Far Cry 4 was all around a disappointment for me. After playing a whole lot of Far Cry 3 and praising it's story, characters and mechanics, I was hyped for the fourth installment like never before, however...
Come on, Ubisoft, really? The first 30 minutes after the (amazing) start of the game and I realized "wait, this is exactly like Far Cry 3? Same mechanics, same vehicles and guns mostly, same bugs even!"

Dude, no joke, it even has same hallucinogenic levels. They come out of nowhere and interact almost nothing to the story, do they think me stupid or something? Jeez.

But I can ride an elephant??? 10/10 best game 4 ever

After playing Skyrim as a kid and dreaming of wielding a sword and shield, getting into other open world games and tabletop RPG's, I've grew up and realized that much of the awesome experience I had once was greatly influenced by my imagination and not entirely knowing what I was getting into.
Exploring the game (again) and it's expansions (for the first time), brought me joy, of course, but it also made me reach the depressing conclusion that, after several re-releases, Bethesda's number 1 concern is of capitalizing over what worked, instead of expanding our experience.

I could go on and on, talking about how linear the game actually is, how some factions should have been much more, NPC's should have been much more, but I won't, I think there's great youtubers that already covered these details and, honestly, neither do I have the time to write such things, nor would you want to read it.
It's a good game, however it is not as great as I once thought it to be.