1.3 hours played
Written 14 days ago
I remember playing Far Cry 3 on PlayStation 3 years and years ago not too long after it originally came out and from what I can recall, it was pretty much smooth sailing back then with fun yet challenging gameplay, great graphics, an immersive story, a beautiful world to explore and no real game-breaking bugs to worry about. Fast-forward to almost a decade later when I decided to buy this game for PC as part of a discounted bundle here on Steam, and I'm both very disappointed and frustrated to say that it's been nothing but a huge hassle for me ever since.
Unlike all of their other games that I currently own here on Steam, Ubisoft forces you to not only install their third-party launcher software Ubisoft Connect which you MUST use every single time you start this game, but you also have to create a new account AND sign in with your password every time you launch which completely defeats the purpose of having their own game available on the Steam marketplace to begin with. To add insult to injury, it took me DAYS just to launch the game for the first time because of connection issues that I was having with Ubisoft Connect even though Steam itself and everything else on my PC was working just fine so the launcher was clearly the problem. And mind you, this is all after Ubisoft shut down their own multiplayer servers for this game, so it's quite ironic how you still need an active Internet connection to play all by yourself or else you're screwed for some reason.
Even after all of this though, when I was finally able to launch and play the game itself, I still haven't managed to get past the first mission due to crash after crash happening which all forced me to start back from the very beginning again since none of the checkpoints saved for me at all. The last few times the game crashed, it was either very close to the end of the first mission or during the loading screen that displays in between the end of it and the start of the second mission. Until Ubisoft fixes their own game and/or launcher, it's highly unlikely that I'll ever progress any further than what's essentially just the tutorial.
For all of these reasons and more, I simply cannot recommend buying this game due to it being literally unplayable at this current stage in time thanks to Ubisoft.