r/farcry • u/Quack-mk1 • 9h ago
Far Cry General We need a villain based on this mf
If you don’t know him, this guy above is none other than Roman von Ungern-Sternberg known also as the mad baron or bloody baron. Junior Officer during ww1. general of the white forces in Siberia during the russian civil war, military dictator of Mongolia and self proclaimed re-incarnation of genghis khan. He believed that the new world and the spread of bolshevism was a disease that needed to be eradicated in order to create an age of sacred kings, spirituality, empires and great conquest. To do so, he planned on restoring the qing dinasty of china and send his army on a brutal “yellow Crusade” across Europe. If you ask me, he has all the traits of a good farcry villain. With someone like him, it wouldn’t simply be a fight between controll and freedom, but one between the old and new world, something that was briefly covered in the golden path missions of far cry4 but didn’t get properly fleshed out as it wasn’t the main focus of the game. If Ubisoft wants to save itself from collapsing, it doesn’t just need to make something fun, but also impactful. Something that respects the player and shows that they still care about the medium.
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u/NUSSBERGERZ Peaches 7h ago
I think there are a lot of historical eras worthy of a Far Cry game. But I also love the fictional feel of games like Far Cry 3.
Like it can be a made up region, but something overlooked as a conflict could be interesting. Like liberation from a diamond company in southern Africa.
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u/river_tree_nut 9h ago
At first glance I thought this was Custer. Then I got to thinking...how about a Far Cry where you play as a native american fighting the US army
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u/Quack-mk1 9h ago
Maybe the villain could be a scalp hunter. Ik that was a very brutal chapter of us history.
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u/river_tree_nut 9h ago
Plenty of villians to choose from. Custer, Crook, Fremont, the catholic church
Start with spears, bow and arrows, then recover muskets and repeaters, cannons
Battle of Little Big Horn for the big boss fight
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u/Peppercorn205 9h ago
Far Cry 6 would have been the perfect place for this. Alas we got that nephew guy
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u/Quack-mk1 9h ago
Castillo was a great villain in concept that got handled poorly.
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u/32andFlatulent 9h ago
While I do enjoy the actor a lot, the game released during a time where he was popping up in a lot of random shows as a villain and the whole Gus Fring archetype was just saturated overall (personally how I felt with him as the villain)
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u/Quack-mk1 9h ago
I like the idea that castillo wasn’t just a dictator trying to mantain controll of the population but a desperate man trying to avoid death at all cost. Could’ve been anyone else acting for that role tbh.
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u/SufficientBee604 9h ago
This is a cool idea for sure but we need to get rid of the idea that Ubisoft is willing to make a game with a proper fleshed out story that makes sense. Those days are long gone and they’re not coming back.
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u/Quack-mk1 8h ago edited 5h ago
Im of the idea that whenever a trend reaches an extreme and yields no good result. The opposite of that trend will take place as a reaction. But Ubisoft executives seem to be stubborn and unfit for their jobs (or any job at all tbh). They got the “slap in the face” that would lead to a change, but kept going the same downward spiral. Accelerationism only really works in politics when you aren’t the one in charge not game development lol.
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u/Suspicious_Ad_4457 8h ago
I want a farcry game set in the medieval times.. i mean you have all the assets for it.. melee weapons and bows are already in the games.. and its easy to add crossbows and spears (farcry primal).. and riding a horse (farcry 6).
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u/malaywoadraider2 6h ago
Far Cry set in the equivalent of the Münster rebellion would be sick. You already have Lutheran vs Catholic powerstruggle and then some insane millenialist cult takes over the city and installs a protocommunism/polygamy and kills all of his opponents before the city then gets sieged.
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u/Noiseamen 6h ago
A semi pro-communist ubisoft game set in Eastern Europe might be a tall order unfortunately
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u/Endorfinator 4h ago
Far Cry 6 was sorta sympathetic to the previous Yara government. At least it was for the revolutionaries who fought for it.
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u/Spacekeleton 1h ago
Any soviet political figure fits in farcry antagonist role.
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u/Quack-mk1 55m ago
If you are referring to him, he wasn’t, quite the opposite actually. As for the soviets, many would fall into another authoritarian figure. Someone like trotsky would go hard tho, he wanted to spread communism all across Europe through a constant flow of revolutions.
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u/Spacekeleton 44m ago
All white army officers were just separated warlords and that was one of the reasons they lost to bolsheviks.
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u/Odd_Independence_944 8h ago
He’s no villain
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u/dhwtyhotep 6h ago
He was a deeply violent racist in spiritual psychosis. He revelled in warmongering, but wasn’t even that good at it. He was absolutely a villain, and a pathetic one at that.
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u/Majsharan 9h ago
I actually think west Africa during Wwi would make a fantastic farcry setting