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Far Cry New Dawn's Animal (Dog) Cruelty is sadistic and waaaay over the line

VinFTW

VinFTW

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Oct 25, 2017
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So, my wife just informed to not "please not buy this game", and surprisingly, I actually wanted to get this game, so I inquired, "why the hell not?" She then explains to me some of the ridiculously over the top, sociopathic, psychotic ways they portray dogs in the game.

So I do my own research and... what in the fuck?

https://www.gamesradar.com/far-cry-new-dawn-hates-dogs-so-much-it-was-probably-made-by-cats/

Who the fuck designs this shit? Just fucking gross.

I mean... just reading the above link, good god... Ubi... no, please take this shit out.
 
ASleepingMonkey

ASleepingMonkey

The Fallen
Oct 26, 2017
4,497
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There's a part in Metro Exodus where you can see people cheering on a dog fighting match, so might wanna skip that if that bugs you.
 

Absolute

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Nov 6, 2017
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Slaughtering humans in interesting and sadistic ways in games is ok but they stepped overall the line with the doggos! Ban this sick filth!
 
DrArchon

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Oct 25, 2017
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Easiest way to make a villain (or in this case villainous group) look bad? Make them do bad things to dogs.

Seems like this was more Ubi wanting to make their bad guys "really bad" than anything else.
 
juliamcardinals

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Oct 27, 2017
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I will understand people who are turn off by violence against animals in fiction ... the game allow us to do worst things to humans
 

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This is some disgusting bullshit. I was already lukewarm on this FC game after the train wreck that was FC5, but this triggers me so much.
 
benzopil

benzopil

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Oct 25, 2017
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What a pointless article, but at least now I know that it's author is vegetarian, cool I guess
 
Zukuu

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Oct 30, 2017
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It's just as "gross" as driving over a human and you kill god knows how many other animals in the game and skin them to upgrade whatever, but "dogs are no go"? The hypocrisy is strong.
 
Tappin Brews

Tappin Brews

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Oct 25, 2017
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in a game about killing massive amounts of people, you also witness and participate in dog deaths. unacceptable.
 
Velocity:Design:Comfort

Velocity:Design:Comfort

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Alienous

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That doesn't seem out there given how people treat dogs in the non-apocalypse.

This did remind me that there were dogs strapped with explosives in the Spec Ops mode of Modern Warfare 3 too.
 
ToadPacShakur

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Oct 25, 2017
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The only dog thats ACTUALLY made hurt from what I had to do to a dog was Wolfenstein: The New Colossus... That fucked me up a bit, had to go do a couple of shots of whiskey....well, I was gonna do them anyway, but now I was having to do them for sad reasons
 
JaegerDeus

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Jan 25, 2018
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VinFTW said:
So, my wife just informed to not "please not buy this game", and surprisingly, I actually wanted to get this game, so I inquired, "why the hell not?" She then explains to me some of the ridiculously over the top, sociopathic, psychotic ways they portray dogs in the game.

So I do my own research and... what in the fuck?

https://www.gamesradar.com/far-cry-new-dawn-hates-dogs-so-much-it-was-probably-made-by-cats/

Who the fuck designs this shit? Just fucking gross.

I mean... just reading the above link, good god... Ubi... no, please take this shit out.
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If the bad guys in the game are doing bad things to animals, it just makes me want to kill them more.

So... job well done.

This isn't glamorizing violence against dogs in the slightest, it's showing it as something only the sick and depraved would do.
 
Strafer

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Oct 25, 2017
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I mean, I run over every human being in Grand Theft Auto. Doesn't mean I hate human beings.
 
Bucca

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yes because maiming, dismembering, torturing, exploding, and bullet riddling virtual bodies is fine.

But beating up and killing virtual dogs is the line.
 
Gush

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Nov 17, 2017
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Read this post in the "games with awful humour" thread the other day and it stuck with me:

Tetrinski said:
Far Cry 5. The mission where you have to get bulls to have sex with cows and then kill them in horrible ways to harvest and eat their testicles almost made me stop playing right away. I gave it another chance and there was one about a guy who had lost his cows and he wanted you to get them back... Using rocks and a baseball bat. I gave it one more chance. There was a mission where a dude wants you to run to some targets to test a drug that makes you faster. At the end of it, for no reason, you have to murder pigs with a baseball bat. I sold that piece of crap right away, it tries to be funny by glorifying and trivializing animal cruelty, which is a huge issue worldwide. Not coming back to this franchise, whoever created and approved that content makes me sick.
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Seems like a reoccurring issue. Really fuckin gross.
 

jeyu

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Dec 6, 2018
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The dogs are not real guys. Some people may find it disturbing. But that's with humas too. I dont see it as cruelty. Its a game just that
 

TronLight

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Velocity:Design:Comfort said:
We really gonna compare the non agency of animals who are made victims to violent evil game goons who attack first and say it's the same huh
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I feel what you're saying, but I think it's invalidated by the fact that you're not killing real dogs. Nor humans.

I wouldn't hurt an animal ever in real life, but I still did kill them in RDR to get pointless bonues off of their carcasses.
 
Rei no Otaku

Rei no Otaku

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Oct 25, 2017
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The game opens with one of the villains beating a man to death with a motorcycle helmet. If violence bothers you, the dogs are really the least of it.
 
Slammin_Hammon

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Oct 27, 2017
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Seems like a cheap way to make players hate the antagonists, but not all that bizarre.
Weren't there bomb dogs in a Call of Duty game in the past?
 
Cels

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Oct 26, 2017
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the bad guys eat dogs but that isn't inherently a problem or any more immoral than eating any other kind of animal
seeing tortured dogs and dogs with c4 strapped to them is sad though.
 
Heid

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Jan 7, 2018
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Bomb dogs lmao

To counter the bomb dog threat, police must spray a special resin on the dog that will instantly harden and contain the explosion in a dog shaped shell. However if the underside of the dog is not properly coated, the explosion can launch the dog up to 1000ft into the air
 
SJRB

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Oct 28, 2017
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I like how in a game where you shoot circle saw blades through people's heads the line is drawn with injuring/killing animals.
 

Absolute

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Velocity:Design:Comfort said:
We really gonna compare the non agency of animals who are made victims to violent evil game goons who attack first and say it's the same huh
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My comment was more of a joke but there are plenty of games that let you kill innocent ai humans. What agency do they have? What agency do the bad ai humans have? They are programmed to be the way they are. Just to be clear I am not talking about real animals.
 
Dr. Caroll

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Oct 27, 2017
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Knight in Shining Armani said:
Strapping bombs to dogs...that's some WW2 shit right there.
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The Russians gave up on it because dogs tended to run back to their owners, attack their own tanks, etc. They switched to Dolphins with bombs instead.
Regarding the OP, eating dogs is pretty normal. You recue Timber from a dog meat farm. In Far Cry 4 you got thrown into a pit where you had to fight to the death against tigers, bears, other humans, etc.

From what I've seen it's nowhere near as tacky or tastleless as the Teste Feste thing in FC5.
 
DJ_Lae

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Oct 27, 2017
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With so many games requiring you to enact cruelty on humans having some canine casualties doesn't seem to be a huge deal.

The bomb dogs sound hilarious.
 

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Didn't one of the side villains in 5 capture families, starve them, chop off the parents fingers and then feed them to the kids? Not saying this to defend ND, but it seems on brand at least.
 
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