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I love it, it perfectly shows how meaningless the throphies are for anyone else but your own sense of achievement.

I know im most likely wrong, but thats how i imagine a typical anime enjoyer.

@naruball came here to say this.

Wrong choice, but would do the same.

+1

The games are super “meh” for me mostly. I think i addrd only two this year.

Its the cloud saves where the ps plus shined.

@RiverGenie Yea i dont think we will agree.

To me microtransactions are way too dangerous. I can count games where they were “ok” on the fingers of one hand. While theres hundreds of games where they decracted from the quality of the game.

Cant speak for Shadows, as I didnt play it long enough. You were right on that one, definetly not a game for me :/

Anyway no hard feelings from my side either!

@RiverGenie This is very surreal conversation for me, i have to admit.

By your logic we can have drugs in schools, since you dont have to buy em.

Do you at least agree that despite the fact that you personally dont mind, these microtransactions dont add anything to the game and shouldnt be in a game thats already full price?

@RiverGenie Wow, never thought id see a Ubisheep so brainwashed to actually defend microtransactions.

The problem is tjat the devs have an incentive to design the game in a way thats so tedious you want to buy microtransactions, even if youre too blind to realize it.

@Uromastryx Dude theres a microteansaction to reveal the whole map.

@heavyartillery56 I feel like youre half right, steam is much smaller portion of players for Shadows than it was for Veilguard. Due to the ubi subscription. More players play AC on console. Dragon Age was always more PC game.

Also credit where credit is due, despite the pushsquare always following the narrative with these AAA games, at least they report on it when these games fail to meet the sales. That doesnt happen on every media.”

Personally i also doubt it will meet thr huge Ubis expectations, despite how well it mitht do in the eyes of fanboys. But well see.

Favourite FromSoft game.

The atmosphere, world and overall feel are unmatched.

@AhmadSumadi Those are pretty interesting points.

Why does a game from the hood has to have a black guy? Plenty of white guys in the hood. Also of you asked me a year ago id tell you a game from feudal japan has to have a japanese samurai, aparently thinking thst makes me racist.

I was also thinking about Ripley(my all time favourite character) few weeks back. And i do nt think its todays culture. Both Ripley and Sarah Connor are well written, with flaws and limitations. Which makes them interesting. Theyre not these mary sues that are instantly best at everything (see Rey from star wars). Thats what people hate.

There can be female, well written characters today too, again Split Fiction for example, and everybody loves those.
Both flawed, yet interesting characters.

@Uromastryx Ye but, and please correct me if im wrong, Yasuke is a real historical figure.
The lady you get to defile is also historical figure.
The emperors armor you got to steal as preorder bonus is also real.
And its based in a real part of Japan.

I dont think people would have a problem playing as an eskymo if these things werent true. Its disrespect to history thst people, mostly japanese, have a problem with.

I dont hear anyone complaining about playing as hispanic(?) lady in Split Fiction.

@DennisReynolds In that case vocal minorities are best to be ignored

@DennisReynolds naah, there were as many racists that would boycott the game as there are now. Youre just more exposed to it.

@DennisReynolds I guess I just have a bit more optimistic view of the world.

Also if that was true, why didnt San Andreas fall under the same scrutiny? If its all just black guy main lead.

@DennisReynolds Well i dont think either are disrespectful, but than again im not japanese.
I didnt play anything beyond black flag, but the reason why shadows is held at higher standart than AC2 is that ezio was a fictional character.

Also idk where youre getting a scifi, AC is a “ historical action-adventure video game series” by Ubis own definition.

@DennisReynolds Thats great! Lets hope it hits the same overall sales, Ubi needs it like salt.

@DennisReynolds How bout the fact that you get to romantice the dudes wife, whos known in japan for being honorable and faithful?

Japanese also didnt like that you can destroy real life shrines. Im kinda 50/50 on that.
On one hand its just a game, on the other hand flight simulator doesnt let you hit the towers.

Either way, theres plenty of disrespect that a japanese person can find in this game.

@EfYI Damn, thats good that you like it. I tried it on PC and it just wasnt for me.

I dont mind diversity if its done right, this just wasnt in my opinion.
Theres definetly some racist bigots that hate the game just to hate it, but I think most people are just tired of being told theyre racists even tho they have valid criticism.
And i think criticising Veilguard for bad writing and cringy dialog is valid.

Its a 3/10 dragon age for me and 4/10 rpg. With so many great games coming out lately i simply dont have time for sutch a game.

Dont let mine, or anyone elses, opinion to detract from your enjoyment tho.

@ChrisDeku Oh *****, im sorry, my bad. Inwas chexking the wrong numbers.

Ill edit my original post.

@naruball So it didnt make enough money to justify its existence. I dont know what other definition of “tanked” you need.

It doesnt matter how many people watched it or what reviews does it get. What matters is if it makes money.

Thats exactly what im saying about shadows, it may be good, but unless it sells the crazy ammount of copies ubisoft needs, it will be a failirue for them.

@DennisReynolds I feel like our problem is that youre saying “its just another AC, its as good as AC gets”

And all im trying ot say is thst Ubisoft needed more than that. And its not more than that.

@DennisReynolds Ive acknowledged all those things. Only hard fact we have are steam charts and even taking everything you said into consideration the steam data dont tell a good story.

Id like to think i dont have a horse in this race, all im saying is that ubisoft needed this game to be and do amazing. Its only doing “meh”.
Which will not be nealy good enough to meet Ubis expectations.
Again, that is all im saying.

@DennisReynolds Whats there to adress? Your arguments are as biased as the “racist bigots” arguments are, just in a different direction.
You could say that day one steam reviews are even worse than metacritic, most of those people didnt even complete tutorial and are influenced by buyers remorse.
Its funny to see how concretly you take those data.

I said so myself, even tho steam isnt the only platform, its the only reliable data we have and they dont tell a good story for ubisoft.

Its not a complete disaster as Outlaws was, but Ubisoft really needed 9 or 10 to pull out of the hole they dug themselves into and this game is 6 or 7 at best.

@lazarus11
@AhmadSumadi I was blistfully unaware of the KCD2 drama. I guess i was wrong, gamers are bunch of toxic a-holes :/

@JustMyOpinion why would people do thst tho? Gaming community is always there to praise a good game, just look at KCD2, game that also has black people and homosexual romance options.
Why is that?

Its easy to dismiss criticism as “sexist biggot”, but its not always like that.

@DennisReynolds Its the sales that matter Dennis, not players.
Im afraid youve fallen victim to corporate speech.

Its like the SW: Acolyte being the “second most-watched series on Disney Plus for 2024” despite absolutelly tanking.

@ShogunRok It doesnt really matter how good the open world looks if its deep as a puddle with either nothing to do in it or pointless busy work.

For me the Ubi formula got stale in Far Cry 3 and it havent change much :/

I have fond memories of AC1,2 and black flag, but who knows? Maybe going back today would bore me as well. The “new” ACs dont interest me in the slightest.

@lazarus11 I have to absolutely disagree, pretry much everything about it was bad. The characters, writing, story, overall feel, combat, bulletsponge enemies even on “easy”.
It was honestly a 3

@DennisReynolds Fair point, metacritic is not a perfect way to judge a game.
On the other hand the “professionals” have a palpable disconnect with their audiance for well over a decade. I mean cmon PS gave Veilguars 8/10 too! A game that tanked to bad it broke a speed of light going to ps plus.

But theres a middle ground, watch some gameplay, some before you buy, and make your own mind. Judging game just be someone elses opinion isnt a way to go.

8/10! Thats great score! Glad Shadows is doing great amongs game journalists!

Ill probably wait few months when its free on ps plus.

Easy 10.
Pinnacle of coop games.
Me and me wife are having insane amounts of fun. Even better than It takes two

That has to be the laziest “special” controller on market…. and the price. Yea, no.

@themightyant I would argue its the lack of modern QOL that makes it great.

At least some of those, namely no fast travel and no map markers.

@thefourfoldroot1 @PloverNutter

100% agree that morrowind is best in the series.
But can yoy guys imagine modern Bethesda remaking it?
I guarantee you it wouldnt be as you imagine.
Let morrowind rest imo.

How does it play on controller?

@RBMango Id say both should be included. Especially considering the fact that disc drive has been unavailable since the Pro was announced :/

70 hours in i havent even got to the wedding -.-

Concord tax has to be paid not only by players but also other devs i see :/

@Bentleyma But Inquisition was already terrible! Filled with silly mmo like quests and blant characters.

Dragon age series is riding on the success of Origins, which is only a testament to how phenomenal that game was.

I truly hope its good. SONY being the only option doesnt do anyone any good :/

@iDreamwalker Church brother! I thought exactly the same!

@Skynet04 there was so little difference between 4 and 5 it barely matters. Id be fine with 4 too

@Yaycandy Cmon pepsimab, how can you be mad about more options. Perfo mode on pro usually is equivalent to quali mode on base, plus now you have additional quality mode that goes above anything else.

As if, for the lack of better term, “some people” arent pissed off enough with the pricetag, now it also supports ps5 pro. Cant wait for the comments.

Personally preordered yesterday, FH was the only game i was jealous of xbox owners.

Keeping eseencial only for the cloud saves at this point. The plus games werent great for the last year or two and now were getting Failguard :/

@EfYI I can look over the fact that you cant see difference between FH a GT out of ignorance.

But the fact that youre on a crusade against cashgrabs yet youre praising PSVR is sutch an obvious troll bait its not even funny :/

@Foxhound No need to call people mames dude.
Both statemens can be true, digital is the future and also its overpriced now.

Just because cars were expensive before Ford, didnt mean the best course of action was to keep your horse.