When you play in an open-world, you believe that you have seen everything that Far Cry could provide. And then someone does…this. The Far Cry player managed to blow up an enemy aircraft with a shovel. As if that weren’t hilarious enough, they were, at that precise moment, standing on yet another plane. Well, that’s how it happened: towards engender catapultingly destruction. The video that is now making rounds on the tubes can probably be the best example of the games being low-key designed for these gloriously broken and physics-defying occurrences.
This is so Far Cry. The footage showed the player character who was probably in a heighted dogfight to the point where they landed on the wings of another aircraft. Instead of shooting the other plane, they decided to use a shovel. And after a few blows, the second plane… simply shattered into pieces. Paramilitary tactics of this kind shouldn’t be so stupid; it terms breach as zero; it’s a bit much more to its discredit. But in a universe like Far Cry, we must remember that it is the divine madness of creativity/Whatever silly idea you can think of in this game actually makes perfect sense. As user said brilliantly, ‘When the game says “be creative” and they take it literally 💀.’ This is almost the franchise’s running gag.
In no time at all, enthusiastic sharing on boards quickly turned into infinite mirth from the gaming community in the comments. There is an endless repetition of comments laughing about the game’s shenanigans giving birth to perpetual, child-like amusement in these sandbox travelers. “Peak far cry chaos lol,” while another said, “these are the kind of physics I like.” Relatable. They can get irritatingly serious. Yeah, so in the era when everyone is falling over themselves to make the perfect game with ultrarealistic graphics, it’s refreshing to know that game logic is off on a vacation, letting players lead the idiocies: “When the game says ‘be creative’ and they take it literally 💀,” MoonSeeker004 humorously philosophized. And true that. The game provides tools, oftentimes, and sometimes, an apocalyptic weapon would be a scythe.
It’s actually such types of gameplay that unexpectedly crop up that keep players loyal to the Far Cry series, even when they have completed the master story. To say that players are undecided about the primary objective in Far Cry says as much. The main objective is these stories, along with moments where one just sits, gazes, and says, “How the hell did they manage to do that?” This is just the game speak gamers use when they go in for the challenge and expect cracks in the world of the game. An addendum compared them to another territoriality sandbox stating: “Reminds me of those Battlefield clips 😂.” This ambiguity of the sheer wild of what we do.
Yet there were some skeptics about whether the situation was a tricky bit of manipulation. ‘bro found a glitch!’ claimed one viewer. They might well have tumbled onto a very fair guess. Open-world games come with this convention of dad-joke weirdness that does cost-efficiency yet offers unprecedented quality entertainment, alas, still perfectly acceptable for entertainment purposes, as shown by ‘casinokrisa’. But who cares? Really, who cares? Whether it was a cheap trick or a lucky break, it makes for total fun. Many times, it is such unscripted crazy unions that really deliver more longevity to a game than any official DLC ever springs for. They’ll just cause explosions and let players see the playground the developers made. Though, said developers might not have expected anyone to use the swing set to launch a car in the first place.
Well, talking about the dancing around a gif, the meta-discussion came out about even having the very gif at all, with one user rubbing salt into the wound: ‘I didn’t see the plane get taken down.” Another viewer pointed ahead to rip it to shreds, simply rebutting, “this isn’t the right clip 😔.” It was, per usual for the Internet airway, a celebration juxtaposed with skepticism. What a friggin’ truth though- somewhere at some point, someone managed to shovel down a high-octane plane while standing on the roof of another one. This is practically everything that needs to be told from this entire episode in sheer absurdity regarding game deferral.
Thus in the best possible sense, Far Cry reveals itself to you. It isn’t about the polished marketing cutscenes or even narrative twists. It is all about raising the dimmest and ugliest arrow from your quiver to aim at the sky, and sometimes validation shall come from a systems view of what can’t not happen. You give birth to a grand flourish of chaos and then just fling it over the edge, into the Facebook community, where players on PlayStation and Xbox can share in the madness.
