Are Ubisoft and EA games dead on PC?

[Makabb]

Ubisoft needs uplay and EA origin + EA games most have lootboxes or trading cards which you buy for $$$.

Haven't played a EA or Ubisoft game since like 7 years.

 

[Anomander Rake]

They are dead only for not braindead people

 

[Telengard]

Their games are, unfortunately, actually some of the most popular on the planet. And that includes even here on the Codex, as the respective Assassins Creed and Battlefield threads illustrate. Plus Ubisoft does Anno*, one of the few remaining civ builders that are actually still strategy games, instead of just clickers, so they get praise there from the Tacticular Cancer folks. And Ubisoft also got a lot of praise here for that recent arcade Western shooter thing, the name of which escapes me, but the first one in the series had a preacher chasing an indian, and you played both alternately.




* In the same way that Debbie does Dallas

 

[Deathsquid]

Man, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger came out in 2013.

 

[Ash]

Ubisoft needs uplay and EA origin + EA games most have lootboxes or trading cards which you buy for $$$.

Haven't played a EA or Ubisoft game since like 7 years.

EA: play Dead Space series
Ubisoft: play Far Cry series

Both aren't amazing, and Far Cry in particular is somewhat compromised, yet they're the only singleplayer games of the past decade from these two publishers even slightly worth a damn (in my experience).
People mentioned Titanfall 2 being worth a shot also but idk if that was just normie/modern gamer talk or people that actually know what a good game is...

the quality is dead on PC and console. shame because even these two published a lot of golden oldies back in the day, and even when their games weren't that great they were often still pretty cool

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

Battlefield on PC is still gold.

 

[taxalot]

I am struggling to remember the last time I got interested by an EA or Activision game.

However, Ubi still is trying in some ways. The AC series is interesting by its settings and its evolution. The Far Cry series actually try some new stuff setting-wise compared to most FPS (I haven't actually played any of these games). I am curious about Beyond Good & Evil 2. I hear the last South Park game isn't half bad. Ubi is the least worse of the big 3.

 

[Ash]

Nah Ubi will always be figuratively Hitler for Assassins Creed.

 

[Deathsquid]

Nah Ubi will always be figuratively Hitler for Assassins Creed.

Hm, maybe they should make an Ass Creed game set in 1938 Berlin.

 

[Doctor Sbaitso]

I am struggling to remember the last time I got interested by an EA or Activision game.

However, Ubi still is trying in some ways. The AC series is interesting by its settings and its evolution. The Far Cry series actually try some new stuff setting-wise compared to most FPS (I haven't actually played any of these games). I am curious about Beyond Good & Evil 2. I hear the last South Park game isn't half bad. Ubi is the least worse of the big 3.

I still find myself hoping that some day they decide to make a worthy Clancy game.