Ubisoft has just revealed the first promo artwork for Far Cry 5. This artwork shows the game’s main antagonist, confirms that the game will take place in modern times, and that it is set in Montana.
Moreover, this artwork also confirms the religious cult theme that was rumoured a while ago.
Ubisoft will officially reveal Far Cry 5 tomorrow, so stay tuned for more!
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Seriously? Ubisoft made a game out of some SJW’s worst nightmare?
They’re French game developers, they’re SJWs themselves.
That’s his point I think, they’re SJW and make a game about the place where SJWs aren’t welcome.
They satirize American Christian nutters while their own country has been dealing with religious strife… and not from Christians.
Ironically, the Christian nutters are far less prevalent than the 3rd world Muslims causing daily mayhem in their country.
Exactly, but the Christians… apparently they’re the problem. lol But people who subscribe to another ideology can blow people up by the dozens or mow them down with vehicles on a weekly basis and the response is cold silence. lol
“First World Problems.”
Like legal documents still requiring you to put down one of two genders, instead of letting you write “I’m a Roflcopter.”
Insert tyrone, i identify as an attack helicopter video here.
Man you wouldnt believe what i read, christians in middle east are terrorized and pushed out, the muslims demand money so they dont kill them and their entire families.
Go to Youtube and look up Brigitte Gabriel on The Rubin Report. She was a Christian in Lebanon when Muslims started invading. She had to live in a bomb shelter during her preteen-adolescent years, and goes into great detail about how much suffering her and her family went through because of Islamic law overtaking her country. I’d link it, but I try not to link political videos on gaming sites.
Yup there was this refugee in Greece or Italy and he said that he is glad that he made it out of Afghanistan because he couldnt even wear his cross at the public.
Christians committed tons of ethics crimes and terrorist acts in Lebanon during the civil war but I guess the lady you mentioned forgot that.
Why are you blaming the victims of jihad rather than the jihadists themselves (and their supporters)?
And? The Ottomans defiled the Balkans, the Crusaders defiled The Levant area time & time again, bla bla bla, bla bla bla, bla bla bla.
That sort of nonsense has been going on for 1400 years.
I expect the game to be more preachy than satirical.
Oh, definitely. The game COULD be good, but I haven’t bought an Ubi game since Blood Dragon and won’t give them a dime moving forward regardless.
Their CEO said all PC gamers are pirates that don’t pay for anything so I’m going to continue to prove his words true by not giving his company any money.
The Christians still not give a damn about this game politics.
But in muslim’s world this will be outrageous,if will be ever happend to be made the same.
But not a chance,SJW and the marxism will not allowed this.
This game,as most of Ubifail games,its a ‘milky way’ production.
Do you mean “nutters” as in cultists, or are you referring to all Christians?
The super super deluded ones like Westboro Baptist, not the casual normies.
I don’t see how Westboro can be called “Christian.”
French-Canadians, but yeah.
Double the cuckoldry then.
I’m French-Canadian and i still luhhh uuuuu zatttt 🙁
What’s wrong with dat shyte.
Nothing, I just like being specific 😛
Lol’d.
Wront timing Ubisoft. This kind of BS is so… 2016… 🙂
Far Cry titles are big money makers so you’re wrong.
I’m quite positive this will have an impact on sales… and since communists pirate games instead of buying them 🙂
Far Cry 3 sold 10 mil. Far Cry 4 sold a ton as well.
Forecast shows sunny days ahead.
Whereas Far Cry: Primal sold….. Oh, that’s right.
Forecast shows underselling in the months ahead, once again.
Strangely enough, the kind of “communists” who are also first world hipsters are bizarrely pro-corporate and I doubt they pirate anything. They completely divorce the class conflict model from economic class and only apply it to immutable identity markers (gender, ethnicity and sexuality), so instead of having the owners of the means of production (bourgeois) against the workers (proletariat), they have the “privileged” (white straight men) against the “oppressed” (women and minorities). Hell, these supposed communists are very hostile towards proletarians, they consider the working class as ignorant, unwashed masses that need to be “guided” (i.e. controlled) by the elites.
these supposed communists are very hostile towards proletarians, they consider the working class as ignorant, unwashed masses that need to be “guided” (i.e. controlled) by the elites.
That’s what Communism and other -isms are: a means to get a populace to embrace its chains.They say it’s “for the people,” but the only people they’re thinking of are themselves.
Look at Joseph Stalin. Kim Jong-un. Bernie Sanders.
Wait until you see the hilarious memes they’ll work into the game.
Cult leader:
-We must build a wall around our compound and make outsiders pay for it.
Hipster protag:
-I’m here to teach you about your heteopatriachal white privilege and eat quinoa, and I’m all outta quinoa.
Cult leader:
-You have to go back.
well to be fair outlast 2 had similar enemies.
Indeed. Maybe the fact they did not picture an American flag in the background helped the game step out of the wave of propaganda.
but the rednecks cant shut up about how great it is they are MURICAN!!
Heck, so did Resident Evil 7. Rednecks are the new zombies.
The next COD game is going to come out and have a Rednecks mode. Mark my words 😀
Don’t worry, you’ll play as a gay black woman trying to rescue her interracial girlfriend from the evil white christian cult by convincing the women to rebel against the patriarchy.
Can you state what stings in the eyes of SJW’s about that picture please? I wanna learn more! Thanks!
I googled SJW on image search, this is what I was shown:
https://i1.wp.com/www.ambrosekane.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Glasses-3.jpg
What the fck is this?
So.. the middle man is copy repasta of vaas.. pagan min… comstock.. lol
I would say this is super lame, but if they litteraly brought back the same actor and the same villain under a new character with a new name, but it was exactly the same, that would be kind of fun (funny?). It wouldn’t have to make sense.
Looks good.
Far Cry: Hipster Edition
It’ll be an entire game about how terrible American Christians are.
Ironically enough, they can’t be that bad if you can make a game satirizing them and not worry about an entire region of the planet exploding like expired Lemmings the way it’d go down if they satirized ANOTHER religion. You know the one.
Ill repeat myself, eastern orthodox chrisians are laughing at this. But hey rednecks are stupid, especially MURICAN rednecks… so it will be fun shooting them.
Seriously?
far cry SJW edition
F**k this $hit i’m out
looks like the stereotypical red neck bs religious cult.
Which is funny seeing how the craziest right wing religious cult in the States, the Westboro Baptist Church, mostly sticks to cringy protests and no violence. The KKK is practically dead at this point.
And the WBC has like 50 members, most of which are just extended family.
F*cking acronyms. I read WBC, I’m thinking World Boxing Council. Then I start wondering what the f*ck the WBC has to do with this.
If only there was a violent religious cult mass killing/raping people that could play the bad guys…
Yep. If there were some crazy goatf*ckers or something..
THATS RACIST!!!!!
what bullshit, a western game would’ve been better, now this is just stupid
Far Cry: NeoGAF edition
If this will be just a reskin of FarCry 4, then they can go f’ck themselves
Hey look at the bright side Far cry 4 had better gameplay mechanics and variety in sidequests than 3 and primal.
But yeah they better not recycle the same weapons, i got tired of using them.
Hmm, what you think the towers will be? Windmills?
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dddf926ad3a3d125d75c96fcec6a7b0317a5c717a0f5e2433a0a61cf5303c89d.jpg
Epic.
How the f*** am I expected to climb that ??!
Calling it: you start as part of the cult and realize the error of your ways and turn on them, or you join as an undercover agent.
If I’m wrong, you get a free copy of Uriel’s Chasm, if I’m right I get a bunch of Oreos. Deal?
Far Cry: Peacher edition
this is the most reskin, reskinned edition i have ever seen, it is litteraly far cry 4 redneck mod.
“Did I ever tell you the definition of Hipster?”
People are all pissed etc… I’ll wait until i see the actual game and what it is about before making a jugement. I skipped Primal and i could see myself enjoying this one. But we’ll see.
I suspect they’re baiting controversy tbh.
The stereotyping doesn’t look unintentional.
How you skipped primal, you dont even know what is is about….
LOL
Anyway let me tell you what this game is about, climbing towers and capturing shacks and huts. Dont expect much from story.
I had read stuff that said that primal’s map was a copy/paste from FC4. Didn’t even bother to play since i do not want to endorse that.
Dear Ubi I smell shitness from miles away
I’m so confused. What does SJWs have to do with this cover?
So we’ve been killing brown faced jihadists in video games for 10-15 years now (I could care less, just a fact). Ubisoft teases a white religious authoritarian American cult and a good amount of comments are… lets just say ridiculous SJW blame. Classy.. and well thought out, I’m sure… This seems like a interesting take on the series, especially with the popularity of The Handmaidens Tale and The Path television shows. Am I allowed to say F ISIS and F Authoritarian Cults at the same time?
Can’t say I’ve seen much of that when I stop to think about it, but then again I don’t play many CoD style military shooters these days. The most morally fashionable guys to shoot at have always been Nazis and Russians IMO. I remember CoD4 had a second mission in the middle east, but I don’t remember if enemy troops were Jihadists, other than that I’m actually struggling to think about another game, Spec Ops The Line starts with you shooting people in turbans and such but it was a deliberate subversion since then you spend most of the game fighting American troops.
Medal of Honour reboot. They even had that whole controversy because they called the opposition “Taliban” & people got offended.
Other than that, yeah, I don’t remember who we were fighting in Call of Duty 4, either. Weird.
I’m gonna miss the island feel
“So we’ve been killing brown faced jihadists in video games for 10-15 years now”
Can you name 5 games? Im not saying youre wrong, but i thought brown faced jihadists are of limit.
When you run out of ideas (there’s even a radio tower) resort to caricature controversy.
The most notorious and successful right wing nutjob state side was Timothy McVeigh, he didn’t look like them and he had been signed to guard General Norman Schwarzkopf in the military, too close to home me thinks
We know next to nothing about the game and yet people already complain about it. Wait for the game to be out, wait for the reviews to be out and than you may call bull. Until then, don’t get your panties in a bunch, hold your horses and keep your shirt on, people.
Always someone with the good old “wait to call it sh*t” argument, like 9/10 times it’s not sh*t in the end, right?
So why not play it safe, then? Expect it to be sh*t, & then find yourself pleasantly surprised when it’s not. Or, even better; call it sh*t, & blow your ego up a few sizes once you’re proven right for the umpteenth time, since these motherf*ckers just never learn.
P.S. F*ck the reviews.
Or, withhold any and all assumptions, and judge each game on a case by case basis. Ubisoft has shown, so very rarely that they can defy expectations. AC Unity was shi* yet AC Syndicate was actually pretty fun.
Subjective. Many (not to say most) people still consider AC to have gone permanently downhill after Ezio, for example, with Syndicate being no exception to that. Hell, I think most people still think Black Flag was better than Syndicate, really.
I’d have gone with Siege, personally, but the problem with Siege is, U-BE-SOFT wasn’t looking at it like one of their major franchises, as they are with Far Cry, & we know how terrible they are at managing those. We don’t even know if they’ve turned AC around just yet, we just know they’ve finally gotten their heads out of their *sses long enough to figure out the Ancient Egypt setting is something people actually want.
Whether or not the game itself (in regards to both the actual story & the gameplay) will actually be good, is another thing entirely & the same applies here. Maybe we’ll get some good gameplay with Far Cry 5 (doubt it), but until we hear U-BE-SOFT themselves actually saying “we’re abandoning the moronic light-up-that-tower!” gameplay model, I’m going with “f*ck this sh*t” for plenty of reasons.
As for the story; yeah, I’m not even bothering.
You’re exactly right. This is subjective, which is why we cant go around saying “AHA I knew this game was gonna be sh** even before it launched and now I’m proven right!” because as we both just proved, you thought syndicate was worse than black flag whereas I thought it was a lot better than black flag .
All of this is ignoring the fact that it accomplishes absolutely nothing to say a game will be sh** before it even launches.
Just wait and see, not so hard right?
No. There’s no point in calling something that appears to be sh*t anything another than what it appears to be; sh*t. There’s already far too much hype going around every time an AAA launches, that there’s no point in not at least trying to ground expectations.
As long as publishers like U-BE-SOFT continue to overhype, oversell & outright lie about their products, I’m going to call them as I see them, until proven otherwise.
I think you misunderstood. I didn’t mean to say we shouldn’t call what we feel to be sh*t anything else. What I mean is we shouldn’t say something is going to be sh*t because the bullshots they gave us looked lame etc.
Why not. If they market it badly, it’s their own problem for having a moronic marketing department. Some idiot thought they should market Star Trek Beyond as “Star Trek: The Fast & The Furious” so it looked terrible for months, until it turns out it wasn’t, actually. On the other hand, BvS looked terrible from the very first promo, & it continued to be terrible even through the Extended Cut, so…… yeah.
Sure, movies, not games, but it’s the same basic principle; even more so in video games really, wherein false marketing is all the rage. Remember the Alien: Colonial Marines marketing bullsh*t we were getting, compared to the final product? Now that was just visual bullsh*t, compared to movies losing entire trailer segments during editing or whatnot, but even so, how many times have features just quietly disappeared, or been quietly reworked before launch into more sh*t versions?
And so on & so forth. I call them as they’re presented. If they’re presented poorly, that’s not my problem. Besides, modern marketing is a sick joke, so we might as well treat it like one.
I think you misunderstood again lol. I agree that if the marketing is bad you can call the marketing sh*t. But to say the final game will be bad because the marketing is bad isn’t right.
You yourself stated that star trek beyond looked like it was gonna be terrible but in reality, it wasn’t, all on account of poor marketing. I think we can agree that marketing in this day and age has no relevance at all to the outcome of the final product.
Problem being, marketing & an IP/publisher history is all we have to go on in regards to judging the final product, especially with sequels. Year after year U-BE-SOFT has steadfastly, ardently refused to change up its ridiculous gameplay model, & they’ve yet to put out a single indication of this being the case here, either, so why should we not expect this to be Far Cry v3.4.5?
For example; until such point in time as U-BE-SOFT specifically indicates they’re abandoning their ridiculous tower model, why shouldn’t we expect Far Cry 5 to feature the same ridiculous tower model people have been railing on for how-many-years-are-we-at-now?
At least with Star Trek Beyond they indicated that they acknowledged they’d f*cked up with Into Darkness, & they were looking to make that right, in this case all we have is them dropping AC for two years, & now maybe doing the Egypt setting we’ve been telling them to do for (again) how-many-years-is-it-now. In which case, great, but how about detailing the gameplay, instead of acting like they’re marketing an interactive movie to us?
The marketing is supposed to represent the game. It’s supposed to sell us on the game, but the marketing is sh*t, so the game looks like sh*t. Sure, the marketing is one thing, the product is the other, but when the marketing comes off as making the product look like sh*t, then why shouldn’t we expect the product to be sh*t, especially when there’s no indications otherwise?
Yes, they’re assumptions, but they’re the safest assumption to make in this day & age, wherein AAAs are routinely proven to be sh*t in 9/10 cases. Hell, an actually good game is seriously the 1-in-10 exception, it’s ridiculous. Before PREY, the last time I can recall people tagging a game wrong because of its marketing was DOOM, & that was just because id Software was too stupid to showcase m/k campaign gameplay, instead of campaign & multiplayer controller gameplay.
Redneck country…
And they’re in Christmas shading, too!
How lovely! ;D
Edgy set dressing and nothing more. The game will graze over the subject matter shallowly at best, and more likley end up pulling in 10 different directions with no sense of consistency or cohesion, let alone ever successfully articulate any of its confused points.
Source: Ubisoft are making it. It’s what happens when you have hundreds of cooks and no unifying creative vision/ary to act as a linchpin.
wow, the badguys are white middle-americans and everyone here is triggered.
love the persecution complex
edit: the only unrealistic thing about this setting is how active these guys are, most american racist/bigot/… idiots are usually to lazy to get out of their comfy-chairs
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“Because you guys are getting offended that you think people are offended.”
What?
I’m amazed that you manage to be simultaneously bored and in stitches from laughing.
Well, it was a jab at the fact that you’re most likely not laughing or bored, as the comment was an obvious expression of smug contempt.
For God’s sake… There’s no pleasing anyone in this day and age haha! XD Either way I’m looking forward to the trailer reveal. My brother pointed out some interesting facts about the history behind the location it’s set in, which is quite fitting for the Far Cry franchise. I kinda hope it gives off some vibes from movies like No Country for Old Men. That movie was really twisted and messed up. It was also based in some remote town or village from what I can recall.
To be honest I’m not quite sure why people are getting mad or upset by this and calling it a SJW game. Almost every modern military themed shooter or shooters in general ALWAYS has you hunting down black, brown, asian or russian people and always depicts them as ruthless and barbaric savages. It’s kinda refreshing to see the ugly side of America for once. Even if they do kinda push it over the top like other shooters.
“I kinda hope it gives off some vibes from movies like No Country for Old Men.”
Seriously? It’s U-BE-SOFT. We’ll be lucky if they can stop themselves quoting John Wayne.
Y’know, not every person working at Ubisoft share the same mindsets. It’s a corporation so you know there’s gonna employers who simply can’t get along because of their differences. The point is I’m sure they are getting some form of inspiration from classic hits of the past and present. But Far Cry’s biggest inspiration seems to come from travelling and doing extensive research about those locations they set their games on. Just because they may have some shady people working there doesn’t mean they’re being prevented from taking inspiration from old materials lol.
So if that’s called being a SJW then I wonder who do you call those people who like to depict arabs in the same fashion in most games that have been coming out? The game is obviously going to be focusing on a specific rural part of America… not America as a whole. So let’s not pretend these kinds of people don’t exist and give them a free pass.
These days communities everywhere are too quick and easy to jump the gun.
As I mentioned in another comment, when you actually stop to think about it, that’s not really as common as you’d expect, at least I’m having trouble thinking of examples of games doing that and the only reply I got mentioned the Medal of Honor reboot, which I haven’t played but I do vaguely remember some controversy about the enemy faction being the Taliban.
Sure, enemies in modern military themed games have always been varied. The CoD Modern Warfare franchise had enemies from pretty much all sides of the war, but they do heavily focus on the Arabs, Russians or Ukrainians side of things. You say you don’t see a whole lot of games that stereotypically portray middle easterns as your every day typical threat to the world… I’ve yet to see any game that has portrayed them in a good light if anything.
When the day comes where we get to play a story driven game seen through the eyes of those those specific people then that would be for the better. People will at least learn a thing or two and the prejudice will die down a bit in the gaming community.
Your comment is still a bit troubled like the rest on here. Cunningly some individual on a different site had this to say:
“Far Cry 2- Black Enemies
Far Cry 3- Native Enemies
Far Cry 4- Brown Enemies
Far Cry 5- White Enemies- “Ubisoft you’ve employed too many white hating racists and overly feminist assh*les”.
See anything wrong with that logic?”
All this without any idea of what the game will be like. Just wait for the trailer. Chill. Have some snickers… It’s just as ridiculous as seeing some people hoping that Assassin’s Creed Origins doesn’t feature a predominantly black population. A game that’s set in ancient Africa. Go figure.
I guess now we’re adding Russians and Ukrainians too, I thought military shooters were all about shooting brown stereotypes from middle eastern countries, but I can understand why you’re having trouble coming up with examples, because after a day the only game I can think of is Postal 2, though that game is filled with all kinds of stereotypes.
Far Cry 2 had varied enemies, no hostile stereotypes, and the main bad guy, the Jackal, was white. There might have been a twist, since I didn’t play it all the way to the end, but he was your target at least.
Far Cry 3 had varied enemies, no hostile stereotypes, and the main bad guy Hoyt Volker, was white. The most despicable bad guy Buck Hughes, was also white.
Far Cry 4 had varied enemies, with a higher proportion of Asians due to the setting, no hostile stereotypes. The main bad guy, wasn’t that much of a bad guy, but he was Asian too.
Far Cry 5, the cover art is happy merchant levels of hostile stereotyping, but not for laughs as far as I can tell, and Ubisoft has a history with being very SJW, so yeah, it’s perfectly reasonable to expect contemptuous grandstanding against strawmen of “Trump’s America” and the like. The reaction is especially understandable after the unprecedented smear campaign we saw in the media during 2016 and still ongoing, people have gotten very used to being attacked using these stereotypes.
Finally, you’re being disingenuous, even a cursory look at twitter, NeoGAF and the usual suspects reveals that SJWs are seeing very much the same thing we’re seeing, except they’re displaying absolute glee at the prospect of mowing down “Trump supporters”, as they’re calling these characters.
Again. All this before the reveal trailer. Who cares what a picture shows? The last few Far Cry games were still set in foreign soil so quite a lot of the enemies you killed were usually never white. Vaas was still the primary vocus of the whole thing for 3, just look at the marketing. The enemies you often kill in that game were certainly not white, the whole island was roamed by pirates who reside there. Pagan Min was the primary villian of 4 and whole thing was set in the Himalayas, hence why the locals were your main enemies.
How do we not know if some of the main enemies in this new one aren’t a white? I honestly don’t care if there’s an individual who works at Ubisoft who spreads negativity, the fact of the matter is as long as the message conveys a none stereotypical approach to the whole thing and shows a somewhat realistic side of religious cults in America then I don’t see the big deal. When you have a huge company that works on something you’re bound to have that one dude or chick who would say some irrational things.
I’m sure if they made a game about a religious cult in Africa and all your enemies are black xenophobes you wouldn’t be making it as much of a big deal as you are with this game. It’s only because this game is hitting home for some. Trust me if this game came out perhaps 5 or 6 years ago people wouldn’t be making it a fuss. Donald Trump has really been causing more harm than good for the world lately and I was giving him a chance. In fact I was really enthusiastic about the dude, thinking he would make a great change -_-
I agree, 5 or 6 years ago there was no smear campaign and thus people were not polarized to this degree, but blaming that on Trump or his supporters is the equivalent of saying “stop hitting yourself”. This volatile environment is entirely thanks to journos and news media.
Mhm. All of which could have been easily avoided if Trump and Hillary didn’t campaign at all. They influenced the whole tention and took it to greater heights whether you like to agree with it or not. All the racist people and those who cannot tolerate others that have a different set of beliefs have always been around but because of the political climate it’s all of a sudden okay to express these feelings.
I truly think the new Far Cry hate is completely race driven and has little to do with the “SJW agenda” driven behind it. It’s likely a big excuse to mask their true reasons as to why they can’t dig this. And if the main lead turns out to be black it’s going to be hilarious. I say this because the previous Far Cry games (besides 4 and perhaps Primal) has pretty much stuck with the same tropes that has been a thing in Hollywood since it’s inception: it has always been about a white man going into foreign countries and ends up becoming their one true saviour. If everyone can tolerate that then for once it’d be interesting to turn the tables. If that doesn’t please people then oh well. There’s always RDR2 which will fufil your typical needs.
There’s been a huge increase of Islamophobia, racism and sexism in the western worlds that it’s extremely toxic. Perhaps a reminder to show that the western world isn’t perfect either would be great idea? Regardless it’s something different and interesting. I usually love it when games try to tap into new territories. People should be feeling the same way too. Anyways we’ll get a small idea of the tone they’re trying to go for when the trailer appears later.
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Lol judging from these responses people don’t wish to deal with logic. Rather they divert their attention to your grammar or something completely irrelevant, instead of the actual decent points you’ve made. Simply put most gamers are ignorant and have their pride shoved way up their a**, resulting in being blinded and deluded:
– A game makes a villian and henchmen with slight arabian sounding names: “Can’t wait to kill all their a*ses!”
– Make a villian and henchmen who are all white, possibly extremely racist, Christians: “Ohh sh*t I can’t process that… that’s clearly some SJW sh*t!”
I’m starting to believe most DSOGaming readers are possibly closet racists. And before anyone tries to tackle me by quoting that line, being racist and ignorant go hand in hand. Just remember that.
That being said it’ll be interesting to see how much actual research has actually gone into this game to truly depict how a small portion of America is still like today. Y’know, without overdoing it.
Islam is a belief system, not a “race.”
Do you really think I don’t know that? Islam embraces people of all races, hence why there’s no such thing as a “black Mosques” or a “white Mosques” like how there’s white and black Churches in America.
My point should of been clear enough. The game is based on a specific part of the southern states where racism (people who dislike someone because of the colour of their skin) is still a big deal. DSOGaming readers are clearly ignoring that and try to cover it up. Yet they make a big deal out of a single dude who works at Bioware that happens to hates white people.
Why is it not okay to make a game that goes against the white cultists who endorse things like the KKK and neo-nazis but it’s pretty okay and normal to make your typical everyday game about a white saviour roaming exotic lands killing a bunch of black and brown dudes along the way? Lol just doesn’t add up to me.
Don’t get me wrong though I thoroughly enjoyed games like Far Cry 3 and had zero problems about the whole race thing, but I just wish people don’t look too deeply into something whenever they try to touch upon some important topics. Try to see it from all perpectives.
Islam embraces people of all races
Games in which the enemy are jihadists has nothing to do with their skin color but everything to do with their ideology, which is why I made the comment in the first place. And unless “embrace” is a euphemism for “demands the submission of,” you need a new perspective.
(And Montana is not “southern.”)
What? I was talking about the cult in the artwork for Far Cry 5 when I said racist. There’s people out there who can be a religious extremist and a racist at the same time. I’m not sure why you’re complicating things.
Well yeah religion is about that. It’s about avoiding certain temptations which harms the soul and ultimately determines where you go next in the afterlife. Submitting for religious purposes isn’t some kind of sick fetish or a form of brainwashing. Everyone has free will to worship or not. It’s all about your personal belief by the end of the day. Some feel like there’s a purpose beyond just helping others and living a decent life. Nothing wrong with that.
Well I had the impression that it was one of those southern states but it appears that you’re correct, far from the south lol. Regardless I’m sure there are some states that’s largely populated with a certain kind of mindset which I’m sure most would agree is pretty backwards and toxic.
religion is about that […] most would agree is pretty backwards and toxic.
You’re still not talking about Islam, and argumentum ad populum has nothing necessarily to do with truth.
FC3 re-skined in different locaiton. any Ubi games ever, they just change locations and not going to change their awful design.
The anti PC community is becoming cancer
So, you’re a fan of political correctness?
nope, I hate political correctness but I also hate anti SJW extremists
normal people who want normal games
like it was before
no political correctness, no feminists whining about nudity or “not enough female protagonists”
no minorities thinking there should be more people of color in the game
and games that focused on QUALITY CONTENT
not diversity reports, open your eyes fool!
SJW are just a tool to give a $hitty game a pass when it comes to reviews, same BS exists with movies
Cousins beware – I’m coming
I’m glad you agree, but Muslims? I mean, if we go over the summary and plot of each Far Cry game to date.
In Far Cry 1, you play a white guy who kills a white guy who runs a secret island where people work on Mutant Super Soldiers.
In Far Cry 2, you play a white guy who kills a white guy who sells weapons to africans in a civil war
In Far Cry 3, you play a white guy who kills, at most an african guy and a cuban who don’t really have anything close to religious beliefs, they’re pirates lol.
In Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon you play as an 80’s Cybersoldier commando who fights laser dinosaurs, android soldiers and an evil android evil man.
In Far Cry 4 you play an Asian guy, who might be muslim in a country with possible muslims, and you kill an eastern asian gay man (Or maybe he’s metrosexual, who am I to judge) who just wants to do…Evil stuff.
In Far Cry Primal (I haven’t played this one) people can’t really be muslim because well…They’re cavemen. And you kill a warring tribe with no identifiable race or religion of modern comparison.
– Until U-BE-SOFT proudly declares they’ve abandoned their moronic copy/paste tower system, I’m assuming (& I believe everyone else is as well), that it’ll continue to have the same moronic tower system.
– It’s obvious what the story is going to be. It’ll either be a Social Justice sh*tfest, or it’ll be a mediocre satire, akin to Watch_Dogs 2. This is U-BE-SOFT we’re talking about, obvious is obvious.
– So? SJWs don’t have the copyright on getting offended.
– “So basically, if people are angry because SJW’s are angry,” “People are offended, because they think people are offended.”
I still don’t understand how you reached this absurd conclusion, now for the second time.
EDIT: Turns out it’s not a white supremacy game, it’s a religious zealots game. Yay, how exciting…… not.
I think you’re confusing offended with “seriously U-BE-SOFT, this is the best you could think of? Generic redneck white people?” Which is more than anything basic annoyance &/or irritation at the simple lack of originality contained within this f*cking joke of a game.
Sure, some are calling out as SJW bait, which it could very well be, but irregardless of that, it doesn’t change its completely unoriginal nature, especially after Far Cry 4 which just copy/pasted Far Cry 3 into the mountains, & Primal which just copy/pasted Far Cry 4’s environments into the cave man era.
It’s not about the white protagonist, antagonist, or whatever, it’s about the redneck setting. The stereotypical southern racist bore & the 1000 cliche’s this setting is going to be riddled with, including but not limited to him probably thinking “Hunting C**ns” should be the national sport (see one of the teaser trailers) making this setup boring as f*ck, irregardless of the SJW angle.
Sure, maybe U-BE-SOFT really did do it for them, though perhaps not, as after all, who can ever tell with the level of idiocy this company routinely manages to achieve. Angry & upset, sure. Offended? I think the only people who can get offended by this are the rednecks themselves, really. Outside of that, I’d say it’s just vaguely offensive to whites in general, more like an irritation than an outright offence, but it it is annoying to see these ridiculous stereotypes being breathed more life into, especially during these times.
“Then yes. People are offended, because other people are offended. It’s a really simple line of reasoning to understand.”
Seems a little thin logic, really. SJWs get offended, sure, but most people think SJWs are just Antifa-style extremists more than actual people with logical views that are even worth getting offended at. Sure, they say some offensive sh*t, but it’s worth remembering, the media are the only major players making them look important.
There’s a difference between being offended & being annoyed at something, apparently your dictionary doesn’t explain that.
“But they’re still offended because of their claims other people are offended.”
Again with this, though once again I fail to see how you’re achieving this absurd conclusion.
“I mean, is it really so thin when the vast majority of comments are about how this game exists because of SJW’s?”
In today’s climate? There’s about a 1% chance this game doesn’t exist to bank on the currently heated political climate. Regardless, your conclusion that “people are offended because people are offended” make no sense, regardless.
SHUT IT DOWN
You don’t feel contempt, but you think that the reactions to the cover don’t deserve any consideration and are made by people with terrible logic who are like South Park caricatures. That’s a strange position to take, it would have been more reasonable to argue that your contempt is justified, but whatever suits your fancy.
I don’t think you have to worry about being the voice of reason.
When more details about the game are revealed, those details will be discussed. Right now we have the key art, so people react to the key art.
There were already arguments and counter-arguments in the comments thread before you posted, but I’ll summarize the three main points in case you don’t want to go scrolling for them:
-The image is hitting too many notes at once in a way that feels deliberate (redneck stereotypes, nationalism, Christianity, militias, iron crosses, etc.)
-Ubisoft has a history of being very SJW, up to and including a creative director getting caught trying to dox an anti-SJW woman on twitter.
-People on the other side, such as NeoGAF, Anita Sarkeesian, Bob Chipman and other SJW personalities are seeing the same insinuations in the key art, with the difference being that they’re celebrating it and salivating at the idea of killing what they perceived as “white nationalists” and “Trump supporters”, so this is not just one side being paranoid.
This is why I understand and sympathize with the reactions, as long as they remain reactions and don’t turn into attempts to get the game censored, which I think is unlikely.
I’m articulating the sentiments as I understand them from what I’ve seen around the net, after having followed and participated in people’s clashes with SJW types for several years. I don’t add myself to the list simply because I’m not from the US (I’m Uruguayan).
This is not about “mattering”, whatever you mean by that. There are no calls to action, it’s only about whether these sentiments are reasonable, which I think they are.
They look like a cult, not what is commonly understood as fundamentalist Christians.
And what do you have against dispatching jihadists?
They look like cultists, not fundamentalist Christians.
Regardless, there’s only one people on Earth detonating their shoes, underwear, intestines, breasts, and cookware in order to maim and murder those whom they consider “unbelievers.”
haven’t seen a single game where you killed muslims since modern-warfare 2 and that was a decade ago
nowadays they’re all to Puss*fied to make anything of the sort
(esp that air-port scene, no way in hell this would sell without raising a controversy)
Jesus christ. I have never heard such bullcrap in my whole life. You lot sure love to blame SJWs for everything eh
What do you mean “you lot”?
Ah right my mistake.
And yeah, I agree. Their complaints are just stupid. It is a genuinely nice change of pace. Hardly the first piece of media to even depict crazy religious americans, and those didn’t get the complaints this did.
People just obviously dislike Far Cry as a brand, or Ubisoft. And they’re scrounging around for every little nit pick and pathetic complaint they can to make themselves feel justified in their bullshit ignorant, biased, prejudiced opionions.
hidden messages and propaganda is not new in the world of gaming
you either stand with the SJW or stand against them
because they don’t give a F**k about gaming, it’s all about control
if all developers were PC, that means more females and black guys/muslims get the same job as a white man with his “white privledge” even though they lack experince (see dragon age inquisition and mass effect andromeda for examples)
the reason companies cooperate with the SJW’s because the SJW’s have a lot of power in the media
reviews and marketing, it’s like corruption but is rooted in ignorance
and don’t give me that BS that it talent and skill has nothing to do with gender or race because when i go to the organic supermarket
there are like 90% female cashiers and one male cashier which works thrice as fast, and why is there a male worker there you ask?
well he’s gay, so they give him the job which is normally reserved for women and while the men do the stocking and heavy lifting
and this is why political correctness is rooted in ignorance, the privileged minorities are crying for more privileges and special attention
this is why i can’t f**king stand pandering to SJW’s, they are the worst leeches of society who contribute F**k all to it not to mention they’re walking contraindications (feminists are sexists, LGBT is hetro-phobic, and Islamists are outright intolerant)
seems i can’t get the message through your thick, liberal skull
eh, why i’m i bothering with SJW’s anyway?