tbh i haven't really liked a ubisoft game since like far cry 4. i liked how far cry 5 let you have human companions that could drive you, but i hated the country guitar twang menu music and the 'america except apolitical' setting that somehow portrayed the evangelical christian apocalypse cult as 'hippies' and had you work for an explicitly republican, homophobic guy running for governor or something as one of the 'good guy' sidequests. i have similar writing qualms with far cry 6 but mostly i just didn't like the 'supremo' backpacks and how you couldn't unequip them, like i don't feel much like a real guerilla with 6 LAW AT-rockets strapped to my back welded to a metal box, it looks fucking stupid and impractical and i basically never even use the backpack abilities anyway. plus no more human companions, as cool as the alligator and wheelchair dog are they can't drive my car while i use the super special turrets i spend my hard earned resources to unlock like they could in far cry 5.

ALSO ALSO in far cry 6 the FAL rifle does like significantly less damage than every other assault rifle despite shooting the biggest bullets? (nerd note: the FAL is a 'battle rifle' and shoots 'full sized rifle bullets' unlike assault rifles, which shoot shorter versions of the bullets even if the caliber is the same - the FAL uses 7.62 x 51mm rounds whereas the AK-47 uses 7.62x39mm rounds - the second number after the x being the length of the bullet's case where the propellant is stored) Bullshit! i should be able to use that FAL on single shot effectively, not having to dump my entire 20 round magazine into the basic unarmoured enemy types to get a single kill.

also assassin's creed hasn't been good since like Unity (i didn't like black flag personally either, i don't like dual wielding swords of the same length [let me use a sword and a pistol at the same time! its a pirate game! he's doing it on the cover of the game but you can't do it in gameplay!] and the boat gameplay was tedious imo), but one of my friends has Mirage and it seems pretty ok compared to the recent crap, just not enough for me to spend 70 to 80 american bio-survival tickets on it.