Splinter Cell

1Tonka_Truck said:
Breakpoint was awful.
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it's ok. I'd say it got very high highs (map design and engine after the vulkan upgrade) and very low lows (story, progression and all the other shit ubisoft thought would work as a destiny clone), which makes it either mediocre or just average, depending on your POV.

Idiot Doom Spiral said:
Considering the major problem they seemingly have with senior staff sexually exploiting young women, the pedo-cache hedonism and rat-king of absolute lies which was The Division 2, the recent helpings of human shit going by the name of Far-Cry… it would be a Jesus-Tier rainwater-into-Sauvignon Blanc miracle if Splinter Cell wasn’t excrement of the most concentrated kind.
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#justfrenchthings

and if we ignore the whole totally legit #metoo accusations for a minute, those guys were with the company for ages, so they were in charge when ubisoft actually produced good shit (ymmv). heck one accusation was that one of them always demanded a white dude as protag, because trying to sell your game globally to as many people as possible is misogynistic (offset was he also demanded certain gameplay which depending how much you can stand the ubisoft formula is either good or bad).

another thing is that ubisoft tends to keep things separate, division 2 was pretty much all massive - if there's one thing to lament it's the absolute fall of that studio, ffs they produced games like ground control and world in conflict, and even division 1 finally found it's stride. but then they're swedes, so it probably was just a matter of time.

so up until last year I would've said wait and see who actually works on it, but after the whole "scandal" last year it's pretty obvious they were the proto blizzard where the inmates run the asylum. just look at this shit: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/12/ubisofts-first-nft-plans-make-no-sense/
I get most of their recent games have been bombs, but damn...
 
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Dom Cruise said:
But a direct remake seems odd given it's story, tension with Georgia in the year 2004, real exciting and relevant subject matter for the 2020s
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This actually made me realise that they'll probably rewrite it to center around a fictional country like they do with a lot of Far Cry games. Ubisoft is picky and sensitive these days about touching real world countries and politics that aren't the US.
 
RJ MacReady said:
This actually made me realise that they'll probably rewrite it to center around a fictional country like they do with a lot of Far Cry games. Ubisoft is picky and sensitive these days about touching real world countries and politics that aren't the US.
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But that was what was cool about the series was it dealing with real world countries and plausible scenarios.

If anything the original game actually was ahead of it's time but off by a decade, since in 2014 there were renewed Cold War esque tensions, but thanks to Russia themselves and not Georgia, but for 2002 that's pretty damn good coming at a time in which almost no one was really thinking about the Cold War and eastern Europe, but anything that's set in 2004 today is not going to be real relevant.

And also didn't Chaos Theory not only deal with North Korea but also a (potential I guess) stock market crash? Again, that's pretty damn prophetic for a game from 2005.
 
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Bumping the thread because there's a Splinter Cell novel in the works. I hope it's not a prelude to the future of the Splinter Cell franchise.

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Miller said:
Bumping the thread because there's a Splinter Cell novel in the works. I hope it's not a prelude to the future of the Splinter Cell franchise.

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no immediate red flags popping up, half of it is the usual PR fluff ("it's my favorite game, totally!!")
sam potentially getting replaced by his daughter could be interesting - if done right. either way as much as we all love ironside's sam fisher dude's not getting any younger, and the character isn't either. all depends if they can properly pass the torch (they tried with blacklist and probably would've fared a lot better if they didn't try to be retarded and soft-reboot it) or end up in a state we wish it never happened...
 
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