Well Primal is a spin-off, so I don't think it's really comparable.

But yeah Far Cry 4 offered too few new things and had way too many similarities to score above Far Cry 3.

The city and the characters. That's it. But you can bet there'll be "towers" to hack to get access to the area with the phone and the map, the story where the main character redeeems himself, side missions where you'll have to do some activities to disrupt ctOS, the same clothing with 20 different color schemes... you know, the usual.

It's kinda sad that we've reached a point where we can easily predict Ubisoft's plots and general ideas/themes for their games these days. I remember years ago when I would be excited and not know what company X was going to make next. These days we already know before the game is even being created.

This guy I recently came across sums it up for me these days:

It was headed that way once far cry 3 became, assasins creed the shooter. It was still good but, as someone who loved far cry 2, it lost a bit of the charm and became too gamey. Seeing how 4 turned out we can likely assume 5 will also be more of the same.
Id anything I'd applaud ubisoft for allowing primal and blood dragon too occur. To me they're more interesting than the likely predictable 5, even if they don't sell as well or score as well

I think this is the problem with Ubisoft games not Far Cry in particular. All their games are following the same exact formula, and while from outside may look very different, at core they are very similar. Ubisoft seems to stick with what works for them, but since it's not working as well recently they might need to mix things up a bit. It doesn't help them that many other games are going open world and oversaturating the market.

I give a 8.5 to farcry Primal. Thumb up to Ubisoft for trying new era.
Has for me i'm enjoying the game so far.

What's the difference? Battlefield 3 and Bad Company 2 were the same to me.

The Far Cry series reached fatigue status with FC4.
FC3 was warranted while Blood Dragon was acceptable.
FC4 came out too soon and then so did Primal.

Could not bring myself to finish 4 because it was such a retread of 3. I've heard Primal despite the setting is still literally the same as 3 and 4. Dunno how they managed to pull that off with such a unique setting.

BF3 was a waaaay more linear than Bad Company 2 and BC2 was not nearly as serious as BF3.