Granted I have only ever played 2 of the Far Cry games and am currently working on FC4, which is just ok in my mind after having really enjoyed Far Cry 5. I think that Ubisoft kind of learned about certain things that annoyed users in 4 and made positive changes to 5 as a consequence. For one thing, getting constantly mauled by wildlife is annoying, especially when it is really impractical wildlife to even be in existence such as Bengal Tigers. I die by the hands of random roaming wildlife than I ever do from bullets.
For the most part I still really like this game but one thing I really don't like about the game and unfortunately is a regular part of it is the missions where you have to sneak in unnoticed or the guards will immediately kill all of the hostages.
While I can appreciate their devotion to their job as they clearly were not bluffing about the fact that they will kill the hostages, it is still a part of the game that I would prefer not exist or at the minimum be something that is optional.
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There are probably some people out there that really appreciate these sorts of missions but for me I find it extremely lame that if I make one tiny mistake and am noticed by a guard on the other side of a huge cave or something like that, that the guards set to immediately killing all of the hostages. If they kill too many of them the mission fails and you have to start all over again.
This is particularly difficult to pull off in some of the later missions where there aren't a lot of places to hide and instead you have to keep using those injections that will reveal enemy positions through walls and you have to stand their twiddling your thumbs while you wait for the guard to turn his back and head in the opposite direction.
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)There's this rather long and annoying mission where you have to gather intel about one of the bosses and how they are using torture in order to get information out of prisoners and it begins with you needing to sneak into the back of a truck to get to the location at all because your intel people don't actually know where the prisoners are being held.
This part of it is rather easy because it is extremely evident that you can climb up onto the back of the building and gain access to the truck garage without being detected. However, this is just the start of the "fun" because once you arrive at the camp you have to make it to I think it was 4 different eagle eye positions to take photos of people being detained and tortured. This would be fun if it wasn't for the fact that simply being spotted by anyone results in mission failure and the need to start again at the very beginning of the entire thing. Once again we find ourselves with very little cover or at least evident cover, and tons of guards all over the place. There are a few of them that you must sneak kill and this is fine but then you also have to climb onto the roofs of buildings without being spotted by anyone on the ground.
I don't know where all the guards are in this complex and if one of the guards so much as spots you, it is game over, start over. I was delighted when I finally made it through that mission and now when a new sneak mission comes up, if it is optional, I will opt out of the mission entirely.
I don't like the mechanics of sneaking in Far Cry 4 and don't think they were implemented very well. I've never been a fan of games where the objective is to not be noticed at all, which is why you will never see me review Hitman games, I just don't like all the waiting around for just the right moment to strike and one little bad move means game over.
I guess it is just a personal thing but I much prefer to go in guns blazing or just sniping from a ways away.