Comment on Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
I mean it is a diverse portfolio, but only on the very shallow surface level. Like COD or FIFA, AC games are the dame 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.
By diverse I believe he meant the DEI stuff.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
what do you mean by diverse IP? Ubisoft has notoriously done the exact opposite by eliminating every distinguishing characteristic of their games and converging all of their designs into assassin’s creed with another name. Ubisoft has one of the least diverse portfolio of any AAA company, and that’s saying something.
the only good (and diverse) things that come out of Ubisoft have been from a small team inside that somehow missed all the rituals to sell their souls to Asmodeus so they keep making bangers like Rayman and the recent Prince metroidvania.
jeeva@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sadly, I think this person is railing against “having more than just white guys featured” (as if that’s forced, when you start making games in new locations around the world) rather than the bland Ubi-style open-world map checklist that you might expect to be the sane complaint.
pyre@lemmy.world 1 month ago
oh. going through their profile certainly suggests that way. it’s weird to call that “diverse IP”… but weird is pretty on brand for that crowd i guess.
hesusingthespiritbomb@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m railing about corporate making a mediocre game and then jamming some culture war shit into it in a blantant attempt to distract from the fact that the game is mediocre.
Also AC has had “more than just white guys” featured since the first game.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No one jams culture war shit into things like people complaining about culture war shit.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
The first few games were actually good, though. AC2 is one of my favorites.