Should you Buy Far Cry Primal in 2021? (Review) 

Best times with my dad before he died. We were prom dress shopping for my sister and my dad and me were bored as hell. There was a GameStop across the street and he bought it for me. We knew my mom definitely wouldn’t like me having it so he took it and hid it under his seat. After that we got Chick Fil A and he got me anything I wanted. When we got home we left it in the car and went to bed. We woke up to play it together for about 13 hours straight. Best time ever. It was also the best jacksepticye series too 🙂

Primal has the best hunting in farcry and you can't change my mind

I'm gonna save you 8 minutes of your life: Yes you should. It's cheap now and for me it's the best far cry hands down.

To be fair Cave people don’t really need a goal, all they need to do is survive.

Without a doubt, this has been the most amazing Far Cry game. 30 hours in, taking my time, still have not completed my first playthrough. One of the best games I have ever played.

This game is one of the most underrated in the entire FC series. It definitely has its faults, but there's just something so...dare I say, "primal" about it.

I completed Far Cry Primal 100% a week a ago and it is one of my favorite games of all time! ♥️ I wish they would release a sequel to it in the near future.

The eerie warm comforting feeling of the game brings this kind of zen relaxation for me. The utter realization that this is what Earth was like before, fresh air, gold atmosphere, green everywhere. An almost accurate simulation.

I was an avid FC fan but skipped out on this one and got it on sale for $7 on Steam a few weeks ago. I’m loving it so far! Once you upgrade some skills the game really starts to shine. Having a pet Sabertooth Tiger is EPIC!

A lot of people may not remember. Years ago Ubisoft sent people surveys after Farcry 4,and ask. If they could pick the next Farcry, where would it be? The choices was Wild West, Outer Space, Primal/Cavemen,and a few others. Primal won.

I hope there’s a primal 2

This was actually really fun to play, I really enjoy it. Not to be a history nerd but 10000 years ago tribal warfare would've been the case and was a huge contributor for migration to different parts of the world. They're not dumb, we built upon what they've achieved (tools, housings, communities) but maybe we took it for granted, they were the foundation of human civilistion. Why do we start war in history, for leadership, land and resources. Some people were not native of a certain region and that causes war not to mention the cannibal tribe were probably neanderthals, an entirely different species.

Been really enjoying the more comedic tone of the recent reviews.

Try not to skip the cutscenes and pay more attention to what the characters are saying. Don't rush the game simply to make a review

FCP on max difficulty and survival mode is one of the most immersive and satisfying games I ever played. Underrated spin off.

2016 or 2021,it remains a really amazing game

If you go into it thinking of it as a caveman game not a far cry game, it’s amazing. This was the first far cry game I played and I went into thinking “oooo caveman smash other caveman with club” and I wasn’t disappointed.

I played it when it came out, it was actually the first far cry game I played believe it or not, and I'll just say I was blown away, I never played a game just like this, this whole concept! It had me hooked, I was so hooked I actually touched every aspect of the map, I did like everything you could and collected SO much, I just loved it I promise you it's worth it, I'm personally picky, but this was just dope.

Bro you didnt pay attention to the story line very well it seems...

I liked it more than FC4. I think Primal deserves a sequel, there is a lot of potential from that setting

Hol up, 13 hours to finish, I've been playing for a month

I bought this game right after Christmas when Steam had a sale - was not disappointed - have done the story line once, now just trying to complete the caves and rest of the collectibles - loved the teaser after the credits - was hoping for a sequel

I replayed Primal last year and I forgot how much I loved it. I'd love it if they made another Primal spinoff

I’ve completed this game like 30 times and I never get bored of it

It's entirely untrue that people 12,000 years ago "weren't the smartest bunch" as you said. I haven't played Primal but if that's the way the game portrays them then that's sad. They were anatomically modern humans, and they were anatomically modern for literally tens of thousands of years before this game takes place. They may have actually been more "intelligent" however you want to define that as Cro Magnons had a slightly larger brain volume than modern Europeans do today. ALSO--- I recommend not using some punk ass little journalist website for your source on paleolithic lifespan. Firstly, the average is more like 35, not 25. Secondly the average is EXTREMELY misleading. This is basically statistics 101. Infant and small child mortality rates were much higher, so you have a lot of dead infants which dramatically bring down the AVERAGE life expectancy. The majority of those that made it into adulthood were living well into their 40s, 50s and 60s. Some were even older. TLDR; they weren't less or more intelligent than we are today, at all. And theyre genetically the same as modern sapiens. Also your figure on lifespan is wildly misleading. Sorry, not sorry.

The game is a masterpiece. I was prejudiced before I played it, I thought it'd be boring without modern weapons, but I was so wrong. I agree with some things pointed out in the video, but man, every second spent on collecting resources and crafting is worth spending just for the unique atmosphere. You really can feel it is 10 000 years ago and it is an amazing experience. Also taming different beasts and actually playing with them by your side is really fun. All beasts have different special abilities and you can find them really helpful. I just finished it the other day and I'm planning to go through it again some time next year. A sensational game!

One of the most underrated games I’ve ever played.

The music and exploration atmosphere is amazing

All your comments convinced me to buy it just right now.

Since the game came out I’ve been doing a yearly replay, and I’ve enjoyed it each and every time.

Look I'm not saying it's a masterpiece but do people understand the balls it takes to make a game like this and have it turn out good!

I bypassed Primal initially because no guns or vehicles 12,000 years ago. That was a mistake. It's the most immersive game I've played and a masterpiece IMO. Strong storyline. Recapture the land of Oros from the 2 occupying tribes building your own tribe along the way.

Primal was the most immersive game from the series for me and was the most fun to play. The 10000 bc setting is exactly what the far cry template needed to fill the gaps of coherence so the story and characters felt excellent and in place. Tribal survival was exactly what youd expect to lead them. The story and game is pleasantly short so you're in the discovering phase most of the time and I felt no grinding. The primitive weapons actually gave me so much more than expected variety and possibilities that close to the end I was worried there wont be enough game left for me to do it all. Oh and its a bit more satisfyingly gory which was apparently something i was missing in the other games. :)

Ull, Takkar and Batari's social chemistry actually have some pretty profound origins that lead up into fc5 primarily, but all of the fc games in general. I may even say they're the most important villains in the series.

I’ve been considering getting this game cause I like the whole primal age games so ty

If you want to play extra "immersive", turn off the reticle, detection meter, minimap, enemy tags, limit what you can craft, so no carrying 5 spears, 24 arrows, and 4 clubs. Also don't use the owl, and only tame canines. The game becomes much more challenging and perhaps tedious to some, but I enjoyed the torture >:D

I have been playing far cry primal for years, every time I start a new game it feels like the first time. Great game!

I wish the game was longer. i fell inlove with this game ever since i got it.

I hear the “why doesn’t everyone get along” argument for this game a lot. (I can’t remember how to spell the tribe names) Both enemy tribes have a way of life that actively endangers our tribe. The cannibal tribe actively hunts the good tribe and the fire tribe enslaves the good tribe. They did this because our tribe was divided so, takkar had to gather his people together to destroy the two bigger tribes and secure the good tribes survival.

Far cry primal is absolutely without a doubt the best far cry game ever made to date as well as one of the greatest, most imaginative and ambitious video games in recent times period. The simplistic storyline is tremendously refreshing and an accurate representation of the probable conflicts between early agrarian and pre-agrarian Indo European societies. This game easily stands with The elder scrolls five Skyrim as potentially one of the greatest video games in all of human history.

My favourite game of all time, and hoping for a sequel

I'm in lockdown in NZ and I've downloaded this again. It's an absolute gem 🤙🏾I played it many years ago and it has a special place in my heart

In far cry history PRIMAL is the best, the creativity how they set up during 10000 bc, stealth takedowns were amazing,the beasts like sabretooth were fantastic AND EVEN UBISOFT MADE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE 👌👌👌🔥🔥

It's my favorite Far Cry. I remember how skeptical I was of the setting (no guns, no vehicles, wtf is this Far Cry at all?), but it turned out to be one of the best games I ever played.

I enjoyed FCP more than i should've I'm afraid. I explored every inch of the map and let me tell you, i really took my time with it cause i didn't want the game to end. Hopefully they'll release it for VR one day.

A little late here, I love your videos and your thoughts. This game to me was for some ofd reason one of the best games I’ve ever played mainly because of the setting made me feel like I was playing an entirely new type of game. I haven’t felt like that since Gears of War 1, Assassins Creed 1 or even something like skate 3 in terms of skateboarding games. Those games changed the way I felt about gaming entirely and even though the story isn’t amazing I didn’t expect it to be because of the setting but I truly felt like a caveman. Maybe it’s because of my lower expectation that I love those game so much.

Imo they should have made this game a franchise and not a Far Cry, could have been a good survival game

This was my second favorite game in the series.

Literally just get it I finished it and it has a great story plot and the bad guys do have a background story to them also the animal taming in the game is so cool you feel like they are your actual pet and it feels like you have a actual bond with them too it’s so worth it and the animals aren’t that broken most that was happening was you couldn’t call it across the water 😭

I enjoyed it for the scenery. Some locations are truly amazing. The caves however are incredibly annoying. Finding the paintings became a shore.

I remember buying this when I got my first good PC , the world was just stunning to me , It was the first time I ever got to play something good , it's 100% worth the price and it's such very underrated game.

Picked up and started playing for the first time yesterday, the game is so much fun and feels so fresh 😃👌

This is one of those games people hate for no reason yet the game itself is very enjoyable

Far Cry Primal is the very first Far Cry game I've ever played, so naturally, it's going to have a place in my heart. Sure, obviously, it's not a perfect game - not just from a story and character perspective, but also from a prehistory perspective - but damn it, I had an absolute blast playing it.

this game’s a masterpiece. I played it when it came out and kinda want to revisit it

If you think about it they’re not supposed to have development, it’s just rivals in a time of survival and that’s what makes this game fun

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Hay layda aw-awam, tu Winja-ha warha hawcham. "I love this game so much, I learned to speak Wenja"

i just love this game, one of the best primitive stealth game I loved. honestly I started on farcry 5 which I completed 100% then with an ongoing gameplay on New dawn... love this 2 game. then I kept going back to Primal because I just love the feeling of using primitive tools in stealth kills and also I love taming wild animals!

I just got this game because it was on sale and it’s by far the best game I’ve played in a long time. Probably since I played Fallout 3 the first time when it came out years ago and that’s saying a lot. I have a really short attention span for games as an adult, especially big, open world games and RPG’s. Even though those used to be my favorite games but anyways, this game is a really great game. I’ve heard some mixed reviews about it but steam had mostly good reviews and I’m absolutely addicted to it. I guess if you’re coming from Far cry as a fan, it might have seemed odd but i don’t have any attachment to the series. I played the first and second one and thought they were good but nothing that blew me away but Primal has really drawn me in and it could be the atmosphere honestly. I really like the time period the game takes place in and I love exploring the wilderness. I find myself getting lost more in side quests and exploration more than the actual game’s main story, which is good BTW but the game is very addicting. I only wish I played it when it came out but I never had a next gen console. Wait for it to go on sale again or go to g2a website and get a steam code if you got a pc. It’s worth every penny IMO, if you’re into adventure games in big, open world sandboxes.

Dude it was the most unique because of not having guns And when you say that you sound like the average cod fan. But not having guns, that’s what made it fun and your intellect of the story was the same as a fucking Udam club warrior there was an actual story to this and the gathering was for the surviving aspect and hardly a chore unless you were on survivor mode it feels like you skipped most of the cutscenes (which by the way we’re pretty fucking good) Don’t get me wrong combat could have been better yes but the whole idea of this game in my opinion especially if you’ve ever played on perma death (or at least the whole game on expert) is what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. you gain More strength and craft better weapons and adapt to the harsh environment of this time period where you are obviously not the top of the food chain just yet

Personally I disagree with alot that was said in this review for example the story I think was fine and I liked takkar as a protagonist

Great game, sometimes you don't need explosions, guns, hardware and tech ,less is more ,an immersive world you can lose yourself in

The character identified as "Bacatari" is "Batari" (BA-ta-ri).

Unpopular opinion: I really like this game.

As somebody who has studied ancient history and this era specifically, it really appeals to me and I still play it today, with it remaining one of my fave games ever. I guess if you don't understand history, this time especially, its just another time piece open world game.

Yeah, so the life expectancy was really low back then, so people had to have children at a young age to survive as a whole, which explains why women in the 1500’s married really young.

The language spoken in primal is actually 3 languages! Although 2 of them are very similar these being udam and wenja. They are all reconstructions of Proto-indo-european, wenja and udam are reconstructions that are different from izilla because they were reconstructed to be a little bit older than izilla and Proto-indo-european and they are by far the languages that are farther from our own Indo-European languages since they are "older" (only from a linguistic point of view). Izilla on the other hand is very similar to normal Proto-indo-european! If you really listen to the languages and read them online you can even understand some words and sometimes full on sentences depending on what languages you speak which is very cool!(there is a blog that the developers made that explains how they reconstructed it and where you can learn how to speak them)

This is the best Farycry game ive played

Such an underrated game loved just throwing rocks at mammoths then watching them rage and chase you

I love my survival games and iv had this since it came out. I got about 40% though it and deleted it for space. Went more than a year without playing it. Rdownloaded it and suddenly its got a survival mode. I delete my save to play survival mode. And im thoroughly enjoying it. the risk vs reward is much greater and resources are actually usefull.

I bought it when it released, just started playing it today. I've ran out games to play so I've been playing Ubisoft stuff. Played through the Ghost Recon stuff, now I'm playing Far Cry, have Assassin's Creed up next.

So I guess I should at least try it for a few hours. It´s already bought and maybe the game pleases me. I love your new style. It´s great. It´s funny, but the viewers get useful info as well. Keep it!

I'll just say this. If you are going to buy & play this game, only play on Survival Mode w/ Perma-death & turn off ALL H.U.D options. You will no longer be overpowered, you will no longer be the predator, you will be the prey. It is how "Far Cry Primal" was meant to be played.

My first platinum so it will always have a special place in my memories.

imagine if the game is titled just 'Primal' or 'Primeval' or something primitive without farcry on it, i think people who doesn't realize that this game is a spinoff could have appreciated it much more

Playing this in 2021 ok 4k on video projector. The world is fantastic and refreshing, graphics are gorgeous despite the aging engine. Yeah some defaults but it's defiantly a good game if taken on sales. Honestly doing a game in prehistoric times was a good idea. Maybe a better engine, better ideas would make a perfect Primal 2.

This was my favorite game of all time. Just can't stop replaying it. The only other Farcry game I've played is 5, and Primal is way better than that. I highly recommend it.

Primal was probably my favorite of the far cry series. I mean it has no guns! That was actually a selling point to me.... Every game now days has guns...so yeah its not a rinse and repeat of every other boring game out there, so it made it refreshing for me!

I just bought far cry primal. I remember playing it with a friend years ago and loved it. Still love it.

How does it look, and run, on the PS5? And I subscribed 🍻

Unpopular opinion: this is my favorite far cry game. It just hits different

I've actually gotten more and more interested in playing Primal throughout the years. Funny how you released this video on the exact moment I'm thinking of finally playing it.

It’s still a beautiful looking game. I agree with the melee combat, it should’ve been a bit deeper considering you’re using spears and clubs predominantly. The gathering part where you have to stop and hold E isn’t really a big deal as you can just hold E as you’re running past anything or dead bodies and it’ll still pick them up without having to stop

How is it possible for you reviews to get better every time lol? Loving the comedic reviews!

2:33 the other tribes are either very religious and use the people as offerings, or they’re cannibals and have to eat the enemy’s

Lmao that metal music 😂 every time

Primal is one of my favorite game despite the lack of guns. Hopefully Ubisoft makes a sequel.

you should review ac syndicate i think that game is heavily underrated

The article at 6:02 actually argues that people did live longer than 25 years.

This game looks very awesome. But I guess this game will not get a part 2 cause it didn't got the love they deserved because of the community

As much as you mention the protagonist not having a personality or any dialog, I think you'd love FC Blood Dragon! I think I remember you saying you hadn't played it, in another video. I've played everything FC... multiple times, and this is my favorite of the in-betweener games.

It's one of the greatest FC I enjoyed playing it

They should make a a second one in collab with Techland. Dying Light's Combat would go so well with this.

As someone that didn’t play the far cry games as they came out I started with 5. It is nice to get to see the progression in game development as I play the older games. I played 5 then new dawn 4 just finished 3. Now I am working on primal before 6 comes out and I really like primal. 3 was good but lacking in the over all story. 4 was better but the map has way to much stuff in it if you buy the maps and pagen was not in the game enough my opinion.

I honestly loved far cry primal. It’s the far cry that gave me the most memories. My most memorable is when I was hunting so I was using hunter vision. I kept hearing this cracking noise and lo and behold I was being stalked by a jaguar. Mf was just crouched slowly walking towards me. Scared the shit out of me. Seeing my blood fang single handedly take down a mammoth and seeing my other tames doing takedowns always awestruck me too

Primals open story was a strength

I greatly enjoyed Far Cry Primal most definitely I feel it’s one of the best far cry’s ever made

That EA burn was delightful well done