What's Been Going On With Far Cry 5's DLC?

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  • Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
  • This is a video review and critique of Far Cry 5's DLC. It tries to puzzle out how they came to be, what they have to do with the rest of the franchise, and if they're a memorable way to spend time.

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  • @OverHaze
    @OverHaze 5 років тому +528

    I know the setting isn't exotic to you but as someone living in suburban Dublin miles of bear infested North American forest is pretty darn exotic to me. I know its the kind of thing people say without thinking but remember the game is being played by people all over the world.

    • @vrapbrap
      @vrapbrap 5 років тому +92

      As someone whose backyard looks like Witcher 3's no mans land, I found far cry 5's world to be quite a nice change.
      Overall enjoyed the game despite its flaws too.

    • @SoftExo
      @SoftExo 5 років тому +29

      It had a better setting than FC4 as well, that kind of tried to push "exotic" to 11, didn't work out so well far as im concerned. Enjoyed FC5s setting quite a bit more.

    • @waterguyroks
      @waterguyroks 5 років тому +2

      Agreed.

    • @robnickerson7819
      @robnickerson7819 5 років тому +3

      Fair point.

    • @Largentina.
      @Largentina. 5 років тому +19

      I think they say that because you can find forests and grass lands in alot more places in the world than you can find jungle islands or the Himalayan mountain tops.

  • @FlookersontheOptiMist
    @FlookersontheOptiMist 5 років тому +472

    Honestly the arcade of all things has been a better enjoyment extender than any of the dlc combined just with how great it's map creator is.

    • @Flailmorpho
      @Flailmorpho 5 років тому +8

      the multiplayer combat however is a bit broken, considering the optimal strategy is just to find an automatic weapon and wave it vaguely in the direction of your enemy's head

    • @jackleface2903
      @jackleface2903 5 років тому +5

      well intil the zombie dlc came out, everyone start putting zombie into there maps but they didn't give enough ammo to fucking deal with the zombie and the zombie just felt like bullshit to deal with, also i never got any of the dlc.

    • @tann3r670
      @tann3r670 5 років тому

      Sadly it’s said to not be returning in new dawn :(

    • @Showtube887
      @Showtube887 5 років тому +1

      More For Honor u bastard

    • @monochrome_soft9472
      @monochrome_soft9472 5 років тому +2

      tannerroxursox it's not returning in new Dawn because new Dawn isn't a main series game, it's a spin-off title

  • @Mirokuofnite
    @Mirokuofnite 5 років тому +291

    It all stems from a poll Ubisoft ran about future locations for Farcry back in 2015. The choices were:
    A Far Cry game in remote Alaska about surviving extreme wilderness
    A Far Cry game in a futuristic, sci-fi setting on another planet
    A Far Cry game set in the Vietnam war during the 1960s
    A Far Cry game set in the cocaine trafficking jungles of Peru
    A Far Cry game where you can fight against or join vampires
    A Far Cry game in the Spaghetti Western style set in the late 19th century Americas
    A Far Cry game that is set during a zombie outbreak
    Blood Dragon 2. A sequel to Blood Dragon with more Rex Power Colt
    A Far Cry game set in a Mad Max style post-apocalyptic world
    A Far Cry game in the present day, set in a Jurassic Park Style island of dinosaurs
    A Far Cry game based on the world of Shangri-La from Far Cry 4

    • @Jay-dp1jn
      @Jay-dp1jn 5 років тому +85

      I wouldn't mine Alaska or peru or Vietnam

    • @lilalmccarthy9778
      @lilalmccarthy9778 5 років тому +100

      A western Farcry doesn't sound half bad

    • @alexflorczyk6531
      @alexflorczyk6531 5 років тому +40

      Western farcry would be awesome. Also a zombie one would be nice if done right. Like your prayers of the military and have to clear out a city or something

    • @ChaosRaych
      @ChaosRaych 5 років тому +60

      A Western Far Cry at this point would be relentlessly compared to RDR2 & it wouldn't have a chance of holding up. I feel like they used the Central American drug trade idea on Ghost Recon Wildlands. Alaska sounds interesting though. I honestly wouldn't mind the vampire one either.

    • @lilalmccarthy9778
      @lilalmccarthy9778 5 років тому +10

      @@ChaosRaych I liked rdr2s story and graphics but the gameplay and missions weren't that great tbh, I think farcrys gameplay would be more fun

  • @Krondon-SSR
    @Krondon-SSR 5 років тому +146

    a crab + massive damage
    b o y no you didn't

    • @ketrub
      @ketrub 5 років тому +9

      so here's a giant enemy crab

  • @jeffreyswhitmore
    @jeffreyswhitmore 5 років тому +204

    I won't ever play it. But damned if I won't watch you review it!

    • @glassisland
      @glassisland 5 років тому +2

      This. And yet there's some things he's reviewed that I ended up playing because of what he said.

    • @jeffreyswhitmore
      @jeffreyswhitmore 5 років тому +2

      For me, it was Fear.
      I have this vision of him scribbling ideas for future reviews between making pizzas. Every once in a while going out the back to smoke a reefer.
      And I would probably like the pizzas he made even if I didn't normally like the toppings.
      This man has the gift of gab. Reminds me of Terence Mckenna.

  • @TheProfessor529
    @TheProfessor529 5 років тому +20

    Damn, an episode running under a HALF-hour? Never thought I'd see that from you, sir.

    • @LordHengun
      @LordHengun 2 роки тому

      I remember when people released like 25 minute videos and were like "If you don't have time to watch this behemoth of a video in one sitting, I've left timestamps in the description"

  • @khalylehagood3222
    @khalylehagood3222 5 років тому +60

    It's exotic to people who don't live in America. Or even those who have never been to that corner of the country.

  • @codbrothers5104
    @codbrothers5104 5 років тому +22

    The season pass was the biggest waste of money I have ever spent

    • @antongodijn3269
      @antongodijn3269 5 років тому

      Cod Brothers so true like wtf aliens and zombies but its fking boring shit

    • @bigboi9711
      @bigboi9711 5 років тому

      Cod Brothers good thing I got the standard edition instead

    • @antongodijn3269
      @antongodijn3269 5 років тому +1

      a true cash grab

    • @antongodijn3269
      @antongodijn3269 5 років тому +1

      they dont know what to do with the game

  • @BouncinBabyBren
    @BouncinBabyBren 5 років тому +28

    I love Far Cry 5, one of my favorite games of all time. I think it was very worth the $60 and had a good time with it.
    But oh my god the Far Cry 5 DLC is some of the worst AAA gameplay I've ever experienced. The Vietnam one was kind of ok, but the other two feel like they don't know what fun is. It's very obvious that Ubi did not give a fuck about the quality of the DLC.
    No matter how much I stress that it's awful, the first time you play it you'll still be astounded at how bad these DLC's are.

    • @Ruddi031
      @Ruddi031 5 років тому +4

      Same with me.
      Far Cry 5 was one of the best games of 2018 for me, but the DLC is just... horrible.
      I liked "Lost on Mars" but the other ones were just a waste of money.

    • @Ruddi031
      @Ruddi031 5 років тому +1

      Blood dragon and Valley of The Yetis are probably the only 2 good DLC's

  • @mrf4ncyp4nts
    @mrf4ncyp4nts 5 років тому +298

    Local Man says more about bold American media than said bold American media cares to say itself

    • @Alexander_Kunitz
      @Alexander_Kunitz 5 років тому +19

      In fairness, it's bold Canadian media trying to parrot bold American media concerns.

    • @fuzzydunlop7928
      @fuzzydunlop7928 5 років тому +1

      @@Alexander_Kunitz BOLD LIBERIAN MEDIA SAYS EBOLA JUST WESTERN PROPAGANDA

  • @not8719
    @not8719 5 років тому +84

    I would LOVE to see a stand alone Far Cry Vietnam game or an open world Vietnam game in general. It’s such a dark moment in American history and was absolute pure hell.

    • @huwguyver4208
      @huwguyver4208 5 років тому +47

      It could work if they made it more dark and morally ambiguous like FC2. But these days Ubisoft would probably not be able to help themselves but to make the blood-soaked jungles of 'Nam into a wacky fun-ride.

    • @NoWhereMan95
      @NoWhereMan95 5 років тому +15

      It would be bold if they let you play as the Vietnamese, but I doubt they would do that.

    • @midshipman8654
      @midshipman8654 5 років тому +1

      Not I read the things we carried and I absolutely loved it. Not because it was dark, but because it was complex with no real right answers and it gave this sense of raw realism with its different character’s different musings and interpretations of events. The guy thinking about his friend sinking into the septic run off was one thing that had a depth of meaning all to it’s own, while there were things like the solders nice interactions with an old Vietnamese man, or the morality of fighting for something you do not particularly believe in (that last one really stuck to me because it didn’t just preach the cliche ‘only fight for what you believe in’ narrative but it delved into what it meant to do something you didn’t want to do because respecting the law means that you can’t always choose what you want to respect, as well as the role of peer pressure).

    • @winstonchurchill624
      @winstonchurchill624 5 років тому +1

      Not I'm not sure that an open world game would really work in Vietnam, but they could make a game set in Vietnam with an amazing story. Though I am not sure that Ubisoft could pull it off.

    • @ThePunisher2346
      @ThePunisher2346 5 років тому +1

      Rightt im tired of seeing games about ww2 i miss some of the old school Vietnam games then need to make more games about Vietnam change it up alittle

  • @Zergosmuahaha
    @Zergosmuahaha 5 років тому +47

    John Russo only wrote the initial script for RotLD, which was heavily rewritten by its eventual writer/director Dan O'Bannon, and most of that mentioned comic, slapstic lightheartedness comes from his rewrite, not Russo's, wanted to point that out

    • @zimmerman1031
      @zimmerman1031 5 років тому +4

      That doesn't fit the narrative.

  • @WorldzMo5t3pic
    @WorldzMo5t3pic 4 роки тому +5

    I was one of the dumb bastards that bought into the idea that "They're getting the Blood Dragon devs to make it so it _has_ to be good!" and pre-ordered the Season Pass.
    I will not be making that mistake ever again.

  • @LonelyIslandKid09
    @LonelyIslandKid09 5 років тому +83

    I really think Hurk is one of the worst characters ever. For some reason Ubisoft loves him enough to put him in every single game since Far Cry 3. I just don't find him funny or interesting.

    • @spartankongcountry6799
      @spartankongcountry6799 5 років тому +30

      I agree. Hurk is just annoying. The writers try way too hard to make him sound witty and funny.

    • @killaxero86
      @killaxero86 5 років тому +4

      Hurk is to the Farcry series what Scooter was to Borderlands.

    • @tiko5876
      @tiko5876 5 років тому +2

      Travis Lee how dare you. Scooter is the shit. Rip.

    • @dino3965
      @dino3965 5 років тому +1

      He was only funny in far cry 4

    • @another_random_ace8820
      @another_random_ace8820 5 років тому +5

      No. Hurk is awesome.

  • @matthewsinclair8198
    @matthewsinclair8198 5 років тому +50

    A wild question you guys, how would people feel if Noah did a retro review on Dawn of War and its expansions (Dark Crusade, Soul Storm, Winter assault and so on)?

    • @leejuicy
      @leejuicy 5 років тому +5

      Or even better on the whole series and how it fell apart

    • @matthewsinclair8198
      @matthewsinclair8198 5 років тому +3

      @@leejuicy He could but my fear is that he wouldn't be able to go into as much detail on the first one and its expansions if he decided to do all of the first one and its expansions, then the second and its expansions and finally the third and its expansio- ow wait. Anyways its a nice idea but I feel that the video would be better if he just focused on the first and it expansions with the possibility of the others later on.

    • @DavetheTurnip
      @DavetheTurnip 5 років тому +1

      I'd be interested to hear what he has to say on them. Replaying the first one last year for a video taught me a bit more on moving out of my comfort zone when it comes to RTS gameplay.

  • @Josefo99
    @Josefo99 5 років тому +49

    And there are 3 more videos coming... hell yeah

    • @darklsn
      @darklsn 5 років тому +1

      wait what? Like this month or week?

    • @Josefo99
      @Josefo99 5 років тому +4

      @@darklsn The original plan was to release 4 videos that Noah postponed because of various reasons, but he had problems uploading because of snow in his town so... we just have to wait.

    • @TheSoulHarvester
      @TheSoulHarvester 5 років тому +1

      @@Josefo99 I'm Excited

    • @FreemaN4851
      @FreemaN4851 5 років тому +1

      Was just about to ask, he usually uploads 1 biggie or 2 smaller ones. 4 vids on 1 month is better than i expected

    • @Ryham93
      @Ryham93 5 років тому

      Well this just made my week already lmao

  • @shidcat9322
    @shidcat9322 5 років тому +34

    I'm pretty sure Farcry New Dawn was supposed to be DLC

  • @bad_chewy6092
    @bad_chewy6092 5 років тому +11

    Best use of giant enemy crab meme. Another job well done.

  • @pajamapantsjack5874
    @pajamapantsjack5874 5 років тому +21

    Unlike homefront the revolution, I don’t feel these really improved the game

    • @johnsmith-oh9is
      @johnsmith-oh9is 5 років тому

      I really enjoyed home front man. I had a lot of fun playing through it and got it in a bundle with like both of the metro games and one other.

  • @T82306
    @T82306 5 років тому +6

    I liked the Vietnam dlc, the others were okay. For the price, really good value.

  • @fuzzydunlop7928
    @fuzzydunlop7928 5 років тому +2

    This game takes place in a fictional blood-soaked version of Montana? I always thought it took place in a real blood-soaked depiction of rural New Jersey!

  • @malinkulasekera69
    @malinkulasekera69 5 років тому +30

    Only 25 mins? Was ready for a multiple hour odyssey.

    • @leathery420
      @leathery420 5 років тому +8

      He posted on his Patreon about what has been going on. He was getting really burnt out and depressed so he has a back log of 4 videos that he never really felt good about. So to move forward with the channel he'll be posting them any way as a kind of apology for his absence. He's got a few things planned. Like a West coast fallout road trip. So you'll get 3 more likely shorter videos real soon.

    • @James-rc8wr
      @James-rc8wr 5 років тому +3

      @@leathery420 Honestly, I think I prefer these shorter form videos. While I love Noah's work, the longer a video goes over an hour or so, the more tired I become with the vid (apart from episodes where it's the breaking down of a series or franchise). For someone with limited time, these shorter form ones are more convenient to watch and easier to digest than jumping back into the much larger ones. I can't imagine the tremendous amount of work that it would've taken to produce the Neverwinter Nights or Far Cry video, so I can appreciate the burn out. I don't mind seeing shorter videos in the future if it leads to more of them as a whole.

    • @leathery420
      @leathery420 5 років тому +1

      @@James-rc8wr I'd have to mostly agree. I mean I really do enjoy the long ass videos, but I do understand if it turns some people off. I can also see how overly long videos may become productivity hurting effort dumps. Plus some topics like Far Cry 5's DLC just don't really warrant an hour long plus video.
      Noah deciding to release the unfinished videos was really a pleasant surprise. I and I'm sure others noticed he was struggling to meet the deadlines he had imposed on himself. I kind of thought we'd just lose a month or two worth of videos, but he still has something to show for it even if it might not quite be up to his regular standards. It's really quite impressive the amount of professionalism he is putting forth. I know myself and like many others would have trouble trying to not just glossing over our creative difficulties and saying we'd do better in the future.

    • @FrightNFight
      @FrightNFight 5 років тому

      Microcastle forever

  • @DefinitelyNotSade
    @DefinitelyNotSade 5 років тому +1

    I think you're interpreting the sunk cost fallacy wrong. In economics, if there's a costless alternative investment or venture that yields a better payoff compared to one you've poured vast resources or time into, you should always jump ship; it doesn't matter that you've sunk all this time or resources into the original venture, go take the more profitable venture.
    Related to this video: it doesnt matter that you've already sunk hours into Far Cry 5. If theres an alternate activity that would yield more utility/satisfaction, go do it immediately; read a book, drink some Johnny Walker, play anything other than an Ubisoft game.

  • @HitmanSC2
    @HitmanSC2 5 років тому +2

    Jesus, good video but watching this gameplay is painful

  • @benwasserman8223
    @benwasserman8223 5 років тому +3

    Based entirely on New Dawn’s trailers, we’ve exited historical subtext and gone straight to the Mad Max weirdness. I can’t even tell if the new villains represent anything beyond “chaotic and proud”

  • @Aussie_Tom
    @Aussie_Tom 5 років тому +6

    Ubisoft just need to get working on the one thing we all want to see.
    Blood Dragon 2

  • @MrDumbRodent
    @MrDumbRodent 4 роки тому +1

    I would be curious to hear your thoughts on New Dawn if you ever felt so inclined!

  • @kouyasakurada5547
    @kouyasakurada5547 5 років тому +1

    FC5's DLC should have just been New Dawn. All that wasted development on crappy tiny DLC would've been better suited to add to New Dawn's development process.

  • @doc325
    @doc325 5 років тому +1

    Your analysis was well thought out, accurate, but one thing you may have overlooked, regarding the Vietnam DLC, is in the main game, a guy asks you to find 12 lighters that were his buddies as he's the last one of his unit still alive, and wants to ensure these lighters are secure.
    Most would immediately think, I am not combing a county sized map, spending many many hours looking for some damn lighters.
    The point of the story is to give you context as to why these lighters are important, and once you gain perspective, the reward is not the cache, but doing something for a veteran who has barely survived hell, lost friends, all while collecting tokens so that those men are never forgotten, at least by their brother Marine, and while he's old and that's old history, that old Marine is still there for some random moments every day, and there for hours every night. Those lighters would represent some closure, and those who live with, and love enough to tolerate a severe PTSD vet, would get those lighters without hesitation, because they know they represent the stuff their vet can't talk about.
    Now that might pull at your heart strings, but as a severe combat PTSD veteran, I quickly realized that awhile on the surface, that would appear to be what the devs were going for, in fact, their motivation was trying to get players motivated, by putting them in the Marine's shoes, in reality they put a lot of effort into a boring overly long fetch quest, that is forgettable at best.

    • @aames1089
      @aames1089 5 років тому +1

      Shawn Kendrick that was amazing. Bravo😊

  • @cavenyan8947
    @cavenyan8947 5 років тому +2

    "gaming's own superfund sites"
    that line made me laugh, thank you.

  • @thinkstoomuch4445
    @thinkstoomuch4445 5 років тому +2

    I'm a simple man. I see a video made by Noah Gervais, I click on it.

  • @glucosaminecondroitan9135
    @glucosaminecondroitan9135 5 років тому +2

    I liked the mp34, vehicles and costumes that came with the Vietnam dlc. I started up a new play through of the base game just to play as a vietnamese person tearing through the U.S.

  • @ryanlastname3039
    @ryanlastname3039 5 років тому +1

    Anyone else remember them saying there would be 5 dlc? The 3 we got plus 2 "mystery" dlc

  • @Nemo88881
    @Nemo88881 5 років тому

    Noah's back ! Would have preferred a Stalker retrospective though

  • @Iriseon
    @Iriseon 5 років тому +1

    Sometime in 2015, the Far Cry devs polled players on what future settings they would like to see. Vietnam, sci-fi on another planet, and zombies were all part of the poll. www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-01-05-ubisoft-polls-public-on-future-far-cry-settings

  • @assassinproduction1
    @assassinproduction1 5 років тому +1

    The script of thie video is incredibly well written, you got a sub outta me :)

  • @thomaskirkness-little5809
    @thomaskirkness-little5809 5 років тому +2

    I thought the base game was exotic. It's in some distant land i've never been to.

  • @linusdn2777
    @linusdn2777 5 років тому +16

    Noah do you ever even try stealth in videogames? i've never really seen it. Especially in farcry it's really rewarding

    • @jeffreyswhitmore
      @jeffreyswhitmore 5 років тому +8

      I would love to see him wax poetic about Thief.

    • @SuperGhettoBob
      @SuperGhettoBob 5 років тому +15

      Noah tends to focus on a game's story and presentation, but has reviewed several games that have stealth mechanics. He expressed his disdain for the broken stealth systems in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines.

    • @LN.2233
      @LN.2233 5 років тому +3

      Noah has previously said he doesn't like stealth games.

    • @chris.hartliss
      @chris.hartliss 5 років тому +19

      He said he doesn't have the patience for stealth.
      Which is mighty ironic for a guy with 8 hour long fucking video game essays.

    • @Narokkurai
      @Narokkurai 5 років тому +19

      @@chris.hartliss admittedly, bad stealth can be really fucking tedious. Even good stealth can be pretty boring at times. It's a lot of memorizing patterns, looking for openings, and save scumming until you find a perfect solution where everything just clicks into place. It appeals to a very specific Rube-Goldbergian instinct that some people either have or they don't.

  • @RoachDawggJR
    @RoachDawggJR 5 років тому +2

    “All I had to waste was my limited time here on earth”😂

  • @Outplayedqt
    @Outplayedqt 5 років тому +3

    Been waiting forever for a new NCG piece! Got something good to listen to on my drive from D to H-town :)

  • @Deadwolf27
    @Deadwolf27 5 років тому

    You can attack it's weak point for massive damage? The giant enemy crab? I'm convinced this is the best DLC of all time

  • @MrDueltube
    @MrDueltube 4 роки тому +1

    Noah will you be reviewing Far Cry New Dawn?

  • @Arashmickey
    @Arashmickey 5 років тому +1

    Needs a banter frequency slider. Baldur's Gate has one I think, but that game needs a separate banter frequency slider for each individual character.

  • @Corrupted
    @Corrupted 5 років тому +2

    I REALLY enjoyed Far cry 5 for its Story and interesting characters and actually bought the season pass when it came out, never touched a single dlc and now Im happy I didnt lol

  • @kiardothefirst8011
    @kiardothefirst8011 5 років тому +1

    i bought the gold edition of the game, not played any of the dlc's. As soon as the first dlc came out i thought it looked like it was made inside the editor and they all basically seem like it, disappointing considering i was one of the few who liked farcry 5 and the ending but the only thing i can see worth from the gold edition was you got farcry 3 free with it, which i haven't played yet.

  • @RealRanton
    @RealRanton 5 років тому +4

    great video mate! Your voice sounds a little like the Internet Historian :)

  • @davidcolby167
    @davidcolby167 5 років тому +1

    ...hey! The ending of Time Bandit's is RAD!
    (Yes, I will fight you on this!)

  • @DoktorJammified
    @DoktorJammified 5 років тому

    They're desperately trying to recapture the magic of Blood Dragon and failing miserably.

  • @robnickerson7819
    @robnickerson7819 5 років тому +3

    He's back. He's back
    Ps. Far Cry 5 was disappointing. And a regretful purchase. Sure its a fun game if you turn your brain off ect (that gets mundane fast) but the quality post Far Cry 3 is steady declining

  • @BIOHAZARDRUSGaming
    @BIOHAZARDRUSGaming 5 років тому

    My buddy and I bought the season pass mainly for the Far Cry 3 remaster, cuz that was also going to be $30. We saw it as “buying Far Cry 3 Classic Edition and getting free DLC for Far Cry 5.” When FC5 turned out to be a bland and boring game, with the experience actually suffering further while playing in co-op, we hoped the DLC would be its saving grace. Hours of Darkness ruined that hope right out the gate. Having to play through the DLC 6 times in co-op, 3 for each person since the stupid trophies were for Host only, was an effective way of pissing us off. Lost On Mars started out great, a welcome breath of comedy and references to things like Tremors that we both loved. But the constant banter was a reason to turn the spoken audio slider down and turn on subtitles. The reveal was guessed at the beginning, and the gameplay was the same 10-minute loop for a 6 hour DLC, that you then had to play AGAIN for you co-op partner. With 2/3 DLCs not worthy of the degrading title of “Shit Show”, we really hoped Dead Living Zombies (or the Zombies DLZ), would be mediocre at best. Honestly though, we were so turned off and tuned out from the entire Far Cry 5 experience, that we just kinda breezed through it on autopilot. I can’t really tell you much about the DLZ, cuz nothing was memorable, and we were so tuned out from everything else FC5-related, that combining the two almost makes me forget entirely that I played the DLZ at all.

  • @kombinatsiya6000
    @kombinatsiya6000 5 років тому +91

    Far cry 5 was very disappointing so it's not weird that the DLCs suck too. Ubisoft's lacks the storytelling talent and bravery to tell powerful stories because they don't want to upset anyone. Instead they use marketing to give the impression of great storytelling. Seriously, how many of us didn't think that Far Cry 5's story would be about the south (will rise again), racism and what not and instead got the most inclusive hipster doomsday's cult ever? Just like the main games, the Far Cry 5 DLC has become cynical and boring.

    • @Dooger414
      @Dooger414 5 років тому +22

      "Reinforce the southern stereotype because progressive!" Or they could just focus on the *game* aspect of the game.

    • @mementoa9025
      @mementoa9025 5 років тому +12

      FC5's original reveal was more to stroke the political tensions of modern America to ride off any potential controversy akin to Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus. If you're looking for modern AAA games to be brave with story-telling instead of safe games-as-a-service tier products to appeal to everyone in order to make up for their expensive investments then I have a bridge to sell you.
      I also think you had too high hopes for Ubisoft as they laid their cards on the table not too long after its reveal that it would be a simple story about a cult. You have Project at Eden's gate which is a not to subtle reference to cults like Heaven's gate and the cover art which is basically The Last Supper, and there's some character interview trailers that basically represent the final product.

    • @SoftExo
      @SoftExo 5 років тому +10

      @ I think the point holds very well. He/she suggests you make a good video game the priority over leftie politics injection at any cost, which is ALL that OP has in mind, and couldn't care less about Far Cry, same mindset of "game journalists" that then have his type as the useful idiot parroting their points over FC5 "disappointment". I reckon "focus on the game because its a game" or in French, "fuck off with the leftie crap you nonce", either seem appropriate as a response, not stupid at all.

    • @chris.hartliss
      @chris.hartliss 5 років тому +1

      I disagree but have no time for a return essay. Lol

    • @SoftExo
      @SoftExo 5 років тому +4

      @ Seems i care more than you and OP put together. "opinions" are all over FC5. Creating games with the sole purpose of smearing certain groups, in this, characters that are just there to spout what you understand to be "the south" or "muh racism" is hardly an opinion and more a pass at depicting "fact", and its FC5 that makes clear who the unhinged in this scenario, are. To corroborate the fact, heres OP with his on-the-fly review of FC5 based on nothing but politics, angry that the game didn't go full tilt leftie in the end, perhaps with some cultists shouting orange man bad for flavor. I don't want politics in a video game, i do not need your twitter-based perceptions of right and wrong either, keep it to yourself, and let people play a video game for what it is, escapism.

  • @MasterCrumble
    @MasterCrumble 5 років тому

    So you're saying that this is Blood Dragon 2? I might actually care about the Far Cry games again!
    Okay, that moon DLC seems incredibly repetitive and forced. Back to not caring about the Farcry series. These DLCs feels like they were written by Michael Cera.

  • @GB-sh9st
    @GB-sh9st 5 років тому +13

    Congrats on 100k -- but you deserve at least 4-500k imo... please keep up the amazing content.

  • @Outplayedqt
    @Outplayedqt 5 років тому

    Does anyone else think Ubisoft hired some of the same artists that also worked on the DLCs for Wolfenstein 2? Sketches like the one on 6:56 look incredibly similar to the art in Wolfenstein 2’s Captain Wilkins DLC, for example. Just cool drawings imo.

  • @myfellowsonicfans7131
    @myfellowsonicfans7131 5 років тому

    I never even played Blood Dragon, just played 3, I figured I’d play 4, and it was pretty crappy as most know (I avoided Shangrila crap), didn’t bother trying to play 5

  • @moha1911
    @moha1911 5 років тому +1

    So Ubisoft is doing the iPhone trick

  • @icewolf1116
    @icewolf1116 5 років тому +2

    It's always a treat to see you upload :)

  • @manbo1213
    @manbo1213 5 років тому +1

    Mans dropping giant enemy crab references in 2019 what a legend

  • @jrddoubleu514
    @jrddoubleu514 5 років тому

    Farcry was great once. All they've done for years now is recycle the same old engine with a new 'theme'/paintjob. Far Cry Primal IMO was where it really started to go downhill, because they tried to really push the envelope thematically, yet, again, didn't even really bother to rework the core engine to make it work. That's why the game is such a bore. It was a non fps focal game on a strictly FPS engine. I tried FC5, and it was broken,unable to load save games, so I just wrote it off. (Everything up to and including FC3 was great, FC4 was pretty good too, but that's when it started to get noticably repetitive)

  • @tubester358
    @tubester358 5 років тому

    I haven't played Far Cry since FC3 which was one of the last FPS games I really enjoyed. Didn't get FC4 coz it looked to samey with less features (e.g. no hunting). I'm now really interested in Far Cry New Dawn, should I play FC5 first? Is it gonna be like a FC3 v FC4 level of similarity? FC5 looked a little more boring in its environment and shooting.

  • @TheUnspokenKibbles
    @TheUnspokenKibbles 5 років тому

    It's rare to see an essay on this channel that looks at a subject and comes up with "well, I tried, but this is really just disposable," but congrats, Ubisoft, you've made a slate of DLC so fundamentally vapid it has reached that high bar. I really do feel for the writers who had to write six hours of banter and the designers, modelers, animators, etc. working in the video game industry's shite conditions to produce AAA-polished versions of Giant Alien Crabs and Yet More Zombies. I look forward to the inevitable New Dawn video, the marketing attention that expansion has received makes me at least hope there's some more creative ambition behind it.

  • @martok2112
    @martok2112 5 років тому

    I thought the DLCs were good, short-term enjoyment games...but I haven't really revisited them in a while either.

  • @dastardlybastardthe2nd
    @dastardlybastardthe2nd 5 років тому +9

    I was watching your ME Trilogy Retrospective last night, for the umpteenth time, and wondered when we'd be gifted with more content. This is great, dude. Even if it's not your usual long form content. Been waiting for this for about a month.
    Edit: Did I mention a franchise retrospective of Fable would be a dream come true? Just up to 3. No need to play that "Fable: The Journey" Kinect garbage.

  • @HardkoreCasual
    @HardkoreCasual 5 років тому +4

    For me, the biggest issue with DLCs like this is that what I want in a DLC is continuation of my character (or some kind of extended side quest). I don't want experimental bullshit that the developers figured wouldn't make for a very good full game, so might as well just throw them out as DLC. To me, I don't get why these things needed to even be released as DLC. They should have just been released as mini-games that are tangentially related but don't require Far Cry 5 to play, like they did with Blood Dragon.
    Far Cry 5, to me, has some of the worst DLC I have ever played. I couldn't stand Mars because, they got rid of towers in Far Cry 5 because they knew they weren't fun, only to add them back in the DLC. Also, I just don't like laser weapons (totally personal taste). I don't know why, I just never have. Even in the Fallout games I just never found laser weapons as enjoyable as normal guns.
    Hours of Darkness is way too short. That's really all I gotta say about that one. And the last DLC. No comment.

  • @fuzzydunlop7928
    @fuzzydunlop7928 5 років тому

    Russo only came up with the name 'Return of the Living Dead' - they bought the script from him, rewrote literally everything, and kept the title. Russo had little to nothing to do with the film itself. He DOES get the blame for that awful early-2000's re-release of Night of the Living Dead, though. That IS his fault.

  • @malorian3516
    @malorian3516 5 років тому

    I actually really liked far cry 5’s setting and gameplay, I’ve been a fan of the series since 3 and I still don’t really find it that boring, however far cry 5 lacked outposts, there were sweet fuck all and what little they had was pretty boring. But I’ve gotta say that running around blowing up vans, fishing and hunting, blowing up more vehicles and setting psychotic jehovah’s witnesses on fire was really fucking fun. Overall despite the disappointing amount of large gunfights. I really liked far cry 5 and it’s map

  • @Lycosa
    @Lycosa 2 роки тому

    Okay... seems like the Vietnam DLC is good, I would consider buying it. The others, not so much.

  • @theFirstAidKit
    @theFirstAidKit 5 років тому

    Well shit, I came here because I wanted to know if it's worth buying the Gold Edition (includes season pass) or just the base game. A few sentences in a HUGE spoiler about the base game ending... nice one dude, now I'm not even sure do I want to buy the game... Your channel is big enough for you to know spoiler alerts.

  • @ethanhogenmiller3465
    @ethanhogenmiller3465 5 років тому

    Actually John Russo’s script for Return of the Living Dead was almost totally scrapped. The studio just bought it so they could make a movie with the “of the living dead” tag line to make money. (Which is good bc Russo kind of sucks)

  • @thewayfarer8849
    @thewayfarer8849 5 років тому +1

    I do love how much juice you get out of things I wouldn't play. I love when you review games I like, but it's more interesting that you can explore something I have no interest in and encourage rumination.

  • @firstlast3313
    @firstlast3313 5 років тому

    Hey this was really good.
    I really enjoy everything you had to say about the game but your wording is pretty dense for a spoken review. It sounds like you typed this script and are now reading it, which is fine, but I think you could alter it to be more digestible to the ear. For example all in 5 seconds you said vagaries, obfuscate, and mechanical trivialities. It's just a little unnecessary. Also maybe slap some background music on there

  • @fuzzydunlop7928
    @fuzzydunlop7928 5 років тому

    One could set an entire Far Cry title in Indo-China against the backdrop of the Vietnam War - either before, during, or after US direct involvement. There are so many excellent themes one could explore - so many different factions and collectives a discerning mercenary or gun for hire could find employment. Instead we get a cheap collage of the same trite and inaccurate Vietnam imagery. The only thing it even came close to depicting with real meat was the use of defoliants and that was mostly just because the bar had been set so low for that sort of things in games prior - not depicting it whatsoever. Vietnam is a conflagration of a conflict so drenched in sub-text that it proved the perfect setting for a modern retelling of Conrad's Heart of Darkness - it only seems fitting that a series which also dabbled in a modern retelling of the classic journey to the setting to pay their respects.

  • @Redem10
    @Redem10 5 років тому +6

    Bring back Blood dragon!

    • @vrapbrap
      @vrapbrap 5 років тому +1

      eh, it was okay for like half of it but even that overstayed its welcome imo

    • @BackAlleyKnifeFighter
      @BackAlleyKnifeFighter 5 років тому +1

      We got another Blood Dragon.........but it was a Trials game

    • @Gruntvc
      @Gruntvc 5 років тому

      Blood Dragon was the best game in the franchise.

  • @night1952
    @night1952 5 років тому

    I wasn't even sure they came out. I didn't care about them after FC5's ending, but there was no advertising of them anywhere to be found, so when New Dawn was announced i was like "what happened to the DLC? Oh, i guess it already happened"

  • @ThreeDaysOfDan
    @ThreeDaysOfDan 5 років тому

    We need a far cry set in the rural mountain regions of Mexico that are controlled by Narcos. You play as a black ops FBI agent sent to capture some big drug lord only to be set up and the USA turns their back on you and leaves you for dead . Little Mexican towns are charming and the hills of the region varies from pine to tropical . also you can have modern architecture contrast with old Spanish architecture etc.

  • @justing7490
    @justing7490 5 років тому

    Really, I'm pretty sure that those three were scrapped ideas for far cry 6 and they took the heat actual expansion for far cry 5 and turned it into a $40 standalone title. They figured, in today's market, they could get $40 for a good DLC as a standalone more than they could get $60 from any of those three ideas that they had. You know how it is today, it's better to release a shet game that sells ok than it is to wait an extra year to make something good....

  • @notorioustito8515
    @notorioustito8515 5 років тому

    I regret buying the season pass for far cry 5 dont even think I'll get new dawn honestly lol. I wanted to enjoy the DLC bit nah they were just meh. The Mars one was horrible I couldn't even make myself play that for more that 15 mins..

  • @hellstormgaming5508
    @hellstormgaming5508 5 років тому

    I dont care if people think a game about veitnam or anything is to controversial in the days where they didnt care if it was controversial they made it any way is why we had such great cod games before all this future shit in fact the greatest mission in my opinion and probably most other gamers was the mission No Russian from Modern warfare 2 that was so much fucking fun gaming is supposed to take us away from the real world we shouldnt let controversy stop us from making fun games

  • @R3F1C
    @R3F1C 5 років тому

    ima be real honest with you, to me far cry new dawn felt like that far cry 5's dlc should have been, but it got bigger and bigger, so they scrapped it, said "thats a new game" and gave us this abomination, that looks more like real polished arcade maps, but with actual lore.

  • @SteveAkaDarktimes
    @SteveAkaDarktimes 5 років тому

    I find it funny that you identified the exact issue that other reviewers have seen in Far cry 5. it makes a big effort in saying absolutely nothing, being painfully Apolitical and neatly sidestepping any sort of statement or message. it has about as much substance as Serious sam.

  • @feloniousfisch7824
    @feloniousfisch7824 5 років тому

    I payed 10$ for the Mars DLC, and a few weeks later they removed it from my game, and I would have had to buy it AGAIN! Needless to say I didn’t buy it again. F

  • @TheBaconGhost
    @TheBaconGhost 5 років тому

    Yo this is so tremendously pretensions. It's FarCry. Better yet, it's FarCry DLC. It's not supposed to be award winning entertainment. Nothing this guy mentioned is something I look for in a Ubisoft title.

  • @fletcher8805
    @fletcher8805 5 років тому

    I’m contemplating even buying the new far cry game because of how bad the DLC were for far cry 5.
    The new metro probably gunna be the buy for me this month I think.
    I will get the new far cry just when it’s a little cheaper

  • @DooMedSean
    @DooMedSean 5 років тому

    Thank you, someone else gets it. I hate that Ubisoft is getting lazy and greedy. New Dawn is what we should have got for fc5 dlc not these half assed, boring and tedious demos of what could have been good standalones if they actually fleshed them out more.

  • @eendikschaap7547
    @eendikschaap7547 5 років тому

    FarCry often jumps back and forth between being serious and complete nonsense. The latter is what people remember, so Ubi made DLC with stupid Hurk and that movie dude.

  • @zestfisher565
    @zestfisher565 5 років тому

    I whanted a Far Cry Zombies, A Zombie game but Farcryed. And I don't know if I should even bother trying this new "The Father was right" DLC..

  • @toverkleet
    @toverkleet 5 років тому

    Hey! No insulting Ecclewtones run on Dr Who! That showbhas no flaws! Anyone says otherwise is misguided and and and... just wrong!! (Sarcasm off now)

  • @true_shotentertainment2717
    @true_shotentertainment2717 4 роки тому

    Just got all dlc base game and new Dawn with weapons and vehicles for 40 bucks can't beat that $120 value. Never played 5 but I couldn't let that deal go.

  • @lucasb7705
    @lucasb7705 5 років тому

    *sigh* farcry 5 couldve been so much better. The boss fights pissed me off. So fucking boring. It was just garbage. I hated it. I grew up in the woods so, boring af.

  • @moonraven6145
    @moonraven6145 5 років тому

    Maybe someone at Ubisoft hated Hurk soo much, that the end of the DLC mainly featuring him wittering on at you was killing 100 of them? should of been 101 tbh

  • @MaxNitro4681
    @MaxNitro4681 5 років тому

    They half-assed the DLCs cuz they were worried hype around the game would die out before New Dawn so they needed something to keep FC5 relevant they were planning this all along

  • @karlklein2263
    @karlklein2263 4 роки тому

    They put so many blood dragons in these games I wish they'd just make a full game already. It's like ubisoft is aware that was one of the only times they really nailed the far cry concept.

  • @justjustus7406
    @justjustus7406 5 років тому

    I actually loved farcy 5, the dlc however was garbage. And the fact that I'm pretty sure their just gonna copy and paste farcry 5's map, just nuked

  • @Marius-gi2dn
    @Marius-gi2dn 3 роки тому

    I only got the Dlcs because I bought a collection for 36 euros. There was the far cry 5 Deluxe Edition and the best version of Far cry new dawn. that was a good deal.

  • @erronblack308
    @erronblack308 5 років тому

    Why would this come out the ninety of February? It’s a little late for that. This game came out awhile ago. Especially, why 6 days before the next game?

  • @AndrewOplinger
    @AndrewOplinger 5 років тому

    It feels like they were tech demos or intern projects. Someone worked a summer making the things and some senior devs had to go in and finish it to justify the cost, and to make sure the interns had a publication on thier resumes.

  • @henrikmunkmadsen3190
    @henrikmunkmadsen3190 5 років тому

    Oh. Shame this was a downer. 'Hope your next critique will be about a game you find more interesting, it makes for better videos, I think.

  • @codaisasoldier
    @codaisasoldier 5 років тому

    No but haven't you heard? The New Dawn DLC comes out on the 15th! They keep advertising it as its own game though, not too sure why...

  • @xcharmillionx
    @xcharmillionx 5 років тому

    The best thing about the DLCs is that they added more assets to the map creator for more competent people to use in Arcade, really. On their own, they're disappointing.

  • @huwguyver4208
    @huwguyver4208 5 років тому

    Always love these videos. Noah is The Man With The Words. I'm not, that's why I could only describe him that way.