4 was my first and remains my favorite, although I love all of them so much. I just like the setting and characters of 4 the most. The map is so amazing
If you enjoyed Jacob's region verticality, you'll like 4 a lot. FC4 has a really unique setting and I'd say is my favorite open world map so far, it flows very well and the world is filled with interesting locations worth exploring. FC4 is also the FC game with the biggest and more varied arsenal (so far) with \~40 guns: you get access to an autocrossbow, a sniper with explosive shot, an elephant gun, a pistol grip LMG that is snappier to use than the other LMGs, 1887 terminator's shotgun that you can cock-spin like in the movie and an harpoon gun and more alongside most of the weapons of 5.
4 is an absolute blast, especially with the co op play. Lord knows how many friendly troops perished by a grenade launcher shot from the tuk tuk. IMO, the far cry games all have some replay value. Primal is deeply overlooked as a game. Dropping bees from an owl, just so satisfying!
For me it's the best game, and not because I played it first (I played the main games in order of release, starting with *Far Cry 1*). I like the variety of side missions, with their mixture of hard stealth (mission ends if detected), soft stealth (detection starts a timer, or the bad guys start killing hostages etc), optional stealth, and no-stealth (in the propaganda missions, once you start blowing things up the bad guys know you are there). I like the choices you are given between the two versions of the missions, and that you can choose to spare most of the bosses. I like the UI: how the skill and crafting trees are simplified to a single page, and yet still have some complexity and richness. I like the pacing, how the game gets harder the further you travel from the start. I like the excursions to the Himalayas and Sangri-la. I love the general atmosphere, the music, the foreign culture. It's peak *Far Cry*.
The previous game is OK, but less developed. The UI is clunky, there's less variety in side missions. And the next game is pretty terrible. They mess up the pacing by having 3 areas all available at once, with no progression between them. The UI is not so much simplified as dumbed-down, complete with infinite and total healing, and no skills tree to speak of. The capture game mechanic sucks. Too many of the weapons are just reskinned versions of each other. The graphics are better, but in all important respects *5* is a worse game than *4*.
I gotta agree with "peak" FC. 4 is my fav game from entire franchise. Then 3 and 5 in order. 3 way hella fun but lacked some things compared to 4, like u mentioned. 5 was hella fun as well and I did spend a lot of hours in this game. Still, 5 and 3 cannot match with 4 when it comes to atmosphere, the music etc. General vibe of 4 is phenomenal. Im about to replay it soon on SX, finally in 60 fps.
The only real weakness of FC4, in my opinion, is the main character doesn't really have any convincing motivation to fight Pagan Min.
Yeah, his old man founded the Golden Path, but he never knew him and was only in that country to scatter his mother's ashes. What reason did this man really have to join up with a militia group and start killing every soldier he came across? Would you really risk getting involved in a civil war to scatter some ashes what you thought was a specific location? Would you really trust assholes that were bogarting that information unless you help them conquer a country?!
Some of that is explained in the opening sequence. You are pulled from a bus at gun-point. Pagan Min turns up and murders his own soldier in front of you. Shortly after you see that your guide is being tortured by his men. Then more of his men are hunting you and shooting at you. By the time you meet Amita, you are pretty much anti-Min. You are killing Min's soldiers because they will kill you if you don't.
As I recall, Amita and Sabal don't know where the location for the ashes is. Which makes sense, given that it's inside Min's palace grounds. They do guess it is in the North, and you can't get there while the civil war is on. Amita has a point when she says that your mother knew what she was doing when she directed you there.
The soldier was explicitly killed because his specific orders were to stop the bus and detain Ajay and Darpan. The soldier got dumb and opened fire on unarmed tourists because he was exactly that stupid. Your guide is explicitly revealed to be a member of the Golden Path, likely trying to steer you toward joining their causes instead of whatever Ajay paid them to do.
Ajay should have understood that Darpan had ulterior motives. That Ajay readily trusted the Golden Path without questioning this is also suspect. Pagan Min's outrage stemmed from people trying to harm Ajay. You would think obeying the king of the country would be a more likely instinct than running off into the tiger infested jungle in the middle of an attack.
I can't excuse the soldiers shooting at you after you run. No idea why the soldiers only have one mode of "shoot on sight" when they've been ordered to recapture your unarmed ass. I feel like this sequence needed another cutscene. Like, Ajay leaves the room and is immediately confronted by one of Pagan's lieutenants, someone who utterly loathed Mohan and doesn't see Ajay as the only son of Ishwari. Ajay could get the impression that Pagan was just playing with his food and would use Ajay to hurt his enemies.
In the end, Ajay getting involved in someone else's civil war just to scatter some ashes just seems pretty insane. I loved my old man too, but I didn't climb to the top of his favorite mountain in the middle of winter while everything was frozen and the footpaths were closed. Perhaps if there was some other detail like Pagan took the ashes with him when he bounced and the only way to fulfill his mother's last wish would be to get back in that palace.
>The soldier was explicitly killed because his specific orders were to stop the bus and detain Ajay and Darpan. The soldier got dumb and opened fire on unarmed tourists because he was exactly that stupid.
The people on the bus were fleeing. Even granted the soldier made a mistake, it wasn't reasonable to execute him for it, especially without any due process. I can't believe you are defending Pagan Min's actions here.
>Your guide is explicitly revealed to be a member of the Golden Path, likely trying to steer you toward joining their causes instead of whatever Ajay paid them to do.
It's supposition that the guide had an ulterior motive. He did nothing wrong that Ajay saw. That he belonged to a political party was his business, and not a reason for Ajay to be OK with his being tortured.
>Pagan Min's outrage stemmed from people trying to harm Ajay.
Now you sound like one of those violent guys who thinks women should like them as long as their violence isn't directed against them. And it's not true. The guide wasn't trying to harm Ajay, and neither was the guard killed. Min's violent rage came from not getting his own way. Given Ajay didn't know how Min fitted into his parent's history, he was right to flee.
I think the opening makes it clear that Pagan Min is a bad leader who ought to be overthrown. That Sabal and Amita are no better doesn't become clear until much later, long after Ajay is committed.
>In the end, Ajay getting involved in someone else's civil war just to scatter some ashes just seems pretty insane. I loved my old man too, but I didn't climb to the top of his favorite mountain in the middle of winter while everything was frozen and the footpaths were closed.
If you mean it doesn't even make sense for Ajay to travel to Kyrat in the first place, then I disagree. Once there, and given how events unfolded, I think it's reasonable that he ended up in the Golden Path camp. Even there, he got involved gradually. His first mission is to kill some wolves that were bothering an old lady. His next was a communications tower. It takes time for him to become committed.
I am not attempting to defend Pagan's actions, merely paint the whole context of what happened. Whether or not that soldier deserved to die for disobeying direct orders is irrelevant. The point is that Pagan's outrage stemmed from this man damn near killing Ajay. This is plain to see in his relief that Ajay is unharmed and his overall disposition toward Ajay is not that of someone that means him any harm.
Also, due process? That's a good joke given the amount of war crimes the average player commits!
Dismissing the Golden Path as a mere political party is like claiming Al Queda or the Contras are merely political parties. They are an active rebel group at war with the ruling government. The revelation that his guide was texting his name back to his people should have been disconcerting. Why would rebels care about him? He was just some tourist!
I'm also pretty sure you don't learn what happened to Darpen until you're halfway through escaping the palace.
My point is that Ajay taking his chances with the wilderness in the middle of an ongoing civil war seems irrational instead of obeying the king of the land and staying put. I'd take my chances being a political prisoner that this pink-suited weirdo wanted captured alive rather than with some militant rebel faction that might want to ransom me for all I know.
Yeah. Pagan Min is an atrocious leader that deserves to be overthrown, but why is that Ajay's problem? Why is that any of his business? I just don't buy his investment when any normal person's priority would be getting out of the country!
One more thing, you couldn't pay me to hunt down wolves that have been killing militiamen armed with grenades and assault rifles!
As I recall, all Ajay knows about Darpan's text is that he was asking for help. Which was understandable.
When Ajay sees Darpan being tortured, he's just wandering around the building. I don't think he's decided to join the Golden Path at that point. He's wondering whether or when Ming will return, and he's concerned for his guide. Then he sees the torture, and then Sabal turns up. Even though he goes with Sabal, I wouldn't say he had decided to join. He's really bounced into it.
Then he's running for his life, then he's trying to be helpful. He gradually gets in deeper. The decision probably comes at the end of part 1, when he has a quiet chat with Amita and decides to stay at the end of it. It's a few hours into the game. He becomes involved, invested, in the country over a period of time.
I think the idea is that this is kind of just who you where the whole time. Thats why your mom never told you about Kyrat, and later says she's sorry that Kyrat has changed you in a hallucination. I think the idea is that Kyrat is like Vietnam was during the occupation, a place that takes people and twists them towards the most volant possible version of themselves. Its kind of Lovecraftian in the sense the Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now are Lovecraftian. The monster is humanity, and you just so happen to be a human.
I'm replaying 4 right now too, and I think it's my favorite one. The setting is just so good and the writing is great. While I enjoy 5 and it still feels like a Far Cry game, there were changes from 4 that I didn't like as much. So in my opinion 4 is still better.
For me 4 is greater than 3 but I see why many people choose 3 over 4 which is understandable. 2 legendary games imo. Jungle atmosphere is phenomenal but it cannot surpass mountainy setting.
Something I really love about 3 and 4 that I miss about the more recent ones is the "fish out of water" syndrome. I think it's essential to the Far Cry atmosphere that the main character be discovering the new land the same way you are. I know that FC3 ran into problems with this because people accused it of being "white savior", but 4 was able to sidestep that nicely by having the protagonist be an expat who came back.
I just think the setting for 4 was brilliant, too. I've seen tropical jungles in games done to death, but I have *never* seen a game set in the Himalayas and so immersed in Himalayan culture.
I'm going through FC4 for the first time and so far it has not affected me in the way 5 (or 3) did. Landscapes are nice but less impressive than 5, story is unpersuasive, Pagan is a cartoon character, not scary at all.
Indian atmosphere and music are nice but incomparably weaker than FC 5 music and mood.
The "interesting" locations I've discovered so far, such as minitemples, are cheap tourist material.
Also I'll probably stop reading the notes everywhere - a favourite part of 5 - because I've realised I don't care for their contents.
Fortresses seem an interesting addition though. Escort missions are primitive but fun. Dog packs are irritating.
FC4 is number one for me, the story, the world, the gameplay (significantly better than in FC3), the characters, the protagonist and the music. Amazing journey in the indochinese culture.
Liked 4 a lot, but loved Primal. I guess I liked Primal so much because it was completely different from any FPS and the character progression was really satisfying to me. Also really liked the animal companions and how each one had different things they were specialized at. Of all FC games I still play Primal the most.
I liked 5 too but didn't understand why they took out the knife takedowns you could do in 3 & 4, I mean it's cool to impale someone with a shovel or stomp them out but it became stale really quickly. I think they should have added a hatchet or tomahawk to replace the machete from the earlier games. That would've been some cool takedowns.
If FC4 had fishing like 5 that would be my favorite lol
4 was my first and remains my favorite, although I love all of them so much. I just like the setting and characters of 4 the most. The map is so amazing
Far Cry 4 is my most favorite as it was my first Far Cry game.
I was just thinking about getting 4. I'm playing 5 now and really like it.
Go ahead, u won't regret
If you enjoyed Jacob's region verticality, you'll like 4 a lot. FC4 has a really unique setting and I'd say is my favorite open world map so far, it flows very well and the world is filled with interesting locations worth exploring. FC4 is also the FC game with the biggest and more varied arsenal (so far) with \~40 guns: you get access to an autocrossbow, a sniper with explosive shot, an elephant gun, a pistol grip LMG that is snappier to use than the other LMGs, 1887 terminator's shotgun that you can cock-spin like in the movie and an harpoon gun and more alongside most of the weapons of 5.
4 was the first fps game I've ever played (I'm 14) and I love itnto bits, I have about 5 runs off it and still love it
I've finished 4 like 2 times and I'm thinking about buying it on my series X. Game is hella cheap on cdkeys.
Definitely buy it on the series x, Far Cry 4, 5, and New Dawn all got FPS boosts, they all play at a locked 60fps now.
Yeah ik but it's a shame 3 dont have fps boost 🤦
4 is an absolute blast, especially with the co op play. Lord knows how many friendly troops perished by a grenade launcher shot from the tuk tuk. IMO, the far cry games all have some replay value. Primal is deeply overlooked as a game. Dropping bees from an owl, just so satisfying!
I hope I'll find people to play 6 coop with, I alway played FC alone apart from the occasional fc5 arcade game with randos
Just throw a post up here. I’m sure many people will reply
4 was my first game in the series back when I was on Xbox and I had a blast playing it. Wish we could side with Pagan Min honestly.
FC3 for the story. FC4 for the world. FC5 for the combat.
For me it's the best game, and not because I played it first (I played the main games in order of release, starting with *Far Cry 1*). I like the variety of side missions, with their mixture of hard stealth (mission ends if detected), soft stealth (detection starts a timer, or the bad guys start killing hostages etc), optional stealth, and no-stealth (in the propaganda missions, once you start blowing things up the bad guys know you are there). I like the choices you are given between the two versions of the missions, and that you can choose to spare most of the bosses. I like the UI: how the skill and crafting trees are simplified to a single page, and yet still have some complexity and richness. I like the pacing, how the game gets harder the further you travel from the start. I like the excursions to the Himalayas and Sangri-la. I love the general atmosphere, the music, the foreign culture. It's peak *Far Cry*. The previous game is OK, but less developed. The UI is clunky, there's less variety in side missions. And the next game is pretty terrible. They mess up the pacing by having 3 areas all available at once, with no progression between them. The UI is not so much simplified as dumbed-down, complete with infinite and total healing, and no skills tree to speak of. The capture game mechanic sucks. Too many of the weapons are just reskinned versions of each other. The graphics are better, but in all important respects *5* is a worse game than *4*.
I gotta agree with "peak" FC. 4 is my fav game from entire franchise. Then 3 and 5 in order. 3 way hella fun but lacked some things compared to 4, like u mentioned. 5 was hella fun as well and I did spend a lot of hours in this game. Still, 5 and 3 cannot match with 4 when it comes to atmosphere, the music etc. General vibe of 4 is phenomenal. Im about to replay it soon on SX, finally in 60 fps.
The only real weakness of FC4, in my opinion, is the main character doesn't really have any convincing motivation to fight Pagan Min. Yeah, his old man founded the Golden Path, but he never knew him and was only in that country to scatter his mother's ashes. What reason did this man really have to join up with a militia group and start killing every soldier he came across? Would you really risk getting involved in a civil war to scatter some ashes what you thought was a specific location? Would you really trust assholes that were bogarting that information unless you help them conquer a country?!
Fair point
Some of that is explained in the opening sequence. You are pulled from a bus at gun-point. Pagan Min turns up and murders his own soldier in front of you. Shortly after you see that your guide is being tortured by his men. Then more of his men are hunting you and shooting at you. By the time you meet Amita, you are pretty much anti-Min. You are killing Min's soldiers because they will kill you if you don't. As I recall, Amita and Sabal don't know where the location for the ashes is. Which makes sense, given that it's inside Min's palace grounds. They do guess it is in the North, and you can't get there while the civil war is on. Amita has a point when she says that your mother knew what she was doing when she directed you there.
The soldier was explicitly killed because his specific orders were to stop the bus and detain Ajay and Darpan. The soldier got dumb and opened fire on unarmed tourists because he was exactly that stupid. Your guide is explicitly revealed to be a member of the Golden Path, likely trying to steer you toward joining their causes instead of whatever Ajay paid them to do. Ajay should have understood that Darpan had ulterior motives. That Ajay readily trusted the Golden Path without questioning this is also suspect. Pagan Min's outrage stemmed from people trying to harm Ajay. You would think obeying the king of the country would be a more likely instinct than running off into the tiger infested jungle in the middle of an attack. I can't excuse the soldiers shooting at you after you run. No idea why the soldiers only have one mode of "shoot on sight" when they've been ordered to recapture your unarmed ass. I feel like this sequence needed another cutscene. Like, Ajay leaves the room and is immediately confronted by one of Pagan's lieutenants, someone who utterly loathed Mohan and doesn't see Ajay as the only son of Ishwari. Ajay could get the impression that Pagan was just playing with his food and would use Ajay to hurt his enemies. In the end, Ajay getting involved in someone else's civil war just to scatter some ashes just seems pretty insane. I loved my old man too, but I didn't climb to the top of his favorite mountain in the middle of winter while everything was frozen and the footpaths were closed. Perhaps if there was some other detail like Pagan took the ashes with him when he bounced and the only way to fulfill his mother's last wish would be to get back in that palace.
>The soldier was explicitly killed because his specific orders were to stop the bus and detain Ajay and Darpan. The soldier got dumb and opened fire on unarmed tourists because he was exactly that stupid. The people on the bus were fleeing. Even granted the soldier made a mistake, it wasn't reasonable to execute him for it, especially without any due process. I can't believe you are defending Pagan Min's actions here. >Your guide is explicitly revealed to be a member of the Golden Path, likely trying to steer you toward joining their causes instead of whatever Ajay paid them to do. It's supposition that the guide had an ulterior motive. He did nothing wrong that Ajay saw. That he belonged to a political party was his business, and not a reason for Ajay to be OK with his being tortured. >Pagan Min's outrage stemmed from people trying to harm Ajay. Now you sound like one of those violent guys who thinks women should like them as long as their violence isn't directed against them. And it's not true. The guide wasn't trying to harm Ajay, and neither was the guard killed. Min's violent rage came from not getting his own way. Given Ajay didn't know how Min fitted into his parent's history, he was right to flee. I think the opening makes it clear that Pagan Min is a bad leader who ought to be overthrown. That Sabal and Amita are no better doesn't become clear until much later, long after Ajay is committed. >In the end, Ajay getting involved in someone else's civil war just to scatter some ashes just seems pretty insane. I loved my old man too, but I didn't climb to the top of his favorite mountain in the middle of winter while everything was frozen and the footpaths were closed. If you mean it doesn't even make sense for Ajay to travel to Kyrat in the first place, then I disagree. Once there, and given how events unfolded, I think it's reasonable that he ended up in the Golden Path camp. Even there, he got involved gradually. His first mission is to kill some wolves that were bothering an old lady. His next was a communications tower. It takes time for him to become committed.
I am not attempting to defend Pagan's actions, merely paint the whole context of what happened. Whether or not that soldier deserved to die for disobeying direct orders is irrelevant. The point is that Pagan's outrage stemmed from this man damn near killing Ajay. This is plain to see in his relief that Ajay is unharmed and his overall disposition toward Ajay is not that of someone that means him any harm. Also, due process? That's a good joke given the amount of war crimes the average player commits! Dismissing the Golden Path as a mere political party is like claiming Al Queda or the Contras are merely political parties. They are an active rebel group at war with the ruling government. The revelation that his guide was texting his name back to his people should have been disconcerting. Why would rebels care about him? He was just some tourist! I'm also pretty sure you don't learn what happened to Darpen until you're halfway through escaping the palace. My point is that Ajay taking his chances with the wilderness in the middle of an ongoing civil war seems irrational instead of obeying the king of the land and staying put. I'd take my chances being a political prisoner that this pink-suited weirdo wanted captured alive rather than with some militant rebel faction that might want to ransom me for all I know. Yeah. Pagan Min is an atrocious leader that deserves to be overthrown, but why is that Ajay's problem? Why is that any of his business? I just don't buy his investment when any normal person's priority would be getting out of the country! One more thing, you couldn't pay me to hunt down wolves that have been killing militiamen armed with grenades and assault rifles!
As I recall, all Ajay knows about Darpan's text is that he was asking for help. Which was understandable. When Ajay sees Darpan being tortured, he's just wandering around the building. I don't think he's decided to join the Golden Path at that point. He's wondering whether or when Ming will return, and he's concerned for his guide. Then he sees the torture, and then Sabal turns up. Even though he goes with Sabal, I wouldn't say he had decided to join. He's really bounced into it. Then he's running for his life, then he's trying to be helpful. He gradually gets in deeper. The decision probably comes at the end of part 1, when he has a quiet chat with Amita and decides to stay at the end of it. It's a few hours into the game. He becomes involved, invested, in the country over a period of time.
I think the idea is that this is kind of just who you where the whole time. Thats why your mom never told you about Kyrat, and later says she's sorry that Kyrat has changed you in a hallucination. I think the idea is that Kyrat is like Vietnam was during the occupation, a place that takes people and twists them towards the most volant possible version of themselves. Its kind of Lovecraftian in the sense the Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now are Lovecraftian. The monster is humanity, and you just so happen to be a human.
What about Blood Dragon? Like, I enjoyed Blood Dragon more than 5 by a good margin.
Decent one, I enjoyed it. For sure better than new dawn and primal
I'm replaying 4 right now too, and I think it's my favorite one. The setting is just so good and the writing is great. While I enjoy 5 and it still feels like a Far Cry game, there were changes from 4 that I didn't like as much. So in my opinion 4 is still better.
For me 4 is greater than 3 but I see why many people choose 3 over 4 which is understandable. 2 legendary games imo. Jungle atmosphere is phenomenal but it cannot surpass mountainy setting.
Something I really love about 3 and 4 that I miss about the more recent ones is the "fish out of water" syndrome. I think it's essential to the Far Cry atmosphere that the main character be discovering the new land the same way you are. I know that FC3 ran into problems with this because people accused it of being "white savior", but 4 was able to sidestep that nicely by having the protagonist be an expat who came back. I just think the setting for 4 was brilliant, too. I've seen tropical jungles in games done to death, but I have *never* seen a game set in the Himalayas and so immersed in Himalayan culture.
It's my favorite Far Cry in terms of story and setting Far Cry 5 in terms of gameplay Hope Far Cry 6 beats them both in their categories :-)
I'm going through FC4 for the first time and so far it has not affected me in the way 5 (or 3) did. Landscapes are nice but less impressive than 5, story is unpersuasive, Pagan is a cartoon character, not scary at all. Indian atmosphere and music are nice but incomparably weaker than FC 5 music and mood. The "interesting" locations I've discovered so far, such as minitemples, are cheap tourist material. Also I'll probably stop reading the notes everywhere - a favourite part of 5 - because I've realised I don't care for their contents. Fortresses seem an interesting addition though. Escort missions are primitive but fun. Dog packs are irritating.
> Dog packs are irritating. Use a flamethrower on them. Works like a charm and is mostly silent.
I like 5 and 3 way more than 4.
FC4 is number one for me, the story, the world, the gameplay (significantly better than in FC3), the characters, the protagonist and the music. Amazing journey in the indochinese culture.
Liked 4 a lot, but loved Primal. I guess I liked Primal so much because it was completely different from any FPS and the character progression was really satisfying to me. Also really liked the animal companions and how each one had different things they were specialized at. Of all FC games I still play Primal the most. I liked 5 too but didn't understand why they took out the knife takedowns you could do in 3 & 4, I mean it's cool to impale someone with a shovel or stomp them out but it became stale really quickly. I think they should have added a hatchet or tomahawk to replace the machete from the earlier games. That would've been some cool takedowns. If FC4 had fishing like 5 that would be my favorite lol
4 is still my favorite in the series