Far Cry 6

[Taffer]

Ubisoft reveal trailer was a couple of days ago, couldn't see any other threads open yet:

https://youtu.be/X80qscp9pTU

Set on a Cuba-inspired Caribbean island, Yara, on the brink of revolution, with Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring from Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul) as the voice and likeness of the nation's dictator, Antón Castillo.

The game world is bigger than previous games, with cities/towns modelled as well as jungle, and hopefully being more story-driven than previous titles, (influencing the course of a revolution offers so many plot paths).

Not out until February but hopefully it's a good one!

Edited by Taffer on Tuesday 14th July 09:40

[fiatpower]

That does sound very promising, will have to keep an eye out for more trailers.

[George Smiley]

FC3 was my favourite but I've also played through 5 many times, I might go back and revisit 4 as that was actually pretty damn good but was just a reskin of 3.

Looking forward to this one!

[Jasandjules]

I will no doubt pick up a copy of this for the PS5 in due course.

[siovey]

I've still got 3, 4 and 5 to play through on ps4, along with many other games that I'll probably never get round to playing. No doubt I'll buy this too on ps5..

[Davie_GLA]

Looks amazing but I thought it was up for release a lot sooner. Really looking forward to it and the reveal trailer sets the scene perfectly.

[omniflow]

Timing is probably pretty good - just as we're getting bored during the Wave 2 lockdown :-)

[Zetec-S]

Really enjoyed Far Cry 3, Vaas was a great bad guy. Working my way through 4 now, although a little disappointed it seems to be a re-skinned version of 3 so far. I've also picked up 5 in the Steam sale earlier in the year, so have that to look forward to, not sure what to expect, hopefully a bit of progress compared to 4. Either way I'm sure I'll enjoy it, they're all good fun.

Back to Far Cry 6, it looks really promising, Giancarlo Esposito is a great actor and should rival Mando (Vaas) on that front. Hopefully a bit more variation in terrain as well, proper towns and cities would be good.

Roll on Feb'21, in the meantime I better hurry up with 4 and 5

[brad93]

Does look interesting from the trailer. I wasn’t sure about 5 to be honest, seemed a little ‘boring’ to me but hopefully this will be a nice step up. I imagine it’ll look great on next gen consoles too!

[Rod200SX]

It'll be good if they have an actual city/town in the game, as I don't think there has been any in previous far cry games?

[jtremlett]

I found 5 a tremendous disappointment and I actively hated the (four?) sections where you got "kidnapped" out of whatever you were doing and forced to do some utterly tedious boss fight.

In contrast, I thought Primal was going to be rubbish but I really rather enjoyed it and the sound was brilliant.

[Davie_GLA]

jtremlett said:

I found 5 a tremendous disappointment and I actively hated the (four?) sections where you got "kidnapped" out of whatever you were doing and forced to do some utterly tedious boss fight.

In contrast, I thought Primal was going to be rubbish but I really rather enjoyed it and the sound was brilliant.

I loved 5. I think it was because I hadn't played a proper open world FPS in ages but those timed missions you were on about really pissed me off and took the shine off the game. Got to the stage where I wouldn't go back and play for ages until I could be arsed just doing the missions over and over again.

[A Winner Is You]

I really enjoyed 3 and Blood Dragon, but after that I just felt I'd had my fill of Far Cry and had no interest in what followed. I did pick up Primal cheap, but despite the unique location it still just felt like another Far Cry game.

[whitesocks]

The open world genre has been milked dry by this point.

[Zetec-S]

whitesocks said:

The open world genre has been milked dry by this point.

I don't think the genre has been milked dry. The demand is very much there, hence the hundreds of different titles to choose from.

I understand what you're saying, and I sometimes play an open world game and find myself wishing there was a bit more focus on the main mission and less messing around with side quests, wandering around for hours getting lost, etc. But then I look back at the games I would play 20 years ago, and I remember wishing there was more I could explore, why can't I get through this door, climb over this wall, etc I guess gamers are never pleased

[Davie_GLA]

whitesocks said:

The open world genre has been milked dry by this point.

I'd really hasn't. What is tedious is these massive world's with nothing to do in them. Or the endless crafting combinations to make stuff.

[Jasandjules]

whitesocks said:

The open world genre has been milked dry by this point.

Nonsense. I think more Open World games are better. Much more fun to go off and explore, not having to follow a script in a game etc and see what you find. Years ago when there was less power and memory then train track games were necessary but these days absolutely not.

[A Winner Is You]

Jasandjules said:

whitesocks said:

The open world genre has been milked dry by this point.

Nonsense. I think more Open World games are better. Much more fun to go off and explore, not having to follow a script in a game etc and see what you find. Years ago when there was less power and memory then train track games were necessary but these days absolutely not.

As with anything, there are good and bad examples. Ubisoft tend to be pretty egregious with their padding though, especially as they love to sell you xp boosters so you can pay money to play less of their game.

[NoVetec]

Two Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad connections in Far Cry now then - Gus in 6 and Vas in 3 was played by Michael Mando aka Nacho.

[FourWheelDrift]

New gameplay on here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQNHBa0fvBM