Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots)
cobysev@lemmy.world 1 day agoSimilarly, Far Cry 5. At the beginning, when you’re told to arrest Joseph Seed, you can choose to just turn around and walk out the door. The sheriff will agree with you, saying it’s best to just leave him and his cult alone and it would’ve only ended in your deaths if you tried to arrest him. Then the game ends.
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 21 hours ago
Didn’t Far Cry 5 end with a nuclear explosion? Yeah leaving him be is probably the better option
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 hours ago
Yes, but the bombs would have dropped regardless. So still the same end result.
Supposedly, the game was supposed to have a lot more atmospheric storytelling. Radios playing in the background, with news reports about rising tensions between the US and some nuclear state. Newspapers left laying around with headlines of nuclear war brewing. TVs playing with reporters talking about some country (Iran or North Korea, maybe?) developing nukes.
These were supposed to be scattered all over the place in ways that the player would obviously cross paths with them. The cult was less “doomsday prepping for no reason” and more “doomsday prepping because they think it’s soon”.
But Ubisoft being Ubisoft, they cut a lot of content because they wanted to launch the game sooner.
cobysev@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I don’t think the nuclear explosion was related to Joseph Seed. He was just a “prophet,” claiming the end times were here. The nukes were going to happen regardless, he was just trying to save as many people as he could, whether they wanted to be saved or not. He was the villain, but only in an “ends justify the means” sense. In the end, he was actually right; the world did fall to nuclear holocaust.
EddoWagt@feddit.nl 16 hours ago
I suppose I’m misremembering, it’s been like 5 years since I played it. Maybe I’ll play it again some day, I remember quite liking the game
cobysev@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s my favorite of the Far Cry games. I love the setting and gameplay! I actually wrote a review on it recently and posted it here to Lemmy.