Why FarCry4 is a bad game.

[Lill-Rogge]

Okey so this will hit FC fanboys right in the heart and I'm sure that hate will come right at me. BUT! Don't you see how overrated this game is?! I mean, come on! Sure it's fun to libirate outposts, take over belltowers and breach and take over "very hard" fortresses (which is really easy if you ask me) But doesn't it seem really familiar? Of course it do! Because you've done it before!! IN FARCRY 3!!
It's the SAME game?! Just another environment... Same guns, same type of people, same npc logic, same everything! Farcry 3 was better, it was al new then and had more epic scenes! I had a blast playing farcry3 but sadly, not in farcry4... It seemed just like easy money to them...

I don't know about you. But FC4 isn't that fun.

[yusupov]

i agree its not as good as FC3, because it really is the same damn game. but i disagree its not a good game...its honestly about what i expected after fc3s success, but i dont think you can do it again. next release will have to be a change of pace a la fc1-fc2 or fc2-fc3.

[bruce.c.jenkins]

Yes, FC4 has many problems.

1. The story is awful. The characters are unrelatable and boring. They should have done away with the "white savior" storyline and gone with a native Kyrati. Amita, Sabal, heck, even Bhadra. Anyone but a total stranger who just waltzes in and starts killing for no apparent reason.

2. The balance of resources is off. Mortars, grenade launchers and high-powered machine guns can rip through enemies with astounding ease and they are availlable very early. Money is simple to get.

3. The battles feel the same. They should have been more liberal with adding the Hunters to outposts - those guys can make things difficult. But you rarely see them. Also, dogs. Dogs definitely make sneaking around much harder. They also could have added a harder difficulty level. Even at the hardest, the bad guys aren't very hard to kill.

I don't want to totally take away from FC4. It's a disappointing release, but it's not "bad". It's just more of the same. Which is what we all should have expected, considering that this was a rushed cycle (just 24 months since FC3). Maybe Ubi will take their time with the next release and make it a bit edgier.

[StormhawkV]

Originally posted by bruce.c.jenkins:

They should have done away with the "white savior" storyline and gone with a native Kyrati.

Ajay is a native Kyrati. FC4 has indeed a lot of problems but this is not one of them.

[MooP]

I think its funny the story starts with Ajay just being a badass on day one and yet leaving when he was a small kid to grow up in the USA everyone knows him and what he looks like.... At least FC3 had character development 4th game ah, screw it he lived in USA alone that made him a badass killer...

I know its not popular opinion but i think farcry2 was the best game of the series, yes fc3 fixed and improved upon FC2, but it did lack some neat immersion effects they took out of FC3. The ingame map was a very cool feature and the gun degrading was a neat idea just needed to be tweaked upon more I also liked that Africa setting more.

[KevVv2]

What dissapointed me most of all...
is they said it's comming with a drop-in-drop-out co-op campaign system.
Me and my friends were totally excited.
And dissapointed when we found out the questline is not possible in co-op play..

[Adrian]

The very essence of the game is not bad, but the technical issues make the game unplayable, but if you like the self-punishment, just go ahead and give it a chance to the game.

[Young Hot Buns]

I got it working ok and have been getting fun out of it. I never really played FC3, so I didn't get hung up on it. What would you like to be different?

[Claybot]

What would I like different
Well for starters they could have used a new enemy. The enemy in Far Cry 4 sounds just like the enemy in Far Cry 3, same stupid " I wish someone would just shoot me"
The crafting system is even worse than Far Cry 3, wish they would have looked at what the modders did to the Far Cry 3 crafting system. ie two different types of leaves with different skins to make one item. Makes it a lot harder.
Same difficulty leves as Far Cry 3, though they did issue a patch and made another level of difficutly in Far Cry 3 but that came out later.
Amita sure complains alot about being the first woman in the Golden Path too bad she doesn't mention all the other women you see in the game who actually fight the enemy.
The non stop shooting by the Golden Path after winning a fight is plain stupid and annoying.
You have a better chance in the game to be killed by a pack of wolves than anything else.
Getting the .700 after you no longer need it is kind of pointless. Once you have gotten your rhinos whats the point of having it.
The controls are a complete mess, switch from fire arrows to explosive was easy in Far Cry 3. Using different syringes was pretty simple as well.
Running seems to be more like a fast jog than an actual run.
Far Cry 3 ran nicely on my old system with out crashing. Kind of the oppisite of 4.

Oh and I've played Far Cry 1,2,3, Blood Dragon, crap version for the Wii and now 4 (aka overpriced FarCry 3 expansion pack)

[Lill-Rogge]

Originally posted by <Sons>Claybot:

What would I like different
Well for starters they could have used a new enemy. The enemy in Far Cry 4 sounds just like the enemy in Far Cry 3, same stupid " I wish someone would just shoot me"
The crafting system is even worse than Far Cry 3, wish they would have looked at what the modders did to the Far Cry 3 crafting system. ie two different types of leaves with different skins to make one item. Makes it a lot harder.
Same difficulty leves as Far Cry 3, though they did issue a patch and made another level of difficutly in Far Cry 3 but that came out later.
Amita sure complains alot about being the first woman in the Golden Path too bad she doesn't mention all the other women you see in the game who actually fight the enemy.
The non stop shooting by the Golden Path after winning a fight is plain stupid and annoying.
You have a better chance in the game to be killed by a pack of wolves than anything else.
Getting the .700 after you no longer need it is kind of pointless. Once you have gotten your rhinos whats the point of having it.
The controls are a complete mess, switch from fire arrows to explosive was easy in Far Cry 3. Using different syringes was pretty simple as well.
Running seems to be more like a fast jog than an actual run.
Far Cry 3 ran nicely on my old system with out crashing. Kind of the oppisite of 4.

Oh and I've played Far Cry 1,2,3, Blood Dragon, crap version for the Wii and now 4 (aka overpriced FarCry 3 expansion pack)

Damn good writing there! Couldn't have said it better myself!

[Cuddle Bunny!]

Yes the VGA winner for fps of the year is soooooooo bad. More like badass!

[Edgar Lindner]

If you take into consideration value for money this game is godawful. 60 Euros for copy and paste work by Ubisoft including UPlay.

It's dull and uninspired, same old same old but for some it never gets old somehow. So for you out there who are able to enjoy this masterpiece of marketing and occupational therapy. Good for you. Ubisoftt's best people clearly sit in these departments. Game design, mechanics, story? Not really their strong points.

[Aegis Kleais™]

Not fun at all. FC3 was best to date. The amount of bugs aside, Co-Op gets very repetitious very quickly. I find it somewhat comical to be on 1.4.0 (and have 1.5.0) coming and yet 0% of the bugs I've found since day 1 has been fixed. And what's even funnier is that the very same can be said for the last couple "AAA" titles they've released.

Ubi is about getting product to market in order to make money, not about making an actual good game. Heck, look at their Assassin's Creed series; churning out 1 a year. Yuck. Ubi needs to make games like Child of Light; 2D side-scrollers and the like. They really need to get out of the PC market; tired of getting hand-me-down. Their QA team should all get punched in the face for releasing a title like this to market, lol.

[FightinWelsh]

they even reused the same animations.. lol just reskinned FC3.. I really felt ripped off by buying this game... Won't be buying FC5

[Søn of Jøn]

Originally posted by Lill-Rogge:

Okey so this will hit FC fanboys right in the heart and I'm sure that hate will come right at me. BUT! Don't you see how overrated this game is?! I mean, come on! Sure it's fun to libirate outposts, take over belltowers and breach and take over "very hard" fortresses (which is really easy if you ask me) But doesn't it seem really familiar? Of course it do! Because you've done it before!! IN FARCRY 3!!
It's the SAME game?! Just another environment... Same guns, same type of people, same npc logic, same everything! Farcry 3 was better, it was al new then and had more epic scenes! I had a blast playing farcry3 but sadly, not in farcry4... It seemed just like easy money to them...

I don't know about you. But FC4 isn't that fun.

I could have sworn I've read this same post many times since Far Cry 4 was released.
Well maybe not this same post, but it's basically been recycled over and over again, probably even moreso than anything from FC 3 that was re-used in FC 4, and I definitely enjoyed the first post on the subject more than all the re-skinned facsimiles.

[techn♠]

Biggest problem on FAR CRY 4 is, that the game is not even starting :(