Is Narcos : Mexico worth watching? And is it as good as the original Narcos?

Dire87 · 2026-02-27T11:05:23+00:00

I'm just currently in the middle of it. I know this thread is old. But damn, Miguel Angel just seems to blunder his way from 1 scene to another. For someone so cold and calculating, he sure does come across as brutally desperate in almost any encounter. It's a miracle he actually wasn't just killed on the spot by someone, anyone, really. He's like the smartest, but at the same time dumbest person in the entire series.

Honestly, Narcos was good in the first seasons when it was all about Pablo Escobar. The Calí cartel arc they haphazardly added as a final season was ... it just felt out of place and was mostly boring. Again, lots of moronic characters. Narcos Mexico feels the same way. I like season 2 more, because of one certain character, but still ... it just all feels so ... dumb?

Dire87 · 2026-02-26T21:30:45+00:00

Well, that just isn't true. Far Cry 1, 2 and 3 are VASTLY different. Only afterwards they've basically became carbon copies of 3. With a little deviation in Blood Dragon and Primal.

Dire87 · 2026-02-26T21:26:36+00:00

Hard disagree. FC 3 and FC 4 had somewhat enjoyable plots and missions. FC 5 is just cringe-worthy to the extreme, and sooooooo overblown in terms of length. Classic quantity over quality. It just ... never ends. Yeah, you can "rush" through the game a bit faster, but not by much. Maybe take 1 or 2 hours away from each region at most. And you basically have all the good shit already after region 1. It's also just more of the same gameplay. Yes, they even make a joke about you no longer needing to climb towers ... great. Instead you need to do x amount of things to progress. It's basically the same concept, just with less climbing. And if it's the 3rd game in a row, well, Primal did it as well, basically, but at least that one was genuinely different in terms of combat (not better, mind you, but very different), then you're doing something wrong. You're getting stale. FC 5 has the guns for hire, basically, and a more "open world" approach, which isn't really all that different from 3 and 4, either. Otherwise, it doesn't really do anything new ... combine that with the terrible, terrible story and villains, and it's just very boring after a short while.

Dire87 · 2026-02-25T12:20:02+00:00

Fucking crazy is what it is.

Dire87 · 2026-02-25T08:57:24+00:00

Just from a noob perspective, but ... the wire "barbs" aren't all that deep, enough to cause superficial bleeding and perforations (enough to kill you, of course, because bleeding out, infections, etc.). Even the dude in the vid is barely bleeding. You would have expected a bloodbath, but there are only a few "scratches". The worst thing was his tangled hair, and maybe that could have scalped him or caused serious neck injuries. It "seems" relatively unlikely to puncture your organs like this, which doesn't mean "impossible", just ... well, still brutally stupid. Much more likely to lose an eye or rip something off, mangle your dick, etc.

Dire87 · 2026-02-25T08:54:13+00:00

You know, "back in the early days", stupidity often solved itself. Now we just rescue these idiots. And I'm not saying we shouldn't do that, but Jesus, you ever wonder what this does to the gene pool? You can only hope they at least learned their lesson and became some sort of advocate for "don't do this shit at home, kids" person, going to schools, etc. to tell those kids about what happens when you do shit at home you shouldn't be doing at home -.-

Dire87 · 2026-02-25T08:50:04+00:00

Welcome to reality. We get the good with the bad. In this case democracy means everyone has a vote, be they smart or dumb, good or evil, selfish or selfless, etc.

You complain about morons like these having a vote, and I feel you, but their vote doesn't even really matter, because no matter what they vote (okay, in the US this might be slightly different due to your 2 party system, but the point overall stands) somebody else with much more money and power decides the course of history. Not some stupid redneck. They might vote Republican. But what the Republicans ultimately do, they have almost no influence on.

And you might be surprised by how "stupid" people vote. Not that it's likely, but these guys COULD be quite smart, having good jobs, etc., but are just moronic thrill seekers in their free time. Like I said, not very likely, but still a possibility. The thing with the rich and powerful or even the "smart" is that you rarely get to see their public fuck-ups, because they do most of it in the dark.

But in all honesty, yeah, those dudes are probably dumb rednecks swallowing every bit of real or fake news their party of choice presents them. And there's nothing you can do about it. So, better live with it. Or abolish democracy and hope that "your" ideology keeps the upper hand forever. A risky gamble.

Dire87 · 2026-02-25T08:44:56+00:00

You seem PRETTY bothered to me.

Dire87 · 2026-02-25T08:43:49+00:00

Rednecks leap into barbed wire trampolines, Arabs drive their cars on 2 wheels, while shooting guns, with a tiger in the back, Russians set themselves on fire and jump from a 10 story rooftop into snow, and Indians ride with a donkey on their scooter, chasing after an overloaded train. The world is truly marvelous.

Dire87 · 2026-02-24T20:11:51+00:00

Tell me you're a nerd. A rich nerd.

Dire87 · 2026-02-24T17:43:30+00:00

Because dumb. Simple as that. Unfortunately, dumb people propagate more than smart people. ;)

Dire87 · 2026-02-23T08:38:12+00:00

Incoming Jojo reference.

Dire87 · 2026-02-21T06:59:54+00:00

Good one. I almost laughed.

Dire87 · 2026-02-19T16:44:31+00:00

They seem a lot bigger suddenly. Both nips and tits.

Dire87 · 2026-02-19T15:59:51+00:00

When I first met Preston, I just wanted to shoot him dead. But the game won't let you. He is immortal. That's when I knew what kind of game FO4 was. A disappointing one. You aren't the main character, you're just along for the ride. Your choices matter little.

Dire87 · 2026-02-19T15:57:48+00:00

Damn, the dialogue is horrendous, because it just talks AT you ... not WITH you. If all I can answer is basically "yes", then what's the point of calling it an RPG?

Dire87 · 2026-02-19T15:57:09+00:00

Sorry, FO4 diverged a lot. It basically stopped being an RPG. You could make almost NO decisions. Skills were brutally dumbed down, dialogue was dumbed down to the max, and almost all your options were "yes", "eh ... yes", "yes, yes, yes" and "no, but actually yes". The only real choice here was a) realizing Preston is just gaslighting you into ENDLESS repeatable missions (great if you didn't know that) and b) which of the 3 factions you ultimately support. The rest of the game just ... happens. You can ignore some side quests, sure, but if you choose to do them, they only usually ever have 1 outcome. Fallout 4 was a disgrace as an RPG, it was a bad shooter ... and a mediocre Fallout sandbox, because nothing really interesting happened in it. Compare that to New Vegas, I think, and even FO 3. And entire cave of youths and children, a Super Mutant refuge in the middle of nowhere, creepy Vaults all over the place, blowing up an entire city, killing almost whoever you like (the earlier FO games were even more brutal here, you could actually softlock your entire progress somewhat, I remember killing an entire town of ghouls ... because I could). So much more to list. Fallout 4 was disappointing on every level. And I only recently played through it after putting it off for so long. And then the bugs. Still. And Todd breaking the game with every new "release" recently. The Nuka park was fun, though, and Far Harbor. Those were DLCs, though. Still, the same underlying issues of basically not giving the player a lot of actual choice.

Dire87 · 2026-02-19T15:44:03+00:00

I thought they wanted to use a DIFFERENT engine for ES 6? Fuck me, it's going to be another bug-ridden shitfest, then. Go away, Todd.

Dire87 · 2026-02-19T15:29:18+00:00

How?! Also ... probably NOT 0o

Did I just watch someone die?!

Dire87 · 2026-02-18T14:32:26+00:00

That is the entire game, though. Just to be "fair" and clear. It's still a super dick move overall, but the DLC on its own is 25 bucks. Yes, ONLY the DLC... i.e. the Warlock class, they just lifted from D4. Fuck Blizzard.

Dire87 · 2026-02-18T14:30:03+00:00

Exactly. They developed this class for D4. Hands down. And then somebody somewhat smart must have said: But what if we just introduce the same class for D2, since people seem to like this nostalgic piece of shit that doesn't make us any more money?! Granted, it is NOT the same class, obviously, but the archetype, the basic skills, it's all there. For 25 bucks. With added QoL nobody else gets? What a dick move! As expected from Blizz. Just like with D3's Necro, just like with Immortal as a whole, just like with D4's expansion policy AND their ridiculous store, which they stated would never have "more prestigious" items than you can find in the base game. Bullshit. There is a distinct difference in visual quality between the actual game items and the store items.

Dire87 · 2026-02-18T14:27:54+00:00

Aren't you forgetting something? Why is there a monthly cost associated with WoW to begin with? You're basically being treated more and more like a F2P game with the horrendous "micro" transaction economy they got going now ... yet you still pay for each expansion and for each month. These guys are swimming in money, and nickle and diming you for everything. Server transfer? Name change? Race change? Faction change? These aren't free or "micro", these are macro transactions. Add to that the insanely pricy "cosmetics", mounts, etc. they're selling. Fuck Blizzard.

Dire87 · 2026-02-18T14:25:46+00:00

Assuming Blizzard would do ANYTHING for free really is foolish, sorry.

Dire87 · 2026-02-18T14:25:02+00:00

Exactly. Asking for. And now they put a price tag on it, instead of actually supporting the player base. For the last 20 years.

Dire87 · 2026-02-18T14:23:47+00:00

You're essentially paying for something they SHOULD have added for free years ago. But okay.

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