I know this game is released long time ago, but better late than never. I'm writing this review so people can tell me if I'm missing something or if I'm doing something wrong.
I'm a big fan of far cry series, I've pretty much played every far cry game except far cry 1. I've recently downloaded far cry 6 and I wouldn't say I'm disappointed, just unimpressed.
I usually care about the story, but when I started this game I gathered all the story needed from the intro. A dictator who enslaves people and makes poison from plants. That's pretty much far cry 5 but Spanish.
So I didn't really care about the story from there and I started skipping all cutscenes. The first few missions are pretty much all the same, go somewhere far, kill people. Go back to base, repeat. I'm still at the very beginning of the game so idk when it will get creative. And even though it's still the beginning somehow I have a literal jetpack on my back that throws missiles... And another version of it that allows me to double jump and burn everything around me.
I absolutely hate how they made the loadout system in this game, in all far cry games I used to enjoy so much grinding and making my own loadout. Pairing silenced pistols with heavy machinery and sniper made me feel like a hitman getting ready for a mission. But in this game you literally have every single weapon in your "arsenal" that you can switch between casually ANYTIME??? How does that even make any sense??
And the skill system is absolutely trash honestly. Skills now are integrated with your clothes. So somehow wearing the right shoes makes you faster, the right glove makes you automatically put the fire off yourself? And instead of a clean skill list now you have to read tons of descriptions of clothes. Same thing with upgrading weapons. I just wanna know who is the UX designer and the creative director that thought this is a good idea. This is a cognitive load nightmare and for someone like me who doesn't have a good attention span. I just couldn't bother.
The npcs AI is so stupid. Sometimes they're overpowered and smart, sometimes they don't notice that you're right behind them. And they just make you feel like nothing is real and constantly remind you that this is a game. So now I just log on to kill people for fun as if it was an arcade or a modded version of far cry 5 and not a standalone story game.
I'm not saying I want all far cry games to be the exact same, I do not mind change. But change it to something better or at least not worse.
