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Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows (insider-gaming.com)

submitted 2 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Something must be going on at Ubisoft. They cancelled their Tokyo Game Show stream without any explanation as well.

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[-] hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I feel like a lot of companies that put the most emphasis on making diverse IP make the worst products. I don't think that the lack of quality is due to diversity. Rather, I think that companies with soulless corporate leadership have a habit of producing mediocre content and attempting to obfuscate said mediocrity by making an otherwise uninspiring game a referendum on the culture war.

I'm willing to bet that there are developers who can make a game that is more organically diverse and genuinely fun, but that they don't get an honest shot due to the state of modern gaming.

Anyway this game is gonna be crap, IGN is gonna give it a 10/10, and Polygon is gonna go on a tirade when it underperforms in the same way every AC game since black flag has underperformed.

[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I mean it is a diverse portfolio, but only on the very shallow surface level. Like COD or FIFA, AC games are the same every year / 2 years with a different skin.

I remember when it was actually different 10+ years ago, like when we got AC Unity, Black Flag close by, with some Far Cry 3 on the side. Their open worlds had similar elements, but it was still very different at the core.

Now it’s just repetitive and boring.