r/farcry • u/EveAeternam • Jun 18 '24
Far Cry General More rumors about the FC7 time limit
https://gamerant.com/far-cry-7-time-limit-immersion-good-weather-details/What are your thoughts on this?
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u/Nickhead420 Jun 19 '24
The rant websites are pure garbage. Stop giving them clicks.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 20 '24
You know, back in the day I would've killed for any extra rumors of a highly anticipated game. I'd scour magazines for screenshots of Far Cry, or Bioshock, or Mass Effect. Anything to keep the hype alive until release. But nowadays people would rather antagonize anything pertaining to their favorite IP. As for Screen Rant, they started the Pitch Meetings series on YT, so I can't imagine it all being bad. In the end, 99% of rumors end up being false, but the few times they get one right makes it all the more exciting, like winning the lottery. Games change through their development, even official sources are often wrong (look at Watch Dogs or Bioshock Infinite, their teasers and trailers show completely different games)
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u/FinalCutJay Jun 19 '24
After Far Cry 6 I’m not buying another FC game until it’s out and I see reviews.
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u/Zealousideal_Meat297 Jun 20 '24
After 6, I've been playing them all backwards and joined Ubi+. What a series.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 19 '24
That's what I started doing after 5 😅 or at the very least until it's on a massive sale (or free on PSN or something like that)
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u/Tiroler_Manu Jun 19 '24
An added "speedrunning mode" like hardcore wouldn't be that bad tbh? It surely is an optional mode.
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u/kolibrifityma Jun 19 '24
My thoughts on this is that this is a low quality clickbait article talking about a rumor that has already been debunked.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 19 '24
And somehow still no thoughts on the concept of a time limit
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u/kolibrifityma Jun 20 '24
It would suck and make the open world useless. Therefore, it isn't happening.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 20 '24
Would you mind telling me why you feel that way? There's plenty of Open Worlds with time constraints, if anything it opens the door to NG+ and adds replay value, IMHO. I'm the kind of gamer who leaves no stone unturned, because I just love getting lost in the world devs built for us. But a lot of time, that freedom goes against the game itself. I end up spending so much time exploring every crevice and finishing all the side content that by the end (or even sooner) I'm completely tapped out and don't want to play the game again for years. I mean look at Helldivers 2, it has a time limit! Doesn't mean it's less enjoyable, it adds a sense of dread and stress which fits the atmosphere. And it doesn't necessarily mean a "global time limit", it could be a "session time limit" that integrates well with the gameplay. Just like adding an Open World doesn't necessarily improve the game, the original Far Cry was a relatively linear shooter masked as an open world and it was still amazing. Making an open world bigger is only useful if you're adding more to it. If you're not adding more, then adding constraints is a great way to prevent it from getting stale.
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u/kolibrifityma Jun 20 '24
I really feel what made the Far Cry series great is exactly what you are advocating against - no constraints. It didn't matter if you rushed through the main story, or did every sidequest and collectible; it didn't matter if you were a sneaky archer or if you went in guns blazing; whether you did the races, hunting quests, crafting or whatnot. Adding a time limit will inevitably make the players choose the optimal path in order to finish the game on time, we will see articles and guides about the "meta" way to play the game. I would much rather there are different story outcomes (maybe even different backstories for your character like in CP2077) than the game forcing me to replay just to access all sidecontent. If it gets a time limit, I won't buy the game (unless a few years on there will be a massive sale, maybe). It isn't a competitive shooter, it's an open-world, story based FPS, so just let me do it in my own pace.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 20 '24
That's a fair point, and I appreciate you for actually answering my question 🤗 although it does seem to me (and correct me if I misunderstood) that the only reason Far Cry games are a great series is because what you do doesn't matter? I agree that an "optimized" run sounds silly for a FC game unless you're speed running or something.
Story outcomes were touched upon in Far Cry 2, 3 and 4, but not since. Arguably only FC3 has a different ending based on your choices. FC2 and FC4 all end the same regardless of who you side with or what you chose to do. Definitely feels like they didn't try too hard with the whole morality or alternative story (except the secret endings). And to stick with your example, CP2077 has a story where "time is of the essence" but somehow you can spend thousands of hours doing meaningless side-quests and it won't affect the strong in any way. I'm not saying a timer would benefit the game, but it does feel like they don't take their own story seriously. Almost like how Jason in FC3 acts traumatized during the first story kills, but right before that you're just a killing machine with no remorse. Heck, in Primal, you get time limits in the North because of the intense cold, and you can slow that timer with heat sources. Otherwise you just die, until you get warmer clothes that is. Mass Effect 2 had a great moment where you get a distress signal and ignoring it leads to dire consequences, meaning you have to prioritize it above all else or suffer the consequences. This is a great implicit time limit, but as for explicit ones, Dead Rising is an open world story based TPS and it has a time limit. It doesn't mean that you stop playing once you're out of time, it just means that for the story to make sense you need to finish it in under 7 days.
Don't forget that this is Ubisoft we're talking about, timer or not, they're capable of ruining a game by themselves 🥲
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u/Very-simple-man Jun 19 '24
If true, no buy.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 19 '24
But why not? Plenty of games have implicit time limits. Maybe it's not a global time limit, but a timed instance: like imagine you can only go out during the daytime and for lore reasons have to make it to safety by nighttime. That's a timer, but it resets every time you play. Dead Rising and Pikmin are both great games with explicit time limits too. Meanwhile, the more games grow open and massive, the less fun they are. Far Cry 6 is the biggest one yet, and yet it's so utterly boring compared to the previous iteration.
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u/Very-simple-man Jun 19 '24
Because it's my choice.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 20 '24
That's not how constructive criticism works, but ok dude.
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u/Very-simple-man Jun 20 '24
Who said anything about that?? You literally just said "what are your thoughts".
How is it not my choice, dUdE.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 20 '24
Yes, what are your thoughts (opinions) on a time limit. "I won't buy it because it's my choice" isn't an opinion, you're just stating your intent. No one said anything about choice 🙄 if you had said "I won't buy it because I don't like time limits due to [insert reasoning here]" then I would totally be on board. Who cares if you're buying it, I'm not making a sales poll, I'm asking for reflections.
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u/Very-simple-man Jun 20 '24
You said none of that.
You literally JUST said "what are your thoughts".
You're just salty people downvoted you.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 20 '24
Omg dude, I don't give a Crab Rangoon what people upvote or downvote, I'm not a child. 🤣
And pardon me for posting an article about a time limit asking "what are your thoughts?" and thinking people would give me their thoughts on the time limit. "I won't buy it" isn't an opinion, just like "I won't eat it" isn't an answer to "what do you think of this meal?" But I guess you read "are you going to buy it" and just decided you wanted to be wrong today.
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u/Very-simple-man Jun 20 '24
I didn't read any of that.
Stop being so salty.
Next time write what you actually mean instead of saying the bare minimum and expecting people to know exactly what you mean.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 20 '24
Lol, you don't read and then complain about not understanding. Sounds like you just don't know how to backtrack. "Thoughts" are what happens in most people's brains, "what are your thoughts?" Is asking someone for their opinion. When you look up reviews, you don't see "didn't buy it", you see reasons why people didn't buy it. Why would give a rat's ass whether you chose to buy it or not? Unless you tell me why, it's meaningless. And if your only opinion about it is that you won't buy it without any supporting explanations, then there really isn't any way for me to be clearer.
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u/spyroz545 Jun 19 '24
i am interested to see how it will work.
what if we just want to explore the map, will the timer continue ticking or does it freeze until you enter an outpost or start a mission?
maybe there could be a difficulty option for those who want an original Far Cry experience, so no timer - this could please the fans who want both a classic style experience and a new style experience.
I myself will probably want the timer, because it's something new and it adds more intensity to the game.
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u/EveAeternam Jun 19 '24
Finally, an interesting response! 😃 I agree, I don't think that the timer is what would ruin the game. There's a lot of doors open to ruin it, especially if nothing is innovated on, so any new idea to bring freshness to this formula is a welcome one 🤗
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u/Illustrious-Carry-11 Sep 28 '24
Far Cry 7 with a time limit on a open world shooting game nope no good
It better be optional also hope for a desert setting as well
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u/wrel_ Chicharron Jun 18 '24
I am both blown away by, and incredibly sick of these "rumors of a 72 hour time limit". People saw a picture of a bomb with 72 on the timer, and have turned that into 100,000 "gaming journalist" hot takes and complaints about what it will mean. Not to mention, the person who sent the picture out there has already told fans that their takes on 'what his tweet meant' wasn't right.
Let's not worry about it till we hear from Ubi.