Far Cry 4 (2012)

I bought the game for 3€ in a Steam sale, and for that money it is well worth the time.

The game runs very smooth on a 16GB machine with an RTX 1080 card.

The Good

Story

Story is serviceable. The Bad Guy is Really Evil. You are the son of a resistance fighter in some random tibetan/nepalese/whatever country. Your mother left for the US with you as a child, but for some reason still trained you to be a fighter. At least, nobody mentions or wonders why you are handy with all those weapons that are lying around. Also, nobody asks where you were or how your life was, but accepts you as the son of the former leader. The story sets you up in the game and is motivation for some of the missions, and that's it. It is by lengths better than in Assassins Creed: Origins (the "Egypt" episode).

Gameplay

The gameplay is good. It is a typical UbiSoft game, with lots and lots of collectibles, but at least you can buy maps that list the collectible locations. The fighting is good, despite the occasional QuickTime event.

The Bad

The intro is unskippable, which is highly inconvenient if the game crashes juuust before the end of the intro. Otherwise I haven't encountered any bad bugs. The convenience of playing old games is that you get to play the best version there is. At least for offline games, where they don't patch out songs from the soundtrack and so on.

The Ugly

The game is connected to the UbiSoft launcher, even when you buy it through Steam. That launcher updates itself every time you launch it through Steam. It also requires a (burner) email address for launching the game. I should maybe start looking for a crack/patch that allows to remove the UbiSoft launcher by replacing it with a small program that mimics it but uses fewer resources.

At least Far Cry 4 does not have microtransactions.