That feeling probably also killed the Netflix Division movie that had Jake Gyllenhaal attached. God I really want that movie.
Nah, the mistake was not letting you play as humans. At least generic wanton destruction is more fun than whatever the hell they drafted up for a story.
I doubt Ubisoft did either.
In fairness it was supposed to come out around the same time as the movie, it's just, you know, Ubisoft incompetence (of course I don't think actually shipping on time would have done much because the game is absolute ass).
Warlords of New York was mostly fine. I disagreed with how the story went down (my nigga Keener deserved better than dying in a shitty DLC), but it at least made some sense. The story since then has been
Pretty much. IIRC someone attached to the movie said at the time making a movie about an unfolding pandemic during coof was a bit too much like making a documentary, and stopped being fun.
Its funny cause a Division movie would probably be considered more right wing coded with the whole "The government is useless, you need to arm yourself and be ready" mentality/training of Agents.
True.
The humans had the cooler tech and toys but nooooooo had to play as the dumb ass nature hippies.
Exactly. What have the tree fuckers accomplished all these years of existence compared to the humans from Earth?
I am still mad that they turned what was supposed to be Rainbow Six Patriots, a game where you would fight home-grown 1776-esque "terrorists" into what is now Rainbow Six Siege, an online only shitty hero shooter. Elements similar to this were also going to be found in the original draft of Splinter Cell Conviction, but apparently the testers did not like playing as hobo Sam(who was on the run thanks to a government corruption/conspiracy taking over Third Echelon) so they cancelled the game and turned it into the most generic action movie third person shooter imaginable with zero stealth
I agree with the sentiment but get real, R4 would have struggled to move 1/10th of what RRR did.
If you say so. This was early into Gen 7's life cycle, and a good 3D platformer would have been appreciated by both PS3 and 360 users. There was no reason not to make the Wii version the minigame compilation instead, this is more about the attitude that Ubisoft had: "Fuck the consumer, we will scrap everything to turn this into a pile of shit that will make more money"
Dude, early gen 7 was the DEATH of that genre. Outside of Mario nobody was buying.
That's the point, little competition in those systems. Demand was there, titles simply weren't coming out so people who liked the genre just bought the bing-bing wahoo console. Hell, who knows, maybe the game would have led a small renaissance for console platformers. We will never know because Ubisoft killed one of their flagship franchises, for little reason I can see. The leaks from 4chan around a year or so ago were amazing
They made Rabbids games for like a solid decade. It practically invented the "shitty Wii minigame compilation" genre that Ubisoft excelled in. Thats no "little reason".
Division is also a "franchise" for close to a decade now, I think. Just because Ubisoft shoves slop down gamer's throats for decades doesn't mean it's a "successful" franchise.
of course the pozzed slopshop named ubisoft wouldn't let you play as the evil conquerors, that would be like playing israel in gaza!
Tencent owns a big chunk of Ubisoft but Ubi's current management is actually violently opposed to any sort of takeover. They've spent nigh on a decade now fighting a hostile takeover attempt by Vivendi. Whats most funny is that while doing so the founder lost control of his other game company, Gameloft (developers of a whole swath of mobile trash,) to Vivendi and its now worth a whole lot more than Ubisoft so maybe big bad V isn't such a bad choice for stockholders anyway.