VeganElduderino
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the only great Ubi games are the Rayman games
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Anyone else find most Ubisoft games to feel really bland, repetitive, and boring after a while?
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TheGodfather07
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There's fun to be had with ubisoft games but they need to cut the length down by half. Way too many collectible bullshit and crappy repetitive side quests. Oh and where the fuck is rayman and splinter cell? They give us watch dogs 3 but don't bother with 2 legendary ips they have. What a waste.
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Hudo
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Depends. There are some really "soulful" Ubi games:
The Prince of Persia 2008, The Rayman games, Beyond Good & Evil 1, Patrice Desiléts' Assassin's Creed games, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (only published by Ubi, developed by Arkane Lyon).
But all these games came out a long time ago.
The Prince of Persia 2008, The Rayman games, Beyond Good & Evil 1, Patrice Desiléts' Assassin's Creed games, Dark Messiah of Might & Magic (only published by Ubi, developed by Arkane Lyon).
But all these games came out a long time ago.
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digdug2
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Most of the Ubisoft open-world games feel like they are just copy/pastes of their other games. I'm talking VERY broad strokes here, but Far Cry, Assassin's Creed, Watch_Dogs, The Crew, Avatar, etc. all have very similar game mechanics and their maps are miles wide but inches deep.
If they can change it up and add some diversity to the gameplay, maybe I'll buy some Ubi games again. Until then, I won't be spending any money on them.
If they can change it up and add some diversity to the gameplay, maybe I'll buy some Ubi games again. Until then, I won't be spending any money on them.
ReBurn
Gold Member
It isn't just Ubisoft. I feel like almost every game feels bland, boring and repetitive after a while. Especially open world games and story-driven cinematic games. The story has to be really captivating or there needs to be some pretty nice progressive reward system to hold my interest through repetitive gameplay. If I feel like I'm going through the motions to get to the next cutscene I drop it.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Only for the first.
Negotiator101
Member
I struggled to start it, absolutely seen it all before trash.
New Prince of Persia is one of the best games they’ve ever made.
yes...they add grind/bloat to clock additional 'engagement hours' and justify all the cosmetic micro transactions they continually add to their stores. If assassins creed is only a 30-40hr game, they can't keep releasing £15 'celestial horse and armour' packs every month for a year. They need you to spend hundreds of hours grinding away in the game to maximise those purchases.
Which in turn leads to games that start fun and interesting, but are spread so very 'thin' they become boring and way outstay their welcome long before the credits roll.
Which in turn leads to games that start fun and interesting, but are spread so very 'thin' they become boring and way outstay their welcome long before the credits roll.
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hyperbertha
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Have you been living under a rock op? This is like the most common gaming opinion. Ubisoft makes the most factory made copy paste open world formula in existence, and don't even bother to shake things around across franchises. It makes them very productive, like McDonald's, but the lowest quality possible while still being just passable.
jayj
Banned
What? Seems like a lot of people are sharing their opinions on the subject matter and have a lot of different things to say about it, that's a success as far as I'm concerned.
Uhh no, it's called criticism, the foundation for what every critic is supposed to do. What do you want from me? To be creating topics where all I do is talk about how much I love everything and ask for a thumbs up? That's not exactly the foundation for an interesting conversation lol.
So Ubisoft's open world games now represent the entire gaming industry as a whole? Not sure what you're trying to get at here. It would be more like me criticizing a particular director or production company that makes a lot of movies that feel similar if you want to go with that.
lmao, that must be one one of the biggest understatements I've read in my entire life.
jayj
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Yeah I really had Watch Dogs 2 in mind when I created this and that's basically the inspiration for my feelings, I just connected the dots and realized the way I felt when trying to get back into the game is the way I feel most of the time when I try to get back into a modern Ubisoft game I lost interest in. What you have to say about it is definitely something I can relate to as well. I think first game was always a lot more interesting to me simply because the world seemed to have more depth and the main character had more of a unique personality and purpose for what they were doing. It was simply a more interesting story to me where I felt a much stronger desire to continue playing. Same way I felt going from Far Cry 3 to 4, 3 just had far more interesting characters and a much deeper story that made me want to keep going, while in 4 there was just this bland open feeling where I felt like I was just doing the same generic busy work to generally progress along, like there was no reason for me to really care about what I was doing after the game really opened up. Same way I feel when playing FC6 as well, which has similar feeling characters to WD2, the "hey kids we're cool" vibes as you put it, if it was the 90's you could summarize them as Poochie sort of characters from The Simpsons, shallow characters that just play up a certain image more than anything that's related to the conventional pop culture standards of the era.
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Jimmy_liv
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Well, the games I've listed are a fair spread of different gaming genres and so to simply make a ridiculous umbrella statement such as 'ubisoft games are boring'....you may as well be saying 'animals are loud'...what...all of them??
If you can't see what's wrong with that generalisation....well, I can't help you!
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kiphalfton
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This is when you play the game like it's a linear game, and only play the main missions.
I mean does anybody really need any of the useless skills in the skill tree, or weapon add on, etc. that don't really add anything to the game. Doubtful.
Only an issue though if progress in the main missions is gated by needing to play side missions though (which I think I read AC Origins does).
I mean does anybody really need any of the useless skills in the skill tree, or weapon add on, etc. that don't really add anything to the game. Doubtful.
Only an issue though if progress in the main missions is gated by needing to play side missions though (which I think I read AC Origins does).
Hero of Spielberg
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I'm what the kids would call a bit of a 'basic bitch' when it comes to games, so I quite enjoy Ubisoft games and their formula. Easy to pick up after a while not playing without much fuss, generally good graphics, a nice story to follow. No fuss.
SmokedMeat
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Ubi games are my junk food. The loops are generally fun for me, but I’m also playing other games.
Aion002
Member
Ubisoft peaked at the ps360 gen.
So many cool games like Assassin's Creed (2 to Black Flag), End War (I bought a headset on the ps3 just to play it) , Far cry (2 and 3), Ghost Recon Warfighter, Splinter Cell Blacklist, R6 Vegas, Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands and others... I bought almost all ubi games at launch on the ps3.
I still like Ubi games, but current Ubi kinda "plays safe" and tries to make their games last a lot, so most are bloated and that's where the repetitiveness comes.
Like, if you play AC Odyssey for like 40 hours, you will probably have a good time, but after those 40 hours the game is basically more of the same for more 100 hours or something... I played AC Odyssey for 70 hours and I just stopped, I started hating the game, I bought the complete edition and after 70 hours I hadn't even finished the base game main quest.
Same thing happened in Far Cry 6, I played like 20 hours and I hadn't explored half of the map.
At first I hated them for it, but now I just accept it, I play ubi games for as longs as I am enjoying it, I don't care about finishing them anymore.
So many cool games like Assassin's Creed (2 to Black Flag), End War (I bought a headset on the ps3 just to play it) , Far cry (2 and 3), Ghost Recon Warfighter, Splinter Cell Blacklist, R6 Vegas, Prince of Persia The Forgotten Sands and others... I bought almost all ubi games at launch on the ps3.
I still like Ubi games, but current Ubi kinda "plays safe" and tries to make their games last a lot, so most are bloated and that's where the repetitiveness comes.
Like, if you play AC Odyssey for like 40 hours, you will probably have a good time, but after those 40 hours the game is basically more of the same for more 100 hours or something... I played AC Odyssey for 70 hours and I just stopped, I started hating the game, I bought the complete edition and after 70 hours I hadn't even finished the base game main quest.
Same thing happened in Far Cry 6, I played like 20 hours and I hadn't explored half of the map.
At first I hated them for it, but now I just accept it, I play ubi games for as longs as I am enjoying it, I don't care about finishing them anymore.
tusharngf
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they are doing it for first crew game
DanielG165
Member
I like most Ubisoft games, honestly. The open world Assassin’s Creed games are some of my favorites of theirs, for instance, and Immortals is genuinely one of my favorite modern games.