Rock, Paper, Shotgun thinks that the recently released Far Cry 3 is racist. That’s a hugely powerful accusation, with a lot of heavy implications. Despite a lot of commenters voicing their disagreement with the statement, other publications have steered clear of addressing the issue, presumably because nobody wants to write an article that could be misconstrued as being ‘in defense of racism’. Well, here goes…
-PSLS
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I recently tried 3 for the first time but the frame rate was a turnoff.
I liked 5 and 6 though.
If you have a Series X or S, the Xbox 360 version runs at 60 fps with fps boost. It's a shame the remaster doesn't.
2 and 3, pretty much the only ones i really enjoyed. 1 was amazing for the time but aged quite poorly. 4 has the elephant gun, all i can praise from any entry after 3 lol
Ummmm 3 than stop.
Okay maybe two as well. But yeah probably 3 and then move on.
Far Cry 2. People constantly rant about games now being too easy, holding your hand, having too many unnecessary RPG-lite leveling features, etc. People specifically complain about open world games being too focused on tons of collectibles and "checkmarks" that just waste time.
Far Cry 2 is an answer to all of those complaints. It was made by Ubisoft before they fell into all the traps discussed above (and before they started inserting towers into their games to defog the map). It has respawning enemies, weapons that degrade, and the collectible diamonds are very useful in the game (which you find in a similar way to the way you find shrines in BOTW with a radar system). The map you have is an in game item you pull out while playing, not a pause menu that is unnecessarily detailed. Also the enemy AI and physics are much better than later entries in the series.
It has a mixed reputation because people at the time said it was too hard, the weapon degradation was annoying, and then respawning enemies were annoying. FC2 came out in 2008, so this was before games like Dark Souls and BOTW had come out and made it cool to like these types of features.
Far Cry 2, the one with the AI that find you through walls and trees, can one shot you from a mile away and have 100% accuracy? That was frustrating not fun because cheap AI.
Uhh, I mean, it isn't one of these games where once the enemies have detected you they will magically forget you exist because you walked behind a wall or went into a bush. And yeah the AI isn't stormtrooper level accuracy. Again, these are positives, not negatives to me.
To be fair, I'm really directing this at the people most critical of "Modern Ubisoft" or "Modern Open World" design elements. Like the type of people who fawned all over Elden Ring because it had a clean UI because they are so burnt out by the "checkbox" type of open world design.
If you like those types of games, then a later FC game like 3 and especially 4-5 would be more your style.
TheGamer Writes "Far Cry 3 is a time capsule of what game design was like in the early '00s"
Beat it twice; once on PS3, and once a couple of months ago on PS5.
Doesn't Far Cry 2 have some of the things they are talking about here? Diamond hunting, healing, malaria medication?
I believe 2 did. I highly doubt it was the only game like that though. I imagine the writer isn't old enough to have played part 2 but I also feel it wasn't the first game to introduce stuff like that
They bring up mass effect 2. I felt mass effect 1 was better. It just seem cut down. The citadel was a joke in part 2 compared to 1. How do you cut back on that.
Having just replayed the entire me trilogy yeah I think 1 was my favourite I think 2 had better cover and shooting mechanics but everything else in 1 was better
Mass Effect 1 was the best . It played like an RPG . The other games were more shooter and lost the feel the first game had unfortunately
I played it on PC when it came out, might play it again some time
Far Cry 3 is the best of the series, it was ahead of it's time
It seems the blogger didn’t even play RDR1 if he thinks FC3 brought these elements to the AAA table. Tiktokers always have a new surprise. Smh
"Far Cry 3 is a time capsule of what game design was like in the early '00s"
>Came out in 2012
Okay then
If we are going to talk early 2000's game design how about start in the year 2000 with games that are a far cry better than something released 12 years later.
"Chrono Cross, Baldur's Gate II, Diablo II, Dragon Quest VII, Final Fantasy IX, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, along with new intellectual properties such as Deus Ex, Jet Set Radio, Perfect Dark, The Sims and Vagrant Story."
The article names things Ubisoft has shoved into games to dumb them down and then claims we should rush off to play it. Maybe instead look back at it as the death of originality from Ubisoft and gaming in general.
Far Cry 3 & Assassin's Creed VI: Black Flag are 2 of the very best games from Ubisoft. All Ubisoft games since then are all just copying these 2 games.
No one seems to give a shit about racism when it's lazy stereotypes of drunken Russians or thieving Irish; because they're white.
They only seem to cry foul when it's a non-caucasian, bunch of hypocrites.
Yeah it's getting a little ridiculous that movies can do as they please, yet video games get so much bad credit.
I honestly NEVER notice any of the racism in any of the games that so called were "racist", well with exception to some games that are INTENTIONALLY made to hurt society.
Rock, Paper, racism just wanted hits, kudos to PSLS to catching that and calling them out on it.
I honestly never felt one drop of racism or any insult to ones culture.
If anything, it brings white and the races of the island together to stop pirates and terrorist groups...
I dunno I'm not too far in the game:P
If "we're all the same" how can there be racism?! (It's a contradiction)
I think people think too much on the word... for me? I don't have fucks to give to racism... I just ignore it...
The game has a lot of generalizations, but nothing really distracting. The only thing that stood out is that, the generic white protagonist really stands out in this game, but in a bad way(it's kind of boring). Though I get that he's suppose to be someone tired of their redundant life.
The idea of the game in religion is forbidden if you get effected because it courage to do bad things to survive or being strong or kool to achieve a good thing , actually its all of them lol , so i wont be surprised if i see racism, you can't fix bad things by doing a bad thing ...
But its just a game , if you have a clean mind you would benifit from it by avoiding what the character do in the game , its not kool in reality to do bad things , its just sickness in your mind , just enjoy it as a game just like the movies , they are.not like real life , so be smart and not blind by getting effected , im having fun playing it , vaas character is soooo funny xD , it reminds me of the loyalist in my country , latest crazy talk from one of them :
He have a certification of a doctor level but he didnt even complete high school lol , suddenly he put a video showing him talking about the acts of the protesters in the negative side , he talk about the paiting in walls and closing streets and say this is terrorists acts lol , and then he says "" You see you see!!! police ( mercenaries ) dont kill people , its people who kill people "" , lol , money makes people blind ....