Wish we'd get a review option for Connect - Mirage is a huge disappointment

[Taipan]

Wish we'd get a review option for Connect, so they can see what their userbase wants and thinks about their games.

( I am still playing the Mirage, but it's atrocious for 2024-2025, going to finish it because of the money paid. )

Nope, I am not playing it anymore, it would be a waste of time. Uninstall, bye.

I can't believe that they released such a game in the 2020s, it feels like I am back in time. Who wants to play games with features from 10-20 years ago when the technology allows for so much more and we have so many more options?

I really can't immerse myself into the game, an amateur studio would have done it better with the assets and knowledge from the previous games. Story is also stale, nevermind the mechanics.

Ubisoft is an AAA game developer, right? Innovation? Quantity and quality? Rings a bell?

I think they got it wrong that some of the old games were said to be too big. The issues was repetitiveness, not size, and lack of new things to do as the game progressed. Cutting it down to the bones with zero innovation doesn't make a new good game.

Hopefully they will bounce back, but don't fret on it.

PS: Waiting for Connect reviews.

[Who]

I Don't agree Mirage to me feels like a good AC not a rpg grinding Witcher 3 wannabe.

[The Dukenator]

Mirage wasn't meant to be a full game, but dlc for Valhalla.

[Taipan]

DLC I can understand. Tho the story is underwhelming, and the mechanics are too old. Valhalla I did enjoy, at least it had a story.

[Orge Lambart]

the game was supposed to be a throwback to the older Assassin Creed games, I'm pretty sure that's kind of how Ubisoft was promoting the game. It wasn't going to be in the same vein as the hundred hour long RPG behemoths that were Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla.

I'm not sure how far along I am in the story mode, but it for certain feels alot closer to what older Creed games were, the slow methodical pacing, where you get rewarded for careful stealth and trying to fight in open conflict with 4 - 5 guards will almost certainly mean your death in many situations.

The only issue I have is the game feels kind of small and albeit short I think.. Then again, not every game needs to be a 100 - 200 hour marathon that takes 3 months to finish. That and all those locked doors.. I mean, ugh, so many locked doors. makes trying to complete the maps suck because you're left searching for some key that may or may not show up when you us Eagle vision.

[Taipan]

Given the price, and the AAA status, it's about time too, but that's not the issue for me.

It's the lack of innovation and things to do. I don't know, I could think of many things out of the box that would make the character seem relevant and the game better, like base building, evolving ranks into an order of assassins, helping communities with enduring effects on the game world, a more varied array of weapons, etc.

Game looks like a bunch of lazy devs threw some old assets into the game, altered to look modern, and went for a cash grab.

I am not even going to bother to finish the story because this is not a game for this age.

No wonder Ubi has financial problems, you are rewarded based on your innovation and hard work.

[Taipan]

Also, I'd like to see choices. Be a bad assassin or a good one, or a grey area one. Adapt or die, that's how evolution works. AAA status require game features, not empty brand names.