It looked like it would be terribly exposed to both ground fire and helicopters, and I only climbed it to see if there was some treasure up top.. To some degree it was, and I used a few medkits, but it was also an ideal platform to shoot down helicopters. Anyway I began my assaults from the tree-covered slopes on the opposite side, which worked fairly well up to a point.
The safes aren't exactly brimming with treasure though: $250 and 4 bars of silver looking very sparse in something the size of a steamer trunk -- about as much as a bear skin plus a skunk are worth, which you can collect walking up any road.
The 'black market' [skill] AP ammo OTOH is a real game-changer.
Blowed up the giant statue of Joseph, killed Faith, blowed up the drug factory, freed the sherrif in a cascade of shootin' galleries and missions-on-rails, which all felt pretty old as far as game design goes.
The open world game is brilliant, but whoever wrote the story with all the torture and sadism going on is kind of a sick fuck, no?
Ive sunk ~74-hours into this sucker, and the progress bar shows only 50% completion. 8-O
(I freely admit I am shilly-shallying around in the open world, doing loads of repetitive stuff, but that's how I play most games, and how I measure if they're any good. I also freely admit I had to let Peaches die, during a ferocious firefight against three LMG-wielding jesus christers :-(( )
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Peaches is back in action. I've been pushing into dark areas of the map, cleaning out some prepper stashes, picking up perks and testing out new weapons. Can't figure out if Johnny is already dead or there's something I need to trigger for the showdown, haven't done Jacob yet so maybe he gotta go first. Oh, just checked out a walkthrough. There's a bunch of missions left to do initiated by assorted stupid characters which I mistook to be side missions.
“Michael Jackson fan groups to sue accusers for ‘sullying his memory’”
> I don't like mopping up sub-quests after completing the main storyline, so I try to get through them early.
Always bugs me when games place too much urgency on the primary mission, to the extent of making you feel guilty to spend ten minutes helping a farmer.
Far Cry generally don't do that. If anything, it's too easy to lose the plot. And the plot kinda sorta doesn't actually matter anyway, which is good, because it's stupid.
“Michael Jackson fan groups to sue accusers for ‘sullying his memory’”
I have an inkling about that, based on the premise of "New Dawn". I was put off by the marketing, with the crazy Fortnite -ish neon color scheme (which already blights some of the guns in 5), but the trailer makes it look like more of a 3/4/5 re-skin, complete with tedious villains*.
I'm eyeing the 'Nam DLC for 5.
*the characters are actually pretty interesting, it's all the cut scenes and phony fights in lala land that makes 'em tiresome.
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The Vietnam DLC is fun. Short, but fun and with good reasons to replay.
I always like the fantastic bits of FC, whether it's hallucinatory quests or alternative worlds, and I think New Dawn may have some of that vibe throughout, so I'm looking forward to it. I'm just a bit too mean to pay full-game price for what is, in essence, a DLC itself.
"We all have flaws, and mine is being wicked." James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks 1951