I've played other Ubisoft games before, most recently AC Odyssey. Been on a Switch kick for a minute and smashed 200 hours in TOTK, potentially one of my favorite games ever at this point. But I wanted to switch it up and go through some of my PC backlog so I started up Far Cry 5.
The beginning was decent...but it became very apparent quickly that the entire model of the game was very, well, familiar. In that it's almost identical in gameplay design to AC Odyssey. Add to that the almost distracting number of bugs in the game - constantly have civilians that I can't liberate for no reason, and if you use a game controller the reverse and decelerate buttons for driving vehicles straight up aren't even mapped - and my opinion is that this is a subpar experience. I haven't extensively looked up other people's reviews or experiences, but I was curious to know if anyone felt similarly.
FC 5 is a good game. Of course it has the same open world mechanics as the AC games. Just like Division, Cyberpunk, iNFAMOUS, Spider-Man. They are just kind of unavoidable.
I played through FC 5 twice closer to when it was released. I never encountered bugs that I have any memory of, so nothing a reload save or restart game couldn’t resolve. Don’t let this post dissuade you from playing the game. I would avoid the DLC/expansion New Dawn as I’m guessing they still sell as a bundle. It was bad due to bullet sponge hell.