Ubisoft's double bill of delusion
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Lycanthrope
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StaggerLee
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I think it's pretty obvious that saying it's better at 30fps is nothing more than corporate spin. If their official position is that 30fps is the best possible thing, then it's very difficult to tell them that their game provides sub-standard performance. They can simply respond with, "No, 30fps is the best so shut-up".
To be fair though, the game doesn't look terrible to begin with. It looks great. If they were just upfront about the fact that they can't reach 60fps with so many lighting effects and pretty effects and 1080p etc., the general public (and Jim Sterling) would be far more forgiving.
To be fair though, the game doesn't look terrible to begin with. It looks great. If they were just upfront about the fact that they can't reach 60fps with so many lighting effects and pretty effects and 1080p etc., the general public (and Jim Sterling) would be far more forgiving.
VirtualForce
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DLC and Season Pass.....I hate those terms...
DarthMol
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I dislike the company and its dubious practices but love some of their games: Assassins Creed II and Brotherhood, the Prince of Persia series, some of the Splinter Cell games especially in coop, ANNO 1403 & 2070 are some of the most enjoyable games I've ever played. So I will continue to buy games that I will enjoy even if at times it means giving Ubi my money. So sue me
(Although I should add that I never buy games on Day 1 anymore so what money I do give them is drastically less than full price)
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Snoopimaru
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I dislike the company and its dubious practices but love some of their games: Assassins Creed II and Brotherhood, the Prince of Persia series, some of the Splinter Cell games especially in coop, ANNO 1403 & 2070 are some of the most enjoyable games I've ever played. So I will continue to buy games that I will enjoy even if at times it means giving Ubi my money. So sue me
Not to mention Far Cry... Ubisoft makes great games, despite everything..
Lycanthrope
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I disagree.
They have great concepts but their games are generally very shallow, repetitive and, outside of the concept itself, pretty generic.
I don't know what so many people seem to see in their games beyond a good concept.
They're an ethically dubious publisher, they blatantly lie to their consumer base, they have repeatedly shafted their consumer base and they persist in their attempts to sell their games in multiple pieces.
There is absolutely nothing about any of their games that makes supporting such practises worthwhile. The fact that so many gamers persist in nonetheless supporting them illustrates how immature and easily exploitable the market really is.
Graal
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They make great games and then they never fix them because they're broken as fuck. Far Cry 3, as an example, runs at 60FPS on highest settings when it's unpatched, but has a gamebreaking bug when you hit escape. Subsequent patches broke the performance so much that I had to drop everything to a mixture of Medium and High to get good performance.
Might and Magic X is a broken, buggy mess and Ubisoft has already dropped patch support for it. It's got more than a few gamebreaking bugs. It will never be fixed.
Go have a look at the Watch_Dogs Steam forum. Wanna take a guess? Yep, you guessed it. Still broken. Unlikely to ever get fixed because there's not much profit left to be had.
Ubisoft doesn't give a shit about gamers. When they're not telling you that you're criminal scum, they lie to your face and leave you with broken shit. Why anyone still supports this shit company is beyond me. WHHHHYYYY? Do people not learn.
The only difference between EA and Ubisoft is that EA at least has the decency to acknowledge their faults, even if they don't do anything about it.
Wlad
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I couldn't care less about their business practices. Most of the games they make are awesome IMO and I enjoy playing them and in the end that's what's important to me. I don't care about any of this 1080p or 900p, 60FPS or 30FPS bullshit. None of that affects my enjoyment of any game. The only thing that bothers me about Ubisoft is that once you format your PC you can't simply reinstall Uplay and play all your games that are still installed. Unlike Steam, you have to redownload/reinstall all you're games. You can still play most of them by just running Uplay and then starting the game's .exe file, but it's not really the same and some games don't want to work that way.
As soon as their games stop being fun (which I highly doubt), I will stop buying them.
As soon as their games stop being fun (which I highly doubt), I will stop buying them.
Graal
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This pretty much sums up what Ubisoft games have become:
http://games.on.net/2014/06/ubisoft-game-the-review/
It's distressing how many of their games franchises share the exact same gameplay elements and concepts. It's like they have a template for a videogame and just fill it in with new details every time. Enjoy climbing towers to unlock new areas in your next Ubisoft game, because that's what you're going to do in all Ubisoft games from here on out.
Lycanthrope
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Glordit
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They can easily use a frame lock on/off function. Taking the PS4 for example TLoU and Infamous:SS/FL have the option, as did a few other games that have since been released some even via a small patch. I doubt it takes years of extra programing time to enable a function like that.
Then again frame locking can produce wonderful results as we see in The Order 1886 (this is beta footage + it's youtube so it may be lower than 30fps)
The game was made from the ground up to look and play like a film, cutscenes blend into the game. I am uncertain about AC and FC if they are pre rendered scenes spliced into the game or not. Yet they made a game and decided f*ckit, framelock. I am not defending anyone and as someone who plays on a PC and console it sucks to see everyone suffer because a dev is too lazy to go that extra mile for different platforms.
Don't hold your breath, rumors floating down the grape vine tell me that Far Cry 4 feels like Far Cry 3.5
StaggerLee
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This review is very accurate. Far Cry 3 was this review. I got through less than a third of that game and couldn't go on due to boredom. Ass Creed games too, but their stories are just bad, not necessarily generic.
I actually played and enjoyed Ass Creed I and II and I was keen to see how Unity panned out but after the minimum specs revelation I can't really be arsed.
Graal
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That's pretty much a given. I said as much the first time we saw in-game footage of FC4. It's just going to be FC3 in a new setting with a handful of new features.
Wlad
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That might bother some people, but IMO that is not a bad thing. I really enjoyed Far Cry 3, finished it like 3 times, so if FC4 is similar but with a new setting and some new features I know I will enjoy it.
Snoopimaru
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Depends on your expectation. From what I could see from the trailers and videos, yes, FC4 is more of the same.
And I'm comfortable with that. Loved FC3, didn't have any performance or bug issues etc.
They could just have called every AC after number 2, AC2.x (because really, three games about Ezio? That guy just couldn't die!)
I'm not as excited about Unity as FC4. AC Rogue can wait till it's ported to PC, and on special somewhere, then I'll pick it up. AC Rogue is an example of them trying to milk a dying cow (with the naval gameplay - it's been in the past two games already, come up with something new for the next one!)
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Yes, that sums it up for me too.
Graal
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Maybe. For me, I'm over it. I played Far Cry 3, then Blood Dragon which was more of the same and I'm not so sure I'd even be interested in FC4.
It reminds me of the way Ubisoft milked Assassin's Creed at one point. They introduced minimal new gameplay elements to the point where I didn't even finish Revelations because it was just assassin's creed 2.75.
ave
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oooh, I have to disagree. Assassins creed brotherhood was one of the most immersive games I have ever played. I absolutely loved every minute of it. The Tom Clancy games are also excellent.
I can't stand them as a company and Uplay in my nemesis, but their games are good.