re: About Far Cry 3

More uninteresting than stale. It felt forced the whole way through. They tried to develop this story about jason and his friends and why he should care about them but I never felt interested in it at all. I mean why the frick do I care about saving a bunch of douchey rich kids? They tried to play up unexplained backstories between jason and his girlfriend to make it feel real, but it was never enough to really interest the gamer. There was literally zero emotional investment. In the end they give you the choice to kill your friends or save them and I felt completely apathetic.

The graphics were phenomenal, the gunplay and hunting mechanics tight and fun, the exploration fun, but I never felt like I was discovering something for myself. People described it as skyrim on an island with guns but FC3 doesn't hold a candle to skyrim in immersion. In skyrim, every little detour you made had its own story and relationship to other areas. The only great thing about exploring in FC3 was seeing the views and hunting to unlock more crap.

Vaas was the only interesting character in the whole experience. You want to know what makes him tick because you wish jason were one tenth as cool as Vaas. You end up killing Vaas halfway through the game with some fricking quicktime segment? Weak shite.

Worth playing through once but not near a goty list.