Experience it for yourself tomorrow after Far Cry 4's launch.įollow me on Twitter, like my page on Facebook, and pick up a copy of my sci-fi novel, The Last Exodus, and its sequel, The Exiled Earthborn, along with my new Forbes book, Fanboy Wars. It's nice to see video game stories can still surprise us, and this is the kind of thing that wouldn't be possible in non-interactive media.
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And I think the whole point is presenting a path to avoiding violence and ending the game immediately without spilling any blood, a joke and a food-for-thought lesson that can really only work if the game is cut dramatically short. It cut off a few sentences from Pagan Min but nothing major. I think this choice is too hidden to create an entirely separate plotline like that, and there's no way given the scope of the current game that essentially doubling the story would have been physically possible for Ubisoft. I've read that some wished this "choice" led to an alternate game universe that allowed you to side with Min and his cause for the duration of the game. Granted, this is just an Easter Egg and the main plot has plenty of death and destruction and will force you to despise Min soon enough, but I think it was good to set the game up this way. Here, Far Cry 4 is playing with the tropes of its own genre by offering an entirely different pathway toward "victory" that requires no killing at all.
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As you get more power, you seem to lose more of your sanity, and by the end you're wondering if Jason Brody really did any of the things you've seen, or if it's been some sort of fantastical fever dream. Pagan Min (born as Gang Min) is the main antagonist in Far Cry 4 by Ubisoft which will be released for the Playstation, Xbox and PC Platforms in November. Far Cry 3 examined the very video-gamey concept of a white frat bro coming to an island and becoming a badass, immortal, freedom fighter. With its last two installments specifically, Far Cry seems to be going a bit meta with its storytelling, and it's rather brilliant. if you have played the game and listen to when he randomly radios in you would know the truth.
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I find it quite annoying seeing people having a rampage like 'he cant be gay that wouldnt be right' or 'but ubi said he just dresses well'.
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I can't even think of another game to compare it to, that's how few games even hint at a possible way forward without a copious amount of bloodshed required. Yes everybody, our King is in fact a homosexual. Pagan has ordered her family to be killed years. Do you want to KILL or SPARE this person? Do you want to join the RED or BLUE faction? And so on.īut here? By simply taking a character at their word, you get to act out a peaceful resolution in what's an otherwise excessively violent game. Pagan Min invited her and her family (husband, 2 sons) to Kyrat, then kidnapped them, and by threatening her family, made her to run a bloody fighting arena and Kyrats heroin business.
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We're all used to games either A) forcing us on the rails for the duration or B) setting up a story in a very obvious series of player choices that affect the future outcome.