Torllay
Far Cry 5 was my sleeper hit this year. A game I bought only to play with a game, but ended up enjoying my time on it more than I thought!
The game is set in an open-world Montana and offers a lot to do when it comes to activities on the map, without exaggerating like in newer Ubisoft games. The game can be played both solo and with a friend for the entire game, so don’t get fooled as even if it shows lots of slots for friends in the main menu, the coop can be done only with one person and it’s asynchronous. It's really fun, and it made me and the friend crack into laughing about this happening beyond stupid so many times, that I won’t forget the memory of playing this game for a long time!
The idea of playing this vast open world with a friend, limited only by a ~250m tether, was the best decision they could have made for this game. After the prologue, when online finally opens up, only one person holds the savefile with the progress with the story/world progress - so choose a good host !!! - while the other person only keeps what's on their character, be that money, weapons, or ability points/abilities unlocked but won't progress at all.
The game, although single-player,used to be treated like a live service and all the really nice stuff from the events is now inaccessible. Thankfully, with the community's work, through the mod manager FC5 Resistance - available on NexusMods - it’s possible to mod the game and activate the content of the Events, among many other quality of life and customizations. Don’t sleep on it, it’s a great modding tool, and once deployed with the mods you'd like to use, which you can choose from the tool itself, you never have to open it again, but you can finally skip the intro, hide the ads in the main menu or remove the stupid quotes from the main characters that darken and cover the beautiful nature shots the game uses as loading screens.
The story revolves around a cult that controls the region and has brainwashed people, and while nothing to write home about, was entertaining enough, although I would not suggest buying the game for it. Every action you do in the game gives you points towards freeing that region from the cult's control, and at specific breakpoints, you have to do a story mission. Instead of giving you a map marker to follow and start said mission, you are kidnapped regardless of where you are. This means that while falling in a jumpsuit you will be kidnapped and have to face a story mission even if you don't feel like it. The main character gets kidnapped at all times making it almost hilarious, especially when trying your best to be in situations where you could not be kidnapped. The DLCs seem useless and completely disconnected from the base game, so I'd say they are not necessary at all.
Genuinely worth it, especially on sale and if you have a friend to be dumb with while shooting down some fanatics.
7/10
The game is set in an open-world Montana and offers a lot to do when it comes to activities on the map, without exaggerating like in newer Ubisoft games. The game can be played both solo and with a friend for the entire game, so don’t get fooled as even if it shows lots of slots for friends in the main menu, the coop can be done only with one person and it’s asynchronous. It's really fun, and it made me and the friend crack into laughing about this happening beyond stupid so many times, that I won’t forget the memory of playing this game for a long time!
The idea of playing this vast open world with a friend, limited only by a ~250m tether, was the best decision they could have made for this game. After the prologue, when online finally opens up, only one person holds the savefile with the progress with the story/world progress - so choose a good host !!! - while the other person only keeps what's on their character, be that money, weapons, or ability points/abilities unlocked but won't progress at all.
The game, although single-player,used to be treated like a live service and all the really nice stuff from the events is now inaccessible. Thankfully, with the community's work, through the mod manager FC5 Resistance - available on NexusMods - it’s possible to mod the game and activate the content of the Events, among many other quality of life and customizations. Don’t sleep on it, it’s a great modding tool, and once deployed with the mods you'd like to use, which you can choose from the tool itself, you never have to open it again, but you can finally skip the intro, hide the ads in the main menu or remove the stupid quotes from the main characters that darken and cover the beautiful nature shots the game uses as loading screens.
The story revolves around a cult that controls the region and has brainwashed people, and while nothing to write home about, was entertaining enough, although I would not suggest buying the game for it. Every action you do in the game gives you points towards freeing that region from the cult's control, and at specific breakpoints, you have to do a story mission. Instead of giving you a map marker to follow and start said mission, you are kidnapped regardless of where you are. This means that while falling in a jumpsuit you will be kidnapped and have to face a story mission even if you don't feel like it. The main character gets kidnapped at all times making it almost hilarious, especially when trying your best to be in situations where you could not be kidnapped. The DLCs seem useless and completely disconnected from the base game, so I'd say they are not necessary at all.
Genuinely worth it, especially on sale and if you have a friend to be dumb with while shooting down some fanatics.
7/10