Comment on Assassin's Creed is a "forever brand" because Ubisoft supported huge risks with it, ex director says: "Whereas, say, EA, you get these awful execs and they never made games and they came from toothpaste companies"

ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ubisoft codified a certain style of open world design that many other AAA releases were using as a template. He’s right, you can’t deny the impact the franchise had.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh yeah, climbing a tower to unlock a part of the map is so innovative, especially after the 15th fucking time they used it.

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    • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’ve always felt the tower thing was unfair.

      It WAS a good idea when first used. And, when imported across to Far Cry, they also tried to come up with new forms of climbing and even puzzles to get you up. Then, simply because the internet made memes about it through repeat emphasis (repeating an old mechanic alone isn’t necessarily a bad thing) they responded, took the system out, and even lampshaded it in Far Cry 5 - WHILE other devs as far as Nintendo/Zelda were copying it.

      Theres a lot to condemn Ubisoft for, but the towers thing always irked me. Call open worlds as a whole boring, but it suggests it’s not the sort of game to keep your interest anyway.

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      • TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Bro we were climbing towers in Zelda for the thing in 1997.

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      • Kaldo@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You say that and I can kinda agree with it, and I can see them agreeing with it... but I recently got FC5 on a discount and despite it all - it still felt like the exact same game as every previous one. So artificially gamey and forced in some interactions, so predictable in its plot and map exploration structure...

        I don't think it ends up feeling that different at all. Maybe you zipline up the towers today and they just discover POIs instead of removing map fog, but it's still the same crap, just served differently

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    • dukemirage@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ii didn’t use the word innovative, mind you

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• Cybersteel@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Even From and Zelda went open world.

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  • brendansimms@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Zelda is classically open world though - since the og nintendo

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• TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I feel like Nintendo 64 was the real OG adapter of open world RPGs. The success of Mario 64 and legend of Zelda had already proven the genre wildly profitable

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