OnlySP: Pre-orders are everywhere, there is seemingly no end to them in sight. Are they good for games, though?
Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.
BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.
PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???
And they never fixed it.
Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.
I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)
/grabs popcorn
My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?
Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.
It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.
11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.
The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.
What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.
It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.
No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.
Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.
Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."
It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.
Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.
Good for companies to make some extra money. Good for the players who want to the items. Honestly I don't think pre-orders take away from the game. The pre-order items aren't OP or worthwhile because time you get midway through the game you would've already found a stronger weapon.
Not only that but the bonus quest/missions really don't take away anything from overall game. Majority of the time the don't even add anything to the overall game. Basically like picking up a optional item in a mission which really won't change the outcome of the mission.
I was done with preorder perks when black ops 2 pulled that nuketown bs.
Especially those who buy the collectors edition...we should at least get every bit of DLC bundled with it...hell even a Season Pass if there is one
Most pre-orders DLC become available on the Playstation Store/Xbox Marketplace after a week for about a dollar
I don't see how pre-orders screw anyone, since you're the one that assigns value to the items. Take Soul Sacrifice, some people might care about the Japanese language pack, some people might like the costume pack and others might use the items, but in the grand scheme they're pretty worthless (though I like the JP language). Typically preorder items are weak (to prevent imbalance) and don't always have value for said person. Finally, do people forget these items typically get listed in the store over time?
A recently example was Anarchy Reigns, which had a special gamestop edition. While the DLC is awesome, you can easily buy the content off the store and get the game for under the original MSRP by buying it today. That's pretty much the case with all this DLC. Buy it then and get the content for free, or get the game and choose to get the DLC to still get it for less / hit $60.