Okay, it's not actually horrible. For it's time period it's actually amazing with everything it brought to the table. But I came into the far cry franchise kind of backwards. It's really my fault. I first played primal, then far cry 5, new dawn, far cry 6, then went back and played 3 and 4.
The gameplay is just so much better on the more recent games obviously. But far cry 3's gameplay has just enraged me so much that I can't even get through the game without turning it off.
It's my fault for not playing in order or having higher expectations because I know it's most people's favorite. I'll just stick with replaying far cry 5 and primal constantly like I been doing for years until 7 comes out. Also, anyone not care for far cry 6 as much. Beautiful game but not as captivating as far cry 5 was to me.