So what setting should a Far Cry 6 tackle next?

[Kyrian007]

Urban jungle. Yup, a city somewhere. A big, populated, modern city. Somewhere we haven't explored in a big game yet. Europe or the middle east would be interesting, but probably America because its a Far Cry game and you have to be able to get guns easily.

Why a city? Mostly to see complaints online. "Far Cry is supposed to be in the exotic jungle somewhere foreign... hashtag not my far cry (more fanboy whining and crying)." Just because those tears are the most delicious.

But really mostly, because you easily could make a pretty good statement about modern life by showing (or in a very typical Far Cry way exaggerating) how "alien" the places most people don't usually go in a city can be. It would have to be exaggerated to a ridiculous level, as would the number of crack dens, empty warehouse districts, loading docks, and organized crime mcmansions that would serve as the "strongholds." But the normal residential, entertainment, and well regulated and populated industrial areas would exist in the way that jungle and forest is used in other Far Cry games... ie something to hide in and camouflage yourself in while investigating or scouting.

Yes, Watch Dogs does a fairly good job of this... but WD is a stealth-focused franchise. You do that, but in the terms of a gory shooter and you have something that really could be a worthy Far Cry sequel. That same "fish out of water becomes acclimatized by his surroundings" story could work just as good within this framework. Plus the fanboy tears screaming about something "killing the franchise." Win-win.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Before Far Cry 3 was announced- a rumour was going around that the next Far Cry would be in Antarctica. Personally I thought this was a fantastic idea given that Far Cry was the poster child for unusual settings (until they fucked that up with FC5).

Fucked up because they didn't go with Antarctica, or fucked up because rural midwestern US is not unusual? Because I don't know any other games with that setting and for most non-Americans, it's probably not a region they're very familiar with.

That aside, I do like the idea of Antartica. For one thing, it's already dotted with bases and camps in real life, so that's one Ubisoft open world staple down right out the gate. No need to explain why they're there, just why they need to be cleared.

 

[Gergar12_v1legacy]

I would like post-climate change Antartica with both forests, and tundra. Also maybe some Eastern European Country like Ukraine.

 

[Squilookle]

Before Far Cry 3 was announced- a rumour was going around that the next Far Cry would be in Antarctica. Personally I thought this was a fantastic idea given that Far Cry was the poster child for unusual settings (until they fucked that up with FC5).

Fucked up because they didn't go with Antarctica, or fucked up because rural midwestern US is not unusual? Because I don't know any other games with that setting and for most non-Americans, it's probably not a region they're very familiar with.

That aside, I do like the idea of Antartica. For one thing, it's already dotted with bases and camps in real life, so that's one Ubisoft open world staple down right out the gate. No need to explain why they're there, just why they need to be cleared.

Because the rural U.S. has been done to death in gaming, definitely. True its mostly in either survival horror or car-combat games, but that's not the point: When Crysis 2 announced it would be in New York, it didn't matter that NY hadn't been covered much in FPSes before. It didn't just suck because such a lush and sprawling shooter was placed in yet another decaying urban setting. It sucked because we'd already been to New York in countless other games. I mean just look at the list!

That was always Far Cry's greatest advantage over other shooters- it took the road less travelled. Everyone else was always in the States or Not-Afghanistan. Far Cry made it's name out of stopping and smelling the roses somewhere different and fresh.

Antarctica sounds interesting but... it doesn't exactly have many predators, valuable natural resources or anything worth the cost of exploitation. Unless it DOES and the big bad is all about using global warming to be the first in to exploit it.

I'm no whiz at game lore, but off the top of my head it could be simple as this:

Global Warming is starting to really make its effects felt. Given the Ozone Hole is right over Antarctica, that's where the ice begins to melt on a grand scale. This unearths some super rare mineral/technology/resource that totally shifts the balance of power in favour of whoever has it. It could even just be something that allows cold-fusion that would render demand for oil useless.

All the nations with territory there swear to uphold the no-weapons Antarctic Treaty, while secretly arming themselves to the teeth. But to engage each other without causing an international incident, they hire plausibly deniable operators to scope our or engage enemy bases, these Mercenaries come from your standard fictional Private Military Companies.

That's where you come in.

You go from nation to nation, doing jobs for whoever pays you the most. In this way it's like Far Cry 2 but with more factions. Go it alone or load your skidoo/buggy/helicopter up with friendly troops and go start a war for fun and profit.

Then presumably there's one overarching villain who's orchestrating it all/has the majority of the stuff/is super charismatic who is prepared to contaminate the whole continent to secure his stash of the stuff and destroy everyone else's, and he don't give a damn what that will do to the environment, naturally..

So you gotta find him/her. Get into their big blizzard shrouded base, and stop them.

As long as they can make the terrain as varied as FC2 made the African savannah look, and the weather dynamic- you'd get some pretty unique gameplay!

True there aren't any great land predators in Antarctica, but if you were a megalomaniac hell bent on keeping poeple away from your secret snow-bases, tell me you wouldn't have the terrifying, acclimatised, kills-prey-for-fun Polar Bear imported to set loose on the tundra?

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Personally, I want Far Cry 6 to go all out jungle. I am talking either Equatorial Africa or South America. Bring back weapon degradation, introduce a ton of lethal animals (mostly snakes and insects though) and have a game where sight lines in the thickest forest are long if they are a dozen meters. Then have Ubisoft make the takedown system great again and you have the coolest FC to date.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Make one in Patagonia. Set it way south so you can cop the Andes mountain range and enjoy a bunch of terrain variety (grasslands, desert, pampas, steppes, rainforest, tundra). Cougars, boars and ostriches for predators, you get to hunt with bows and bolas, introduce the gaucho and whatever native as warring factions, feature a serial killer subplot about Mandinga, boom.

I guess what I'm saying is make Far Cry 4 in Argentina.

Alternatively make one in a desert setting. Could be Mexico or somewhere in Africa or the Middle East.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

The Amazon or Australian Outback would be cool

 

[Baffle]

Hyde Park during the British Summer Time festival.

 

[jademunky]

I think the Arctic, something where people were truly rare and the sense of isolation far more oppressive.

Although The Long Dark kinda already does that so.... maybe not.

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

South east london boroughs, heavily stylised and exaggerated. Perhaps after some incompetent political meltdown leading to badly organised martial law and warring gangs over dwindling resources.

It would definitely not at all be capitalising on anything related to a current problem that maybe rhymes a tiny little bit with "flexit."

Not. At. All.

There is a lot of potential cultural diversity to add, plenty of troubled people surviving through controversial means also. Wildlife would require some creative justifications for more interesting, surprising animals. Escaped imports from gangsters collecting them as sort of status symbols or some shit. Areas contrasting between the wealthiest and the poorest would be something that you could work with in interesting ways.

 

[wings012]

Steam/Dieselpunk, maybe Victorian, maybe werewolves and vampires.

I honestly can't be arsed to care about the setting. It can be anything, but I wish the side activities were more properly integrated into the main game.

The last Farcry I played were 3/Blood Dragon so I'm not sure if it changed since. But activating side activities or story missions to my knowledge always locked you into a linear gameplay segment. You couldn't leave the area or you'd gameover. If you fail the objective, it'd game over. If you wanted to return to the open world, you had to pop your menu open and abort the activity. Games like GTA or Shadows of Mordor also use this sorta formula.

And it just feels inorganic and weird. I would prefer a more integrated experience more akin to Crysis or a Bethesda RPG. There's nothing more immersion breaking than to activate an activity to hunt an animal which locks me into a bloody circular area, forcing me to kill it with a specific weapon or plaster a gameover screen on my ass.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

Personally, I want Far Cry 6 to go all out jungle. I am talking either Equatorial Africa or South America. Bring back weapon degradation, introduce a ton of lethal animals (mostly snakes and insects though) and have a game where sight lines in the thickest forest are long if they are a dozen meters. Then have Ubisoft make the takedown system great again and you have the coolest FC to date.

I CALLED IT, IT IS POST APOCALYPSE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLHk2Eug78

AND ITS A DIRECT CONTINUATION OF FARCRY 5'S NUCLEAR ENDING!!!!

 

[Hawki]

I CALLED IT, IT IS POST APOCALYPSE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLHk2Eug78

AND ITS A DIRECT CONTINUATION OF FARCRY 5'S NUCLEAR ENDING!!!!

"Far Cry. Far Cry never changes."

...okay, that doesn't really work all things considered, but I'm left to ask about the future of the setting since I understand that all the main games (bar Blood Dragon) share continuity, so aren't future Far Cry games kinda obliged to take place post-apocalypse?

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

I CALLED IT, IT IS POST APOCALYPSE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eLHk2Eug78

AND ITS A DIRECT CONTINUATION OF FARCRY 5'S NUCLEAR ENDING!!!!

Well, Ubisoft has balls, I'll give them that. That said, this looks promising, as Far Cry has always been at its best when it lets go off the rails and embraces its crazy.

"Far Cry. Far Cry never changes."

...okay, that doesn't really work all things considered, but I'm left to ask about the future of the setting since I understand that all the main games (bar Blood Dragon) share continuity, so aren't future Far Cry games kinda obliged to take place post-apocalypse?

Not necessarily. This is Far Cry: New Dawn, not Far Cry 6. The previous non-numbered games (Primal and Blood Dragon) do not share continuity with the numbered games. So my guess is that New Dawn will be considered a stand alone "what if"-game.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

You know, I always thought that the Far Cry games could have been adapted well as a ruined setting of a Shadowrun campaign.

Make a giant city like they did in Hong Kong. Block sections off because of The Bad Shit (tm). The very Bad Shit (tm) that lead most of the populous missing and you scraping around for what you can get.

... I want a Shadowrun Action Game. After Origins and Odyssey, I'm getting some faith back in Ubisoft.

 

[Hawki]

Not necessarily. This is Far Cry: New Dawn, not Far Cry 6. The previous non-numbered games (Primal and Blood Dragon) do not share continuity with the numbered games.

Um, source?

Blood Dragon, sure. But Primal's so far removed from the other games, there's nothing to stop it sharing continuity with them as far as I'm aware.

Granted, this is all from second-hand sources as I've never actually played Far Cry so...

 

[Gethsemani_v1legacy]

Um, source?

Blood Dragon, sure. But Primal's so far removed from the other games, there's nothing to stop it sharing continuity with them as far as I'm aware.

Granted, this is all from second-hand sources as I've never actually played Far Cry so...

Source: Have played all Far Cry games. I mean, you could argue that Primal could be connected to the other Far Cry games, but since there is nothing to connect them but an Easter egg in FC5 (some cave drawings), it is an almost moot point. Blood Dragon exists in-universe as a schlocky b-action movie that you help film in side quests in FC5. Since the numbered games actually reference each other in-game in various ways, it is easy to see that they share continuity.

Considering just how limiting it would be to have the actual end of modern society as a plot point in a shared continuity in a game series about the capacity for violence of the modern man, I think the fact that we aren't seeing Far Cry 6, but a named sequel, is telling enough. Of course, if Far Cry 6 rolls around and they keep the post-apocalypse plot point, I'll freely admit I am wrong and prostrate myself before Hawki.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

Well, Ubisoft has balls, I'll give them that. That said, this looks promising, as Far Cry has always been at its best when it lets go off the rails and embraces its crazy.

Exactly. The best Far Cry is still Blood Dragon. This looks bonkers. I like it.

 

[B-Cell_v1legacy]

New far cry game new dawn looks terrible. instead of announcing splinter cell. they just keep rehashing assassins creed and far cry over and over again.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Huh...well, my interest went from a 1 up to an 8 or 9 and back down to 1 again very rapidly with that trailer.