So with FC6 on its why my co-op buddy and I decided to finish Far Cry 5. We sort of fell off of it in the wake of many other co-op games but got back to it this weekend. I wasn't going to play FC New Dawn because it was basically a reskin of 5 and what I ASSUMED was to be non-canon.

So I haven't looked into it too deep but I'm wondering where FC6 is going to sit in the game world. The series never really had a canon per se, but there are connections at least between 4 and 5. Has anyone looked into this yet?

I can't imagine anyone but Herk (who appeared in at least one other FC) would be in FC6. But it could always be a parallel world with fanservice callbacks.

I'm gonna guess they just ignore Far Cry 5, or at least continue from an ending where the nuclear war doesn't happen. The story of 5, and particularly the ending, were pretty universally panned, so it makes sense they'd want to walk that back. Kind of hard to blame them to be honest - that ending was really stupid.

@therealturk: We literally just beat it a day ago, and it was stunned silence followed by weird sputtering. I can't believe I never knew this ending.

On another note new dawn was 20 bucks on sale and the crafting stuff is neat.

@sparky_buzzsaw: CIA agent Willis (2, 3, 4 and 5) has good reason to be there.

@kunakai: I forgot about him! Was he in 5? Like I said I've been playing it off and on since launch so my lore is a bit fuzzy.

@cleric22: Yeah, only for a single mission as far as I remember.

(I kept shooting him after completing the mission for reasons I can't quite remember. )

...But what about Jack Carver?

@facelessvixen said:

Incidentally, anyone remember when Far Cry was about fighting biomutants created by a mad scientist trying to take over the world rather than climbing a bunch of towers and bad excuses for weed jokes?

@therealturk: To be fair they got rid of the towers at least in 5.

I do remember the old game! I played it back in college and was really surprised at the turn it took. Still though I like that its (generally) more grounded in later games. I think if FC 2 had co-op it probably would have been my favorite overall.

@therealturk: You seem pretty flippant on far cry already, but New Dawn already showed us that the nuclear event did very much happen. They make the ending and any choices you made in 5 useless in that game.

> Incidentally, anyone remember when Far Cry was about fighting biomutants created by a mad scientist trying to take over the world

Yeah, wasn't that one game, from 17 years ago?

@mikewhy: Technically there were two mutant zombie far cry games. The original and the console version (Primal?) where hawain shirt man transforms into one

But yeah, basically Far Cry 2 came out and nobody ever looked back. Hell, wasn't a big part of the marketing of FC2 even that it was controversial and about the political hell that is blood diamonds? And then it was around 5 that it became "our game about doomsday preppers where we say they are right is not political"

Remember how the first game was just an homage to The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells? But very few people who played Far Cry 1 read the book, or saw the most excellent film, and didn't know it.

Played original Far Cry in 2013 myself. Where former Giantbomb staff member Austin Walker called similarity between MGSV and FC2, I would call similarity to FC.