Ubisoft Isn't Bad... It's Infuriating

This is Santiago. Thanks for the shoutout! Many Ubisoft developers feel exactly the same way as you in this video. We all see the potential... until we don't anymore.

The Best part of ubisoft games is when you complete them and think about how much better they could be

Ubisoft is always sooooo close to making a game I would love to sink hours into, and then mess something else up so horribly its ruined.

I had absolutely no idea that assassin's Creed Valhalla was the best selling in the series because I have yet to meet a person who actually liked the game.

I've always thought of the Ubisoft formula as being essentially "think of cool idea, pay whatever number of graphic designers and world artists necessary to make it a reality. Make the gameplay and story work however you can in the deadline." It works because nailing a super detailed world with a cool concept is actually something that can be done fairly relaibly if you have the reaources. A few brainstorming sessions and you have a bunch of cool ideas. Throw enough people at the problem and you can make a huge, beautiful map within your alloted time. But game mechanics and systems are largley not a numbers issue, they're a time issue. You need to test and iterate and test and iterate, and there's no way around it. So reusing what already worked is the only thing that can be done consistently.

Ubisoft games the types of games you buy 2 years after release when they cost about 10 euros and have all the bugs fixed.

I find it deeply ironic that they popularised the phrase "Definition of insanity is doing the exact same thing over and over again, and expecting something different"

From an ex-Ubisoft Ghost Recon developer - it's shit, it's all shit. The game designers were sending internal emails studio wide for everyone to pitch in with ideas for online game modes (that was their job by the way, as game designers... to design the game).

I work at Ubi and think you've nailed it, each year we're given updates on upcoming games and so often the premise is SO exciting, but ultimately the trust that we stick to those core concepts isn't there for me anymore. I don't think execs believe you can sell a game just on a unique and well executed vision. Believe it or not GR Breakpoint looked INCREDIBLE initially, the military sim that people wanted GRW to be. In the end it was accused of being a reskin because it pulled punches and i guess that's so it felt more of a game for everyone.

Not me but someone on crowbcat’s video on Ubisoft: “ Ubisoft have 10/10 ideas but 6/10 execution”

I pray to god Ubisoft sells/licenses the Watch_Dogs IP to someone who can make the genuinely interesting and brilliant setting realize it's full potential, similarly how Bethesda licensed New Vegas to Obsidian. There is so much unrealized potential I still can't come to terms with the fact Legion killed the franchise

TIP: For Rider's Republic go to settings and set voice AND music to 0. The game becomes exponentially more enjoyable. Play your own music and put on subtitles so you only have to read what Ubisoft thinks influencer-cringe sounds like

Ubisoft really is the Mcdonalds of video games. Not bad enough to swear it off, but not good enough to crave it every day

The statement "it's better to be bad than to be boring" is a rather perfect summary of why I haven't bought a Ubisoft game since Siege

I want Ubisoft to be a pallbearer at my funeral so they can let me down one last time.

The TimeSplitters 2 music at 8:16 is so nostalgic. Wasn’t expecting it in a Ubisoft video. Great video

Modern Ubisoft games can have soul, but its usually hard to see buried beneath so much bullshit and tedium. And that’s if it can be seen at all.

It's a real shame, how Ubisoft turned out. I remember back in the 2000s, Ubisoft was releasing some of the most unique, cool games I'd ever played. Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, Far Cry 1 and 2, Rayman, and the OG Rainbow Six games

Love the DVD bouncing raycevick at 08:57. Editing here is top notch as always

Just discovered your channel randomly Yesterday, And I can't stop watching all your vid' (and english is not even my main language) Really I can see all the work behind the scene on each of those. I like the tone and the rythm and tend to agree with all you said (not just on this one) 👍