The LMGs are very fun, yeah. I always have trouble picking one loadout and sticking with it, because I want to try different things, but once you find something that clicks there is no practical reason to do anything else. Leveling up to be able to carry more weapons is something I make a priority, though there is something to be said for going for a while with only a couple of weapon slots, to make it more meaningful when you have to choose.
Usually, I end up with an automatic rifle or SMG, silenced; a sniper rifle, silenced: a pistol, either silenced or one of the huge damage dealers that isn’t; and either a LMG or a rocket launcher.
Picked this game up for $9. Damn you Ubisoft, you always reel me in. The environments are beautiful, but the game is the same as ever: a series of disconnected icons scattered around a map. I do a bunch of things so that an arbitrary resistance meter fills up. There’s an infinite army of annoying yahoos for me to murder. I can’t skip through lines of boring dialog because they’re animated. Just once, I’d like to have one of these games where the world changes that are supposed to flow from playing the game feel like they arise organically and not because of a meter. Ah well, I’ll probably give it a couple of more hours then call it.
Yeah, if it ever gets to the point of examining the mechanics like that, the game is done, done, done. On the free weekend I just marveled at how diverse the scenery was, and how beautiful everything was. It’s not just a series roads and trees and repeating structures. There’s beautiful unique buildings everywhere, there’s a fishing dock over there, an actual apple orchard over there, with actual apple trees setup in rows that I can’t really admire because someone stopped in a pickup and is shooting at me. That sort of thing. It keeps me from thinking about “go to icon”, “watch resistance meter go up”, etc.
Except they ended up making the act of climbing something a two year-old could figure out. I liked figuring out the path to the top of the towers in Florence, Rome and Istanbul.
I am inept, so the simple climbing in the last three AC games is a boon. So much so that in every third-person action game I play now I want to climb everything, and am pissed when I can’t.
Though I do think the challenges of figuring out the path to the top in the Far Cry towers was pretty cool. I never played most of the other AC games.
I too was disappointed by the few hours I played during the free play weekend. I mean, great game and all, just tired of these open worlds. I liked the scene where you were kidnapped up north, and the Clutch Nixon stuff. Those are little checkpoint driving events. Being attacked by wolverines & bears was cool.
The arcade section looked like it might be fun. Lots of user-created maps with things to kill.
On a replay after Far Cry 6, I wound up liking 5 a lot more. I absolutely agree that the kidnapping moments suck from a player agency perspective, but everything else is pretty dang good. Even the DLC is better overall.
