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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-17T15:30:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com",
  "tags": [
    "Shooter",
    "Xbox One",
    "Single Player",
    "Ubisoft Entertainment",
    "First person",
    "Action Adventure",
    "Xbox 360",
    "PC",
    "Far Cry 4",
    "Ubisoft Montreal",
    "How do we save the open world?",
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  "textContent": "During a random dictionary delve last week I learned that \"explore\" once meant to cry out. It comes from an old Latin word formed from the prefix \"ex-\", describing outwardness, and \"plorare\", meaning to cry or weep. Compare \"implore\" - to beg, cry for something - and \"deplore\" - to berate, 'cry of' something or somebody.\n\nThe OED explains (\"ex + \"plan&omacr\", meaning to level off, flatten for understanding) that \"explore\" may originally have referred to hunters, shouting to scare up animals lurking in the area around them. Exploration was always somewhat predatory, then, perhaps a little anguished. I have to admit, I got misty-eyed on discovering all this, thinking about how this word I've written a million times in videogame reviews is a kind of silenced wail.\n\nRead more",
  "title": "Far Cry's name is very ironic, if you're an armchair etymologist"
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