Very uninspired.

[bokke_commando]

When I first saw the trailer I thought it looked like cartoon God of War with more magic. Played the demo, and it's basically bogarted it's mechanics from every popular and not so popular game to release in the past 8 to 10 years. I was interested, but not now. Not original at all.

[Cully]

How TF are you thinking GOW here?

[bokke_commando]

Originally posted by Cully:

How TF are you thinking GOW here?

I said when I saw the trailer it looked like cartoon God of War with more magic. I did not say that it is God of War with magic. This game clearly takes mechanics from many, many games, as I said in my post above.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by bokke_commando:

Originally posted by Cully:

How TF are you thinking GOW here?

I said when I saw the trailer it looked like cartoon God of War with more magic. I did not say that it is God of War with magic. This game clearly takes mechanics from many, many games, as I said in my post above.

That's a bad thing how, exactly? Imitation is the strongest form of flattery and if a system worked in one game, it can work in others and it works really well in eternal strands.

[Gearhart]

yeah op is trying to farm clowns don't let him win

[bokke_commando]

Originally posted by Gearhart:

yeah op is trying to farm clowns don't let him win

I'm not 14, and I don't get all in my feelings when somebody posts criticism of a game I like.

[The Electric Mindset]

Originally posted by bokke_commando:

Originally posted by Gearhart:

yeah op is trying to farm clowns don't let him win

I'm not 14

Could have fooled me.

[Noop]

If it only copied the mechanics properly but they couldnt even get that right. Everything about the game yells unexperienced devs to me. They never played an action game on any of the harder difficulties where you need to actually engage with the mechanics.

I can recommend playing gow on give me god of war. You'll understand what well designed mechancis are very quickly.

[Rastlaff]

Originally posted by Noop:

Everything about the game yells unexperienced devs to me.

You are wrong, but at the same time you’re right. You don’t suspect these devs are coming from big studios and they had big jobs there - Mike Laidlaw is one example. We don’t know why they were quitting (or fired?), but we know they were involved with Ubisoft, which is sinking today like a leaking boat and yet again, we don’t know who was playing which part in making those holes.

[Rufus MF Albarea]

Originally posted by Rastlaff:

Originally posted by Noop:

Everything about the game yells unexperienced devs to me.

You are wrong, but at the same time you’re right. You don’t suspect these devs are coming from big studios and they had big jobs there - Mike Laidlaw is one example. We don’t know why they were quitting (or fired?), but we know they were involved with Ubisoft, which is sinking today like a leaking boat and yet again, we don’t know who was playing which part in making those holes.

I feel it's important to mention that while Mike laidlaw was involved with ubisoft he had left the company 5 years ago and was only working thier from 2018 to early 2020, also it's been confirmed that laidlaw left ubisoft of his own volition, idk what that would have to do with current ubisoft today but I felt that context needed to be added

[wasteland_ghost]

Originally posted by ProfessorBagel:

I feel it's important to mention that while Mike laidlaw was involved with ubisoft he had left the company 5 years ago and was only working thier from 2018 to early 2020, also it's been confirmed that laidlaw left ubisoft of his own volition, idk what that would have to do with current ubisoft today but I felt that context needed to be added

Frédéric St-Laurent B. - Game Director Co-Founder at Yellow Brick Games Inc. - 10 years at Ubisoft. Matthieu Pierrot - Senior Gameplay/AI/Animation/Physics Programmer - 7 years in Ubisoft.

Easy to continue the list yourself, especially if you know that much already.

It’s not like Ubisoft's decline suddenly started yesterday. For the sake of being fair: they did produce good games. Splinter Cell Blacklist had very good mechanics, especially in co-op. Immortals Fenyx Rising (btw, not that far away from what Eternal Strands is trying to do) had good humor. Assassin’s Creed 3 was a turn on the franchise with a good story and the introduction of the ship they were reusing in Rogue - but after that what?

OK, those ppl might have quit Ubisoft years ago, but nowadays in their new game they continue to do the same - and that is important.

[bokke_commando]

I never intended this to be one of those "woke" threads lol

[Star]

Originally posted by Noop:

If it only copied the mechanics properly but they couldnt even get that right. Everything about the game yells unexperienced devs to me. They never played an action game on any of the harder difficulties where you need to actually engage with the mechanics.

I can recommend playing gow on give me god of war. You'll understand what well designed mechancis are very quickly.

Funny, because in GoW 2018, higher difficulties just turn enemies into sponges that two shot you. Which is an incredibly lazy and uninspired game design. You also probably enjoyed fighting the same troll a dozen times

[bokke_commando]

Originally posted by Star:

Originally posted by Noop:

If it only copied the mechanics properly but they couldnt even get that right. Everything about the game yells unexperienced devs to me. They never played an action game on any of the harder difficulties where you need to actually engage with the mechanics.

I can recommend playing gow on give me god of war. You'll understand what well designed mechancis are very quickly.

Funny, because in GoW 2018, higher difficulties just turn enemies into sponges that two shot you. Which is an incredibly lazy and uninspired game design. You also probably enjoyed fighting the same troll a dozen times

Too much salt is not good for you.

[Cossack]

every story, song, book and movie take inspiration from something that came before and here you are complaining about it not being a new idea. Sir look around at the world around and and tell me whats a new idea.