I have a pretty complex history with the artform of video games. When I was a kid, I'd play just about anything I could get my hands on. I had a lot of fun playing games on my xbox 360, running through so many campaigns.
Some of my favorite games were made by Ubisoft. Far cry 3, Assassins creed black flag & 3 (didn't like rayman lol). But I kind of aged out of those games a little.
Once I hit middle school, I got a pretty big LOL phase (the dark ages) and played that game way too much.
I remember dropping that game hard and getting into a HUGE ps2 phase, and being obsessed with JRPGs for quite a while.
Long story short - From around 2014-now, I've been very distinguishing with my tastes. I want to play games that make me think, that have unique mechanics or are just straight up classics - cult or otherwise.
I used to look down on Ubisoft games as being crappy cash cows that just existed to make money and not take any risks. I still do think that way A LITTLE - but man picking up far cry 5 blew my mind.
It's such a fun game, and it knows exactly what it is. If I have an hour free and I play disco elysium, I don't know if I'd enjoy it that much. If I have an hour free and I play far cry 5, I'm gonna have a BLAST.
FC5 drip drops dopamine at you constantly. There's always something to do and the game is so combat heavy it's insane.
the game design is genius, having the progress bars fill up when you do ANYTHING makes the game so damn addictive. I think to myself "one more silo, one more outpost" way too much.
Sometimes I return from my lab at 9pm, after a full day of work, and far cry 5 is such a good relaxing podcast game it's insane.
If you haven't played any far cry games in a while (4+ years), I'd recommend checking out the franchise again. It'll probably be 2028 before I touch far cry 7, but I'm looking forward to it.