I mean they could start by actually addressing the toxic work culture and dealing with that hateful cunt Yves Guillemot:
Here’s hoping they face many, many more.
I’d drink to that
I haven’t played AC shadows, but I guarantee its the exact same game with the same glitches and issues that have been around since the first game. I remember thinking how cool an open world AC Japan would be like… 15 years ago. Tsushima satisfied that craving so AC is too late now
It’s a bit sad, as Ubisoft made some of my favorite games growing up. I remember playing AC Black Flag and Far Cry 3 10+ years ago, and wanting to move to a tropical island after
I love how basically the whole gaming space was excited about “more ship/fleet focused Black Flag” and it morphed into some shitty live service trash.
I want Shadows so badly to be good, I’ve been looking forward to an AC in Japan or the Far East in general for so long.
So was I 15 years ago. It’s too late now. Tsushima already did better than AC will ever do
I completed a marathon of all AC games last year, from the very first title, all the way up to Valhalla.
The games serves as a good reflection of Ubisoft over the years. The issues in the series and Ubisoft’s approach are amplified when one plays the games back to back.
The first title from 2007, albeit with clunky movements, had a promising story which was only elevated by its sequels.
The titles post-Revelations experimented a lot but the series settled at Origins, which was the last playable game, all aspects considered.
Valhalla is the worst of the series. It offers nothing new in terms of gameplay or story. It is just more of the same. Mundane and boring. It kept painfully reminding me that I am playing a video game.
Yet, I firmly believe that Shadows will be a lot worse with its live service mechanics.
A sidebar on AC 2007
I would be remiss if I did not mention that nostalgia might be compensating for some of the game’s flaws. I still remember reading the full/multi page spreads about the game in the local computer magazines.
The last good game for me was AC 3. It has all been downhill since Black Flag.
oh boy, if the shares are low enough Vivendi will eventually be able to do a hostile takeover (and that isn’t a good thing either).
Well, Ubisoft dropped the ball hard. (or balls)
Well, they are clowns, you can’t knock them too hard for trying to juggle so much. Now if only they could learn people don’t want to watch clowns any more…
