Hello everyone. Hope everyone has had a good week. I’ve had a busy week (3 job interviews) but still found time to play a lot of Binding of Isaac since a muscle injury has kept me out of the gym. Hope everyone has a good upcoming week.
I started Farcry 5, having never played a far cry game before. They combine a lot of shit into Eden’s Gate which I don’t really like. The political commentary is just an aesthetic skin on the world, it doesn’t really have any substance. Though, if you take it literally, you’re a fed doing a color revolution against a revolutionary regime while pretending you’re a smol bean resistance fighter. That kind of accidentally gives you some insight into how little the creators understand the right wing militia movement. It just comes off as if someone listened to some post-2016 podcasts and decided it would make a fresh setting.
I enjoyed it but you really can’t think too hard about it. In my opinion, Far Cry 5 actively suffers from being an open world game.
The way the main story directly rips you out of the open world is extremely annoying
Try Far Cry 3, the best one. The politics are still bad (it’s basically “quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag busts it down sexual style… is he goated with the sauce?” played completely unironically) but it works somehow and it’s fun as hell.
Smh can’t believe this slander against Blood Dragon, the best FarCry with the best politics.
