With two juggernauts launching alongside PS5 and Xbox Series X / Series S, will Ubisoft own launch week next month?
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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Over two years later, Watch Dogs Legion has gotten a surprise update on the day of The Game Awards.
New ads? I kid I kid.
I do appreciate Ubisoft's keep making single player games, but hope they can learn from some of the best open world games in the industry and evolve, I don't really like their recent games, but I don't want them to go away either.
I hope they learn from wd legion don't build a fanbase then use that fanbase as guinea pigs to test out a new idea on a sequel.
Who am I kidding it's ubi the whole franchise has probably been put on ice because of this failed experiment
Definitely going for AC Valhalla on PS5.
Looking forward to the game and how the PS5 leverages its power.
AC Odyssey's loading drove me nuts.
Two shitty titles, no way are they dominating. They haven't made a good game since R6S.
3 games within 5 weeks from Ubisoft and I’m interested in all of them.
Watch Dogs Legions seems to be an interesting change to that serie. AC: Valhall serms to be as amazing as both Origins and Odyssey, if not even better.
And then we have Immortals Fenyx Rising which I already love without touching it.
Will be an amzing end to this year 👍
No. I won’t be getting anything from them until 3-6 months down the line when it’s being dropped to barely £20 ready for next years entry. Great or at least pretty decent games but a new one each year and £70 a pop these days, no chance. Spider-miles and Observer will do me.