Sick of Ubisoft.
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Far Cry 6, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Rainbow Six Extraction... Haven't we been here before? I think the answer is yes.. and i'm a little tired of what Ubisoft has been up to. They are one of the richest gaming companies in the world, delivering some of the most mediocre to below average games to the industry. It's unacceptable and I'm just a little sick of Ubisoft. NICE!
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Good Ubisoft review I ever seen
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True, so true
Ok
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@@tomboysupremacy wow..Bro you got the whole squad laughing
I worked at Ubisoft for 6 years. They've somehow figured out how to turn a creative industry, into feeling like you're working in a factory. Just like this guy says, we did the same things, over, and over again. It was great for coming to work, shutting my brain off, and drilling a hole in the sheet of metal that came down the conveyor belt. But it murdered my love for game development, so I bounced.
"somehow" = going public kills innovation, quality, and joy. That was inevitable and planned as soon as they took all those mountains of cash.
Sad that your talent went unappreciated and underutilized. It sounds like art school. May I ask what you did there?
@@TigerGreene I worked with the art teams for a couple of their brands.. The company did appreciate some of their employees, but that mostly came down to raw skill, and politics. This sort of thing you'll find anywhere.
I'm not sure I agree with what you say by going public kills innovation etc... I've worked at other companies where this happened and things continued as usual. But this is agreed upon before any sort of acquisition/merger or any other parties becoming involved. The sense of idea creation at Ubisoft was one birthed from fear, always. On one hand, it was understandable. The bigger you are, the harder you can fall. They had no make conservative decisions. On the other hand, the things I saw go down there, when it came to game ideas, had a lot going against it. Fear, placing prepubescent children at the head of dev teams, immense ego, pride, lack of industry experience, idea isolation (many had never worked anywhere other than Ubisoft and understood nothing about games that were made by other companies), did I mention fear?
There were a lot of people who loved it there. But in all, they were mostly new to the industry. They were mostly just happy to brag to their high school friends that they're working for Ubisoft and couldn't care less about striving for great game development.. A lot of their games suffer as a result with poor quality everything being greenlit.
yeah and playing the games feels like the same. first assassin creed game i played was great. the second ac game felt exactly like the game
@@zipzorp8858 wait, they placed children at the helm of dev teams? Like young, inexperienced adults, or like literal (executives’) children in positions of decision making?
@@24fretsoffury Well they didn't hire any actual children. Though they did have kids come in to playtest our games. They weren't employees though. Just free labor with "bragging to your friends you got to play a Ubi game before release" as payment.
Ubisoft is the definition of insanity.
my favourite Einstein quote!
This should be the top comment
Ironic
I wanna say something about Science and Atheism on YT,
if i may.
Ever noticed how Science-CZcamsrs and Atheist-CZcamsrs are basically 'blood-related'? They even all cover Kent Hovind and such people; which aint a Coincidence. The Fanbases don't overlap enough though.
Professor Dave pointed out in his video about the Discovery Institute: Some right-now literally fight for a Reverse of the Seperation-of-Church-and-State, which would be devastating. Telltale says to that: We need more Science-Enthusiasts and Atheists in-Office (he even provides infos how to run for Office).
The fanbases not overlapping enogh is 1 thing,
but people not quite realizing just how widespread and actually-intentional
Science-Denial really is,
as Professor Dave and Telltale recently expertedly explained, is 1 bigger thing.
But it works for them just fine, not for us.
Ubisoft liked Vaas's line about insanity so much that they made it their business model
Holy shit this is so true😂
Ironic 💀
Insanity = Ubisoft XD thats verry ironic indeed XD
I hear that line repeated over and over again in mainstream media…it’s also not the actual definition of insanity
@@Johnsmith710s Its a saying dum dum it means that doing the same thing over and over again is stupid
When he said "remember when you worked for the gear you get in a video game instead of just paying for it" i immediatly thought of an argument i had with a freind where he justified microtransactions and the steam community market by saying "its cool when you see that one guy with an expensive skin" basically saying he liked gambling and rarity by price.
As a former Ubisoft designer, you nailed the point on several things. But there is a reason why Ubisoft's games have this kind of same taste over different titles, but also different brands. The structure is quite similare to EA. They have an editorial team overseeing every game and bending the design to the creative direction of the whole company. The guy leading the studio-wide design direction used to be Serge Hascoet, who got kicked out of the company for horrible things. But that's not the point here.
Even if you have 90% of your team, eager for innovation. The core team (directors) have to directly report to the editorial team. They are the gatekeeper of content. So if you make a design pitch and it doesn't fit the "vision" of the studio, it will be shut down. Designers are forced to work along the line of so many bad features (think of climbing a tower or the Quest Icon formula).
As long as Ubisoft keeps forcing this structure upon developers, NOTHING will change.
No wonder that Ubisoft Montreal (Who are leading the AC and FC teams, since they made the most successful titles of each brand) is experiencing a massive exodus of developers.
Wow. Is there hope in the future though? :)
@@SalamiKing7 Well, the biggest shift that happened there was the firing of Serge. But apparently he has been replaced by someone similar. The future is bleak for Ubisoft games. The only thing that may offer change is that the Brand Director of FarCry and key directors of AC have left the company. Maybe that will prompt a change in those brands, but I doubt it.
The good side is how many people left the company and either founded (or joined) new studios around Ubisoft studios.
You can look at new studios like Cloud Chamber, YellowBrick studio, Haven etc.
Or already existing studios that have massive growth (EA Motive, Eidos, Compulsion).
Just keep in mind that A LOT of talented devs at ubisoft grew angry and unsatisfied that the editorial were greedy and unable to innovate . Everyone at Ubisoft are passionate gamers unable to express themselves creatively. When I was working on a project, EVERYONE hated microtransactions, but Paris wanted them. What Paris wants, goes in the game.
Also, one thing that I've noticed in the studios that I've been in, is that once the marketing team is also invited in game design meetings, the game will turn into a generic bland game. Every.time. That's what happened to Ubisoft, EA, Blizzard. They don't care about the games, their job is to maximize revenue, but devs can't do anything about it.
I hope I've made some fans understand that shitting on devs isn't really productive.
A rower in a ship has little power when the captain is repeatedly steering the ship toward the same plain, uneventful and boring lake.
@@frankyd9986 Thank you so much for your insight. :)
Growing up, Ubisoft was one of my favorite developers. There was so much variety in their catalog. But their current day adherence to the same bland open world live service formula (which many other companies have also adopted) has replaced my enthusiasm with cynicism. I have no interest in another continent of bland side content to sleepwalk through.
Well said!!! Honored to have you comment on my vid Critical!
exactly.
Another game that I feel yhat has been kinda affected by the DLC problem is Payday 2.
Now hear me out, the initial story and overall is amazing, and the main dev did a good job connecting each Heist DLC with each other to create the whole Niphilim story and the good heist trailers, but the thing is...
It's kinda boring! The lack of innovation was solved just by creating a new character or joining some AU like Miami Hotline, Scarface, or John Wick and a new heist, dialogues, and new map.
A youtuber, Generalmcbadass, literally kept doing solo and group heists, with different difficulties and teammates. But the thing that made that interesting was his commentary. The game itself was rather undistinguishable.
Alas, I can see that players like myself are getting hyped for the upcoming Payday 3. I really hope they move on from the main story, perhaps they will develop it to be a prequel for thr Payday series, or a sequel idk.
Since 2012
Couldn't have said it better myself
You’re one of the only CZcams channels that can make 30 minute videos that keep my attention the whole way through. Great videos, dude!
You might need to consider therapy, not an attack on you. Just mildly concerned
@@SwissTrippin i'm referring to a lack of original, quality content on CZcams. My attention span is excellent.
@@Garzoku oh well then the CZcamsrs need therapy
Try "Folding Ideas"
@@Garzokuthere is plenty ur attention span is lacking
This is probably the most complex, all-said and yet fully comprehensive Ubisoft critique video I’ve ever seen. Thanks man, you nailed it!
Minimum effort. Maximum profitability. Ubisoft.
As long as they sell a shit ton of games then they're going to do this. It's up to the gamers to stop buying shitty games.
Hey, you can't forget EA
Ftfy -
Minimum effort. Maximum perceived profitably. Ubisoft.
No where near a real max profitability of a quality game. They making hills of money instead of mountain ranges.
@@TheNewton they made 1 billion on valhala what are you talking about?
Don't forget the sexual assault at their company!
It's always the case that innovation dies when developers are replaced by managers and people more concerned with forms and approval than making a good product
Approval? You mean making as much profit as possible, this is late stage capitalism.
I wish more people understood how game development works. These money hungry decisions are usually made by the Publisher, not the developer. Publishers finance the development team for the game, and since they are being paid by the publisher, developers have very little say in the final product or general gameplay, artstyle, quality, etc.
Most devs WANT to make quality games, with innovative ideas, but it’s ultimately the publisher that limits development time, and quotas. Most publishers want as little investment as possible, with the greatest return on investment.
Don’t blame the developers.
@@fawnieee it's people accepting inadequacy and allowing it to continue while complaining that it's continuing lmao
also when guys like him buy every single game they release for 10 years straight
An excellent point was brought up towards the end: half of Ubisoft's income is from MTX. We often see mass complaints about the AAA industry shifting towards releasing unfinished games that are plagued with microtransactions, but that is primarily due to the consumers showing AAA publishers that this is what a large enough part of the population wants through their spending habits.
NFTs are a prime example that the consumer base does have the power to push companies into shifting away from nefarious tactics in video games. However, the community at large is so divided on the topic that I don't foresee anything changing over the next decade.
Only a very small minority of players actually put in that whopping amount of money. We call them "whales".
Yeah $40 for dlc is so beyond hilarious I’m shocked one person bought that.
From software: observe
@@toastmalone1853😭😭😭
@@toastmalone1853im still buying that shit too
What I'm most mad about Ubisoft is that when Rayman turned 25 they didnt remember it in any way. Rayman is probably the biggest reason Ubisoft is what it is today and they did NOTHING for the character to celebrate the occasion
WTF is a Rayman? That one of the bosses from Megaman?
"See you in Rayman 4!"
@@UmVtCg uncultured
They wiped their filthy rich asses with Ancel Michel and kicked Rayman off a cliff then pissed on his corpse. Rayman put them on the map. Ubisoft is a bunch of greedy ingrates.
@@UmVtCg Are you having a colon panic? Get your head of the dirt and join civilization. Rayman is a legend.
The moment Vaas's insanity speech scene came up was perfect
Edit. 8:41 for the salty boi
Wtf he actually says that?
You know what the definition of insanity is? It's doing same shit over and over again expect shit to change
Man this quote lived in my head rent free for so long it's mad
@@lillotusplays yes he does. I think it might be the most ironic thing I have ever seen. maybe its some kind of curse since it started with far cry 3
Thank you!!
Yes that's why ytube has the feature to add time stamps in the comments, use 'em.
The same way you felt about Valhala, I felt about Odyssey. I'm Greek, and it is a major part of my identity. I've waited since AC 1 for them to come to Greece. They had Greek Characters throughout the first 4 games that spoke in Greek, swore at you in Greek, and I knew it was only a matter of time before reaching Greece. I wasn't totally disspointed with Odyssey, but your complaints are valid. It was very mystical for a AC game.
Odyssey is definitely my favorite out of the origins,odyssey,Valhalla trilogy
I loved walking around a 1:1 greece and it really made me interested in ancient greece and mythology. I had a blast playing odyssey but i did eventually get bored of the combat.
Thats cus those 3 really weren't ac games they were action rpgs they just slapped the ac name on
Assassin's Creed Unity is an interesting story. It was simultaneously the most ambitious game in the franchise, and the point at which Ubisoft's greed became a real issue. I was all about the direction Unity would take the series, it's why I bought a PS4. Unfortunately, Ubisoft forced it out before it was ready and the technical problems hurt an otherwise great game's reputation. This caused Ubisoft to overcorrect and now we can ride Pegasus and travel to Asgard. The parkour system was good and actually different enough from the original parkour system to feel next-gen. The city of Paris is the best map in the franchise and Unity still has the best visuals in the series almost 9 years later. If Ubisoft gave the developers the time they needed, this franchise would look a lot different (better) today.
Ubisoft somehow managed to go from being my favorite to literally my least favorite game studio so quick.
That's an achievement
EA is still worse and if you don't like it don't buy it
Mine too
EA exists
They gave birth and killed Far Cry, Assassin's Creed and For Honor for me. Three games I loved were murdered and now they continue to r*pe their corpses over and over.
Ubisoft just chose to be safe rather than innovate their games.
Lol we have different definitions of safe
@@tylergarnica2425 we all also have different opinions!
The Illumination of gaming companies.
@@notedsinner3171 miss me with that
That's basically a lot of Western AAA developers and publishers these days.
Its inevitable, once a company gets too big the leadership changes to making money not good games
Great video!
I tend to shy away from multi-player games specifically because of microtransactions, I hate the idea that I have to have my card handy even after I've bought a full price game, I'm happy for a company to charge 60-70 freedom tokens for a game, if that pays the devs, ill do it, the greed of microtransactions on top of that just ruins the game for me, but the fact they're doing this with single player games, that's like me getting the new zelda and seeing lootbox chance of getting "the new master sword++ ultra" is 0.02% better hope you pull it
Infuriating.
So sad to see great companies like Rockstar and Ubisoft stoop so low.
Hey what did Rockstar do? Besides the crappy GTA remasters lol
@@mickeybat5816 the crappy online and micro transactions
@@mickeybat5816 completely abandoning one of the greatest open world games of all time red ded 2
@@waltir2187 let’s hope we get a next gen version soon. Some new content would be cool too.
@@diorblunt even if we got anything in story mode like a director mode or a few new guns
the closing point in this video hit the nail on the head for me, even games like Cyberpunk 2077 these days : a game about corporate scumbags destroying the world, was ruined by its early release and corporate scumbags... the industry is much bigger than it was a few decades ago, and quality control appears to have dropped head first off a cliff
The fact last gen hardware was obviously too weak for the game didn't help either. Should've cancelled the PS4/One versions, Metroid Dread style
@@kwayke9 It wasnt too weak, game runs stable 30 fps now on old gen. And it could run even better if they would downgrade it a little, graphics wise it would not be noticeable. I tweaked the game radically, on my old gtx1060 to achieve 60fps and it still looked suprisingly good.
@@damazywlodarczyk oh, glad it improved since then
#boycottubisoft
@@kwayke9 Remember they were selling Cyberpunk themed Xbox Ones at pre-release
ubisoft invited me to play farcry 6 behind closed doors for 500 dollars and I wanted to kms it was so boring, I only finished it because I was getting payed. I almost walked and killed someone losing my mind at the amount of times I heard a text to speak voice tried to say gorillia in Spanish OMG I AM GETTING ANGRY JUST THINKING ABOUT IT
Far Cry Primal had the potential to be a really difficult version of Far Cry where you had almost no UI to help you. Complete waste of potential
Not to mention the never ending sexual abuse allegations that Ubisoft does absolutely nothing to fix
^That part
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Dude, this is the first video I’ve watched by you and it was really awesome. Great script, great narrating, great pace, great effects. A sub well earned. Keep it up 😁👍🏻
FarCry Primal, taking it on its own and playing without the UI, makes it feel like honestly one of my favorite Ubisoft games. And I’ve played a lot of their games
funny how Vaas predicted us the future of Ubisoft with his definition of insanity
Close but Ubisoft didn't want anything to change. They already win everytime
Also the people who keep on buying the same game every 2 years
From the beginning Assassin's creed was supposed to be a trilogy and that's it. 1 was in the 11th century and introduced desmond and his bloodline of assassins. 2 was set in the 15th century and we saw Desmond on his own, learning the ropes of being a modern assassin. 3 was supposed to take place in the 21st century and be Desmond's game where he put all his skills gained from his ancestors to use in a modern setting and finally take down abstergo and the modern templars who ruled the world. Unfortunately Assassin's creed 2 was one of the most popular games of the decade and the rest of the storyline was completely scrapped and the series became a never ending cash cow that has almost nothing to do with the original storyline. Sufficed to say i was pissed when i heard Assassin's creed 3 was basically a minor update of 2 and so have all the games been since.
I wouldn't say unfortunately. The Ezio Trilogy as a whole is a masterpiece, AC3 while a bit rougher story-wise still had great gameplay (and trees free-running which was mindblowing). Black Flag also was an excellent game, even if it was more of a Pirates of the Caribbean game Disney never made. Was only after Unity things started to go wrong and with Origins the series fate was sealed.
@@MollymaukT 100% agree with you. It was a slow decline in narrative quality since Ezio's trilogy, but at least every game before Origins could claim they still had their roots in assassin's creed. (Except Syndicate maybe, idk. fun game tho)
@@austinsharpe8157 Syndicate is way better than people give it credit for. But it underperformed hard cause people still had the bad taste in their mouth from Unity
I really would appreciate a modern Assassin’s creed with the old gameplay.
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That's a really good point. AAA studios in general just copy paste every single game every single time, forgetting what games were actaully good. Fallout killed themselves after New Vegas, which was arguably one of the greatest games ever, R6 Vegas 2, Battlefield 2042,
Yo man, just discovered this channel with your Red Dead Online vid. I just can’t resist commenting here at 14:25. RSVegas 1+2 hold such a special place in my heart. Dopest dope I’ve ever smoked, incredible memories with the bois.
Hearing you bring the games up, I quite literally started applauding. The most “Did we just become best friends?” Moment with a creator I watch.
Preach it, brother. Those games were too beautiful for this cruel world.
Preach it, brother.
I had this same shit ass feeling for years and now someone has finally put it into words. Thank you. It became so bad that I can tell when a game has Ubisoft vibes and it turns out to be a Ubisoft game.
took you long enough lol. I couldn't finish a single far cry or AC game, only FC3 managed to keep my interest but only until I killed Vaas, after that I never launched this game again, didn't feel like it was worth my time.
The only ubisoft game released after 2013 that I played to the end and enjoyed is Valiant Hearts, damn masterpiece
Well luckily for ubisoft a new gamer is born everyday so they can just continue making far cry and ass creed games for the foreseeable future and continue raking in the money doing so.
Jack is one step away from pronouncing Ghost off Tsushima as “Ghost of Sugma”
What's that?
@@ltlightning558 sugma?
@@ltlightning558 steve jobs
I'm more interested in Jack's Ghost of Smagma!
@@longduong9718
Sigma balls
Glad to hear my friends and I aren't the only ones that miss Unity for it's multiplayer, plus Paris was done really well and the parkour was the best in the series. Made it so much fun to run around w the boys grinding for our new outfits
My biggest problem with Valhalla was I wasn't able to find a new weapon until after TEN HOURS and when I did it was just another axe that was worse than the one I already had. It was like someone at Ubisoft heard people's complaints and was like "we'll just make it so there's ZERO loot now"
After 10 hours? you can get like 2 at the start, when you're sailing back to viking cove there is an island on the left. I went there the first time i played. It has a double handed giant axe and a chain mace if i remember right. It's also the easiest raid in the game.
It's unfortunate I didn't get to play the same game as you, did several raids, no weapons
When you think about the issue with Ubisoft on the whole, it's kind of sad. Ubisoft used to be titans of innovation & then gradually over the course of the past decade have bastardised everything their games used to mean just to chase a bottom line. At the same time, the entire situation is also very funny. Can you imagine the conversations that have gone on behind closed doors that lead to the absolute drivel they pump out? The amount of good ideas that get shut down for the sake of turning their games into digital storefronts? The corruption of a franchise's integrity to the point where it releases ridiculous superficial nonsense?
Come to think of it, when you factor in the disrespect for players' wallets, the misconduct allegations that have come out over the past 2 years, and the complete failure to innovate Ubisoft existing in 2022 is like a real life satirical piece on corporate greed & inhumanity. For me, the tragedy is if the business methods of Ubisoft work, which unfortunately they do, other companies will sooner or later follow suit and kill the games industry entirely. Ubisoft aren't the only ones doing it, but before long the companies doing it will be the only ones still in the industry. Worst case scenario, I know. However, when you think about it, how far off is that reality really?
What's funny is, if they allowed the good ideas some of their developers are surely proposing, it'd make for a better experience for the players and we would, in turn, WANT to spend money in their fucking online stores. I can't see myself ever purchasing another AC title, certainly not at $60, so seeing some of these ridiculous shop items, and picturing ANYONE spending over $200 on their game, makes me literally laugh out loud.
Ubisoft has had to chase a bottom line because they've been dealing with an attempted hostile takeover for years. If you had Vivendi trying to buy their way into forcing you into selling your company, you'd do everything you could to make sure you were making money hand over fist to keep them away. If you're looking for someone to blame as to why Ubisoft have become cookie cutter, blame Vivendi.
Funniest thing to me is when they talk about being inclusive... yeah right. Didn't want choice in assassins creed, but got forced to have it. Then I figured, this sucks but atleast I can finally play as someone of my own demographic now I guess. (Gay man) Oh no wait, ubisoft will insist I "don't count" and that I wasted my time, because I was infact a womam all along. And that is what we call gatekeeping. It seems ubisoft only know how to swap victim, rather then solve a problem.
Ubisoft, Bethesda, Activision Blizzard, CDPR, Dice, 343, Square Enix, Take Two Interactive, Devolver Digital, Bungie, Epic Games...all have produced hotdogwater consistently for almost five years now. the industry has been steadily declining ever since the glory days of sega vs nintendo. I think there is a massive socioeconomic issue with not just video games, but intellectual properties in general. if congress passed a bill that voided ip lawsuits, anyone on the planet would be free to create things like star wars products. star wars franchise would not be exclusive to $billion dollar disney$, spiderman would not be exclusive to marvel, etc...though disney & marvel could continue creating their content at the price of making less money
back in the day the crew 2 was my fav game. now that i've grown up a lil i realize how shit it is and i play the first game more than the second one now
The best part of far cry 5 was the co op mode. I remember crying laughing with my friend purely because friendly fire was left on. Killing my friend in that game in as creative ways as possible was the best part. That and attacking civillians
Honestly the glitches are the funniest part of these games, they are so repetitive, random stuff going down is a huge improvement.
real and tru
Ubisoft has been replicating the same model of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood in their open-world games since 2010. You use stealth to mark enemies, climb some towers to unlock maps, finding collectables in places hard to reach, kill targets, taking side quests from wacky characters and it's all about taking down some tyrants. The games originally were more focused on player skills rather than in-game stats, but then Ubisoft made them more like RPG, forcing you to unlock items and level up. I didn't mind older AC's melee system even if you just need to spam parry-counter to kill most enemies, at least it's satisfying, just need more combo moves. I'm here to see how they make historical fiction fun, not finding an axe with higher stats to kill monsters.
If they mess up the upcoming games, if they ever come out that is, please make a part 2 of this, i watched it like 4 times lol
Some of the best content in gaming right now man, great work. If you’ve ever played titanfall, especially titanfall 2, I’d love a video with your take on the game. It’s still one of the most fun and well designed shooters I’ve ever played
Thanks Erik!!
Titanfall 2 is a masterpiece 🙌🏻
@@JackSather if you do get it you should get the North Star client
titanfall 2 is god tier
especially the campaign
I'm happy to see Riley Poole has landed on his feet as a game critic after going separate ways with Benjamin Gates.
#boycottubisoft
what a solid reference! 10/10 youtube comment
I thought he looked familiar
who are you
Lmao I knew he reminded me of someone.
My favourite moment was when John Assassin dropped the notorious line: "I'm THE assassin, bitch!". Iconic..
I'm so glad you brought up the sound quality thing. WTF is WITH THAT SHIT?! It's SO bad in the new titles.
One thing that does tend to get lost in the story of Ubisoft is the hostile takeover bid that they had to fight off from 2015-2018. Those 3 years coincidentally mark the beginning of the downfall and microtransaction "innovation". I suspect that Yves main objective was to keep his company for his family AND as a result they needed as much cash on hand to buy back their stock in order to prevent Vivendi (the company that owns Universal... yes _that_ Universal) from buying their company. A CEO desperate for cash will sanction crazy stuff that they otherwise might not have. I bet Yves saw microtransactions as the "holy grail" to his cashflow problem.... and then the cancer spread.
In any case - the worst part about Yves fighting off the hostile take over attempt by Vivendi is that he had to make a deal with one of the worst perpetuators of microtransactions out there.... Tencent. This battle that was under reported by CZcams gamers actually played a big role in why Ubisoft is the way they are. I think we saw a convergence of several bad practices all at once.
The saddest part? Go look at Valhalla's player numbers on steam. Ubisoft won't be changing their "formula" anytime soon.
P.S. I strongly suspect the reason Splinter Cell was shelfed for so long was due to Ubisoft being uncertain how to monetize it.
Some context because some people are going to take this the wrong way. Tencent owns 5% of Ubisoft. This is barely enough to have any considerable sway in the business of the company.
The player count of Valhalla deeply saddens me. I remember playing the game as an OG assassins creed fan, dropping it after 4 hours, thinking “this is the lamest most bland and uninspired Ubisoft game I’ve ever played” and seeing news articles about it being one of the best selling Ubisoft games of all time and just being depressed with the state of gaming.
@@RainCloudVideos Wait, where do you find this figure? Can you provide a source, please?
Ubi is hiring for the first Splinter Cell remake
i would rather see the splinter cell franchise die with dignity with blacklist rather than become ubi's new target for mishandled garbage
I literally have had to stop playing Ubisoft games, along with quite a few different publishers but mainly Ubisoft, solely because I have an addictive personality and find that I get way too involved in microtransactions when I'm invested in a game. Like I understand it's about self-control but the current state of Ubisoft games are not healthy for people like me, and they don't care, publishers no longer care and haven't for a very long time.
The last Ubisoft game I've ever played is Watch Dogs Legion & Far Cry 6. I skipped both AC Odyssey & Valhalla.
@@mavvynne444 yup.. I can't even be bothered to pirate those 2 and origins.. and I regret watching their combat system in youtube.. wasting time
My last AC was Odyssey, I own every last piece of content in that game as with every previous AC, but Valhalla is just too much, Odyssey costs you around 300$ to own everything but Valhalla's 700$ is just ridiculous, I'm not poor but it's just pushing it. In a way I'm glad that Ubisoft didn't release their recent games on Steam and went Epic exclusive because I only use Steam and it has saved me a lot of money.
Last Ubisoft single player game I bought was the original watch dogs, which looking back was only mediocre instead of terrible but it burned me enough that I put them on the naughty list with EA
Last multiplayer was rainbow six but that's also years ago at this point.
@@youreprettygood2603 Christ stop hurting yourself.
We need part 2 of this video, specifically after what Ubisoft did lately
Massive cudos for the shoout outs to other creators and also adding the links in the description! This is how it should be done!
Watched your video's every second and it is pretty much 100% on the money. Agree with almost everything
This is why I love indie games. There's so much inability to be creative with these big developers.
The example with Assassin's Creed is kinda bittersweet: I'm glad that they did embrace the fact that they needed to update the game in terms of its mechanics, which is exactly what Far Cry needs (over 10 years the game has changed less than Origins after Syndicate), but it failed a lot of fans of the franchise yet gained popularity among newer players because yeah, it was essentially a completely different game.
It is. And I don't consider those games Assassin's Creed. Until they return to how they used to WITH innovation; then I will never play another Ubisoft game. (Far Cry 5 was the last one I played. Never again.)
I play AC since the first one.. but unity and syndicate fail to impress me after the black flag. Same gameplay and mechanic like an old one... At first, origins came out and I hate that RPG style of gameplay.. so I don't play it. 2 years later, I decided to play it because I just want to try it. And I can't believe I really like the new trio mythology AC... For me, they really did it good to change the gameplay with the same title. I really enjoy the new one rather than back to how it used to be before because it's a boring repetitive game. So, I just wanna say everyone has their own taste... I don't think it's a "different" game.
It’s mind blowing to me that some of the best established companies in the world are losing their fanbase, primarily for treating them like ignorant cows begging to be milked by the companies. Quick n easy examples: compare Blizzard and Disney’s treatment of fans…vs Fromsoft. Things may never change, but I think theres a slow change coming. (From the fans) People are tired of broken/weak product, being treated like an asshole, and ripped off…all at the same time. That dam’s gotta break at some point.
Goobisoft is so eroded, they created a character in rainbow six siege that is the embodiment of the fanbase criticism i.e generic kill everyone villain
I remember having so much fun playing Division 1. The Dark Zone was scary. I remember being hunted by a squad of rogues across the map. I remember looking behind us, seeing someone following us, calling it out, and positioning for a firefight. It was nerve-wracking. Division 2 came out and I was excited, but the split up DZs never had the same feel. Now I play Tarkov to scratch that itch. If AAA titles don't start to innovate, we'll see more BSGs or other new developers step in.
That engine of Division 1/2 is mindblowing though. Never seen so much detail with such good optimization on my pc.
I remember to be bored out of my mind with division tbh. But hey, different tastes
i had to fight diff groups of ai while fending off other players. total warzone. good times 😂
@@Chadius_Thundercock The Division was dope man. What is wrong with you?!?!?
@@vision821k4 They already said it in their comment, simply just different tastes. Not everyone is going to universally enjoy it.
This is the first time I've ever heard of this channel and I'm already wondering why it took me so long to discover such a quality content producer. Two thumbs up from me.
Haha thank you!!
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I immediately subscribed after watching 30 seconds of the video. Truly quality content.
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Literally got an Ubisoft+ ad watching this video, the irony is real
Great video but “Brace for PVP” is insanely funny and I’m adding it to my vocabulary immediately
To be honest, in Odyssey, I started having fun when I accepted(convinced myself) that Kassandra is a demi-god.
It was the only way I could justify that extremely dumb but extremely fun ''teleport'' skill.
I agree it shouldn't have been called AC.
It wasn't assassin's Creed, because it literally takes place before the Creed was even established
AC still have supernatural elements but in main game you are an assassin not a god. In Origin, Odyssey and Valhalla everything is just beyond my imagination. Except when the game forced me to go stealth i just go out side and wipe out enemies with my superpower skills. Pretend to be an assassin and sneak around in these game make me tired.
@@TienTran-uq6to I just finished a mission in Valhalla where you're asked how do you want to handle it, stealth or all out assault. I picked stealth since I still like attempting to stealth in these games. Not even five minutes into the mission, one of the characters goes YOU'RE TAKING TOO LONG FUCK THESE GUYS and all the soldiers are aggro'd. Why bother letting me choose if you're going to make me do combat? And yes, I understand that's how that character would act but still.
@@KuonilerariLoufanwald ah, so the game has telltale syndrome
Desmond had ultra violet vision and the Eagle eye and got triggered into being an assassin by the second game.
That's hardly a criticism, hell the main plot is based on the Bible lmao.
Far Cry 4 was my first far cry, and I LOVED it. It wasnt until years later I realized a lot of people really don't like the game. And no matter how much I loved the campaign, the co-op, the stealth, the characters in the game, I 100 percent fully understand all the criticism and hate for it. Ubisoft just love to ruin everything thats great by putting out the same thing over and over.
Exactly, their games are all the same, but each of their games is _someone's_ first.
Doesn't mean it isn't awful that they just create the same experience over and over again, it's just that there'll always be a new person whose not sick of it yet, and who is easier to please.
Far Cry 2 was mine. I've still never played Far Cry 1. But I just can't stand Ubisoft anymore. Everyone's gay, Trans, or a woman. Gay vikings. Female warriors and female vikings and Spartans. Its all a historical joke and never happened and isn't historically accurate. All they care about is "muh diversity and inclusion" despite the fact that most gamers hate that crap. The Spartans and vikings would have laughed at the idea and then sworded them in the gut.
Trans revolutionaries like in Far Cry 6? Lmfao yeah right. That's a first world, post modern luxury and fiction that would disappear the second a country became war torn.
Not to mention all their games have become cookie cutter and stale. I wish they just made games like they used to without all the sjw garbage that no one wants and tried innovating more rather than make the same damn game over and over with a different skin and more woke revisionism.
@Basically I'm Schlorping There's nothing wrong with 4, just as there's nothing really wrong with any of Ubisoft's games. They impart a feeling of ennui that is separate from the games themselves, a remarkable feat when you really think about it and something that other AAA video game companies are also starting to do unfortunately...
Ubisoft's games truly feel like they're cranked out in a factory, sure they're decent, but they're soulless, uniform and mass produced/assembled. You can only experience the same thing with a different coat of paint or a new jigger so many times.
But as my first post said, there's always someone new who hasn't seen/played Ubisoft games before. So they'll probably always persist in mediocrity with people saying "their games are great and people are too hard on them!" only for those same people in 10 years becoming the ones who say their games are soulless and all the same. :P
Same here, but imo even if fc5 was a reskin it somehow made things worse from fc4. Forgettable characters (except the main antagonist), silly and annoying missions and worst of all, a non existent progress curve, since your character is op from the very beginning. I ended up giving up on it
the real crime here is bro still buying Ubisoft's games
Good video but I feel like you're failing to mention how they do franchises like driver and Rayman so incredibly dirty because they just dont know how to exploit people through them
It's not just the repetitiveness, it's the attempt at pleasing everyone in the same game. They take a game like AC, and turn it into something completely different for the sake of profit. I loved Origins when it first came out, even though it contained the usual copy-paste Ubisoft formula. Odyssey and Vallhalla was like a knife up the ass, though. Ubisoft has managed to create the franchises I love the most, but I hate their games. Far Cry 6 felt like a high school drama.
How could you not like Odyssey? What is wrong with you?
@@vision821k4 it's kind of fun for maybe 20 hours despite the repetitive gameplay and poor writing/voice acting, then you realise you're about 1 15th through the game.
@@vision821k4 i mean story was better than origins but it was grindy as hell. Plus i got bored by the 20th hour and story was boderlining on boring and generic imo.
@@vision821k4 Grindy as shit.
@@vision821k4 What is wrong with you? Odessey had a terrible story, cringy voice acting, grindy as hell it was discount Witcher 3 branded as Assassin's creed.
The video was good overall but I was disappointed that there was no acknowledgement of the abusive environment that Ubisoft has fostered over the years. It ties in with why the games are of such a repetitive quality and why game developers are treated like factory workers, labour violations and assaults at work included!
Just go watch Stephanie Sterling. Every single video they make is the same video about that exact subject.
@@EGIMSL so, he's the ubisoft of content creators?
@@JumalaPlays bruh moment (you lmao)
@@JumalaPlays no she's exposing abuse in the industry not making videogames for the market. You were probably only joking but like... girl come on here
@@darowchdawg of course i was joking, the guy plainly said that every video ever made by the person is the exact same?
If I could give this video a medal for just how well-made and scripted it is, I would. One of the best game company commentaries I've ever seen. Absolutely superb job.
I just do not like Ubisofts open world design. It’s not engaging and it’s been the same thing since Far Cry 2. They’ve turned Ghost Recon into Far Cry too. They turned AC into Far Cry with parkour. Division, Watchdogs…they all feel so similar
I remember with Rainbow Six Extraction I saw the reveal and was like “ok this could be good” but then I saw what the gameplay looked like and I was like “no way am I paying $60 for the same exact game but against AI cause that’s what it is. Siege with alien zombie AI.
they failed once they put the rainbow six title infant of the words extinction and made a game about aliens. Tom Clancy is turning in his grave
@@ballerbyboob7714 exactly plus is was just a copy and paste of the outbreak mode. Like why would I pay $60 for that?!
@@ragingoaktree outbreak mode had more story and was at least applicable as content. Ubisoft was greedy and thought they could cash in on outbreaks 5 minutes of fame
The game doesn't even cost 60$, bro. What are you talking about? Furthermore, it's on Game Pass so you could basically play it for almost free. Heck, you could play for free to try it for yourself since it has a Trial version, or for 2 whole weeks if a friend invites you. I hate how much this game's been shitted on by people who didn't even give it a fair try, or with blatantly false arguments.
@@technodoomed1 I'm not gonna pay for some xbox shit subscription
8:50 that was the most powerful metaphor for the far cry series ever lol
I still think 2008's Far Cry 2 was the absolute pinnacle of the entire franchise. There were so many features, mechanics, and AI behaviors that were either downgraded or just completely missing even in Far Cry 3.
@@christopherregan1654 I think if they did far cry 2 in a new game again but reworked the poor mechanics while removing the unfun ones it would be a really cool game
hell, maybe even remake far cry 2. That would actually be interesting.
I am a hardcore siege player, been playing for 6 years (out of 9). I've probably have more time playing Ubisoft games than any other game company combined and a majority of that time was Siege, AC and FC.
I can't really defend Siege at this point because it's servers are dog shit this season, there's still so many things wrong with the game that's been problems for years. I just really enjoy playing it and I've probably spent over 1k on this game alone ($400 for elite skins) so it's harder for me to justify quitting entirely. I still have friends that play too and it's just a love hate relationship.
It's just a difficult time for Ubisoft and the moment they get their head out their ass and start working like a game company and not a factory than they'll get the respect of their fans again.
Even movies and TV shows still take over a year to film, edit and produce a decent quality movie. Video games are just seen as products to Ubisoft, not as an artform. Same could be said for Activision or EA.
It's just a tough time being a Ubisoft fan right now.
The irony of Vaas' most iconic line defining the company his game came from is just poetic
26:07 The answer is shareholders. Ubisoft is a publicly traded company, as is EA and other utterly dissapointing Goliaths of the industry. When a game studio's shares become publicly traded their managerial focus strays very far from being quality and innovation focused, such is the nature of the stock market's everlasting endorsement of near-sighted upward economic growth
It makes sense and it is pretty logical. But apart from a lot of mistakes, Nintendo for example still is pretty much the same all these decades. The need for endorsement and the subsequent pace they need to follow it, doesn't need to go this way. Quality control is a matter of logistics.
This is such a wrong argument and got used extremely often. Shareholders want good stock prices and please check especially Ubisofts stock price. Shareholders want sustainable and we'll doing games. Games that get sold and games that will also be played, so that the player come back I'm a few years to buy new games. Unlike the new battlefield for example. You can also check the Activision price. Activision is in terms of numbers a very good company but the pricewas relatively low, due to a bad reputation in the industry for being greedy with Microtransactions, etc and bad games, which still got played.
@@leongerdes7860 >Shareholders want sustainable and we'll doing games
Absolutely fucking wrong.
shareholders want yearly releases of the same content with loot boxes, copy and paste, copy and paste. the moment the investment to a game is anything more then 2 years development gl with getting that trough in them modern triple aaa market.
they want big line go up fast, you know why? because why invest in a line that moves slowly when i can get the same return many times faster?
If i can invest in a company that has makes a quick growth i can make profit in a reasonable amount of time.
so why take the risk of "sustainable" here when i can pump out shit games and just pump and dump the studio?
Literally the stock market changes on a dime Elon musk will make a tweet about somethn minor and suddenly tesla loses stocks like crazy.
what does it matter to me that its "sustainable" when i am just losing to cash out my stock anyways once it grows? why wait 5 years when i can do it in 1 year.
the stock market is a fucking heroin addict mentality market is what it is.
and the only people that are actually "sustainability" oriented are people like bill gates that actively run their company.
people that are just mindlessly selling and buying stock have 0 investment in the company's future just their profit NOW.
why do you think games try to fill you with microtransactions and quick short term creation plans from year to year? Because any time there is even any hint on not cashing out instantly the shareholders panic, they want the profit and they want it now.
@@leongerdes7860 No, it is not. Corporatization of the video gaming industry and particular bigger developers/publishers is the biggest driving force for the identical garbage that is churned out every 1-2 years. The pattern is the same, release the same hashed games by set release date (consistently incompete/unpolished and buggy) to maximize sales and hit quarterly goals by X date.
That's cringe. Focusing on money is literally cringe.
The production values are through the roof. You got a great script, and good presence. Where did you learn to make content like this, or are you paying a team?
haha thank you! just me
@@JackSather I Greatly Appreciate Your Efforts Jack. Being Just A Single Person Making Videos Of This Caliber Is Just Nuts!
Hats Off Sir!
@@JackSather One man army. Jesus
Seeing the saturation of divisive content for audience engagement like this starting covid, let's say an "amalgamation" ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
11:15 aged so well. The latest innovation from Ubisoft is day-1 soft locking missions, pay to not get late access.
Games were better when Dev teams weren’t thousands of people
I resonated so heavily with your rant on Assassin's Creed.
My dream AC game would be one with polished Unity mechanics, combat similar to Ghost of Tsushima, less HUD (especially no big health bars on enemies and levels, damage counters etc), a proper story that follows the Desmond storyline and the Isu people, and maybe a setting like ancient Persia (bc the real order of assassins originated there before branching off to Syria), and minimal supernatural shit
I've lost faith that Ubisoft will ever go back to that direction. That does sound like a great AC game though.
My thoughts exactly. I hate the current AC games that have swayed so far away from the original Ezio trilogy and mechanics.
@@johngalactus4014 fucking exactly. Ubisoft have proven that they’re capable of making good AC games, they did it for the first 4, so why the hell did they stop??
You want an AC setting in ancient Persia?
That's literally Prince of Persia, where Ubisoft first started experimenting with a spinoff title that later became AC, and they trashed Prince of Persia all together because they couldn't decide on a game's direction.
Ubisoft right now, is a cookie cutter company.
You can't expect good games from them anymore, as long as they keep up their yearly "triple A" releases that are a copy-paste of a game they made 10 years ago, but with a different setting and story.
@@WeskerUmbrella4 A lot of people bitched on Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands back when it released in 2010, but I enjoyed my time with it. Ubisoft in the late 2000s - 2012ish still had variety in their games.
Far Cry 2 is rough, but at the time when it released in 2008 it was a huge step up from the original Far Cry. There's no way Ubisoft would put that much effort and innovation into their games anymore.
I think the ONLY reason Ubisoft took a break after Assassin's Creed Syndicate was because of the horrible reviews Unity received and the poor sales Syndicate got as a result. Origins I think is the ONLY modern era Assassin's Creed game that I felt that I enjoyed playing from start to finish. But Ubisoft has already gone off the deep end, starting with Odyssey and now with Valhalla. Present day storyline sucks and is a waste of time, it died when Desmond was killed off anyway. On the historical side it's not so much as being an Assassin as much as you are a mercenary or a crazed Viking who just slaughters a lot of innocent people, even though Ubisoft still tries to throw the 'de-sync warning' towards you when you kill unarmed civilians.
Prince of Persia didn't do well enough in the sales department. That's why the series is completely dead. Rayman, can anyone here remember Rayman anymore? Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, that's another franchise Ubisoft dropped by the wayside.
Ubisoft is fully focused on monetizing, to the point where they failed to mention Rayman at all during his anniversary because they can't come up with a way to monetize it.
Watch Dogs, Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, they're all the fucking same now. Even For Honor felt scummy after I played it for a while, which is a multiplayer game. Ubisoft is hot garbage.
Really enjoyed this. Great job man!
Thanks dude!!! 🙏🏻
@@JackSather dude your videos are so relatable and they are just straight fax. You’re also so funny. Keep it up.
@@EllieFarrin thank ya!
#boycottubisoft
Now go and make more clickbait titled videos.
Is it bad to say i kind of got goosebumps at the requiescat in pace at the end? I remember playing assassins creed 1 and 2 and thinking "this is what a video game should be." I stopped with them at far cry 4 and assassins creed 3 and I'm glad i got out before the microtransactions. It really is a shame whats happened to them
Ubisoft is to video games what Disney+ is to streaming. They have a lot of great franchises but can't seem to reach their full potential.
Now this is how you do a perfect rant. Concise and understandable. Good job man
There’s one thing in Valhalla that summarises how much effort went into it: your outfit is attached to you at all times and there is no physics made for it when you’re running. It even clips through your fucking legs when you free run
Man I hate ubisoft too but you don't have to lie just because you have a shit pc. Makes us all look bad, so smarten up kiddo.
@@jarredlucas4000 Consoles better.. Cry about it..
@@tacotuesday2489 that wasn’t his point at all but ok
@@jarredlucas4000 bruh what are you talking about🤣 does PC magically have outfit animations for running and prevents clipping? Because your PC must be magical then
@@alejandrovallencci I noticed the lack of effort starting with Odyssey.
Great video. My first Ubisoft title was back in the 1990's, a sci fi strategy game, which I liked and finally got it on GOG again after many years but I never bought another Ubisoft game again....until Assassins Creed Origins got my attention with its RPG elements. Then I got AC Odyssey, then AC Valhalla. I have to say, if you never played AC before, which was the case for me, AC with RPG elements was great. But yeah, if you played AC from the start or before the RPG factor, then I can understand why it is not AC for you then.
Honestly, as long people don't vote with their wallets, Ubisoft will keep producing these factory made games and in-game purchases.
Personally, I think my last Ubisoft game that I played was Far Cry 4, which is crazy when I think about it how fast time flies away.
My point is, it's been over 10 years and we're still getting same factory produced games from Ubisoft. And the only thing that evolves are the monetization schemes.
I miss the days when passion was a huge part of game development. I even went to college for Game Art & Design. But man, the way these big companies operate now, I'll pass on working for them.
join the little studios who pay adequately if not more...
@@yt-shmost smaller studios don't have the budget to pay more, unless they're being backed by a large company or VC, which typically means the first successful game will destroy the entire ethos that made said game work now that you're making money.
old games were made by nerds from all walks of life who just wanted to make something cool. Modern games are designed by committee using "theory" and spreadsheets and statistics to find out how to appeal to and squeeze the most money out of people, and as such they are soulless...
I can remember when I was a kid and teenager seeing a Ubisoft or EA logo at the start of the game sent chills down my spine, like; this is gonna be freakin awesome!... Now I recoil in disgust
Your writing and delivery of points is so immaculate, it's like I know what you're going to say next. Bravo.
Like virtually every product on Earth right now, it went from being passionate about the product and the customer, to being passionate about the money and the money.
I think we can all agree that game companies’ greed and laziness is getting old. Let’s hope teams like FromSoftware will inspire and lead others to innovate and be passionate about their works.
Their games are literally all the same. lol
Let's hope teams like FromSoft don't go down the same road.
@@boboscus Definitely.But people like them because they put an incredible amount of work into the story and lore.The gameplay hasn’t changed much because there’s really nothing more they can do to improve it other than adding some small mechanics.
lol great comparison. FS is doing the exact same thing as Ubisoft minus the microtransactions. Just give them some more time.
But.. they do the same thing every time.
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edit: criminally underrated, it's making me sick
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@@JackSather you're gonna keep blowing up, people will respect the high quality polished content and keep coming back. just keep it up man !! nothing but support from over here
@@ssscout oh shit I'm getting chills, sc6ut is here paying respects?
I'm such a fan of both of you!
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His hair is perfect... like that Werewolves of London song 😳
Rainbow Six Vegas 1/2 and GRAW 1/2 were absolutely iconic to my childhood. I've been left trying to scratch that itch ever since
My first far cry game was 5, I absolutely loved it, I then played 4, really enjoyed it, and then played 3, and immediately thought, "So, whats different?"
I'm sorry to say this, but the only way to make a statement is to not buy their games. As long as you buy their soulless products your opinion and criticism doesn't matter. Be more critical before buying the game.
I'm buying it, seeing Ancient Egypt and Greece was absolutely amazing.
@@WrathofFenrir99 Exactly, people do it backwards. First just look at the gameplay to decide whether you like it or not, then decide to buy the game. People who pre-order before seeing any gameplay basically ask to be let down.
It's incredible that I had to play a game like Elden Ring to remember what playing a FUN game felt like. This might sound snobbish, but I'm through being patient with AAA studios who put out shit game after shit game. Just think about how many AAA titles have ABSOLUTELY BOMBED in the past 5 years or so. It's fucking ridiculous.
@@micshazam842 I don't even know how to respond to that.
People that say AAA aren't as good as it used to be are ones that say you can't find good music anymore, you simply don't know where to look.
For example: Doom Eternal??? RE2 Remake???
@@evoke2976 Those two games out of all the AAA flops in the past five years proves nothing.
Lol ight I'm ngl. Yall act like every generation of games weren't absolutely littered with crappy AAA titles. Yes some games these past five years have been booty. But what about Modern Warfare 2019? DMC5? Doom Eternal? RE 2 and 3 remake? Nier Automata. God of war 2018. Sekiro. Any level of game development is full of crap titles lol. It's easier to mess up and make a bad game than to make a good game, and people need to understand that. Nowhere am I defending Ubisoft, but I just find it so lame to say an entire level of game development is bad because of some bad apples.
@@m0dp1g21 I think you missed the point lol. And honeslty it's unfair to compare 5 years to two games lol. You can look into those 5 years and find good games, yet many people only want to look at the flops.
You're my new favourite CZcamsr. Just going back through your vids. This take on Ubisoft is so spot on! Love it. Ok, gotta keep watching now...
EDIT: Your paraphrased "Definition of Insanity" montage from Vaas/Ubisoft is actual genius. Standing O.
bro you are spot on , Ubisoft literally took Vaas insanity dialogue to their core
Your content is always so engaging and it feels really authentic and funny. I've had a lot of the same pain points with ubisoft which is why I don't even take their releases seriously anymore for the same reasons mentioned. Hopefully they get it together.
Thank youu!!
Truly inspired and well thought out unlike modern ubisoft games
Hahah thanks
Far cry 4 is a great game imo. Even though it's the same as far cry 3, it has a great world, story, villain and side missions like shangri la. The world really felt immersive with the culture of kyrat and the way it impacted the story.
Wrong
It was aight. I don’t think it was bad, but as someone that did put a lot of time into 3 I didn’t enjoy it nearly as much as 3. But if they would have changed things after 4 I don’t think many would have complained.
what music is playing at 04:15 ??
There should always be a list of the music used
This video was very well done. From the writing, to the editing, and the critique of Ubisoft. As a former Ubisoft fan and gamer, I approve of this message
I am glad that you had the same exact turn off point in assassin's creed as I did. I thought maybe it was me getting older, but really, it was Ubisoft getting worse
it was also the fans getting worse and dont know what they want especially in the ac community.
@@godzillazfriction it's the new AC RPG fans. And then they can't take criticism. They're so hypocritical and so disgusting. First of all, there's hundreds if not thousands of other RPG games so why do they demand the AC series to continue being an RPG? The root core of this franchise was all about stealth and assassins in the first place. Why can't they be the one to respect us? I don't get that kind of logic...
@@kiyoma rpg players are more likely to pour money into their pockets. look at World of Warcraft. loads of whales in that game.
@@kiyoma Im a huge fan of AC and RPG games. At first, I didn't mind that AC was going in an RPG direction. It was like the best of both worlds for me. But then when I got to Valhalla, a thought occurred. I'm playing another long RPG game alongside this one. I liked playing AC cause it gave me a break from long RPG's. I enjoyed AC because it was another genre I could play alongside them, or at least it USED to be. I want to love AC again, but the games are just EXHAUSTING to play now. They are fun, but its too much effort to play through them to the end.
Players fatigue and redundancy of the AC franchise ain't helping, I recommend playing one of the AC RPG games. Played Odyssey and Origin, seeing Odyssey as a shell of its former, but an improvement for it's open world arpg aspect, but doesn bear the AC identity.
Why would a company innovate when they make money each time they release the same formulaic game over and over. CEO's and shareholders don't care about any of that. It's what makes most money. No wonder Ubisoft's has like 3 games reskinned over a dozen times. People will continue to buy it.
I could not agree more on your points on odyssey. I love the narrative and the world personally it doesn’t feel empty to me, but I played 50+ hours with cheatengine enabled the whole time to make more souls like combat. Deal a lot of dmg but take a lot, but it still felt poopy. I am a huge nerd for ancient stuff and the architecture and environments felt great, THAT team did their research (and it shows). Some of the armors and linothorax designs are also accurate. This was at the end of the day, NOT an assassin creed game. My biggest complaint is the combat. The fact that in ancient Mediterranean that I cannot equip a FUKCING SHIELD pisses me off so much. During archaic and classical period shields were designed for group warfare, so Alexios using a giant hoplon as a lone soldier would not make the most sense, it should still be an option. During mycanean period however, people did have shields that were usable in duels or as lone soldiers. This game should have removed all the cringe hunter and misthios bull sht and called the game odyssey (no AC) and made the best existing action game taking place in this era. My disdain for Ubisoft is too much.