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Penny Arcade - Comic - Farcry
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Farcry
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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At least it made me notice that there's a new Farcry.
Which I will now forget in 10 minutes. Not all press is actually good press.
Anyway. The idea failed horribly. But I don't think it's a desperate cry for people to play their game. I think it's just a very poorly executed attempt at AR.
There's an in-game store for real money.
Far Cry 3 had Va'as who was a pretty compelling villain, and the wingsuit was a lot of fun. And Far Cry: Blood Dragon was just straight up awesome. I knew it was repetitive, and I didn't care because sending 80's neon dragons to destroy enemy bases was sick.
I'm also one of those weird people that actually enjoyed Far Cry Primal. Only played about half of it before I got bored, but that was still a good 40-60 hours.
You got the tools organized? Blink! 20 GS - You Are a Tool!
seriously, at least THE Suicide Squad figured that part out
Player metrics. High engagement levels can be shown off to stockholders, investors, and business partners to demonstrate that people who bought the game like playing it a lot and are therefore likely to purchase future games in the same series or of a similar style.
Afraid I'm going to have to go with Answer #1.
https://www.iskmogul.com/far-cry-6-has-microtransactions-because-of-course-it-does/
They wouldn't give a shit if you never bought another game ever again and just gave them your entire bank balance every month while spending 0 hours on any of their existing games. It's all about the cash funnel.
See also:
https://www.smartrecruiters.com/Ubisoft2/743999778478744-monetization-specialist?trid=4d32c519-f437-439a-ab4f-b3953c48d5c1
Penny Arcade reaming on them this badly? *less so*
That was an interesting twist the first time - one that you weren't likely to run into easily.
It wasn't interesting the second time where it was literally a button prompt, and then later 3 Region bosses later another choice, and as I understand it the third time the character was trying to leave anyways, so why would they stay, speaking in terms of character motivation?
Cockfighting, mortal kombat style, apparently
None of these feel intentional, I feel like I'm supposed to be yoloing jetskis and yeeting molotovs and doing bong rips off of mounted .50 cals like MTV is paying for spring break
So the gameplay team and the storyboarding team basically got locked in two separate rooms: One was making a game where you played a culturally appropriate Jason Brody, the other was writing a game where you saw the horrors of revolution as Not Che Guevara in Not Cuba during Not the Cuban Revolution?
*add - I just did a bit of googling and it seems that I hit the nail dead on the head and Yara is basically based on Cuba. I guess Ubisoft thought they took it a bit too far last time, telling a story of extremism and cults in Good Old Montana and decided to go back to appealing to the Jason Brody's of the world. Neat.
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PS thpoilerz for @Ringo re their comment (other readers welcome)
It was legal in the US (specific states) up until about 4 years ago. And it still happens illegally (so the "society" could be said to support it).
That's not to in any way endorse cockfighting or the support of it. It's just something a lot of people might not realize.
I will say, though, that "society" is never a monolith. As wikipedia notes about the 1933 election, "In spite of massive violence and voter intimidation, the Nazis won only 43.9% of the vote, rather than the majority that he had expected." Power is often seized by a minority. Much like one of our most odious recent leaders only won power with much fewer votes than his rival.
Wasn't the Whole joke from FC5 that they weren't going to be doing those anymore?
Actually, and it might be more interesting, but the Seed cult was surprisingly inclusive for what they were supposed to be representing (Whether this was on accident or deliberate for company attorney suggested reasons is a good question) - But when you look more broadly Far Cry 5 pitted cultist against similarly head-fucked Sovereign Citizens and Paranoid Preppers who are essentially Provided a windfall and proven right with their underground bunkers and weapons caches, it's just they probably weren't expecting Ol' Joe Seed, and were instead expecting Uncle Sam 🤷♂️
Like, your first contact after the intro is a guy who built out his own nuclear bunker and drove his family away after trying to teach his 5 year old grand son about nuclear holocaust and how to shoot, and there are a bunch of other characters/locations with similar characters and they're painted in a positive light 😄