Really good looking game graphically, though.
And fun IMO. It seems like a lot of people who actually played it looked it.
I feel like lukewarm is the best Ubisoft has managed in about a decade now so seems like it should have been within expectations.
Did Child of Light come out within the last decade?
Yes, I believe all the UbiArt games did. I would defend all three of those and wish they didn’t slip into the wind
This was a beautiful game. I think it was also one of the only games I have ever accidentally 100% completed.
July 2024, just barely outside of 10yrs ago.
I’ve been enjoying Far Cry 3 even with the multiplayer servers shut down. Did they ever make another game that isn’t also Far Cry 3?
There’s Rayman legends
That newer Prince of Persia game was supposedly good
Which is so underrated, I’d put it as better than any of the recent 2D Mario games. Years later and Mario Wonder doesn’t even come close to the music levels in Rayman Legends.
I personally prefer origins but legends is still a great game
People give Anno 1800 too little credit, other than that I agree.
Anno sure is great, sadly it’s not on a platform I’m willing to play on.
Best anno was on Wii.
Phoenix rising was a pretty good ancient Greek BOTW experience. Best game they put out in 2020. Better thrash Valhalla or WD Legion
It was okay but it never motivated me enough to actually finish it.
Legion was such a disappointment… I still regularly go back and play WD1 just because it has a great vibe.
I thought it was fine but it could have been great had it understood why people actually liked BOTW. The idea that you can just highlight every object in a 1km radius around you completely kills exploration, you’re incentivized to just go from map marker to map marker instead of actually exploring the world.
The new Prince of Persia roguelike is pretty good, although I’ve hit a wall recently and am too stubborn to look up a walkthrough. Lots of fun otherwise, though.
And only because it’s not by them, but by the team behind dead cells.
Luke lived on a desert planet, of course he’s warm!
Icey, what you did there…
(Edit: speeeeeeling)
Wow, if I ignored everything that was posted outside of Lemmy, I would have thought this was a great game that everyone should be buying.
Good thing I knew this would flop. Its especially funny considering Outlaws’ marketing campaign was Ubisoft most expensive marketing campaign ever.
I had never heard of this game until about three days ago
I bought it on PS5 and I’m having fun playing it. Sure, it doesn’t do anything new, the gameplay is very familiar and the enemy AI is dumb as rocks, but you get to play in the Star Wars universe, the locations look great and the story so far seems decent enough (although I’m not that far into the game yet).
Not every meal needs to be a 3 Michelin star gourmet affair, sometimes having a Big Mac with fries is perfectly fine.
Not every meal meeds to be a 3 Michelin star gourmet affair, sometimes having a Big Mac with fries is perfectly fine.
I don’t think you really understand what you’re saying because this is an even bigger insult to Outlaws than anything I have ever said about the game.
Imagine a food served by a restaurant claiming to have 4 Michelin stars (Outlaws is a AAAA game -made up thing just like 4 Michelin stars- afterall) being compared to a Big Mac. That’s hilarious.
I think you missed the point.
This is a $70 game with a ‘season pass’ and the ultimate edition is $130. That’s hardly big mac price.
For me it was €79 (gotta love that VAT).
Still, considering the hours of entertainment I’ll get out of it, the price-per-hour feels reasonable to me compared to other forms of entertainment.
What about compared to other video games?
Edit: even putting hundreds into rocket league its still a better deal, so how does this game add up to a good deal?
If this game takes me 40 hours to complete at a price point of $70 that’s $1.75 an hour to be entertained. That’s not bad value at all IMO. And seeing how I’ll prob take longer doing side missions and such I see that going to under a dollar an hour. Not a ton you can do on a rainy day that will keep you entertained for less than that.
It seems to line up with a lot of other open world games for me. I’m not saying this is an amazing value, I just don’t see it as a bad value.
Yeah thats fair, although ubisoft tends to slash the price of their games very quickly, but thats not to say its still not worth it now for you.
What can I say, value is subjective, but at least to me it’s not what I would describe as Big Mac pricing.
Well said!
The sad part is that it’s a fun game. The company rep and horrible pricing structure set them up for failure. Release this on steam for $60 and I think it would do great. It doesn’t have all the Ubisoft BS like tons of micro transactions or a million map icons. It was a really good direction shift that they just wouldn’t let succeed.
Opposite experience for me. Outside of lemmy, it seems people actually like it. I was destroyed by downvotes for simply suggesting that it’s a nuanced topic to flame a game on its day one release.
In an alternate universe I just got a 10 kill streak with Ahsoka on the Siege of Mandalore map in Battlefront III. Star Wars Eclipse is coming out in a few months, and gameplay demos show that it looks every bit as good as the trailer.
Playing the SW 1313 remake too.
What gameplay demos??
I’d link them for you, but I’m too busy playing the new 501st spinoff of Republic Commando. It’s pretty badass; you customize a squad of troopers and follow them through training on Kamino, through the Clone Wars, and even Order 66 and the Bad Batch era. It’s not just action; there are meaningful story choices you have to make as you struggle with your loyalty to the Republic and General Skywalker, vs the growing realization that something is wrong with the clones. It’s really well-written and voice acted with a mature story.
Have you tried the new Rogue Squadron?
My favorite addition is the galaxy liberation mode where you support systems to gain their favor and spend that favor for localized support and ship research.
My Zyphor spec A-Wing has a surprise twin linked rail gun mounted underneath for CAS missions
This is the most depressing thread I’ve read in a while.
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Do be fair, I think that Jedi Fallen Order and Jedi Survivor are some of the best Star Wars games ever made, maybe a tier behind the icons like BF2, Kotor, and Tie Fighter, but not that far and in hindsight I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s up there with them.
Respawn are really great devs that know how to nail fluidly, difficulty, and just all the little details that make all their games a blast.
I really liked Fallen Order. I kind of forgot about Survivor. Need to make a note to watch for it to be on sale.
It’s also on EA Play / Gamepass Ultimate if you’re eyeing either of those or other stuff on them.
Nah, I already have Steam. I’m not installing another launcher.
Ubisoft doesn’t often make bad games but they never make great games either, they are always 4/10, 5/10, 6/10. The only thing that I can give a better score to is Child of Light. Took long enough for this shit to start losing money.
Child of Light was a successful attempt at making a good indie-like game. I liked it. It was different and creative. They had something great. I wonder what became of the announced sequel…
Plourde expressed that he was unsure if it was still in development but said that he was not involved and that it was unlikely, with most of the core team responsible for the original game having departed the company.
With a focus on games as a service, Plourde expressed doubt over the prequel, believing games such as Child of Light to be no longer something that Ubisoft would want to make.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_of_Light#SequelFuck Ubisoft.
Zombiu, AC: Black Flag. Both great games. Rare for Ubisoft though
AC: Black Flag could be great if was not an AC, just Black Flag and the game didn’t age quite well to me, tried to replay recently and is boring to me.
You know, you’re kind of right. I tried to replay it recently and found it boring and thought it was just me. I didn’t consider it possible.
Rayman Origins and Legends were great. But that was over a decade ago.
Damn, it’s down 45% over the last year as well. They seem to have released a few flops recently; and their notable IPs kinda just aren’t exciting anymore.
It’s all been downhill since AC Origins
Turns out you can only recycle the same garbage full of bugs so many times before people get bored of it
It doesn’t help that they have said a lot of just straight up anti-consumer stuff in the last year.
They shut off the Crew 2 and even planned on deleting the game from people’s libraries. They’ve added micro transactions to (I think) every single Ubisoft game in the last decade. They were pro NFTs and wanted it rolled out to games. Their Ubisoft launcher. Toxic and sexist environment.
Every few years, they make a better Assassins Creed or Far Cry that moves the open-world genre forward. But that’s the only positive thing I can say.
There hasn’t been a good assassins creed since black flag.
Really enjoyed Farcry 5 but Farcry 6 was ok gameplay wise but the story was really underwhelming especially with the amazing talent they got in Giancarlo Esposito.
The real problem with Ubisoft games is that they are all 95% reskins. If you’ve played one farcry game you’ve played most of every farcry game, same with assassins creed, etc.
Now those games often end up having relatively fun mechanics so when another farcry comes out I’ll still play it because it’s a fun game to me.
I do wonder how much they are just hitting a saturation point where the same couple games reskinned over and over are just underwhelming
Pivoting into NFTs didn’t help.
Great. EA should be next but sports games fans won’t let it happen.
Wait till Assassin’s Creed Shadows flops miserably. Ubisoft is a couple of € billions in debt.
I only hope they release Anno 117 and new HoM&M before they fail completely.
Shadows is them getting desperate. That game had been requested and expected since the ezio storyline when they came for him. Instead they released a side scroller and didn’t think twice about it. Now they’re struggling immensely and are trying to recover. I really want it to flop to hopefully drive a nail in the coffin.
I want a m&m mmo.
I don’t get why? It’s a great game
Doesn’t seem to be available on Steam and they’re already pushing a season pass.
Fucking finally die, ubishit. Release those toiling within your guts and let them make tasty roguelite twinsticks or metroidvanias on UE for 10$ a pop
I think that’s kind of a shame.
I don’t care for Ubisofts bland and lazy open world design formula, but SW:O appears to not do a lot of the usual open world BS that they’re known for.
I only get this from Skillup’s review and he had a host of problems with gameplay, but I also got the sense that this is a game that will be remembered fondly by a subset of the star wars fandom.
Hopefully the lesson that Ubi learns isn’t “see, we should stick with what works. Another generic open world Assassins Creed RPG-Lite”.
I hurts me how bad SW:O did for that very reason. There’s no XP, there’s no tower in each zone to unlock or whatever. It’s a really good game IMO with a few issues.
It’s just a shame that some of the biggest of those issues appear to be fundamental game mechanics.
I think you and I both know that’s exactly what they’re going to do.
Get fucked ubisoft
Well, I’m having a really good time with it. It’s nothing groundbreaking, but it is really tight and enjoyable. It’s a lot like an Uncharted in Space RPG. In both that regard, and it’s gameplay.
Ubisoft! What a joke!
Not releasing your new game on the largest game market in the world is a bold choice as well.
