I’ve played other Ubisoft games before, most recently AC Odyssey. Been on a Switch kick for a minute and smashed 200 hours in TOTK, potentially one of my favorite games ever at this point. But I wanted to switch it up and go through some of my PC backlog so I started up Far Cry 5.
The beginning was decent…but it became very apparent quickly that the entire model of the game was very, well, familiar. In that it’s almost identical in gameplay design to AC Odyssey. Add to that the almost distracting number of bugs in the game - constantly have civilians that I can’t liberate for no reason, and if you use a game controller the reverse and decelerate buttons for driving vehicles straight up aren’t even mapped - and my opinion is that this is a subpar experience. I haven’t extensively looked up other people’s reviews or experiences, but I was curious to know if anyone felt similarly.
I like the Far Cry games and while they do have their misses, Far Cry 5 was a pretty darn good one.
Better than 4, better than 6. Villains are for real spooky, the sidekicks are all pretty fun. Also it introduced The Ballad of Clutch Nixon to the world, and that alone is worth it.
This is my first Far Cry game! It was recommended to me as someone who really liked both the Assassins Creed games and the Fallout series.