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Re: Far Cry 5

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From: Spalls Hurgenson
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 13:04
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On Mon, 29 May 2017 04:35:54 -0700 (PDT), Pia <pia...@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Friday, May 26, 2017 at 6:22:37 PM UTC+2, Rin Stowleigh wrote:
>
>> I'm digging the setting.  Would like to see a little more Alan Wake /
>> Twin Peaks in actual storyline than Redneck Rampage though.  
>
>Oh, wow! This actually looks very promising (assuming they manage   
>to create a somewhat believable back-story)! I heard some rumors   
>on Reddit about the Montana-setting a couple of months ago but I 
>thought they would go for some sort of an old wild western theme 
>or something.
>
I'm not particularly excited about the game; Ubisoft open-world games
- while well-made - are all too similar in gameplay for me to want to
rush out and buy the next one; I can get almost the exact same
experience just replaying one of their older titles. I will probably
pick it up at some point, but not before it drastically drops in
price, and even then it might languish unplayed on my hard-drive. 

I /am/ rather enjoying the drama playing out amongst certain political
groups about how /terrible/ Ubisoft is for portraying "Christians" in
such an uncharitable light (FarCry4's antagonists are a violent
ultra-right wing apocalyptic extremist Christian cult). Strange I
didn't see these same groups complaining about the sterotyped African
militias of FarCry 2, or the weird Polynesian cult of FarCry3, or the
drug-crazed cults of FarCry4. Apparently it's only a problem  for
these people if you make white Americans the targets; everyone else is
fair game.

Sadly these people will soon be laughed into silence and the drama
will end, thus ending the only remarkable thing about this game, but
until then their self-righteous and hypocritical squawks are quite
entertaining. Free, too!
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