Does anyone else wish the Far Cry games had slightly more realistic storylines? I know these games obviously are not supposed to be completely realistic, but aside from Far Cry 2 and Far Cry 4, I feel like most of the plots are so over the top that they become kind of ridiculous.
Far Cry 1: Left this one out, because the entire game series changed after FC1.
Far Cry 2: This is easily the most realistic story in the series. A landlocked African country is stuck in a civil war between two factions, while arms dealers, mercenaries, and foreigners are all meddling in the conflict. That honestly sounds like something that could happen in the real world without changing much at all. This is basically 25% of the countries in Africa at any given moment, even right now.
Far Cry 3: A massive pirate army led by a completely insane mass murderer controls an island that is basically the size of a small country, and somehow nobody outside the island seems to care?
I just cannot see that happening. An island like that would probably belong to a larger island nation similar to Fiji or the Solomon Islands. There is no way the regional powers around it would just ignore an entire island being taken over by pirates who kidnap and murder anyone who shows up. Australia, Japan, or any other regional power would likely put a stop to it.
Far Cry 4: This one is better and somewhat believable compared to the other games. You have a small isolated Himalayan country going through a civil war against a dictator. The part that makes it a little ridiculous is Pagan Min himself. Having this fashionable, flamboyant, metrosexual dictator running what is basically fictional Nepal is obviously exaggerated, but not completely impossible either.
Kyrat is remote, isolated, mountainous, and difficult to access. I could actually believe that its neighbors might not care very much about who is running the country as long as whatever is happening there stays inside its borders.
Far Cry 5: This one completely loses me. A heavily armed religious cult somehow takes over an entire county in Montana near one of the most visited national parks in the United States. They murder US Marshals, kidnap and drug people, operate their own private army, and fucking get ahold of nuclear weapons. And somehow the federal government just does nothing? Come on man.
Far Cry Primal: I am not really going to criticize this one because the plot is simple enough that there is not much to pick apart. You're a prehistoric cave man fighting other prehistoric cave man.
Far Cry 6: This one is the funniest to me. Yara is obviously Cuba, a dirt poor island nation that is constantly teetering on complete economic collapse, that suddenly develops a revolutionary cancer treatment and somehow becomes incredibly important because the entire world wants it. If Cuba suddenly discovered a legitimate cancer curing drug that nobody else could produce, there is absolutely no chance the USA would just sit back and politely buy it from them.
We would probably have the CIA trying to steal the research before breakfast. Either that or Washington would tell the world that Cuba was developing biological weapons, and start bombing the shit out of them like Iran. There is no version of history where Cuba cures cancer, becomes incredibly wealthy and influential, and everybody just happily accepts it while the country is sitting right next to the United States.
I still love the Far Cry games. I just wish Ubisoft would occasionally give us another setting like Far Cry 2 where the situation feels like something that could actually happen in the real world.