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[tummyfat]

Polygon REALLY wants people to hate Far Cry 5...

https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/27/17165252/far-cry-5-story-characters

>By Ben Kuchera

 

More like Ben BASURA! eh? eh? eh?

[stufte]

Cooch ERA.

heh.

hehehe.

[HardcoreRetro]

Didn't Far Cry 2 kinda attempt the Heart of Darkness War is horror thing?

Far Cry 3 attempted to do the Lord of the Flies kinda thing where you're this dumbass party dude that turns killer by the end. 

They both failed hard at these angles, but hey, they tried. If they're not even trying anymore now, kind of a shame.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

This chart will explain everything you guys



Can't argue with that.

[etiolate]

Ubi Soft bent over for the SJW crowd already and it gets them no reward.

Never give those fuckers anything. They're like a child that learned they can get any toy they want if they cry in the middle of the store.

[marrec]

Didn't Far Cry 2 kinda attempt the Heart of Darkness War is horror thing?

Far Cry 3 attempted to do the Lord of the Flies kinda thing where you're this dumbass party dude that turns killer by the end. 

They both failed hard at these angles, but hey, they tried. If they're not even trying anymore now, kind of a shame.

By all accounts FC5 is the same half-assed attempt you describe above.

EDIT:

They just don't do enough to vilify the religious right, according to some reviewers. "It's too goofy" I guess.

[nachobro]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/6061993/
Watching Sunny getting FluxWaveZ worked up over the internet as Flux tries to proclaim mind games don't work and gets more upset after every post is just gold. Not to mention dude is a liar with the "I keep my cool" anyway, he once got washed so hard in Persona Arena he started crying

and then jett the eternal ballwasher with

Flux is a Grand Master rank SFV player.

holy shit I'm dying here

[Brehvolution]

Buy FC5 to own the cons, brehs.

[benjipwns]

Polygon REALLY wants people to hate Far Cry 5...

https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/27/17165252/far-cry-5-story-characters

What a sheltered tool;  "so it will end up annoying everyone"...  pretty sure the VAST majority of gamers out there won't give a shit that it doesn't go far politically.  How clueless do you have to be to think America is divided between "Trumpers" and "PEOPLE WHO DEMAND ULTRA POLITICAL MESSAGING IN GAMES";  those are the only 2 groups I could see being annoyed, and only the hardcore on either side. 

And let's ignore that these games sell well all over the world in places that probably won't care either way.

Are you literally suggesting that lifelong video games journalists might have myopic and tunnel vision-esque worldviews regarding culture and society writ large?

[Momo]

Buy any videogame for reasons that are not 'i want to play this' brehs

[Joe Molotov]

Buy FC5 to own the cons, brehs.

Own FC5 to buy the con, brehs.

[etiolate]

we are tempting nature and the gods

[stufte]

(Image removed from quote.)

we are tempting nature and the gods

 

[Dennis]

(Image removed from quote.)

we are tempting nature and the gods

This looks good to me.

 

[jorma]

Polygon REALLY wants people to hate Far Cry 5...

https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/27/17165252/far-cry-5-story-characters

What a sheltered tool;  "so it will end up annoying everyone"...  pretty sure the VAST majority of gamers out there won't give a shit that it doesn't go far politically.  How clueless do you have to be to think America is divided between "Trumpers" and "PEOPLE WHO DEMAND ULTRA POLITICAL MESSAGING IN GAMES";  those are the only 2 groups I could see being annoyed, and only the hardcore on either side. 

And let's ignore that these games sell well all over the world in places that probably won't care either way.

The problem is that Far Cry 5 treats the country like a cartoon background, rather than a very real and very complex place. The series has done that for other locations, of course, but Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 still felt like violence set amid beautiful “exotic” backdrops, with the mildest hint of a timely connection.

Montana can't serve as a "cartoonish beautiful exotic backdrop", because it's in america. This time it's a "very real place" depicted, so different rules apply. It feels a bit racist to be honest.

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

Polygon REALLY wants people to hate Far Cry 5...

https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/27/17165252/far-cry-5-story-characters

What a sheltered tool;  "so it will end up annoying everyone"...  pretty sure the VAST majority of gamers out there won't give a shit that it doesn't go far politically.  How clueless do you have to be to think America is divided between "Trumpers" and "PEOPLE WHO DEMAND ULTRA POLITICAL MESSAGING IN GAMES";  those are the only 2 groups I could see being annoyed, and only the hardcore on either side. 

And let's ignore that these games sell well all over the world in places that probably won't care either way.

The problem is that Far Cry 5 treats the country like a cartoon background, rather than a very real and very complex place. The series has done that for other locations, of course, but Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 still felt like violence set amid beautiful “exotic” backdrops, with the mildest hint of a timely connection.

Montana can't serve as a "cartoonish beautiful exotic backdrop", because it's in america. This time it's a "very real place" depicted, so different rules apply. It feels a bit racist to be honest.

Reminds me of this Vice article about Forza Horizon 3: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jmk53d/forza-horizon-3-depicts-a-better-australia-than-australians-deserve-310-playground-games

There is, however, one mission in the game that tapped into something deeper for me. It's a Bucket List challenge, which gives you a specific car, outlines the conditions for you, and then asks you to complete a certain task. In this particular one, you're given a 2017 Nissan GT-R, popped into a Surfers Paradise parking lot at night, and asked to rack up 25 different drift skills. This is the most quintessentially Australian driving task imaginable—doing donuts in an empty parking lot at night as a youth is as Australian as a kookaburra eating Vegemite out of a gumboot, although traditionally most kids who do this sort of thing aren't going to be doing it in such a nice car.

I tried the mission a few times, sliding and spinning around in this parking lot, but failed twice despite the mission being marked as "Easy." It wasn't until my third attempt that I realized what the key was—I had to leave the parking lot. I had been so locked into my old ways of thinking that I hadn't stopped to consider the wider world, how big the game's map of Australia was, how easily I could move past this challenge if I left behind my childish desire to scuff up the parking lot.

I don't know if Playground Games intended this to feel like so potent a metaphor, but playing in a country where so much policy is dictated by wealthy baby boomers whose views have not changed a jot since they were young, who are so wrapped up in wealth and privilege that they refuse to consider the wider world around them, realizing that the only way to succeed was to leave the parking lot behind felt profound. May we someday leave that parking lot, so that I and many others can feel proud to call the Australia of Forza Horizon 3 home.

[stufte]

I remember the NeoGAF thread on that vice article...

https://www.neogaf.com/threads/forza-horizon-3-depicts-a-better-australia-than-australians-deserve.1285148/page-3#post-218290331

Interesting article. It's always interesting to compare a games representation of a place or era with reality.

Some weird comments here though. "It's just a game" is a shitty, lazy criticism and is one heavily used by GG types regarding other issues.

GOOOOBEEERRRGAAATTTEEEE!!!

[Kurt Russell]

Somebody make a reeee thread about this:

[stufte]

I would, but I'm a retired REEE'er.

[samir]

he looks like a pedophile

[agrajag]

he looks like a pedophile

He looks like he's 12

[marrec]

I would, but I'm a retired REEE'er.

I would, but nobody cares about Gaymer X con

*quietly shuffles around my donation to them into a shell company*

[clothedmacuser]

Is it wrong to hate people with differing political views?

Not if they're Nazis or otherwise bigoted and refuse to change, no. Their beliefs are anathema to a cooperative society, and they choose to place themselves there.

https://www.resetera.com/posts/6064195/

So all republicans and moderate darlings by Era standards?

[FStop7]

Were people really expecting some hard hitting story from a Far Cry game?

Have they ever played a Far Cry game?

It's so weird watching people lashing out at Far Cry for having a mediocre story NOW

Like, this series has had garbage "lets not offend anyone" stories since inception, they're just mad they don't get to murder Trump in the new one.

Gamergator detected

[thetylerrob]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/6061993/
Watching Sunny getting FluxWaveZ worked up over the internet as Flux tries to proclaim mind games don't work and gets more upset after every post is just gold. Not to mention dude is a liar with the "I keep my cool" anyway, he once got washed so hard in Persona Arena he started crying

and then jett the eternal ballwasher with

Flux is a Grand Master rank SFV player.

holy shit I'm dying here

The SFV OT crowd are the fucking worst. I got MrCarter banned a couple days ago when he was getting all triggered that meanie Mike Ross doesn’t like the worst SF game since 1. Congrats to flux for having no life and still being irrelevant to the scene though.

[benjipwns]

The problem is that Far Cry 5 treats the country like a cartoon background, rather than a very real and very complex place. The series has done that for other locations, of course, but Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 still felt like violence set amid beautiful “exotic” backdrops, with the mildest hint of a timely connection.

what is this i can't even not how words and ideas work

 

[paprikastaude]

Somebody make a reeee thread about this:

(Image removed from quote.)

I remember the thread when these guys would tweet something like "fuck trump" and REEEs were throwing money at them for their bravery (funnily enough, considering that distinguished mentally-challenged fellows made fun of the goons who would order Doa Beach Volleyball just because Playasia tweeted something about social studies warriors being dumb).

[jorma]

Polygon REALLY wants people to hate Far Cry 5...

https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/27/17165252/far-cry-5-story-characters

What a sheltered tool;  "so it will end up annoying everyone"...  pretty sure the VAST majority of gamers out there won't give a shit that it doesn't go far politically.  How clueless do you have to be to think America is divided between "Trumpers" and "PEOPLE WHO DEMAND ULTRA POLITICAL MESSAGING IN GAMES";  those are the only 2 groups I could see being annoyed, and only the hardcore on either side. 

And let's ignore that these games sell well all over the world in places that probably won't care either way.

The problem is that Far Cry 5 treats the country like a cartoon background, rather than a very real and very complex place. The series has done that for other locations, of course, but Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 still felt like violence set amid beautiful “exotic” backdrops, with the mildest hint of a timely connection.

Montana can't serve as a "cartoonish beautiful exotic backdrop", because it's in america. This time it's a "very real place" depicted, so different rules apply. It feels a bit racist to be honest.

Reminds me of this Vice article about Forza Horizon 3: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/jmk53d/forza-horizon-3-depicts-a-better-australia-than-australians-deserve-310-playground-games

There is, however, one mission in the game that tapped into something deeper for me. It's a Bucket List challenge, which gives you a specific car, outlines the conditions for you, and then asks you to complete a certain task. In this particular one, you're given a 2017 Nissan GT-R, popped into a Surfers Paradise parking lot at night, and asked to rack up 25 different drift skills. This is the most quintessentially Australian driving task imaginable—doing donuts in an empty parking lot at night as a youth is as Australian as a kookaburra eating Vegemite out of a gumboot, although traditionally most kids who do this sort of thing aren't going to be doing it in such a nice car.

I tried the mission a few times, sliding and spinning around in this parking lot, but failed twice despite the mission being marked as "Easy." It wasn't until my third attempt that I realized what the key was—I had to leave the parking lot. I had been so locked into my old ways of thinking that I hadn't stopped to consider the wider world, how big the game's map of Australia was, how easily I could move past this challenge if I left behind my childish desire to scuff up the parking lot.

I don't know if Playground Games intended this to feel like so potent a metaphor, but playing in a country where so much policy is dictated by wealthy baby boomers whose views have not changed a jot since they were young, who are so wrapped up in wealth and privilege that they refuse to consider the wider world around them, realizing that the only way to succeed was to leave the parking lot behind felt profound. May we someday leave that parking lot, so that I and many others can feel proud to call the Australia of Forza Horizon 3 home.

[FStop7]

The problem is that Far Cry 5 treats the country like a cartoon background, rather than a very real and very complex place. The series has done that for other locations, of course, but Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 still felt like violence set amid beautiful “exotic” backdrops, with the mildest hint of a timely connection.

I'll remember that criticism of Far Cry when the next Red Dead game arrives.

[nachobro]

The SFV OT crowd are the fucking worst. I got MrCarter banned a couple days ago when he was getting all triggered that meanie Mike Ross doesn’t like the worst SF game since 1. Congrats to flux for having no life and still being irrelevant to the scene though.

yeah flux is a clown. dude recently decided to pretend he is brand new to fighting games even though he's got quite the history of trolling and bullying new players. funny that he thinks mindgames are ineffective yet used them enough that he got banned from online events and made the entire p4a community want nothing to do with him.

as far as the sfv ballwashers there, i have no idea why they go so hard for that game. maybe cause it's a sony exclusive? i mean i do play the game and enjoy it but i can still admit it's a low tier sf and i'm not trying to fight anyone who doesn't like it.

[Joe Molotov]

The problem is that Far Cry 5 treats the country like a cartoon background, rather than a very real and very complex place. The series has done that for other locations, of course, but Far Cry 3 and Far Cry 4 still felt like violence set amid beautiful “exotic” backdrops, with the mildest hint of a timely connection.

what is this i can't even not how words and ideas work

 

They treat America like it’s some ridiculous cartoon, full of charlatans and buffoons.

[benjipwns]

how is bumfucknowherestan, Montana not an exotic location for 99.9*% of the world's population? (Though with some reflection, I'm assuming that like normal, Far Cry overpopulated the area to give you people to murder.)

*as normal, Canadians are not counted due to their lack of humanity

[etiolate]

Anywhere without a gamestop and a jamba juice should be exotic to them.

[stufte]

how is bumfucknowherestan, Montana not an exotic location for 99.9*% of the world's population?

*as normal, Canadians are not counted due to their lack of humanity

I remember watching a video where a life long Londoner was brought to tears over the beauty of the landscape surrounding Las Vegas.

[Optimus]

Somebody make a reeee thread about this:

(Image removed from quote.)

A male feminist is a creep and an asshole? I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS!

[benjipwns]

I suppose on the one hand, this method allows you to not have to even play the games to review them:

The problem with The Crew 2 is that it doesn't explore the depths of struggle within Trump's America, choosing instead to focus on races and a large selection of fast vehicles. At times the game seems to almost prefer speeding past the depredations facing specific minority groups in the depicted cities rather than slowing down to tackle these issues with the deepness they deserve. But it feels mostly that the developers only focus on races were those involving cars, something incredibly dated in a nation facing the rise of the alt-right and a white supremacist President in office.

[Optimus]

I suppose on the one hand, this method allows you to not have to even play the games to review them:

The problem with The Crew 2 is that it doesn't explore the depths of struggle within Trump's America, choosing instead to focus on races and a large selection of fast vehicles. At times the game seems to almost prefer speeding past the depredations facing specific minority groups in the depicted cities rather than slowing down to tackle these issues with the deepness they deserve. But it feels mostly that the developers only focus on races were those involving cars, something incredibly dated in a nation facing the rise of the alt-right and a white supremacist President in office.

I actually googled this to be sure it wasn't a real review. We're at this point now.

[thisismyusername]

I'm certainly glad Optimus the racist asshole doesn't consider me one of their people

lol that's the nazi who got taken down by a pug

2018, where even commies are nazis.

and jews.

and homosexuals.

And stufte

Goes without saying!

Yes, we all know you're a flaming homo, Smithers.

[thisismyusername]

A day after noticing a moblin post and realizing he’s an actual person, I’m seeing his posts all over RE.

Fucking post here, you asshole.

He used to post on NeoGAF, too.

Moblin posting here ruins the mystery. Will he like your posts?

[Uncle]

I remember when it sucked when reviews dinged games for gaming features they didn't include, like "lacks online multiplayer, so 8/10."  Y'know, going beyond judging it on its own merits.

Now they gotta be on the right side of history too?

Also doesn't this somehow justify what GG keeps saying they're about?  Game journalism turning to shit?

[thetylerrob]

The SFV OT crowd are the fucking worst. I got MrCarter banned a couple days ago when he was getting all triggered that meanie Mike Ross doesn’t like the worst SF game since 1. Congrats to flux for having no life and still being irrelevant to the scene though.

yeah flux is a clown. dude recently decided to pretend he is brand new to fighting games even though he's got quite the history of trolling and bullying new players. funny that he thinks mindgames are ineffective yet used them enough that he got banned from online events and made the entire p4a community want nothing to do with him.

as far as the sfv ballwashers there, i have no idea why they go so hard for that game. maybe cause it's a sony exclusive? i mean i do play the game and enjoy it but i can still admit it's a low tier sf and i'm not trying to fight anyone who doesn't like it.

I think it’s the same mental illness that makes Smash kids try so hard to insert their game into the fgc and esports at large, people want to be associated with a cool prestigious series like Street Fighter so they latch onto and try to pretend it’s a “lifestyle” or some shit. It’s worth noting that Jett is a silver rank or something which means he’s probably only played the game about 1% of the time he’s spent arguing about how great it is online. Fekkin posers man.

[Kurt Russell]

Tim Soret just tweeted this. Is this Jack Remington's Twitter account?

[who is ted danson?]

i can't remember the last time i read a review for a new game. must be at least 5 years. can't say i have any desire to read them either.

[Nintex]

*Adam Curtis voice*
They believed that by manifesting their anger in cyber space and the wider gaming community they could alter the course of history.

Entertainment they said would not only be for fun but be on the right side of history.

The gaming and movie landscape would be completely ridden of conservatism and a better more equal world would rise in its place from the depths of cyberspace.

What they didn't know is that while they were playing their games someone else was playing another game. They were tricked by the very forces they hoped to contain.

After the Neo Conservatives convinced Trump that he could not win without them they slowly took over the American government much like they had in the days of George W. Bush.

Trump and Bolton would launch wars across the Middle East, from Yemen to Syria and fuel widespread civil unrest in Ukraine and Russia.

Their real enemies in the United States were at the same time dismantling the very techonolgy and film industries they dominated with witch hunts and mob justice.

While the 'fake news' world grew ever more left the real world was absorbed by conservatism and tribalism.

A socialst society became a fantasy much like their Japanese manga's and perverted pillows.
*Adam Curtis voice*

[stufte]

Yes, we all know you're a flaming homo, Smithers.

Goes without saying!

[thisismyusername]

https://www.resetera.com/posts/6061993/
Watching Sunny getting FluxWaveZ worked up over the internet as Flux tries to proclaim mind games don't work and gets more upset after every post is just gold. Not to mention dude is a liar with the "I keep my cool" anyway, he once got washed so hard in Persona Arena he started crying

and then jett the eternal ballwasher with

Flux is a Grand Master rank SFV player.

holy shit I'm dying here

TL;DR for this drama?

People going back and forth about Mike Ross and it's completely in his power to leave the "FGC" and hate how it's trying to get "yo #eSport" money.

[nachobro]

Oh I was just reading Sunflower and Fluxwave's back and forth on that page and the next one. Every time Sunny posts, Flux gets more worked up in response. It's just funny since he's arguing mind games don't work yet can't help himself from getting hot over internet posts.

The actual thread topic about Mike Ross is distinguished mentally-challenged and not worth thinking about.

[Jenkem]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-did-mario-and-pauline-break-up-id-like-to-see-this-part-of-the-timeline-covered.32362/

[kingv]

Somebody make a reeee thread about this:

(Image removed from quote.)

A male feminist is a creep and an asshole? I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS!

Even this dude got near Zoe Quinn and was like “nah, I’m good!”

[HaughtyFrank]

This reminds me that the same people who are mad at Far cry 5 being non-political are mad at Tim Soret putting his politics into his game. 

[Uncle]

No. I don't know very much about The Last Night. It's the game that spoofs an extremist-Social Studies Warrior dystopian future?

No, it's an exploration of a dystopian future where everyone is completely a consumer, living lives of leisure and defining themselves by the content they consume rather than skills or accomplishments.

[Raist]

The salt over FC5 is fucking hilarious

"Based on the original 30s-long reveal trailer we hoped so hard it would be about Trump's Muhrica. Turns out it's about Jesus/Gun-nuts Muhrica. So now we're fucking mad at Ubisoft for not fulfilling our fantasies"

[Raist]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/angry-joe-sea-of-thieves-review.32247/

I saw that thumbnail and just KNEW it would be discussed on Ratata

[Boredfrom]

This reminds me that the same people who are mad at Far cry 5 being non-political are mad at Tim Soret putting his politics into his game. 

Well, they don’t really want point political discussion but that a mass media product validates and promotes their personal beliefs.

Mind you, I also would wanted that FC5 was not gutless, but I more worried in being just another Far Cry skin than not being able to kill Trumptards.

[Shuri]

Just got a warning on resetera about "being hostile to another poster" because I told a poster that he needed help because he yelled  at his elderly father who was at some shop to print  documents for him.

The Resetera admin is OK with verbal abuse of the elderly, but please don't tell the guy  to get help . 

[I'm a Puppy!]

Maybe the elderly father was a jew and the poster was muslim?

[thetylerrob]

context matters

[I'm a Puppy!]

context matters

Indeed. Like maybe the elderly father was a jew and the OP was a muslim.

[Dennis]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/angry-joe-sea-of-thieves-review.32247/

I saw that thumbnail and just KNEW it would be discussed on Ratata

Nazi salute 

[Jenkem]

wait Dennis is posting on The Bore again? did he get banned from ERA or something?