8 Great Ubisoft Games That Prove That They Aren't All That Bad

There's been quite a bit of Ubisoft hate going around lately. They aren't that bad, as a matter of fact they've produced a veritable plethora of great games. Today [the escapist] goes back and focus on those games that were fun to play, and helped change the face of gaming.

[Paytaa]

Ubisoft of yesteryear > Modern Ubisoft. I'll never forget the first time I played the original Splinter Cell on Xbox. Miss those days so much.

[Nathan170]

The memories...

[starchild]

Nah, I've enjoyed a lot of their recent games:

Splinter Cell Blacklist
Rayman Legends
Far Cry 3
AC4 Black Flag
Child of Light
Far Cry 4
AC: Unity

All of those were awesome games for me.

[Roccetarius]

So that's why we're getting these releases. People are continuing to support lazy development, and the proof is right here on N4G.

The thing is, it's not so surprising to see certain individuals supporting it here.

[starchild]

So it's lazy development to make games that are good and enjoyable? And I'm supporting lazy development by buying and playing games that I enjoy? Good god, you people are ridiculous. I'm sorry if it hurts you so bad that those games generally got good scores and that most people like them. But keep on hating, it's all some of you seem to be capable of.

[LoveSpuds]

I agree completely Starchild, for me, Ubisoft have not made a single bad game on my PS4. Some games were better than others but they have all been enjoyable to varying degrees.

I loved Rayman most of all and missed a platinum by 2 trophies as I didnt have friends scores to beat.

Child of Light and Valiant Hearts were brilliant and Black Flag is a contender for my favourite AC game, those sea shanties were so cool.

Watchdogs is the only game that I felt failed to live up to what I was hoping for (based on the hype) but I still got a great 30-40 hour experience from the game, I really liked the mechanics, shooting and open world and was only really disappointed by the story. I thought it looked and ran well enough too, some of the animations were cool as heck.

Sadly its a part of modern gaming that people have grown up to be self entitled and are all suddenly genius level games designers/engineers/programmer s. If they arent moaning about something they arent happy.

Well I am not a programmer or developer, I am a gamer who is grateful to anyone responible for delivering cool and fun games for me to enjoy, if happen to find a game I didnt like well then I just move on but generally I find enjoyment out of almost every game I buy.

I think its an age thing, there are gamers who grew up playing shitty commodore 64 or NES games that were a real challenge to enjoy but we still battled on, determined to get something out of the experience :)

[FrostyZipper]

Ubisoft have made some pretty great games yes but they've also done some outlandishly dickish things that have put them quite firmly on the shit list of many PC gamers.

[Roccetarius]

Not only PC gamers, but also console gamers. For every bit they announces these days, it just helps with not supporting their games. It would be ideal if the workers relocated to somewhere else, without Ubisoft pushing them with annual releases.

[SnakeCQC]

When ubisoft stop selling broken games and refusing to fix them the hate is very much justified.

[SteamPowered]

One page per game? No thanks Escapist Magazine. Try harder next time.

[matrixman92]

Seriously put AC4 over 2? lol

[gangsta_red]

I don't think Ubi is a bad company and they have pretty much worked their way up from getting out from under EA's looming buyout shadow.

AC:Unity is just a blemish on an otherwise great catalog of multiple games they have released. Every company who releases multiple games for a long time will have this.

[SteamPowered]

Lets not forget Watchdogs now. That was huge hype on a game that didnt deliver. It didnt even deliver on Wii U until 6 months later.
Ubi did not have a smooth 2014.

[rainslacker]

Their games that aren't their main focus for advertising are usually pretty solid. The ones where they rely on them to make them billions of dollars, have to have it out by a certain time, and have the most hype, tend to come out really broken and don't innovate that much.

It's gotten to the point where I don't even pay attention to the stuff they announce at the big shows anymore, because it's always the same on release.

[NegativeCreep427]

I might get pounded to the ground for saying this, but honestly I think Beyond Good and Evil is a tad bit overrated. I recently purchased it off of the PlayStation Store about a month ago when it was on sale and despite the fact that it definitely wasn't a bad game I just cannot understand how the hell it got so many Game of the Year nominations and a big cult following.

I mean don't get me wrong the story and the characters weren't necessarily bad, its just the fact it just wasn't exceptional in my opinion. The game was also a little on the short side too. I was definitely feeling some disappointment after completing Beyond Good And Evil.

[N4GDgAPc]

Because you are playing a game that was made in 2003. If you don't have the nostalgic feel for the game most of the time someone isn't going to have the same reaction as someone that bought it when it came out.

[LoveSpuds]

Yup, I think most games are relevant for their time. Even my most beloved games age and would be laughed at by my son now. I can just imagine if I forced him to play the original Sensible Soccer (legendry amiga game here in the uk) instead of Fifa or even something like the original Zelda.

I think there are very few games that could be considered as timeless, maybe Super Mario World?