General gaming discussion

If they've gone to this extent, I just pray they've brought back Guy Savage. The fact it was removed from the HD Collection and everything after was a travesty.

No mention of a Watch_Dogs game at the Ubisoft Forward show. Me very sad now. Very!

Really strange they didn't have it in the trailer, but even stranger that it's a Sunday, so not sure if maybe it's an error altogether.

Apparently it's the same date as the original release 20 years ago but Sunday sounds dodgy alright.

Yeah, not sounding great from those.

When Ubisoft are good, they're good. Plenty of their open-world games have been thoroughly enjoyable and even despite the Ubisoftedness of those games (resource gathering where you have a lot yet never enough, aggressive monetisation and "time-saving" mtxs, map icon overload, repetitive mission design etc), a lot of those games are still incredibly fun and enjoyable to play. They'll rarely set the world on fire, but for relaxing in an evening and just enjoying the game, they can be great.

A big part of Ubisoft's problem is always taking what works and then just bombarding you with it, with annual (or at least now bi-annual given how development times have increased) releases and just shoving franchises down your throat. It's hard to get too excited for the new Assassin's Creed when everything we've seen is just a minor evolution of the previous games.

So at least with SW Outlaws, it's a new franchise (off a well-known IP obviously), a new take on the SW universe rather than just going lightsabers/Jedi, and so is built off new ideas and gameplay for the SW universe. There was enough reason to have A New Hope.

Im still reserving judgement on Star Wars: Outlaws. Ubisoft are being very coy on what they're sharing to the media. I also still cant justify spending that much on a game.

I keep wanting to try Avatar but then I remember how painfully dull Farcry 6 was, which was mad as the game was trying so so hard to be entertaining

My favourite part of the game was simply exploring. Once you get your flying buddy, the game really opens up. Each biome has a uniqueness, the crafting/collecting is done like a survival game (higher quality plants/animals only show up in certain conditions such as thunderstorms, high heat, night time, when a certain animal is nearby, etc) and it's actually fun to just go out and mess about. It's constantly ruined by combat with humans, and the story is Navi good; humans bad; kill them all. Unless you play on the higher difficulty, it's too easy but higher difficulty is simply less health, more damage kind of affair and the combat is very repetitive after a while. The flying is pretty cool.

But I recommend everyone check it out if possible because it really is a stunning world they created. Just a pity about the story/combat.