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Far Cry 5: An Illustrative Mess
When performing criticism of a videogame, I feel that playing it some time after its release presents certain advantages: firstly, we are removed from the marketing hype that has built up some expectations in the player, which may or may not be delivered by the game itself. Next, the game is in a more ‘complete’…
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Just Give Me Two Good Reasons
One of the dominant features of open-world games such as FarCry 5 is that they are big. Really big. The scale of the map is an often discussed feature of such games, but so too are the myriad activities and overall “playtime” that a game can offer. Presumably more is better, but I find myself…
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FarCry 5: Early Impressions
Having abandoned FarCry 6, I’ve immediately jumped into the predecessor, FarCry 5. I’ve noticed that this one was much better received critically, and from the initial setup, I am impressed at how well it is put together. I am also, frankly, astonished that a game that frames white American Christians as the villains managed to…
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Far Cry 6: Nope
I’ve battled through several hours with the game, hit level 6, gathered a number of new weapons, cosmetics and trinkets, advanced the story quite a bit, taken out various installations and checkpoints, but I am just not feeling this game. I noticed the slapdash approach to the instigating plot in my previous post, and thus…
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Far Cry 6: First Look
I recently started FarCry 6 after having not played an FC game for many years. I am more an Assassin’s Creed aficianado, although Valhala didn’t resonate with me. Both games are developed and published by Ubisoft, and I honestly hadn’t realized how much crossover in mechanics had occurred between the two franchises. Getting started in…
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Lies all the way down
A while ago, I wrote and published a peer-reviewed article about the “curious” and very deliberate efforts by the developers of certain games to proclaim that their games shouldn’t be interpreted in a political way, despite all evidence to the contrary. The abstract goes like this: Developers of AAA videogames which feature recognizable military forces,…
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Pleasure in Conveyor Belt Games
Over on CapsuleCrit, Kavi Duvvoori explores their particular and somewhat ambivalent pleasure taken in ‘extractive captialist’ games such as the Rollercoaster Tycoon series and Factorio. In the article, Duvvoori highlights two of the central pleasures videogames tend to feed on, neither of which are the adrenaline-pumping, conflict-oriented “competition” that one might typically associate with games…
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Warcraft Time
World of Warcraft is … well it’s a game because they sell it at game shops, and you ‘play’ it. But it is also a virtually interminable social space in which people interact in competitive, cooperative, and myriad other ways. To put it simply people spend time there, together. The most recent expansion has been…
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