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[FoxMcChief]

Quite funny how there's more hype for the reviews than the actual game.

Here

 

[willothedog]

GoT is 83 on Metacritic. So we have 2 games, with the same theme, same score....One is trash, one is masterpiece.

I wouldn't call GoT trash, boring yes...

 

[ComputerBlue]

There’s no way this game is getting reviewed poorly, just like dragon age didn’t get reviewed poorly, do not pre-order, wait till the general consensus from actual players is out. It might be a great game, but it’s weird seeing people in this thread actually trusting these reviews.

 

[ValiantInstance]

Reading one line reviews seems like it's more of the same, so if you like Odyssey and Valhalla you'll probably like this, if not... well, better wait for Black Flag Remake I guess...
I'll play it whenever it gets into a deep deep discount.

It still feels surreal to me that my dream setting for an AC game was used not for the typical AC style I used to love, but instead it was used in a Witcher 3 wannabe that was never going to actually be as good as The Witcher.
Never in my wildest dreams I ever thought this was going to happen to this franchise.

Pretty much echoes my feelings on the series. It's been a steep fall of a cliff since Unity. I was obsessed with it in the Ezio days.

The sooner Ubisoft declares bankruptcy and someone else takes over the better. I expect they'll fuck up the Black Flag remake and use the terrible parkour system and combat in the modern games.

 

[Denton]

Czech Vortex gives 7 and calls it Ubisoft: The Videogame.
They do praise pretty well written story though.

 

[Bartski]

GHG just wanna make sure you noticed how 87 is one point less farther from 83 than 78

 

[LectureMaster]

dude you gotta give it a little break lol

I swear if my man Adam don't have love for me anymore, Imma out this forum.

 

[Rudius]

I wouldn't call GoT trash, boring yes...

It's just bloated. Remove the bloat and it's good.

 

[Raven117]

Yeah, with those scores, its a wait and see the general consensus.

Either way, wont be there day one. May buy at a steep discount when there isn't alot out there I want to play.

 

[48086]

Any word yet on if we can play the whole game as Naoe?

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

Are people actually expecting it to not review well?
Look who's reviewing it, but seriously it looked okay in the latest gameplay videos, but I wouldn't trust any mainstream sites.

If this game got good reviews ... "Its virtue signaling, can't trust mainstream reviews"

If this game got bad reviews ... "Told you the game would be crap because its pushing a agenda"

This game didn't stand a chance either way but I will be playing and judging for myself on Thursday .. can't wait

 

[Gamerfan81]

This game is getting quite a lot of 9+ scores on many review sites.

Games with 9+ scores are usually legendary games like Mario Galaxy, BOTW, RDR2, Witcher 3, RE2 and 4 Remake.

Like I said, after a month on Steam, the review scores of this game will be accurate as determined by the masses.

 

[viveks86]

Actual review or tech review? I don't remember DF doing actual reviews.

Just tech. A separate thread has been made for it now...

 

[coachmcguirk91]

It's just hilarious Ubisoft didn't think the AC formula needed a massive overhaul after AC Valhalla. I understand the game sold great, but even die hard AC fans were upset at the mediocrity within that game. It will be interesting how well this sells. Maybe AC is like COD, where gamers will buy it no matter what, but I think gamers perspective on the RPG genre is very different than 5 years ago. The standards are much higher

 

[TGO]

If this game got good reviews ... "Its virtue signaling, can't trust mainstream reviews"

If this game got bad reviews ... "Holy shit the game must actually be good".

Ftfy.

 

[adamsapple]

Ouch. That shit's not going to be anywhere near good enough. The franchise, and Ubisoft at large, are in real trouble.

OC is sitting at 82 with 100+ reviews, it's probably gonna settle at 81, 82 when it's settled.

 

[bender]

It's just bloated. Remove the bloat and it's good.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

So was this one a return to form for Ubisoft??

 

[Thief1987]

Typical mediocre and dull 6/10 ubislop, which will be scored at low 80s

Gaming industry become too predictable, it's not even fun anymore

 

[BigBeauford]

I'll never understand the excitement over these games. I played AC back in the day and was bored after 4 hours of the same crap over and over.

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

There’s no way this game is getting reviewed poorly, just like dragon age didn’t get reviewed poorly, do not pre-order, wait till the general consensus from actual players is out. It might be a great game, but it’s weird seeing people in this thread actually trusting these reviews.

Ftfy.

Don't worry once the user reviews opens up all of the highly qualified reviewers will be providing their thoughts on the game whether they actually played the game or not....

 

[GHG]

GHG just wanna make sure you noticed how 87 is one point less farther from 83 than 78

It's only a matter of time before more reviews come in.

 

[Gonzito]

My girlfriend is sitting next to me, and after reading some comments, she was wondering why people are so disappointed. An 83 out of 100 is a great score.We’ve developed such a weird mindset in this industry, if a game doesn’t score 90+, it’s automatically considered not worth it, which honestly doesn’t make sense. What I dont like from some of the footage I have seen is the enemies dont react sometimes when being hit with weapons, its a bit off putting

Anyway, I think these reviews are solid enough, and I’m definitely going to play it

 

[MiguelItUp]

There’s no way this game is getting reviewed poorly, just like dragon age didn’t get reviewed poorly, do not pre-order, wait till the general consensus from actual players is out. It might be a great game, but it’s weird seeing people in this thread actually trusting these reviews.

Some people put way too much faith into reviews and their numbers. It's like people forget that they're just "professional" personal and subjective opinions. I think looking for the overall consensus as a whole is much more effective. Are there more positives than negatives, etc.

If this game got good reviews ... "Its virtue signaling, can't trust mainstream reviews"

If this game got bad reviews ... "Told you the game would be crap because its pushing a agenda"

This game didn't stand a chance either way but I will be playing and judging for myself on Thursday .. can't wait

It's just the whole, "If the game has what I want in it, I want it to get praise. If it doesn't I want it to fail." thing. Which has unfortunately become this agenda/stance vs that agenda/stance.

I don't care for the series, I just hope that fans of the series get a game they enjoy. I know that a Japanese setting was rumored for the longest, so I'd hope that it'd be one of the better ones for the sake of those wanting it. But who knows. I guess right now it seems to be doing alright.

I'll never understand the excitement over these games. I played AC back in the day and was bored after 4 hours of the same crap over and over.

Yeah, they're just not for you, just like they're not for me. I remember thinking the original Assassin's Creed sounded neat, but was turned off by the whole "simulation" thing. Then I played it at a homie's house and realized it just wasn't my cup of tea. Tried Valhalla many years later, and yeah, still wasn't my thing at all, lol.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

It's just hilarious Ubisoft didn't think the AC formula needed a massive overhaul after AC Valhalla. I understand the game sold great, but even die hard AC fans were upset at the mediocrity within that game. It will be interesting how well this sells. Maybe AC is like COD, where gamers will buy it no matter what, but I think gamers perspective on the RPG genre is very different than 5 years ago. The standards are much higher

If it sold great there is no reason to change it.

 

[winjer]

 

[PontiusFeeb]

I just don't trust most reviews anymore. I'll wait to watch some gameplay and read impressions from real players.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

Knock a point or two off and you'll have your true return to form score.

 

[Xtib81]

My girlfriend is sitting next to me, and after reading some comments, she was wondering why people are so disappointed. An 83 out of 100 is a great score.We’ve developed such a weird mindset in this industry, if a game doesn’t score 90+, it’s automatically considered not worth it, which honestly doesn’t make sense. What I dont like from some of the footage I have seen is the enemies dont react sometimes when being hit with weapons, its a bit off putting

Anyway, I think these reviews are solid enough, and I’m definitely going to play it

Because games are basically graded from 65 to 100. The day games are graded fairly i.e with much harsher scores, then 83 will be great.

 

[Gonzito]

Because games are basically graded from 65 to 100. The day games are graded fairly i.e with much harsher scores, then 83 will be great.

Nah, there are many games with lower grading than 65 friend

 

[Topher]

My girlfriend is sitting next to me, and after reading some comments, she was wondering why people are so disappointed. An 83 out of 100 is a great score.We’ve developed such a weird mindset in this industry, if a game doesn’t score 90+, it’s automatically considered not worth it, which honestly doesn’t make sense. What I dont like from some of the footage I have seen is the enemies dont react sometimes when being hit with weapons, its a bit off putting

Anyway, I think these reviews are solid enough, and I’m definitely going to play it

Yeah, it is a really good review score. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[GHG]

 

[PeteBull]

So was this one a return to form for Ubisoft??

Bro, they gave the game huge brownie points for putting black protag into the place where he didnt belong, doing crazy genocide of japanese ppl, and still barely low 80s from biased journos who got early free codes, imagine game was actually good, it would get 90s scores instead, u can tell actual score for the game isnt more than 7/10 unless some1 is big ubisoft/woke apologists, which ofc we got plenty around the world.

Personaly i can only emphatise with japanese ppl that finally got their own AC setting only for it to be destroyed by DEI and wokeness of french canadians- if they ever made AC set in middleages poland(think of kcd1/2 or witcher games w/o magic/legends) and made hero black instead of white like 99,9999% poles are/were i would fucking be pissed too.
To black ppl/americans- think of it like this- Luke Cage living in the middle of Harlem being white jinger instead of proper black man... Thats how awful yasuke looks wearing that traditional japanese samurai armor.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

If it sold great there is no reason to change it.

Yeah, because the gaming landscape doesn't change within a 5 year period.....

 

[coachmcguirk91]

Nah, there are many games with lower grading than 65 friend

Not with a 100+ mil budget. AC Shadows is probably closer to 250-300mil budget. A AAA game of this size has review scale closer to 75-100, not 65

 

[Nankatsu]

Scores look really good in my eyes.

Now we need to see how the Pro handles the game.

 

[diffusionx]

84/82/78

 

[LectureMaster]

My girlfriend is sitting next to me, and after reading some comments, she was wondering why people are so disappointed. An 83 out of 100 is a great score.We’ve developed such a weird mindset in this industry, if a game doesn’t score 90+, it’s automatically considered not worth it, which honestly doesn’t make sense. What I dont like from some of the footage I have seen is the enemies dont react sometimes when being hit with weapons, its a bit off putting

Anyway, I think these reviews are solid enough, and I’m definitely going to play it

Low 80s is always Ubi games' scores. They almost never drop out or breakthrough this range, as is their games' quality - good production value, beautiful visual, serviceable gameplay that's fun for first 10 hours then inevitably becomes chore due to way too much copy paste contents.

It's a typical game, but it's not the game that everyone's raving about to save the company.

 

[Js562]

 

[diffusionx]

Well, I'll say this.

I haven't played any Far Cry game after Blood Dragon (which was the best Far Cry since the first one imho), so I didn't have a Far Cry fatigue like probably many people who played every single one since Far Cry 3. So I thought that I should give 6 a chance since it has some good changes there, like, there's a voiced MC, funny, cool and various companions (loved the dog to death), great FPS mechanics and all that... And for like the first 20-25 hours I loved the game, I mean, it was still Far Cry 3 I remembered, but better, stripped from some needles mechanics and gameplay systems, different in some aspects and then, well then I saw that I had like 70% of the map still left to explore, locations to liberate and was like - Man, hell no! There's no way I'm going to do all that for 80-100 more hours even if I like FPS mechanics so much, like to shoot things cuz enemies have good reactions to shots and are just fun to deal with.

Man, it's just too much and I knew that there's going to be nothing new waiting for me cuz I've seen everything the game has to offer already. You'll certainly get your money's worth if you don't mind extremely repetitive gameplay loops for hundreds of hours, but for everyone else it's just not good game design, cuz the game is huge for the sake of being huge and not cuz it needs to be for story reasons etc. I haven't played or finished any AC game since Origins and from what I've heard and seen of the rest of them, it's good that I haven't played them, even if Odyssey is not bad when it comes to characters and story. Anyway, it'll be interesting to see how I'll feel about Shadows in just a few days. Downloading Origins right now to remind myself how it's been and to see what's changed in 7 years.

The issue with these Ubishit games is that to some extent if you played one you played them all... they copy paste mechanics not just between games but between franchises. Like when AC Origins put in an eagle, all of the sudden every game had an eagle. But like in Ghost Recon it was a drone. And then every game had a loot system even ones that made no sense like Ghost Recon. I remember hearing so much about how Far Cry 5 ditched towers but it really didn't, and its mission structure was lifted exactly from The Division.

At some point it's like, fuck this lmao. But yea if you never played one or havent played one in years, it can be entertaining.

 

[Arsic]

It’s going to depend on user feedback from here. It hit a critic score for me to consider. If user feedback is good too on pacing and combat, then I’ll jump in.

Still tempted by the new bleach and atelier game though too

 

[damidu]

standard ubi product it seems. ill check later.

 

[FubukiJ]

An 83 meta score is impressive for film, tv and music. Or for gaming genres casuals deem "not being worth paying $70 for" like 2d platformers, fighting games, AA character action games, shmups, etc.

For mainstream open world AAA games, where the reviews act more like buyers' guides and the score is based more on "will the average normie like this" rather than the game journo's actually feelings on the game, an 8/10 just means "pretty good". Red Dead Redemption 2 gives you an idea of how overinflated the scores are. That game has a 97 metascore and some of the shittiest gameplay mechanics, character control and mission design I've ever seen in a game.

 

[Zacfoldor]

An 82, I guessed 79.

You know what, this isn't good enough to save this game. Where are all the "it'll review great" this ain't fucking great. This is a generic middling score. I'm perfectly happy with it. It'll tank the game or at least it'll allow the game to tank without the metacritic or surround buzz saving it. The game is nothing special. Skippable, just as we thought. Standard ubisoft fare. To the people paying full price and buying this day 1.

Game will only sell to nostalgia fans, won't break thur to the larger market. For Ubisoft this review score seals the deal. Time to start selling off IP to the highest bidder.

I'm not saying this to make fans mad. I'm saying this because it is true imho.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

 

[missiles]

My girlfriend is sitting next to me, and after reading some comments, she was wondering why people are so disappointed. An 83 out of 100 is a great score.We’ve developed such a weird mindset in this industry, if a game doesn’t score 90+, it’s automatically considered not worth it, which honestly doesn’t make sense. What I dont like from some of the footage I have seen is the enemies dont react sometimes when being hit with weapons, its a bit off putting

Anyway, I think these reviews are solid enough, and I’m definitely going to play it

Because it's another formulaic sequel that doesn't improve or develop on what's gone before it. From the reviews it's just more of the same, a bloated, predictable rehash that feels stale. People have got better games to play.

 

[Xtib81]

Nah, there are many games with lower grading than 65 friend

How many AAA games have scored below 65 in the last decade? The reality is that the vast majority of games get between 70 and 95.

 

[Fake]

I voted 75~79. I can work at Bloomberg now.

 

[Bartski]

2:47

 

[Elios83]

Seems like it's in line with Origins and Odyssey.
So it's good game, but it's disappointing to see that Ubisoft isn't able to deliver something that stands out from their usual formulaic titles.