With game companies in the past, I'd find out they'd gone out of business through listening to gaming podcasts or something and be like "dang, they had good games", such as with Pandemic who made the Battlefront games.

It's a strange place to be seeing a company dying in real time and being happy about it. I've hated Ubisoft before they even went woke.

I felt that they sort of ruined the open world genre. The PS3 generation was an amazing gen for open world games. So many games did it their own way and were good in their own way.

Red Faction Guerilla was vastly different than Saints Row 2, which was vastly different from Red Dead Redemption, which was vastly different than Infamous, which was vastly different from Just Cause 2, which was vastly different than The Sabateur. I could go on.

Yeah they all had main mission, side missions, and collectibles, but the way they played and the focus was all very different. They all had different hooks and importantly they knew how to have you interact with their worlds in a way that was satisfying and would open up to you as you progressed. I wouldn't say open world games were samey at all. Then enter Ubisoft and they boiled open world games down to the most uninteresting and tedious elements and would drop you into these uninteresting worlds that were far too open right at the start with just tons and tons of busy work littered everywhere.

You know how every game I listed above was all third person action games and yet felt different?

Well Ubisoft somehow made open world games in entirely different genres feel tedious and mundane and like the same game. Somehow a first person shooter game like Far Cry 4, feels like watch dogs, which feels like Assassins Creed, which feels like the Crew, which feels like Riders Republic. Yeah, even their open world extreme sports title, which is very different in genre still feels distinctly Ubisoft where it's just this world of never-ending crap scattered everywhere without a good sense of progression or sense of anything (see SSX 3 or Skate series for open world extreme sports done right)

I feel that the 7th generation had these amazing unique open world games, that Ubisoft came and were like a soul-less converyor belt, pumping out the same crap with a different skin and ruined a good thing.

So I've wanted Ubisoft to not be making games for a while even before they went fully woke (they were always fairly woke).

With game companies in the past, I'd find out they'd gone out of business through listening to gaming podcasts or something and be like "dang, they had good games", such as with Pandemic who made the Battlefront games.

It's a strange place to be seeing a company dying in real time and being happy about it. I've hated Ubisoft before they even went woke.

I felt that they sort of ruined the open world genre. The PS3 generation was an amazing gen for open world games. So many games did it their own way and were good in their own way.

Red Faction Guerilla was vastly different than Saints Row 2, which was vastly different from Red Dead Redemption, which was vastly different than Infamous, which was vastly different from Just Cause 2, which was vastly different than The Sabateur. I could go on.

Yeah they all had main mission, side missions, and collectibles, but the way they played and the focus was all very different. They all had different hooks and importantly they knew how to have you interact with their worlds in a way that was satisfying and would open up to you as you progressed. I wouldn't say open world games were samey at all. Then enter Ubisoft and they boiled open world games down to the most uninteresting and tedious elements and would drop you into these uninteresting worlds that were far too open right at the start with just tons and tons of busy work littered everywhere.

You know how every game I listed above was all third person action games and yet felt different?

Well Ubisoft somehow made open world games in entirely different genres feel tedious and mundane and like the same game. Somehow a first person shooter game like Far Cry 4, feels like watch dogs, which feels like Assassins Creed, which feels like the Crew, which feels like Riders Republic. Yeah, even their open world extreme sports title, which is very different in genre still feels distinctly Ubisoft where it's just this world of never-ending crap scattered everywhere without a good sense of progression or sense of anything.

I feel that the 7th generation had these amazing unique open world games, that Ubisoft came and were like a soul-less converyor belt, pumping out the same crap with a different skin and ruined a good thing.

So I've wanted Ubisoft to not be making games for a while even before they went fully woke (they were always fairly woke).