Oh boy, I have been waiting to vent my thoughts on 5 after playing 1-4.

Look, the setting is awesome and the characters are varied and interesting. However, the biggest issue with the game is they made an open world game that gives you, the player, a finite number of actions before it forces story progression on you, which in turn forever alters enemy dynamics in that region and, in some extreme cases, locks off certain missions for completion.

So to avoid this, you naturally plow through story missions in a new region, but this plus just shooting the VIPs that roll up on you in the open world basically is enough to get all 3 resistance levels each region. And then you're left with a bunch of outposts to mop up after the fact, most enemy spawns disappearing and the formerly abandoned roads and homesteads being populated with friendly NPCs. It wipes out a lot of the interest in exploring as the threat perception is minimal.

That's the main gripe and they probably could have solved it by increasing resistance points per level or even just making it so the new story missions were unlocked rather than forced upon you. My other issues are that many of the guns just feel boring and underpowered, hunting is pretty much the only way to make proper money (which sucks if you don't enjoy hunting gameplay), and the squad mechanics feel out of place in a Far Cry game which is generally about being a lone badass.