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Just get a decent 1-2GB SD card for the 64 GB deck. Uninvasive, convenient, cheap storage upgrade with no human-noticeable performance difference between the more expensive decks.

I've owned both the 512 GB and 64 GB deck + big SD card and I can't tell the difference between them without precise performance benchmarks. The only difference is the 512 GB has an anti glare screen.

I hope I didn't over hype it lol glhf

IMHO yes. It is among my favorite games of all time.

The plot is of course nonsense (all far cry plots are garbage), but the core gameplay loop is tight, the shooting feels good and there's a diverse arsenal, you get a large selection of colorful sidekicks and animal companions, the most annoying mechanics of earlier titles in the franchise were fixed or removed in 5, and the entire campaign can be played coop after you escape from tutorial Island.

It doesn't take itself too seriously but it's also a internally consistent rural Montana simulator. Stealth mechanics feel great (subjective ofc) but more aggressive strategies work well too. The base game has plenty of content and goes on sale frequently.

It was everything I loved about FC3 but more of it and bigger and polished to a radiant shine, with a kitschy rural US setting.

FC4 was a stinker. FC5 is the best in the franchise, though

The first book has way too much of the video game in it that turns out not to be all that pertinent to the story that the trilogy tells as a whole, if that was the annoying bit for you it gets better as the first book concludes and video game scenes are mercifully short in the first half of the second book and eliminated completely after that.

Otherwise if it is the Wikipedia-article inspired narrative style puts you off, that remains consistent across the trilogy and doesn't get better lol

The second book is the best imho you're in for a treat