#farcry 2

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It loves the taste of fanboy tears.

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Games that were unexpectedly anti war.

It is rare for action titles in gaming to lean towards communicating an anti war message, especially in a mature and tonally consistent way. But these three examples were pioneers at the time for moving in that direction, disproving long standing notions that it would be impossible to do so.

Today these spectacular titles stand as some of the most well regarded anti war video games ever created.

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The beauty of gaming 26/? :

Farcry 2

Release: 2008 on PC, Xbox-360, Playstation 3

Created by Ubisoft Montreal on Dunia Engine

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~Master List~

I have been gone for a while, but I am on my way back. Everything below is for your convenience, more will be added and the ones I promised will be finished. 

Hoyt Volker

Imagine making fun of Hoyt as he reads to you wearing those thick, old man reading glasses.

Imagine being one of the dancers at Hoyt’s compound. You give your innocence to Hoyt and then feel like he had thrown you away.

Imagine waking up without Hoyt. He isn’t in a good mood and at the end of the day he punishes you for it.

Imagine being Hoyt’s girlfriend and in an attempt to get you involved he makes you his assistant, he doesn’t like it when you spend more time with work than you do with him.

Imagine Hoyt teaching you the wrong way to play Poker.

Bambi “Buck” Hughes

Imagine Buck giving you a history lesson for the millionth time.

Vaas Montenegro

Learning Morals (Vaas Montenegro Smut)

The Switch (Vaas Montenegro Smut)

Imagine being one of Vaas’s prisoners and in an attempt to get you to fall in love with him he teaches you Spanish, what he doesn’t know is that you already know it.

Imagine Vaas is your patient at the Rook Island Psych Ward and you fall in love with him as much as he falls in love with you.

Imagine watching Vaas work out in the morning.

Imagine Citra telling you that Vaas has been lying about everything and you believe her.

Imagine being Christopher Mintz-Plasse’s best friend. You go filming on an island with him and end up meeting Vaas.

Imagine Vaas teaching you how to drive.

Sam Becker

Imagine being a mercenary for Hoyt. You get into trouble with some of the others and Sam Becker comes to your rescue.

Ajay Ghale

Imagine being  Ajay’s best friend, you go to Kyrat with him to spread his mother’s ashes. He ends up paying more attention to the war than he does to you.

Pagan Min

Imagine Pagan Min addressing himself as daddy all the time in your presence.

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MGS5 poor usage of adult content and games that do it much better in comparison.

I do not like MGS5... that also includes 4, they may be mechanically slick and entertaining experiences but they are handicapped by some truly terrible usages of deliberately shocking material.

MGS5 often shows brutal, realistic and controversial imagery of torture, child soldiers, horrific violence and so on with real world visual parity.

But suddenly “Quiet” a soldier with parasites that force her to wear a bikini and frolic in water to survive makes butt to camera contact after just being forcibly drowned... Female empowerment righttttttt? Pukes.

LOOK, I know a lot of people like this crap...

But if ya gonna put all this shocking imagery and the real life fuckin Guantanamo Bay in your bullshit, late stage ubisoft open world inspired action stealth game. You better make sure you are at least tasteful, careful and considered with those inclusions and avoid anything that might you know?!... Irreversibly damage the tone you are trying to establish or just waste the potential of the settings and contexts in general?!

A lot of Japanese and especially US pop media does a TERRIBLE job in regards to tackling really heavy stuff like this and it continues to bug me, to the average consumer just playing this enjoying the game and seeing this stuff, it is just gonna to be an after thought to them because of all the stupid shit going on in the background distracting them. And that... is simply a TRAGIC mis usage of the content, turning gritty subject matter into a bloody distraction...

Many call of duty games proceeding MW1 are also guilty of this mis usage.

Games you should play that treat their adult themes and real world contexts with respect and dignity. They are so few and far between, but they are amazing when they do show up from time to time.

SPEC OPS THE LINE.

Set during the aftermath of a devastating sandstorm hitting Dubai. You play as a American delta force operative named Captain Walker, in a mission to seek out and rescue survivors of the disaster. Including Walker’s close friend John Konrad who was responsible for ensuring the success of the initial evacuation of the city which instead ended in complete failure. The game is more than that though, as things progress you slowly start to realise that things are not quite what they seem at first... But that is something I will not spoil.

FARCRY 2.

You play as a mercenary in a unnamed African country currently in the mist of a destructive civil war, fought between various faction all gunning for total control. Their arms are supplied by the Jackal, an illusive gun runner you have been tasked with eliminating, quickly you will soon discover that you are just as responsible for the cycle of violence as he is as you aid both sides in pursuing him.

Please play these games, they do not get enough attention as they should do.

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FarCry 2 way ahead of its time flawed masterpiece.

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Unskippable #19 - FarCry 2 (5/11/09)

Backseat Safari Adventure!

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