ok yes it’s slop because you just shoot everyone in the head but you guys should talk more about how bad taste far cry 6 is lol. it takes place in not cuba where the evil dictator is making slaves harvest poison tobacco for american multinationals because part of the magic cancer treatment drug is that it can only be harvested by spraying tobacco with super agent orange that makes everyone sick. you can collect a whole slew of roosters for the purposes of participating in cock fighting. every single time anyone tries to talk about Latin America I want to throw up. the game is so mean spirited it’s like making fun of the idea of revolution. the leader of libertad is a rich girl who became a revolutionary through larping it’s important to note that no one is a communist. the apolitical fight against batista lol. her mentor is this “ex-KGB” guy who “got bored and switched to CIA and Mossad.” the old revolutionaries who live in the mountains indirectly caused this situation by teamkilling their leader way back when cuz communists become dictators obviously. there’s a character who apparently got top surgery “without anesthetic” so you know he’s really dedicated to being trans and his doctor informs you of this without any hesitation while you’re fishing for information about this guy’s life like every other shitty AAA game with a trans character. the fascist government has a drag queen they’re all enamored with but they’re secretly a spy for the good guys!!! it just goes on and on. Every single new thing thats introduced to you has the worst vibes ever. We are only slightly divorced from the totally unhinged racism of ghost recon wildlands
Playing it next to Far Cry 2 is insane because that game doesn’t want me to think anything is cool ever. you can’t compare a game about a farcical “civil war” fought entirely by foreigners who have effectively emptied out someone else’s country to do it to this little playground where shit is happening because revolution and guerilla aesthetics felt marketable in 2021 and because ubisofts decades of disgust towards latin americans has to be satiated every few years. remember their ghost recon advanced war fighter and how it was all about fear of Mexico invading, fear of TERRORISTS coming over the southern border, fear that south americans are plotting against you. only a handful of years later call of duty ghosts is released, which depicts evil venezuela attempting to dominate this hemisphere. it’s a mystery why people developed this impression that it’s a warzone at the border or that Venezuela wants to war us after years of being seeded to believe it
If I was from down south it would probably be the most offensive game of the 2020s. the jackal was right. every single cell of this disease has to be eradicated. far cry must die
I’m gonna admit - I totally forgot all this stuff and just remember the little wheelie dog and Dani singing Ricky Martin (I remember that stuff now and you’re right! I think I avoided the story missions as much as possible and just…cleared checkpoints…)
Fitting for a game coming hot off “right wing preppers are right, everyone should listen to the guy who killed his baby, also you’re brainwashed by an old song or something?”
Maybe it’s been bad forever. Frat boy Jason and his magical “tatau,” hearing that his friend might be getting raped by some dude and making a weird Kill Bill joke, right after burning a bunch of weed to Skrillex.
3 is where they started this pattern of course correcting. oh you guys thought 2 was boring but the concept was cool and the checkpoints shouldnt respawn? okay here you go! and youre the worlds worst white boy while youre at it. we’ll turn up that racism dial a bit. and then people you know thought 3 was racist so you play a guy with ties to the place in 4. everyone called 5 a cowardly piece of shit for not getting political enough so 6 is them trying to be “political.” just an endless sea of French Canadians switching pieces around on the board
you only remembered the cute dog! that’s why I think the crude ideology of these games demands more discussion than the gameplays. it’s like they’ve been making them more boring so you can pay less attention to the negative shit they’re blasting you with lmao. ubisoft remains low key one of the most troubling game developers
Is this something you can do in the vanilla PC version or was it with mods? It’s a game I want to revisit one day and I might want to see it looking like this
Far Cry 1 is about being a guy in a hawaiian shirt who’s boat gets blown up and eventually you fight mutants. It’s mainly a graphics card demo but it was really cool to play the first level on someone else’s machine and go “oooh”
it’s this mod that also makes it so the outposts take 45 minutes to respawn among bug fixes and some other stuff like actually being able to play the female mercs and whatnot. there are some balance changes but they’re all positive like making cases with one diamond have two, being able to get the ammo upgrades much sooner (which is really nice on the hardest difficulty) and restricting the extremely op silenced smg to the second half of the game.
it’s such ass to actually play for years there was a bug where enemies could see you through walls and the game only has checkpoints. the fucking level where they throw you out of a helicopter with an M4 and 10 bullets while rocket launcher mutants are everywhere. to this day I can still picture my dad raging at the volcano level at the end of the game soooo bad that he almost didnt finish it. then like two years later i found myself in the same situation, but in boiling point road to hell, which rips off far crys final level for its final battle as well but adds infinitely respawning enemies because fuck you. of course far cry 2 then proceeded to rip off boiling point for its entire gameplay structure so I guess they were even.
Bits and Bops is very good! Mostly very simple like Rhythm Heaven but it does use two buttons which sometimes feels necessary and other times feels arbitrary. You can kinda feel the custom engine the game is built on as it feels appropriately responsive but using a keyboard isn’t particularly impactful for whatever reason. Because you can input on many different buttons simultaneously there’s never really a sense that the inputs feel fully satisfying unless the mini game you’re playing is polished just so. Tapping the space bar feels very natural but when you need two inputs you just have to find one of the other buttons to put your finger on.
Unlocking new minigames is made unnecessarily frustrating since you have to go play a toy before the next ‘shipment’ of games comes in, but it’s a very minor bit of friction. It’s just by comparison, Rhythm Heaven allows the player to do whatever they want as long as they follow the unlock order. It takes about 100 minutes to do everything, and it’s about 40% of a regular Rhythm Heaven game which is fair enough for the price. Once you’ve done everything it just becomes a case of getting better scores.
Most of the mini games are very inventive and follow the Rhythm Heaven logic but with some more distinct twists that Nintendo would not touch. President Bird in particular is excellent as is Octeaparty, Rock Paper Showdown, and Meet and Tweet. Globe Trotters is a retread of the dreaded Lockstep which is nostalgic for Rhythm Heaven fans but will probably be a massive roadblock for new players since it’s just like Lockstep but with a slightly harder-to-discern audio cue for switching to the offbeat. It still works and they left it till the end, an appropriate place for a genuinely difficult rhythmic challenge.
Of all the mini games Snakedown absolutely sucks. It’s the only game to have a purely visual cue for one of the rhythm elements. Hopefully the dev can build in a mini-count-in cue for when you need to bounce three coins. B-Bot & the Fly Girls is also a bit of a drag since it isn’t very fun to do and calls to mind Love Rap’s awkward aesthetic incorporation of hip-hop.
SMB Remastered is very good. I have never played much of Super Mario Brothers past 1-1 and: it’s fun! Why does platforming feel good? This makes me want to make another platformer game.
Custom characters are so fun! Play as Challenger! IDK why this makes the game more appealing
The custom level creation and browser is also next-level.
The game gets around the copyright problem by requiring the player provide a NES Rom of SMB so hopefully Nintendo doesn’t fuck this up like it always does.
I’m halfway through this limited time promotional Attack on Titan quest line in Assassin’s Creed Shadows and it’s jarring how incredibly ugly the character models are. They look cheap as shit and awful.
Which, y’know, if you read that manga…at least it’s faithful to the source material.
trying out the silent hill 2 remake, and boy, they really screwed this one up! not only is it nothing like the ps2 game, it’s not even a horror game! but credit to bloober team, they did give james some sick new moves:
In a game about religion I think it would be very funny to have a character that’s like “Job, but for a God who’s openly antagonistic and downright chatty”
Tropical Freeze as a diagnostic tool for early onset dementia:
Patient dies more than ten times on the penultimate level because they can’t remember that mashing a button makes the rhino go faster.
Patient has played the entire game before, but abandons a playthrough at world 5, citing disinterest in “poison swamps.” It’s not poison, it’s juice. It’s called Juicy Jungle. It’s the best one.
I’m playing the 2013 tomb raider reboot because at one point I said I was going to play every tomb raider. Did you know it’s a bad idea to say things like that? naturally it’s dramatically worse than the original in every conceivable way
this game feels like it was written by joy’s sister from happiness. why does literally everything have to be laced with sexual violence. what happened to the wonder? lara going deep enough into a cave to reveal a lost city, the music swells briefly, you’re alone again. what was wrong with that??? now youre alone playing uncharted for a while then a bunch of ogres appear and start yelling about how you are just one (raped) girl so how could this be possible! i spit on your grave shit. Like it’s sort of disturbing how hard they tried to obfuscate sexual assault being a relentless theme of the game. The guy doesn’t enter her so it doesn’t read that way to the average 2013 man. And you know they’re all doing this at the behest of an unseen unheard woman so it’s fine that all the violence is insanely gendered and sexual!
Of course everyone knows this already like it’s a 12 year old game. Also the camera wobbles anytime Lara moves which is literally sickening how did people play this?
