how did this happen

Just a few more polygons bro, we just need a few more polygons man all we need is to make the graphics look just a little bit better and we can sell millions bro please bro we just need the hair to be a little more realistic and everything will be fine.

Politishit aside, Ubisoft's philosophy drifted over time. If you go back far enough, they were genuinely trying to make very naturalistic, immersive games before they realized how tolerant g*mers are of formulaic bullshit.

I think now verisimilitude just isn't on their radar anymore. After years of copy-pasting formulas, they don't even have the memory of the games those formulas were originally based on. They're no longer aware that a videogame world even can be naturalistic. The worlds might look graphically immersive, but Ubi truly views them as nothing more than an assortment of gameplay elements. Having the environment react realistically to the player's actions is not a consideration that is even paid lip-service.

This isn't just shown through their iffy programming, but also through questionable design decisions. Look at the way modern Far Cry constantly throws enemies at you no matter where you are or what you're doing. Ubi will not allow any realism or atmosphere because they are solely focused on making the player engage constantly with the game's systems.

Ubislop with another masterpiece

To be fair starshit sells no matter what so why bother trying

For any !g*mers and !commenters actually wondering why this is happening, it's what happens when you give DLSS and FG to dogshit devs. It's poorly optimized on top of looking like that.

Hogwarts Legacy is the same slop as this and was the best selling game of the year because foids bought it, see also Animal Crossing. There's just no continual growth making games/media for men any more because men don't buy anything, population decline, disparate impact laws, culture warrior freaks, etc. The mobile gaming market makes more than the PC and console market combined, and it's driven by women playing candy crush - the age of moids is over, women won.

Darn, thats some sloppy slop.

DEI

Wait you can murder slaves in black flag? Why didn't anyone tell me?

Culture wars really have taken over everything in the West and as far as media goes, the woke/SJW/whatever side won big. Only in the last year or two are they starting to take some big Ls that might swing things back to the middle.

Hired dudes who got useless video game degrees instead of people with actual vision and talent. Keep in mind that even 10 years ago Asscreed was mostly bottom tier schlock for Ubisoft that was only made due to executive mandates because its rasy to pump 'em out and they sell decently.

"data driven" design crushing out any meaningful talent. dudes can't even copy paste correctly

Being half baked garbage is part of the Disney Star Wars brand

!foidmoment

Why do people even care about Starwars anymore? It's bad. It's not coming back. The whole franchise now exists to drive engagement for manchildren with chud-light youtube channels. The Force Awakens came out 9 years ago. The Phantom Menace came out 25 years ago. Star Wars has been terrible for longer than it was good. How do people on either side still get whipped up over it?

Assassin's creed games are terrible and it makes me laugh that they're being used to show a regression in game design. I don't know anyone who has played one in the past 10+ years, and the most I've heard of them in that time is people here making fun of the Kang in the new game.

Those pigs are just too big tbf

its always annoyed me with "tall grass = stealth safe" mechanics is its never elaborated mechanically. Basically the devs create a zone that once your character crosses into they're invisible to the enemies. Hence it doesn't matter how much jumping up and down you do, you're still flagged invisible. So the enemies only stumble blindly around from your last known location in a pre-programmed search pattern.

Even in Assassins Creed 1 guards were programmed to check hiding spots like the hay and barrels around a crime scene, even if you weren't in them, they were searching like a human would.

Can't do swim mechanics.

Can't even do water reflections right and we've had that tech since like 2005.

Like Ubisoft has been making these "open world exploration story with 4x side quests and resource gathering" for the last 11 years now and somehow they struggle every time now. I think my last game from them was Ghost Recon Wildlands to play with some friends and it sucked. My last assassins creed game was black flag actually lmao.

Snapshots:

• ghostarchive.org

• archive.org

• archive.ph (click to archive)

I think they've had to dial it back a bit on graphics lol. I heard they don't use mocap anymore

unethical videogame journ*lists did this

diversity, equity, and inclusion

seems like they spent all the "make good vidya" money on purchasing the rights to existing Disney IP