Ubisoft Is Worse Than You Thought 

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It’s ironic that after Farcry 3 with Vaas literally saying the definition of insanity was doing the same thing over and over again. Only for UBISOFT to do that for all of the their premier gaming series.

Ubisoft spent so long trying to write about the definition of insanity that they got lost in it and adopted it as a mantra

"Working at Ubisoft is like working inside a factory" - a former Ubisoft employee spoke like this on a gaming articles

I love AC4's story honestly, Edward losing all of his friends little by little and maturing over it is honestly pretty captivating, and that ending scene with him going down the hill, seeing his dead friends on the table while the girl sings, and giving the flower to his daughter is one of the best endings in a game for me.

What's killing Ubisoft for me are the giant open worlds with overwhelming amount of the same tasks. Padding games this way is a shitty way to lengthen them.

So I kept saying mediocracy instead of mediocrity and people have pointed out that they are in fact two different words. Oops 😬

If somebody asked me about my feelings on Ubisoft back in 2012-2013 i would’ve said that they’re one of my favourite developers.It’s really sad to see how much downhill they went.

My man, it's mediocrity not mediocracy

the biggest problem with gaming right now is every game is trying to be every genre

even if ubisoft did the nft right, It would still be terrible for the gaming community over all. NFTs are a cancer

This aged like a fine wine because Ubisoft complaining about Elden Ring being "super average and badly designed".

Ubisoft is the definition of insanity.

Its painfully obvious for the later ACs they looked at Skyrim's sales and then proceeded to clone it, with elements of W3 (and later BoTW) mixed in, with little regard for originality or effort as long as its marketable and grindy, finally someone speaking the truth, so many shills still call Ubisoft games masterpieces. (and they're heavily diluting the open world genre down to list simulators)

It feels like Ubisoft is just an AI that is fed all the popular games with soul in them and it spits out what it thinks people want

One of my biggest issues with ubisoft open world is that they feel like a chore to play through

Ubisoft today is Quantity over Quality

Really great video, honestly. It just kept bugging me that "mediocricy" is not a word. It's mediocrity. Idk it just kept bothering me. But I love the content sincerely and the video was great

I remember feeling so heart broken how they slowly killed AC's story when I was invested in Desmond and Ezio. I literally felt how it stopped making sense so they could go forever and make money...

Introducing NFTs into Gaming Industry is a massacre of chaos

"Syndicate is the most forgettable AC game" May I present you to Assassin's Creed Rogue.

I agree unity didn’t release in the best state and that was mediocre, however there is a lot more to the game that I don’t feel is recognized just because of the user ratings. Co op stealth, the aesthetic, truly being able to blend into a crowd. The stealth set ups can be pretty challenging and fun especially with a friend.

If I disagree with one thing in this video its that nfts have the potential to revolutionize gaming. No they don't, they'll only tarnish this hobby even more

I had an interview with a Ubisoft Veteran, I think one of the project leaders, not the big bosses, and when I asked if I have a chance at creating my own games, at least under a company, he told me "If you make games, it'll be about the money and not for yourself", like that was demoralizing and it kind of helped me put into perspective the problem with modern gaming, to which I avoid like the plague since 7 or 8 years.

In Far Cry 6, you can just leave the island whenever you want (before you finish the game) and then unlock a secret ending.

The Rayman dulology shows that they can still make masterpieces, but sadly both games didn’t sell anywhere near as good as your generic AC or Far cry games, if they didn’t sell well we would have had open world games that are on par with RDR 2, Botw and The Witcher 3.

It’s so frustrating that Ubisoft has just given up on their creative talent for safe economic benefit. Really hope they can bring back all of that talent, particularly for Far Cry and Assassin’s Creed.

Just imagine for a moment, the wondrous worlds and magical experiences that would exist right now if these slimy corporate developers actually made works of passion instead of falling to the dark side. A good video, regardless.

A fantastic deep dive into Ubisoft. I used be a huge fan of Ubisoft until they fell from grace.

For me, they hit their peak with those smaller UbiArt games back in 2014. I did play other non-mainstream titles they released after, most were good or at least decent, but none have stuck with me like Valiant Hearts, Rayman Legends and Child of Light back in the day.

I recently found out how bad Ubisoft is. I went to add $10 to my Ubisoft wallet, but instead of adding the $10 I paid for, it took $10 off my account and I couldn't get a refund because of some "All Wallet Funds are considered final and can't be refunded" bs. I literally got robbed by Ubisoft and tgeir support team can't or won't do anything.

I dont know why far cry 5 wasnt mentioned in this video, in my opinion is it surprisingly good compared to far cry 6 since the protagonist is silent and is also forced to dismantle the cult that trapped him in the region. So overall Ubisoft knows that they have really good ideas but they are either scared of not making profit or they dont know how to execute it.

And not to mention that Ubisoft has some terrible stories of workplace harassment and sexual assault.

Another horrible thing about Ubisoft Connect is that it's only available in a few countries while Steam is almost available worldwide. I'm from South America and Steam has regional prices, while Ubisoft doesn't and because of that no one in this country is able to buy Ubi games (Ubi charges in USD & our government doesn't let us make transactions in foreign currencies, only in our local currency, that's why Steam is praised in a lot of countries).

Most of their games that came put in the last decade have a horrible feeling of "floatyness" like a car jumping off a ramp would bounce if it hit the pavement, or characters just kinda sliding around so that the player doesn't need to put in extra work moving to cover. I've especially noticed this with the Tom Clancy and watchdogs games, with cars being able to climb nearly vertically so you don't have to go get a new one, or effortlessly knocking over wooden telephone poles and stone walls. In Ghost recon, the operators have a tendency to fall into "joss whedon" dialog, with the guy saying "shitballs" sometimes. Gunfire sounds like literal paintball guns, I've used battery powered nailguns louder than the guns in Ubisoft games. It's all so generic and easy to digest that it feels like you aren't even digesting anything at all, shit out a ducks ass kinda slop

Ubisoft games are wide as an ocean but deep as a puddle. Farcry 5 is such a slog of pointless objectives, that even 30 hours into the game I still have not beaten the main story and probably never will because I realized I was having zero fun.

My favorite line from Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation: "And now let us get to the game that must now legally credit the Microsoft search and replace feature as the lead writer." And no I'm going to tell you which game I'm talking about, because it could apply to any of them.

Something I really admire about rockstar and CDPRs open worlds is they’re willing to put really cool shit off the mainline path that many players will never see; conversely with most recent Ubisoft and EA games veering off the beaten path is rarely rewarding

The main issue with Unisoft games is the lack of interesting quests. It's just grinding, pointless grinding doing the same tasks. That's one of the reasons why i never bother finishing most of their games

I played Valhalla after a friend kept telling me “it’s the best one since black flag!”. I played it for nearly 7 hours and kept saying “is this it?” Before turning it off and giving him the disc back, it’s bland as fuck and if that’s the best one since black flag then god help them.

its sad to see gaming company's like ubisoft dice activsion etc. have games so bad

There's a video i recommend watching it's called ''this is not a farcry 6 review'' by DJ peach cobbler, talks about ubisoft and the game industry as of now, its a very good video that explains the possible dangers of the path ubisoft is taking with this meta gaming and how its a bad bussines.

i’m surprised the audio quality is not mentioned, nearly every AC game especially the new ones have terribly compressed audio

Hey robokast I have just finished watching. I enjoyed it . What was the soundtracks this in video

I honestly loved Far Cry 5, the AI was just bad enough that it allowed for goofy fun moments with my allies, they never really messed up too bad for me, aside from just not being in the right position sometimes. And I loved the fist combat because when you combined it with the fury drug, you feel like Goku. I kept searching up Far Cry 6 fist combat and got nothing, which lead me to find out that they took out all the melee except the machete. That was really all it took for me to put off playing it lol.

This video is absolutely incredible, you illustrate every problem with the company perfectly, keep up the amazing work 😁

I always agreed with the camp that said that Vaas should have been the final boss of FC3, but now that I think about what you said, it really drives home the fact the Brody has changed. For the normal protagonist, the arc has been completed. A normal protagonist would go home with his friends and deal with his ptsd, nut Brody wants more. FC3 really was the best hands down

"... caused things to go down exponentially from here..." but my brotha, that's a straight line at @7:15

The release of The Settlers 8 beta yesterday literally killed the few hopes that saga community had... So sad...

They also covered up years and years of sexual assault in the highest levels of their company, alot worse than badly written games imo

The finale episoade from season 10 is really cool,revealing Negan’s backstory

How to enjoy Ubisoft Games : 1) Pirate them 2) Don't compare a game to It's previous one

I remember Ghost Recon Phantoms, it was such a unique experience of a tactical shooter and then they just destroyed the mechanics out of pure stupidity and greed.

The decline looks linear to me 👀

The best thing about modern ubisoft Is literally just the cover/concept art for their games. Their pre-rendered trailers are the coolest non-existent parts of their games.

0:38 I love how "ubisoft sucks" has the "issue" tag

This video really nails my feelings for Ubisoft. If think the points you make are great. Good video!

Robokast if you respond I will literally breathe air

Does this guy not know that the word is ‘mediocrity’?

I literally can't do this anymore. Uplay has disabled store page for people who have had steam linked to their accounts. I wanted to try R6 extraction, but can't literally see it.

If Ubisoft keep this up, Microsoft could buy them as well.

Wow. Seeing all the COD games like that was sad. You could literally see the point the games became crap and just got progressively worse until they were just throwing shit at the wall and seeing what stuck. This game revolutionised shooters and isn't even mediocre anymore, just absolute garage.

what is the song you used at about 10 minutes in.. that guitar slaps lmao

Why'd you stopped adding closed captions on some of your video? like Minecraft Back to Basic finale episode.

Black Flag was the first to introduce purchasable IGC, alongside mandatory statted combat in the form of naval battles. Every previous game, and also Unity, can be completed with no upgrades if you want only the story content Unity was hated for its bugs, its broken netcode, and its awful framerate. In recent years fans have returned to run it on more powerful hardware to find a very dissonant experience that sometimes breaks apart in your hands and sometimes feels exactly like what an Assassin was always meant to be. If you really want to understand public sentiment, you have to look in different places besides just metacritic, because fanbases splinter into factions that understand different parts of their favorite franchise differently when it changes so much. If you look in the comments section of someone like Swifty Unknown, you'll find a very different story Wildlands has no less than 11 different biomes. Because you can do most sequences in any order, any time you get bored of one biome, you can just switch to a different one Okay... this one's a lot heavier: I think you *want* to hate Far Cry 6. Because I could turn almost every single one of your criticisms back around on the exact game you used to contrast with it: The way Jason topples Vaas' entire smuggling operation instead of confronting him directly. The way Jason prioritizes getting to Vaas over finding his friends. The way Grant has no character development before being used as a plot device that must support the weight of the entire game. The way Jason has perfect FPS handling and brutal, efficient animations as soon as you leave the scripted mission that shows him struggling to fight. Does this make it a bad game? No, I think Far Cry 3 is quite exceptional. But it struggles from the same very difficult issues that many games share in order to support their gameplay. I think if you could get past the mental block that every Ubisoft game must follow the same downward trend that supports your narrative, you'd find a very intriguing tale of found family and corruption, and see the industry for the nuanced, complicated field that it is. That is, when the characters aren't joking around in the face of violent oppression and the AI aren't running around like headless chickens waiting for you to kill them, issues I and many other players have with the game that you failed to mention Connect's currency actually cannot be bought. It can only be earned they completing challenges in any Ubisoft game. Once you complete every challenge for a given game, you'll have to buy another to get more tokens. Many items also come free with a license for another game. This exists to encourage brand loyalty since it isn't actually capable of accepting payment. Once you have one Ubisoft game, it does everything in its power to get you to buy another one

this is a really good video! you exactly captured what I myself and probably thousands of others have been feeling for years into words! great work! :) (sorry for bad english)

'Mediocracy' is not the word you are looking for. It wouldn't bug me so much, but you said it so many times. It's mediocrity, or being mediocre, that you want.

Love this, AC hasn't been the same in such a long time... I miss being a real assassin.

Far cry 5 is lot better than people make it to be. there was some really good side missions. setup of Montana was accurate tho it was bland compared to Rook island, Himalayan but that's just reality. Each member of the seed family had compelling backstory. FC3 has an "one in a million" story from character development perspective but i don't think development is a mandatory avenue of story telling. it helps to grow attachment with characters but it's really not a "must have". Not all good games take that route. FC5 also had good open world elements, those prepper stashes were good puzzles. biggest flaw imo was the difficulty curve. other than that i think FC5 is very enjoyable. now i got a million games to pick from but if i hadn't, i would replay it multiple times like i did with FC3

Interesting. My reaction to odyssey and origins was the exact opposite. I actually think that both are bloated and dull but I couldn’t get all the way through origins

>"ratings decreased exponentially" >shows a linear graph

What's currently annoying me about Ubisoft is that they've started the industry thinking that customers will be happy to pay for games as a service, rather than a product. They'll "sell" you a game that's been coded specifically to connect to a server every time you load it up, and then eventually decide that the game isn't making them enough money anymore, so turn off the server. Buried in the licence agreement (That you have to have already paid for the game to actually read) is a little clause saying that they reserve the right to kill off any of their games by disconnecting it's server, so they're completely within their rights to do this, but it still means you're paying the same sort of money to "Rent" a game until THEY decide you've had it long enough as you would have to buy the rights to play it forever not many years before. I myself can't afford to keep cutting edge in PC hardware, so I tend to buy games that'll run on whatever 5 to 7 years out of date hardware my current games PC is running. I still play games like the original half life, HL2, Portal, Far Cry 1 and 3, and so on, so if a developer decided that after 10 years a game needs to be removed, this means that although I may have only paid 2/3 of the original release price, I'm only getting a couple years of enjoyment out of the software that others have had for 4 or 5 times that.

Ubisoft is like the fast food of video game industry. You know there is better stuff out there, but it has just enough to satisfy you. I won't lie, I like to play AC: Odyssey from time to time. Even more than Breath of The Wild, even though I know it's vastly superior than Odyssey.

metacritic score is such a rollercoaster of emotions this is why i only rely on steam reviews cuz atleast you'd know that the players there actually played the game and didn't just heard that it was shit from twatter and proceeded to do so on top of it

Ac 4 is probably the most fun I’ve had in assassins creed, in fact, the specific moment for me that i love was when i just completed an assasin contract by just running in and killing the dude with no stealth, and i got chased by like 20 dudes, constantly alerting other guards so in the end i got chased by like 30 guards, like its scooby doo or something.

Ubisoft is a french studio and Unity was a disaster. Failing a game that represent your own country, your own history… What a shame

Ubisoft seems a awful lot like an another publisher that went downhill recently Hint It has vanguard in it and it was released during 2021

I think Gus Fring was in the game way more than Pagan Min was, from memory Pagan was in it at the start and the end, only occasionally coming on over the radio during the game. Where as Fring appeared quite often establishing the relationship between himself and his son.

There is a good reason why "Ubisoft Openworld" is a term. They are huge and beautiful but so empty

You forgot Assassin's Creed Rogue. It was Black Flag, except you were playing a Templar, which was a nice change. It also ties into AC Unity. Also I quite liked Odyssey. They made modern day story matter again, and it was heavily focused on the ISU.

It's such a shame that the AC franchise had to be under Ubisoft's belt. Honestly, Origins was kinda cool, but after that, it went fucking downhill. It's obvious that they've looked at other RPG games and thought: "Yea, we need that, BUT, HOW ABOUT we add microtransactions." This is painfully obvious in Valhalla and that's a shame. So, to sum up Ubisoft in a few words: *"So much wasted potential, good concept, utterly wasted opportunity"*

I had a similar experience with Walking Dead as you, only my patience with the repetitive storylines ran out around season 4 (I think when they found the farm) and the characters and storylines were already showing a pattern of becoming formulaic and dry. I know I missed out on the whole Negan plot, but honestly by that point, there is literally 0% chance that I could have cared about the characters. On a similar note I played a lot of the early Ubisoft franchise entries (Far Cry 3/Blood Dragon/4, Assassins Creed 2/3/4, Watch Dogs) and finished most of them because even though they started getting formulaic they still had little things that helped them to remain interesting to me, (apart from AC3 with the ridiculous animal skinning requirement, which I don't 100% remember the details of, but I remember I HATED it 😂) and recently because they were on sale, I have played AC Valhalla, Watch Dogs Legion and Far Cry 5 and been massively underwhelmed once I had gotten past the initial selling point of each of the games because of the repetitiveness of the world and how you interact with it. All that coming from somebody who would have 100% finished Breath of the Wild if it wasn't for the 900 korok seeds, and who comfortably spent 200+ hours because the exploration in the world almost always led to something interesting, and who is also currently playing through Elden Ring but hasn't left the starting area after multiple hours because again, the exploration almost always leads to something/somebody interesting, which has justified the time spent looking for them. I hope that Ubisoft can come up with some new ideas moving forwards, because the first couple of entries of their big franchises were fun and actually made you want to get through the world to see what they had hidden away, or the storylines and characters were so interesting that you wanted to play through to their conclusion, whereas the current entries are nothing but reskins, just with a big old coat of next-gen looking paint, and mostly dry characters who have no interesting plots surrounding them. Anyway, I hadn't seen your channel before today but you have got my subscription and I'm going to go through your older videos 👍

So I was not a fan of AC while it was coming out, but picked up syndicate and black flag in a steam sale and loved both of them. Syndicate was a ton of fun with the gang system. Sure it felt bloated with so many side quests and the world was too big, but overall I was a fan

One really good thing about 6 that wasn’t in 4 or 5 is the fact that the main character has a personality and isn’t just a silent guy for the player to pretend is them

AC2 was great. I was looking forward to AC3, but aside from a cool plot twist with Templar/Assassin swap in the beginning, the story and execution felt underwhelming. For example, Connor's training and growing up, as well as him actually becoming good at assassin's skills, DOES NOT EVEN GET A MONTAGE. Horizon: Zero Dawn later showed how to do this right, meanwhile in AC3 you just fade to black, and then you are told that our guy is grown up, has all the assassin skills, and during the skipped time he did... what, exactly? Being in assassin in AC3 doesn't even feel cool. Normal characters and townsfolk don't react to your outfit or skills. Overall, the whole thing felt uninspired and driven by numbers, from writing and directing perspective. Music was great; Connor's assassin outfit design is still my favorite in the whole series.

First time at your channel, You had me subbed at “I talk shit about Ubisoft”, in your first line itself.

Ubisoft doesn't deserve to have their games bought at full price anymore

Origin is pretty average as well. Very forgettable character and motivations. Story-wise can't compete with The Witcher 3.

The misuse of mediocracy rather than mediocrity made me put this video off. Video essayists who think they are very clever but make basic English mistakes are a scurge upon this Earth.

never seen black panther, had to look up the ps2 quality fight scene. thanks for broadening my horizions

I personally love AC 2 and Brotherhood. In fact young me would basically lump them together because it was essentially the same storyline and very similar gameplay. Brotherhood felt a bit like DLC to me, which was not an issue at the time and still is not an issue because the two games work so well together. Never played any other Ezio game though.

I wholeheartedly agree with your thoughts. They seem to be trying to leach the outstanding games and lose sight of what made them good in the first place. I think they need to take a step back and make a completely new and original game and stop focusing on only the profits. Even if the game wasn't the best, having something new and refreshing would most likely bring hope back to the fans. And in the process, bring in more sales anyways? 🤷‍♂ btw love the videos, and keep up the good work!

Loved the video and agree with pretty much everything. I would just say this, though, as a biased Assassins Creed fanboy for over a decade now. AC 3 is solid with AMAZING characters. Haytham and the whole Kenway story is fascinating and fun to explore alongside Black Flag. Unity had so much potential but Ubisoft ruined it and what it could’ve been by rushing the release. We don’t talk about syndicate. Origins is really good, but I honestly really enjoyed Odyssey too. I’ve played the heck out of it and love the setting and Kassandra/Alexios did have a good amount of thought put into. I’ve put more time into it than Origins, but I adore the setting of Odyssey which would explain why. Valhalla I’m not a big fan of. Essentially, I do believe odyssey and valhalla are good games, but it’s ridiculous Ubisoft puts Assassins Creed in the title. Only until the very end of odyssey are assassins and templars basically mentioned, and I’m not sure about valhalla because I’m yet to finish it. I do believe they’re solid games, though, but Ubisoft need to step the series back and tie it back to the modern day plot or at least involve templars/assassins again, or just drop the name and take their time to make a good RPG game (but that would mean losing the AC title cash cow and ubi won’t do that…) TL;DR I have too much hope for Ubisoft, I’m high off copium, and think the (newer) AC games get a bitttt too much flak since they’re still fun games.

I knew it was over when you were shooting down airplanes with an mg42 on the Eiffel Tower in Unity

The Ubisoft logo looks like a toilets whirlpool sucking everything down into the abyss

I literally started replaying Far Cry 3 today and now I get this video recommended. Google is definitely tracking us. Anyways I agree with everything said in this video

Here's to hoping they don't kill off Rayman, one of their best franchises... Seriously, I love that to death.

21:10 It's not like Pagan Min had much screentime either honestly. Most of the conversations you had with him were via radio and there weren't that many of them either.

"empty open world", "collectibles", "side quests to pad time"... I am waiting for the plot twist ending to hear that this was actually about Nintendo/BOTW

I remember when ubisoft had started to get hate and stuff but then watch dogs 2 and ac origins came out, two absolutely wonderful games, that would make anyone hopeful for the futures of the franchises, but then those went to shit as well :(