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Hands On with Far Cry 5's American Adventure - The RPG Files - MMORPG.com
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Hands On with Far Cry 5's American Adventure - The RPG Files - MMORPG.com
The event was complete with a firing range for slingshots and crossbows, ATVs, a meet and greet with everyone’s new favorite in-game pup, Boomer and a supervillain style helicopter entrance from the game’s charismatic preacher: The Father, Joseph Seed. But you’re not here to see what kind of party Ubisoft throws… you’re here for the game.
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I forgot to mention this in the preview comments: towers are gone.
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Thank goodness. I enjoyed your video and I have recently came back to single player gaming and have been having a blast. Now if I could just get an affordable 1080 card lol
I previewed the game on a PS4 Pro.
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On the other hand... with the heavy politicization of some games today, it always makes one wonder of there is an agenda or confirmation bias driving some of the creative design choices. When you are a gamer who is constantly thinking critically, stuff like this really pops out.
That said, it does look absolutely amazing from an art direction point of view.
Actually would love to hear more about that, if its a cult in the mid west, did anyone get baptised in a river? From the UK here, and that happens in every film and TV series I see about that mid west so they must have done?
On a side note, why don't any of these ppl who review this game showcase the hand to hand combat, the stealthy side of things instead of guns a blazing style gameplay.
Here's to hoping more video games reach out to such folks to help inform their narrative.
He is not awesome at all. Many see him as a fraud and a person with a personal vendetta. He also has a criminal history.
For example see: https://www.sott.net/article/150574-Rick-Ross-Religious-Expert-False-Expert-Psychopath
The Waco Massacre is a highly controversial topic because the government basically found excuses to go in and kill 76 ton of people, including 25 children. The FBI and ATF also botched a previous arrest at Ruby Ridge, which resulted in them assassinating a 14 year old and his mother, who was also holding a baby in her arms. These actions were essentially giving groups distrustful of the government proof that their beliefs were well founded, which not only escalated the issue but caused the FBI and ATF to face public criticism.
So the geniuses at the FBI/ATF thought they would try to repair their image by doing a "successful" arrest, with all the cameras and news on them at the same time. They chose to target the Branch Davidians, made up some excuse, never proven, why they needed to raid the property. This was going to be staged farce to which those government institutions could get back their image. It was all set up, since they could have arrested David Koresh many times outside of the property, even when he volunteered they wouldn't let it be so easy. Again they wanted a spectacle for the media. They brought in tanks, military helicopters and snipers...ect
Only they screwed that up even worse than the Ruby Ridge murders. Some of the ATF people shot their own (friendly fire) and then blamed it on the Branch Davidians. Everything was so clumsily done... and yet no one was ever held accountable. Evidence contradicting the FBI narrative magically went missing, the politicians and the leaders driving the operations just got off scott free.
Furthermore, there was pressure mounting from the first lady at the time (she ran for president this time around) who was annoyed that the media attention was still on the Waco "standoff", when her highly touted health care bill was supposed to be the focus.
The key here is that not only was it botched at every level, but that military grade weapons were used on civilians. This was pretty much unheard of before.
The FBI Negotiator (Gary Noesner) who was part of the operation denounced the actions done by the FBI and ATF. The ATF would blast sounds of animals being slaughtered for hours on end as a form of psychological warfare. He was shocked that the government portrayed the Davidians as "fanatics" and "cultist" in order to justify dehumanizing them and thus the extreme actions taken. Him and the survivors have spoken out at length regarding the events, directly contradicting the FBI and ATF themselves.
This documentary sheds some light on what happened:
Additionally Paramount just did a miniseries about it... Which clearly Farcry 5's release date seems to take into consideration.
Simply because of the tactic of dehumanization via "cult", "fanatic" and "extremist" labels, which objectively seem to have no defining properties other than being used to trigger a "negative reaction", Farcry 5 does not look so great in that regard. Obviously their design choices are no coincidence.
This is also isnt meant to put the Davidians in a positive light, but its clear that Rick Ross and Ubisoft in this case were using Ruby Ridge and Waco as the foundation for the game. When you are aware of this stuff, its kind of hard to not be alienated by it when its presented in entertainment. It can be seen as a form of propaganda.
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(1) For more neutral context, I would argue the first point is that they value constitutional rights (including the 2nd amendment) and the ideological basis/political theory for which the united states was founded upon. Check out the Federalist Papers.
(2) The same can also be said for the big cities and social centers.
Where those who like certain degrees of independence (and being left alone) move into rural areas...those who that tend to push for more collectivism and not leaving people alone tend to gather in big cities. The people moving to rural areas to be left alone (which is more in line with our founding) is not any more crazy than those who seek to collectivize and control via centralized authority within the cities. These are just two different world views.
Extremist can be found in both as well. Antifa (black block communist) for example, gather in the "far left" hubs in the PNW. Extremism also is a misnomer, its actually hard to define what it even means beyond having a strong stance. We all have those.
Also remember, for context sake, our nation's first president said: "A free people ought not to only be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." This is largely the political philosophy in which the nation was founded upon, so naturally there will be people who feel the same way. Our very foundation is based on both distrust of government and checks & balances meant to prevent a repeat of history, from which the biggest criminals are political leaders themselves.
On a side note, Bioshock approached it better. They tried to critique philosopher Ayn Rand with the theme and setting of the game, though it butchered her philosophy, it was still pulling on complete hyper-stylized fiction. Farcry 5 makes no such attempt.
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The game covers a politicized topic and used politicized people as well as politicized events to help frame it. Why are you upset its being covered in the discussion? Its not appearing in any unnatural fashion, but rather a byproduct of the discussion itself as well as questions presented.
If it touches on any confirmation biases you may have, just say so and move on, or better yet think critically and come to your own conclusions based on a neutral position or at the very least seeing a few different perspectives.
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