Another year is here, which means another Assassin’s Creed game (we skipped a new entry for 2016, but we got The Ezio Collection and a movie instead).
While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
100% agree
All these ubisoft titles, Farcry, AC, Ghost recon, boast huge maps, but with the same, 3 missions or the same base to clear 100s of times. Hour 1 of any of those titles is the same as hour 100, there big for the sake of being big, with the illusion of player freedom, where we really want depth and player expression.
Give me a solid 15-20 hour engaging single player driven IP any day. Life's too short you dig.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.
Filler, it's like a 80 episodes show where only the first and last episodes actually matter
It's been a problem with pretty much every modern AAA game all through last gen and this gen. God forbid you point it out tho because all these big games are masterpieces and people lose their minds if you criticize them. Death Stranding is a fetch quest fest, but people will die defending it cause it's a "masterpiece".
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This weekend from August 10-14, players can play for free Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag and Valhalla on Xbox, PlayStation and PC (availability dependent on platform).
No
no it should not.
Nope
The multiplayer was really fun in AC3. Could've been something greater, but instead they made more of the same just to sell map packs and say "look at how we're supporting this game, it's what you guys wanted right?". Probably best they leave that behind
No, they milked the same idea to death and, personally, i felt that the «kill-target-while-evadin g-pursuers» mode was fun for 2-4 matches at most. It's the same thing over and over and over again, for 4 games.
Coop in Unity was only interesting if you were playing with players of the same skill level and with good communication (this combo is ultra rare, just like FIFAs "less than 1%").
If you were playing with random people, it was either «wait, what, they already completed the objective?! O__O» or «Come on, stop trying to kill everyone in sight in the middle of the street».
Personally, i had more fun beating those missions solo.