This one hurts. I loved those early Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon games. Even Wildlands was mostly great. Now we’ve got Siege that barely resembles what Rainbow Six used to be, and what the Tom Clancy brand was in video games is all but destroyed.
Wildlands was genuinely a good game. Like, story wise and shit, irrelevant, but the open world roaming in coop with my brother was probably some of the most fun we ever had in any ubisoft game.
However, this doesn’t surprise me at all considering that ubisoft is creatively bankrupt for years now.
ilickfrogs@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I have such fond memories of playing Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2 back in the day. Siege is an absolute abomination and does nothing but a disservice to the franchise. But Ubisoft lacks the capacity to make an Assassin’s Creed game that’s actually an Assassin’s Creed game so no surprise there…
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Franchise rot is real. You’d think they’d learn when their most talked about games are always the early entries in a series, after the devs have hit their stride but before execs have ruined things with dumb ideas and fad chasing.
I haven’t played an Assassins Creed since Black Flag. I remember watching a preview of (I think) Valhalla showcasing the stealth. They snuck up on a boss and “assassinated” him, which… started the normal boss battle with them missing a bit of health. What’s even the point, then?