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Far Cry Primal uses the same map (heavily updated) as Far Cry 4.
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SlasherJPC
Banned
Far Cry 4:
Basically the same area on FCP, forgot to take screenshot of the map.
Yep they sure look the same lol.
Basically the same area on FCP, forgot to take screenshot of the map.
Yep they sure look the same lol.
In this day in age, there's no way they didn't.
I would imagine that they just figure Primal is a strong enough game on its own for something like this to be a huge issue.
Something I'd have to agree with.
Exactly what I thought. If needed, I'll load up primal and take a screenshot from the exact location, but I think that proves the point just fine.
AcePartyN7
Member
I totally noticed that while I was playing... Ah wait no I did not so I don't care.
Far Cry 4 shipped November 2014, Primal was February 2016. Both games are primarily developed by Ubisoft Montreal (with help from other studios, like all Ubisoft games), so yeah, like 1 1/2 years.
My guess is that Primal was originally going to be a Blood Dragon kind of thing.
Lol. Far Cry Primal was not a risky move.
tim_pkmn89
Member
Did anyone complain when Twilight Princess did it?
That's such bullshit.
Bog
Junior Ace
Far Cry 4:
Basically the same area on FCP, forgot to take screenshot of the map.
Yep they sure look the same lol.
Who could tell with how dark your FC4 shot is.
Bullshit.
TheCanisDirus
Member
That's it. I want a set of two open world games that interact like this in terms of past and present or present and future! Ones where you can jump back and forth to influence outcomes or unlock secret areas and challenges but on an unheard of scale.
Don't stop some terrorists plot to blow up some national landmark and in the future game 500 years in the future that area of the game is just a huge crater and smoothly overgrown by flora etc.
Some cool shit could be done!
hannuraina
Member
if 99% of people don't notice it, i don't think it really matters
Snkfanatic
Banned
I played both 3 and 4 ( and all Far Cry games honestly) and I didn't even notice this. Primal is great and I was really ready to write it off completely when they revealed it. The only reason I bought it was all the impressions in the OT and I am damn glad I listened. It's a great game.
The thing is, saints row 3 and 4 look the exact same, except with a giant ship skybox and the towers scattered about.
Farcry primal does not look like 4 in any way, something that's been repeated quite a few times by now.
removing guns from a shooter...
removing vehicles from a open world...
how's that not risky ?
Ya, I think it's pretty risky. Going from a FPS to a melee-focused game is as big and unusual a change as if they made a third-person shooter Assassin's Creed spinoff. It's dramatic. Primal isn't even really in the same genre as any of the previous games.
Saints Row 4 used the same map. Primal as people who have actually played it have pointed out just has the same shape as the FC4 map. Everything populating it is different.
But thats not going to stop the typical spew of shitposts from people with Ubias.
WeAreStarStuff
Member
The hate for Primal is crazy; the game is fantastic. I played the hell out of 4, and have not had a problem at all with the map in Primal.
qa_engineer
Member
So it sounds like everyone is okay with paying full price for a re-skinned and tweaked version of an existing game. Cool.
WeAreStarStuff
Member
Yeah, but what you should be worried about is reading comprehension.
WordsintheWater
Member
I hate it when people who have obviously not played the game speak with such certainty. Let me use your avatar for example, Bloodborne is just a re-skin of the Souls games, were you okay paying full price?
Let me clarify I don't actually think that about Bloodborne just using your logic.
cr_blah_blah
Member
It's a AAA studio with hundreds of employees and bloated budgets so they're allowed to charge full price without commotion. Be a small indie development team? No such luck.
grosvenor_92
Member
It saved them money during development and Ubi likes to do annual releases so I'd say it was smart. Obviously others here dont see it that way
Frozone
Member
Same for me. Just started playing last night and the game grabbed me hard. Enjoying it so far.
SlasherJPC
Banned
If people wanna come in here, drop trow, leave a steamy turd all in the effort to be a shit gobblin in the thread of a game they havent played, so be it. Primal has obviously some blue prints from FC the series and 4 but play it and tell me that the games are carbon copies with a straight face.
User 479360
Banned
Wow, you're right.
Oh well, loved both. They look and play a lot differently and it didn't feel like the same map at all.
Meh.
Oh well, loved both. They look and play a lot differently and it didn't feel like the same map at all.
Meh.
This is some Peter Molydeux stuff right here.
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
Great dlc masked as a full game Ubi!
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Crackdown 2 and saints 4 did the same thing except they disclosed it beforehand. The fact that ubi didn't makes it seem like they were trying to get away with something. Pretty funny though.
No but the more you pay the more you expect.
JohnnyFootball
GerAlt-Right. Ciriously.
this is immediately what popped in my head after reading the thread title. are people stupid enough to actually think that they just took the fc4 map, replaced the guns with bows, replaced the people with wooly mammoths, then released it as a new game? i dont have the game yet nor have i played fc4, so it doesnt matter at all to me. but my goodness some people.
KeyChainDude
Member
Far Cry Primal is the best game in the series, and the only one I actually enjoyed playing after the shitty gunplay and the nonsense on FC3 and 4. It's also the only one where all the skinning and collecting actually makes sense instead of becoming a bunch of junk stuck on your inventory to sell for a merchant every 5 minutes. I'm very happy and surprised with the game.
Oh, its also about 5x longer than Blood Dragon for those complaining about the price. I found it to be fair enough.
Oh, its also about 5x longer than Blood Dragon for those complaining about the price. I found it to be fair enough.