Line #22 YMMV/FarCry3BloodDragon


1	* AccidentalInnuendo: The opening scene:
2	-->'''Spider:''' Wakey wakey, motherfucker! Ops says there's a delay in the feed, they need to recalibrate your ass!
3	-->'''Rex:''' Me?
4	-->'''Spider:''' Well it ain't me 'cause I'm goddamn near perfect. Men want to be me...
5	-->'''Rex:''' And you want to be with men. Yeah, I got it.
6	* AssPull: The reveal in ''Trial of the Blood Dragon'' that [[spoiler:Dr. Elizabeth Darling was a Blood Dragon all along.]]
7	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The game's entire soundtrack is a magnificent tribute to the 80's.
8	** Power Glove's original score is a fantastic homage to the film soundtracks and style of the era. A prominent UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}} soundtrack which serves as a gateway drug for many to the fledgling genre.
9	** "Hold On To The Vision", borrowed from ''Film/NoRetreatNoSurrender'', which plays during the TrainingMontage sequence.
10	** "War" from ''Film/RockyIV'', which plays when you get to ride the dragon.
11	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9aF9_mZDyY "Friends (Forever)"]], borrowed from ''Film/MiamiConnection''.
12	** If you accept the WMG which states that ''Blood Dragon'' is an 80s action movie series and ''Trials of the Blood Dragon'' is it's 90s Saturday Morning Cartoon series spinoff, the soundtrack for the latter supports this. Power Glove scored the sequel again, but this time manage to achieve a blend between the 80s UsefulNotes/{{Synthwave}} stylings of the original game and a newer, 90s HouseMusic/rave influence, suggesting one possible route for musicians of the genre to go down to emulate the 80s/90s transition period. It makes for some excellent tracks, and also features even more use of epic panpipes for that unique jungle geurilla warfare feel!
13	* BrokenBase: Many people who played ''VideoGame/FarCry3'' loved this [[LargeHam cheesy]], [[RatedMForManly testosterone-fueled]], [[TheEighties 80's]] nostalgia-fest. However, many others complained it was "[[TheyChangedItNowItSucks extremely stupid]]" and even created a ''formal petition'' asking for main game story DLC. The split is largely between gamers who grew up in the '80s, and as such get the references and nostalgia better, and more modern gamers of the '90s and the 2000s, who think of it as a bit too nutty, and just can't wrap their head around how this is supposed to be connected to ''Far Cry 3''. Though this is complicated in that there are also some from the latter era who are amused and amazed by the jokes and content, as well as indications that the side against the game are a VocalMinority given how well the game has done.
14	* CompleteMonster: [[TheSocialDarwinist Colonel Ike Sloan]] was once the leader of cybernetically-enhanced soldiers, and the [[FallenHero ideal hero]], but upon learning that America and the Communists were making a peace agreement, he went rogue with his soldiers. Enhancing himself with the blood of the Blood Dragons, Sloan considered himself [[MightMakesRight the strongest and best suited to be leader]]. Sloan plots to use the blood to enhance nukes which he'll launch all over the world, resulting in a new apocalypse, and then he'll build a world where the strong rule over the weak, with him as supreme leader. When Sloan first encounters two of his former soldiers, [[PlayerCharacter Sergeant Rex "Power" Colt]] and Lieutenant T.T. "Spider" Brown, he [[BlackGuyDiesFirst kills Spider]] and later praises Rex for killing some of his men, as he sees it as culling the ranks of his weaker soldiers.
15	* CrossesTheLineTwice: "Send for a medic, so I can kill him, too!"
16	* 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 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.
17	* GameBreaker:
18	** The [[SniperRifle Kobracon]] with Explosive Rounds. This basically makes all its shots explosive and deal incredible damage, being able to instantly explode trucks (and everybody inside), deal very good damage to the [[GiantMook Heavy units]], and also kill [[BossInMookClothing Blood Dragons]] within a few shots to their weakpoint. Put in Semi-Auto fire, and increased magazine for even more breakage. Its only downside is that the shots tend to accidentally kill hostages via the explosions.
19	** The [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Galleria 1991]] once it's been upgraded with [[MoreDakka four barrels]] and [[KillItWithFire incendiary rounds]] is hilariously overpowered. At close range, it can even chew through a blood dragon's life bar in ridiculously short order.
20	** Once upgraded with laser rounds and fully-automatic fire, the Fazertron becomes an excellent close-to-medium range weapon that kills mooks in only a couple of shots. Even heavy soldiers fall quickly to it.
21	** The Killstar. You don't get it till the end of the game but you are free to use it afterwards in Free Roam. It pretty much kills everything in seconds, even Blood Dragons. The downside is that it is CastFromHitpoints. But it takes forever to go down 1 HP bar, by the time you have it you will have a lot of them as well as the ability to regain the HP bars at no cost that it doesn't make it an issue.
22	* GeniusBonus: "Aaah! It's an exothermic chemical reaction!" (He means fire).
23	* HarsherInHindsight: The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world, but done in a very campy, BlackComedy sort of manner. The series proper would eventually do its own (questionably) canonical AfterTheEnd scenario in ''VideoGame/FarCryNewDawn''.
24	* HilariousInHindsight:
25	** 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: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.]]
26	** Michael Biehn used to [[Franchise/{{Terminator}} fight cyborgs]] back in the 80s, he is now turned into one.
27	* HoYay: Rex and Spider. The opening scene between the two of them should spell it out pretty well.
28	* SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound: The sound Rex makes when he levels up and do the horn sign with this metal hand.
29	* NarmCharm: It's an over-the-top parody of cheesy '80s action movies. This game wouldn't even be half as good as it is if weren't so incomprehensibly stupid.
30	* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/FarCry3BloodDragon Has its own page.]]
31	* PolishedPort: The console version is a ''massive'' improvement over ''Far Cry 3'''s port. The framerate is stable and usually stays over 30, and the visual problems are covered up by the art style. Hell, it arguably runs and plays smoother on 7th generation consoles than ''Far Cry 3 [[UpdatedRerelease Classic Edition]]'' does on ''[[PortingDisaster the 8th]]''.
32	* ScrappyWeapon: While in any other game, it would be a pretty effective sidearm, thanks to the other guns all being upgradable to being PurposelyOverpowered, the AJM-9 feels pretty underwhelming in comparison.
33	* SpiritualLicensee: It's one of the best ''VideoGame/DukeNukem'' games ever made. Deliberately cheesy one-liners, nostalgia and lots of fun gunplay: check check check. Just trade out the ultra-macho action movie aesthetic with a techno sci-fi one.
34	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: One of the songs has a drum beat and synthesizer melody eerily similar to that of the main theme from ''Film/TheTerminator''.
35	** Compare the track [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9otKKduwBM Blood Scope]] to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meU2gAU7Xss main theme]] from Film/TheThing1982
36	* 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, which eventually lead to the prehistoric-set ''VideoGame/FarCryPrimal''.
37	** There is ''Trials of the Blood Dragon'', however, which takes the theme and story in an entirely 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.
38	** And then ''VideoGame/FarCry5'' rolled around and brought with it the ''Lost on Mars'' DLC, which takes ''Blood Dragon'''s basic idea to provide a hilarious romp across Mars where you shoot lots of BigCreepyCrawlies with EnergyWeapons and a RobotBuddy by your side. It's not ''quite'' as awesomely silly as ''Blood Dragon'', but it certainly gives it its best shot and does come pretty close on occasion.
39	* TooCoolToLive:
40	** [[spoiler:Spider is [[BlackDudeDiesFirst killed after the very first mission]].]]
41	** The [[spoiler:Battle Armored Dragon Assault Strike System]] is alive for the span of about three minutes.
42	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome:
43	** The reloading and weapon swap animations are just awesome. Not to mention the neon glow most things have, including the Blood Dragons, look incredible.

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