I’ve been watching a walkthrough series from the legendary gamer and YouTuber; theRadBrad. He got me into wanting Bioshock Infinite. He got me into wanting Dead Space 3. He even got me into Skyrim.
And he may get me into wanting Far Cry 4. He feels the game is like “a remastered (polished) version of Far Cry 3”. Yet even though, he praises 3 (so far) over 4. Mainly because the main antagonist is in your face a lot more, while this Pegan guy just lets you kill his men and doesn’t give a care (and occasionally randomly talks to you). I actually agree with this. Vass was a fucking badass. This guy feels he’s gay (no offense to any gay people reading this, at all).
So, why does this feel somewhat different to me, that might change my mind? First off, the main protagonist, his only mission is to spread his mother’s ashes in a place far north in Karat. That’s pretty noble of him. He’s no warrior, and also there’s no stupid ‘tatau’ he wears.
All he’s known is the son of someone famous that helped what is known as ‘The Golden Path’.
The other thing, there’s several parts in the story that you have to choose between two people and their different beliefs of a same specific area. For example: Do you rescue these people and this place, or do you destroy it to protect the land? How you choose them, affects certain aspects of the game (how people see you and stuff).
Only one dislike about this, the game only has one save. So you can’t be all “I’ll do two saves, one per each person. Then I’ll know which one was the better choice.”
EDIT: After watching more of theRadBrad’s series, I literally stopped the video and said “Alright, Ubisoft. You sold me. *opens up wallet and pulls out credit card* Shut up and take my money!” That game.. wow. There’s a LOT more to it than I thought!
Occasionally you get this mission, where you’re in the shoes of this Chinese guy in Shanghai China. Any second, I was hoping to see a dragon in it.
The world seems to hold a lot of secrets, even more than I’ve seen of Far Cry 3. It’s probably the reason why Pegan doesn’t really do as much as Vass did(in the badass meter).
EDIT2: Watching theRadBrad’s playthrough of Far Cry 3 and comparing it with 4. I’ve noticed quite a lot of changes.
-The UI looks more clean.
-No bothersome tutorials. The controls are displayed before you do the action instead of requiring you to press a key.
-The crafting UI is more user friendly. Infact, made easier (the game auto-crafts a syringe for you when you get two Green Leafs).
-The minimap and the ingame map look nicer and more 3D.
-Sleeping has been re-added from Far Cry 2. Yay for this. Though it’s not as cool as it was back then. Still, you can save your game here.
-Comparing the two main protagonists, Jason and Ajay.. well. I want to say that Ajay isn’t “a wimpy teenager”, yet not everyone has a strong courage when faced with death and forced to kill things for survival. Jason does feel more developed than Ajay.
I’ll probably wait until it goes on sale again. It went on sale last weekend. $60 feels a bit too much for what you get. $40 would be more reasonable. Especially if the Gold edition goes on sale.