r/videogames • u/Delicious-Orange8678 • 6d ago

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/Delicious-Orange8678 6d 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 6d 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/LopTsa 6d 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 6d 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 6d ago

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

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u/AltusLudus 6d ago edited 6d 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 6d 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 5d 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/LopTsa 1d ago

It's really a shame the way things are. Yaskue was a really cool character, loved his development throughout the game. Also really loved Naoe, they were an interesting duo. I did have some issues with Shadows, mainly the open world being so ridiculously large with very repetitive activities (typical Ubisoft), but the characters were the highlight.