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Omoplata said:
Far Cry 5 for PlayStation 4 Reviews - Metacritic

I wouldn't call an 8.1average mediocre per se, but I was hoping more around a 9. Still it's Far Cry so I'm sure I'll play it at some point and love it. What was the one thing you were afraid of?
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I wouldn't call metacritic a review either. I'm talking what actual people had to say about the game.

This is the core truth of Far Cry, a series that still has a lot going for it, but remains in serious need of a revamp. It is a moribund apparatus of conquest that is unable to tell any story other than the rise to power of a well-armed outsider over a lushly imagined, exoticised realm, however urgently it might try.
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Far Cry 5's world is meticulously constructed, and it's a remarkable facsimile of Big Sky Country. Unfortunately, too much of the action in it is uninspired. It's a beautiful but bland recitation of what's come before, from both the series and Ubisoft's open-world playbook. It's never bad, but considering how great the past games have been, its overall predictability is disappointing.
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Far Cry 5 is a game that struggles in trying to serve two purposes. On one hand, there's a dark, horrific tale of a cult taking over a small town. On the other, it's a playground of destruction, letting players fly and drive around, blowing up things with a bear and a dog. Both sides are good, but they don't really meet in the middle.
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There are great individual moments in Far Cry 5. The gunplay is excellent, its unpredictable world generates daring stories of accidental heroism, and when it leans into the whole red-blooded American patriotism schtick, it's genuinely funny. It doesn't always fit together as well as it should, sometimes forcing the player to work around the game rather than with it – but the wildly vacillating tone is the bigger issue. It's at once disorienting and noncommittal. Paradoxically, this is an extreme satire of modern America that says pretty much nothing about it.
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Just a few quotes from a few sites that sum it up to me. This has been the deal with Farcry for a long time. It's a game, it's fun to play around in, but nothing spectacular pops out. They have a very good copy paste formula with this series that sells.
 
PP Mguire said:
I wouldn't call metacritic a review either. I'm talking what actual people had to say about the game.






Just a few quotes from a few sites that sum it up to me. This has been the deal with Farcry for a long time. It's a game, it's fun to play around in, but nothing spectacular pops out. They have a very good copy paste formula with this series that sells.
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Wasn't trying to be contadictory. Was more glass half empty/full thing. You said it was getting mediocre reviews specifically. Metacritic is an aggregate of reviews. Was merely pointing out that the aggregate average is 8.1 right now. I would say that is pretty damn good. I am a sucker for the Far Cry formula that so many games have. The story is almost always disjointed because the game almost gives you too much freedom.
 
Metacritic is an aggregate of numbers, not reviews. I don't go to a review to look at a meaningless number that somebody gives it, I go to read about their experience with the game. Actually, the number system for gaming makes absolutely no sense in terms of contextual opinions of content. The number 8 doesn't tell me the game is the same old copy pasta formula, doesn't tell me how the game runs on a group of systems, doesn't tell me how the person felt about the game whether it was fun or not, it only shows that a bunch of people rated the game an 8 plus or minus a few. It's useless.
 
krazyq said:
The first one wasn't really turn based and I don't think the 2nd one is.
If you like JRPGs, like I've told PP
GET PERSONA 5.
Now that game is turn based but probably the best turn based game ever made for the current gen. They did an amazing job with the gameplay.
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Boy that's weird! I swear it was turn-based, but I guess not...Either way, I've enjoyed being a spectator. Same with Persona. I watched some of my more anime leaning friends play 4, and they seemed to have a lot of fun with it. It looked alright to me.
 
krazyq said:
The first one wasn't really turn based and I don't think the 2nd one is.
If you like JRPGs, like I've told PP
GET PERSONA 5.
Now that game is turn based but probably the best turn based game ever made for the current gen. They did an amazing job with the gameplay.
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my favorite new(er) turn based game is definitely divinity: original sin 2.... me and my friend sank well over 100 hours to complete the campaign.. and it was by far one of the most epic experiences i've had with an rpg

we dove into that game without any knowledge of how to play.. and told ourselves we wouldnt go online to figure it out either. need to give that one another play
 
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