History YMMV / FarCry3BloodDragon

* FranchiseOriginalSin: As a MissionPackSequel built around recycled content from its parent game, it foreshadowed the later creation of ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' and ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' doing the same for their [[VideoGame/FarCry4 respective]] [[VideoGame/FarCry5 games]]. ''Blood Dragon'' is held in much higher regard for a number of reasons: it only cost $15 (including at least one point where it was given away for free), it was marketed as the standalone ExpansionPack that it is, and it converted the game into a wildly different '80s sci-fi action GenreThrowback, with an entirely new map, mostly new weapons, and a new protagonist with several new abilities. Conversely, ''Primal'' and ''New Dawn'' are the exact same ''Far Cry'' formula from their parent games and recycle as much as possible from their parent games, including almost all the weapons, maps that are just the same ones from the base game with a different coat of paint to match the different [[OneMillionBC time period]] or [[AfterTheEnd aesthetic]], and have protagonists who play almost entirely identically to their base game counterparts. And, perhaps most notably, they were treated as full games with matching $60 price points despite this extensive recycling. Even stranger is that ''Far Cry 5'' already had regular DLC that hewed much closer to ''Blood Dragon'' in terms of price point, tonal shifts from the base game, and new maps and weapons (including the ability to use the weapons in the base game), which just makes it even more apparent that ''New Dawn'' costs so much more for what feels like much ''less'' new content.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: As a MissionPackSequel built around recycled content from its parent game, it foreshadowed the later creation of ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal'' and ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn'' doing the same for their [[VideoGame/FarCry4 respective]] [[VideoGame/FarCry5 games]]. ''Blood Dragon'' is held in much higher regard for a number of reasons: it only cost $15 (including at least one point where it was given away for free), it was marketed as the standalone ExpansionPack that it is, and it converted the game into a wildly different '80s sci-fi action GenreThrowback, with an entirely new map, mostly new weapons, and a new protagonist with several new abilities. Conversely, ''Primal'' and ''New Dawn'' are the exact same ''Far Cry'' formula from their parent games and recycle as much as possible from their parent games, including almost all the weapons, maps that are just the same ones from the base game with a different coat of paint to match the different time periods, and have protagonists who play almost entirely identically to their base game counterparts. And, perhaps most notably, they were treated as full games with matching $60 price points despite this extensive recycling. Even stranger is that ''Far Cry 5'' already had regular DLC that hewed much closer to ''Blood Dragon'' in terms of price point, tonal shifts from the base game, and new maps and weapons (including the ability to use the weapons in the base game), which just makes it even more apparent that ''New Dawn'' costs so much more for what feels like much ''less'' new content.

** Back during [[{{WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation}} Yahtzee's]] review of Far Cry 3 he made a joke about how you don't unlock the "magic pussy laser" (Yahtzee uses a picture of a tiger shooting lasers out of its eyes to illustrate this idea) until the end of the game. [[spoiler: Amusingly Rex does unlock a magic laser during the end of the game, the Killstar device which allows him to fire a massive death ray from his left hand along with the Battle Armored Dragon Assault Strike System which is a dinosaur that does shoot lasers out of its eyes.]]

* NarmCharm: It's an over-the-top parody of cheesy 80's action movies. This game wouldn't even be half as good as it is if weren't so incomprehensibly stupid.

* ToughActToFollow: [[http://www.gamespot.com/articles/blood-dragon-2-not-happening-says-far-cry-4-dev/1100-6423477/ Blood Dragon 2 would most likely not happen]], and the official reason for that is that Blood Dragon's ideas would only work once. They do hint about a different spin-off, though.
** VideoGame/FarCryPrimal would become the next proper spin-off game, introducing a prehistoric setting to the series.
** There is ''Trials of the Blood Dragon'', however, which takes the theme and story in a different direction, basically covering other aspects of the 80s while running with the general theme without retreading stuff from the first game. Thus it's more of an AffectionateParody of the numerous children's cartoon spin-offs of said action movies. However, it doesn't escape this trope entirely though, with some ''Trials'' fans upset over its departures from the traditional Trials formula.