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[-] Koopa_Khan@lemmy.world 111 points 8 months ago

I have a quintuple-A bridge I’d like to sell this guy

[-] LordCirais@pawb.social 11 points 8 months ago

Do you happen to have any insurances I could buy for the bridge?

[-] Koopa_Khan@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Not yet, but I have a plan to release coverage in the future. If you put a deposit down now I’ll give it to you sometime I determine in the future

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

This has big J. Wellington Wimpy "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today" vibes.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.world 110 points 8 months ago

At a time when AAA often sucks so much, it sounds really out of touch to say your overpriced game is "quadruple-A".

Xfinity "10G" energy

[-] zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 8 months ago

He's a pretty out of touch ceo so it checks out

[-] pandacoder@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

It sounds about as out of touch as their neurons.

Sucks that the idiots forcing these stupid ideas get buckets of money though.

[-] dojan@lemmy.world 80 points 8 months ago

I bet it’s just assassins creed.

Sail the seas, activate ice bergs to unlock the map, gather five million useless trinkets.

[-] illi@lemm.ee 40 points 8 months ago

From what I read the game is pretty much a repurposed Black Flag naval gameplay.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 25 points 8 months ago

I mean that is what it spun off from. It's been in development hell all the way from then.

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[-] proper@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

I played a closed beta quite a while back and it’s pretty much this. Was all set to play the whole weekend but only made it like 2 hrs in before uninstalling. it feels like just fetch quests, and checking off boxes, and I didn’t find it fun at all.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 points 8 months ago

It'd have to be pretty damn compelling to not just play black flag again instead

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 8 months ago

I play one game at a time until I beat it or decide it isn't worth playing. I'm currently playing Black Flag for the first time and am about 35 hours into it.

I'm still holding interest, but it's pretty damned repetitive and full of fetch quests and check boxes.

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[-] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 64 points 8 months ago

Fuck me, that is some quadruple-A-level bullshit from our man Yves. I played the closed beta and I am sorry to say that this game is going to tank, hard. Its gameplay loop is waaaay too simplistic to be making those grandiose claims.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby 26 points 8 months ago

Just like battery, the more A it has the smaller it is, but the price stay the same or much more expensive.

[-] notannpc@lemmy.world 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Is that the same shit company that was telling us to get used to not owning games? Why would I spend $70 to borrow something they probably won’t finish making before release?

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[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 42 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Big 'Comcast 10g' vibes here.

Ubisoft is consistent with being on my blocked producers list on steam.

[-] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wow it's like almost every day I learn about a new feature Steam has lol

[-] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 15 points 8 months ago

Holy shit I didn't know you could do that.

[-] YeetPics@mander.xyz 12 points 8 months ago

Fuck yea! I've blocked Ubisoft, EA and a handful of other shoddy producers/their ilk. It's not worth even seeing their offerings these days.

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[-] stephan262@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago

Maybe it's how long it's been in development, maybe it's how many times that they've changed direction, or maybe it's just that Ubisoft just put so much garbage in their games, but I predict that this game is going to be a trainwreck.

I was intrigued when they first announced it, but now I'm just so fucking sick of Ubisoft and their bullshit that I'm now just curious to see just how much of a mess it turns out to be.

[-] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago

You mean when it was a game and not a shitty live service treadmill?

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 9 points 8 months ago

I'm going to keep eating the popcorn I got out for Suicide Squad.

[-] muse@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

Finished the campaign before the bucket, eh?

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 8 points 8 months ago

Oh, I don't intend to play either game. I just enjoy watching games that are bad for the industry crash and burn in the market.

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[-] FunkyMonk@kbin.social 37 points 8 months ago

oh shit we making shit up? ARMORED CORE 6 WAS SEPTUPPLED S.

[-] JCreazy@midwest.social 36 points 8 months ago

Quadruple of $0 is how much they'll get from me.

[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 34 points 8 months ago

All AAA games and AAA studios are garbage.

Long live the indie game developer

[-] aniki@lemm.ee 13 points 8 months ago

Just wait a year or two and then play the stuff people are still talking about. It's hilarious how often it's indy games.

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago
[-] Vespair@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I don't like FromSoft games personally, but I can recognize that they are well-made and aren't problematic in the ways that other major AAA studios are.

So I'll just acknowledge that of course there will be some notable exceptions, despite my hyperbolic use of "all" in my original comment. I'm a huge fan of BotW and TotK and Nintendo certainly counts as a AAA studio, but I think those games are exemplary and also non-problematic in the ways other major studios are. But despite these very real and very notable exceptions, I think my statement still stands pretty well as a general rule.

Oh and the only Santa Monica games I've played are Twisted Metal: Black (2001) and God of War (2005) so I'll simply abstain from an opinion on them as it doesn't seem fair to me to judge them based on experience that is now two decades old.

edit: also I see you were downvoted and while I know that doesn't matter, just want you to know that I didn't downvote you and I don't think you said anything inappropriate or off-topic so I wish whoever did had not.

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[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 28 points 8 months ago

Oh yes. I will buy this when the price drops to five bucks.

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[-] Odo@lemmy.world 27 points 8 months ago

I hate the term "Quadruple-A". The entire point of Triple-A was to be the biggest of the big. There's no cap on that size.

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[-] Computerchairgeneral@kbin.social 23 points 8 months ago

Sure it is, Yves. If any game would qualify as quadruple A it's the Black Flag spinoff that's been in development hell for years. Genuinely curious how long this game lasts, even if it does get good reviews and finds an audience. Feels like Ubisoft would have cancelled this ages ago if the government of Singapore hadn't been providing subsidies to help fund the project.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 21 points 8 months ago

The 4th A is for "Assholes"

[-] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago

Doesn't the fourth A overflow and actually make it a 00F tier game?

[-] Crayphish@sh.itjust.works 19 points 8 months ago

Their AAA games are mid so I suspect their 'quadruple-A' games are also mid. Price 'em how you want, I'll pass anyway, thanks Yves.

[-] BmeBenji@lemm.ee 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There’s plenty of other comments ragging Ubisoft for their anti-consumer business practices so let me just point to those as a preamble and say “what they said”

… HOWEVER I remember someone on Youtube, maybe SirSwag, saying something years ago that rings true about Skull and Bones. For a big company, they’re taking notable risks by investing so heavily in unique multiplayer games. Basically every other big budget multiplayer game I’ve seen has been trying to compete with Call of Duty or Fortnite by being functionally the same thing with minor differences.

Splinter Cell: Blacklist, Rainbow Six Siege, For Honor, Shootmania Storm, Riders Republic, and Skull and Bones, are not like most other games that come before. Yes, Ubisoft is a massive corporation and fuck that noise, but as a consumer of video games I appreciate that they are at least putting a good amount of the money they trick people into spending into studios with designers and developers who have creative minds and they’re supporting that creativity. Games like For Honor and Rainbow Six Siege can’t come from indie teams with no funding.

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[-] Toneswirly@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Cant remember the last "AAA" game i enjoyed.

[-] Sabata11792@kbin.social 13 points 8 months ago

Your not supposed to enjoy them, you pay so the shareholders get to enjoy them.

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[-] cooljacob204@kbin.social 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I won't buy another Ubisoft game after the nft shit and them deleting old accounts with purchased games.

[-] FrankTheHealer@lemmy.world 16 points 8 months ago

Quadruple the reasons not to buy it.

[-] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I was excited when they first showed this game.

Now I wish it had either been delayed again or outright cancelled. Not that they legally could have, but to release this and not admit that its a massive L is just sad at this point.

Im not looking down at Ubisoft anymore. Now I just feel pity. This is literally begging.

[-] nick@midwest.social 13 points 8 months ago

Doesn’t matter to me, I ain’t playing this shit.

[-] finthechat@kbin.social 12 points 8 months ago

Quadruple Ass

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Leave it to Ubisoft to find new and inventive ways to fuck up. They really do lead the industry in making shitty decisions, setting a firm example for other companies in exactly what trends won't be popular. Bravo.

[-] LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

At this point I wonder if there are some internal politics that want this project to fail and be over. 70 price tag, live service but only on ubisoft platform, ignoring the most demanded features, etc.

It's like they are tired of a project that was a money black hole for years and they just want to pull the plug.

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[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months ago

So you get an extra A for every 2 years of development, is that how it works?

[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 months ago

Aw man I was kinda looking forward to this but this reminds me it's Ubisoft. Which is a shame because I'm a sucker for their open world formula.

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