Far Cry 5 - Hope springs eternal

The rumor that was sent to Giant Bomb and read on their podcast was about a group of fanatical militia types in a standoff with the US government where you play a covert operative sent in to destabilize their control on the region.

The Division meets Wildlands.

My first reaction was similar to @Scotch_Lufkin’s. “Jesus. They’ve rolled out an awesome brand new engine! That water is incredible!”

After a closer look, I totally thought that the footage in Teaser #1 was lifted straight from “Legends Of The Fall”.

And Montana? I’m in.
Although militia-types may lead to boring stereotypes (which is kind of what they seem to be IRL). And kind of a narrow gameplay focus, since these types tend to stay in their small towns that they’ve taken over.

I’m trying hard to imagine something interesting they could do with such a concept that would remain interesting beyond a couple of hours. I live in ND, and every time these folks show up in the news around here, it’s the same old story: Fighting for their rights to buy up enough property in a town so they can take it over. It’s a bit scary, because they’ve succeeded from time to time, and have caused a great deal of trouble in those small areas. So yeah, it could be very interesting. I’m just having trouble imagining an entire game built around that idea. OTOH, small-scale gunfights can be good as well, and the real news has provided a number of tense scenarios over the years. Gordon Kahl comes to mind.

Maybe Montana gets invaded by North Korea? I mean, shoot, if it can happen to Philadelphia…

-Tom

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Or, since the last FarCry was Primal, maybe they’re going to continue away from their usual formula and go with something different. Zombie Farcry? Apocalypse?[/quote]

Do want.

DO WANT!

Why you gotta bring a guy down?

-Tom

Far Cry games have never made any sense and have always have incurred in absurd stereotyping.

The difference now is that it seems they might apply the formula to a depiction of their biggest market, not to an “exotic” culture (using the world as the series thinks of it).

I’m really curious how this is going to play out, but the only way I can see it working is if they drop all the seriousness in their plotting and embrace the absurd and the satire. then I think they might find something interesting to do.

But yeah, if they do go with US nutjobs in an otherwise contemporary setting, it would be a weird choice and I agree with @Telefrog in being very curious about how they’ll handle the politics (one would have thought they learned something after The Division, and that had the advantage of being a post apocalyptic scenario).

My only real hope for this one is that they finally drop the damn trippy drug sequences. We get it Team Farcry, you guys love eating mushrooms. Enough already.

I hope it’s a post-apoc scenario of some kind. If not, “Go to Montana to kill right-wing radicals” is a dumb plot, even by videogame standards.

Has this come up yet? An alleged focus tester leaked info about Far Cry 5 from a focus test group on reddit. His/her bullet points are below.
Source: https://np.reddit.com/r/farcry/comments/6bsg0b/speculation_time_what_will_farcry_5_be_like/dhpju38/

Seems to be on target with what we know and current speculation. Note that the leaker said to take their comments with a grain of salt (as always with alleged leaks).

  • The idea of doing it in Montana was the predominant idea – like many of you, we were kind of led to believe at first that it would be a Wild West motif, just to see what we thought of that idea – but that changed when they started to show us character profiles and other collateral. The general thrust of this game is that it will take place in present day, and feature the protagonist taking on a Jim Jones or David Koresh-like religious cult in a small town in Montana that’s been populated by, essentially, Doomsday-preppers bent on furthering their cause. So, modern-day weaponry and modern-day vehicles, plus a hilly, mountainous backdrop. Honestly, it sounded at the time like they were using that to their advantage, given that when you think of Far Cry you kind of think of mountains and hills and the kind of backdrop Montana has in spades.
  • They showed us some basic promotional videos featuring a heavily – HEAVILY – religious angle to the evil. A person (presumably the protagonist) walking through a town that was completely empty, only to walk into a church to discover the congregation is made up of everyone in town staring in rapt attention at a shirtless lunatic leader brandishing an assault rifle in one hand and a Bible in the other. Even at the time, I wondered how they were going to handle the presentation of religious zealotry to the type of Middle America that purchases games for their kids. If they proceed on the path that I saw… they’re not even trying to pretend. They’re steering the vehicle into the curve.
  • We saw candids and profiles of many of the characters in the game – left out of those were any kind of details about the primary protagonist, and there wasn’t much on the antagonist-preacher either. Instead, we got views of what I’d presume are some of the support characters. A female mechanic (who I strongly suspect is a love interest, or someone giving you missions) who helps you. An old burnt-out hippie character. Various and sundry small-town folks. And the second-in-command bad guy, who was basically being portrayed as Tom Cruise – an A-list celebrity who became a ranking member of the high council. There were also some oblique references to this religion sharing some commonalities with Scientology, and I wonder if those will make the cut. The only thing about the Tom Cruise cypher that didn’t seem to make a hell of a lot of sense is that he was supposed to have garnered his fame, at least in partial, from working in pornography. If anything’s gonna change, I’d hope it’s this element, because I’m not sure small-town America’s all that ready for porno-Tom-Cruise-turned-religious-nutjob-murderer.
  • We didn’t learn much about weapons or vehicles, aside from the fact that they specifically mentioned the types of things we saw in FC3/4 – ATVs, Jeeps, etc.
  • The overall feeling I got from the animatic videos we saw is that they’re really playing up a sense of dread. This is a small town and is filled with small-town sensibilities, the kind of place where God’s word is law, and the sense you get is that the antagonist-preacher found a perfect place for his quasi-religion to take root.
  • No word on multiplayer during this session. They were only interested in showing us stuff from the campaign, and even then just a few key elements.
  • Most of what I saw wasn’t imminently memorable, with the exception of the couple characters and the cool idea of pitting the protagonist against a Branch Davidian-like cult. Mostly what the focus group was gauging was reactions to videos and still images – asking us questions about “how this character would sound,” or “does this person seem like someone you’d like to get to know” and whatnot. When it came time for open feedback, you may be happy to know that I railed them a bit for reusing the map from FC4 for Primal, which felt like lazy bullshit to me.

It seems they want to capture the attention of the media. I think they will get it…

yeah, that means I’m out. Far too uncomfortable for me to play something like that.

OK I would play that. I’m sick of religious fanatics on all sides. Churches in right-wing bible belts mixing guns and religion is the opposite ideals for what Jesus taught.

Tbh, it seems like the same broad mischaracterization of a culture just this time applied to something we have more experience with. I understand how this is going to be received differently, but deep down it’s exactly the same thing as the previous games.

FC3 did make me feel sick at points and I didn’t play 4 (tried it to make the sure nothing significant changed) because of that, so this is not really for me. But I find the possible media mess to come fascinating.

I’m glad you finally have an outlet to fight back at the bogeymen you keep telling us about in every thread. Shoot 'em dead!

We’ve confirmed it’s a modern Far Cry game!

I knew it! As much as I may occasionally revel in the ridiculous killfests that are Far Cry, they haven’t been even remotely creative since Far Cry 2. It’s hard to make a game about zombies that will also make your mom scold you.

Awwww yiss. Killing religious fanatics here on US soil, that’s my fetish. Day one purchase.

p.s. @AntediluvianArk you go girl! I would like to indicate my appreciation for you taking the time to post such relevant, useful information to this topic. These words you are now reading are to be considered such indication of said appreciation.

And yet somehow I suppose this cult will have an infinite supply of goons to staff their respawning camps, crazy bears will occasionally destroy enemy fuel dumps, and rather than drive to the next county over to a convenient gun shop you will need to make a bandolier out of wolverine scrotums or something. And of course someone will have conveniently stocked the landscape with gold and silver nuggets sitting around to pick up, not to mention collectible thumb drives full of backstory.

Yes. Yeeeeees. Let the cynicism flow through you. Feel the power of the dark side.

The rumors out there are that it’s set in the Wild West.

Which is the only reason I’m actually interested.

Edit: I guess that was debunked.
/goes back to not caring about it and saving money