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Why don’t Sony invest in their own military shooters.

Buy out the 6 Days in Fallujah team, bring back SOCOM (especially for VR) or create some completely new IP, instead of crying about it.

They pay other teams to delay releases to Xbox or have exclusive content so can’t really moan about the other side doing the same.

I’d love to see what they could do with the Rainbow Six franchise if they ever got it.

(I’m still bitter about them disbanding the Driveclub team when it could’ve become one of their best racing franchises)

I hope they’re not stuck waiting in one of their lobbies! 😜
Subtle digs aside, Firewall was not only one of the best multiplayer PSVR experiences but also shooters that still holds up along with PC VR greats like Contractors, Pavlov & Onward.
I hope the next iteration they improve the AI & have a proper singleplayer campaign.

I only stopped playing because the lobby to playing ratio was too painful & the solo offering was just too basic.

Looking forward to what they come up with

Looks like Ubisoft ran out of games they could squeeze more micro transactions into & placed them in their company

Ahh the beauty of love service games. They’re always temporary. This game isn’t my cup of tea (most of Ubisoft’s current barstardisation of all their Tom Clancy IP isn’t either).

They need to roll the incompetent suits at the top, even if they were there from the beginning. They need to start focusing on making great games first, instead of building ***** games around monetisation.

@IronMike agreed.
I stopped playing because the FFB was so crap, even after the last update - and that’s on the Fanatec DD pro as well. I don’t know how they made it worse than GT Sport.
I’ve gone back to Automobilista 2 until they sort that out.
They need to fix their last overcompensation fix for RWD cars too. That, add some modern current cars (non of the VGT crap), add sell cars, fix the economy, let us buy engine swaps instead of loot boxing, fix the online penalty system, add the rest of the unfinished cafe stuff, and give us more tracks.

@Reeneman FFB needs fixing - they’ve improved it a bit but it’s probably currently the worst among any sim. It’s still worse than GT Sport currently.
Physics need fixing, online penalties, the car economy, ability to sell cars & engine swaps.

How are these execs still remaining in their jobs? Surely they’d be better off working in casinos or building ATM machines because all they know how to do is extract money from people in the least exciting way.

Live service is just a buzz word for (release unfinished).

EA are egregious with microtransactions in their full priced games. Imagine how ***** their free to play ones will be.

Skate 4
ESBC Boxing Club
God of War 2
COD Modern Warfare 2 because of Infinity Ward
6 Days in Fallujah (if it comes out this year)

@Peach64 considering GT does simulate car physics, weather, tyre modelling & lighting & even paint (the latter two it does better than all the current hardcore sims), I’m pretty sure it can be regarded as a sim of some sorts.
It may not be on the level of iRacing, AMS2 or ACC when it comes to car handling, FFB or AI, but it does do some things better than those games. It even does a better job of simulating how I can’t afford the same Supercars in real life!

Soooo looking forward to this! ….minus the bugs & microtransactions

Should they be getting rid of the suits that made the initial decision to go all in on NFTs in the first place?
They obviously know nothing about gaming or business

Now they’ve finally got VR support, I might hit the purchase button - although I’ll probably wait a bit after the reviews come out to see if EA patch in more microtransactions & ads

Ubisoft’s games are all designed by marketing these days.
No innovation, just followers of trends & slapping on a Tom Clancy franchise, no matter how irrelevant it is.

They need to look at what made the original franchises fun & distinguished from the others & build on from that.

These days they begin with microtransactions & try to build around those, recycling the same old generic ***** they’ve been churning out for years

At least tell us what the games are so I know what I’m not spending my money on

• Short cafe campaign - should be much longer.
• FFB with wheel is extremely basic, even compared to GT Sport
• Microtransactions should not be that high in a full priced game. One all missions, cafe tasks, tracks mastered etc are complete, there is a massive grind to get a single car, let alone attempt to get them all. There may be more stuff coming, but we’ve already paid full price.
• lack of single player offline modes. Even if you’ve spent hundreds of dollars on MTX, you can’t access things you’ve bought if the servers are down. WTF.
• Inability to sell cars & parts with this overpriced grind economy is just terrible.
• Rally physics are terrible (always have been) but seem worse in this version.
  Still a fun & beautiful game, but let down horribly by these business decisions

I finished it on Xbox 360 & PS4, then started playing it on PC with all the mods.
After the trilogy remaster debacle & footage I’ve seen of the PS5 version already, I don’t think it comes anywhere near the state or quality of what the modern have done with Ray Tracing, real world models, lighting & textures

Even at that snapshot in time, the animations looked better than Fallen Order.
The overpaid execs at EA just had no idea what people wanted & just to copied & pasted whatever game mode was making the most money at the time. Remember when they used to innovate? That was a long time ago

Tony Hawk remaster would be awesome.
Not too bothered seeing we’re getting Horizon in Feb, then GT7 (hopefully) in March

@Robinsad it’s less than GT Sport on the PS4. The PS5 has better optimised compression than the PS4 as well as the fast SSD drive, so they don’t have to duplicate assets around the disk. You can bet the PS4 version will be bigger.
Considering we’ll have more higher resolution textures than the previous gen, this is to be expected

I loved Watchdogs 2 (minus the vehicle handling) but just couldn’t be bothered finishing this one. The gameplay was there but the missions were all repetitive & the play as anyone gimmick got predictably boring fast.

I feel like Ubisoft is the equivalent of a pet food factory now - churning out crud designed by the marketing & accounting teams.

The ***** that comes out of them is passable as meat, but I wouldn’t eat it. Neither would my cat, it couldn’t afford the micro transactions

Why didn’t they just do a fleshed out Terrorist Hunt/single player campaign modes like they were initially going to do in the early Rainbow Six roadmap?

Are Ubisoft so lazy these days they don’t want to write any decent AI? (Hence aliens, drones & PVP modes).

I used to have a great time playing the old Terrorist Hunt modes on Rainbow Six Vegas with my mates. The Seige version was an afterthought & now it’s worse than when it released.

If it’s a Ubisoft game, then 60 hours less than whatever boring ***** they’ve padded it out with & a smaller, denser, well designed map than what they’re bragging about in their next game.

For other companies & game types 10-30 hours if it’s a quality experience.

In the old days I used to be Ubihard but all the splooge they churn out these days just makes me Ubisoft.

Not sure if it’s me but the colours (especially on the trees) look way too over saturated in HDR. Could be YouTube I’m not sure.
Also to make it look less sterile, they need to add in some movement of the trees & crowd to give it some life.
Loving the camera movements & reflections but to me it looks like a small evolution over GT Sport - especially if there are still limits of 16 cars on the track & a binary clutch (c’mon Polyphony).

Fingers crossed the PSVR2 version is the full game & not held back by the previous gen limitations again.

Forza Horizon 5 has got my CarPG needs currently satisfied & Automobilista 2 has my VR & sim handling desires taken car of. I’m hoping GT 7 is the all in one solution!

Not sure I’d even pay $20 for this Rainbow Six: Jump The Shark edition.
I just played the beta & it just wasn’t fun or very tactical.

Ubisoft, please don’t make Splinter Open World or contain aliens, drones or bullet sponge enemies.

@naruball who doesn’t like an internet comedian? The odds are less people like a smart ass too! 😘

@naruball when they’re back to video games instead of pokie machines, call me.

…and how much in microtransactions are you charging for those chill pills? Do they come in skins?

Do you have other microtransactions to speed up those chill pills?

Thanks

I wanted to give this game a try but all the reviews said it got stale quickly & the gameplay wasn’t that deep or diverse between hero’s. The second I heard they engaged in scumbag behaviour by nerfing the levelling system then added microtransactions just makes me wish this game will die a horrible death & the execs that made this decision get booted far, far away from the gaming industry….as well as genital herpes.

2, 3, then Unity in the end
Not a fan of the RPG games. Just got too bored & they went too much in a direction where they should’ve been a completely different franchise….like most of Ubisoft’s current spurt of ass dribble

Don’t ***** this up, Boobysoft!

If they mention it’s open world and an online multiplayer game, I’ll give up hope.

@TooBarFoo I guess if the difference is 8 to 10 secs WHILE the game is streaming level data, textures etc then you don’t want to be getting pop in while playing a game.
Game load times - who cares.
I think it’s most likely only Sony first party games that will eventually take advantage of the IO in a couple of years as everyone’s too busy making sure the games are backwards compatible with previous gen consoles & majority of PC’s

Just a typo away from accidentally purchasing EA Sports UFC.
Do these idiots not talk to each other?

Is it me or does it seem like Ubisoft are regressing in creativity & just releasing generic mobile quality games on Console & PC with better than ever microtransactions

@Royalblues GT Sport did a pretty good job on the PS Pro. That was more than capable, but was held back by Sony’s policy that PSVR games had to have feature parity with the original PS4. Remember that the OG PS4 is using 8 year old tech & the PSVR controllers are from the PS3!
I’ve also got the Quest 2 which does an amazing job as a standalone device, but PC VR is on the next level & the PS5 should be more than capable to keep up. At the very least, expect GT Sport visuals (flat screen) in VR for GT Sport.

Remember for VR the console has to render two screens (one for each eye) compared to a single screen & also target 90fps compared to 30-60fps of a normal game. So it’s doing more than twice as much work to get an image in VR

@Royalblues you obviously haven’t played any of the best PC VR racing titles like Dirt Rally 2.0, Automobilista 2 etc or Half life: Alyx, MS Flight Sim 2020, Pavlov.
VR is more than ready

Feels like a retread of last years showcase. GT 7 was the only thing that really looked great, but that was well edited.

GTA looked like a nice game on the PS4 Pro but the PC version with all the RT & real city/vehicle mods still Lois way better.

God of War looks like more of the same…on a PS4 Pro.

Is current gen suffering from these decisions to release on previous gen? I also wonder if this is another reason for all these delays

Will we have to have Warzone installed to play it?
It pisses me off when I’m running out of space & the one mode that wasn’t part of Modern Warfare is now a compulsory install & can’t be uninstalled if you want to play normal multiplayer or singleplayer.
Hell, even the Icon has changed to Warzone!

Cheers @kidboruto. It’s an impressive list, but there’s not many impressive AAA next gen games on there. With the exception of a couple, most are cross gen enhanced games.
Game pass is looking like the better option for this year

Are there any big games left coming out this year?
Feels like everything is inevitably being delayed until 2022

Looking forward to Tom Clancy’s Assassins Creed which is an RPG card game full of microtransactions and nothing to do with Assassins Creed or Tom Clancy

Maybe they found the response to a Rainbow Six game with Aliens wasn’t what their insane minds expected (compared to an actual R6 game with Rainbow Six Vegas or earlier DNA) …or they haven’t quite found a way to add enough microtransactions & game passes & need more time to find ways to milk our teats

@Dislecksier except a real clutch isn’t, the clutches on the sim pedals aren’t & the point where the clutch is on is when the pedal is 100% down. You can’t have any pressure on the accelerator when the clutch is down otherwise it’ll miss the shift.
It makes quick gear changes unpredictable (& just plain crappy).

GT Sport probably has the worst implementation of a clutch in any game & they strive to be close to a realistic sim.

Let’s hope the clutch isn’t binary like it is in GT Sport.

I think Sony have changed course & it’s going back to a PS4 live stream.
PS5 owners will be able to watch the same stream in a higher resolution & 60fps frame rate.

Ubisoft are pretty good at giving us everything, except what we want.

Any chance of a real Splinter Cell & Rainbow Six (Vegas or pre Vegas) game that isn’t barstadised?

Also, why announce the Vr versions of Assassins Creed & Splinter Cell last year when you’re not going to give us anything at your official events in the future?

@xRetrox yeah I’m not happy about paying $70 for a game, but would find it acceptable if it wasn’t a buggy mess in release & wasn’t designed around & had zero microtransactions.

What I would complain about is something like NBA 2k series or anything of EA’s that contains microtransactions, battle passes & asks for full price. They shouldn’t be asking for both

@xRetrox my point exactly & I won’t.
Looks like a few other commenters won’t either.

@CelticSavagery hey I enjoyed Battlefield 4’s single player campaign.

Your argument that Battlefield started off as a multiplayer only game & so should be considered a multiplayer only game falls flat when you consider COD was primarily a singleplayer only game & has now evolved into a massive multiplayer game as well. Battlefield had evolved. It’s not the same game as it was when it first game out. It was also only on PC. Does that mean it shouldn’t come on consoles because the first one didn’t?

$70 is still $70. When you consider COD can do multiplayer & a singleplayer campaign as well as a free to play Battle Royal for the same price & the ***** show that was the last Battlefield. I’d say I have enough reason to want more for my money.

Besides some people play these games for the campaigns, whether you like it or not

@CelticSavagery previous iterations didn’t have a multiplayer component (there wasn’t any) & the current game didn’t have microtransactions.
It also didn’t cost $70. So the answer to your question is ‘No’

You’re paying more for less (with the great opportunity to pay even more through battle passes)