Ubisoft Isn't Bad... It's Infuriating

The last Marvel movie I've seen is Guardians, the one I've heard closest to the top 40 is Bring Me The Horizon. I've only seen Game of Thrones with Shawn Bean. All I know about book talk is that it's full of incest. and being the later years guy, I don't keep up with the latest in AAA games or online services. I don't currently play Call of Duty. I don't play League of Legends. I don't play fortnite, there's no way to hide it. that cliche and yet I played Tom Clancy's defiant ex. I played Crew Motorfest. I finished Far Cry 6 and have dozens of other games from this godforsaken company installed and I'm not the only one.

I swear. The only game my friend played for a year was Assassin's Creed Odyssey. The first game another friend bought for his PS5 was Assassin's Creed Valhalla. Even the skill level linked me to Division 2, the way we talk about Ubisoft and how much we talk about Ubisoft versus how much we get involved. Ubisoft doesn't make sense because it's not just the critics, it's not just the professionals and it's not just the standards, it's everyone, including me. There's something about this company that stands proudly alongside the collection of corporations I ignore that keep luring me back and I think I finally know why for a generation of gamers there is no world without Assassin's Creed.

Ironically, the success and influence of the franchise has made the impact of the original largely forgotten, but make no mistake, the original Assassin's Creed was a defining moment for the gaming industry in the semen consoles that began with the Xbox 360. They had been on the market for 2 years and while a large number of classics were already released like every generation, the first batch of titles were mostly enhanced Xbox games and even the ones that weren't were an extension. Of those, almost everything new in Halo 3, from online co-op to cinema file sharing and even Forge mode, was lifted from the cutting room floor of Halo 2.

It's a similar story from Modern Warfare , Bioshock and Mass Effect, but not Assassin's Creed, which started life. As a Prince of Persia spin-off for PS2 evolved into something that sounded like nothing else that could only be achieved on this next generation of hardware, it was completely Uncharted Territory for gaming. big budget and its protagonists. historical themes premise and design Assassin's Creed overwhelmed E3 because it wasn't just another game, it was a new game, there was no previous reference for its social stealth mechanics, historical open world, fluid wall climbing and immersive parkour course, it was in one word, bold, very bold. that no matter what kind of gamer you were, you may not have even noticed Assassin's Creed and most likely became one of its 8 million customers, a number that isn't much in a post-GTA 5 world, but that gave GTA 4 an entirely new IP in One of the busiest and most acclaimed years in gaming history, convincingly outselling everything Ubisoft had ever made, it was nothing short of surprising how many big-budget games in the last year they have not been first-person shooters.

You can count them on one hand when editors may deem they need it. Selling more than a million copies of an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 game for a profit, risk is generally not part of the equation. Shooters are the safe bet nowadays and no publisher knows this better than Ubisoft, which makes it even more surprising. who took a risk with Assassin's Creed, one of the most innovative imaginative games to be released in years. The gaming landscape mentioned in old reviews like this is eerily similar to our own, but Assassin's Creed is not what it once was a mainstay of the industry. safest milk out there, but Valhalla became the first Ubisoft game in the company's history to make a billion dollars.

Yes, we all know the main reason, but there is still a significant part. Of the people who are highly critical of Ubisoft, however, they are seduced, so why trace this praise back to the debut? Because the lesson Ubisoft learned from Assassin's Creed was not its innovative technology or its unique mechanics, but that that word, the mega publisher we know today, was not built on license exclusivity or genre dominance, but a bet of massive 5-year development that paid off is different than the backbone of EA or Activision, it cannot be repeated that you cannot boldly push innovation technology and unique mechanics every time, let alone in something so attractive like Assassin's Creed, however, you can repeat what sold Assassin's Creed to millions of people before they had a chance to play it, making even non-gamers wow.

I want to play that the premise, even just the game's setting, being outside of any mention of its use in the actual game was something that was almost always mentioned in mainstream media coverage, the same media whose final ratings were not as unified as one might assume for a game that took its publisher to new heights from reading old reviews. It is evident that the scores based on whether the game's innovation captivated a critic for its 12-hour duration or simply Ubisoft Montreal's audacity inspired an industry, also caused many problems for both players and developers, forced to make sacrifices. which ended up causing more problems for their players, but for Ubisoft HQ this did not change anything, they recognized Assassin's Creed, the game was sold by Assassin's Creed, the premise, so for Assassin's Creed 2 they sold a premise that could generate even more excitement and They haven't looked back since they turned an open-world shooter into a survival game from the year 10,000 BC.

C. that builds a multi-million dollar PvP arena with swords and shields fighting pubg dominance inspired by Titanfall and turns conventional action and adventure games into a virtual museum of ancient Greece where you assassinate, command, settle, choose, fishing, feeding, fighting. Riding, rapping, and attacking in a Viking game, these are all crazy premises that your competitors would never consider, and yet you'll put them at the forefront of your high-end marketing while everyone else struggles to innovate or even remotely iterate their games. Ubisoft will come and take their established franchises in directions that will make anyone, even non-gamers, gasp.

I want to play that until they do and realize that Ubisoft is not at all different from their competitors selling you the same thing as you. played before only with more bugs, more bloat, more grinding, and more microtransactions. I appreciate Far Cry 6's iterations, sliding mechanics, its unique weapons, expanded customization, brutal animations, new vehicles and voiced protagonist, but none of those things can address the broken Des scripts, ugly menus, clunky progression, cynical payments. or the sheer amount of fundamentals, from AI to optimization to mission design, that haven't improved since a game I played when I was 14, a game widely criticized for being repetitive only to have its 13-year-old successor. loot the same metal, plastic and gas canisters in every Bas and this is exactly what I mean.

Far Cry 6 is not bad, it is

infuriating

because this game is attractive. Yara is the best map in this franchise, beautiful enough to stop me in my tracks yet. Varied enough to compile all of Far Cry's settings almost into a single cohesive world, from the breadth of its soundtrack to the gorgeously directed cutscenes and the majesty of its art style, even the details down to just hearing Danny Humus songs in Radio. I've played soulless games. I have played soulless games from Ubisoft, this is not all, but it is also not an overall improvement on the commercial and critical peak of the franchise nor its predecessor, this backdrop and the incredible premise of being a gorilla fighter who helps build a revolutionary army against a tyrannical.

The dictatorship is as compelling as the franchise icons, but the additions that convey those things are filth. Pathways, weapon holsters, Hub stores, baby outposts, and Law Breakers' minigun compared to jammed weapons, immersive HUD faction friends, and, yes, malaria, there's a noticeable difference in how these games play. realizes its premise, one spends all the effort placing you inside it, the other sells it as a theme park, just like the games I've covered before, these things don't seem like designs that the developers dreamed of their entire careers to finally realize in a big budget game, but one that could fit an 18 month deadline and, like before, that's because Far Cry 6 was originally designed as a service game, it was originally designed with one of the pillars like multiplayer exploded and then we started to see the market.

It's a little shaky in the service's game and then the scope of Far Cry 6 was huge and then Far Cry 6 didn't have a creative director to add to it and they're like, "You know what, let's make a solid Far Cry." and that's why Far Cry 6 for people who play Far Cry 6 and it's their first Far Cry, I think they enjoy it, but people who have been playing the franchise for a long time say, oh, it's just another Far Cry talking with Santiago, one of the level designers of the game Far Cry 6 makes a lot more sense Alternate paths have been taken hundreds of times sheathing weapons to avoid suspicion would have been suitable for any game in this series Hub stores don't feel like building a home for revolutionaries and use The pre-made drip bed weapons don't seem revolutionary, but they get close enough to the premise to sell them and that's why Far Cry 6 is so

infuriating

that it has artistic development or publisher cynicism, it wants to evolve but it doesn't is allowed.

Its originality may appear on a postcard, but not the destination itself. Any boldness in a Ubisoft game today only exists to the extent that it needs to cover up what is Ubisoft. I can't imagine anyone asking this question endless notification horrible presentations horrible character creator copy paste side activities copy paste game mechanics loading screens vomiting exposition loading screens server connections server disconnections slashes slashes slashes filler filler filler numbing progression multi-coin Vehicles ugly menus Hub worlds unskippable messages and of course I love the POV camera in Riters Republic The mountain bikes in particular might be the best feeling of speed I've ever felt in a game and I'm a fan of the exhaustion after so many years of missing out on this genre after Tony Hawk and SSX were left behind.

I was excited. to play a seamless cooperative open world multidisciplinary extreme sports game with a group of friends, only it never happened, instead we are railways we write it through an opening that says it's not about me, it's about from you, only to be waterboarded with Instagrammers in a hub that shoves your face in with notifications and tutorials telling you how to drive after you've been driving for 10 minutes and with every notification or voice character it won't give you map control and this begs the question why people who otherwise give up on games that are equally unpleasant put up with it on UB soft games if they all have their trademark and I think there's simple response bias.

I'm drawn to first-person shooters in grounded but stylized worlds with vehicle customization, multiple playstyles, and satisfying weapons. Far Cry and has been since 2008, maybe even earlier, when I started. Far Cry is comfort food, even when I wish it would do various things differently, I can relax and fall into the routine of clearing outposts with that basic premise. serves as my hook, but I'm less interested in modern military settings, I'm not apathetic, they're just not my forte, as a result, Ghost Recon post Future Soldier doesn't really have any clues about my interest, in the meantime, create a host of custom missions from Arma, so he's put a little time into a Ghost Recon breakpoint because, despite the Ubisoft thing, one can live with it if the main game is your problem, which Ghost Recon is for a lot of people and it makes sense, why think about it if you are searching?

For a modern open world cooperative military game, what are your options? Tarov, oh my god, the speed hackers who had to hack every time someone buys a Ubisoft game, not that they think they won't have that, with their prejudices fulfilled. It may not be enough to ruin your overall enjoyment. I completed Far Cry 6. I played dozens of hours with the team. I Blitzed several Assassin's Creeds in a week, and of course I spent 500 hours on a live service that I'll never get back. That's why the lasting thrill I had when stepping away from all of these games was the relief of constant notifications anddepressing thoughts of lost potential.

Investing time in games that allow artists to use their creativity for more than just a showcase or just a game that is more interesting to talk about. You're more likely to get Halo Wars years later from me than a review of any major Ubisoft game in the last 10 years, but I'll pay $10 for one repeatedly because there's an awesome premise with a rock-solid Core that will give me a glimpse Something bigger. Their owners will never make it easy to use their budget, technology, and talent to do game mechanics in a bold way that really matters, except when they do it and then, and then what will follow that boldness.

The limits that push the technological Marvel that no one else would have dared to finance, much less launch the safest, most bland, most cliched capitalization of that success are EA Activision or Microsoft better than this, no, they are just not as infuriating, nor It's just that Ubisoft gives me hope. I haven't bought a game from them in their release year let alone in the release window since Rainbow Six Siege, but they sell hope and that's enough to sell. Sometimes I wish Ubisoft were worse, no one would think of them let alone a credit card if the company made Tony Hawks Pro Skater 5 D and D Dark Alliance Fast and Furious Crossroads Metal Gear survive or Gollum, but they don't, but who create a top-notch Sid Scroller, the best genre of last year, a Cod game that listens to its players. support for track Mania and a virtual reality spin-off, that's good.

Wow, this company is really on a roll right now. You know, I wish one of the richest companies in this industry would encourage original games. Daring games. Powerful games. Complete games without obligation. sounds good, but the writing is on the wall that it rewarded Ubisoft once, while a game committed to marketing originality, boldness, power and completion that has been rewarded far more than once, so while I don't think the games from Ubisoft are bad, I completely understand the feeling. People are just rightly expressing their frustration after being burned time and time again. The thing is, while Valhall was a massive success, many of Ubisoft's recent games haven't been, and I wonder if part of that is that people don't fall for this trick anymore.

No matter how cool or unique a premise is, the game will never be allowed to realize that you can do worse than Ubisoft, there are worse game franchises, workplaces and ideas, but so what? Because it's not that Ubisoft is bad, it's that for millions of people it could also be bad. Now normally I'd spend a lot of time on a Q&A after such a big absence, but I have two videos coming out this month and that one has a deadline. Legally I can't delay it, you'll see what happens. In the meantime, it's too early, what is Vancouver?

My bankruptcy speedrun tactic, since you are an influencer, can you influence EA to make another SSX game? Yes, FIFA 17 QA tester luk rvic will definitely listen to me and not just send another one angry. email for walking near his soccer field can you influence my life for the better? I hope my videos don't make it worse. What's a game in your Steam library that you don't remember getting? It's not magic either, it's still up to me to maintain focus through the habit of motivation or what comes after a deadline. However I would recommend anyone affected by ADHD to try medication, it won't be a miracle solution but as someone who suffered 10 years of worthlessness.

Medications and treatments thanks to our terribly stagnant medical system. This is the most important moment of my life by a margin that dwarfs the country in which I live. Do you fart without receiving orders? Could you please change the channel profile photo to this? I was actually very tempted, but I'll tell you, if you see this profile picture on my channel, it means that Alan Wake, years later, is on the horizon. Can you yell at my brother Jacob that that guy asked me to go to his wedding? The why are you reading this part. If you are doing the following video right, then