Starker on 29/3/2018 at 16:12
Nothing wrong with enjoying an Ubisoft open world game if that's your cuppa. But I think things are a bit different in a post-Witcher 3 world. A lot more people have higher expectations for these games now.
Tony_Tarantula on 30/3/2018 at 02:07
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I always found it funny that since Assassin's Creed Ubisoft boasted that their studios are embracing employee diversity, and having people of many different beliefs, as none of that resulted in anything other than just okay games with meh stories, great architecture, and nothing meaningful to do. I haven't bought a Ubi game since AC 2, and it still seems like I haven't missed much.
(Damn, I forgot I bought SC: Conviction and Blacklist. Now that was a mistake made twice.)
Because no amount of ethnic, racial, religious, or any other kind of diversity can overcome the manner in which corporate bureaucracy sucks the life out of everything fun and turns it into bland, gray, sameness.
Also that original note was there basically as a disclaimer that "if this game pissess you off, it's not because we hate your religion".
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Exactly, that's why I found those messages funny. On another note, I work with internal HR documents of misc. companies on quite regular basis, and there's a lot of that attitude there too, i.e. diversity is a must, we have to listen to every employee and treat them as equals, everyone is a potential source of innovation in a creative environment, across all structures of organization, etc. Ubisotf already proved none of that matters against a "yeah... nope." of the safe-playing higher-ups. Heh, even white males have problems with getting their ideas across. There's this GDC presentation about For Honor, and the guy who was pitching it seemed like really passionate, awesome guy, yet we've all seen how it ended up.
Keep in mind some of that is just sociopathic self promotion because people either are rated on how well they "promote diversity" or want to brand themselves that way. Hell I'm even organizing an event in conjunction with a minority diversity network for my own selfish reasons. In reality I don't care much about race except insofar as I having a soft spot for underdogs and the way in which some people's racial backgrounds can play into an underdog story.
Bottom line is that a bureaucracy, regardless of where or what it proclaims itself to be, is still a bureaucracy and will be dominated by those best at being sleazy bureaucrats. We're seeing that in other areas know: one of the silver linings of the Trump era is that generals have been thrust into the limelight, have failed spectacularly in some areas, and are now being exposed for the empty suits that most of them are.
But...that said, actually not playing this one. It's a "maybe" over the holidays but with a major certification exam coming up most of my limited free time still goes to minis and the odd round or two of Fortnite with a buddy. Plus there's simply no reason to buy any ubi game on day zero when you can wait a year and get it for probably 1/2 of the price with all of the inevitable DLC included.
icemann on 30/3/2018 at 14:32
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Because no amount of ethnic, racial, religious, or any other kind of diversity can overcome the manner in which corporate bureaucracy sucks the life out of everything fun and turns it into bland, gray, sameness.
We have indies and KS games though. So it's not all doom and gloom.
Death to the Megacorps *raises fist*.
Sulphur on 30/3/2018 at 15:34
If I rolled my eyes any harder, they'd squelch out of my head. Let's get back to how the game is, please and thank you.
Renault on 30/3/2018 at 17:26
Quote Posted by Tony_Tarantula
Plus there's simply no reason to buy any ubi game on day zero when you can wait a year and get it for probably 1/2 of the price with all of the inevitable DLC included.
Well, duh. That applies to just about every game every released, it's got nothing to do with Ubi.
SubJeff on 1/4/2018 at 11:00
Your mistake is expecting anything sensible to come out of TT/CCT.
henke on 2/4/2018 at 14:12
[video=youtube;Hl3JFl_YGb0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl3JFl_YGb0&feature=youtu.be[/video]
Been playing FC5 all weekend, it's one of those open world games you can really loose yourself in. I'm usually more fond of western settings in the AC games, so no surprise I'm liking Montana better than the more exotic locales of previous FC titles. The buddy system is great and reminds me more of the system in MGS V than FC2, tho that's perhaps because my main buddies are a dog and a sniper lady. The cars are more dynamic and fun than in earlier iterations, and the ones with machineguns strapped to the roof kinda make me feel like I'm playing an Interstate 76 sequel at certain points. The planes are pretty good, but the helicopters handle in such a dumb arcadey way that I get no joy from flying them.
Only thing that outright pisses me off in this game are the tight parameters of many of the story missions, regarding mission areas and whatnot. In one particularly egregious moment I had set up bombs with timers all over a camp, and as the voice on the radio told me to haul ass I did just that, with bullets flying past my head I ran into the forrest, only to be greeted with a "You are leaving the mission area!" warning. NO SHIT I'm leaving the mission area, there's a huge explosion about to go off! I turned around and saw a mission marker near the entrance of the camp. Apparently "haul ass" hadn't meant "haul ass", so much as "go to this one specific spot and watch the explosion", so I had to (idiotically) run back into the gunfire as the timer on the bomb kept ticking closer to zero.
Renault on 2/4/2018 at 18:42
I played a bunch this weekend too, was able to finish off one of the bosses (John, south area). I was basically Daryl Dixon, sneaking around and Compound Bowing cultists to my heart's content. Too much fun. The story is really awful (it's just a bunch of rednecks telling you to repent and atone for your sins, any 3rd grader could have wrote it), and the cutscenes are a slog, but if you can endure them the game is a blast. The driving is fun (although sometime I feel like a grandma as I have a hard time seeing over the dashboard, a strange setup for sure). The flying is a bit more difficult, sometimes I feel like I'm constantly the worst pilot out there after just getting owned time and time again.
I noticed a ton of bugs (I'll have to start saving video like henke), usually I'd complain but most times it turns into something hilarious. So when you die, you just respawn in a location you were just prior to death. Apparently when you respawn in a plane high up in the air, the programmers forgot to also leave your engine in it's prior state. So I ended up dying multiple times, freefalling into earth and eventually exploding into a giant fireball while I desperately tried to restart my planes engines. I think they'll need to work on that one a bit.
So much more to try out yet. I still haven't hunted, fished, parachuted, wingsuited, or tried out some of the more potent weapons. The downside I would say is things do feel samey at times - capturing outposts, attacked by animals, blowing up convoys, etc. It's still fun, at least to me. But I think future Far Cry's might need to change up the formula a bit more.
henke on 6/4/2018 at 07:02
Here comes StealthGamerBR to make everyone else playing this game look like a god damn amateur, as usual.
[video=youtube;3A5ODFmve14]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5ODFmve14[/video]
ToolHead on 7/4/2018 at 10:02
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Here comes StealthGamerBR to make everyone else playing this game look like a god damn amateur, as usual.
[video=youtube;3A5ODFmve14]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A5ODFmve14[/video]
Yeah; that guy is clearly not a mere human. I often rewatch his Dishonored stuff. Unreal skills.