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Far Cry 5 keyart revealed
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VindicatorZ
Member
was about to post this lol
Hopefully not. It's not easy to do well written characters but at least they can do entertaining characters.
Blackthorn
"hello?" "this is vagina"
I predict this is going to go hard on the religious nut job angle, who are a soft target, rather than the racist angle. I'd love to be surprised though.
ultrazilla
Member
No other flag flies above the U.S. flag in the United States. Ubisoft WILL be changing this.
More_Badass
Member
Crimsonclaw111
Member
White people are extremely fragile and they don't like being reminded that racism is alive and well
source: am white
AHA-Lambda
Member
Maybe the Jack Carver nods will be stronger. Maybe they sell guns to the Jackal. Maybe they sell drugs grown in the Himalayas?
AcademicSaucer
Member
This please, bonus points for a tomahawk weapon.
oreomunsta
Banned
This may be the first far cry I buy.
Looks interesting!
Looks interesting!
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
There is literally a church on the cover, no way this doesn't ruffle some feathers. I'm actually excited about this, fuck hardcore American Evangelical Christianity frankly
I particularly hope they have some elements of those "Freedom" towns that were a big thing a few years ago that the likes of Glenn Beck and others were trying to get built. If I'm not mistaken something actually similar was happening in Montana a year or two ago with some Far Right people buying up all the properties in remote towns and squeezing out what few residents remained.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/citadel-community-idaho_n_2473303.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/citadel-community-idaho_n_2473303.html
That's the exciting part. This tackling of a cult. It seems to be aiming for modern day villian an like white supremacists or religious cults that aren't too over the top.
Psychoward
Banned
huh
it's always the same with Ubisoft, first they throw stuff at a wall and hope it sticks, if it does they will just use the same pattern over and over again until it falls off.
Example: Far Cry 3 was a huge success so they decided to just make Far Cry 4 and Primal the same shit.
They will only change things up if people stop buying their games. Same with AssCreed, they milked the heck outta the series with the same games over and over again until people got sick of it, now they took a longer break and hopefully they spiced things up with the new game.
Same will happen with FC, as long as people buy those games they won't stop milking it. I will give this franchise 1 or 2 more games until they take a longer break from Far Cry as well.
Freeman76
Member
Are you actually serious writing this over generalisation bullshit?
Psychoward
Banned
legacyzero
Banned
This speaks to me. Get ready to see Conservative Snowflakes get hardcore triggered about this.
Looks like the Reddit rumor was on point so far
Looks like the Reddit rumor was on point so far
Fatih in Ubi's ability to empathetically convey a red state's ideological views? Ubisoft will no doubt write an insultingly reductive argument for the cultists' "backwoods" ways.
As long as I get to craft a larger arrow pouch out of salmon or bald eagles or something I really don't care.
Human Trashcan
Banned
You sure proved him wrong! (he's right. It's a generalization. If it doesn't apply to you, why are you mad? Unless it does apply to you)
Patterbits
Member
Uhhh I think that's like, the point?
what on earth is this comment?
Doubt it, if this story is going where I think it's going, the flag flying above the U.S. flag is an intentional design decision signalling their status as "sovereign citizens". Besides the idea that religious/ideological ideas come before the U.S. itself is typical in right-wing American political thought, a la Mike Pence's "Christian, Conservative, Republican in that order"
ultrazilla
Member
Huh? Look it up. Ubisoft will get a shitstorm of problems with this art, trust me.
And it won't matter that it's a "design decision". Veterans will see it and flip out.
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I get Handmaiden Tale vibes from this, as well as Trump supporter vibes.
DOBERMAN INC
Member
I hope they play close to the edge with this premise, definitely intrigued.
Think about it for a minute.
Ok...do you not understand the point of the flag being where it is?
Maybe on Fox News
Glass Shark
Banned
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jack_package_200
Banned
Won't someone think of the poor white people? Their fee fees are gonna get hurt.
Baron von Loathsome
Member
Churches, 'murica, guns, and a lot of these presumed villains look like alt-righters. This is clearly a jab at the American right wing.
No they won't lol
NOLA_Gaffer
Banned
So it's controversial for this game to portray that racism is bad? Doesn't quite a bit of media do that these days. (TV, Movies, etc.)
Looks to me like it's more about this fictional (apparent) cult than it is about christianity.
I don't think it's about the views of whatever state this takes place in as much as it is the group seated at the Last Supper homage there.
Racists and white supremacists being depicted as bad people is controversial? That sounds like a fairly objective statement.
Psychoward
Banned
oh you were serious
Unspeakable Evil
Member
This looks interesting. Vaguely racist villians or hard-r using cult badguys?
I think they could go further with it if that's their angle tbh
From the trailers it's entirely possible for the alt-right to other themselves from the villains and just say they're classic hillbilly Waco types
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
I think that's the narrative point... The characters are likely racist cult douchebags who WOULD put their racist flag over the US flag.