft game. It had amazing gameplay, but the characters were so off-putting, I couldn't complete it.
With some proper digging, you could find at least a few out there you might enjoy. Dirt cheap on steam sales, too. If you're into First Person Shooters, with the right mods you can turn Fallout 4 into a proper shooter. Don't pay full price though. Kenshi. Exanima. Rimworld. Cruelty Squad. Project Warlock. To name a few i've seen that have an actual game of it.
@@pauperslament3467 There are titles that I would have previously devoured - Spelunky is my favorite platformer of all time. The design is ingenious, but I still haven't played the sequel. I was anticipating the release for a long time, but the last two years has wrought such destruction upon my personal life, and ushered us into this dystopian malaise, I've become incapable of escapism. The thought of Ubisoft extracting the last remaining pennies of middle class wealth with their teams of social engineers and psychoanalysts, programming gambling addictions into young minds... The vultures are feeding on the carcass. As someone who grew up with dos games in the 80s and 90s - self-contained finished experiences, and robust expansion packs to extend only hit titles - it's sickening to see these predatory industry practices continue. These games are not by gamers for gamers. They're operating systems for sociopaths who would otherwise be selling children cigarettes to, "investigate predictable revenue models." It poisons the design from the ground up. You can feel the headshrinkers padding the grind and the bean counters crippling your "free" build. You're right that there are still treasures from small indie devs. Hopefully one day I can replace whatever fell out of my brain when I saw socially distanced lines of masked hypochondriacs stretched outside the grocery store like a bread line. I can't stand movies anymore either, really. It's like a page was turned.
@@letsgo_kib In my estimation, western government's inept responses (and hoping it's ignorance rather than malice is looking magnanimous at this point) are responsible for the vast majority of the devastation. I can forgive natural disasters, but the calculus changes when politicians and bureaucrats, with their conflicts of interest and undisclosed incentives, callously violate constitutional rights, isolate grandparents until they whither, and mandate that moms and dads die without a hand to hold. All the priceless, irreplaceable human moments they have stolen from us... And with no data to show us. They have none. If they ever let up now they must know there will be a reckoning. Their commitment to the new abnormal must be total. They stepped beyond the point of no return. But I feel terrible polluting Worth a Buy with this grime when sanctuaries have become so rare. So thanks for the hand up. Whatever is coming next will require a collective effort if we're going to _Build Back Better_ (kill me)
Most of the modern gamers will say "Yeah, I agree with you that this game seems to have a lot of problems, but I'm still going to pre order it anyways."
@@CommDante Ghost of Tsushima was an American production. And Red Dead was pretty decent before that, also an American production. Although I suspect GTA Online has made Rockstar lazy, they're game output is incredibly low now.
One has to wonder why the devs chose to set the game in Cuba which has been under the control of a brutal communist dictatorship for 69 years but then strangely made the game about "fascism" instead of communism. It's an extremely strange decision which runs counter to history and to common sense. I have to wonder whether the decision was made so as to not offend Woke activists at Ubisoft, by avoiding any criticism of socialism. There doesn't seem to be any other reasonable explanation for why they would go out of their way to twist the truth like this except for trying to appease those fond of socialism.
They got so lazy with the villains as the series went on, imagining them sitting in a writing room like "who should the villain be?" one guy is like "what about Gus from Breaking Bad?" "Like Gus from Breaking Bad?" "Nah not like, 'the' Gus from Breaking Bad" "ok sure whatever, it's about lunchtime anyways let's get sushi."
Is getting Gus from Breaking Bad even a bad idea? The main villain from Farcry 3 was so forgettable, I can't even remember what Hoyt Volker looked like.
@@beginnersailingadventures8694 Vaas is still officially labeled as the secondary antagonist of the game and Hoyt labeled as the primary antagonist. But frankly when Vaas dies, my interest in the game plummets to the Earth like the Hindenburg.
@@CommDante What proof do you or any of the others here have about the diversity hires? You people are so eager to blame minorities. Wake up. It's your fellow whites who are 90% responsible for the woke culture we are in.
RIP Far cry, the days of challenging gameplay and convincing characters are over. Soon opponents will be overcome with micro aggressions and angry body language. Very gutted, I was looking foward to this.
Ubisoft needs to quit giving the diversity hire the job of writing characters for their games, sick of over emotional edgy fucktard characters that would get their heads smashed in 5 seconds in the real world but populate Ubisofts games like flies.
@@Supadrumma441 that's the thing, we all know in real life we ourselves could fuck these characters up.. its pure cringe they attempt to convince these "revolutionists" are worth a dam being took seriously.
The funny thing about Ubisoft is how they pretend to be right on in their games while in reality they're the exact opposite. Immersion breaking characters that don't belong, it's like it's being made for 10 year olds. That's saved me a few quid 👍
whats frustrating is that ubisoft comes up with such amazing jaw dropping ideas for their games and the potential they can have visually and gameplay wise...but when you play the game you realize how lazy they managed to execute the gameplay and how repetitive and shallow their games are...its depressing at this point compared to back in the day
@@Supadrumma441 Diversity hire isn't hired accidentaly... they have to push "a message"... and after try to maximise profit (or minimise damage, whatever you like to call it) .
Yeah wasn't too hyped about this one honestly. Series has been getting progressively worse since Farcry 3 because Ubisoft keeps introducing features that struggle to compliment eachother. All they need to do is have the tattoo perk visual from 3, the grapple hook/gliding suit combo from 4 and the rarity system/base takeover system from new dawn and boom you've got a great game. They're too fucking stupid to figure that out though.
@@FlamespeedyAMV yeah it's all about making money fast. As shown in the video, they only made 2 out of the 8 spec ops missions so far, but they had loads of time to make a bunch of microtransaction crap
This genuinely makes me sad for gaming and what the future could hold. Far Cry 3 was a masterpiece and now look what they are churning out. The AAA games now go for mass appeal, hence the cash shops, woke-ness, easy gameplay, focus on graphics over mechanics and gameplay. We need to invest in the indie developers who can give us games we want as actual gamers. I cant remember the last AAA game i even bought. Thanks for the honesty as always Mack
10:35 onwards - Your rant at the end is absolutely spot on. I am sadly one of those losers who bend over backwards because I hate seeing my platinumed games trophy lists drop down in percentage from every DLC drop, but I totally agree with you on it! Perhaps I’ll plant one of my vertebrae in my garden and see if it grows in to a fully fledged spine!
The fact that this review was listed above IGNs review proves that this dude right here is a legit gamer and not a "noob video game journalist". Subbed. Thank you for your content.
I had Far Cry 3 back in the day and it was brilliant and ...really difficult even on the lower settings, it's a shame it's gone down this route and morphed into a CoD type cinematic button masher.
Yea, like in Blair Witch, the Consumer just needs to have a Pet in the Game and it's 10/10 For other's, it's Loot every 3 Meters for a 10/10 Planet of the Apes
I miss the old Far Cry 2 vibe. 3 was good but it was already getting too ubisofty paint by the numbers style gameplay. I'll probably pick it up when it's on sale for a fiver just to torch the puppy :)
@@purefoldnz3070 I agree, that's definitely the worst part, and the biggest obstacle to enjoying the game today. Too bad it can't be modded out. But other than that, the more serious and dark story, the savannah setting, the gunplay and semi-realistic weapon degradation, the enemies who could bleed out slowly and still shoot at you while sitting down, the concept of buddies and betrayal, etc, were just miles better than in any of the subsequent games. And using Dylan's mod makes the shooting even better, IMO.
And they got rid of the map editor. Far cry 5s map community got really in depth and came up with complex and crazy fun missions. Hopefully they can mod it to keep the community alive. Personally it's the only major long term sustainable replay value the game had.
Mac i fkn LOVE your honesty, do you know, i dont even bother with others anymore, i come, watch your reviews and instantly know whats going to resonate or piss me off! Cheers man, never change!
Imagine how good far cry would be if there were more time for development between releases... 3.1 Far Cry (2004) 3.2 Far Cry 2 (2008) 3.3 Far Cry 3 (2012) 3.4 Far Cry 4 (2014) 3.5 Far Cry 5 (2018) 3.6 Far Cry 6 (2021) 4.1 Far Cry Instincts (2005) 4.2 Far Cry Instincts: Evolution (2006) 4.3 Far Cry Instincts: Predator (2006) 4.4 Far Cry Vengeance (2006) 4.5 Paradise Lost (2007) 4.6 Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013) 4.7 Far Cry Primal (2016) 4.8 Far Cry New Dawn (2019) 4.9 Far Cry VR: Dive Into Insanity (2021)
Summary of my thoughts.
If you want mindless mayhem with some pretty strange guns then it's worth a buy for sure. If however you are looking for a decent First person shooter where you have to think about how to assault the many different fortresses and garrisons like you did with the older FC games then stop right there. The Ai is literally blind, stupid and suffering from dementia, they react slower than an asthmatic three legged Hippo with cataracts and thats on max difficulty. This is the easiest FPS I have ever played in my life, it offers no challenge, you just go along for the ride, it's really disappointing. So it really depends what you want out of the game, good gunplay with tense firefights or a Just Cause game, this is the latter.
Well the only real protagonist in Far Cry i care about is Jason Brody, at the beginning he is only college guy but when game is progress and start to upgrade, he turn into badass killer want to revenge against Vaas who killed his big brother. That alone is better than rest of Far Cry after 3
Yes, AAA funded games should have wonderful forests similar to Kingdom Come. It is pitiful game development. I wonder if their reusing the badly optimized game engine over and over to save money is the root of the cause.
Mack! It's really weird you didn't like the chaotic, dynamic nature of the FC 5 world. One of the best parts was travelling by foot and enjoying the scenery, while simultaneously getting into skirmishes with the enemy, watching allies fight battles, fishing, hunting, collectibles, mini stories, bunkers, outposts...
There was never a lul in the action or purpose, with enough differences to give the impression of fresh scenarios, and the ai would at least give you a relative time of it all.
Then POW, all of it gone when the game forces you to kill the boss. Both the best implementation of an idea and the worst at the same time. Mindboggling. And nuts you dont enjoy random skirmishes as well. In FC 5 at least. Also, i think you confused 5 with New Dawn. New Dawn had the "special operations."
Have you noticed a new trope in recent years of the "I'm like sooo quirky smart and cool!" archetype? It's almost universal. They even have the same odd high pitched kind of voice.
Was waiting for your review, can't trust these other reviewer assholes!
"It's so fucking easy, a journalist could play it!"
Pure gold.
Hilarious. Man, great stories, but RECORD what you're talking about. If you're talking about the old woman going over her own trip mines, record that shit! Makes it funny for us, too! lol.
yeah....pure gold....
most original youtube joke
You have a tank at your beckon call before leaving the tutorial island.... 😂
It's like every cast of heroes now needs to be a bunch of "quirky AF" college kids who think they're in a Marvel movie with more swearing.
& for that reason I'm out
Blame Fortnight
The Golden Path were a better resistance group than what ever these new guys are doing.
Exactly. It is literally a deal breaker at this point.
Maybe they should give you the option of working for the protagonists or the antagonists and that way you can work the way you want to.
"They're just pissing on us without even giving us the courtesy of calling it rain"
Easy there R Kelly 🤣
My mind's tellin' me no, but my body, my body's tellin' me yes
@@RockingChode It was in Avatar. Dr. Grace Augustine said it when she she was angry
@@PortfolioPL lol. I was teasing due to what was going on in the media at the time haha
I work with a lad who is 22, a huge, obsessive gamer. However he is of the DLC/microtransaction generation. He bought this and spent time last night telling me how great it is and how he can't wait to start buying all the add on packs and cosmetic items. I asked him if he thought that just paying for the actual game should be enough. He said that's not how games work...... this is the problem. Its a whole generation now of kids who think that games like this are actually good and that paying extra for all the shite add ons is part of the experience...... I'm 43, grew up on c64/amiga/PC gaming as well as consoles, I lived through the golden days of late 90s/early 2000s PC gaming when story, plot, gameplay was vital. Things like this are just a sad indication of the way things are going and that people think it's ok
i get you.
all my best social and gameplay experiences in gaming are in the long past.
not because the games back then ran better, controlled better and gods knows they didn't look better but the UI, concepts, willingness to challenge the players and the no punches pulled level/enemy design (and AI) make the modern shooting gallery and lobotomised RTS genre games look like the brainless faceroll games that they are.
in the 2000s i was dropping into an MMO shooter base from a dropship, killing the generator and holding that location while the zergs took unknowing advantage of the enemies inability to replace their tanks.
I was playing MMOs with 24 man raids where every class had 5-7 rows of hotkeys half just for the damage rotations and the rest for utility, items, long cooldown abilities and passive buffs recasts
I was driving and flying around in warzones that had warships, bombers, fighters, jeeps, tanks, AA guns, sensible base layouts and 32-64 players all having fun while blowing things apart from modest ranges (no quickscope or pixel perfect cross-map instakills in sight)
I was sneaking around space stations, feudal towns/houses, city alleys and secret bases while being actively afraid of discovery by the Ai set to interesting patrol routes and moderately sensible AI.
i was conquering planets one hex at a time while desperately trying to avoid mindworms or raising sprite armies to siege fully 3d castles in realtime.
and that's but a fraction of what was.
Now i'm lucky to run down a coridoor without a jumpscare, canned animation, weapon model taking up 1/3 of my screenspace or snarky quip by a side-shaved mental patient interfereing with my transition between rooms as i' forced to quick-scope for added accuracy and spam 2-3 magical abilities constantly to make up for the anaemic weapons that are describes as firearms but act more like nerf-guns with pins on the tips.
there are exceptions but every one is an indie title, a homage, an iterative series from japanese deveopers finally releasing on PC (EDF!) or was bought 3-4 years after release at a fraction of the total cost and with 90% of the timesink mechanics ignored/cherry=picked for the most interesting rewards (ubi titles or some of the "live service" games like warframe).
Nobody thinks anything is okay, dude, we just don't have the power to do a fucking thing about it. Is the video game industry metaphorically raping all of us? Absolutely. Still better than watching politics.
It's a shame I am 24, I grew up with 90s and early 2000s game, but never supported this shitty ass microtransaction.And I am already sick with modern gaming.
If you think game companies wouldn’t have added stuff like this back then if they could you are crazy. I personally don’t care if a game has mtx or not sometimes it extends the life of a game or other times people can use a skin that they want to. I’d rather have this generation where at least they can fix the game if it’s messed up instead of some of the buggy messes that I’ve played that we’re older games. And I also understand that games are getting harder to make now with investors and boards breathing down developers necks to get the games out. Because at the end of the day it is a business and people are in business to make money
Wth that's sad. I'm 25 but I'm not as brainwashed as that guy wth happened. I mean I get bored so easily these days with how games are all the same, full of mtx bullshit and "buy buy buy" everywhere. I am happy I can enjoy games like Control and get into the story and spend 2 hours in the evening chilling and immersing myself into my hobby. The cod/mtx generation is really sad.
This feels like the most honest review
Better late than never, am doing Back4Blood next, expect the review Monday, am off to bed now to dream about dogs on wheels.
''Because all he does is work, work, work...''
More like Back 4 Money....
*DING DING DING* :)
I can here the bells already
I had fun playing it with friends, looking forward to your thoughts.
bro im a long time left 4 dead 2 player i still play it today i particularly enjoy versus but the entire game has set a high standard for me. i can not wait to see your review of back 4 blood, i'd say im ready to be disappointed but i dont get excited or hyped for anything anymore.
"I wouldn't follow these people into a shop!"
I'm ded.
I’ll happily skip this game due to it..
I played the game for like 3 hrs and had the exact same tought. He hit the nail exactly on the head with this one. I'm completely unimmersed. Shouldve waited for his review before buying
I know 🤣🤣🤣 absolutely brilliant
I'm glad I did! as a big fan of the older games (up until 4) I really wanted this to be good... too bad
That scene was it for me. I played through the first island and thought the characters couldn't get any worse. They did.
Honestly for me the mere existence of the store is enough to stay away. Props to Mack, I didn't even know about the store and missing missions from other reviews.
Yep, I've taken a hard stance on mtx. If I see them and it's not an MMO, it's an INSTANT no-buy. Although Ubisoft already disqualified themselves with forcing this onto Uplay too. Fuck Uplay. You're gonna compete with Steam? Then COMPETE WITH STEAM. Ransoming your game behind your special snowflake DRM platform is unacceptable.
I love competition and we need a lot more of it, but I'm not going to shed a tear for these wankers when Gabe Newell finally runs them over with the Steam tank.
The store has been in the Far Cry series for a while. Game reviewers don't mention it because if they do, they know they won't get a free early review copy. Same thing about the missing missions. They go like "oh well it says they are coming soon so it's just like they are in the game, no need to mention it".
Same. Mack is the first reviewer to actually mention it. And its disgraceful because if they're not calling it out every time, it means its become normalised and accepted. Which it shouldn't be.
I loved FC3, was disappointed with FC5 (though had an okay time in co-op). Gonna pass on this one. There's a million other games in my backlog which I hardly have time to play, this one doesn't seem like bothering with
I can always count on Mack to give me the real info. I'm done messing around with these AAA buffoons and woke reviewers.
I havent even played FC2 yet, but is on my list, along with 3. I wont be going any further.
Your the only reviewer on RUclips that has mentioned that the game is too easy. I'm playing co op with a friend and i have been so disconnected from the combat. It almost plays itself its so easy. Thanks for being an honest reviewer. There are no games out so I bought this game...regretting it for sure
Not read any reviews yet but am shocked if no one has mentioned how easy this game is, even in single player.
@@WorthABuyreviews yes sir not a one. I even Googled and typed it in on RUclips yesterday 'farcry 6 too easy.' Got nothing. I always watch at least 10 reviews on a game I'm thinking about getting. Pretty sure most are bought and paid for anyway. Glad ya messaged me. I've been a fan for a long time man stay cool 😎👌😌
I've been playing it solo, its not an easy game at all. That part of the review wasn't accurate at all. The only problem is enemies do spawn all around you from nowhere. They do try to flank you and they do use cover (around trees etc.)
@@purefoldnz3070 then... you are just bad at fps games if you think far cry games are hard :))). The Ai is from 1980... and you cannot deal with them?.. if i put you in a battle royal match... i bet you hide in a bush and wait to die... man metal gs 3 has the best AI in a tactic game...
@@Creationseed9 Have you played Far Cry 6?
“I wouldn’t follow these people into a shop” had me laughing for ages
I'd rather play as the villain side, than the hipsters.
reminds me of how bad the saints row re-boot is going to be :/
Oh that would be an amazing game to have a revolution against hipsters, especially with ragdoll physics and blowing off extremities lmao
At least that was a hidden option in FC4. Christ, it's getting worse and worse guys
Yup me too , the dictator was believable and i want to know his story. But those other retards? erm i'll pass , those hipster types have 'mental health' problems just dealing with life and you expect me to believe they can organize and execute a guerrilla war insurgency? Hahaha what a load of bollox.
you can just skip the mission and the characters and run around Cuba causing mayhem. Taking out bases in a sandbox environment that's what Far Cry is.
Immersion is everything! I can’t immerse myself with these 2021 prick characters around.
Thanks Mac, I wont touch it now. You saved me money
You wouldn't need to save money if you made enough not to care quit sucking at life and make money and spend money you noob.
@@eagle25311 inflation will take care of you noob.
@@eagle25311 you have to be 9
@Will Kingston I’ve got some Beancoins I could sell him? Two for £30k
Accualy game is realy fun,and best fc since fc3
Once again Mac you have nailed this on the head. Gone are the days when gamers had to think about strategy. But developers don't want gamers these days, they just want mindless Neanderthals with a bulging wallet.
💯💯
Bruh that's more rockstar than ubisoft these days I mean at least ubisoft dosen't spam calls to make you buy property's and try to make you buy microtransactions to the point it's pay2win. Ubisoft is basically more tame with the microtransactions than other companies in my opinion since they don't force you to buy them and they just say "Hey here's this pack you can buy if you want you don't need to though to enjoy and pass the game."
The games made by corporations, yeah. But indies are still amazing and some middle market games are pretty good too.
@@justifano7046 20 years ago? yes. full game? yes plenty. 40-50 freedom bucks? fuck no and if you account for inflation games are cheaper now than they ever have been.
@@justifano7046 Yup games "should" be 90-100 USD if they went up in price with everything else. Half a game for half the price is fair it just feels bad because the standard hasn't changed.
This woke shit in literally EVERYTHING now is starting to get exhausting. Mack is right, it’s so immersion breaking. Diablo 2: Resurrected even got hit with this a bit with the Maamazon and the Assassin’s “pants” lol. Will we ever have nice things again, or is the new world standard to just make everything shit?
What about what they did to Mass effect andromeda?
@@Warpig9 That game was a trainwreck too! They purposefully made female Ryder ugly.
@Second Chance * new world order
I was thinking of buying Resurrected, what’s woke in it?
@@SAMSARALIVEEEEEE Harem Girls in Act 2. Censored and removed. Also, the Assassin and the Amazon have been "tweaked" to look more masculine. Still a good remaster overall though.
We all need to protect mack at all costs. The guy is a national treasure in this new fake world we all find ourselves in.
But he is wrong saying these characters are there for politics, they are not, they are there simply to catter to a younger crowd, so kids get hooked into the franchise, period, nothing politics. Being honest doesn't mean being right.
@@shilombaba He was talking about how it's all brown people who look like South American Antifa members. It's just _"woke"_ BS as usual. Tons of young people hate that crap.
Silicon Valley is Liberal@@shilombaba
These characters are like "yay! Revolution, wooo!" Making these young people think that "revolutions" are fun and cool. They think they're the cool freedom fighters.
They seem to forget all the countless fucking revolutions that have taken place before theirs, all for the same reasons, all failed for the same reasons.
Blm and antifa baby!! ( non-terrorist organization) (lie)
Yay let's have a revolution so I can use the other bathroom!!!!
"War is cool"
America was founded by revolution and violence.
After seeing the "Resistance fighters", I think it's safe to say I'll never purchase or play this game. Big nope.
why
@@jakeavakov5230 The wokeness completely ruins the immersion.
@@hhasslinger9601 Its what happens when you give the diversity hire a writing job.
Kind of a missed opportunity not giving people the option to fight for the "bad" guys. Felt the same way in 5 after reading some of the notes left around the map.
@@Supadrumma441 ubi has been the industry standard in inclusion for a decade now, at least. They're target audience is exactly who are portrayed.
It’s too bad it went this direction. At this rate it will just be indie games that sustain us. Good work sir, much respect to you and your work.
Remembering how amazing Far Cry 3 was, how could they fuck it up so bad? It's so extremely ridiculous at this point, with all the weird weapons and animals fighting for you.
@@weebsarecringe2102 but its soo crazy and random hahaaa lmaoo rawrrr xd
@@freezxng_moon lmao poggers reply
@@weebsarecringe2102 you mean wankers reply...
@@TheT0nedude rawrr xd
In the eyes of Ubisoft a modern "revolucion" is apparently led by a whole lot of current-year women and a couple of boomers.
These are the demographic that play games the most. Those characters are created for the majority.
Last good Far cry game for me was 4. Loved how endless the setting felt, and loved the multiple endings. The game made you feel like what you were doing was questionable and all ends. Although it wasn’t a perfect game, it was a atmospheric game.
Yep.
The setting was beautiful and the 2 rivals Amita and Sabal felt like they belonged to that world.
In FC6 the rebels just look like college teens who would get their ass handed out to them within minutes, but of course we want some woke 'inclusive' people.
Who the hell is in charge of managing these Ubisoft franchises?
Far Cry 3 and 4 felt over the top, yet also realistic. The premises we're believable. Far Cry 5's premise was completely ridiculous and FC6 has cringetastic Gen Z wanna rebels supposedly winning a fight against a dictator.
3 n 4 was perfect for me , primal was great 5 is shit n garbage , 6 is fun n great
Very true I’ve had some crazy out comes from that game. Down from getting attacked by the rebels or elephant flips your car and destroys you 😂
The new generation of developers keep creating characters and stories that are consistently targeting the wrong audience, or at least not the one the franchises were initially created for.
While the quality of our hardware keeps getting better very few studios understand or respect the franchises they are working on.
I don't even think is what higher-ups are pushing or demanding we have to come to terms that the developers that created most of these franchises are my and Mac's age and have long moved on.
This is how the new generation of creators and developers feel the IP should look like...
P.S
I haven't played FarCry 2 in years but I still remember the realness, gritt and feel the game conveyed, you literally felt the danger,environment and overall seriousness of the world you were in.
Everyone that thinks this is anything more than arcade fun and a 9/9 or10/10 should play FarCry 2 or 3 and maybe their opinion will change
If they played 2 today, they would throw a fit or suffer a mental break down. They'll never top 2.
@@pauperslament3467 Lol...fully agree that's why I think is a generational thing everything has to be fruity and fun but yet they still want a villain 🤔 lol
Far cry 2 was great except for getting malaria ever 10 mins...
@@FxtrotOscrRmeoDelta lol
@@pumachomper6456 It was one of the first games that had details such as wind spreading fire.
But that goddamn malaria mechanic was like dealing with inserting a catheter while having the clap.
If these were your citizens, you’d turn into a bitter dictator too. I wasn’t going to buy this anyway, but thanks for the lols Mack :)
Oh, nothing. They’re perfect. They’re exactly what oppressed people from a country run by a dictator look and behave like. 🤡
@@justifano7046 If you have to ask then you are part of the problem
@@justifano7046 You really need to ask? Christ.. lol
Makes me want to play the dictator and son instead. :-)
@@lupusprobitas I was kind of expecting that to be honest. I had this weird idea that the dictators son was gonna grow to rebel against his dad, like see how evil he is. That would have been so much better.
I don’t play games anymore, I just watch your reviews. I feel like I get the whole disappointing experience of modern gaming with a shorter time investment.
If you steer clear of the larger publishers there are some excellent games. You just have to dig to find them
Just play indies. Some AA studios are reasonable too.
Look at metacritics top user score games with the most votes on them, not like 1 random anime game that's had 3 votes 10/10 so it's top, check for ones that have like 10000 reviews n go off them, have a look at RUclips vids and see if you like it but today's gaming is pretty shit, people just blinded by graphics over quality of the actual story, characters, dialogue, missions etc.
indie games are great and fairly priced, just keep away from the AAA turds
I kept my softmodded original Xbox for that lets me play straight from the HDD
Yea haha I know old ass console
Still fun
12:30
"Good dog, gooood dog!"
1 second later: takes out the flamethrower and incinerates doggie....
Man I was pissing my pants from laughing
Far Cry 2 was my favourite - especially once I learned to slow down a bit and not rush round everywhere by car. I quite enjoyed FC3 also but it was already beginning to feel a little too on the 'zany for the sake of zany' side of things character wise imo. Still a really good game. 4, meh, OK but really more of the same from what I remember... Have been burned out on the series since and I can't see this dragging me back in anytime soon, certainly not at full price.
This is correct. There was also a hardcore mod for it but that still made it piss easy to headshot entire camps.
Mack always hates X-ray vision in shooters, but as usual he tends to forget these things were also in games he likes/thumbs up.
I have an urge to replay FC2, I haven't played that game in about 11 years now. I remember that game being really fun. I didn't like the Malaria aspect of it, I remember being easily annoyed by it. I'd still recommend anyone to play it though, it's super fun.
@Sleepy Post I mostly stick to older games anyway lol. I don't really remember the last time I was genuinely excited for a new release.
I would love Far Cry 2 more but the malaria mechanics never got bearable for me. It staid frustrating throughout.
That bit with Giancarlo Esposito's character at the beginning straight up looked like an Xbox 360 game, jesus
0:40 holy fuck what did they do to that Dragunov?!
- Charging handle, safety, and ejection port on the wrong side
- Scope on the wrong side
- Scope mounted on some dumbass riser and then mounted to a rail rather than just mounting directly to the rail
This is what happens when gun hating liberals make games.
Imagine how high scope is. Can you imagine how awkward would be to use this thing?
"I wouldn't follow these fuckers into a shop, let alone a fucking battle" hahaha I feel you Mack. That is a real, real shame. I was hoping this would be a spiritual successor to FC3 but apart from the setting it seems it's not even close. "Fun if you disconnect your brain" about sums up the past 2 games in this series (or any game from Ubisoft in the past few years for that matter)
It’s a literal successor to FC3, it’s just the spirit has gone to a better place, and all that’s left is a husk consisting of the setting.
Accualy it is best game since fc3
Maybe it's a fun game, but if the gameplay is too mindless with non-memorable characters, then perhaps it's not for me. I tried out Just Cause, and also earlier Farcry didn't grip me as much. Before I try a new title, I should maybe play though FC3 at least once. Haha.
@@AlmissaGaming Not sure...
Especially with these rpg elements...
And store...
And online drm...
The SJW characters ruin everything.
Today I saw FC6 on sale for 16 euro. I reviewed your video and spared some cash. Thanks Mack.
i look around RUclips with gamers playing Far Cry 6, sponsored streams, trying to tell people how great it is, and then i see this. A good honest review. I know where to come for real honest reviews now. Good stuff, and what an ending to the video
Great review Mack, you're honestly one of the few reviewers left that not only speaks from the mind, but speaks the truth. You deserve way more subs.
Agreed. Unfortunately honesty is not condusive to getting a high number of subscribers.
Used to watch GmanLives for that as well, but ever since he got his special "invitations" by publishers and devs his reviews have softened dramatically and are nothing but meme fests with zoomer/boomer humor - boring and annoying.
@@Bunkerknacker_Retro-Nostalgie I'm really glad you brought that up because I used to watch his channel as well, but like you said it just hasn't been the same.
i feel like mac was depressed making this review. the disappointment of seeing what the gaming industry has slowly been transforming into is effecting his mental health
@Coolsteel oof
@Sleepy Post you gave 0 arguments on how it’s woke
@Coolsteel yes obviously we all hate gaming - 90% of why we play them.
@Coolsteel He does this for a living, he reviews games, he loves some games and he hates others, he hated this game and i can see why.
If you don't like his reviews or you have purple hair maybe you should watch some other channel.
@Coolsteel Mack hates games? He's been playing games since before most of us were alive. He's trying to combat and call out the bullshit that every triple A company spits out these days instead of sucking their ****s like every other reviewer on the internet. Sometimes I disagree with him but he has experienced many decades of games, and I 100% agree that the industry has gone down the shitter over the last 10 years
Mack just wanted to say thank you , I have been watching your videos these couple days and it really helped with me depression.
Take care, a random Internet dude :-)
First game where I was cheering for the "bad guy" to take out the hiptser SJW's.. No wonder why Anton was driven mad..
Enemies with health bars basically means it’s a terrible shooter.
So because you can see a health bar, that makes it a terrible shooter? Because all shooters, the characters all have hit points. You just aren't shown a health bar in all those games.
@@skyesfury8511 man, half the subs on this channel are like 40 year olds who want every game to be a milsim lmao, don’t even waste your time with them 😭
Yeah is cool when you shoot enemy in the head and he is still alive and well cause he have 50% health yeeey is fun
Well said. Really makes it disconnected. What’s even the point in a casual shooter like this. It’s like when they added perks, crafting and other stuff in far cry3, just felt tacked on and superficial just to bloat the game enough for you to get distracted from the lacking gameplay. But that’s the hallmark of Ubisoft games, superficial bloat and barebones gameplay.
"Just turn it off in options " - some guy with common sense
5:53 Bruh, why would I want a high TTK and a health bar and hitmarker like that in a singleplayer game? Stuff like this is okay in a multiplayer shooter, but not in a singleplayer game that is supposed to be immersive.
You can pretty much disable every single thing in your HUD. The only reason mack plays with it, is therefor he can rant about it.
@@nge9621 Can you link the timestamp please to where he rants about the HUD? Thanks.
@@ploppyploppy he's acting all surprised about political agenda in an ubisoft game as if he lived in a cave the last 10 year. This is not since 3 years. He gave Far Cry 5 a thumps up. A Game that even the intro was so bad that I refunded it asap. And Far Cry 3 was an absolute shitfest aswell. But he acts like it was the best thing ever since they invented the wheel. Far Cry 3 was absolute trash. Satanic bullshit where you could literaly sacrifice your own girlfriend with a dagger to her heart after you have slept with a satanic high priest while being on drugs. I mean WTF?? And Vaas was just a psycho with no real motivation but he keeps jerking on him as if it was the best villain ever. Far Cry 6 is probably the best Ubisoft Game in years and they have built an amazing openworld with great details. By no means it was meant to be an mil-sim or has an oscar worthy story and characters but it has A LOT to offer for a co-op game. If you disagree name me ONE good open-world co-op game since dying light. There is none.
Wildlands is repetitive as fuck and boring and even unplayable because of an audio bug, but guess what: He gave it a thumbs up. And I am by no means an Ubisoft Fan, I hate most of their games because it's social engineering and satanic crap but if he wanna be bitching about graphics and shit: Don't buy it Day1. NO GAME NOWADAYS runs fine and has no bugs when it releases.
He should know that. And if you want to play in the best looking way possible, buy a 3090 or at least a 3080 because the industry is evolving quick graphic-wise.
If you think you can run any Game in 4K Ultra with an outdated 2080ti, then you haven't played any tripple A game in 2 years.
He plays tons of shit games I wouldn't even touch for free and want's every tripple A game to be like it was 20 years ago.
Guess what: NOTHING is as it was 20 years ago. You better deal with it, because this is just the beginning.
He said no word about the keybindings and the HUD settings which are probably the best I've ever seen in a game regardless of if you play with a controller or mouse. Also no word about the world and it's asthetics, the movent, the vehicles, the activities, the sound-design, the fact that you can actually watch your co-op friend do every hand movement they do in real time, which I have never seen in a game.
If you only wanna see bad things, you will, but this review-video was just bad and useless.
@@nge9621
Oh….. it’s retarded
@@nge9621 No need to rant, LOL. This WAB review told me everything I needed to know about the generic pile of woke sh1te that is FC6. If you don't like his reviews, don't watch them.
I'm just done with these AAA companies. Nothing but trash anymore.
Wish everyone would get on board with this..
The answer to the question 'How woke is this game' is why I come to this channel. Because you get the truth here. Period. Thanks Mack.
But he is wrong saying these characters are there for politics, they are not, they are there simply to catter to a younger crowd, so kids get hooked into the franchise, period, nothing politic. Being honest doesn't mean being right.
The last honest reviewer on RUclips.
I found it so boring that I erased it after two days of playing. I lost interest after playing far cry 5 over 30+ hours. I could skip the cutscenes, but the bland enemies, no gore, no seriousness, and magic respawning constantly flowing enemies just got dull and annoying.
The perfect normie game
@@GlazedInfants Yeah I call games like this "low common denominator gaming" aka gaming for simpletons who dont wanna think just breeze through content. And thats fine, don't get me wrong I've had times after a long day at work when i just wanna space out for a few hours, but this game takes the piss in regards to that.
I stopped caringabout Far Cry after 3 ... and most of Ubisoft's garbage for that matter.
@@CommDante far cry 4 was pretty good and pagan min was pretty remarkable in my opinion , my favorite far cry , loved the arena horde mode and the elephant riding , but you’re right , after 3-4 far cry should have ended
@@Supadrumma441 these games just want to exist doing the absolute bare minimum at being a game. However the cash shops.. you can best your ass they work just fine.
A Ubisoft game is full of woke, cringe characters? What a shock!
Im shocked! Shocked I say!
Well not that shocked.....Its what happens when you give the diversity hire a writing job.
How is it woke?
@@Supadrumma441 Exactly!
@@youareasock9752 Maybe "Woke" isn't the perfect term to describe all Ubisoft characters. But as Mac said, the characters in this game don't fit. And I believe that these types of characters is a common trend for Ubisoft games. Even Assassin's Creed Valhalla, a game about Vikings was filled with safe, PC, hipster, cringy characters who don't fit the setting.
To expand even more on what Mac said, these characters don't fit the setting of revolution. The reason why I used the term "woke" is because I believe that far left liberals see hate groups such as antifa as revolutionaries. The characters in this game resemble radical leftist weirdos more than the type of people who would commonly be found fighting a war. By the way, as a former Infantryman I can verify that there aren't many purple haired war fighters.
That's just my opinion.
Agree 100% about the characters. I enjoyed every far cry from number 1. These characters are written so terrible. They obviously are trying to appease a certain type of person. I instantly didn’t care about the story. The story for all the other ones were so good. I’m not that far in and I already don’t care about the story
It seems like they wanted to back off world building and just create a shooter, I don't know whats up with that the atmosphere of these games is what pulls you in. I loved hope county and going from a place that has history soaked into every cabin in the woods or shop to a generic shooter, i think I'll pass on this till its dirt cheap
@@dabblerdeluxe775 Its worth it IMO if you have the Ubisoft subscription thing but NOT worth buying full price. Its like valhalla, full of jank and clogged to shit with tedious time wasting bullshit. Perfect game to play after a bunch of beers, but if you have a semi-functioning brain, pass.
Ubisoft keep making their protagonist dumber & dumber. Just look at their recent games like Assassin's Creed & Watch Dogs
@@Supadrumma441 sad, the main protag is a gun runner right? that seems like a perfect opportunity to bring back the Jackal who was recently confirmed to be Jack Carver. Wish they took the game seriously
@@dabblerdeluxe775 They don't give two fucking shits about story anymore. Just explosions and woke bullshit.
People need to take a goddamn note out of RDR2's playbook
Can anybody tell me how they are supposed to innovate with this franchise? Would we stop bitching if Far Cry 7 was a side scrolling, turn based, massively multiplayer, beat em up, with 16 bit graphics? What do we want Far Cry to be? I have no idea but I do know what it’s always been. A sure thing. I’ve been turning my brain off and shooting things since FC2. As much as it’s all the same, somehow I have enjoyed them all, even New Dawn. Nobody else does Far Cry better than Far Cry in my opinion. This franchise is a product like Coke or Lays. You have your fill and wait for the next similarly tasting flavour.
I would prefer to side with the villain, the folks of the "revolution" are a bunch of cringe weirdos.
It seems we'll get to see these cringe/woke character types pop up again in the next Saints Row game too.
@@mrhades652 that game is already dead, I have never seen a fan base so quickly fucked over. Maybe The Last Of Us 2..
@@mrhades652 Had forgot about that thanks for reminding me about that slime.
“Let’s make this game woke”
“How will that help us sell games?”
“Games?”
“I was hired to spread degenerate propaganda. Not entertain people”
Doesn't make me want a burger either.
@@justifano7046
Nope. It’s in South America.
The trouble is, is the degenerate characters which is now deemed mainstream in the entertainment business. Deliberately making characters stupid and whore-like for the sake of it being 2021.
Like Mac said, no of these characters would have been in the game had it be 2017
@@justifano7046 No, it's because the so-called resistance fighters in this game appear to be unlikeable degenerates who still wouldn't be able to organise a bum in a bath-house. It's a South American setting, so of course they're going to be non-White.
The problem is that Ubisoft's target market basically adopts their political stances from modern Star Trek and Marvel capesh*t trash, so naturally they write the characters to reflect the audience.
@@justifano7046 Jesus Christ
These "revolutionaries" make me want to side with fascists.
Fascism never seemed so appealing as nowadays.
:D So true.
Shocking that Mac fans side with the fascists.
@@morganm3362 It's still a game, don't forget that :P
The thing is we use "fascist" way too loosely. The revolutionaries in all these games are meant to be modern versions of the Cuban communist revolutionaries. And when they won their government wasn't exactly "free".
Fascism doesn't mean "one bad man has power and the government is mean".
It's an actual ideology with distinct ideas.
Not all dictators are fascist.
The thing that pisses me off the most is clearing out camps or bases cause you go 30 feet one way and then back and enemies have just randomly appeared again. And when you kill someone say behind 2 enemies who are 20ft away and looking the opposite way, in about 15 seconds they somehow know and are alerted and then track everywhere you go.
It just plain sucks that big publishers like ubisoft are focusing almost exclusively on turning their established franchises into live service style, bloated open world games with RPG-lite looter shooter mechanics. Far Cry used to be special, but not anymore. It's a by the numbers, tickbox exercise chasing current popular industry trends and desperately trying to appeal to mindless young gamers who aren't interested in solid story or realism. It's the lowest common denominator, the Fortnite or GTA5 online crowd that Far Cry is made for now. Sigh. I remember when this series used to be good, but now I don't even know what it is anymore, it's completely lost its identity and has just turned into a cookie cutter parody of other games.
10/10 for Mack's rant and the end of this review.
That was a dark ending lmao
"Just cry 6", had me laughing in the first few seconds.
If you experienced Far Cry at its launch, it's a sad day indeed. Used to be a benchmark for other games to achieve. Now it's just a manufactured fast food snack for the soy-latte crowd.
I bet the game doesn't crash when you enter the in-game shop to buy a rainbow coloured skin for your rifle !!
All the innovation goes into the cash shops, that's for sure.
Haha 🤣
or it possibly does, an attempt to get a person to buy it twice... maybe
I love how the suppressor on the SVD looking gun gets red hot after 2 rounds lol
Mac, I want to thank you, from one Northerner to another, for always speaking the truth. You have saved me from buying many games I would have regretted purchasing, this being one of them. There hasn't been a good triple A game since the playstation 2. It is a shame to see games pandering to the isms and schisms of today, rather than featuring risque and thought provoking characters. Keep on fighting the good fight!
Last of Us, God of War, Halo Infinite to name a few have been better than most games during “the golden age.”
The moment I saw the "resistance" I knew this game was a hard pass. I'm no longer looking past the woke for if the game is otherwise good. Nuh-uh. When you include your immature non-functional political statements in the game, I'm not buying or playing it and that's the end of it.
Feel the same way. Wish more people thought like this.
So brave.
I just D-Load preachy PC games for free. I'm not gonna pay to get lectured to, but thanks for the fun! Respectable, respectful companies get my money. ( P.S. - I'm Canadian. Our laws allow it )
@@roypublik948 I wouldn't play this crap even if they payed me to do it.
@@CannoneerDmitry I'll let you know if it's crap when I play it. It's next game on my list. ( I'm currently playing Witcher 2 for the second time, which I gladly paid for )
Once you know a game has gone woke, you *know* that quality has been de-prioritized. It's such a reliable indicator, that evidence of wokeness is basically a good enough reason to ignore a game.
There is no wokekness
What's your definition of woke?
It’s in most games now, bloody sad
@@Beanie3500 weird how popular entertainment changes with the times.
@@morganm3362 "degrades", not "changes with the times".
When "the experts" wax lyrical and predict a dystopian future run by a super-advanced AI that mankind itself foolishly developed, I point them towards games like Far Cry 6.
you do realize that kind of AI has nothing to do with NPCs in games right? RIGHT?!! Humanity will be defeated because people like you are beyond stupid....
@@henkhenkste6076 whoosh
@@Maximum432 I dont think you know what that means
@@henkhenkste6076 Alright Ultron, no need to lose your shit. It was what us humans call "a joke".
@@henkhenkste6076 super autism detected
Fortnite ruined gaming and no one believed me years ago.. Now look at what devs do to us.
I'm actually stunned this is considered a AAA title, what in fucks name has happened to Far Cry
Pretty sure all the good guys in Ubisoft games are now a variation of the crew from Watch Dogs 2...they even hopped over to the new Saints Row game.
lmao I was thinking about Watch Dogs 2 crew also, and I forgot it's also an Ubisoft game. It had amazing gameplay, but the characters were so off-putting, I couldn't complete it.
Idiot devs making idiot characters. Makes sense once we see the results. Make a serious game please. I'm tired of this childish crap.
Yeah, the next SR looks awful.
I haven't played any games for a few years now. I still watch Mack to remind me why I stopped.
With some proper digging, you could find at least a few out there you might enjoy. Dirt cheap on steam sales, too. If you're into First Person Shooters, with the right mods you can turn Fallout 4 into a proper shooter. Don't pay full price though.
Kenshi. Exanima. Rimworld. Cruelty Squad. Project Warlock. To name a few i've seen that have an actual game of it.
@@pauperslament3467 having played rimworld... Kenshi looked pretty random/uninteresting. What is it that you like most in kenshi??
@@pauperslament3467 There are titles that I would have previously devoured - Spelunky is my favorite platformer of all time. The design is ingenious, but I still haven't played the sequel. I was anticipating the release for a long time, but the last two years has wrought such destruction upon my personal life, and ushered us into this dystopian malaise, I've become incapable of escapism.
The thought of Ubisoft extracting the last remaining pennies of middle class wealth with their teams of social engineers and psychoanalysts, programming gambling addictions into young minds... The vultures are feeding on the carcass. As someone who grew up with dos games in the 80s and 90s - self-contained finished experiences, and robust expansion packs to extend only hit titles - it's sickening to see these predatory industry practices continue.
These games are not by gamers for gamers. They're operating systems for sociopaths who would otherwise be selling children cigarettes to, "investigate predictable revenue models." It poisons the design from the ground up. You can feel the headshrinkers padding the grind and the bean counters crippling your "free" build.
You're right that there are still treasures from small indie devs. Hopefully one day I can replace whatever fell out of my brain when I saw socially distanced lines of masked hypochondriacs stretched outside the grocery store like a bread line. I can't stand movies anymore either, really. It's like a page was turned.
@@Clone42 covid has hit many of us terribly man... I hope you recover soon!
@@letsgo_kib In my estimation, western government's inept responses (and hoping it's ignorance rather than malice is looking magnanimous at this point) are responsible for the vast majority of the devastation. I can forgive natural disasters, but the calculus changes when politicians and bureaucrats, with their conflicts of interest and undisclosed incentives, callously violate constitutional rights, isolate grandparents until they whither, and mandate that moms and dads die without a hand to hold. All the priceless, irreplaceable human moments they have stolen from us... And with no data to show us. They have none. If they ever let up now they must know there will be a reckoning. Their commitment to the new abnormal must be total. They stepped beyond the point of no return.
But I feel terrible polluting Worth a Buy with this grime when sanctuaries have become so rare. So thanks for the hand up. Whatever is coming next will require a collective effort if we're going to _Build Back Better_ (kill me)
Most of the modern gamers will say "Yeah, I agree with you that this game seems to have a lot of problems, but I'm still going to pre order it anyways."
Nah, I am not going near that stuff, I will not buy even for 10 bucks.
Game is not only woke, but it is also without challenge.
The competition lately has been really poor. What has even been the last must buy AAA game? Ghosts of Tsushima?
@@Edax_Royeaux Indie or Japanese arebpretty much only options post 2016 orso. Oh, well ... does save a lot of money.
@@CommDante Ghost of Tsushima was an American production. And Red Dead was pretty decent before that, also an American production. Although I suspect GTA Online has made Rockstar lazy, they're game output is incredibly low now.
Glad to say Far Cry 3 is the latest Far Cry game you'd see in my game history on any platform.
The protagonists today are the kind of antagonists we used to get a decade ago. So bloody unlikeable and just... Bleurghhh
One has to wonder why the devs chose to set the game in Cuba which has been under the control of a brutal communist dictatorship for 69 years but then strangely made the game about "fascism" instead of communism.
It's an extremely strange decision which runs counter to history and to common sense. I have to wonder whether the decision was made so as to not offend Woke activists at Ubisoft, by avoiding any criticism of socialism. There doesn't seem to be any other reasonable explanation for why they would go out of their way to twist the truth like this except for trying to appease those fond of socialism.
They got so lazy with the villains as the series went on, imagining them sitting in a writing room like "who should the villain be?" one guy is like "what about Gus from Breaking Bad?" "Like Gus from Breaking Bad?" "Nah not like, 'the' Gus from Breaking Bad" "ok sure whatever, it's about lunchtime anyways let's get sushi."
Is getting Gus from Breaking Bad even a bad idea? The main villain from Farcry 3 was so forgettable, I can't even remember what Hoyt Volker looked like.
What do you expect, from diversity hires?
@@Edax_Royeaux Vaas may have not been the final villain, but he was the "main" villain lets be real now, and everyone remembers him just fine.
@@beginnersailingadventures8694 Vaas is still officially labeled as the secondary antagonist of the game and Hoyt labeled as the primary antagonist. But frankly when Vaas dies, my interest in the game plummets to the Earth like the Hindenburg.
@@CommDante What proof do you or any of the others here have about the diversity hires? You people are so eager to blame minorities. Wake up. It's your fellow whites who are 90% responsible for the woke culture we are in.
A far fkn cry this series has turned into, what a shame
It makes you cry in the far
It's worth a refund.
How can I refund if it was free
Absolutely love your reviews Mac!!!
Fryin that pup was hilarious.
RIP Far cry, the days of challenging gameplay and convincing characters are over. Soon opponents will be overcome with micro aggressions and angry body language. Very gutted, I was looking foward to this.
You're my favorite reviewer because you help me save money by keeping me from buying all this slop that every other reviewer keeps peddling.
A Ubisoft game with terribly written characters and stories? What a surprise.
Ubisoft needs to quit giving the diversity hire the job of writing characters for their games, sick of over emotional edgy fucktard characters that would get their heads smashed in 5 seconds in the real world but populate Ubisofts games like flies.
@@Supadrumma441
They should get rid of the Soy-latte machines in the hallways.
@@Supadrumma441 that's the thing, we all know in real life we ourselves could fuck these characters up.. its pure cringe they attempt to convince these "revolutionists" are worth a dam being took seriously.
The funny thing about Ubisoft is how they pretend to be right on in their games while in reality they're the exact opposite. Immersion breaking characters that don't belong, it's like it's being made for 10 year olds. That's saved me a few quid 👍
It isn't?
All the overpriced triple A crap is made for 10-14 year olds. Sign of the times.
whats frustrating is that ubisoft comes up with such amazing jaw dropping ideas for their games and the potential they can have visually and gameplay wise...but when you play the game you realize how lazy they managed to execute the gameplay and how repetitive and shallow their games are...its depressing at this point compared to back in the day
By the time this pc version gets cracked I’ll already will have grown a whole beard Lmaooo
Ubisoft is ass, pumping out shit just to sell something.. Rockstar Games is where it's at and always worth the wait..
I.... I didn't expect it to be THAT bad. Thank you for this awesome review. I couldn't make up my mind with others' reviews. Kudos to you, Mack.
Seeing some "strong diverse girlbosses". Ugh.
Its what happens when you give the diversity hire a writing job.
@@Supadrumma441 Diversity hire isn't hired accidentaly... they have to push "a message"... and after try to maximise profit (or minimise damage, whatever you like to call it) .
@@hendsomjack I call it morally reprehensible bullshit personally.
Yeah wasn't too hyped about this one honestly. Series has been getting progressively worse since Farcry 3 because Ubisoft keeps introducing features that struggle to compliment eachother. All they need to do is have the tattoo perk visual from 3, the grapple hook/gliding suit combo from 4 and the rarity system/base takeover system from new dawn and boom you've got a great game. They're too fucking stupid to figure that out though.
Everything you said proves to me gaming is no longer being made by gamers. When you can come up with better ideas for free..
@@FlamespeedyAMV yeah it's all about making money fast. As shown in the video, they only made 2 out of the 8 spec ops missions so far, but they had loads of time to make a bunch of microtransaction crap
The group of people portraying the "revolutionaries" bashing the fash are there because that group of people are who the developers are lmfao.
Love it. The only reviewer worth listening to now days. ~ proceeds to chuck on Heat from the Cops the Musical.
One of if not the best review of this game yet. Honest and to the point.
The only games review I need to watch 👌🏾
Excellent ending to this review! Don't ever change Mack!
i cant imagine anyone above 14 years to buy this..
"They are purely there for politics" - amen. Thanks for always telling the truth about this woke BS.
This genuinely makes me sad for gaming and what the future could hold. Far Cry 3 was a masterpiece and now look what they are churning out.
The AAA games now go for mass appeal, hence the cash shops, woke-ness, easy gameplay, focus on graphics over mechanics and gameplay. We need to invest in the indie developers who can give us games we want as actual gamers.
I cant remember the last AAA game i even bought.
Thanks for the honesty as always Mack
"I cant remember the last AAA game i even bought." - maybe Prey (2017)? ;-)
I wish we could play as the dictator
plz wait for Far cry 9 season pass, brother ;)
When we saw this at Gamescom and "E3" we KNEW it was going to be bad, having optimism for games now is almost folly, which is a terrible shame.
10:35 onwards - Your rant at the end is absolutely spot on. I am sadly one of those losers who bend over backwards because I hate seeing my platinumed games trophy lists drop down in percentage from every DLC drop, but I totally agree with you on it! Perhaps I’ll plant one of my vertebrae in my garden and see if it grows in to a fully fledged spine!
The fact that this review was listed above IGNs review proves that this dude right here is a legit gamer and not a "noob video game journalist". Subbed. Thank you for your content.
Why is it in every far cry games or Ubisoft games in general, the enemies always have a bright colorful uniforms?
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha That last bit with the dog..... Brutal ha ha ha
I had Far Cry 3 back in the day and it was brilliant and ...really difficult even on the lower settings, it's a shame it's gone down this route and morphed into a CoD type cinematic button masher.
i remember Far Cry 2, and i put hours and hour into that game. I did really enjoy it. Ahhhh, the olde days
@@wibblyteapot I remember that one, where you would get Malaria every ten minutes and the screen would go all green and wobbly!
Yea, like in Blair Witch, the Consumer just needs to have a Pet in the Game and it's 10/10
For other's, it's Loot every 3 Meters for a 10/10
Planet of the Apes
The only real honest reviewer on youtube, thanks!
MACK, this is the best review of this game on the internet. Thanks.
I miss the old Far Cry 2 vibe. 3 was good but it was already getting too ubisofty paint by the numbers style gameplay. I'll probably pick it up when it's on sale for a fiver just to torch the puppy :)
Far Cry 2 was shite.
@@purefoldnz3070 Far Cry 2 was the best in the series.
@@Amunium except for the outposts that respawned over and over. Broke the game.
@@purefoldnz3070 I agree, that's definitely the worst part, and the biggest obstacle to enjoying the game today. Too bad it can't be modded out.
But other than that, the more serious and dark story, the savannah setting, the gunplay and semi-realistic weapon degradation, the enemies who could bleed out slowly and still shoot at you while sitting down, the concept of buddies and betrayal, etc, were just miles better than in any of the subsequent games. And using Dylan's mod makes the shooting even better, IMO.
@@Amunium don't forget the malaria haha
And they got rid of the map editor. Far cry 5s map community got really in depth and came up with complex and crazy fun missions. Hopefully they can mod it to keep the community alive. Personally it's the only major long term sustainable replay value the game had.
Mac i fkn LOVE your honesty, do you know, i dont even bother with others anymore, i come, watch your reviews and instantly know whats going to resonate or piss me off! Cheers man, never change!
Imagine how good far cry would be if there were more time for development between releases...
3.1 Far Cry (2004)
3.2 Far Cry 2 (2008)
3.3 Far Cry 3 (2012)
3.4 Far Cry 4 (2014)
3.5 Far Cry 5 (2018)
3.6 Far Cry 6 (2021)
4.1 Far Cry Instincts (2005)
4.2 Far Cry Instincts: Evolution (2006)
4.3 Far Cry Instincts: Predator (2006)
4.4 Far Cry Vengeance (2006)
4.5 Paradise Lost (2007)
4.6 Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (2013)
4.7 Far Cry Primal (2016)
4.8 Far Cry New Dawn (2019)
4.9 Far Cry VR: Dive Into Insanity (2021)