I've never made it a secret among my peers that Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is my favorite game in the series. Free from the restrains of accumulating inane amounts of the expected "Ubisoft bloat," Blood Dragon is a far more concise package still filled with the usual collect-a-thon open-world nonsense, but scaled down to a far more palatable size. With a smaller scale and a more juvenile, 80s nostalgia attitude (when that wasn't as annoying as it is today), Blood Dragon was remarkably the freshest entry in a series that was only going downhill from here.
When a "Classic Edition" for Blood Dragon was announced, I was pretty excited to have another excuse to play one of my favorite open-world games. Sadly, the game was restricted behind a season pass paywall for Far Cry 6, a game I wasn't about to buy - especially at launch since Ubi games tank in value faster than the crypto market - however, with the most recent PlayStation sale, I felt $10 was a reasonable asking price for this game.
To say I was wrong over my initial assessments is an understatement. While Blood Dragon is still a good game to this day, this "Classic Edition" port is a total sham and a waste of money. This may have also been the case for the 8th gen port of Far Cry 3 (I haven't played it in years), but Blood Dragon sees no noticeable improvements to the visuals, gameplay, performance, and so on. There shouldn't be any excuse as to why this isn't running at 60FPS at least on a PS4 Pro (I played on PS5 through an external HDD, which technically runs these Pro versions when available). Even if that was unachievable on a Pro, there are ZERO excuses why this shouldn't be running at 60FPS on a PlayStation 5, especially when there are no noticeable visual improvements to the game.
I don't want to scream about lazy devs, especially in a cutthroat company like Ubisoft (that still employs and shuffles around known and admitted sexual abusers within leadership positions in the company), but this is by far the laziest port of a game I've ever seen. The gall to not only release this half-assed port of a game but also hide it behind a season pass for another game for a while, and when you finally release it standalone, to still feel the need to ask for money on such a lazy port of a nearly 10-year-old game is astounding.
To this very day, the best way to play this game will still be on PC, where you can actually get good performance out of it (and of course have KBM support which is usually my preference for FPS games anyway). Don't give your money to Ubisoft even on a good day, but especially for half-assed software like Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - Classic Edition.
When a "Classic Edition" for Blood Dragon was announced, I was pretty excited to have another excuse to play one of my favorite open-world games. Sadly, the game was restricted behind a season pass paywall for Far Cry 6, a game I wasn't about to buy - especially at launch since Ubi games tank in value faster than the crypto market - however, with the most recent PlayStation sale, I felt $10 was a reasonable asking price for this game.
To say I was wrong over my initial assessments is an understatement. While Blood Dragon is still a good game to this day, this "Classic Edition" port is a total sham and a waste of money. This may have also been the case for the 8th gen port of Far Cry 3 (I haven't played it in years), but Blood Dragon sees no noticeable improvements to the visuals, gameplay, performance, and so on. There shouldn't be any excuse as to why this isn't running at 60FPS at least on a PS4 Pro (I played on PS5 through an external HDD, which technically runs these Pro versions when available). Even if that was unachievable on a Pro, there are ZERO excuses why this shouldn't be running at 60FPS on a PlayStation 5, especially when there are no noticeable visual improvements to the game.
I don't want to scream about lazy devs, especially in a cutthroat company like Ubisoft (that still employs and shuffles around known and admitted sexual abusers within leadership positions in the company), but this is by far the laziest port of a game I've ever seen. The gall to not only release this half-assed port of a game but also hide it behind a season pass for another game for a while, and when you finally release it standalone, to still feel the need to ask for money on such a lazy port of a nearly 10-year-old game is astounding.
To this very day, the best way to play this game will still be on PC, where you can actually get good performance out of it (and of course have KBM support which is usually my preference for FPS games anyway). Don't give your money to Ubisoft even on a good day, but especially for half-assed software like Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon - Classic Edition.