The single player of FarCry 3 stunned the critics and fans alike, but then the multiplayer element equally stunned the fans into silence. Not in a Ohmygodthisisamazing silence, but an enforced silence through the chat headset, which - on a good day - might allow players to hear a garbled mess of unintelligible white noise. Now, us gamers may actually be used to hearing an unintelligible garbled mess from our team-mates, but the thing is; the ramblings and banality are ours. The in-game banter may have nothing to do with strategy or tactics, and may only consist of drunken laughing at each others ineptitude, but that is what keeps us playing, and with a shamefully unaddressed VOIP failure the online component of FarCry 3 had the longevity of a cliff-perched lemming with Monday morning blues opening his tax bill. Have a glance at your friends list and see how many people are currently playing this what should have been amazing online experience, but instead became a ghost-town, where only the dedicated map-makers remain, wandering forlornly, unable to get their many hours of creativity seen, evaluated and played by their fellow FarCry fans. The (excellent) protagonist/antagonist Vaas had some of the most insightful and well written dialogue in any game to date, including:
" Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same f*cking thing... over and over again, expecting... sh*t to change. That... is crazy; but the first time somebody told me that...I dunno, I thought they were bullsh*tting me, so boom - I shot him. The thing is, okay... He was right. And then I started seeing: everywhere I looked, everywhere I looked, all these f*cking pr*cks, everywhere I looked, doing the exact same f*cking thing... over and over and over and over again thinking: "This time, it's gonna be different; no, no, no, no, no, please... This time it's gonna be different."
When FarCry 4 is released, how many gamers will bear that in mind?
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