FarCry imo is the only good one of the "Ubisoft Open World games"

[sXeth]

No I was thinking of the newest Ghost Recon game which complete deviates from its roots.

Ghost Recon was supposed to be a essentially the more wide open battlefield version of Rainbow Six, a Tactical Squad based Shooter, now the newest game is this:


The last good Ghost Recon game was Ghost Recon 2 for the original Xbox. Heck same with Rainbow Six, the last good one was 3: Raven Shield.

Thats the only one I played, co-op granted, which always mediates a game somewhat (I did try singleplayer and my AI companions just kept blowing cover constantly then watching me get shot). AI aside the gameplays fine, but I'd be surprised if there even was an actual writer on the game staff to inject anything interesting into the dull flat "realistic" game.

My experience with Rainbow Six was back in the first one or two games, and I mostly just remember awful controls, terrible UIs, and gibberish AI. Perhaps the tactical squad sim-shooter genre isn't my cup of tea, or I'm just forever prejudiced from having been introduced to it in its awful infant days with R6 and SWAT.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

No I was thinking of the newest Ghost Recon game which complete deviates from its roots.

Ghost Recon was supposed to be a essentially the more wide open battlefield version of Rainbow Six, a Tactical Squad based Shooter, now the newest game is this:


The last good Ghost Recon game was Ghost Recon 2 for the original Xbox. Heck same with Rainbow Six, the last good one was 3: Raven Shield.

Thats the only one I played, co-op granted, which always mediates a game somewhat (I did try singleplayer and my AI companions just kept blowing cover constantly then watching me get shot). AI aside the gameplays fine, but I'd be surprised if there even was an actual writer on the game staff to inject anything interesting into the dull flat "realistic" game.

My experience with Rainbow Six was back in the first one or two games, and I mostly just remember awful controls, terrible UIs, and gibberish AI. Perhaps the tactical squad sim-shooter genre isn't my cup of tea, or I'm just forever prejudiced from having been introduced to it in its awful infant days with R6 and SWAT.

The 3rd game is where its at, the first 2 games at this point are dated as all hell, play the third game especially with the Raven Shield 2.0 mod:

 

[Neurotic Void Melody]

I am pleasantly surprised and immediately suspicious of this [small] mostly[/small] positive opinionivity towards these things that I also like. Primal seemed that a lot of people took it far more seriously than it took itself. Quite a tad entertaining for a bored insignificant mammal.

 

[Squilookle]

Have you tried Driver San Fransisco? It might be one of the most under rated racing games of last gen, its either that or Acvitivsion's Blur.

Was Blur open world like Driver: San Francisco was though? I played it a bit but thought it was a circuit racer- a glorious offspring of Need For Speed underground and Mario Kart.

Seriously though: Driver kicks so much ass.

 

[Saelune]

...I like Ubisoft open-world games. No I dont have a gun to my head. Hell, the only reason I dont play AC anymore is because they ruined the plot they had going with AC1, 2, Brotherhood and presumably Revelations. Then 3 fucks it up and Im out...though the AC collection was on sale on Steam...and I did kinda... buy it...

Ubisoft games could be better...they could be worse though too. I think they should push more co-op fun.

So, out of curiosity, did you play Black Flag? I didn't see it on the list but that's the last one a majority of people will admit to liking(for good reason).

Black Flag is after they ruined the plot. I do own it though, but who knows if I will ever bother to play it. I worry the lack of investment in the plot will be too distracting.

 

[Samtemdo8_v1legacy]

...I like Ubisoft open-world games. No I dont have a gun to my head. Hell, the only reason I dont play AC anymore is because they ruined the plot they had going with AC1, 2, Brotherhood and presumably Revelations. Then 3 fucks it up and Im out...though the AC collection was on sale on Steam...and I did kinda... buy it...

Ubisoft games could be better...they could be worse though too. I think they should push more co-op fun.

So, out of curiosity, did you play Black Flag? I didn't see it on the list but that's the last one a majority of people will admit to liking(for good reason).

Black Flag is after they ruined the plot. I do own it though, but who knows if I will ever bother to play it. I worry the lack of investment in the plot will be too distracting.

My wish is Ubisoft Reboots this whole franchise and focus on what made Assassin's Creed good.

Focus solely on the assassinations and the historical settings, and cut out the whole Abstergo/Memories Sci Fi stuff right the fuck out.

I just really wish for an Assasin's Creed game that takes place during The Hundred Years War England/France.

 

[Saelune]

...I like Ubisoft open-world games. No I dont have a gun to my head. Hell, the only reason I dont play AC anymore is because they ruined the plot they had going with AC1, 2, Brotherhood and presumably Revelations. Then 3 fucks it up and Im out...though the AC collection was on sale on Steam...and I did kinda... buy it...

Ubisoft games could be better...they could be worse though too. I think they should push more co-op fun.

So, out of curiosity, did you play Black Flag? I didn't see it on the list but that's the last one a majority of people will admit to liking(for good reason).

Black Flag is after they ruined the plot. I do own it though, but who knows if I will ever bother to play it. I worry the lack of investment in the plot will be too distracting.

My wish is Ubisoft Reboots this whole franchise and focus on what made Assassin's Creed good.

Focus solely on the assassinations and the historical settings, and cut out the whole Abstergo/Memories Sci Fi stuff right the fuck out.

I just really wish for an Assasin's Creed game that takes place during The Hundred Years War England/France.

It certainly would be fine. The whole memory thing was a great idea...when it cared about its plot and was setting up Desmond eventually becoming a master Assassin in the modern world and trying to take down Abstergo/Templars once and for all...but nope. Kill him off and drag it out. We dont really need a memory thing as a reason to be a badass assassin in historical wherever.

 

[Hawki]

My wish is Ubisoft Reboots this whole franchise and focus on what made Assassin's Creed good.

Focus solely on the assassinations and the historical settings, and cut out the whole Abstergo/Memories Sci Fi stuff right the fuck out.

Why would you need a reboot for that though? You could just start making AC games that focus on that, you don't need to erase the series to achieve such a goal.

I'm fine with soft reboots in general, but am far more skeptical towards hard reboots.

 

[Phoenixmgs_v1legacy]

Or you can just play Dishonored, it's everything a game like AssCreed should've been.

 

[Squilookle]

It certainly would be fine. The whole memory thing was a great idea...when it cared about its plot and was setting up Desmond eventually becoming a master Assassin in the modern world and trying to take down Abstergo/Templars once and for all...but nope. Kill him off and drag it out. We dont really need a memory thing as a reason to be a badass assassin in historical wherever.

My understanding was they killed off Desmond because he was hated by every living thing under the Sun.

Please don't go back to just assassination. The first game was too boring for words. 2 and Black Flag are where it's at.

 

[Saelune]

It certainly would be fine. The whole memory thing was a great idea...when it cared about its plot and was setting up Desmond eventually becoming a master Assassin in the modern world and trying to take down Abstergo/Templars once and for all...but nope. Kill him off and drag it out. We dont really need a memory thing as a reason to be a badass assassin in historical wherever.

My understanding was they killed off Desmond because he was hated by every living thing under the Sun.

Please don't go back to just assassination. The first game was too boring for words. 2 and Black Flag are where it's at.

They killed him off because the games were clearly leading to a 'modern day' AC and they didnt know how to add in modern weapons.

 

[BrawlMan]

I find it funny nobody ever talks about Far Cry Instincts. It seems to be almost forgotten. That was actually my favorite of Far Cry games (I own the 360 version). I played Far Cry 2 and I didn't like it. I never bothered with the rest, because I swore off Ubisoft after the Rayman Legends fiasco. Plus, their game bore me.

 

[Squilookle]

It certainly would be fine. The whole memory thing was a great idea...when it cared about its plot and was setting up Desmond eventually becoming a master Assassin in the modern world and trying to take down Abstergo/Templars once and for all...but nope. Kill him off and drag it out. We dont really need a memory thing as a reason to be a badass assassin in historical wherever.

My understanding was they killed off Desmond because he was hated by every living thing under the Sun.

Please don't go back to just assassination. The first game was too boring for words. 2 and Black Flag are where it's at.

They killed him off because the games were clearly leading to a 'modern day' AC and they didnt know how to add in modern weapons.

I thought they only put the modern day stuff in as a framing device because they thought players wouldn't be interested in a purely historic game. Then to their surprise everyone loved the historic stuff and hated the boring modern bits, so they dialled it back and eventually killed off the world's worst leading man. I'm not convinced the series was heading for a modern assassin role or they just would have straight up set the games there to begin with.

 

[Arnoxthe1]

I find it funny nobody ever talks about Far Cry Instincts. It seems to be almost forgotten. That was actually my favorite of Far Cry games (I own the 360 version).

I played Instincts Evolution, but yeah. I loved it. HOWEVER, as I said above, that was more Crytek's thing than anything. Like an alpha of Crysis that was pretty good. The problem with those two games though is that you need an Xbox 360 at least to play them since they were never ported to the PC. I think that really hurt them in the end.

 

[BrawlMan]

I find it funny nobody ever talks about Far Cry Instincts. It seems to be almost forgotten. That was actually my favorite of Far Cry games (I own the 360 version).

I played Instincts Evolution, but yeah. I loved it. HOWEVER, as I said above, that was more Crytek's thing than anything. Like an alpha of Crysis that was pretty good. The problem with those two games though is that you need an Xbox 360 at least to play them since they were never ported to the PC. I think that really hurt them in the end.

Actually, Instincts was developed in-house by Ubisoft. Crytek had nothing do with the spin-off.

 

[Something Amyss]

I've only played Primal and I hated it. It takes an interesting setting and then proceeds to bore me to death. As opposed to being boared to death, which is more interesting but also more painful.

 

[Something Amyss]

My understanding was they killed off Desmond because he was hated by every living thing under the Sun.

That's not true. both of his fans greatly miss him.

They killed him off because the games were clearly leading to a 'modern day' AC and they didnt know how to add in modern weapons.

They still don't, evidently, given Origins.

Unless you believe the conspiracy theory....

 

[an annoyed writer]

I really dig Far Cry 5. The writing is rather weak, but otherwise the game gets rid of some of the series? worst tendencies and habits while keeping most of the good ones. I also love the setting, it reminds me of my childhood :3

 

[SckizoBoy]

Unless you believe the conspiracy theory....

Said conspiracy theory being? (For those who live under a rock...)

WRT AC, I've mentioned this in (an) other thread(s), but given how far back they've gone, they should've just dropped the AC tag and given it some other franchise title if they really wanted to go this route. BF was barely an AC game (awesome game, just not an AC game), and assassins/templars aren't even a thing in Odyssey. May as well call AC:Oy 3PS Far Cry: Hellenika.

I'd like AC to go back to the Crusades and have a game centred on Altair's sons, and it's high time the series went back to that era.

 

[Hawki]

Unless you believe the conspiracy theory....

Said conspiracy theory being? (For those who live under a rock...)

Yeah, I'd like to hear as well.