I'm just happy that this series is coming back. After the reboots of Doom and Wolfenstein, it was just a matter of time before we got a reboot of this beloved series.

Now we just wait patiently for reboots of Blood and No One Lives Forever.

i gotta say, that key art is super intriguing. AND uncharacteristically ballsy for a multinational such as ubisoft.

this might be the first far cry i try out!

This is not what I expected but now that I see it...

Good work. This needed to be said.

Oh and I drove through Montana once. Not bad. I expect to see colorful canyons in this game.

Oh great. The montana militia.

Well this game just got got weird.

I'll just fill you all in. This game is probably going to be set in a city called Lincoln, Montana. It's where the fbi captured Ted Kazinski (spelling?)

My guess is you're going to be a cable repair guy who works for a company called Linctel and you are dispatched to a community up in the hills because the Internet went down and these militia guys can't get Internet to monitor their cameras that they have in the trees. A plane is going to fly over and a rocket will blow it up. Start of the game.

Just so you are aware this is nothing special if you work at Linctel. It's just a tuesday.

Spoilers. I'm sorry

@upperdecker: Lincoln was the first town that came to my mind too. It'd be a missed opportunity if they didn't pull a character or two from the religious crazies near Gardiner too, or maybe make a Ted Turner-esque land owner.

Edit: Just noticed the "sinner" part on that guy's back. Definitely getting some of the religious nuttiness here. Sweet.

@sparky_buzzsaw: just as long as they don't make everybody think we eat huckleberries I'm going to enjoy this.

@upperdecker: Do you think that might be a Huckleberry Pie on the far left of the table in the image? Sorry if someone already asked.

@cirdain: Oh man, what if the huckleberry pie is the real villain of the game?

i mean that montana dire wolf is clearly eying up the pie and not the t-bone.

And the best part of the mammalian body, to boot!

I liked reddit's description of the game:

"in Far Cry 5, the player is out in control of Tashfeen al Rizwan Mohammed, a female transgender Muslim and the first playable female character in the Far Cry series. While visiting her girlfriend, Tashfeen finds herself captive by a racist fundamentalist right wing Christian organization led by Ronald Grump, the games main antagonist."

lmao that's so Huckleberry pie. forget the Nazi's this is the real damage to Montana right here.

@sparky_buzzsaw: Haha my bad, can't say I've been to Montana. I just remember an Reddit AMA of a Montana farmer saying his property was completely flat with no hills and he had only one tree on his entire property.

@darkbeatdk said:

I'm just happy that this series is coming back. After the reboots of Doom and Wolfenstein, it was just a matter of time before we got a reboot of this beloved series.

Now we just wait patiently for reboots of Blood and No One Lives Forever.

I love you

EDIT: Moved my post about tone of the game into more appropriate thread. Please resume huckleberry discussion.

@cerberus3dog: That sounds very much like eastern Montana. It's nothing but half a zillion miles of wheatgrass and despair. I set a fictional city out there because you could drop Los Angeles snd its suburbs in eastern Montana and it would still be a desolate hellhole,

But at least it's not "our state looks like a teenager's zits" Wyoming. God, I hate driving through Wyoming.

I think its pretty bizarre that the OP thinks people in his state are so inhospitable to out-of-towners that they would poison them for ordering a dish.

Look now, I've eaten at the Huckleberry Patch restaurant in St. Regis many times on road trips with no problems. But I'm also not sure they served any actual huckleberries. Now you've got me craving them. They're so good. I love them more than blueberries. I want some huckleberry syrup on pancakes. Dammit.

Ok Ok OK.

I feel it's time to clear the air. I want this game to be aweosme, but I just want to let people know, if Huckleberries are in it, there is some government level conspiracy shit going on. I encourage everyone to come to Montana, it's a beautiful state. Come up and shoot a deer and take it home and hang that head on your wall and tell all your friends of how you slayed the savage beast!

All i'm trying to say is, come to Montana, and go into a Montana Made Shop, and you will see HUNDREDS of huckleberry items. Now here's where it gets tricky. If you ask the person, "What does this huckleberry candy bar taste like?" They will instantly get sweaty and nervous and look towards a person in the store who will come up to you and say, "It's time to leave M'am." Even if you are a Sir!

Then the last thing you remember is opening the door, and BLACKOUT! You wake up alongside the road and stand up, and you are wearing a shirt that says, "WELCOME TO MONTANA! EAT ALL THE HUCKLEBERRIES YOU WANT! IT'S WHAT THE STATE IS MADE OF!"

Out of staters will pick you up on their way to Old Faithful and you will be trying to remember how you got there. Next thing you know you are walking like a zombie in a crowd of hundreds, nay, thousands chanting, "Huckleberry King. Huckleberry King. Please honor us with your presence." About that time a smoke grenade goes off and a small man with a huge staff appears in the middle holding a bucket of Huckleberries. At this point you are in too deep. You shovel them in your mouth.

Next thing you know, you are in that Montana Made store selling huckleberry candy bars and getting nervous when the next person asks you how good they are.

That's what i'm scared of.

Given that Montana is the Huckleberry State (go Hucks!) what do you duders think the soundtrack to lighting up a huckleberry field will be in this game?

Feel free to leave submissions below

This topic is obviously berry important to him.

@brendan: I'm 99% confident you work for the inside guys. Montana is the Big Sky State, not the Huckleberry State!

@upperdecker I was afraid this was going to be a thread about how there aren't enough huckleberries in the picture...horrified that it is a thread about the opposite.

I long for the good old days when Montana was known mostly for huckleberries rather than thuggish politicians beating up reporters.

You know I look at this image and all I think is "Man, I really hope they include some sort of huckleberry scratch and sniff sticker" because without the ever present scent of huckleberries I'm just not sure I can take this story seriously. But then I start thinking about the fact that we increasingly live in a digital delivery age and a shudder to think that the vast majority of gamers will miss out on an essential element of the Montana experience.

Damn you! I was rushing to this thread to say roughly the same thing. I will add the Unabomber and Ted Turner to the list as well.

@cujoprime: If by shithole you mean not corrupted land, hundreds of miles of do whatever the fuck you want, incredibly low crime, and not polluted air then sure it's a shithole. Although, I love the common misconceptions, we have great internet, cell phone signal just about everywhere, and the snow isn't really that bad most years.

@rebellion91: I doubt you'll get much traction 'round here. How are the land prices anywhere worth actually living in Montana? Does Huckleberry adjacency influence property prices?

@opusofthemagnum: This comment was actually about Wyoming. The only thing I know about Huckleberries is we get Huckleberry vodka that is pretty good with lemonade.

What about Cujo? Clearly you respect him as well... oh wait... oh no... is he... A JACKALOPE?!

I liked the previous FC games (a lot, but mainly just due to my love of sandbox open world FPS gameplay with tons of neat options), and really liked the villains - especially from FC3 (though what's-his-face should have been the main "boss", not taken out of the story midway through and replaced with "General El Genérico")... but none of the stories were THAT great beyond some cool characters and locations, and some parts.

However, this one looks promising... I think I'd prefer to "virtual murder" violent religious/nationalist/racist extremists even more than Nazis! Cause they're like Nazi's, but even nuttier, and have a lot more choice involved in being (or choosing to be) the way they are than most Nazi's did under Hitler's reign! Not all of course, nothing is black and white.

I have no problem with people who respect Confederates, or supported Trump... they are still good people, mostly, like anyone... Mislead at worst, usually, and the Confederates were a lot more complex than people give them credit for - the vast majority were not slave owners, they were protecting their homes and communities from Northern federal invaders, in their minds.

But the violent, brainwashing, torturing zealots (i'm looking at you Scientology [leadership]... and some of the Christians/Muslims/Jews who justify their sadism with religion - throughout history at least!)... oh boy that'll add some fun!

This thread really just taught me that people actually live in Montana! Weird. I always thought Montana was just an Arby's sandwich.

@upperdecker: They're probably gonna be selling or giving out Huckleberry stuff at the Far Cry 5 E3 booth. That's seems like a obvious marketing thing.

A fact few people know about is that the name of the state comes from the Arby's sandwich of the same name, the Arby's Big Montana Roast Beef Sandwich.

@cerberus3dog: fact

As someone who spent most of my childhood in Idaho, I can certainly echo this vast and grand Huckleberry conspiracy. They're a trap for tourists on their way to Yellowstone but no one who actually lives there eats them.

Okay, actually Huckleberry Ice Cream is pretty great. Don't tell anyone I said that.

@rebellion91: Wyoming isn't the worst place in the world (or even U.S.) for that matter. I've raised a family here for seven years, and really the worst thing I can say about it is that Wyoming is decidedly "closed minded", to use a gentle term. This of course is a blanket statement does not apply absolutely everyone here. There are plenty of good and open people here. But as a day-to-day experience it can be quite claustrophobic ideologically.

Also, there is only one month of green scenery. If the prairie looked the way it does right now all summer it would be great!

@arbitrarywater: You know, I've lived in Idaho my whole life so far, and I don't think I've ever had anything Huckleberry. I'm not even sure I've seen products of it. Or maybe I just don't pay attention.

Granted I've only really ever been in the lower West part of the state aside from occasional trips for events.

I can't wait for the mission where you have to set a field of Huckleberries ablaze and get high from the result.

@upperdecker: Do you mind if I start calling you The Huckleberry Kid?
I'm gonna start calling you The Huckleberry Kid.
Fine day in Huckleberry Montana innit Huckleberry kid?

@zolroyce: a fine day indeed!

Isn't the capital of Montana Huckleberry?