Game News Thread

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Ubisoft are like:

Like somehow it is Ubisoft’s fault that Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown didn’t sell well despite, how distanced it was from a lot of Ubisoft’s usual bad decisions and its overall solid critical repsponse.

No wonder Ubisoft never try anymore, why try and be marginalized for it when you can crank the slop out and be give cash money on the daily

But speaking of slop mills

Netflix aren’t even waiting for the projects to go past conceptualisation before cancelling them.

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I was typing out a whole rant and armchair analysis, replete with tangents and sub-arguments, but had one of those “writer rabbit hole” things and just erased it all. Only to say—

What the hell is up with Ubisoft, man??

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Funny I was doing the same thing but I remembered that LBJ quote and it sort of wrote itself

What isn’t up with them?

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The marketing didn’t do the game any favors and since the game got decent reviews but didn’t sell well, that didn’t mean they needed to shut down the team. It’s back to how Microsoft closed Tango Gameworks even though Hi-Fi Rush had decent reviews and won several awards. One of the devs said how publishers only care about numbers of buyers / constant players and not how good a game is or how different or original it is compared to others.

Also Ubi shot themselves in the foot when they said this, right before the launch of the PoP game.

This really didn’t do them any favors in The Lost Crown selling well.

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I feel like the circumstances surrounding the two games are in some ways different. Its an apple or pear comparison, you get a lot of similarities with both but also a lot of differences.

But yes it is sad that production doesn’t value creativity or quality when greenlighting projects, allocating funding or continuing the studio’s existence. But I highly doubt this is going to embolden Ubisoft creatively in the future, it will probably just make them worse.

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it just says Nintendo instead of switch so yooka-replaylee alarmo port when?

Please it would be funny

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Worms Armageddon 25th Anniversary, as in for 25 T17 has been trying to replicate the success of Worms Armageddon but not quite hitting the mark, Worms Rumble being their biggest blunder ever. If you’re gonna say the 3D Worms games were their biggest mistake, I hope a concrete donkey drops down on your head :grin:

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Worms Armageddon is the greatest Worms and all that matters on the horizon is it’s 4.0 release.
https://worms2d.info/4

Besides, 3D Worms was fun too, with Forts being the most innovative. :smiley:

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A fellow Worms Forts Under Siege ejoyer :grin:
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Actually, that’s Worms 2, shout out to Worm Liero tho :hugs:

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Another small Friends of Jimbo update is out for Balatro, this time with Cyberpunk 2077, The Binding of Isaac, Slay The Spire (No Watcher? :frowning:) and Stardew Valley cards.

The next update better feature Hades…

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Sniper Elite 5.5 comes out January 30th next year.

Harry Hawker is getting his own “Kill Hitler” DLC mission too :joy:
Also… there’s a season pass? Probably with more missions after launch? What is Rebellion thinking I thought this was a simple asset-swap spin-off?

80$ CAD for Standard, 120$ CAD for Deluxe.
Sooo… I assume 60$ US, and 90$ US? Gosh, I hope not…

Anyway, @Silvereyes

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Yeah, the season pass has 3 missions included with it, plus also the Hitler mission as DLC. Looks like the game should be as big Sniper Elite 5.

But for something that looks like it will just be more of SE5, I was hoping more for a $40 price tag rather than full price. Ah well, see what the reviews say. I like that you get to help the Dam Busters in 1 mission.

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Yeah I was expecting the same thing given that this feels like an in-between project while they cook up SE6…

Eh, there’ll always be sales at some point where we can pick it up… :sweat_smile:

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Interesting. The three year old standalone expansion for now defunct studio Mimimi’s Shadow Tactics is coming to PlayStation on Dec 6.

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Tf2 fixed a very old bug with the blu scout two days ago but then they reverted it yesterday because it didn’t work with a few cosmetics



Fortnite’s twitter and Tik tok accounts posted three short videos showing the new battle pass skins

They turned Lou into a South Park character


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Damn 3 consecutive replies limit :smiley:

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…And you didn’t think to tag me about the new Chicken Game? :face_with_raised_eyebrow::broken_heart:

(hugs tho :people_hugging:)

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