I've only played the the first SC and Chaos Theory, basically the only ones from the old era that are available on Steam. I've always heard that everything that came after was less tactic stealth and more cinematic epic which is why I haven't touched them. Maybe I'm missing something but it feels like that whole franchise's popularity was entirely carried by the first three games.
I've only played a little of
Blacklist, but it seemed okay.
Double Agent was pretty boring and uninspired, and
Conviction was a total mess where they decided "fuck stealth we Jack Bauer now".
Chaos Theory was basically the highlight of the series and it's all gone downhill from there.
Not only did R6:Extraction flop (shame, I kind of like the game but it desperately needs more content with more to do), but Siege is suffering as well. Player numbers have been on a steady decline for a while.
Siege has this lovely thing where they're progressively getting less and less content per season, and I'm finally not alone when it comes to bitching about it. Pair that with seasonal events being slightly edited repeats of past years and balance changes taking several months, and it's clear that Ubisoft is reducing the man power for the game and are slowly killing it off. Don't worry though, they're still thrilled to sell you an overpriced battlepass filled with cosmetics instead of putting meaningful content into the game.
Besides a shithouse connection, the progressively shittier characters for
R6 Siege was one of the things where I decided I was better off not playing it. You look at the original guys and they all look like they belong in some tactical unit, or could be actual people involved in a breach.
Then...what the fuck happened? Suddenly none of them are wearing helmets or masks. They're all edgy-looking faggots who look like they belong on a Twitch stream rather than any battlefield.
AC 1, 2, Brotherhood, and Black Flag are worth playing. Everything else is up to you.
Revelations was also worth playing in my opinion.
AC3 was a tremendously wasted opportunity. Connor - while bland - could have been further developed over a trilogy spanning the Revolution and some minor events afterwards.
Black Flag was a fun game, but what they did with 3 was total piss. It didn't help that their reworked combat system was so flat compared to its predecessor.
I stopped around
Unity and have been meaning to play at least a couple more of them one day, but seeing
Valhalla and all the woke shit strewn about it, I might be better off not picking it up again.
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Ghost Recon is a mixed bag for me. I played
Future Soldier and thought it was mediocre and uninteresting, but I also played it solo. Years later I tried out
Wildlands with a friend, and it was easily one of the best Ubisoft multiplayer experiences I've ever had. Game's fun, world's decent, and turning everything off to make it a faux milsim on Ghost Mode is actually very entertaining to me.
Never tried
Breakpoint, but I heard it was an inferior product despite some gameplay updates. Emptier world, and Ubi tried to get on the NFT bandwagon before people told them they hated it. The CEO said something to the effect of, "NFTs are what people want and we will make them like it, they just don't realize how much they want it", and that pretty much explains why I fear for whatever Ghost Recon game they might make in the future (besides the canceled one from last year).
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For Honour is still apparently trundling along that it still gets new characters and updates. The concept was fun and sound, but greedily locking away content behind a total $750 paywall was just too much for an online-centric game.
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Still a little mad with what happened to
Prince of Persia. Loved the entire Sands trilogy, fell off after playing that awful 2008 reboot and never tried the one after that. The 2008 game was lame and did nothing new for the franchise, and I was particularly ticked off by them promoting that you could never die in the game because it would always rewind itself to a safe spot, instead of it being something limited that you had to make good choices on.
