whoever decided that gaming should move in the direction of life service deserves to sit through 5000 hours of Suicide Squad

@SuperKendoman

3 ай бұрын

Life service, what a typo! Companies really do want you to play their live service games forever so they can milk you for all you're worth. I'm gonna pass on anything that is sold as a live service game from now on. I used to play Destiny during the PS3 era and eventually got bored of it and moved on to better things

@wkadalie

3 ай бұрын

@@SuperKendoman Mainly they want guaranteed cash.....4 years to develop one game....and then the games journalists tear it apart for dumb reasons sometimes. And then they can't meet their projections. I wish gamers would put their money where their mouths are. Stop buying live service..... which a lot of us have done..... but when we get full fledged sp games. We need to seriously support them. And stop saying dumb stuff like if it's not over 80 hours...then it's not worth full price.

@SuperKendoman

3 ай бұрын

@@wkadalie I haven't touched anything of that sort for over 10 years. Indie games have been thriving and I had a lot of fun playing Dead Cells and The Messenger lately

@wkadalie

3 ай бұрын

@@SuperKendomanYou didn't play GOW 2018 or Ragnarok.... Returnal or Balders Gate 3. Yes you need to be discerning. But they've released a few really great AAA games. Don't dismiss all of them.

@kallmannkallmann

3 ай бұрын

@@wkadalie but live service hardly shield you for bad reviews. also bad reviews hardly seen to matter to the majority of gamers now. Atleast from enstablished publishers.

With Ubisoft's reputation now, I can't even be excited whenever they announce a new project.

@francescofioroni70

3 ай бұрын

Ubisoft released this year Prince of Persia The Lost Crown: that's the new Ubisoft to me, not Skull and Bones a product of 10 years ago

@Historybuff_769

3 ай бұрын

I feel that, tho I'm still excited for assassin's creed codename red nothing else tho

@almightyxay1977

3 ай бұрын

@@francescofioroni70Is it really that good? I gotta play it

@info0

3 ай бұрын

@@almightyxay1977it's Metroidvania in Prince of Persia skin. It is fun, but it's nothing like old PoP games.

@francescofioroni70

3 ай бұрын

@@almightyxay1977 it is a 9/10 game, universally acclaimed

Selling skins for a single player $70 game is wild

@snwlvl634

3 ай бұрын

Even crazier when the skins are like $20 each 😂

@info0

3 ай бұрын

imagine paying 70$ for games. Ridiculous pricing and you can blame Sony for starting this trend. I hear they want to sell "normal" games for 80$ in near future and they want to go Digital Only...

@TheRealUcanUwill

3 ай бұрын

To me, selling anything in non free to play game is wild, not including expansions of course. But I am just a dinosaur, I get they need to earn money, it is business, but man, I remember when idea was - make the best product possible and earn cash that way, over current idea, whatever ass it is. I will just say, If first Diablo game was like Diablo 4, Diablo 4 wouldn't exist. Diablo as multi sequel franchise only exists, because first and second game were very good and that is how fanbase was born, and that is how you supposed to do it... Today though, like I am so glad 9 years ago, WB already ''DECIDED'' that we all be playing Suicide squad non stop in 2024, they built entire game on idea of selling us shit, fucking briiant 9 years of dev time. Do you have more of them brilliant ideas, dear CEO, who gets paid 15 mil. a year most likely?

@BerzerkJaeger

3 ай бұрын

@@info0 thats already happening bro, most AAA games on ps5 cost 85 dollars

@65firered

3 ай бұрын

"Skins" with Ubi$oft is usually stright up weapons and armor.

Less than 2 years ago this company thought NFTs were the FUTURE OF GAMING ... ..........

@krumpirko8888gaming

3 ай бұрын

Steam knife gambling is fine?

@katsu1715

3 ай бұрын

yep, in that comment they were obviously trying to imply that knife skin gambling is perfectly fine, what are you nuts??@@krumpirko8888gaming

@carsonrush9845

3 ай бұрын

@@krumpirko8888gaming thats not gambling its literally just a transaction u pay for a product and get it there is no risk of loosing the item or your money

@idoeli382

3 ай бұрын

​@@krumpirko8888gamingI guess in the game itself you can actually use the knives, and with nft's they just sit there?

@velvetinedrapes4359

3 ай бұрын

@@krumpirko8888gamingNo its not. Gambling in general is not fine, its a predatory industry and corrupt to the core. But if you mean Counter Strike skins. That's just as cringe as NFTs and your attempt to shift the light AWAY from Ubisoft and their terrible idea involving NFTs and aim elsewhere just highlights you're a drooling mouth breather. Nice try though

Locking character customization behind a paywall and battle pass in a single player game? I'm out.

@hannahw7023

3 ай бұрын

Not that it's justifiable in a multi-player game, either

@h.n.r_funi3324

3 ай бұрын

It's concerning that you're "out" only just now, this franchise sold out years ago

@TheShitpostExperience

3 ай бұрын

I'd guess the main reason to keep everything in a "service" and prevent users from using mods and shit like that instead of buying skins and any other customizations, again, a Ubisoft L.

We went from pre-ordering games to pre-cancelling games. Don't have a lot of faith in this setup. I expect them to rename the series from Assassins Creed to Greed.

@alexschofield5093

3 ай бұрын

Returned skull and bones last week when I realised there was no offline mode

@zuz2366

3 ай бұрын

😰 no

@TheTwinkelminkelson

2 ай бұрын

Not even Assassin's Greed, just Greed. XD

I hear 'live service', I look somewhere else

@Jaguar21010

3 ай бұрын

Agreed

@tablettablete186

3 ай бұрын

What about Helldivers 2?

@fish5645

3 ай бұрын

@@tablettablete186 What about Helldivers 2?

@tablettablete186

3 ай бұрын

@@fish5645 It's a live service, so I am curious to hear what OP thinks of it

@nahqiv

3 ай бұрын

@@fish5645 it's made not to abuse consumers. That being said, I personally have no interest in it, since there basically isn't any narrative element besides "fight for Earth/freedom!"

Ubisoft always doubling down on the monetization scams

I don't really see much appeal for seamlessly switching between games. I usually play one assassin's creed game at a time.

@BrokenOpus

3 ай бұрын

Not going to work too well for us with blu ray discs too.

@stunitech

2 ай бұрын

Same. They're kind of built to be played that way and it doesn't make sense to me swapping between valhalla and origins off the cuff. It would be jarring in my opinion

That skins story was weirdly dystopian

@Iffy350

3 ай бұрын

It’s sad.

@lpk822

3 ай бұрын

fr

@Sparticulous

3 ай бұрын

Its true, which is sad

@velvetinedrapes4359

3 ай бұрын

Yeah it's rather depressing. I imagine his lil bro and all his friends HAVE to watch those shorts and tiktoks where they put like 4 different clips together to keep the ADHD riddled brains from losing focus

@summersendband

3 ай бұрын

It's capitalism in a nutshell. Bet you act the same way in other aspects without realising it.

This obsession with Live service gives me a headache

@Volfur2251

3 ай бұрын

sadly its not going anywhere, thanks to how much success companies keep getting from them

@Daniel-ll2cl

3 ай бұрын

Lets Stop buying live service games

Watch Ubishit sell cosmetics for 850 paid currency and then only have an option to buy either 840 paid currency or 1600. They've done this in every game so far.

@stunitech

2 ай бұрын

That boils my piss too. Hate it and it's so exploitative

Remember when we only had to expect a good polished game? man, those were the days.

@francescofioroni70

3 ай бұрын

Well Makes no sense cause last Ubiaoft games are polished. Skull and Bones works properly

@antagonistes_

3 ай бұрын

@scofioroni70 hey what's up Ubisoft developer, hope they pay you good for saying this.

@NilfgardianNationalist

3 ай бұрын

@@antagonistes_ ignorance is bliss

@velvetinedrapes4359

3 ай бұрын

@@francescofioroni70they said a GOOD polished game. Skull and Bones may be polished but its absolute junk. A GOOD game that works on release. Thats all we were after and we'd have paid full price.

I pray for the days of old when an assassin's creed game could actually impress me

I remember a ubisoft insider saying that they purposefully allow leaks around spring in order to allow for hype buildup, to gauge public interest, and get free feedback.

@HMalem

3 ай бұрын

... And then disregard the feedback

@michaelgarlock9477

3 ай бұрын

@@HMalemno they just look for the good comments and go "see people love it! Let's double down"

@velvetinedrapes4359

3 ай бұрын

Disney did the same with their Star Wars movies

Odyssey was one of my favorites. Never felt like I had to grind or pay money, but thats because I am a completionist. And they put a lot of effort into the side missions. Of course the game is a huge time commitment, but isnt that how open world games are meant to be played? Who plays open world games just for the main story and calls everything else a "grind"? And how do you make sure the game stays challenging for people who do side missions, if you design it for people who did not?

@jojocasimir1118

3 ай бұрын

Same I love odyssey is my favorite ac game after rouge with ac odyssey I felt like I wasn’t grinding I was having fun and the story was good and funny

@ZAINILEXTHE1ANDONLY

3 ай бұрын

It's one of my favorites, but it's problem comes with how bloated it is

@alpsalish

3 ай бұрын

I never was grinding and always enjoy AC Odyssey.

@alpsalish

3 ай бұрын

​@@ZAINILEXTHE1ANDONLYwhat is bloat if you enjoy the world so much?

@Originalchili

3 ай бұрын

​@@KaVaKaZinot imo, origins was mostly just desert, the map quality goes to odyssey imo, the fighting was similar, but odyssey refined it. I also liked the side quests more in odyssey than origins

So let me get this right: We have Uplay or Ubisoft connect launcher, whatever they called it, don't know cause i have not been playing Ubi games for a while where all the AC games and other Ubi titles are allocated and we will have a live service hub for their new AC games from now on with battle pass, more microtransactions on top of already in-game AC shop which contain microtransactions in a single player narrative games which have 3 or 4 editions - silver, gold, deluxe, ultimate? Seriously? 🧐 Are you that greedy?

@Sald8Trin

3 ай бұрын

Truly a quadruple A experience

@AS-lv5fw

3 ай бұрын

These men would take up to the last penny of every NYC hobo's begging cup if they could get away with it. If dante was alive today, I'm sure there'd be a special ring in hell for CEOs and entrepreneurs.

Never had an issue in odyssey. Side content was so good I was doing them all before continuing the main quest.

@ltw126

3 ай бұрын

Odyssey was a repetitive mess.

4:55 I guarantee you that this is the result of deliberate social engineering. And it's pretty ironic too given that the ones who fall for it are the ones who ought to be ridiculed.

@white6505

3 ай бұрын

its sad. they will conform with everything.

@krishp1104

3 ай бұрын

bruh if my nephew said that shit its on sight with his friends 😤

@mre1995

3 ай бұрын

It's nothing new really, think of stuff like pokemon cards back when we were kids. Peer pressure makes money and a lot of it.

@krishp1104

3 ай бұрын

@@mre1995 seems like you got social engineered L bozo

@mre1995

3 ай бұрын

@@krishp1104 Not something I ever got into, just what I witnessed.

5:28 Sounds like your little brother is exactly the type of person who will feed the beast for decades to come… How sad for him.

@CallMeTeci

3 ай бұрын

Wrong... people like him will make the experience of gaming worse for EVERYONE. We already saw this in the past ten years with "generation mobile" and how we went from $10 DLC packs to $20 skins deemed as "acceptable".

@Corion2121

3 ай бұрын

@@CallMeTeci - thank you for proving my point. 🙏🏾

@Ricky_Spanishh

3 ай бұрын

​@@CallMeTeciwhat do you mean wrong? What do you think feed the beast means?

@connorwill6400

3 ай бұрын

He misread i think. I think we are all on the same page here.@@Ricky_Spanishh

@wreday720

3 ай бұрын

​@@CallMeTeci i dont think you know what 'feed the beast' means

5:00 that story about your nephew is really fucking dystopian

Just sounds DOA

@razvandavid1510

3 ай бұрын

This is DIC (dead in conception)

They are finally making AC Japan and they are fck doing this a live service. and they are making it NOW, like if current situation with game industry still didnt give anyone a sign that it's going to suck and likely will be financial fail edit: oh boy looking on the whole list for next 10-15 years looks like ubisoft has literally nothing interesting to offer. Black flag remake is something id say i would be interested in, but not now. Now i have 0 hopes for this as i strongly believe whatever they may do, it will still come out worse than original, either ruined by bad decisions, microtransactions, you name it, it will be bad.

@jordanbauquier1210

3 ай бұрын

People said the same thing about AC Valhalla and yet I think it's one of the AC who had most copy sold. Also for the next 10-15 years, that's seems to be specifically focus on the AC Franchise. Ubisoft is a company big enough to work on different type of project without necessary being a new AC game.

@vert2552

3 ай бұрын

@bauquier1210 name without googling last games released by Ubisoft Try naming anything interesting they may release Valhalla sold well, partly because people were starved for experiences like that, anything... decent... from AC franchinse, but i would say even if it did to some exctent hit the market, i wouldn't consider it a good title, although its a personal opinion. I played all AC games in the past, but last ones? i am not eager to touch anything they release as simply im done with lack of polish, grind, microtransations in "AAAA" priced games

@jordanbauquier1210

3 ай бұрын

​@@vert2552 It wouldn't be faire for me to name the future release from Ubisoft because I'm working in the video game industry, so I kind of now what's gonna be release or not soon enough ^^ I haven't played Valhalla, and I agree with you that at some level, anything you give to the player within the AC Franchise, they're gonna take it wether it's good or not anyway. But from what I've seen valhalla deserved their success for real. Again I don't know much and I haven't played it, but it seems to have a lot of cool content with 3 differents story mode (Your character, Your clan, and another one if I remember well ?) That being said, I understand and agree 100% on what you're saying, there is no reason to add microtransaction in a AAA solo game. Especially when it's lacking of polish and stuffed with grind content. On the opposite, I'd say it would tend to alienate your players, something that usually we tried to avoid hahaha Maybe you could try to give a shot to Mirage, I didn't played Odyssey and Valhalla because they looked kind of bad compared to what I wanted to see from an AC game. And honestly I wasn't expecting much from Mirage but it help me to make my peace with the AC brand, it's a cool short and detailed game. Of course it's still in a openworld setting with the useless light RPG component and the weird "souls like" fighting system. But honestly it's already a better step into the right direction on what a lot of player might love from AC. (And the "sucess" shown from Mirage's release, that the players might want more experiences like that) Sorry for the big text, but I think it's better to take the time to explain everything instead of doing a quick short message that won't explain totally what I want to explain :p

@FabuBrik

3 ай бұрын

Play Ghost of Tsushima instead.

@velvetinedrapes4359

3 ай бұрын

@@jordanbauquier1210 I'd argue Valhalla sold well in part because people wanted a free roam Viking game.

I would describe modern Ubisoft as a dystopian company

In other words their going to microtransaction and battle pass the heck out of all games, single player and multi.

It should be the animus loading room from the old games where you can choose an avatar such as Ezio to run around as and have the game you want to play load in as you parkour towards it. It won't happen because it's Ubisoft, which means it'll be a menu with a round cursor, but I can hope.

Modern Ubisoft games = 2nd Job that you paid $104 CAD for…

I was intrigued when they first announced it, learning the details has completely killed it for me.

Their last game I enjoyed was AC Rogue, that was 2014.. A decade later I'm just suprised they still exist.

@lordkrauser

3 ай бұрын

Same. Couldn't get into Unity and just never looked back. I did look at Origin, odyssey, and Valhalla but all I kept wondering is why they didn't just make stand-along action rpgs without adding in more dumb AC stuff.

@JustBill82

3 ай бұрын

Origin was a work of art, but other than that, same.

@Venom-xd9st

3 ай бұрын

Origins was amazing, I played lots of odyssey too but eh it wasn’t great overall. Played maybe 10 hours of Valhalla and it seemed alright but haven’t touched it since

@musicmind7582

3 ай бұрын

@@JustBill82 I really liked Origin and Odyssey

@velvetinedrapes4359

3 ай бұрын

Black Flag for me. I loved 1 and 2 then they had Brotherhood which dragged on and I was bored out my brains near the end. Revelations I started but again I was so over it with Brotherhood that I never bothered. 3 was really buggy so I never bothered until I played BF and went back to finish 3 but it became a real snoozefest. After seeing all the bug in Unity I never bothered then they had that weird time travel crap in Unity or the London one where you go forward to shooting planes at the Eiffel Tower or some crap like that?? Wtf is that all about? They got too high on their own farts and ego

5:20 This is everything but wonderful ...

4:24 You sir are cool for NOT buying any extra skins 🤙

It just makes me mad that I had always wanted an AC game that took place in Japan, and when they actually make it of course it has to release as part of this weird ecosystem of AC games. To be honest, I loved Origins and Odyssey, and a samurai inspired AC similar to those two, with such huge and interesting worlds (controversial statement I guess, but I loved how big yet full Odyssey's map was) can be an amazing game.

I wish Fortnite never existed.

@PrOxAnto.

3 ай бұрын

If not for Fortnite there'd be another "big" game that would incentivize it more, just like how Fortnite got inspired by other games before it. Sadly it'll never cease to exist and the only way for people to disagree with it is ignore the games and actually play fun games that don't fall into this live service shit.

@wolvewick4414

3 ай бұрын

you can not play it.

@m.digidy4457

3 ай бұрын

Palworld is the next Fornite. Mark my words!!!!!!

@Ghlostyc

3 ай бұрын

@@m.digidy4457sadly, unless they really deliver insane on the final product, there’s no way.

@Ghlostyc

3 ай бұрын

Fortnite isn’t that bad, and honestly it’s battle pass and store isn’t AS predatory as these other games. I have a friend who has never spent a dime and has dozen of skins just from playing. And it’s FtP

I know it's an unpopular thing to say, but I loved playing Oddessy! I played it a year after release, so maybe it was different for me, but when I played it, I had zero problems with levelling up. That was because the side content was just as much fun to me as the main story, so I never felt like I needed to grind, let alone buy this XP-booster.

@WendellSexson

3 ай бұрын

I was also unaware of that issue with Odyssey because I had been grinding the whole way

@alpsalish

3 ай бұрын

I enjoyed the game very much and generally people proved that to Ubisoft.

@frankcl1

3 ай бұрын

Exactly! I've no idea why people say there was grinding in these games, side content is not the same as grinding.

Maybe they're going for a Hitman World of Assassination model with a hub that not only the games are all there, but the previous ones are slightly improved based on the last release. It could work on the modern ones, but I have my doubts that they will do what IOI did.

@gizmo1433

3 ай бұрын

Maybe, but IOI clearly wanted to make a good game first and foremost. WOA might be considered a live service, but it isn’t plagued by microtransactions. Only problem is that it’s always online, but WOA proved that you can make a frequently updated game that’s actually good and not just trying to milk money.

@PapaiPlatina

3 ай бұрын

@@gizmo1433 I agree 100% with you, that's why I finish saying that I doubt Ubisoft will do exactly the same hahaha, but I'm sure they'll drawn a little inspiration of WoA hub.

the absolute state of everything where a live-service approach to AC actually sounds promising to me... I'm tired, boss I've been replaying AC Rogue a little bit lately and like. I miss when *singleplayer games* were like that, where you unlocked special stuff from completing challenges and completionism, like robes from the other games or whathaveyou. Buying cosmetics in a singeplayer game was dumb when Unity and Syndicate did it, it was even worse when the RPG trilogy did it, it's bad now.

Hey Luke, thanks for all of your content you put into the channel! Keep it up man

“Projects” are things you have to do at work. Ironic how live services have literally turned into menial grudge work. Made by CEOs….

Best part about having "no skins" or "noobskins" it that you can wreck these people regardless :D.

@apoorvatripathi7304

3 ай бұрын

The best feeling in CSGO is dominating the enemy with their own guns with expensive skins.

I’d like to see another gamr inline with immortal pheonix rising.

This sounds like they are selling the solution to a new problem. I can understand creating a hub from AC that acts not only as a launcher but consolidates the Ubisoft Connect challenges and rewards into a more efficient system. But this seems like a platform to sell mtx with a hub attached.

@johndodo2062

3 ай бұрын

All of that is trash

If they want me to be invested in live service assassins creed, they should bring back the MP from brotherhood - blackflag. I could play that mode for hours.

@assassinwolf2719

3 ай бұрын

They are. The multiplayer is code-named Invictus and will be part of the Infinity Platform. Infinity will be structured similarly to Halo: MCC.

kinda like the concept they've shown with the "nexus" in black flag and unity if im not mistaken, there were hints of something similar the way of the hub and choosing the desired experience

Why are they putting battle passes in assassians creed???

@SuperKendoman

3 ай бұрын

Assassin's Greed, there we go, fixed that for you ❤️

@fish5645

3 ай бұрын

Because Skull and Bones failed them, now they need to squeeze that lost money out of every product they have

@johndodo2062

3 ай бұрын

​@@fish5645if there were any common sense in the world, that decision would only cost them even more money

@velvetinedrapes4359

3 ай бұрын

Cause piggies will pay. Bethesda did the same with Fallout 4

Lol, if Ubisoft thinks that this is a selling point, they're out of their fuckin' mind. Why can't they just make a good game?

@johndodo2062

3 ай бұрын

They thought nft was a good thing. They aren't exactly intelligent over there

When devs describe a game as Live Service, I run for the hills. Just means the game at it's core isn't the priority. The shop will run perfectly though!

When i think about the ezio trilogy and thinking about AC now I feel like tony soprano when the ducks in his pool fly away

These games are fun if you play one every 5 years. I had a blast with Odyssey and got the platinum trophy after 220 hours lol

AC odyssey is my favorite AC, i did not buy the xp boost, but enjoyed all the content as it became available and thus was actually overpowered all the way through the game. Had a blast without having to purchase anything from the store.

@alpsalish

3 ай бұрын

Exactly

@Nick-mq9vz

3 ай бұрын

I didn't buy the XP boost and didn't have to grind at all. If anything it made you experience more of the game in between story missions. I played on Hard and got the platnum.

This time it'll be an AAAAA game. 😂

I love that you use AC 2,Brotherhood and Revelations soundtracks for subtle background music to your videos. It's BEAUTIFUL!

I'm not touching anything by Ubisoft these days. Let me guess, this game is a Quintuple A game that'll be 80 bucks?

"Infinity".... Infinity. God damn, fuck Ubisoft.

Tbh I never once felt like AC odyssey was a grind the only way you would be under leveled in that game is if you ignored all side content and tried to speed run the main story lmao

@frankcl1

3 ай бұрын

Same thing for me, people calling good quality side content grind feels weird to me

@SuperHeroGod

3 ай бұрын

@@frankcl1 Yeah all the criticism it gets are bogus, they really perfected the AC formula with Odyssey. Hopefully Infinity is similar to it.

@are3287

3 ай бұрын

The side content is trash fetch quests and requiring you to complete them - or rather enticing you to buy an xp booster so you can skip the shitty fetch quests which is really the core of this design - is shitty game design. Especially the way level scaling works in the game. Makes no sense anybody could defend this let alone claim that Odyssey had a good AC formula in it. Assassin's Creed peaked with the Ezio trilogy, after that they never did that whole Assassin stuff well anymore. Rogue and Black Flag were still good on their own merits but the Assassin and out of animus stuff in those and later games was always the worst part of the game.

@frankcl1

3 ай бұрын

@@are3287 armors do not scale with the level in the game so xp boosters are not very useful, you're clearly supposed to earn xp and items at the same time while exploring and doing side activities. And I'm not sure what you mean by "fetch quest", it's been a while since I last played but I mostly remember quests involving infiltrating enemy forts and camps

@SuperHeroGod

3 ай бұрын

@@are3287 Wrong, wrong, wrong. Most of the side content was about wiping out the cult and hunting down mythical creatures, not fetch quests. You are completely clueless probably didn’t even play more than 10 hours of the game. Like I said - the criticism it gets are bogus, thank you for proving my point.

Where did the Ubisoft that made the R6 Vegas, GRAW and the ezio trilogy go? Those days were fucking amazing

At least in AC Odyssey, the side quests didn’t feel too grindy since they were so story driven

@MrRaxicorniopholus

3 ай бұрын

They still were grindy

live service gaming destroyed the industry. Thanks.

I hate the COD hub. It’s incredibly bad

I'm amazed this series is even still going. I've played, like, half the pre-Origins/original AC formula games, but Origins is around the time I actually started thinking criticially about the series. I liked Origins and loved Odyssey (even tho, as we all know, they aren't really AC games). But Valhalla, among other things, just felt like it was doubling down on all the things that I was beginning to hate abt the series' new direction (needlessly huge worldmap, overreliance on magic and fantasy over historical fiction, emphasis on combat over stealth, no focus on the titular creed or the brotherhood, etc). I cannot stand Valhalla. Coming from someone who wanted a "return to form," Mirage was just disappointing tbh And now, live service games...

My guess is that the Black Flag remake and the other remake are being done primarily to make them Infinity-compatible and not because they really need it in order to be viable today.

Looks like another failure 😭

Great to hear your thoughts on this! It's interesting the different selling models and methods games and companies have used over the years.

My problem with this is if Infinity is a poorly coded as the Connect App then the Infinity part is going to cause crashes and generally ruin everything run underneath it ...... Over half the crashing problems in Valhalla were caused by the Connect App (especially the Cloud Saves) and not the game itself and Odyssey still has problems with quests that are server side (Weekly and daily Ori quests, the Laughing Philosopher Quest that constantly disappears, etc.) and fed to the game through the Connect App Ubisoft has good ideas but like I tell the STEM students I mentor: The best idea in the world is completely worthless if you fail to execute it properly. What made Tesla a genius wasn't his ideas (in fact he was dead wrong about many things) but the execution of those ideas into something that works

I'm imagining something like Abstergo or Assassin HQ where you can jump in the animus and select any ancestor (i.e. any game).

I remember odyssey took me 90hrs just to beat the story side quests were mandatory luckily I liked the way the world looked heck even Valhalla I’ve got 90hrs in and am no way near the power level I need to be to continue on

@SuperHeroGod

3 ай бұрын

90 hours for the side quests is insane lol it took me 100 hours to 100% the game + All DLC on Nightmare difficulty

@seanguinn

3 ай бұрын

I put 250 hrs for everything in Odyssey. At like 90 right now for Vahalla

@henryowens396

3 ай бұрын

If you're playing Valhalla on normal, you'll be fine in the zones you're like 40-50 power levels below, you actually might find it funner because it's not as incredibly easy!!!!

I’d love a coop AC game again, last real fun I had on any AC game was unity and playing the heist mission in the mansion stealthy with friends and doing the clan leaderboard each week was really fun

for AC odyssey I just enjoyed it and played it a lot. I think I effectively grinded but enjoyed that. I never buy xp boosts. Those are for people who want to speed through everything for the destination instead of enjoying the journey. I do think later on they let you make a level 50 character at start (maybe if you beat it or maybe because of DLC)

I don't know about the AC odyssey rant, I never paid the xp boost and just explored the map and did the side stories to get stronger and by the end of the game my level was on par with the enemies, I guess the xp boost is only for those who want to rush the main story as quickly as possible but even then, you can play on easy mode or something, idk what's the issue there, I imagine that it should never have been an option in the first place but you can completely ignore it

I played both Odyssey and Valhalla and I didn't, for a second, feel the need for XP boosters. In fact, I overleveled in both games. The issue that you mentioned may affect the people who rush through the story and who want to finish the game in order to tick off the checklist. For all the others who take their time, this is not an issue.

what mouse is that you use?

I played Odyssey, never bought the xp booster, and never had an issue with the XP. Yes, I had to do side content, but that's what I go to open world games for anyway. Playing an open world game just for the main story is like buying oreos just to scrape the cream off.

I do find it funny that Assassin’s Creed’s main story has always been about defending the weak and helpless from the corporate overlords who do nothing but take from them for unknown reasons. Ubisoft would be riddled with Templars in real life lol

I didn't have any problems with AC Odyssey's levelling rate and I never purchased any "boosters." BUT I treated the game as an rpg and planned on doing a ton of side-quests anyway.

The assassins creed 2 music in the background is very nice.

Great video but I was honestly struggling to see the graphic with the yellow line on white background

I honestly had 0 problem with xp in AC Odyssey. I was typically at or over level for missions, and I didn’t buy the xp booster. AC Valhalla however, I had to grind 180 levels to be able to play the last mission.

Ubisoft has forgotten what makes a game fun.

The move they should’ve gone with was, after black flag using the base that they build in that game with the whole animus experiences and just keep releasing games about specific roles in history. They never cared about the original story after AC2 so we would’ve been better off without the misuse of the IP

I didn't have a probably grinding in Odyssey cause the side missions and activities were actually fun and allowed me to actually explore the world... and this is coming from a fan who didn't pay for that extra shit

I played oddysey without the XP boost and it was great. on the hardest difficulty, no grinding, no problems.

What does this mean for physical discs? They say you can still buy Red as a boxed product, but does this “hub” mean they are basically moving away from physical releases?

I do like the hub idea. Since for AC at least could the thread that connects the past with the present. I was always interested in the modern situation of ACs world. I suppose watch dogs is a small peek into it. The hub aka infinity could be where all of those modern narrative goes. As you play the other AC games you find out some information to unravel the Templar plot in modern time. Those projects could be stuff you do In infinity. Missions and the sort that relate to the modern narrative. If you don't care about that aspect then no need to get the projects.

Honestly Ubisoft has been heading into a direction like this for the AC series since AC Brotherhood and they only expanded it in 3 and with that minor success they start up talks of a multiplayer Ac game some of which remnants we saw in unity but now with live service models it was inevitable this be the next step

I’ve been an assassins creed fan my whole life, and this is the first game where I just can’t get hyped at all for it.

i feel like assassins creed infinity should be the old multiplayer only with maps inspired by the theme of the countries from the later assassins games and remaster older assassins creed mulitplayer maps. I would like to see that over mulitplayer mixed with single player stuff unless it was cooperative story stuff like two player co-op with red would be interesting because both protagonists would approach a mission differently over just one coming in to complete it.

11:31 I wouldn’t be surprised if each location is sold separately. 🤣

I may be wrong but this is how I’m seeing it: The games that release will be just that, games that you can complete. Infinity is a live service they are using to connect all these games if people want to continue going back to those games, like raid events, holiday cosmetic stuff blah blah blah. BUT it seems that the live service teams and the general stories, quests, gameplay, etc are all tied to their own games. If my assumption is correct, this keeps the live service team separate enough from the mainline game teams to not force padding and whatnot into the mainline games via dumbing down or slowing down things. Now Valhalla is an example of them padding the game with that mindset but hopefully things can change when infinity launches. I’m an optimist.

@Volfur2251

3 ай бұрын

from a company that put micro transactions into all their single player games lately, i doubt there be any separations

@thevolta89

3 ай бұрын

@@Volfur2251 You could be right. 😔

Helldivers 2 did the "battlepass" the only right way... Making it 100% accessible for free if you play the game enough, but also open to be bought to unlock sooner! If it's not done like this in a game I already have to buy, I will not ever but the game!

@takemeseriouslyplx2124

3 ай бұрын

And also, the "battlepass" in Helldivers 2 never disappears! You don't have to rush, grinding xp to get everything.

@Volfur2251

3 ай бұрын

i wish it had another name, calling the system in helldivers 2 as a battle pass feels wrong

Feels like Ubisoft is aware that it's only a matter of a few years before they go down and out so they're just trying to squeeze as much juice as they can from their IPs before the party is over.

@velvetinedrapes4359

3 ай бұрын

Second this.

I was looking forward to a Japanese themed AC title but with this I'm less interested then I was before. I wasn't hyped for the game and I'm even less so now. Being someone who actually enjoyed Odyssey I feel they will be way to monetize heavy for people to enjoy it. I pray it will stick to things that don't impact the solo story experience.

Last ubisoft game I bought was AC2 with dlcs. That being said.... I played through AC Odyssey and had a great time for about 15-20 hours. That's when I felt the xp was falling short, but since I was on a PC I snatched a trainer and gave myself xp boost that way :). Still, I have to say game wasn't any better, it became dull but that was it. Finished it just to finish it. Didn't play the DLCs, not very interested. I know trainers are not on console but I suppose we're going to have these kind of games every now and then cause "we" are still buying it. HOWEVER, seeing as the cost of videogames increases and how many live services flop... I'm sure Ubisoft is scared now when they see SuicideSquad and Skull and Bones performance :)

Hear me out: this will be the return of Desmond miles I don’t know if you’ve seen the interview of his voice actor, but he’s essentially mentioned that the plan for Desmond was that he would eventually get to a time where he time travels all sorts of different characters at any time, potentially without the animus. This sounds familiar

I wouldn't mind a modern assassins creed with gunfu gameplay

Ubisoft has done a great job over the years of getting me to care less and less about Assassin's Creed with each release.

I wonder if they'll take the model of riders Republic and build off of that for the hub world. It's a paid game with a shop, battlepass, etc. There's also other sports to buy, but the base game is good enough for me. There's still things you can get in the shop for earned bucks, but of course, there's a premium currency for cooler stuff.

Is that a blood clot on ya thumb?? Shit look gnarly

when i played odessy i never felt the grind or never paid for xp items but i 100% the game because i like doing that in AC games

Luke the hair is going crazy this vid

I think that ac infinity could be a good idea but not with Ubisoft at the helm. I like the idea from a story telling perspective of the hub world being the start of the modern day story and you the player have to explore different historical settings through the animus in search of something. But based on the leaks and Ubisofts track record, I see this game instead having aggressive monetization with a gameplay loop similar to far cry 6’s post game. (I.e. redo the same missions over and over again with the explanation being a never ending war between two factions)

Cosmetics, season passes, skins, battle passes, lootboxes. Any of this stuff in a game or even mentioned in the initial press release of it, I skip.