Kotaku: Far Cry 4's box art depicts a man wearing a lavish pink suit using what might be a religious statue as a throne. He has blonde hair and fair skin and his hand rests on the head of a man of color who kneels, passively, clutching a grenade in his hands. It's caused quite a stir.
It's not like this is senseless controversy. The image and the context surrounding it—or lack thereof—is complicated, people's reactions equal parts bemused and confused. The image itself is a hand grenade that's already going off in slow motion, and I think Ubisoft's handled it poorly.
Ubisoft's latest Far Cry 4 update enables 60 FPS on PS5 after releasing an update earlier for Far Cry New Dawn with similar improvements.
Sony....you're really letting ubisoft out of all all companies to out class you??? Give us the bloondborne 60 fps patch....ffs
I second this (Bloodborne 60fps) plus damn, Ubisoft, you're doing great but now the last thing I want youi to do is mae Far Cry Primal 60fps and AC Unity
Everytime someone asks for a bloodborne patch it gets delayed 1 day.
ETA next century
They know it's gonna cost them sales of the inevitable Remake that'll probably come around the PS6 launch.
Kudos to Ubisoft for once again going back to older titles and then offering a nice upgrade for free. I know the company gets a lot of criticism, in quite a few cases understandable and justified, but in this area of contintued post-launch support for their SP games, they deserve some credit.
Update: Ubisoft has acknowledged that the Japanese version of the game, which includes regional censorship, was mistakenly released globally. The company says it has reverted these changes in the game's worldwide branch.
Ubisoft has quietly removed nudity from Far Cry 4 in a recent update, sparking speculation about Tencent’s growing influence on the publisher.
You can murder, mame, and viciously attack people, but anything that deals with showing a body in a natural state whether for titillation or narrative, is some truly terrible thing. We are so weird with our puritan thought process. Feed our bloodlust and fuel our enjoyment for entertainment of simulating acts of harm and murder, but god forbid you see digitized TnA. It will never make sense to me.
tbh even if they did remove it, it doesnt matter. I dont even remember when there was nudity in the game. If it was there it was so inconsequential.
Agreed. It absolutely makes no sense
Also, even though Ubisoft reverted the changes that removed nudity, there's the bigger issue of developers being able to make large changes to the game you paid for whenever they want.
Stellar Blade comes to mind. This is why buying physical is the way to go.
Far Cry debuted on March 23, 2004, meaning that next week, it will have been 20 years since Jack Carver first washed up on the shore of a tropical paradise teeming with hostile mercenaries.
Yeah, 4 was good, was hard choosing which Golden Dawn member to side with, when they were both pieces of sh!t.
I've beaten all the main entries except 2 and 6, ended up uninstalling 6 to download something else instead.
I'd love a far cry pack with the original PC game (not the half assed port on ps360) instincts, predator even a port of far cry 2 to modern consoles back when these games had their own identity and weren't far cry 3 cut and pastel
Same here, I don't know why these games get so much hate. I've thoroughly enjoyed every single one of them, with only a couple of exceptions. I wish they'd hurry up and announce Far Cry 7. The only thing I'm concerned about is the rumoured time limit.
Yawn. No one really cares about the box art. People complain because they have nothing better to do. We'll all enjoy the game. We'll all get up and go to work.
I dunno, I think this is less about insensitivity and more about over sensitivity.... Yes, this image has racist undertones, yes the central character embodies holosexual stereotypes... My question is, so what?
Is it not ok for a character in a game to be racist? Don't racist people exist in this world? Shouldn't we want our games to more openly address such topics? This article seems to compliment ubisoft's approach to racism in Assassin's Creed 3. I thought they handled the subject in a very shallow and sterilized manner. If you didn't have the audio up or subtitles on, you wouldn't even know oppression was a theme in the game, as the visuals failed to back it up. The imagery SHOULD effectively display the subject matter, as is the case with this box art.
As far as the characters sexuality, criticism seems to stem from the fact that he dresses flamboyantly. Again, are there not gay people who dress this way? That's not an offensive stereotype. Now if this character was portrayed as a whimp, incapable of self defense, who's overly emotional, and shy's away from conflict, and is inherently submissive, I'd say it was depicting a harmful stereotype. Instead, this effeminate gay man, (however evil)is exerting dominance of his enemies and has assumed a position of power in a war zone. He has even 'conquered religion' , an area of society that is known to discriminate against and oppress homosexuals. This character appears to have turned the tables.... It's like people simply chose to ignore the symbolism here.
Gamers these days are living up to the stereotype of being whiny, entitled punks, armed with pitch forks, but lacking the IQ to know when to bring them out. That's the stereotype I'm getting sick of.
This is a complete non story.
Can we not have crap like this posted on n4g again please it just gives morons the oxygen of publicity.
If you have to consider deeply and analyse something to determine if it is offensive then it clearly hasn't actually offended anybody.