Ubisoft Forward 2020

[Johnny Novgorod]

Far Cry 6
Alright, an antagonist played by someone we all can recognize! Hopefully, this guy will be just as evil as Gus was in Breaking Bad. Hopefully there will be more than the standard "climb a tower to unlock points of interest". And actual knife kills this time, please. Don't know what that was missing in FC5

I don't know about New Dawn but FC5 makes a joke about not having to climb towers anymore. As far as I know the last time they did that was in FC4.

 

[Nick Calandra]

I don't know about New Dawn but FC5 makes a joke about not having to climb towers anymore. As far as I know the last time they did that was in FC4.

Yea there wasn't towers in Far Cry 5. New Dawn either. I really enjoyed Far Cry 5, but haven't finished New Dawn yet. Should go back and do that, the games are really just fun co-op sandboxes now with fun settings to explore. I'm curious of what changes they're gonna bring to 6 to freshen it up a bit, definitely sounds like from the trailer you can either choose to help people or be the bad guy, which would definitely be interesting and subvert the unlikely hero thing they've done for years now.

 

[Hades]

I've always been a bit disappointed by Assassins Creed Valhalla. The setting seems a big step backwards when compared to earlier games.

Origins and Odyssey stood out exactly because the settings were so rarely used in video games. Ancient Greece might have a large present in popular culture but its almost entire absent in video games and even in the rare times video games delved into ancient Egypt they rarely touched Ptolemaic Egypt. The ancient world is vastly underused in video games and so despite their basic gameplay it felt really fresh that Origins and Odyssey allowed you to explore the ancient world.

Valhalla doesn't have that. The setting is medieval England which is as basic of a setting as you can get. If most medieval series don't take place in England then they are at least heavily inspired by medieval England. You could argue vikings could keep things fresh but vikings also among the most commonly showed medieval tropes. Assassins Creed is changing from settings that we rarely get to settings we always get. It was the classical world and not the gameplay that made the earlier games feel fresh so Ubisoft ditching that but keeping the gameplay seems a step back.

 

[Aiddon]

God, this presentation was so goddamned boring. And if history has been any indication, the games they show will not be very interesting when they're finally released.

 

[Dalisclock]

Ubisoft has A LOT they're not showing off yet.

Gods and Monsters or whatever it's called now.

Skulls & Bones which has been MIA for years now, I'm thinking they did a complete re-work on it to make it an actual pirate RPG and not just another live multiplayer game because I don't know how you really continue building that out with more ships and stuff like you would R6 siege with new characters and stuff. Having different captains with abilities though, that would be interesting.

Beyond Good and Evil 2 was a next-gen game when we first saw it years ago already, so I'm thinking you'll see more of that at the next Ubisoft Forward

Skull and Bones I'd be really interested in if it were essentially Black Flag 2. The Live multiplayer thing does nothing for me so it being delayed hasn't really mattered much to me(kinda how a feel about pretty much all multiplayer only/MMOs). I have been vaguely curious why it's disappeared with nary a peep which to me suggested some structural problems.

BG+E2 looked like yet another UBISOFT GAME last time we saw it, so my interest flat out died. Oh, it has different planets? Which means we have MORE MAPS to put stuff all over. I tolerated it in AC:Odyssey but that was my limit. If Ubisoft reveals they're doing something new and interesting with it, I'll go back to being interested.

Gods and Monsters is the only one I have any real interest in at this point, but we know almost nothing about it right now and the devs have been tight lipped about it.

 

[Samtemdo8]

Skull and Bones I'd be really interested in if it were essentially Black Flag 2. The Live multiplayer thing does nothing for me so it being delayed hasn't really mattered much to me(kinda how a feel about pretty much all multiplayer only/MMOs). I have been vaguely curious why it's disappeared with nary a peep which to me suggested some structural problems.

BG+E2 looked like yet another UBISOFT GAME last time we saw it, so my interest flat out died. Oh, it has different planets? Which means we have MORE MAPS to put stuff all over. I tolerated it in AC:Odyssey but that was my limit. If Ubisoft reveals they're doing something new and interesting with it, I'll go back to being interested.

Gods and Monsters is the only one I have any real interest in at this point, but we know almost nothing about it right now and the devs have been tight lipped about it.

Both of you forgot to mention a new Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia

 

[Dalisclock]

I've always been a bit disappointed by Assassins Creed Valhalla. The setting seems a big step backwards when compared to earlier games.

Origins and Odyssey stood out exactly because the settings were so rarely used in video games. Ancient Greece might have a large present in popular culture but its almost entire absent in video games and even in the rare times video games delved into ancient Egypt they rarely touched Ptolemaic Egypt. The ancient world is vastly underused in video games and so despite their basic gameplay it felt really fresh that Origins and Odyssey allowed you to explore the ancient world.

Valhalla doesn't have that. The setting is medieval England which is as basic of a setting as you can get. If most medieval series don't take place in England then they are at least heavily inspired by medieval England. You could argue vikings could keep things fresh but vikings also among the most commonly showed medieval tropes. Assassins Creed is changing from settings that we rarely get to settings we always get. It was the classical world and not the gameplay that made the earlier games feel fresh so Ubisoft ditching that but keeping the gameplay seems a step back.

Yeah, I'm not really that interested in the Viking thing. Everyone's been doing the Viking thing and it's not exactly an uncommon video game setting. Origins and Odyssey kept my interest because I got to roam around Ancient Egypt and Greece in a way I rarely get to see in video games. The setting, particularly in odyssey, got me to put up with a lot of gameplay that was functional but not particularly amazing.

I'm not saying I was pining for Ancient Rome like some people were(some people were convinced there was gonna be an Ancient Trilogy because of Origin and Odyssey) but Vikings feels really....safe? Uncreative?

 

[Dalisclock]

Both of you forgot to mention a new Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia

I've never played Splinter Cell. I've given up on Prince of Persia.

 

[Samtemdo8]

I've never played Splinter Cell. I've given up on Prince of Persia.

Splinter Cell surpasses Metal Gear Solid at being a Stealth game.

Play Chaos Theory especially.

 

[Adam Jensen]

Splinter Cell surpasses Metal Gear Solid at being a Stealth game.

I'm not sure why people always compare these two. They're too different to be truly comparable.

 

[BrawlMan]

I'm not sure why people always compare these two. They're too different to be truly comparable.

I was never one for it either. The only reason people did this was because both were popular.

 

[Hawki]

I've always been a bit disappointed by Assassins Creed Valhalla. The setting seems a big step backwards when compared to earlier games.

Origins and Odyssey stood out exactly because the settings were so rarely used in video games. Ancient Greece might have a large present in popular culture but its almost entire absent in video games and even in the rare times video games delved into ancient Egypt they rarely touched Ptolemaic Egypt. The ancient world is vastly underused in video games and so despite their basic gameplay it felt really fresh that Origins and Odyssey allowed you to explore the ancient world.

Valhalla doesn't have that. The setting is medieval England which is as basic of a setting as you can get. If most medieval series don't take place in England then they are at least heavily inspired by medieval England. You could argue vikings could keep things fresh but vikings also among the most commonly showed medieval tropes. Assassins Creed is changing from settings that we rarely get to settings we always get. It was the classical world and not the gameplay that made the earlier games feel fresh so Ubisoft ditching that but keeping the gameplay seems a step back.

We might not often go to Egypt and Greece themselves, but lots of fiction, games included, takes inspiration from them. No less than the Medieval period.

Both of you forgot to mention a new Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia

Can't forget something that doesn't exist these days.

 

[sXeth]

Watch Dogs Legion sounds interesting but from people who've played it worry it's going to get stale. YongYea already pointed out in his 4 hour playtime he ended up doing the same recruitment mission, in the same location fro two different character who also have the exact same lines as one another.

That was a big problem in 2. Besides the missions being super-bite sized (which initself isn't an awful concept, though you'd expect some meatier ones), the same locale with the same guards would also be used for an optional quest, then again for a "co-op mission", and possibly also have a collectible in it.


Although that same thing leaked into Origins (idk how many times I broke into the same forts on 2, 3, or even 4 separate quests). I don't know if thats they don't have enough ideas, don't have anyone with good thoughts for level design, or they're trying to be "realistic" and theres only so many spots that make sense to be fortified hostile zones, or what.


Or an attempt to be seamless (because WD1 actually had fairly solid mission/level design... but also used actual levels that were not omnipresent in the open world.)

 

[Aegix Drakan]

Honestly, I just love what I'm hearing about Legion.

Basically sounds like a procedual Lite-Immersive-Sim with huge potential for emergent gameplay. Yeah, apparently it's a bit messy/Janky, but that just makes me want to play it more.

 

[Dalisclock]

Honestly, I just love what I'm hearing about Legion.

Basically sounds like a procedual Lite-Immersive-Sim with huge potential for emergent gameplay. Yeah, apparently it's a bit messy/Janky, but that just makes me want to play it more.

You know, if they can make it like Saints Row(aka a Dicking Around Sim), I'd be totally down for it.

GIVE ME MY SEPTIC TRUCK!

Also, since Skull and Bones was mentioned earlier.

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Yay, it's gonna be "LIVE SERVICE".

To qoute a wise man.

It's like Algebra. Why are you mixing letters and numbers when you can fuck off?