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Murvel@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Lmao, are you kidding me? In his review, he paints the picture of missing climbing Far Cry radio towers and finding a thousand pointless little POI and stupid number challenges.

That is by far the most tiresome aspect of the Ubisoft open world formula…

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Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
He… didn’t? Far Cry was not mentioned at all and he had this to say about radio towers:

You may be delighted to hear there are no towers to scale to push back Outlaws’ fog of war here: these open world areas - really a collection of entirely distinct biomes, separated by hyper space or fast travel - reveal themselves fully on arrival.

Maybe you were thinking of this in the conclusion, but I don’t think these observations are incorrect:

It speaks back to Outlaws’ issues with stripping away the bulk of the Ubisoft formula and finding so little underneath - or more broadly, a general misunderstanding of what you ought to be stripping away here and why. The Ubisoft open world functions so well because of how this clutter weaves itself together so intoxicatingly that you can’t help but flow from one to the next, from looting to crafting to combat to gear to unlocking another area of the world and more. The heist flick works because of its characters - their complexity, obsession or greed - as much as it does the sheer fun of actually doing a heist.

Star Wars Outlaws, by comparison, feels like it’s blagging it - much as Kay can, when regularly caught out by some far more worldly syndicate boss. The result is a series of quite painful comparisons: it lacks the branching, open stealth of an Arkham game, the systemic options of a Dishonored or the incisive, relentlessly satisfying speed of picking enemies off in Assassin’s Creed. It lacks the linear polish and charisma of Uncharted. Lacks the animation flow to its yellow-ledge platforming next to a Horizon, or the sheer joy of taking platforming and making it into an actual game in itself, as in Star Wars Jedi.

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- Murvel@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The ‘Far cry radio tower’ is a common euphemism for pointless busy work in most Ubistofts’ open world games…
  
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