BEFORE YOU COMMENT: The 'MEH' Category at the start of the video doesn't mean BAD, just means it was an alright game that I didn't love. I could of used a better word, i had like 1k subs at the time and just wanted to push some buttons. Far cry 2 is a fine game, just lacks a story that pulled me in at the time of its release. As for primal being in dogshit I will stand by that (although the words 'Dogshit' is a tad mean) . Primal has amazing gameplay but I'm just not into the ooga booga story, plus the games map was a MASSIVE asset flip of far cry 4, with the entire maps landscape being ripped from far cry 4 with just different trees and environmental details

You might say the series is a farcry from what it once was.

I found it interesting that when castillo tries to force Dani to join his army, she is already wearing the uniform (even though it was just intended as a disguise). One of those symbolic things begging for better subtext or narrative weight that sadly doesn't seem to really exist

started the game liking it, ended the game emotionally fatigued and frustrated. The point of far cry is being a "far cry" from home, but here you are at home. That's not a bad thing, but they did absolutely nothing with that concept. At times i wished it was a GTA story instead, where one of your allies betrays you and flips the whole story upside down. Or, you know, Diego running away is the main plot point, he joins libertad and castillo flips half yara upside down looking for him.

Thank you Zenny for being able to put my fever dream into words. I can’t remember a single thing after playing this game.

Oh boy, time for another epic, well-made video by Zenny rambling passionately about a game I've never played. ;^)

This video got recommended to me today, I suspect a lot of other folks too but holy shit, excellent work and concise points, checking the subcount was surprising. Well made content, keep it up.

I really think that it would have been a great game, really really great, if it just took itself more serious, there should be space for humor, but it becomes tone-deaf when it's half and half all the time. It showed such great potential and I was really invested in the world and story but it killed it for me when the characters flip-floped from "sacrifice is needed for a revolution, you may even need to sacrifice your morals for the betterment of the people" to "isn't it just soooo fun to kill people"

Wait, WHAT?! A tobacco variant that cures cancer?!?! And I here I was just talking about "that odd one out" in a series with a random ass unnecessary plot divergence! Oh well, at least you don't have to take malaria pills in this one.

I really liked that they gave us a fully voiced male or female protagonist, and Dani is definitely likeable, but outside of maybe El Tigre or Philly, I just didn't connect with any of the other characters in the game, and overall they were pretty forgettable. The Maximas Mantanzas goons were absolutely insufferable, and I barely remember anything at all about Clara or Yelana for example. Libertad frequently felt like a bunch of college buddies messing around and getting drunk on the beach, not a formidable guerrilla faction capable of taking out a well armed military and overthrowing an experienced dictator! Giancarlo Esposito was amazing as always, but was underutilized, is barely even in the game, and isn't even personally aware of Dani until a significant portion of the story has already passed! To be fair, Joseph Seed and Pagan Min also had very little screentime, so the main villain being underutilized and in the background too much has been a frequent issue with Far Cry IMO. The way Far Cry 5 handled Joseph Seed's minimal screentime was by having 3 really interesting and memorable side villains in the Seed siblings. The 3 main side villains in Far Cry 6 are extremely generic and have the charisma of a brick. That lack of compelling side villains really hurt the story of FC6 for me and made me a lot less interested in continuing on. This is a bit of a random rant LOL but overall FC6 just felt rushed and rather unfinished compared to FC5. They finally patched up some of the main issues with the game, but you can only do so much once the game has been released. Far Cry 5 >> Far Cry 6 by a mile!

Good to see another Aussie making high quality content. Makes me wanna get off my ass and reboot my own channel already. It's honestly criminal how few views this has despite the effort you've put in. You've earned a new sub, my dude.

Just found this KZfaq channel and I’m loving it. Keep up the good work man.

Far Cry 6 is the Saints Row reboot of the Far Cry franchise.

The fact this game become so unhinge to the point we had a dlc with stranger things and the other side says alot

Truly one of the best Far Cry 6 videos I've seen and will likely see. I agree with you 100%. I especially like the beginning of your video. I always thought I was alone with my opinion on this game. But you taught me better. You definitely deserve a lot more attention on KZfaq. Really amazing video.

I'm so happy! I have watched your vids and I am subbed, but KZfaq never once recommended it. But today IT DID!! Right on my front page! I love how you opened this video, the music and script was such a good hook! I don't even intend to play Far Cry 6 but this video on it kept my attention!

Zenny i just started watching your content today ... instantly hooked you absolutely need to keep making content your format epic im instantly hooked been binge watching just about everything your making keep up the great work and cant wait for more hope to see more today is 2/8/24

Awesome video man, I hope the algorithm blesses you soon, because your content is always top tier.

this channel is weirdly underrated, keep up the good work

The best way ive been able to describe my feelings on FC6, from the gameplay to story and everything in between, is that it feels like a Just Cause game without all of the fun over the top parts. And the parts where it does try to do that it gives us the most bargain bin version of it.

Well now that your starfield video is popping up and I got to see this one too... great videos mate! The production value of your videos is definitely improving as you go on but I hope people check out your other vids, I really love the passion of this one, you made great points!

To quote Giancarlo Esposito (Gus Fring) "I never make the same mistake twice".

Dude ive been waiting for you to review this amazing video ☺️

Awesome as always! I love your videos so much.

FC6 should allowed me to have an option to side with Anton at the get-go cuz i felt like every actions in the rebel is alot more worse than what Anton is doing

I have played every single game in the series before playing this game, and for the first time in the entire franchise I had to take breaks while playing this. Not because the game was long, difficult, or intense but because quite a few moments during the campaign I couldn't believe what I was hearing or seeing during the cinematics or dialogue sections. A major problem is the tone flip flopping between intense seriousness and whacky silliness often one after the other. Like something will happen either related to Castillo or his regime to show brutal and dehumanizing they are, then afterwards your character will react as anyone would in horror and Juan (who may just be the most infuriating character in the whole franchise) will demean whatever it is and compare it to his own lengthy past as a revolutionary while mixing it with some absurd comment or joke and then whatever atrocity Dani has just witnessed is never discussed ever again, or Juan will just chock up whatever you have just witnessed as part of a Guerilla fighter's typical lifestyle while trying to put a positive spin on whatever horror you've just seen. All the while the supporting cast are so ungodly absurd that calling it ridiculous doesn't even do it justice, many of these characters seem like they would be more at home in a typical Grand Theft Auto game then people taking part in a revolution to overthrow a dictator. I mean sure having over-the-top characters is nothing new for Far Cry, just take a look at Hurk or Longinus as examples from past games but often these were side characters and not part of the main cast. So they couldn't detract from moments in the main story that were meant to be meaningful, whilst the main cast in Far Cry 6 are biggest bunch of clowns I have ever seen in any game outside of GTA. Dani's regional allies consists of an angry woman who's an expert at close quarters knife combat (ok her I kinda of liked) , a Rap Artist, his angry girlfiend, & their silly sidekick cameraman, some retired revolutionaries who with the exception of one of them have basically given up, and a self-important group of revolutionaries who seem to think they are the only group trying to free Yara despite that not being even close to true or even remotely believable. At the very end once Castillo is dead, they all ask: "So what now?" All seem to agree on two things 1. Yara needs a leader until elections can be established and 2. No one group trusts each other to be in power but they all do trust Dani. SO Dani should be the new temporary ruler of Yara, Dani immediantly rejects this idea saying they should run the country together and tells them not to screw up while walking out of the room. Like personally I wouldn't trust these people to run a coffee-shop let a lone country. Dani then walks off into the sunset, while making jokes with Juan about being a Guerilla fighter. It's a terrible ending and one that leaves so many questions unanswered.

These are games that do everything in their power to subvert any good quality they have in them. Like, you can tell someone set there and actually thought about what he was doing... And someone else just went "Nah, we need to spice it up!", and allot of points get trashed because of it. You can feel the intervention in the process, that's exactly why it feels like there's a genre of "Killed games"... You know there was a gem there, someone just made sure to trash it for whatever reason. That's exactly why there's allot of discussion about these games in particular... You can feel the effort and see how it gets ruined. Very good analysis video, I think you hit on points I haven't seen other channels bring up! It's good that you bring the moments of true passion and awe from those games to really show how far they messed it up!

I played this game while on one of its many free trials,and only managed finished the prologue because the trial ran out. But while playing,I felt this strange loss of motivation to continue this game's story even with its engaging but repetitive gameplay and the wide variety of guns and vehicles,so much so that this free trial instead of convincing me of making the purchase,it instead felt like I had experienced all that this game had to offer and convinced me not to purchase it and experience the game in its fullest. And with this video,I finally found the reason for this strange lack of motivation I experienced during this game that I never felt even when playing the previous entries of this franchise-The terrible story. I found the characters to be every bit as unlikable as you described in this video,and the main motivation of Dani's reason to join the resistance is extremely weak for me that I just didn't care about any of it,and progressing through it instead of feeling like a hero of an action movie,it felt like a chore progressing through the story,listening to the insufferable dialogue of these characters that I was expected to love,but ended up hating. And upon finishing this video, I had a little revelation on my thoughts on these games as a whole-I don't mind the repetitive gameplay of claiming outposts,killing hordes and hordes of enemies or even the tower climbing the previous games had,if they had a good and at least engaging story with characters I would like to fight side by side with,and villians that I am motivated to defeat,then I'm motivated to finish it at its fullest. And Far Cry 6 got all the gameplay stuff right,but the story is terrible enough for me to just ditch it and never look back.

Lets go another banger, keep up the good work man!

I found myself rooting for Anton the longer I played the game. They made the protagonists so unbearable that I found myself skipping all the cut scenes

Hey Zenny this is the Mortal Kombat guy, your advice was very helpful. Also this video is really well edited, i'm gonna watch b4 I sleep.

Man you deserve so many more subs, your videos are awesome.

To be fair... on the dictator point. The Phillippines IRL did the same thing. Yeah it was stupid, but it's not like it's never happened. Anyways great video!

Great breakdown of the game! Could you maybe do a breakdown/review of Far Cry 5? It's one of my favorites and there are some interesting threads and themes in the story and world building to talk about!

This franchise is unfortunately like any other Ubisoft Franchise Too much propaganda and too little good storytelling and characters

Dude, the way you pace your video is intense. I haven't played this game before so when you describe Anton's story near the middle of the video. Suddenly I'm floored. All of the cringe in the game melts away for just a little bit... And then the other shoe drops. I can't believe how close they came to an incredibly nuanced villain and then they just fumbled it. Damn

No words my man, SSS tier content. More please.

I love that he dose not just say that is bad with the only reason being that he has played far cry 5 not like some other youtubers "wink "wink"

Honestly, having Danny say that its fun to do all this shit could have been fucking awesome, if it was half an hour before you kill Anton and the whole game she is getting more and more unhinged At first trying to solve stuff non-violently, and the mid point straight violence was slightly encouraged by her and by the she is the one picking the most blood-thirsty and violent options to solve problems. The "It's fun" moment would come as a culmination of a character arc

How is your channel still this small? Keep up the great work man!

Well put together video. Thank you!

I remember that i got Far Cry 6 for free as part of a deal (it was from buying a GPU or sumthn), played it for about an hour, and i wanted a refund despite getting it for free its so astronomically bad in its opening hours, that when the game gives you an enlarged map with all the things you could do, i didn't think about all the fun things im about to do but rather, the same agonising hour that i have to sit trhough, stretched for dozens of hours just like Ubisoft always do

KZfaq really needs to recommend your vids more, so here's a bump

im surprised no one got mad at you for putting FC2 in Meh i played a bit on PS3 but dont remember much, I didnt know it was a fan favorite

I just wanna say whatever dev made her shoot the gun like this 19:06 has never shot a firearm irl

Far Cry 5 in my opinion was an awesome experience but it was the stepping stone for Ubisoft getting way too lazy for their own good. Imagine if we got to play as Diego, he felt more like the main character than Dany. Castillo's story is so interesting but Ubisoft just gave us a genric main character to play as. I hope with Far Cry 7, Ubi redeems themselves.

“It’s fun” *cue montage* This is wonderful. Instant sub and bell! This is such high quality content

damnnn another banger😱😱, I was wondering what happened to Farcry 6

11:33 they really fetishized violence AND domestic violence, bring me back to farcry 3 please

This has to be one of the best videos about Far Cry 6

A fun drinking game: Drink every time you hear the word "guerilla" used. You'll have more fun playing it that way at least.

u should totally do a video about the villain DLCs for Far Cry 6

I loved Far Cry 5. It is very silly. It is also the only Far Cry game that I have played and I think this makes a big difference.

So glad I found your channel :)

I actually didn't fuckin know Anton just straight up kills Diego Holy shit If they'd just worked on Him I don't even know what to say

10:15 it makes sense, máximas matanzas are teenagers, they grew up under dictatorship, went to Marquesa's 'correction' school. They're reckless as teenagers AND they personally hate Marquesa so much. Idk why so many people seem to not understand it

Great video. The last Far Cry I played was 3, never finished it. Now that I think about it I never finished any Far Cry game. Ooops. 🧡💛🧡

I like the headshot sounds and checkpoint captures.

I’ve always seen Anton Castillo as a villain who on one hand, pretty underrated, but at the same time not all that great when compared to some villains in previous far cry games (or any villain who’s been consistent throughout the entirety of a story that isn’t terrible). I do agree with nearly everything you’ve said about Anton Castillo, such a great villain in most of his run time yet happens to stumble from a few dumb decisions made by the writers. Though I’m not sure I agree with human experimenting on children and homeless for Viviro before the draft and Anton’s cure failing in him being a fundumental flaw that ruins Anton’s entire character. As you’ve said, all the terrible things Anton and his army has done in present Yara were a desperate attempt to spread up the process of curing his cancer. All for being able to remain alive long enough to see through his father’s vision of Yara being complete. I don’t see why it would be completely unnecessary for him to do some secret unethical experimentations for Viviro if Anton wanted to make sure Viviro continues to work as he intends it to. So that during the time Anton was cured, he could ensure he stays cured so to live long enough to see through his fathers vision. It would make sense that he was always a desperate man as he is in the game before the cure stopped working and before the draft, knowing Anton’s childhood backstory and ambition to continue his fathers vision after obtaining power to rule Yara. Those experimentations would really enforce that trait of desperation rather than ruin it. It would only make sense for Anton to be “a villain turned villain with a side dish of slave camp” if he has done anything evil for no reason when he was 13, before anything in the game during and after Anton’s fathers death has happened. Although I would say that if the experimentations were done on Yara prisoners instead of homeless and children, it would far better choice to make so Anton doesn’t come off as more radically evil than he actually is. Still I don’t think those experiments absolutely ruins his character. Your right about him killing Clara at the dinner table on the other hand was pretty stupid now that I think about. Your third recommended option for him to reconcile if he has been on the wrong and that the rebellion is good in my option isn’t any better than killing Clara, though the 2nd and 4th option could’ve been much more beneficial for Anton :V

The intro was amazing I have no words

Nice video i just finished 6 last year i had fun but i just got far cry 3 and 4 on sale cant wait to play them i started at 6.

After 20 hrs, I’m having alot of fun. It does get boring at times and the weapons are a lil one the top but it’s a great environment for a far cry game. The horses are a good addition and I love traveling on them. There’s so much to do you just have to find it cuz it’s not spoon fed like before. Loot weapons and treasure all have to be found. It really makes you feel like you’re on an oppressed island. Martial law in effect in the main city. You can bribe guards for Intel and loot, the treasure hunts are way betterand in depth, only thing I dont like is seeing enemies thru walls cuz I play no hud. It doesnt ruin the game tho. Dani is a great protagonist who I give a shit about and he/she feels real. I picked male. Its a solid experience and I rate it number 3 under 4 and 3. It has all the elements of the others just finely tuned. Everything feels better. The missions feel like wildlands missions cuz the regions and the effects blowing up aa guns and shit provide. When you take over a checkpoint or something they actually liberate it with graffiti, troops and their colors. People are looking at this too literal and want to be offended. Right left arguments who tf cares focus on the game. Im focused on beating the game so I can explore this huge island in 4k in peace. Idk why so many people hate this game. Again its not perfect and I HATE seeing enemies thru walls cuz It ruins my immersion spawns are weird but not as bad as 5 at all. Gear looks ok but doesnt give me all I want but you can improvise. Story is inconsistent and weird at times but good for the most part. Ammo types are annoying but thats realistic. All in all solid game. Those complaining its too easy must play on story cuz action mode is going to take some times to complete certain missions.

Have to say i don’t enjoyed the armory system i just want to lvl everything up on one skilltree and dont have to choose between too many things that i love

"Why do i write sentences so f***ing long!" I felt that my dude. Lmao

Wait wait wait wait wait hol up. Im new here. Idk if its an inside thing or what. Can someone please explain what is happening from 40:07 to the end of the video?

To me the biggest problem was honestly just the enemy spawns- you be running in an area with a million soldiers charging down the road and suddenly you cant find anyone in an hour. Its also funny how the beginning of the game (the first 1h of the island looks drastically better than the rest of the game, because thats what was demo'd and showcased the most lol

I love "dog shit" as a category. 😆

I personally boycotted the game and refused to get purely for the fact the neglected to put in the Map Editor. Saw it free on Game Pass, decided to play and damn. Glad I didn't pay for this Also, great breakdown!

There was no climax feeling when killing the boss fights it was just like meh whatever on to the next we didn’t get to know the characters that much

Oh thank god just when I was desperate for something nice to watch!

Same vibes as Watch Dogs Legion btw. All victims of Ubisoft being Ubisoft. They always have the basis of a good script/idea but then they try mass market it so much that it ends up being so generic and bland where the games never really take a solid direction be it serious or playful coz they never stick to anything 😂. You hit the nail on the head with this in that quantity over quality segment.

Once upon a time I played Far cry 6 and stopped playing because it didn't feel like far cry, and Aton was boring. This guy's storytelling was so good it almost made me pick it back up and try again and then him pointing out the flaws made me immediately loose that want 10/10 video love the story telling (this isn't sarcasm this is how I actually feel)

The game was shit. It was fun enough to play, but the writing was just godawful. There was definitely potential in Anton's relationship with his son and how Dani could've factored into that, but it just ... completely fell flat. In FC5, I actually felt true motivation to free Hope County. In this game, I wanted all these rebels to just burn. I gave no shits about any of them, except the animal characters. I also gave no shits about the villains, for that matter.

The audio drama of far cry 6 unironcally makes the rebels a whole lot worse. After they overthrow Anton's pops, after apparently him trying to make deals with America and make Yara a tourist spot that somehow fucked up the food supplies and made the country into upheaval. The rebel made Yara way worse than before. But somehow putting the same guys and their prodigies into power again after Anton is good idea apparently. 1 mil iq play.

Strongly disagree on the point about the weapon diversity. Optimal strategy to clean house at every outpost is stil the silenced sniper rifle/assault rifle with scope without fail.

This was fucking awesome! I thought this guy would have a couple 100'000 subs but no, 3K?!?! Leaving this comment for bragging rights when he blows up

They are so unbelievably racist to Americans in that game that i just stopped playing it

Tf fact we are a failed military recruit but still running thru the army is wild.

Far Cry is like that smart kid who is just really lazy. Here we have a great concept of being a one man army in a really dangerous environment with animals and people who want to murder you. You can tackle missions with stealth or go guns blazing. And yet for some reason, Far Cry is still very generic

the dlc review video that never came xD

Ain't it weird how it takes a few hours for the critical-thinking-player to realize the game is utter crap, and at the same time, you have only a 2-hour game-play limit to decide whether or not you want a refund for that game?

Oh dear. So, I completely missed the entire far cry 6 thing, cause they aren't my kinda game. But this.. It's basically the summer of love 2020 with all the self defeating shit the protestors did to themselves. Is it possible that they wanted to put up a mirror to both sides? Yeah, sorry, I don't really want to get political, but your explanation of what they do, how they act and their convictions are very similar in my eyes. It was the first thing that popped to mind. Including showing themselves worse than the people they fight against, having a very short fuse. Celebrating the resistance, rather than taking it serious. Even the different groups I can see back in the groups that were voicing similar discontent.

if i'm being honest, in the time i spent playing this game and watching videos about it, i wondered how much better the story of this game would've worked if it was a book instead of a video game. a lot of the "comedic" and comical filler wouldn't be present and the darker moments could stand out in a far more well nuanced contrast against the light hearted celebrations and moments of reprieve. imagine if this whole game was a book that changed perspectives between Dani and Diego every few chapters in order to tell the story from two opposite perspectives that could really give further nuance to the story that a game simply cannot do.

Masterpiece

Excellent video, I'm shocked you don't have more views. Probably that silly accent. 💪😎👍

Zendrecdus, PLEASE do a review of Homefront: Revolution.

I feel that part of the story is showing how history repeats itself, Libertad becomes corrupted as they go on from losing friends and loved ones, they understand that being in war, sometimes the best way to defeat your enemy is to become your enemy. Not everything they did was good or reasonable (with a few exceptions you mentioned) but they are also in a war time situation. They celebrate victories no matter how small because morale is important. Yes it is dumb how they do it sometimes, but they also want to keep the people they managwd to recruit. Sometimes celebrating those small victories is a way of celebrating what the faction has achieved. In a way its an "I'm acknoledging the work you put in." And sometimes in an stressful situation when you have adrenaline going through your system, you act without thinking. This can include Clara.

great video

It might be a small thing to some but I think the switch to third person for cutscenes really hamstrung the attachment to the villains. With the prior games the constant first person angle meant that interactions with the villains always felt more immersive and personal. To be in the story they had to be there personally and interact with you, making me feel more invested in them and also accentuating their crazy behavior. With FC6 being more like a movie, third person cutscenes and cutting away from Dani to have the villains interacting elsewhere, I felt like I had no stakes in the story. I didn’t give a shit about the villains, they were just abstract objectives to eventually check off a list after enough busywork. Super disappointing and was a factor that stopped me from being able to get into the game

At the 35 min mark, I kind of fell like the short summary of this is, "If you had not tried to subvert our subverted expectation, it would have been good."

I learned after farcry 5 that I'm not buying another farcry game. It's sad to say because I used to love these games

you have the power to narrate trash historys like it was a piece of art

What would have been and could have been interesting is if the "It's fun" line was to highlight the psychopathy of both the MC and the guy talking to the MC. Showed that while for everyone else, it's hell, for you and the guy, broken, it's fun. It wouldn't have broken the game and would have instead, added depth to the whole thing. Could have been a "In a bad world, the people making changes are all bad or broken" or something like that. But then, I remember it is Ubisoft and know they will not do that anymore.

I’ve been playing a little of primal, and it’s moderately fun so far

Far cry 5 was good though...

top tier content, far cry 6 wasn’t as good as 5 imo but it was still dumb fun. i liked the weapon selection

Still waiting the video on the DLC

Damn. Giancarlo's character actually seemed pretty good for a second there. The gameplay any different from the previous ones? How repetitive Far Cry 5 seemed kind of turned me off from this series.

First time I played it, I was totally out, on the verge of angry - that anger pointed directly at the character writing. Then I changed to a current gen console and played it again and the game felt immensly better - even the writing. Is the writing good? Well at times, its masterful. And at times, its so bad you cant tell if the creators are trolling you or if the took a dumb-pill that particular day. Its a weird beast - the ending is the darkest in the series by far - but contrasting that, you have the silliest sidecharacters of any Far Cry game. A very, very schizophrenic experience. A great in depth review man, my first time here. "The writers inability to read the room that theyve built." Spot on.

I loved far cry primal. One of the best IMO.