SolidSnakex
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This seems to be the first real breakdown from UBI that we've seen about this guy
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/f...-look-at-far-cry-4-controversial-villain.aspx
We wanted someone who was a new generation of criminal who would piss off his father and had a bit of punk-rock mentality, says Far Cry 4 narrative director Mark Thompson. But we couldnt latch onto the visuals. We had these Gaddafi-style concepts of a guy in ridiculous military garb who had given himself fake ribbons as prizes. It looked cool, but it wasnt original.
Ubisoft Montreal eventually honed in on characters like Beat Takeshi from Brother and Ichi from a Japanese movie called Ichi the Killer. Both of the characters from those films wore vibrant suits that helped them stand out from the crowd. This inspired Ubisoft Montreals concept artists to render Pagan in a bright pink suit.
The redrafted story became about a young man named Pagan Min. However, Pagans birth name is actually Gang Min. Born the son of a mid-level drug boss in Hong Kong, the Min family was well off, but not without its conflicts. Pagans mother was a British expatriate, and Pagans mixed heritage caused his father a great deal of shame among the criminal elite.
As Pagan grew up, he started to work for his father, but his father was always a small fish in a big pond and Pagan had bigger ambitions. Pagan saw his father and his contemporaries as relics of the past. They were dinosaurs, and it was time for a change.
Pagan was a bit of an outsider to his father, says Thompson. Hes always been a bit of a peacock; slightly more flamboyant than his father was comfortable with. So after his father was killed, Pagan took the name Pagan Min naming himself after the Burmese King who killed his father. That was Pagans message, he didnt want to say that he killed his father, but he named himself after the man who did.
Looking for sanctuary, Pagan sought refuge in a small failed state in the midst of a civil war. This country was Kyrat, and Pagan believed he could become the countrys savior. In 1987, as an arrogant 21-year-old, Pagan entered Kyrat and began a bloody siege that ended only after Pagan was firmly seated on the throne.
The young overlords new Royal Army corrupted existing business and infrastructure, and many of the profits from the heroin trade boosted Pagans coffers. Kyrats new monarch even planted his face on the money, and his official department of communications started blasting propaganda from radio towers scattered across the country. Kyrat became a fractured reflection of its narcissistic ruler.
In order to realistically portray such a sadistic yet colorful character, Ubisoft knew that theyd need a strong, charismatic actor. Ubisoft landed on veteran voice actor Troy Baker, whos roles as Booker DeWitt in Bioshock Infinite, Joel in The Last of Us, and Delsin Rowe in Infamous: Second Son (as well as dozens of other characters) have made Baker a familiar voice in the industry.
There was something arresting about his performance, says Thompson. We saw probably 100 to 200 video auditions beforehand, and up until that point we hadnt seen anyone who had the confidence that Pagan Min needed. This is a man who wears a pink suit, takes over a country, installs himself as king, and says, Youre all my subjects, you love me, The actors we saw up until that point didnt have that. Troy Baker, right now, knows that hes hot s---. He has an air of confidence. The room was silent when he auditioned.
Pagan may be powerful, but his power isnt unchallenged. Early into Pagans leadership, a resistance movement led by a man named Mohan Ghale frustrated Pagans supremacy with tactful guerilla skirmishes. However, Mohan and Pagan werent just fighting for a country; they were fighting for the love of a woman named Ishwari. When this awkward love triangle ended with Mohans death, Ishwari fled the country, and Pagan retreated into his palace, leaving Kyrat to his lunatic governors.
This is where players enter into the story. As Mohans son a man named Ajay Ghale players return to Kyrat for the first time since they were a child in order to scatter their mothers ashes across the top of Kyrats tallest mountain.
This is the opponent players will have to face down as soon as they cross Kyrats borders. Pagan is a psychopathic mess who is terrified of dying alone without a legacy, so how will he treat the son of his one true love and his most hated rival? Players will have to wait until Far Cry 4 releases this fall to find out.
http://www.gameinformer.com/games/f...-look-at-far-cry-4-controversial-villain.aspx