rtwjunkieActually, don’t malign all their games.

I have to. They killed Silent Hunter. I will hate them forever for this.

Yes, they also INVENTED Silent Hunter, but does a father killing his son get excused because he made the little guy? Hell no. I have nothing but hate in my heart for this company now.

Sorta sarcastic, sorta serious here...

R-T-BI have to. They killed Silent Hunter. I will hate them forever for this.

Yes, they also INVENTED Silent Hunter, but does a father killing his son get excused because he made the little guy? Hell no. I have nothing but hate in my heart for this company now.

Sorta sarcastic, sorta serious here...

:roll:That’s some way overboard baggage there. :p

rtwjunkie:roll:That’s some way overboard baggage there. :p

I like submarines.

R-T-BI like submarines.

I loved Ghost Recon and they totally obliterated that, never mind all the lie's they told to the community back in the day.

Lets face it they don't want you to have dedicated servers which are ran by the user and surly not a game that they don't get you to rebuy every year or two.

Like OMG GR you could run a 8 player's + observers make awesome missions and run tournaments.

No wounder i have gone back to audio gear as gaming these days is just pitiful bar a few games which none are UBI.

AsRockNo wounder i have gone back to audio gear as gaming these days is just pitiful bar a few games which none are UBI.

Indies save it for me.

Behold:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/playway/uboot-a-ww2-survival-sandbox

This is on top of the pile for me, haven't played any versions of FC since 3. Wanted to pull the trigger on FC5 but the story didn't seem interesting enough but this is right up my alley.

What the hell was that crap they used in place of the secret cow level in D3. OMFG I remember now, but I'm too manly to even write it out. Just one of the many reasons I never got the game--played the demo for about an hour and gave up all hope forever.

This reminds me of that.

R-T-BIndies save it for me.

Behold:

www.kickstarter.com/projects/playway/uboot-a-ww2-survival-sandbox

That's awesome! I learned more about uboats in five minutes than I have in my whole life (not really saying much) .... Looks fun as hell though. Kinda reminds me of that old Commandos game from 90's.

Vayra86Hard pass. FC5 was a total letdown. Cliché upon cliché and so-so open world shooter mechanics we've seen a dozen times. No thanks. I didn't even finish the story, it was so predictable it was almost criminal.

FC4 was already boring as far as story goes,though it was extremely fun to play cause of the setting.I'm a huge fan of FC3 and Blood Dragon but FC4 is where I draw the line.
I'm pumped for Rage 2, Dying Light 2 and Exodus. That's enough post-apocalyptic games. Ubisoft can't fool me with their candy ass graphics.

Far Cry 5 was the first game I’ve bought and regret it, ever. Didn’t had that much of a feeling before - like, if the game was bad overall - either I knew it and bought with discount, or the game was not that bad.

But that was before.

When I bought FC5 for a full price....well, I just asked myself, after a month “Why the damn heck I’ve just bought it for 60$???!!!”

I love how Montana looked like ingame, perfect soundtrack....but that’ all. Everything else - pure messed up crap. Especially those plane mechanics.
P.S. yep, waiting for ur next farcry, ubi. On torrents.

rtwjunkieActually, don’t malign all their games. This DOES apply to their Far Cry games. Ubisoft actually released this year what I consider to be right near the pinnacle of single player gaming.

Presume you're talking about Odyssey?

AssimilatorPresume you're talking about Odyssey?

Yes, Sir. They still have the capacity to surprise. They cookie cutter the hell out of FC series, and even half the AC series, but occasionally can still release a really good game or two, such as Odyssey, and even The Division ended up being a good game after awhile.

So, I still give them my open mind, since I know that sometimes they are actually trying, unlike a number of other publishers.

rtwjunkieYes, Sir. They still have the capacity to surprise. They cookie cutter the hell out of FC series, and even half the AC series, but occasionally can still release a really good game or two, such as Odyssey, and even The Division ended up being a good game after awhile.

So, I still give them my open mind, since I know that sometimes they are actually trying, unlike a number of other publishers.

Division was very good, so was Watch_Dogs 2.I got 140 hrs in the first one and over 100 in WD2.In WD2 time flies while free roaming.Wildlands was a beatiful game with an astonishing open world but it lacked immersion into the game.

Farcry 3 was good, after that all were non inventive franchises.

I'm glad they included landscapes of color in this post apocalyptic themed release

I will never forget that Yves Guillemot investors/shareholders speech where he spoke about Assassin's Creed and his take away was: 'We give gamers what they want, and we will always keep giving them more of what they already know'... what followed was an endless stream of yearly or even faster AC-releases and a straight up copy-paste of its design elements to literally everything they produced, until we got so fed up (Unity) that they had to take a break and do a 'reset'...

Far Cry is another franchise that has fallen prey to that eternal Ubisauce, that little easter egg voiceline in FC5 about now NOT having to climb up every radio tower just says it all. We know it, the devs know it, it got old and was way overdone, but when you look at the games, they actually just repackaged the same concept once more and gave it another name. Ubisoft is still pushing the same agenda: give gamers more of what they already know. Far Cry's Blood Dragon still went out OK and Primal wasn't a complete fail, so this spinoff was also bound to happen. Innovation? Nah. New assets? Meh, just spray paint that old junk in a new color. I wonder when this franchise will get its 'reset'. The wacky characters in the games are also getting a bit old to me, the whole cult thing in FC5 was hard to get into. It was never satisfying really to punish the religious nutjobs, simply because they never felt like anything other than random hillbillies with guns. Compare that to Vaas... or even the far less interesting baddies from FC4.

To me, Far Cry is fast losing its appeal and the gameplay is same old. The funky color schemes don't help it either, I can't help but think FC6 will appear on Nintendo Switch or something.

Compare the tone of voice of the very first Assassins' Creed to that of a Watch Dogs 2 or the recent AC's. Its like Ubisoft is talking to an audience that is far less mature these days, it even shows in the writing of the dialogues itself: grown up full English sentences of decent length (old AC) versus short sentences, simple writing (a five year old can understand most of it) and zero spice, moral and ethical/philosophical dilemma is gone, etc. Even FC5 which announced itself with a very spicy theme especially in its time of release dumbed it down to a quirky bunch of nutjobs so far from reality it was never believeable or immersive. Playing it safe...

Its really a big shame to see so much potential in this studio and so many half-decent products come out of it. These days its 'OK' and never really great, the highlights come from the smaller studios funded by Ubi. At the same time this studio is also one of the few remaining ones that's really quite good at doing open world games and they do many of them still, which is immediately also the reason they all feel the same.

I just hope Ubi can reinvent itself like they've shown capable of doing in the past. This new direction for AC was a step in the right direction but still feels RPG-lite without offering a proper framework for it, like so many of these games with RPG elements do. For Far Cry... I think they need to give physics a lot more love. The franchise needs new cool stunts to pull off in the sandbox, more challenging gameplay, and maybe a return of some survival elements like the crappy guns of FC2.