Is Primal Really A Far Cry Game?

[@Pilvenuga]

funny thing about the Wenja language: it feels as though it was crafted with the goal of feeling home-y, familiar to any and all languages in the world. Its wild that Indo-European language speakers can feel a kinship to it just as much as i can as a Ugric language family speaker hell, even Hurk's ancestor, Urki is a name we use amongst ourselves as a nickname for one friend when his given christian name doesnt feel right.

[@thelester9589]

21:38 the Udam are clearly Neanderthals who were the peoples that lived in Europe before the arrival of the Indo European peoples, the game depicts the Wenja (a fictional tribe of early Indo European people) conquering the land of Europe from the Udam neaderthals and competing with other early Indo European peoples (the Izila).

[@kingofflames738]

This is honestly my second favourite far cry right after far cry 2. I'm always getting kinda sad when I see people calling it one of the worse far crys.

[@hrafnagu9243]

This is my absolute favorite far cry game. Far cry 4 is a close second.

[@borangedunn]

This is one of the sad things about the big publishers now, they won't take risks anymore. A lot of people have told me that this is their favourite in the series, and if they hadn't have taken a chance on something different then it would never have existed.

[@hrafnagu9243]

@@borangedunn I agree. It seems that it's the case with all of entertainment at the moment to no longer take any risks and to just keep making things that already exist. Primal was unique, and in my opinion, only a far cry game in name really. I think that it could've benefited from being it's own stand alone title and given a sequel to give players more content seeing as the first game was great. It's a shame that the game isn't or wasn't more popular as I think it had much potential.

[@borangedunn]

@@hrafnagu9243 Obviously this is based on nothing but imagination, but I reckon if they had have released Primal without the Far Cry name, it wouldn't have sold particularly well but would have been critically acclaimed, and now it would be one of those one-off games that never got a sequel but has a dedicated following.

[@NuStiuFrate]

Happy to see someone else not make a big deal out of the "same map" crap. I even heard about it before starting primal and still i could not recognize a single thing from the previous game. It was such a non-issue blown way out of proportion. Ubisoft has plenty of things you can criticize them for. The map thing was not one of it. Also, for a game set so far in the past, i was surprised how close to any other far cry it felt. I don't know what i was expecting but it wasn't just regular far cry with no guns and the wrong language pack installed.

[@CoffeeFiend1]

Far Cry Primal on hardest difficulty with Survivor Mode enabled makes it feel like no other Far Cry game, it's so fucking immersive and PRIMAL. I even go a step further and limit myself to only being allowed to tame Dholes (we had hunting dogs during this period), use the dog as a tool rather than an extra weapon.

[@wingedhussar1453]

It can be dowright annoying tho at times. They want you to take out a outpost by yourself with a bow and spear against 50 enemies. Like how am i gona do that if i dont put skills toward a mammoth rider

[@CoffeeFiend1]

@@wingedhussar1453 They are hard, granted. You need to disable the in-game equivalent of 'alarms' and maintain stealth for as long as possible then when you are compromised have somewhere where you can hold up or skirmish about i.e. with elevation.

[@Gledster]

Far Cry 3 definitely had tropical rain storms. Didn't affect gameplay but looked really cool. I even took to sheltering indoors until they passed!

[@mad8598]

Hahaha still remember starting it up and thinking oh yeah this will be a fun short DLC like about as long as Blood Dragon probably and realising pretty quickly that holy crap it’s basically another full length FC game they sprang on us.

[@borangedunn]

Yeah despite already playing it I forgot how long this game really was! It's a shame they don't suprise us with more feature complete, full releases anymore though!

[@skye_music]

I never realised that far cry games lack rain.

[@insanejughead]

Far Cry 2 rain is common.

[@Creeper333pl]

18:40 i remember seeing a thunderstorm with heavy rain in FC3, which was pretty unexpected and only happened once in my playtime. i think there’s also rain in 5 but i’m not sure. on a side note, if you loved the views and lighting of Primal, you’re gonna LOVE 5, it’s imo the best looking game in the series by a long shot, especially when there’s fog etc

[@Shilkah]

I don’t think Far Cry 5 has any weather. (I may be wrong but I think it doesn’t)

[@borangedunn]

@@Creeper333pl You're right, I did manage to find one instance of rain in FC 3, but literally just one. Seems weird to include it so infrequently!

[@thew00dsman79]

Just at the start… but this is my favorite Far Cry, largely improved by my experience as an anthropology major… it’s just soooooo cool

[@borangedunn]

I guess then this game would have a similar affect for you as the Assassin's Creed games for history buffs getting to climb all over ancient Greek stuff? Getting to have some sort of interactive experience with things that no longer exist?

[@thew00dsman79]

@@borangedunn I’ve only played a smidge of AC3 and 4, but put a bit more into Origins, and I enjoy what I played of that so far, just haven’t gotten back to it; same with Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey But yeah it just is so fascinating overall

[@NIL0S]

I found Primal rather refreshing back then.

[@Pilvenuga]

Overusing the bow, or going into every situation with the 2h club did not feel as right to me as focusing on stealth takedowns. Once i got into the mindset of maximizing takedowns, playing Primal with stealth as the focus made everything feel... very satisfying. So in some respects, Primal could be viewed as the Far Cry: Stealth Edition.

[@SakariyaMustaf]

Got this vid recommended and im surprised u dont have 1 million subscribers. High quality video

[@borangedunn]

You are too kind, stop it! Actually no, tell your friends. Do you have a million friends? Tell all of them!

[@antidjhero2]

Far cry 3 has rain but it's suuuuuuuppper rare. Like 15% chance rare.

[@borangedunn]

I don't know how much work it takes to create different weather for a game, but it seems crazy to me to put the work in and then make it such a rare occurance.

[@istoleyourbanana]

Primal has definitely had more of a learning curve than any other far cry game for me personally, it's slowly becoming one of my favorites

[@matthewburton6360]

AC is much more my speed than far cry. However I LOVED Far Cry 5 and enjoyed its follow up with New Dawn. I have always been fascinated by the idea of primal, however from the the outside it didn't seem like it offered much. Seems like a fun game if you're into the 10,000 BC vibes

[@borangedunn]

I'm currently enjoying FC 5 much more than I remember having done previously, and New Dawn is the first game I've never played before, and I'm looking forward to it because opinions seem incredibly conflicted about that one. I do think Primal is such a departure from the standard Far Cry formula, which will massively appeal to some but have the opposite effect to others. But regardless, if you're looking for 10,000 BC vibes, this is pretty much all there is!

[@JTMConceptions]

One thing I remember regarding this games development that rubbed me the wrong way about the game, was that Ubisoft actually released a poll to the fans asking them what direction they would like to see the next far cry game take. It was a multiples choice and had some really cool and interesting concepts among them. I remember there being like a futuristic sci-fi setting on a different planet, spaghetti western, post apocalyptic setting, winter survival setting, there was even an option that revolved around factions of vampires, but my favorite option was a modern day Jurassic Park-esque far cry game which at the time just seemed to make perfect sense for a far cry setting. All of the potential options sounded really cool and like they'd be bold new and interesting directions to take the series, after Far Cry 4 seemed mostly like a rehash of 3. But in the end, they tossed all of those ideas aside for Primal. Which, to me, seemed far less interesting than everything else they proposed. It just made me wonder why they even bothered with the poll to begin with.

[@B1TCHPRELL9R]

Really happy I found your channel. Great work!

[@an-animal-lover]

A couple issues I have with some of your criticisms that nobody else has brought up 1. You mentioned how the healing system and abundance of meat means that you won't see the healing animations. This is up to you, the player. If you open the food menu, you are able to set one of the various meat healing options, or the Primal Healing (the famous healing animations) as your quick healing, this means that you can set it up so pressing the heal button will use the Primal animations no matter how much meat you have 2.Just a small thing that irked me, but much of your combat footage involved poking enemies at close range with the Spear, even seemed to include it as part of the problem with the melee combat. They don't do much damage with melee because you are not meant to stab people with them (although in a pinch, if an enemy has gotten too close, charging it *can* stagger them)

[@terrylandess6072]

Did you not see the film 10,000 BC? This and that film share an almost identical scene with the mammoth hunt. I guess Quest for Fire needs an honorable mention as the Wenja would be the main tribe, with them fighting the flesh eating tribe which was more ape like and then meeting another tribe which seemed more civilized and had the secret of fire. This was the game which made me realize the amount of asset/idea sharing between the Far Cry IP and the Assassin's Creed IP when the Owl was never seen again in Far Cry, instead becoming the eagle/hawk/raven/whatever in AC. No complaints - I've spent a great deal of time sightseeing as a bird.

[@AlastorTheNPDemon]

Beautiful game. I really immersed myself in the location and got into a mythical headspace.

[@Moai2.-]

I also compare homestead/village building to the ac2 villa construction because the villa was just so perfect

[@drewpierce9627]

Didn’t finish it the first time I played. Loving it this time.

[@InfiniteLoop-n2o]

Far cry primal stuck in loading game configuration problem... Can anyone know how to fix, Please help me fix

[@JaelaOrdo]

4:56 Is it bad that now I want a Klingon Far Cry game?

[@1aiya]

hell yeah i’m excited for this 🙏

[@borangedunn]

You are officially the quickest comment on any video I've ever done, leaving one before the video is even out! I owe you some sort of medal!

[@NevadaCowboy576]

@@borangedunn is there a second place?

[@borangedunn]

There's always a second place.

[@NevadaCowboy576]

Alright, as an American, I gotta ask, wtf is sellotape?

[@insanejughead]

It's just called packing tape in the states.

[@borangedunn]

@@NevadaCowboy576 you use it on the fridge.

[@matthewburton6360]

"as an American" Brother your username says it all!

[@connorlammin8189]

Sticky tape mate

[@Moai2.-]

It's painters tape

[@zouarimohamedali1608]

the colonization joke is gold

[@Shilkah]

You were gonna pick up Hitman? Honestly, as someone who is big into Hitman and Far Cry I do recommend it :) Obviously I’m excited to see it and also a great video 😊

[@borangedunn]

@@Shilkah Yeah that was my 7 year old video, and I did eventually pick up Hitman and very much enjoyed it!

[@Shilkah]

@@borangedunn Did you play any of the other Hitman seasons in the years after that?

[@borangedunn]

​@@ShilkahI did not. I made the mistake of buying several stealth games around the same time and got burned out stealth. I'll go back and play them at some point I imagine.

[@Shilkah]

@@borangedunn Ah thats a shame, Hitman’s 2nd and 3rd seasons are arguably better because of the improved graphics, gameplay features and new locations. Hope you get the chance and motivation to play those sometime heh

[@dorinegyed]

I loved this game aloat good old memories 😏

[@PeverellTheThird]

Are you planning on reviewing Far Cry: Frontiers of Pandora?

[@seller3812]

This game is gas! I always loved it

[@00TOYZ]

there is rain in Far Cry 3

[@wingedhussar1453]

This game was great.shame that ubisoft was scared to make it more hardcore survival game which actualy makes the game alot better. They could have made it challanging like the darl souls instead it was easiest game ever. For example the other tribes should have randomly attacked your camp as that was the funnest missions in the game.instead the camp and followers didnt really matter and were only there to allow upgrades for your character. So the world never really changes even though you gain followers

[@Vile.Amity.]

Far Cry Primal is aggressive and on the edge of straight up abusive on expert survival mode.

[@Moai2.-]

I made a new profile on my PS4 to get the fresh platinum and I did it on survival expert (except for one trophy)

[@Moai2.-]

The one trophy you can't get on survival is the 15 kills with an owl btw

[@mkwsoxfan]

It's not a perfect game by any stretch of the imagination, BUT if Ubisoft is going to recycle the same braindead AI that act like brainless Neanderthal brutes in every farcry game, they might as well be actual brain dead cave men attacking you. This is the best evidence that a farcry zombie apocalypse game would work well

[@eugenebrown306]

5 . Just crazy enough 😂.

[@akhmadrasyidal-farabi7404]

Hey, i'm your fans. Thank you for your review for this game. I love hearing your jokes, its just that you're different from any other reviewers. Oh, and i hope after this far cry series, I want you to make fallout series review. Thank you so much(sorry for my bad English)

[@borangedunn]

No need to apologise, you're English is better than any language my wife is trying to teach me! Fallout is definitely on my "to do" list, but not just yet. I'll get there one day though! Thank you for your kind words!

[@cornholio-dasholiness]

No guns only bunga

[@Moai2.-]

UNGA BUNGA IKKI

[@nikobellic8002]

I don't know and I can say I didn't enjoyed it

[@DbladeMedic]

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[@Hayden7789]

You should paly frontiers of pandora. Its bacially this game but on LSD

[@wingedhussar1453]

Frontiers of pandora sucks.it has no good characters compared to this game. Also its infuriating as you always play by yourswlf in avatar ,in rhe movie you join others to fight not go rambo

[@davidhehir7378]

Honestly one of the most boring games in the series especially the combat, which I never thought I would say about a game with cavemen and mammoths

[@borangedunn]

This feels like one of those games that really needed more time in the oven, like enough time to create a new melee system to make the fighting feel better. Maybe a system similar to For Honour, if that game had come out before this one did?

[@davidhehir7378]

@@borangedunn One of my biggest wishes is for Ubisoft to make a new game with For Honor combat, I loved the game a few years back and always wonder why they haven’t used it again

[@playz8538]

yea from what I have seen people either think far cry primal is the best far cry or the worst lol, there's no in between. It's personally the only far cry (aside from far cry 3) that I finished and thoroughly enjoyed. I did try some of the other ones but for whatever reason didn't like them. Can't remember why exactly since this was a while ago.

[@davidhehir7378]

@@playz8538 I think people feel like this about a lot of games in the series, I haven’t played 2, but from what I’ve seen people either think that it’s one of the best games in history or it’s just unplayable

[@davidhehir7378]

@@playz8538 and personally after I played 5, I thought it was amazing and even better than 3 after I looked at videos on yt and saw that people thought it was horrible

[@shanephillips4011]

I 100%ed this game in 14 hours in one sitting.....every achievement, quest and upgrade😂.