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@Yagami Knights of the Old Republic and Mass Effect show that you can have a meaningful linear story with that structure.

It's quite a common story structure for Western RPGs, not just Ubisoft games.

@nessisonett I'm still trying to work out who is meant to have had an issue with Wukong. All I've seen is people saying it's cool to have a game based around Chinese culture for once.

Was it like 2 randos on X who have somehow become the most read people in the world?

Ubisoft games go cheap fast, and don't have the reputation for quality that pulls me to buy a game at launch.

Most Ubisoft games end up on my wishlist - to see the amazing settings if nothing else - but I can wait years before buying one

Prediction: In 5 years time we're going to see a clumsy Western made Romance of the Three Kingdoms game.

What would actually be hype would be a Legend of the Condor Heroes adaptation.

I can't get excited about any Overwatch collab, because there will never be a skin good enough that I'll pay £20 to get it.

I could buy Citizen Sleeper, Nobody Wants to Die, Guardians of the Galaxy, FFVII Remake, Planet of Lana or tons of other games on my wishlist instead of getting one of these skins.

It's like telling me the weather is good in Tahiti right now. I'm sure it is.

The thing about a cross-media plan is you have to make a good show and a good game.

I'm not convinced a mediocre anime is going to bring a big crowd to your extraction shooter

I bet the distributions are really skewed too - the kind of games bought by physical buyers are different than for digital buyers.

I don't even know what I want from a Final Fantasy game any more.

Its not that I'm unhappy with them, but when I try to think of my perfect FFXVII, I can't really imagine what that looks or plays like.

There's a wider problem that Sony are beginning to lose people's trust.

They've got arrogant, like Sony always gets when it doesn't have enough competition. They need a wake up call to get back on the consumer wavelength

Recycling is good for the world, so thumbs up

Moore's law is dead. We've run out of technology that can make chips twice as small (and cheap) for the same amount of power.

Tech won't get cheaper the way we've been used to for the last 50 years. That, combined with high inflation is why we're here, and it's not changing any time soon.

My feeling is it's the narrative angle that took Concord down the wrong route. These designs are much better for a hero shooter - but not for making you feel part of a cohesive world.

As InfidelFrigidstraigh said, when the cinematic trailer was showing, people were curious - the designs worked well enough. It's when it was revealed to be 5v5 that things fell apart.

I think the devs overfocused on their lore, and it cost them a lot of the distinctiveness of their designs.

No, we've only just started getting games which justify a PS5, never mind a £700 PS Pro with no disc drive

Even if the game is great, Sony are going to need the marketing job of a lifetime to save it. People want it to fail.

They need to market -alongside- single player games, it needs to be F2P, and it needs to be very cheap and generous. And they need to focus on gameplay, not story and cinematics. Story is not how you hook people initially on these big multiplayer games.

I said this before it came out: if it was free to play, I'd have given it a shot but it would have to do something really great to get me away from Overwatch. But at $40, it doesn't even get that shot

It should have been F2P at launch. They wasted their window - something we've already seen more unique games get wrong

Interested in this. Jusant didn't quite scratch the climbing itch

I'm excited for this game, but I don't like timing based prompts in turn-based systems.

If it's turn-based let the outcome be the result of my decision making, not my reflexes.

Ubisoft are the kings of doing just enough to make you feel conflicted about a game.

The make or break for me is really just how good it feels to walk around the cities. Does it feel like you're part of an alien world, or does it feel like set dressing?

I miss the time rewind powers still - it was such a chill experience picking one choice and then rewinding to see how it could have gone

Someone on the dev team watches a lot of wrestling

Somehow we live in a world where I'm more hyped by this than a new Indiana Jones game

I figured they'd be making an OG take on Uncharted but this looks more inspired by the Indie games made around the millennium.

1st person isn't for me, pass. Someone make a new Uncharted!

@NoCode23 it's not likely, the first game was very designed around first person. Even the PC mods struggled to get 3rd person to work.

I love so much about the first game - except the camera and the combat and in the end, despite loving it, I didn't complete it because of that.

I show up for Dont Nod, they have a special sauce

I assumed they'd at least wait a year.

I was worried after they changed the name that they were going to squander the Dreadwolf' plot hook, and this trailer makes me even more worried about that.

We didn't need other villains. Dreadwolf was set up to be one of the great Bioware villains by himself.

We've been so used to the benefits of Moore's law, we're not ready for a world where the law is ending. Tech won't get cheaper at the rate we're used to anymore

The indie market of 2024 is so much more brutal than it was in 2008. There are so many good games coming out all the time

As soon as I saw that restoring health in Stellar Blade respawned enemies, I switched the demo off and never came back.

I've never liked them, and I'm frustrated that all these action games with interesting (but far too gloomy) characters and worlds go down the same path again and again.

@Ravix also Ezio (an Italian) was the protagonist for the AC game set in Turkey.

Far from the first time, Ubisoft did this decades ago.

The people complaining about historical inaccuracies have never played an Assassin's Creed game in their life.

If this is bad, they should see what Ubisoft did to Greek, Italian, Egyptian, British and American history!

If you can go from top 40 to number 9 without any big event, it tells you that even the lower end of the top represents a tiny number of sales.

What happened to COD?

Looks like what I wanted from Zenless Zone

It's a very lacking game, even without thinking about the monetisation.

The lack of a proper world map to explore, the repetitive environments - there's just not a lot of things to do.

The things that are there are copying Persona without copying any of the things that make Persona work - choosing to interact with particular characters, managing time because you have a strict deadline etc.

The combat is fun, but compare it to any other action game - God of War, Devil May Cry, Warframe, even Dynasty Warriors - it's like they've preserved the combat and stripped out every other element of that game.

Yes it's free. But it's bogs down the action with all this F2P stats and grinding that don't make sense, and at the end of the day there are better things to do with your time. I kept waiting for it to click, and it didn't.

If you ignore monetisation, Genshin has 10x more to it than ZZZ, as does Honkai Star Rail

Someone posted to Reddit about how they'd tried Days Gone after hearing the hype, and found it only to be decent.

The top response by far was "What hype?"

The game found a niche, and its been really loved and appreciated by they people in that niche. But that doesn't mean Days Gone 2 would have sold like gangbusters.

I mean it would be truly outrageous if they didn't, as other games are free and only do that.

Not a great month for me, I wouldn't try any of these.

@Matthewnh what I'm saying is, I was excited for the game because I wanted a game focused on Solas, and this is them saying they changed the name because they felt Solas wasn't the focus of the game.

Hopefully they've still done it well, but it does give me reason to hesitate

I'm a bit cautious because I thought the Solas hook was amazing, but I can understand the decision

Twitch aren't allowed to kick someone out if they don't have something on them. But it's probably not full law breaking otherwise they'd have escalated it to the police.

I tried to pick up Destiny 2 this year, and unfortunately the new player experience is a total mess. Every time I logged in it would show me a new cutscene of characters and events I'd never heard of, and even dump me straight into missions on planets I'd never been to.

Dragon Age has a history of trailers whose tones don't match the actual game - including the original DA: O trailer - so I'll wait to see the actual game

Better than DA:I's worst-of-both-worlds system

This is the comedown from the superb 2023

Coffee talk was fun, so I'll check this out

@AK4tywill Directors cut has always been a meaningless term. Very few things released as a director's cut were actually the original vision of the director. It was a marketing gimmick to double dip on DVD sales for die hard fans.

The director is the person who cuts the original version of the film too (usually). And there's zero guarantee that the director has more freedom in the "directors cut" than the original. Often execs just want extra scenes included that they can market on the back of the box. Sometimes directors cuts even involved filming extra scenes - they aren't even cuts!

When Villeneuve was asked about directors cuts he replied "Arrival is the directors cut".

There are directors cuts which are genuinely the director getting the chance to undo some meddling that prevented them from presenting their original vision. But that's not what studios are considering when they stick the directors cut label on something.

Rebel Moon is a perfect example of how stupid the term is and has always been. Zack Snyder was in total control of the original cut for Rebel Moon. The "director's cut" was planned by the Netflix executives before the original cut had even been released.

@ChrisDeku That's review bombing though. It's player count on steam is healthy and has actually been growing the last couple of months

As an Overwatch player, I was thinking about at least giving it a go, even if I had doubts it would be worth playing over OW.

$40 kills that completely for me. Why risk all that money for something I've already got and enjoy?

Was the gameplay captured from mobile? Why is everyone moving so stiffly?