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Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles (insider-gaming.com)

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This is going to be one of those "Ubisoft investigates Ubisoft and found that Ubisoft did nothing wrong at Ubisoft"-situations, isn't it?

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[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

They do damn near 10/10 work when they give a fuck, Thats probably the worst part.

Siege was damn near perfect as a tactical competitive shooter for the first few years. The Division was great, Just Cause was enormous fun and so on.

The problem is they hit a winner, and then milk it and milk it and milk it until we hate it or them.

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I'm old enough to remember when Siege was a Rainbow Six game.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -2 points 1 month ago

Wait, that’s old now?

[-] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

9 years old is pretty old for a video game. When it first came out, the goofiest thing about it was the guy who could heal you by throwing a syringe at you. Now everyone has goofy super powers and things that would never make sense in the same world as something like a Jack Ryan novel.

[-] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 5 points 1 month ago

My god Siege was good for the first few years. Intoxicatingly good multiplayer. Too bad they fucked it up trying to make it more CoD like. For example, I used to play with a completely hidden hud because it was so immersive and fun. Now it's like rainbow six and Roblox had a baby and the weird game popped out. I can't even hide my hud or crosshair any longer

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Yes it was. It was so frigging good.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago

they did a little bit of this to hell let loose. The primary thing that bothered me was how when the game came out there was no hit indicator whatsoever. no visual no sound nothing. it made for some very interesting gameplay. then they added it indicators, even if you’re like 100 yards away from somebody you can hear this bullet go “whap” if it hits them

[-] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago

I love the division 1 and 2 but the first game had some MAJOR bullet soak issues for the first half-year of the game's lifetime.

Massive always does good work despite Ubisoft, in my opinion.

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Massive are the ones that made Star Wars Outlaws - so it seems the world disagrees with you.

I wasn’t so interested in Outlaws, but I’ve sometimes thought the criticism was slightly overblown. It looks a lot better than some other Ubi games.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Honestly, Outlaws has flaws, BUUUUT it's fun as hell. It's a 7/10 game, but it's fun. I enjoy my time with it even though I see some glitches here or there, or that the lip sync is a little jank.

It's a big ass Star Wars game (with no AC towers hooray!) where you get to rub shoulders with scoundrels and play Sabacc and visit honestly cool locations that are visually impressive.

I feel like most of the issues it has is probably a function of "we need this game out by X date" versus the devs' ability.

[-] brenticus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I finished the main story last night and I basically agree with you. It's got plenty of issues, but overall it's fun. It is neither the 9/10 game of most reviews I saw nor the 4/10 game that people want it to be.

I think my main issue is that it wants to have a story about the underworld and how you can't trust anyone and you're a huge underdog just trying to survive but it doesn't want to commit to it. It feels thematically janky in places and ways that feel design-by-committee. It fills the shoes of Shadows of the Empire decently enough, but it feels like it was trying to be 1313 and failed.

[-] garretble@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I have this feeling that once it starts going on more sales and more people play it the general consensus will be that’s it’s a pretty solid game. I also imagine like a lot of these games there will be a patch in the next month that fixes a litany of issues.

You’re right it’s kind of interesting that the factions don’t really add a lot of meaningful gameplay mechanics, but oh well. At first I was like, “I’m not working with the Pykes AT ALL because I know what happens in your spice mines.” But you end up just being friends with all of them as needed (to get their rewards).

Just having this big coat of Star Wars paint over this otherwise fairly standard action/shooter/open world game really does make it more fun, though. I still have a bit to go in the story, but I’m just basting around cleaning up side quests right now because it’s fun to do.