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The problem of Far Cry (and I played all of them) is it’s repetitiveness.

Also they don’t spend that much time in balance so you may spend 90% of the game using the same weapon.

IMHO the best Far Cry is the one they did pretty much for fun, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon. Great soundtrack and just pure fun. There are parts where they just gave up on any sort of realism and you just blast everything with a cool soundtrack, riding a dragon equipped with lasers.

Even the forced tutorial was hilarious.

For me it was the perfect "grown up" game. In a weekend or something like 10-15 hours, you get to access the full depth of an AAA gameplay, a satire of 80's action movie mashup story and constant self-conscious jokes.

Agree, but past 3 that they started repeating themselves very much :)

I specifically mean the Blood Dragon spinoff though. It's like a compressed Far Cry.

I also played Far Cry 4 and Primal, but got bored halfway through. If they only made them shorter!

Also compared to 3, you start already as a murder machine, you don't have that slow progression before being able to fight and fight well.

I haven’t played any of the others but I loved Far Cry: Primal. The Stone Age setting is (I think?) unique among video games. (I think there’s a Blood Dragon Easter egg in it too, incidentally.)

It’s funny how you can’t please everyone. My take on Blood Dragon is it was a cute gimmick that was unnecessarily dragged out over 10 hours of gameplay.

Far Cry 2 was the best FC for me, but Blood Dragon was a close second. Steam tells me I spent 202 hours playing it.

Life is often dull and repetitive so this can be a pro or a con depending on what aspects of the game you like, that raw immersion of the chore of survival is what hooked me.

No, I mean that in Far Cry 4 they literally copied most of the characters and repurposed them for the new skin of the same game.

I mean, yes - they had more weapons/new animations/etc, but the quality of the experience suffered.

Ah yeah they changed focus big time after the success of 3. I think they sacrificed some of the immersion and realism to focus on going mainstream and eventually adding multiplayer, the effect being that now both aspects are mediocre.

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