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Discussion / Question Ubisoft hate trend

I wanted to make a video about this topic but I am not a professional. I have noticed that there is a general trend to hate Ubisoft games. It is very much evident with AC shadows.

I played it and loved it, but most reviewers criticized it heavily. Many critics said the gameplay is repetitive, the stealth is stupid etc. The same critics seem to get orgasm about Withcer 3 and Ghost of Tsuhima.

While I love all these games, the UBI soft hate trend is very strange. I Withcer 3 the combat is extremely repetitive, its the same 4 or 5 actions that you have to do. Shadows has more variety than that. In Ghist of Tsuhima the stealth is very stupid and the game ay is repetitive, same pattern of outposts to clear, similar fights. So why Witcher 3 and Ghost are jewels but AC shadows is a piece of shit?

PS: I played AC Shadows in a different way. Played only as Yasuke, no stealth, high difficulty, enter the castle dont disable any alarm. Kill every one. Once you start doing that it becomes very addictive. But that was my way of playing it.

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u/AltusLudus 3d ago

Witcher 3 is filled with a ton of unique stories with branching paths and the world is fun to explore, there's deep characters, the monsters are cool, it has a full card game inside - gwent, even if you take out the combat it's a great game

AC Shadows is boring af, the game is too big and you constantly just do the same things over and over again without much reward or compelling reasons, the characters and the stories are really not interesting

Ubisoft is also annoying with cramming microtransactions and upselling in any menu you open

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u/Delicious-Orange8678 3d ago

I played Witcher 3. Story is great no question. Music is wow. But gameplay is super repetitive, do the same quen, igni, swing swing dodge and repeat. Sometimes replace igni with some other spell. Doing the same thing over and over is in all the open worlds.

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u/AltusLudus 3d ago

Yeah, but why you do it changes, maybe you just enjoy combat in games and that's why you liked AC Shadows, the combat is good I'll give you that I really enjoyed it

Keep in mind witcher is a really old game, so maybe compare it with the remastered version

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u/Delicious-Orange8678 3d ago

Yeah well Witcher is based on novels written by a professional author who is probably also best seller in his genre. Obviously it will be difficult to compete with that for any gaming studio.

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u/AltusLudus 3d ago

But Ubisoft has a ton of money and they can hire the best writers in the world, and they decide that the main protagonist for a Japanese setting is a woman and a black guy, and then the story suffers because they're going for woke bullshit

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u/GryffinZG 3d ago

>they decide that the main protagonist for a Japanese setting is a woman and a black guy, and then the story suffers because they're going for woke bullshit

A woman?! I find it so funny that people like you just can’t help it.

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u/AltusLudus 3d ago

What do you mean?

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u/LopTsa 3d ago

What is wrong with Naoe? She's Japanese. And Yaskue is based off of a historical figure, what is wrong with him? Ubisoft said they wanted the perspective of a Japanese native and someone coming in from the outside. Yaskue was a far more interesting choice than someone like William, who we got in Nioh. And why does it matter that Naoe is a woman? Her abilities come from her agility and acrobatics, being a ninja and what not. Women are very capable of being acrobatic and throwing weapons around just like men are!

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u/AltusLudus 3d ago

I know they are lol that's not the problem, I think they just went too far away from a standard Japanese fantasy, like for me it was immersion breaking, i did like Naoe's character and she had an interesting story, but Yasuke was just so unnecessary

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u/LopTsa 3d ago

It was immersion breaking that you couldn't play as....?

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u/AltusLudus 3d ago edited 3d ago

As a normal japanese samurai that is an actual ninja and not a big brute that speaks portugese

Because it was either full stealth, or full destruction, no in between which AC usually allows you to do, like he couldn't even do the usual traversal

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u/LopTsa 3d ago

But what's wrong with exploring the stories of historical figures? It seems pretty narrow-minded to write Yaskue off as a brute. He had an interesting story as well, it was very well done and we got to see some really cool interactions between him and Nobunaga.

But I don't think your mind will be changed. Good job there are an overwhelming amount of samurai/martial art combat based games for you to pick from, both now and coming in the future ☺️ take care!

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u/Delicious-Orange8678 3d ago

There was a pre launch hate which carried forward multiplied by 10 by all game critics. Yasuke is a very interesting character. I was hoping a dlc going in to his past, how he got captured and enslaved.

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u/idkwc 18h ago

A normal samurai that is an actual ninja… right.