Huh, maybe it was me but I never had issues with the collectibles in FC3 or 4. Infact, I liked them more in 4 because you'd get some more lore stuff like with the lost letters, the serial killer's masks or the journals left by Ajay's father.
Do the buddies show up in the main missions on harder difficulty?
Ye, they do well depends on the mission really. If it's the ones where you get captured they don't and I think during boss fights which really are kinda a cakewalk even on the hardest difficulty, but I did get them to help me in missions like storming bunkers or some important story missions to raise my influence faster.
1000% thats whats going to happen, Ubisoft got infected right quick with the wokeness after the Unity disaster, ironically if all the major players weren't busy raping 15 year olds they could have used the initial criticism as an opportunity and been like "you're right, we're sorry for the mistake, we're delaying this for a whole year" and just made Rogue the AC game of that year. And then put in minimal work putting in a woman model in the mutiplayer but use the rest of that delay to work out the bugs. and that would have gave them enough points to let them withhold on the faggotry for a few more years.
It can only get worse since they have a diversity/political bureau like the one at EA.
Not only the fictional organizations but IRL personalities too, for example if a politician is right-wing then he/she is a Templar. I remember around the time of AC Unity, they said in an interview that they wanted to add the french President Nicolas Sarkozy to the list of Templars but they had to scrap that because they were worried that he might have sued them for defamation.
Or the main antagonist if they can't afford to give too many lines of dialogues to Esposito (everytime a game gets a Hollywood actor I'm getting MGSV flashbacks).
WD2 turned them into a hipster version of Anonymous and now in WD3 they're everywhere and controlled by an AI. I miss the first one, when it was about a simple revenge story and big tech in the background
the story of WD1 was great if cliche, the subplot of human traffiking and arms dealing and the rest was good, but the gameplay was like a GTA clone, it was just a more polished fancier GTAIV essentially. Also if they outright murdered the niece instead of it being an incident when attacking him it would have made the hypocrisy less blatant. the hacking parts were macguffins for the most part, also the ability to cause blackouts made the side missions hilariously easy, and the inability to get helicopters to fuck off made a lot of missions a drag. and there were way more driving missions than one would have assumed based on marketing.
Not sure I like the 3rd person cutscenes. Far Cry 3 was cool because you were in the character's head. I understand it's probably to see your customization that you pay money for, but it seems awkward.
I just assumed it was to highlight that they made the main character a woman since it's Ubisoft and all.
The option to toggle that in cutscenes would be nice.
You choose if the character is male or female like all recent Ubisoft games because the feminists convinced Ubisoft that representation is more important than having a defined main character.
Oh I thought they were going back to having a defined main character after everyone bitched about Far Cry 5 :/ I guess the name "Dani/Danny" should have been the clue though.
It's like AssCreed Odyssey, they will say that the story was written with the female version in mind but they will find out later that 99% of the people who will get the game will play as the male protagonist.
Far Cry 6 looks like a rip off of Just Cause, and the camp stuff they showed reminded me of RDR2. I'm not sure how I feel about them adding 3rd person, as I feel I would always choose having 360 degrees of view over 90 degrees. Hopefully it will be balanced well so that there is a point to use first person but I kinda doubt it. I couldn't give less of a fuck about the story as with Far Cry 5 it seems the writers didn't either. If they really are going to go the whole "Bad guy was actually right in the end" route again at least let me join the bad guys side.
Just Cause is awesome, so if Far Cry tries to be more like Just Cause, I'd be happy.
The letters told a much better story than the game itself did.
