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I'm generally speaking rather anti gaming subscription services but in my opinion out of ALL the games in existance Ubisoft games are the least suited to play on a subscription.
They are sprawling behemoths that take 60+ hours to complete and have hundreds of hours of sidequests and busywork and the idea of sampling various small dishes from a buffet without being pot-bound doesn't work here since they all kind of taste the same.
Played any Far Cry since Far Cry 2 or 3? Then you know what to expect from a Far Cry game.
Played any Assassin's Creed in the latest trilogy? Then you have a basic idea what to expect from Assassin's Creed. They are kind of like the Mc Donalds or Burger King of the gaming world.
I personally would rather pick up the Gold Edition for 25 - 35€ a few years later so I can play them at my own pace than dealing with a monthly subscription.
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I saw an article where apparently Good Old Games might have leaked that Ubisoft will change into a divided subscription model, just like EA with their Play service.
As you mentioned, these require not just 1-2 hours to beat, even if you have plenty of time available, you possibly can't beat more than 2-3 games from this in a month... This is the only problem for me because of the high price - for a lower price, I would consider subscribing even if I could only play let's say >5 years older titles.
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Yeah, Lolozaur just bumped this post with an update about those rumors.
Maybe at the bait price of $1 a month an Ubisoft subscription would make sense but for $14.99 no way. And I assume you can only take advantage of that sort of promotion once.
Since you mentioned older Ubisoft titles I can totally recommend Valiant Hearts: The Great War 😄 It has great atmosphere and is completely different from their usual bigger titles.
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Don't worry, it's just a crazy coincidence.
I hope you like it as much as I did.
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Just had to chime in and say Valiant Hearts was an absolute beast of a hidden gem. I played it a while back on PS3(4?) and wanted to replay right away; the story was superb.
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Absolutely. I also played it on PS4 two or three years ago after they gave it away complimentary with PS+ and I was enthralled 😄 I haven't done a second run-through yet but I'm currently watching the movie 1917 and I'm quite tempted to play it again or at least mop up some missing achievements.
I don't mean to sound pretentious but I think it's the kind of game that could help video games to be considered art some day.
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I don't mean to sound pretentious but I think it's the kind of game that could help video games to be considered art some day.
Couldn't agree more. It was a shorter artsy fartsy game but it more than made up for it's lack of length with an incredible story and art direction. Right in the feels.
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I'd rather pick up the Gold Edition a few years later so I can play at my own pace
...and then you'll be on a timer before they inevitably turn off the activation servers, turning DLCs into digital doorstoppers.
DLCs that, more often than not, are actually cut content from the base game, thus being required to complete the story.
And let's not get started on their draconian DRM practices, they use half a dozen different protections per game, all of which are ticking time bombs on their own, adding even more pressure.
You can never win with Ubisoft. At least not without surfing the high seas.
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DLCs that, more often than not, are actually cut content from the base game, thus being required to complete the story.
I'm not nearly up to date with Ubisoft games but other than those 2 extra chapters from AC2 I can't think of a single DLC that felt like it should be part of the main game.
Trilogy of King Washington? Doesn't belong into AC III since contrary to the main story it's alternate history while the main story only takes small freedoms when it comes to historical accurary.
Jack the Ripper DLC for Syndicate? Didn't feel like cut content to me.
Yeti DLC for Far Cry 4? Well... I haven't played that one yet so I can't tell for sure.
Maybe you could say The Siege of Paris and the Druid DLC should have been part of Valhalla but AFAIK with the latest trilogy the biggest DLC always were mythology inspired which in my opinion justifies them not being part of the main game 🤔
Edit: I'm playing on console so while those other things you brough up like DRM and activation servers are valid points they don't apply to me.
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I've beaten Far Cry 6 and Watch Dogs: Legion in the last free month (which was in September, not that long ago). Of course I didn't 100%, but also didn't just do storyline. Who of those who play Ubisoft titles every now and then still does 100%? As you pointed out, the side missions and open world things are just too repetitive even between different series.
Back then I also thought: Valhalla? No, don't stress me to do that in one month. But with this new offer I think about it..
Only reason for me to not go for it is that Ubi is back on Steam and I will buy the games at some point there.
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I mean I'd generally say that about any game. Not only does every game's sequel be what you'd generally expect (if it's done well at least), but also most games you can expect what it'll be like. For example, Hellblade is really beloved and so on, but damn does it not feel like every asset flip Unity game with its melee combat, its unpolished environments, cheap visual effects and so on. And when looking at it on the store, it doesn't take much to guess that that's exactly what it'll be. Or for example any open world game with action. It'll boil down to the same thing.
Ubisoft's definitely messy, especially during the jump to the PS5 era with design directions that I personally at least generally dislike. But others oddly enough never get the same slack as Ubisoft does, even though as far as I know, they're kinda the only developers to add like full games worth of content post-launch to their games for completely free. The free expansion for Odyssey, the free expansions for Valhalla, the multiple new main stories, side content and areas for Ghost Recon Breakpoint. I dunno, just odd that it's always the same type of arguments made, but no one seems to have actually played these games to have actually seen what's really happening.
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The free expansion for Odyssey, the free expansions for Valhalla
What are you even talking about? Those are all paid DLCs. Just because you bought some (more expensive) edition or the season pass, it doesn't mean the DLCs that come with that are free.
https://gg.deals/game/assassin-s-creed-odyssey/dlcs/
https://gg.deals/game/assassins-creed-valhalla/dlcs/
https://store.ubi.com/assassin-s-creed-odyssey-all-dlc
https://store.ubi.com/assassin-s-creed-valhalla-all-dlc
https://store.ubi.com/assassin-s-creed-odyssey/5afda5f788a7e34d25b5012f.html#comparison-table
https://store.ubi.com/assassin-s-creed-valhalla/5e849c6c5cdf9a21c0b4e731.html#comparison-table
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Uhhh... yeah, you're not aware of what you're talking about. You're exactly the type of person I was referencing. Someone who legit has no idea about the games they're talking about. I'm not sure if you just haven't played these or if you're even just parroting other people's talking points, but let me share with you what I'm specifically referencing.
AC: Odyssey owners got a free Discovery Tour with a bunch of curated tours and an altered world map. They also got the entirety of Corfu expansion for free (a couple years after release, Ubi anniversary celebration). This is all for base game owners.
AC: Valhalla owners got:
Discovery Tour
Crossover Stories
River Raids
Mastery Challenge Trials
Forgotten Saga
Tombs of the Fallen
All of these mentioned items are completely free and they're not just the simple game mechanic updates and the big amount of skill expansions, updated visual options and so on, which were also obviously free too and the minor updates that added a mission or two here and there or the half a dozen or so seasonal events, which transformed the map, added new items to get, created new gamemodes and also added small bits of story (since every seasonal event had a story as well).
This is why looking at games and the actual topic you're talking about works better than looking at gg.deals for automated API queries.
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None of these qualify as "expansions". These are content updates, challenges and gamemodes, which are nice of course but nothing like an actual expansion of the main game (like for example Wrath of the Druids,The Siege of Paris and Dawn of Ragnarök are) and it's also nothing that "only" Ubisoft does. The Discovery Tours are basically like free-roaming demos without gameplay with a bit of history sprinkled on top. Nice if you like that kind of stuff but absolutely not an "expansion". And even all these things combined definitely don't qualify as "full games worth of content".
they're kinda the only developers to add like full games worth of content post-launch to their games for completely free
This is just ridiculously ignorant.
Someone who legit has no idea about the games they're talking about.
Sure buddy, keep assuming.
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Yeah, I guess like 20-25 hours worth of content from just updates is not good enough. Screw River Raids being like 5 hours, Discovery Tour being 10h+, Tombs of the Fallen being 2 hours, Crossover being 2 hours, seasonal events being 2 hours each.
It's Wrath of the Druids that's 8 hours and Siege of Paris that's 6 hours that are the "real expansions". I mean even Dawn of Ragnarok's like 12 hours lol.
I had a whole thing here, but honestly point is this: If you call something a "content update" just because it's free even though it has the same type of content as the paid expansion, then what's even the point. Like just boil everything you don't want to admit to down to simplistic word-soup and then hype up everything else you want to make a point out of.
That's why Minecraft's now a collection of blocks that you can move and Bayonetta is a interactive screensaver where pushing a button triggers an animation. Easy, problem solved.
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it has the same type of content as the paid expansion
That's the point: it doesn't.
Expansions expand the main game. Hence the name. New map regions, new characters, new main quests, new story content and character development. At least in open world story games like most of the Assassin's Creed games are. It's arguably different in games that are focused on certain game mechanics instead. There a new game mode could qualify as an expansion of the main game.
Tombs of the Fallen is a few puzzles to get an equipment set. It was fun and I liked it. It's a sidequest within the original world without adding anything relevant to the story or the characters. Not an expansion.
Forgotten Saga was fun for a short while. I can see fans of roguelite mechanics spending many hours in that. Story- and characterwise it didn't add much. It's a semi-fleshed out game mode more or less detached from the main game. Not an expansion.
River Raids felt like a tacked on game mode that didn't add anything relevant to the main game even though they tried to tie it in. To me it was just another grind to get some items just like the seasonal events and the added challenges. Not expansions.
The Discovery Tours don't even qualify as games. They reuse the already existing game worlds for educational purposes. And they definitely don't expand the main games. Not an expansion.
The only thing that might barely qualify due to at least adding a bit of new story and character development, albeit in a kind of gimmicky fan service way, is Crossover.
Yes, it's cool that they added this stuff for free. Even more so if you actually liked all the stuff. Doesn't make it expansions though.
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Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Splinter Cell, Anno, Rayman, ... series for $1 for a month? Yes, please :)
This deal is a steal! I already have almost all their titles. Only Anno 1800 (that's the latest one, right?) might interest me one day to try.
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Avaible in Heard Islands and McDonald Islands,But not avaible in turkey💀
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could give it away for free and i still wouldn't take it-this comment got me a bunch of awards on the steam news last time something just like this was posted. until i got suspended from thread for a day
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Far cry primal is one of the best far cry games and the most underrated. Definitely give it a try. Its magical.
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I loved it on the other hand. 100% the game before 2-3 years and it was amazing. On par with far cry 3.
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Its after far cry 4 not far cry 3. Is has the same map but its ok. It has survival mechanics in cold you need to warm up yourself to not get frozen. It has a lot of caves some are really hard. And the whole atmosphere at -10000BC its amazing. So calm but simultaneously so aggresive. You have your own animal to help you with the enemies. You will build your own camp from zero and fight another big camp. Its amazing.
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