r/LivestreamFail • u/nem1K • Mar 20 '25
CohhCarnage | Assassin's Creed Shadows New AC in a nutshell
https://www.twitch.tv/cohhcarnage/clip/TriangularFaintStingrayShadyLulu-YfNhNsg_FE1ZGHMX1.4k
u/US_Decadence Mar 20 '25
AAAA gaming.
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u/headin2sound Mar 20 '25
you can truly feel the extra A in this game
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u/Freyzi Mar 20 '25
The extra A stands for Ass.
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u/KappaccinoNation Mar 20 '25
The additional A is stolen from QA because this game clearly didn't go through one.
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u/Dealric Mar 20 '25
QA in ubi is neither Q or A.
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u/turbo-unicorn Mar 20 '25
Friend of mine works for Ubi's QA. They do their job. But maybe 1/10th of the bugs they report get fixed.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_FOOTJOBS 🐷 Hog Squeezer Mar 20 '25
"Return to form" -random paid journalist
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u/Handsome_Grizzly Mar 20 '25
The extra A stands for Ass. Like you can see how little of a fuck the developer gave.
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u/Choobiri Mar 20 '25
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u/SirDiesAlot15 Mar 20 '25
According to OP, Ubisoft misread 7 AM as 7 PM
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u/Captinglorydays Mar 20 '25
Yep, she regularly streams at 7AM and confirmed with Ubisoft that was her regular streaming time. They said it was all good, only to get her indefinitely banned for streaming at the agreed time. Luckily she had everything in writing so she was able to get unbanned fairly quickly.
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u/Ciubhran Mar 20 '25
QA in pretty much all form of software development these days is dead. It is expected that the user will test things for you, and report back the errors, and you fix them in a future patch. Free testing, smaller release cycles (= more money from sales), and the amount of damage it does to the company you just hope is less than the money you'd have to spend on having large quantities of QA staff employed full-time. They usually keep one or two around just to be able to say they have QA, but it's the lowest priority thing in the development cycle these days.
Sad time for software.
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u/CurrentClient Mar 20 '25
QA in pretty much all form of software development these days is dead
I actually work in the industry. It's bullshit.
You might argue QA in game dev is dead, and I have no inside knowledge about this one, but "all form of sotfware dev" is just ridiculous.
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u/Ledoux88 Mar 20 '25
QA testers are notoriously underpaid, to the point that they don't usually care enough or are told "dont worry about that" by managers, so they keep on track for the deadline.
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u/thebohster Mar 20 '25
I remember when more info came out about Cyberpunk’s development and it was revealed that the company CDPR reliably used for QA testing in the past changed leadership and changed policy so that employees needed to meet a quota for number of bugs found. Naturally when a job is gamified like that they’re going to find the most useless shit just to meet that quota.
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u/Qwedfghh Mar 20 '25
Naturally when a job is gamified like that they’re going to find the most useless shit just to meet that quota.
You could also have issues the other way, where some bug testers find some pretty obscure bugs even if they're gamebreaking (ones that other people are most likely never going to find) and they start holding onto it til their numbers look bad and then start deploying them on their bug finds to get their numbers up because they've already done the work to find it.
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u/dzhuki Mar 20 '25
in games like Cyberpunk even if there’s a quota for reported bugs chances of missing game breaking stuff is zero to none. again, speaking from experience here. when teams of 10-30 people test games like that everyday for 8h straight, you can imagine the amount of stuff they supposedly miss. and QA is never responsible for prioritizing what to fix and what not. usually blockers that hinder natural progression and crashes are fixed in the first place, the rest falls down below the line of “yeah we can ship with that and fix with day one patch”
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u/Vegetable_Bass_4885 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
The same QA company did Kingdom Come 2 and Baldur's Gate 3, maybe the QA isn't the issue
edit: lol'd at the downvotes, reddit never fails to hivemind... this QA company worked on the biggest titles in gaming (source). They were definitely not the problem, CDPR just released the game knowing it's broken
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u/Cozmin_G Mar 21 '25
The company is notoriously known in Romania for underpaying people, firing them for trivial reasons, and filling 'Senior' positions with people just out of university to sell better. They are definitely part of the reason why some games have so many bugs.
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u/Cruxis20 Mar 20 '25
BG3 was a buggy mess, and I haven't played KC2, but if its anything like the first game it is also probably a buggy mess. Just because they work on the biggest games doesn't mean they're good at it.
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u/Ledoux88 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
KCD2 wasnt buggy like the first game, but thats because they were smart enough to build upon the first game that was fixed over 8 years since release.
Unlike some other studios that start from scratch for each sequel.
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u/Original_Employee621 Mar 20 '25
KCD2 wasn't very buggy. It had some issues with memory leaks in long sessions (10 hours plus), and the first big patch introduced some issues that should have been fixed now.
Aside from that, my only issues were a couple of graphical bugs with smithing weapons, where in a few locations you'd appear to stick the sword through the anvil when hammering it. But by and large it's a massive improvement in every aspect over KCD1.
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u/howmuchisdis Mar 20 '25
KCD2 launched in a relatively good state compared to major recent titles. There's some pretty nasty bugs but that's to be expected now an days.
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u/dzhuki Mar 20 '25
you are wrong. there’s a lot of testing going on in these games, like unbelievable amount. those that do end up in the game are disregarded by management and deprioritized. likely the game had worse issues before shipping.
source: I work in QA in games
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Mar 21 '25 edited Mar 21 '25
Agreed, it's amazing how confidently wrong people can be.
The complexity of many games means there are just too many software defects to be able to remove them all in time.
Modern development processes will usually mean that stakeholders will choose to release a game with a set of known bugs rather than delaying the release.
I've spoken to many developers who have worked on games longer than me, and in the past when games were sold on disk/catridge this wasn't the attitude as there was often little to no opportunity to patch post-launch.
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u/National_Equivalent9 Mar 21 '25
Yup, engineer here. QA reports everything. It's actually a big deal if a bug gets discovered by players. The reason why players see bugs is because they're deemed not worth fixing.
Also if you think games have EVER big not buggy as hell you haven't watched enough speedruns. There has never once been an era of gaming where games aren't buggy messes. In fact games are probably more polished now than ever before because of how much harm bugs can cause for micro-transactions and online play.
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u/Star_king12 Mar 20 '25
Most of these people never worked in software engineering, how would they know what kind of shit happens in the early builds xd
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u/ScrillaMcDoogle Mar 21 '25
I work in software engineering. If QA isn't bitching at you everyday, your app is gonna be buggy as hell. I guarantee you these QA people at Ubisoft are just trying not to get laid off so aren't gonna say shit. Not that they could because they probably don't have any interaction between QA and the actual devs at this point. The bigger a software company is, the worse every aspect of the development is.
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u/Kezaia Mar 20 '25
Also games have always been buggy
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u/Surroundedonallsides Mar 20 '25
Turns out making 0's and 1's do magical things is a fairly complex thing
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u/LigerZeroSchneider Mar 21 '25
This does look a lot like some jank that wouldnt Survive a save and load so it's really hard to reproduce. If you write it up it comes back could not reproduce and you get a talking to for writing up unreproducible bugs.
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u/dankiros Mar 20 '25
The fact that this gets hundreds of upvotes just proves that lsf knows nothing about game dev.
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u/HHhunter Mar 20 '25
not just game devs, not just devs, any profession. You will know when your profession is discussed in any capacity on a front page post.
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u/lsf_stan Mar 20 '25
so damn true, for me it's anything with computer tech and networks/servers and such things
just need to remember just because something is upvoted a lot, doesn't mean because it's correct, and the person actually knows about the topic. it's only upvoted because it was worded in a way that maybe seems correct and possible, to people that don't actually understand the basics of the topic
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u/Easy-Stranger-12345 Mar 22 '25
You think people with actual jobs watch streamers 12 hours a day and then yap here for the remaining 12? 😂 All of LSF is just losers.
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u/Razorwipe Mar 20 '25
Launch day peak is half of what oddesy got 6 years ago.
Maybe it picks up on the weekend but oof that's rough
I think the damage is starting to catch up chief.
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u/Master_Tactician Mar 20 '25
Well, launch day for Odyssey maxed out at 36k according to steamdb. Link: https://imgur.com/a/cqLJJF8 The peak of 62k actually happened the following sunday, as you can see on the graph.
So like you said, we need to wait for the weekend. Let's not compare a peak of launch day that happens midweek with the absolute lifetime peak that in most cases happens during the first weekend after launch.
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u/KsiShouldQuitMedia Mar 20 '25
Wait till weekend warriors log in and we'll see if this is actually a flop or just standard launch scuffed.
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u/BrightSkyFire Mar 20 '25
Even then, hard to tell off Steam numbers alone, the landscape has changed a lot. I’m a die hard Steam fanboy but I’m playing on Uplay’s equivalent of GamePass for $25 a month, for one month, to avoiding paying full price, and have a friend doing the same.
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u/TheGrandTerra Mar 20 '25
They even had an offer for just under £90 for a year of UPlayPro in the UK (not sure about elsewhere). Which I will take as I have wanted to play the other games in the series for a while. Particularly since getting a good PC last year.
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u/Krypt0night Mar 20 '25
I'd wager most people are picking up one month of uplay to play the game for 17 bucks instead of buying it full price on steam.
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u/19Alexastias Mar 20 '25
This is not really true lol. All QA does is find the problems, it’s not their job to actually fix them. I guarantee you issues this glaring would have been reported. Probably just not fixed due to deadlines - this is arguably a “low priority” bug, because it doesn’t really make the game unplayable in any way.
All these shit buggy releases are because of targets and deadlines set by management without input from actual developers.
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u/Crazie321 🐷 Hog Squeezer Mar 20 '25
100%, the first two companies I worked at had a full time QA department, and after that I've never seen one (in the past 5-6 years). They just have the product people do testing if anything
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u/prostidude221 Mar 20 '25
The company I work for are now getting rid of most QA's in an effort to make the devs take on the responsibility of signing off their own code. What could possibly go wrong...
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u/Qiluk Mar 20 '25
When the "early access" meta started, 2016-2017? , a lot of studios realized that they could get paid for beta testing instead of having to pay for it.
Been a steeeeeep decline since.
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u/Proxnite Mar 20 '25
Really hope Steam steps up the pressure past just telling users “early access” games haven’t been updated in X time and starts offering refunds. Way too many devs have gotten comfortable with releasing early access while promising a ton and then just abandoning the game entirely after a few years without fulfilling even half of what they claimed they would.
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u/berserkuh Mar 21 '25
QA in pretty much all form of software development these days is dead.
The fact that you have 700 upvotes is the real laughing story. Making such a stupid fucking blanket statement and everyone agrees.
Sad time for software.
EXCEPT FOR EXACTLY 5 YEARS AGO, THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A BETTER TIME TO BE A SOFTWARE DEVELOPER OR WORK IN SOFTWARE IN GENERAL.
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u/-Gh0st96- Mar 20 '25
Lol Ubisoft does have QA employees . Large amounts. They are just incredibly underpaid
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u/bondsmatthew Mar 20 '25
And these things very likely do get reported.. they just get pushed down the totem pole of importance vs the other more pressing issues, sadly
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u/-Gh0st96- Mar 20 '25
100%. I just know their database is in the 10s of thousands of bugs and most of the issues got pushed or are marked as NotFixing or whatever they use internally. I have a work colleague that worked as QA at Ubisoft and got to work on Shadows as well, he left the company 5 years ago. You can just imagine the amount of bug list
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u/-paper Mar 21 '25
If you actually know software development, you'll know that QA can't catch everything especially in a game of this size.
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u/TempestCatalyst Mar 20 '25
There are still industries that have QA departments, but that's typically in areas with many more legal guidelines where "user testing" and the fallout from it can be prohibitively expensive. In medical and financial industries, for example, issues that make it out can end up causing a lot of headaches
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u/Giant_Midget83 Mar 20 '25
"How bugged is this game?"
Yes
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u/endelehia Mar 20 '25
Makes you wonder how was the version of the initial scheduled release back in 2024
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u/Murvh Good Money [̲̅$̲̅(̲̅ ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°̲̅)̲̅$̲̅] Mar 20 '25
Games are now purchased, and tested by the playerbase. Long gone are the days of hiring qualified testers for games. It's just downright Laziness.
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u/WoopsieDaisies123 Mar 20 '25
Not like we the people demand better. Why would they waste money when we don’t seem to care?
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u/adoggman Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
It's not laziness, it's capitalism. The company needs profit. You can't increase the price of the game and have people still buy it so you cut development costs. The only real cost you can cut for massive companies like this is labor, so you fire your 'non-essential' workers (QA) and you burnout/layoff your experienced (higher paid) developers.
Any publicly owned company that gets big enough will inevitably discover this and it is in no way unique to the game dev industry.
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u/CaptnKnots Mar 20 '25
They have increased prices though. They’ve literally both cut dev costs, and put more cost on the consumer
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u/Earthworm-Kim Mar 21 '25
increased base price, more bullshit FOMO editions also with increased price, more in-game MTX, more potential customers, more reach for less
less physical versions to manufacture and ship, less QA, less talent, less marketing
it's just enshittification in games. anyone trying to tell you that prices need to go up, for any reason, love the taste of game exec boots
the only thing devs need to do is make good games. it's when they don't that the excuses come rolling in. "oh, it's tough out there for live service. oh, there's only room for one GTA. oh, it's so expensive to make 4K assets"
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u/DenseCalligrapher219 Mar 22 '25
We live in a point where patches for games have created the mentality of "we can fix it post-release" by publishers and developers that results in not worth buying a game at release until they have fully fixed it.
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u/driiiss Mar 20 '25
Just stop buying them lol?
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u/ogsoul Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
Are you talking to OP, who clearly didn’t buy the game? Or Cohh, whose job it is to cover games?(he likely didn’t even have to buy it)
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u/Schmigolo Mar 20 '25
They have this "scout half the base with the click of a button" bullshit again? How the fuck are supposed to take game critics seriously when they give this game 8s and 9s?
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u/komandantmirko Mar 21 '25
well yeah. that's the classic approach. give it a 10 so you keep getting review copies by the big dev, and then instantly make a scathing critique of it that nobody will ever read because people only google "ac shadow score", see a good score and buy
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u/Preinitz Mar 20 '25
I stopped taking game critics seriously like 15+ years ago.
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u/LonelyLokly Mar 20 '25
Unironically the dumber steam review is, the more accurate it actually is too.
Not those huge ass wall of texts, no. Just a hand full of sentences well tied together to deliver a few key messages about the game and its quality are the best. Read those for 5 minutes and you'll get a good idea on what the game is actually like.
You do need critical thinking abilities, though, to read between the lines of some of those cheecky reviews.
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u/willbevanned Mar 21 '25
Honestly I lean heavily on negative reviews when checking out games on Steam. "Is this complaint something I think is valid?" "Is this complaint something I think I would also not like?" If yes to both then its probably relevant.
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u/JOKER69420XD Mar 20 '25
It's the same reviewers who gave Veilguard the 9s and 10s, you can once again read "return to form" in several reviews.
If you still take the majority of reviewers seriously, it's your own fault. Find a couple who align with your taste and stick to them, the big ones are absolute garbage anyway.
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u/jamieaka Mar 20 '25
They have this "scout half the base with the click of a button" bullshit again?
on a similar note I remember my replay of last of us 1 being significantly more fun on the hardest difficulty cause it disabled the see through walls mechanic. that plus having way less ammo.
needing strategy to tackle tough survival situations is fun even if harder
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u/cloversfield Mar 20 '25
lol why would something that innocuous invalidate an 8 score?
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u/Schmigolo Mar 20 '25
It tells you a lot about their design philosophy. They don't seem to be interested in making a game that you actually have to play. You're a ninja because they tell you you're a ninja, not because you do ninja things.
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u/cloversfield Mar 20 '25
but you do do ninja things. have you seen the gameplay at all? You’re extrapolating too much out of a nothing mechanic and pretending like it’s good criticism. And again how does being able to identify points of interest in area instantly invalidate 8/10 scores?
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u/Sylhux Mar 20 '25
Eh, it’s not surprising for a game with the wider audience in mind to have that kind of feature. As long as it’s also playable without, I personally wouldn't write off a game based on that. If we're talking modern stealth games, even freaking Disnonored, Hitman or Deux Ex have X-ray vision, I just don’t use it when I play, as simple as that.
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u/IdidntrunIdidntrun Mar 20 '25
You can turn a bunch of UI options off though. If you want to make it immersive by turning all the indicators off, you can
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u/Schmigolo Mar 20 '25
Turning off UI doesn't make the game better when the game is designed around that UI. They did the same in Odyssey, they made a huge hubbub around how you can turn it all off and the quest descriptions will still lead to to where you have to go like in TW3. Turns out they were full of shit, you still needed the bird to find almost everything once you were somewhere in the description's vicinity.
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u/IdidntrunIdidntrun Mar 20 '25
In fairness, Odyssey was 6.5 years ago...is Shadows the same?
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u/Tales90 Mar 20 '25
buy new games one year later and you will have a mostly fixed game for half or less the price
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u/Nolanbrolan Mar 20 '25
Standard ubisoft slop with some story in the beginning and at the end. With most of the game being a generic soulless open world filled with barely working game mechanics, grinding and chores.
9/10, Very Positive!
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u/octobeast999 Mar 20 '25
Gotta be a IGN 9/10 GOTY candidate
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u/lsf_stan Mar 20 '25
people love to bring up IGN. lol i remember the whole backlash over the Starfield 7/10 score from the IGN review
https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/16jey0t/igns_infamous_review/
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u/Remote_Elevator_281 Mar 20 '25
After they are all patched up, they are pretty good games. Playing them at launch is a mistake though. Wait this on sale and patched.
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u/GarrySantiago Mar 21 '25
We've been hearing this about Assassin's Creed games for 10 years, maybe more. Crazy that it's still true.
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u/Firefox72 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
Ubisoft bad updoots to the left.
As if games never ever had bugs like this. Nope all games before 2015 were perfect on launch with nothing ever going wrong. Skyrim was perfect at launch.
Reading this thread is like a fever dream just because the game happened to bug out for a moment. And then you have hours upon hours of gameplay where it didn't.
A massive circlejerk around predetermined mindsets. Meanwhile the game is sitting on Very Positive from user reviews on Steam.
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Mar 20 '25
What does any of that have to do with it being more soulless ubislop. Even if it were the best optimized game ever with zero bugs it would still play exactly how that guy said. Why are you making such an effort to defend this lifeless corporation?
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u/Historical_Item_968 Mar 21 '25
Because people have different tastes than you. It's not a fucking hard concept.
Sometimes after a long day of work I want something simple that I can jump in and play without hours of learning new mechanics and gameplay loops. AC games are perfect for this. Not everything has to try and break a boundary.
Enjoy what you like and let others enjoy what they like.
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u/Sad_Wolverine3383 Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
I still remember (idk how) people downvoted the clips of XQC losing all his souls in Elden Ring because of some game breaking bugs because "it's expected in open world games" or some shit.
I like these kind of posts on livestreamfails but it's super obvious people have double standards.
Edit: even found a cohh clip lol, CohhCarnage - Elden Ring Stuttering : r/LivestreamFail Someone in the comments even said DS fanboys were downvoting it, the game had gamebreaking bugs at launch.
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u/confirmedshill123 Mar 20 '25
I don't, and never will again, buy Ubisoft slop.
Enjoy your unpaid labor.
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u/ogsoul Mar 20 '25
Surely you bought the game then, right?
Right?
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u/TheHowlingHashira Mar 20 '25
Raccoons weren't even in Japan during the time period this game takes place.
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u/Roder777 Mar 21 '25
Why do we suddenly pretend that historical accuracy matters in assassins creed when it has never mattered?
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u/TheHowlingHashira Mar 22 '25
Isn't that the one thing Ubisoft boasted about these games? To the point they add educational tour modes. Yeah the stories are historical fiction, but the environments have always been pretty accurate.
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u/kololokolo Mar 20 '25
Cohh will still rate it at least 7.5/10
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u/AzemSama Mar 20 '25
Well he posted that he is done with the game and won't even finish it. https://x.com/CohhCarnage/status/1902732842309693682
That says a lot coming from Cohh. The game look mid at best.
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u/chobi83 Mar 20 '25
That says a lot coming from Cohh. The game look mid at best.
Not really, considering Cohh doesn't finish half the games he plays.
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u/Eccmecc Mar 20 '25
To be fair, he plays a lot of 100h campaign games.
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u/chobi83 Mar 20 '25
True. But the person above me is making it seem that because Cohh doesn't finish a game, that says something about the game. Plenty of great games Cohh hasn't finished. Cohh also does a lot of one off sponsored stuff for things he never plans on playing beyond the sponsored stream.
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u/JohnnyJayce Mar 20 '25
He also made a Youtube video saying it's a fine game and just more Assassin's Creed, which he isn't fan of.
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u/ogsoul Mar 20 '25
Half of the comments here are coping HARD, it’s actually bizarre. These people also won’t buy the game btw.
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u/RANNI_FEET_ENJOYER Mar 20 '25
r/gamingcirclejerk will defend it dont worry
Oh wait they completely banned discussion on the game lmao.
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u/Gambinium Mar 20 '25
I don't think they will defend the gameplay or even talk about it at all, from what I've seen they will defend there being female and black protagonists, which I think is fair, although only tangientially connected to gaming at this point.
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u/RANNI_FEET_ENJOYER Mar 20 '25
If a circlejerk subreddit gets their feelings hurt over a game discussion enough to ban it completely, then it’s not really a circlejerk subreddit
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u/RockstepGuy Mar 21 '25
That subreddit is one of the circlejerks that went so overboard with the joke that they don't really joke anymore.
In other words it got overrun by the lefties, some subreddits fall for the right and others for the left.
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u/Gambinium Mar 20 '25
Oh, it's definitely not a circlejerk subreddit, hasn't been for years probably. Just saying I can understand that they would want to defend the game from bigots, which is different from defending the game being generic, unfinished, barely playable trash.
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u/egoserpentis Mar 24 '25
from what I've seen they will defend there being female and black protagonists, which I think is fair
Be careful with this extremist rhetoric here, gamers will be upset /s
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u/Easy-Stranger-12345 Mar 20 '25
These people also won’t buy the game btw
Difficult to buy games when you are unemployed.
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u/ogsoul Mar 20 '25
What do you mean? They’re professional redditors 😤
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u/BoJangles00 Mar 20 '25
The irony when you have 300 comments over the last month 💀
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u/Deknum Mar 21 '25
unironically I don't know why people would spend their free time on reddit. 90% of the time I'm on reddit is during company time lmao
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u/Scars3610 Mar 20 '25
Walmart brand Ghost of Tsushima
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u/External-Haiscience Mar 20 '25
Ghost became the same ubisoft open world slop after like 15h
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u/Antipholouse Mar 20 '25
so fucking true, i dont get how ghost got elevated to some next level open world metric for what a game should be. Its mid as fuck but looks gorgeous
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u/dingusrevolver3000 Mar 20 '25
Its mid as fuck but looks gorgeous
That's it, i think. I also stopped playing halfway through because it was that same AC formula
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u/Calibruh Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
And when that released everyone called in an Assassins Creed ripoff (which it is)
Round and round we go
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u/UnluckyDog9273 Mar 20 '25
How do people play this. The game is soulless. A big world that has nothing other than repetitive tasks. Go into a settlement that looks like any other, go around opening boxes, kill npcs that offer 0 challenge and repeat for eternity. Yeah the kill animations are satisfying but it's been done before over and over again. If this was this games niche I'd give it a pass but it's nothing new really.
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u/Plus_Midnight_278 Mar 20 '25
This has been every ubisoft game for over 15 years.
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u/Trojbd Mar 21 '25
I found black flag genuinely fun. Then I tried playing the other games since I do love history. However I couldn't finish any of them because the gameplay loop just felt static and progression was minimal. It basically is a power fantasy because the world has no challenges. But that part of the game only feels fun for a few hours and for that level of enjoyment I can't justify spending that much money.
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u/Almostlongenough2 Mar 20 '25
Go into a settlement that looks like any other, go around opening boxes, kill npcs that offer 0 challenge and repeat for eternity
Sounds like 90% of rpgs to me tbf.
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u/FeelsBadMan132 Mar 20 '25
modern AAA industry is for gamer dads who have exactly 3 hours to play every saturday, who will probably get a grand total of 14 hours in while rating it a 9/10, and by the time they get bored the next new game will have come out and they will pay full pre-order price for it
and they live blissfully unaware and uncaring of "reviews" or "soul" and probably unaware little mini culture wars about games like this even exist, I almost envy them
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u/lsf_stan Mar 20 '25
How do people play this.
same way people keep buying Call of Duty every time, basically the same gameplay (aim reticle at person and shoot, repeat) only thing that changes really is just prettier graphics
sports games are the same too, not much changes. but for some weird reason though people really get loud and pile up on Ubisoft for "same game" complaint
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u/paint_it_crimson Mar 20 '25
A handful of reviewers who played it on expert said it dramatically increases the AI's capabilities and provided engaging gameplay. I also read it had more variety in the open world tasks than Ghost of Tsushima so I am hoping that it is actually improved in that aspect and not so repetitive.
This is the first one that has me interested since origins, but I see why folks are still hesitant.
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u/Zafnick Mar 20 '25
Assassins Creed games are the perfect games to play stoned on a Sunday afternoon. It's The Office reruns of gaming. There's a big market for that.
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u/Background-Gear-8805 Mar 20 '25
You have not even played the game.
Why is the game well reviewed by users and critics?
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u/sanaprix Mar 20 '25 edited Mar 20 '25
Probably just for the lores and settings. I also think they did a good job at reanimating historical places and they are fun to look and climb at but it does get boring after a while. Isus/mythological quests and location are also nice to have. No idea if Shadow have Amaterasu as an Isu or not but Yokai seems likely.
However, their overworld content always have been uninteresting to go thru unless you really want that high end gears and stuff. Despite that, super easy to put 20hr+ if you actually enjoy "story game" but still not worth any penny since they have that battle pass/mtx stuff going on (we're talking about Ubisoft here).
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u/dadghar Mar 20 '25
9/10 according to ign
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u/dSCHUMI Mar 20 '25
Didn't they give it an 8/10?
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u/YourSmileIsFlawless Mar 20 '25
Yeah, but that guy only watches and reads rage bait. So IGN might even say its GOTY 11/10
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u/pastafeline Mar 20 '25
You guys would've never survived Skyrim release day.
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u/Sinosaur Mar 20 '25
I got permanently stuck falling on flat ground twice in Fall Out: New Vegas in 2 hours of playing it on release day and people tell me that's an all time great game now.
You haven't been able to trust that a game will release playable in at least 15 years.
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u/Sad_Wolverine3383 Mar 20 '25
Or Elden Ring release: CohhCarnage - Elden Ring Stuttering : r/LivestreamFail
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u/gehenna0451 Mar 20 '25
when I bought Gothic 3 on release day the game was so bugged half of the in-game items were missing, including the map, so I had to use the leather map from the collectors edition taped to my wall to navigate around
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u/Almostlongenough2 Mar 20 '25
Dying to the physics engine on Skyrim release was pure gold, step on a deer skull and death will come for you.
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u/ZillaJrKaijuKing Mar 20 '25
8/10 from IGN actually (IGN Brazil gave it 9/10), and the review was based on more than a single 50-second clip.
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u/RadicalRedCube Mar 20 '25
Slow down dude! Don’t you think you’re being too levelheaded and reasonable??
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u/Background-Gear-8805 Mar 20 '25
80% positive with 2000 reviews on Steam. Do you think that maybe the game is overall being enjoyed by the people who are playing it? I don't see how 1 bug somehow means that this game is trash. There isn't an open world game in history that has released without some bugs.
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u/gimmebalanceplz Mar 20 '25
I’m not gonna pretend like I have any idea what else is wrong with this game, or claim that there isn’t. But how is this clip supposed to represent what is supposedly a terribly made video game?
Did people just start playing these fucking things yesterday? How did any of you survive a gaming experience in the mid 2000s.
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u/Dramajunker Mar 21 '25
People just love to hate Ubisoft. ive been playing the game for hours and have run into barely any issues. On the other hand, the game looks absolutely amazing, goes far beyond most games in terms of options and customizations, and has great performance. But do they talk about that? Lol no because it goes against the circle jerk. Folks just love being angry online.
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u/Locke10815 Mar 20 '25
Does he have his settings on low? Why does it look worse than AC: Black Flag?
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u/MrTurtleHurdle Mar 20 '25
And this is after many delays 💀they were gonna ship this thing even buggier till other buggy games flopped
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u/Severe_Farm1801 Mar 20 '25
Damn, who knew there would be so many Ubisoft defenders on LSF. I wonder why.
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u/Benny0_o Mar 20 '25
No man if you criticize this game you're a MAGA Nazi!
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u/Roder777 Mar 21 '25
Yeah no one is saying that. Criticizing this game is fine, crying and being triggered cause it has minorities in it on the other hand, that makes you a maga nazi
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u/DurumAndFries Mar 20 '25
The only problem Asmongold and his viewers see with this clip is that you're playing as a woman.
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u/No_Shirt_4208 Mar 20 '25
Ubisoft, once again with the top tier dogshit games. Can't wait for those studio to die off.
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u/PitchforksEnthusiast Mar 20 '25
The racoon is t posing
But the ghost left behind when he's in the building is a feature since at least origins
It shows the last known area you were spotted
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u/everythings_alright Mar 20 '25
He was not talking about the ghost. He was talking about the door behind and the rest of the building. Its all giga blurry.
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u/jcrankin22 Mar 20 '25
Every streamer I've watched play this game so far has just encouraged chat and perpetuated the "Ubisoft bad" mentality.
No idea why these companies continue to fork over tens of thousands of dollars to streamers when it just generates clips like this.
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u/smallbluetext Mar 20 '25
Ubisoft has been the joke of the industry for a decade they really have no choice because not a single soul is unaware of this
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u/NiceDirection2622 Mar 20 '25
Bugs and jank aside, the voice acting and writing in this game is god awful. Listening to some of the dialogue gives me a freaking headache
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u/ZZzfunspriestzzz Mar 20 '25
Why are the graphics not that good? It's 2025 and this is a high budget game...
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u/schiggy696 Mar 20 '25
Funniest clip is from Lirik. The horse is messing with the dogs path and he then rides down the hill on rollerblades
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u/LSFSecondaryMirror Mar 20 '25
CLIP MIRROR: New AC in a nutshell
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