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[PA] Watch Dogs Gets A 10 Year Plan…

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Jesus Christ, the game isn't even out yet and already Ubisoft wants to throw the franchise up on a pinball machine and rape the hell out of it. Remember how Assassin's Creed used to be a pretty good franchise. That is until the series went annual and the audience barely had time to finish the last game before the next game had hit store shelves. Some would say that this took a bit of the shine off the Assassin's Creed apple, and I would be forced to agree. Well it looks like Ubisoft is thinking along those same lines for their next big game…Watch Dogs.
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Well Ubisoft is a weird company, they have all these different IPs, and there's not many games from big companies out there going out of their way to be something different, anyway, so instead of Ubisoft build slowly on them, and create something even more special they start to milk their franchises, I'm not saying a 10 year plan is a bad thing, has long has its not 1 game per year for 10 years, AC atm is suffering from fatigue, I mean AC latest games haven't been bad, (even tho they messed up with Conors, didn't feel any connection with that one),

Again Ubisoft has some really good franchises but a poor planing, and a few PR/DRM fiascos.
 
#9 ·
As long as they can keep the games fresh and up to date!

The practice is there to be able to release games frequently, not to sure about an annual release, I cant see any story based franchise be able to sustain momentum over 10 games however Bi-annually with more depth pumped into the story rather than milking a quickly put together story 10 times.

However not even knowing how well the first game will be recieved, even if the trailers and gameplay do look pretty darn good, is a pretty risky move by ubisoft- Someone there cleary thinks this is a show stopping game.
 
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Originally Posted by axiumone View Post

With that news, I actually lost all of the interest in the game.

Is it so much to ask of a game today to be complete from start to finish in a single iteration? I don't want a game to end on a cliffhanger.
Yeah, its funny too- because over the years society makes fun of itterations, toy story 29, paranormal ffs 5? the iphone 38

But then these corporations embrace that as if it's what we want?! Makes no sense to me, in a world PACKED with copy-cats, why would a company, with the resources, funding, etc spend SO MUCH to make somthing unoriginal.
 
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If this has a 10 year plan it better have a damn good storyline. The reason why I bought every Assassins Creed game? The storyline was damn good.. especially Ezio. AC3 got a little eh... but the whole Desmond thing was just awesome. I probably wont be picking up Black Flag since it seems to steer away from that.
 
#16 ·
Well there is nothing wrong in a 10 year plan inherently. Problem is when the plan is basically "lets release one every year" without the proper content n stuff in it.

What they would need is a good solid plan for the story-line while still allowing sufficient player freedom. Not like Mass effect 3 where at the end of a series all what your past changes is the color of a lights. The case with the sequels is, in my opinion, that it helps if you know beforehand how many games you want to do to tell your story. Otherwise you end up with "look, its a dog! See?! and we will sell it for 60 EUR".
 
#18 ·
As long as each individual game is of a good enough standard and the story line makes sense to be spread so far.....

I'll probably just do like I did with the AC series and only buy games every few years. And watch YouTube story walkthroughs to fill in the gaps of the games I didn't play.
 
#19 ·
Meh, gameplay-wise Asscreed didnt suffer from annual releases. Well, except for them taking out all the actual stealth and assassination after the first game...And everyone getting bored as hell by AC3 from over saturation.

Aside from their disgusting DRM practices Ubisoft has been making some pretty great games, and no one is forcing you to by them annually anyway. If you wait for GOTY sales you can usually nab their games for $20-30 too.
 
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Originally Posted by Deacon View Post
I mean AC latest games haven't been bad, (even tho they messed up with Conors, didn't feel any connection with that one),
In my opinion the last two (revelations and AC3) were really bad.

  • Revelations I tried finishing it although it was really a Brotherhood with different textures and new bombs.
  • AC3 I didnt even try finishing it. What a BORING game, thank god I got it with my SSD.

The only part I liked was the sea battles, that's why I have some hope with Black Flag, although I know that it will not be like the AC used to be anymore.
 
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Originally Posted by iMica View Post

I dont see a problem with games coming out annually. (As long as they are good)
The inherent issue is that with a yearly time constraint so many compromises have to be done that the end product will never be as good as it could have been since assets, animations, and engines gets used more and more to the point were it will always become rehash and never as good or innovative as the first title. Why do you think CoD had two teams working on the franchise back before the Infinity Ward exodus? IW knew it needed more than a year to try and at least change and add some things rather than have Madden 13 be madden 12/11/10.

Think about it this way the real IW guys could still be making COD 4.6/7 or they could be making Titan fall (which they are
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Originally Posted by CBZ323 View Post

In my opinion the last two (revelations and AC3) were really bad.
  • Revelations I tried finishing it although it was really a Brotherhood with different textures and new bombs.
  • AC3 I didnt even try finishing it. What a BORING game, thank god I got it with my SSD.
The only part I liked was the sea battles, that's why I have some hope with Black Flag, although I know that it will not be like the AC used to be anymore.
Yeah, I was a pretty big fan of AC before but haven't even looked at the last two games. Though even with the horrible freezing in that Sony press conference I sorta liked Black Flag.
 
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Originally Posted by axiumone View Post

With that news, I actually lost all of the interest in the game.

Is it so much to ask of a game today to be complete from start to finish in a single iteration? I don't want a game to end on a cliffhanger.
That doesn't even make sense, you lost interest in the game based on it getting annual release? That literally has no effect on the first game at all.
 
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Originally Posted by Tunechi View Post

That doesn't even make sense, you lost interest in the game based on it getting annual release? That literally has no effect on the first game at all.
I tend to agree with axiumone. A game with a sequel is almost guaranteed to have a cliffhanger. In a way, a game with a cliffhanger makes me feel a bit cheated out of an ending when it is the first game. Think of it like Star Wars. The death star was destroyed and the story could have ended there. Empire ended on a cliffhanger but it was fine because it was part of a trilogy.
 
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