#car cry

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Omg that political animals gif in relation to that ask, stopppppppp 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Any time someone mentions a SebStan character crying in a car, that's what my mind goes to. It's heartbreaking! 💔

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FAR CRY NEW DAWN

I’m not the dudeliest of bros out there. I don’t go in for MAdden or Call of Duty or whatever. I like games like Unfinished Swan and Flower and Everything. Gimme some bohemian art shit that ASKS QUESTIONS and forces you to decide What It All Means, yup I’m here for it.

So I’m as surprised as everybody else when FAR CRY IS MY SHIT, this is a videogame-ass videogame and it scratches an itch

I’ve played them since iunno like whatever one was on ps3 and they are TRULY GREAT. I think it’s because they leave SO MUCH up to the player, but it’s not so obnoxiously artsy open that you don’t know what to do. Your goal is to kill all those badguys in that fort, but HOW YOU DO THAT is up to YOU.

Want to play sneaky snakey?

Go ahead and play sneaky sneaky

Want to get a misslile launcher and a gat-ling gun and go al lin?

SURE BRO YOU DO YOU

Want to hire a fucking grandma with a sniper rile to do all the work fo you?

YES OF COURSE THIS IS AN OPTION

Want to BUTCHER A COW to BUILD SOME BAIT to LURE A BEAR to kill the bad guys for you?

AT THIS POINT NOTHING WOULD BE MORE REASONABLE

At this point in this blog (does anybody say blog anymore?) I’ve doxxed myself about 17 times, so by now all of you (all 4 of you) know that I am a software engineer by trade, and my favorite kind of code is the sandbox environment. Set up a bunch of initial states, let things interact how they will, and SEE WHAT HAPPENS

This is literally my favorite thing: EMERGENCE

the idea that a few small “rules” can lead to complex, and dare I say BEAUTY-FULL patterns and behaviores

You fool, do you think a snowflake knows how to form? No, it’s moleculres or whatever just DO THEIR THING. Do you think that the snowflake knows what it looks like in a blizzard? Do you think ants know what they look like from above, or that they’re building a colony? Do you think the neurons in our brain KNOW THEY ARE A BRAIN

swing it back bro

The reason I like the Far Cry series is because although it brands itself as a potato chip game, there’s actually a ton of creativity and freedom involved. And it’s just plain FUN. I will never get sick of standing on a hill and taking over a base using nothing but wild bears and grandmas.

SO WHATEVER I BUY FAR CRY NEW DAWN

and I’m ready for another Far Cry game, it’s gonna be some killing badguys in creative ways with wild animals and a nice completionist level-up system

INSTEAD I GET SADNESS

SPOILER ALERTS BELOW

Up until this point, each Far Cry game was its own thing. Maybe a tiny mention of Far Cry 3 in Far Cry 4, but if you didn’t play Far Cry 3 then you wouldn’t miss much, each one is its own thing.

Far Cry 5 ended with a nuclear bomb going off, and Far Cry New Dawn is a direct sequel to Far Cry 5.

Big fuckin oof.

As you play Far Cry 5, you spend 30-60-1000 hours in the WORLD they create. You learn the map, you learn the characters, what makes sense, what works, how it all interacts with who you are as a person

And that’s fun right, that’s the game. Haha lol I can make a bear eat these badguys, roflcopter I can start a forest fire that surrounds these badguys, yo look how good at a bow and arrow I am

But the trick is that it starts to feel like HOME. Your brains don’t know that this is just a vidyagame, so they’re scrambling to take in all this information. You get USED TO IT. You know who Hurk is, you know where the roads go, you know what’s safe and what’s dangerous

THIS IS BY DESIGN IT IS SOMEBODY’S JOB TO MAKE YOUR BRAIN FEEL THIS WAY

So the end of Far Cry 5 felt like a betrayal.

Most videogames end with you saving the world, you killing the badguy, wahoo what a hero. Far Cry 5 ends with a giant fuck you Thanos snap. You lose, the bomb goes off, the world ends, and oh by the way the main badguy drags you into a bunker to survive the nuclear fallout, and you’ll live the rest of your life in a dungeon with the man who ended the world. THE END

FAR CRY NEW DAWN STARTS 20 YEARS LATER IN THE SAME TOWN

So the roads you travel on are the same, but they’ve been overgrown with a fucking tidal wave of flowers. The houses you visited in the last game are now empty, except for what you can scavenge to stay alive. The people you talk to in this game remember the people you talked to in the last game, but it’s not the same as the last time you visited. It’s colorful and beautiful and fun, but it’s also fucking SAD.

This game is still about klling badguys in creative ways and levelling up your bullshit because you’re a fucking completionist, but the frame around all of that is fucking heartbreaking

Far Cry New Dawn does a good job of playing with the almost-memory you have of Far Cry 5, which most people played a few years ago and don’t quite remember. I have vague recollections of Nick Rye, so when I meet his daughter I feel FUCKIN WEIRD AND SAD AND APOLOGETIC for no real reason other than brains are fuckin wild. When I see signs for the bear from Far Cry 5, BUT I DON’T SEE THE BEAR, part of me is ALARMED by this for some reason. You dig through the scraps left behind by the community you met in the previous game, and it feels voyeuristic and personal and uncomfortable. But you keep doing it anyway.

This game is the most accurate depiction of “coming back to your hometown after you’ve been gone a few years” that I’ve seen, its only rival is Night in the Woods

So even though from the outside this game looks like Call of Duty guns pew pew pew, in reality this is a fucking simulation of creativity and emergence framed by the sadness of coming home to a dying community, knowing that nothing you do matters

but the least you can do is have fun with it and appreciate the beauty along the way

Beer pairing: are you kidding me

This looks like a lite beer but when you drink it it’s actually really good, and after you drink it for 5 years you realize how, fucking, sad, you are

Of course this is a Miller Lite