History VideoGame / FarCryPrimal

It released for the UsefulNotes/{{PS4}} and UsefulNotes/XboxOne on February 23, 2016, and for the PC on March 1, 2016.

* AnimalMotifs: The Wenja wear deer and wolf skins. The Udam wear the skulls of sabre-toothed cats and great apes.
* AlasPoorVillain: For both Ull and Dah, really for all the Udam once you start piecing together what's happening to them. Takkar is respectful to both in their dying moments despite that they were enemies in life.

* AnArmAndALeg: Wogah is missing an arm due to the Udam eating it.

** Urki calls Takkar "[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Smart Man]]", mainly because he regards Takkar's advice as helpful. Of course, given that Urki's pretty stupid, such compliments are DamnedByAFoolsPraise.

** Tensay apparently urinates on [[spoiler:Roshani, after Takkar locks the Izila in a cage back at the village]], and when Takkar presents him with [[spoiler:Krati's mask]], he relieves himself on ''that'' as well. [[{{Squick}} And then he makes Takkar wear it]].

* GiantMook[=/=]HeavilyArmoredMook: The "Chieftain" enemies essentially fulfill the same role as the Heavies from the previous Far Cry games. They wear heavy helmets that make them completely immune to headshots (shooting them in the head doesn't even damage them), and take several body shots to bring down. They can also completely deplete your health in a single hit, and can even kill a cave bear or sabertooth tiger in melee combat.

* GutturalGrowler: Takkar has a deep, dry voice, courtesy of Elias Toufexis. The same goes for Tensay, as voiced by Creator/TerrenceCCarson.

* IncorrectAnimalNoise: a few examples:

* LighterAndSofter: ''Primal'' eschews the main series' [[BlackAndGreyMorality moral ambiguity]] and pessimistic cynicism about conflict and violence, instead of being a fairly straightforward story about surviving and triumphing over adversity.

** Among other things you can tell your beasts to do, you can command canines... [[CrossesTheLineTwice to piddle on dead enemies]].

* WorstAid: A particularly tragic example that [[ScienceMarchesOn is in no way the practitioners' fault]]. [[spoiler:The Udam are dying out from what they call "skull fire", a degenerative condition that they think a curse of their gods, and hope to cure by eating the un-infected flesh of the non-Udam, who do not have the same condition. The player, thousands of years later, can make the connection that their condition is actually kuru, which is actually ''caused'' by cannibalism. Due to the fact that the connection will not be made for millennia, the tribe is causing its own destruction.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: [[spoiler:Takkar kills Batari by {{Neck Lift}}ing her right into the flames of her own sacrificial altar and holding her there until she's little more than a smoldering corpse.]]

** Sayla's sole motivation in life appears to be wiping out the entire Udam tribe and severing their ears to [[AmbiguousDisorder drown out]] the [[HearingVoices screams of the dead.]]

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: At some Udam camps you can encounter unarmed women who can be slaughtered as mercilessly as the warriors as they run from you and your beast in terror.

* NationalGeographicNudity: Batari and the other Izila women are topless, though it's hard to notice as they wear thick body paint that covers their entire torso. While most Wenja women keep their breasts covered, a few of them wear tops that leave one breast exposed. The few Udam women encountered follow similar conventions.

** A primitive tribe dying from a mysterious disease and the use of bees as weapons is remeniscent of ''Film/AoTheLastHunter''.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Wenja NPCs will go out of their way to kill any Udam or Izila they find, including defenseless women who scream for help as they try to escape. Sayla in particular would be a terrifying serial killer in any modern setting, given her habit of collecting the ears of her victims as trophies, but she's Takkar's earliest and closest ally.

** The Udam worship a stone woman, just like the cannibal neanderthals from ''Literature/The13thWarrior''.

** The Udam worship a stone woman, just like the cannibal neanderthals from ''Literature/TheThirteenthWarrior''.

* BladeOnAStick: Flint-knapped spears are a prominent weapon.

* ExcrementStatement: We first meet Wogah the crafter when Takkar lands in a pitfall at the entrance to his cave, and the old man decides to take a leak on what he thinks is an Udam. EmbarassingNickname covers it perfectly.

* FeatheredFiend: Oros is patrolled by vicious white-tailed eagles which will swoop down and attack Takkar after only a few minutes' calling, and due to his firearms being limited to a bow and arrow, he can't shoot them down afterwards. Unless, of course, he has a MultiShot bow.

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: [[spoiler:The Udam. They are dying out from what they call "skull fire", a degenerative condition that they think a curse of their gods, and hope to cure by eating the un-infected flesh of the non-Udam, who do not have the same condition. The player, thousands of years later, can make the connection that their condition is actually kuru, which is actually ''caused'' by cannibalism. Due to the fact that the connection will not be made for millennia, the tribe is causing its own destruction. It's not hard to feel sorry for them.]]

** The ''Blood Dragon'' easter egg may just be a non-sequitor mythology gag but could also be a reference to the {{Slurpasaur}}s and other [[DinosaursAreDragons faux dinosaurs]] of [[OneMillionBC oldschool caveman movies]].

* OneMillionBC: The game takes place in a valley somewhere in Eastern Europe at the end of the Ice Age, home to three human tribes -- one of fairly realistic Mesolithic hunter-gatherers, one of cannibalistic savages, and one of pseudo-Aztec sun-worshipping agriculturalists -- alongside a collection of Pleistocene fauna that was either long extinct by the Mesolithic, never native to Europe or both, such as saber-toothed cats, dire wolves, and the Eocene ungulate ''Megacerops'', alongside some more realistic inclusions such as woolly mammoths, woolly rhinos and cave lions, all mixed together in a setting of temperate forests shading into icy wastes to the north.

** The "dholes" that appear in game look more like African wild dogs than actual dholes who appeared in the previous Far Cry title. Those who know their prehistoric mammals will infer that they are actually ''Xenocyon'', the common ancestor of both species, called "dholes" because they clearly aren't African and "Xenocyon" is [[NoPronunciationGuide hard to say]]. Curiously, the dhole skin seen in the reward stash looks like a modern dhole skin.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority:

** Also why Takkar is considered the defacto leader of the Wenja.

* MultinationalTeam: The Wenja tribe appears surprisingly diverse, with Sayla, Jayma, and especially Tensay displaying African features, while Karoosh, Urki, Wogah, and Takkar(judging by his portrait in the skills & village menus) appear more European. [[spoiler:Taken a step further when Takkar recruits Roshani of the Izila and Dah, as well as Ull's children, of the Udam, into the tribe.]]

* KillEmAll: What the Bloodfang Tiger tries to do to Takkar's hunting party at the start of the game. It succeeds with all of them except Takkar (and, arguably, Dalso, who dies from falling down the cliff and lodging a wooden spike in his ribs).

** [[StockDinosaurs As usual in media]], the saber-toothed cats are represented by ''Smilodon'', which was native only to the Americas.

* StockDinosaurs: Or rather Stock Ice Age Mammals. Woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, woolly rhinos, dire wolves, cave bears, and Irish elk are all present in the game. Some less popular ones also appear.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: European jaguars, Asiatosuchus and Xenocyon don't appear in a lot of prehistoric media.

* StockDinosaurs: Or rather Stock Ice Age Mammals. Woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, woolly rhinos, dire wolves, cave bears, and Irish elk are all present in the game. Some less popular ones also appear (see the SeldomSeenSpecies entry above).

* StockDinosaurs: Or rather Stock Ice Age Mammals. Woolly mammoths, saber-toothed cats, woolly rhinos, dire wolves, cave bears, and Irish elk are all present in the game. Some less popular ones also appear (see the SeldomSceneSpecies entry above).

** While today dholes are confined to South, Central, and Southeast Asia, during the Ice Age there was a species of dhole that inhabited Europe.

* FeatheredFiend: Oros is patrolled by vicious bald eagles which will swoop down and attack Takkar after only a few minutes' calling, and due to his firearms being limited to a bow and arrow, he can't shoot them down afterwards. Unless, of course, he has a MultiShot bow.