This thread contains mild spoilers about elements and strategies used by the bad guys in the game.
I'm halfway done with the game, but it's getting harder and harder to accept the violent actions we have to take against the wild life this game. The more I play, the more I feel disgusted. this game is for mature audience, and it's a violent first person shooter, but I feel that the treatment of animals in this game is super problematic.
From a story point of view, we all know what we are getting into with this game. We're caught up into this pseudo civil war with a cult, that uses a powerful drug to brainwash humans, and animals, to turn them into braindead killers to do their bidding. They even create their own breed of wolves to hunt down civilians and execute them.
We are rewarded for killing bad guys, and there are hoards of them!
As a player, we liberate outposts, sabotage their operations and steal their supplies to help the local populace. There is a money system in the game, in which you use the money rewarded from 'bounties' you get for doing missions, but also by hunting and fishing.
The game encourages you to hunt down moose, bears, wolves, eagles, cougars and various other animals to harvest them for their pelt or skin. You use that money to fund your operations. You buy weapons, ammos,upgrades, cars, choppers, and so on.
It sounds.. alright, but if you play the game, they almost turn the death of those animals into a joke.
I get that it's legitimate to defend yourself from predators like the bears and cougars. But..
There's a mission where you have to test an homemade drug created by a NPC, and the NPC has you run thru this pseudo parkour + shooting course. You have to do it "Sober", and "under the influence" of the drug.
Both time, he has you grab a baseball bat and tells you to "kill the piggies" by beating up to death two farm pigs who are eating on a field. It's the final objective of the side quest. Why? I was playing this with a friend and I was taken aback by this. It's just a virtual pig, but it feels.. so out of character. Why Do I have to kill a pig to test a drug? It's not some sort of "strength" booster drug, it makes you run faster. The pigs don't even try to run away, they just stay there and scream while you kill them with a bloodied baseball bat.
Why?
There's another mission, the "Testy Festy" side mission. You have to find and harvest bull testicles, and not in the normal way done on farms, with a castration device...
I'll just quote this article that explains it better:
https://gamerant.com/far-cry-5-bull-testicles-side-mission/
You're rewarded as a player for hurting and killing animals in super elaborate ways... for no legitimate reasons.
There's also what seems to be "meme" in the game where every mission that evolves you stealing back special armored vehicles usually ends up in a chase, and for some reasons, there's always an abnormal rate of animals just sitting around on the road, waiting to get hit.
Why?
The animals are not shown to be under the influence of the drug, they don't glow. They are just.. chilling on the road, waiting to get hit.
Roadkills do happen in real life, but it's just such a freak show in this game. I must say that the last farcry game I played was the original, so maybe it's a common theme with the franchise, but it's such a massive turnoff.. There are penalties for killing civilians and hostages.. but there are no penalties for slaughtering innocent animals for no reasons. No in game text, no message during the loading screen..
It would had been easy to put something about the responsibilities of being a hunter, and how not to waste animal lives for no reasons. Maybe if they had included some field dressing mini game, or a game play dynamic about preserving meat harvested from the wild.. You could feed the civilians with the meat and earn money or reputation posts..
Nah, instead you sell fur to people caught in a war zone so you can buy a bigger scope or a new silencer. As a matter of fact, reselling stuff you have harvested from animal corpse is the quickest ways to make money in the game, unless you want to buy "silver bars" from the online store.
What are they gonna do with wolf fur in the middle of summer?
I'm halfway done with the game, but it's getting harder and harder to accept the violent actions we have to take against the wild life this game. The more I play, the more I feel disgusted. this game is for mature audience, and it's a violent first person shooter, but I feel that the treatment of animals in this game is super problematic.
From a story point of view, we all know what we are getting into with this game. We're caught up into this pseudo civil war with a cult, that uses a powerful drug to brainwash humans, and animals, to turn them into braindead killers to do their bidding. They even create their own breed of wolves to hunt down civilians and execute them.
We are rewarded for killing bad guys, and there are hoards of them!
As a player, we liberate outposts, sabotage their operations and steal their supplies to help the local populace. There is a money system in the game, in which you use the money rewarded from 'bounties' you get for doing missions, but also by hunting and fishing.
The game encourages you to hunt down moose, bears, wolves, eagles, cougars and various other animals to harvest them for their pelt or skin. You use that money to fund your operations. You buy weapons, ammos,upgrades, cars, choppers, and so on.
It sounds.. alright, but if you play the game, they almost turn the death of those animals into a joke.
I get that it's legitimate to defend yourself from predators like the bears and cougars. But..
There's a mission where you have to test an homemade drug created by a NPC, and the NPC has you run thru this pseudo parkour + shooting course. You have to do it "Sober", and "under the influence" of the drug.
Both time, he has you grab a baseball bat and tells you to "kill the piggies" by beating up to death two farm pigs who are eating on a field. It's the final objective of the side quest. Why? I was playing this with a friend and I was taken aback by this. It's just a virtual pig, but it feels.. so out of character. Why Do I have to kill a pig to test a drug? It's not some sort of "strength" booster drug, it makes you run faster. The pigs don't even try to run away, they just stay there and scream while you kill them with a bloodied baseball bat.
Why?
There's another mission, the "Testy Festy" side mission. You have to find and harvest bull testicles, and not in the normal way done on farms, with a castration device...
I'll just quote this article that explains it better:
https://gamerant.com/far-cry-5-bull-testicles-side-mission/
Why would you want to torture animals like that? Why would I want to set a bull on fire to harvest its testicle? I get that the farcry has some sense of humor, but it just feels so mean spirited.
You're rewarded as a player for hurting and killing animals in super elaborate ways... for no legitimate reasons.
There's also what seems to be "meme" in the game where every mission that evolves you stealing back special armored vehicles usually ends up in a chase, and for some reasons, there's always an abnormal rate of animals just sitting around on the road, waiting to get hit.
Why?
The animals are not shown to be under the influence of the drug, they don't glow. They are just.. chilling on the road, waiting to get hit.
Roadkills do happen in real life, but it's just such a freak show in this game. I must say that the last farcry game I played was the original, so maybe it's a common theme with the franchise, but it's such a massive turnoff.. There are penalties for killing civilians and hostages.. but there are no penalties for slaughtering innocent animals for no reasons. No in game text, no message during the loading screen..
It would had been easy to put something about the responsibilities of being a hunter, and how not to waste animal lives for no reasons. Maybe if they had included some field dressing mini game, or a game play dynamic about preserving meat harvested from the wild.. You could feed the civilians with the meat and earn money or reputation posts..
Nah, instead you sell fur to people caught in a war zone so you can buy a bigger scope or a new silencer. As a matter of fact, reselling stuff you have harvested from animal corpse is the quickest ways to make money in the game, unless you want to buy "silver bars" from the online store.
What are they gonna do with wolf fur in the middle of summer?
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