Why is the game so silly and childish?

[outcast]

I have loved the Far Cry series since the first game, and I still think Far Cry 5 is very good fun, especially the first 20 hours or so, even though it becomes more and more repetetive and mundane the more you play it, a problem that most Ubisoft games have and something that really should make them pull the breaks a bit more and have longer development times on their games instead of starting to pump them out like in a milking factory.

But there is one thing that really bothers me in Far Cry 5, and I don't know if it is my memory that fails me or not, or if I have just grown older, but where the previous Far Cry games ever this silly and childish? It feels like the whole game is much less serious in a way I don't remember the previous Far Cry games where, with bad childish jokes that feels like they where made for a group of 13 year olds. There is plenty of ♥♥♥♥ jokes and mission names like "Glory Hole" etc and one character is more silly than the next. Am I imagining things? Not sure if the development team actually have this stupid humour or if the target audiance have changed or if it has always been like this.

And that is not even speaking of the incredible waste of potential with the whole setting and story. There could have been so much potential to actually create an interesting enemy that made you question at times if you actually where on the right side or not, or did the right thing, or at least feel some sort of sympathy for the cult and what they where trying to do. It is all butchered though by just having the cult be complete cartoonishly insane and evil psychopaths in every way. It just feels insultingly stupid.

[Stevey]

Not everything has to be serious.

[Rabbit]

Far Cry games have always had a sense of humor (at least since 3). I'm just glad they don't make us play as the same kind of dudebro as FC3

[outcast]

Originally posted by Rabbit:

Far Cry games have always had a sense of humor. I'm just glad they don't make us play as the same kind of dudebro as FC3

The dudebro thing in FC3 also annoyed me at first, but it actually was part of the whole story ark and development of the character.

[Mythic]

As for the memes some of them are ok, for example the flat earth joke was decent. The story was good imo and it depends if you would call killing a persons best friends one by one as they ask you to stop killing them, it seems more dark if you look it at another viewpoint.

[Rabbit]

Originally posted by outcast:

Originally posted by Rabbit:

Far Cry games have always had a sense of humor. I'm just glad they don't make us play as the same kind of dudebro as FC3

The dudebro thing in FC3 also annoyed me at first, but it actually was part of the whole story ark of the character.

Kinda, except that didn't change. He just became a dudebro who kinda liked killing people more than he should.

[Mythic]

Originally posted by Rabbit:

Originally posted by outcast:

The dudebro thing in FC3 also annoyed me at first, but it actually was part of the whole story ark of the character.

Kinda, except that didn't change. He just became a dudebro who kinda liked killing people more than he should.

Hmm i think that fit the story more than anything because it showed just how much he was becoming more like Vass every mission.

[DivineLion]

played 3 and 4 and never thought of it that way. i thought 5 was a lot more serious

[Rabbit]

Originally posted by harmony:

Originally posted by Rabbit:

Kinda, except that didn't change. He just became a dudebro who kinda liked killing people more than he should.

Hmm i think that fit the story more than anything because it showed just how much he was becoming more like Vass every mission.

Yeah, but he started as one sort of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and turned into another sort of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I REALLY hated being him. FC4's Ajay was a little better at least.

[Mythic]

Originally posted by Rabbit:

Originally posted by harmony:

Hmm i think that fit the story more than anything because it showed just how much he was becoming more like Vass every mission.

Yeah, but he started as one sort of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and turned into another sort of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. I REALLY hated being him. FC4's Ajay was a little better at least.

Yeah, i dont really think it 100% fit the type of person Jason was.

[2112]

Originally posted by Stevey:

Not everything has to be serious.

Surely killing people has to be?.I dont recall it being marketed as a comedy FPS.

[M]

I didnt find "childish jokes" in FC5. it was merely some kind of bizzare humor, like a burning puma running fast as lightning in the bushes or a turkey that got a frontal hit with a shotgun load and feathers were flying. I laughed tears.

the other jokes are fine for me, at least the ones that the NPCs say. I think, FC5 is an adult game, aimed at a adult target audience. there are a lot of other games 18+ as an example for having children as target audience. FC5 is not like that, IMO.

[outcast]

Originally posted by Micha:

I didnt find "childish jokes" in FC5. it was merely some kind of bizzare humor, like a burning puma running fast as lightning in the bushes or a turkey that got a frontal hit with a shotgun load and feathers were flying. I laughed tears.

the other jokes are fine for me, at least the ones that the NPCs say. I think, FC5 is an adult game, aimed at a adult target audience. there are a lot of other games 18+ as an example for having children as target audience. FC5 is not like that, IMO.

I am talking mainly about NPC dialogue. If the target audiance is supposed to be adults then they are doing something wrong, if the target audiance is not also supposed to be retarded adults, in that case they might be on the right track. It is like they are trying to be edgy and cool, and just coming off as pathetic and childish.

[Syntax Error]

Eh, it didn't bother me and I think the sillier stuff was balanced by enough stuff played straight.
I do think the setting had something to do with it -- in fake S. Pacific or fake India they probably wanted more of a "These are people with a proud heritage" vibe and they could loosen up a bit more with the Montana setting and everyone is speaking to a local (the Hope County Deputy) rather than some outsider.

[Nalydyenlo]

C'mon. The only serious Far Cry game was FC2 - and perhaps FC Primal. You mustn't forget that the original Far Cry was some guy in a flowery shirt shooting GM monkies. It was never supposed to be a serious grown-up franchise. You must think the Just Cause series is ridiculous altogether!

[kaffekoppen]

I like it when it's just silly fun. I don't really care if it's labeled childish or not.