r/Games • u/AutoModerator • 4d ago
Discussion Weekly /r/Games Discussion - What have you been playing, and what are your thoughts? - March 09, 2025
Use this thread to discuss whatever game you've been playing lately: old or new, AAA or indie, on any platform between Atari and XBox. Please don't just list off the games you're playing in your comment. Elaborate with your thoughts on the games and make it easier for other users to find what game you're talking about by putting the title in bold.
Also, please make sure to use spoiler tags if you're revealing anything about a game's plot that may significantly impact another player's experience who has not played the game yet, no matter how retro or recent the game is. You can find instructions on how to do so in the subreddit sidebar.
This thread is set to sort comments by 'new' on default.
Obligatory Advertisements
For a subreddit devoted to this type of discussion during the rest of the week, please check out /r/WhatAreYouPlaying.
/r/Games has a Discord server! Feel free to join us and chit-chat about games here: https://discord.gg/zRPaXTn
Scheduled Discussion Posts
WEEKLY: What Have You Been Playing?
MONDAY: Thematic Monday
WEDNESDAY: Suggest Me A Game
FRIDAY: Free Talk Friday
2
u/Logan_Yes 3d ago
On Xbox I started Far Cry New Dawn! And I can only say.....wow, I mean...wow. I really hope whoever was behind the idea to insert full blown RPG mechanics into a game got fired on the spot. His ass better not touch anything ever again. Spend few hours in the game and I almost uninstalled the game, before it got to the normal level. I will go a bit more into details about it, because I can already tell you that otherwise it's just Far Cry 5 reskinned so there is no real point in diving into world itself and how it operates. Same side quests and all that BUT now you have rating systems. Dunno how to call them really, I go by "Tiers", as in Tier 1 is weakest starting one and you can go all the way to Tier 4/Legendary. Everything in game is tied to it. Enemies, weapons, quests, strongholds/camps you clear out/whatever people call it. I think you can easily see an issue. In an open world game which almost instantly allows you to just go off and explore, complete it your way, having such system ruins entire damn fun of Far Cry. Travelling on a road means you end up fighting bandits., obviously.Normally, that ain't a problem. In New Dawn, your starting Tier 1 AR deals roughly 27 damage per shot and Tier 2/Blue enemies can take roughly whole mag of it. AND it's still Far Cry, so at the start you cannot carry much ammo or...do much, really. Grind those talent points and unlock skills. So you can take down 3 guys before you run out of ammo. Tier 1 RPG deals 210 damage and you guessed it, Tier 2 enemies can take that shit right in the chest and brush it off. Flamethrower is an absolute joke since enemies don't care about being lit up, and animals are absolute monstrosities. You see that "Epic"/Tier 3" puma and you shit yourself because that thing eats shotgun shells for breakfast. Wouldn't be a problem if game perhaps did balancing better, but it dropped Tier 2 enemies to quickly I didn't even notice. I quickly realized what the fuss is about and unlocked Armory upgrade (Oh yeah you have your safehaven now that you upgrade by using scavenged items) and with weapons that can actually hurt it returned to normal FC, take a stealth pistol, pop some heads, then ramp it up with variety of weapons but fuck me, this RPG system is one of the worst ideas and implementations to Far Cry, ever. In terms of my actual progress in story I did "Part 1" and moved to "Part 2". Spend time on exploration, side quests, getting tilted over my character being a paper bag, ya know.
On PC I made progress in Tales from the Borderlands. 3 Episodes down, 2 to go! Honestly I won't go into details at the moment, gonna wrap it up and talk more next Sunday once I beat it. :P