In praise of Ubisoft

Yea the whole thinking man is bullshit though. The industry just got very good at making people feel like they were good despite obvious lack in ability. One of the obvious ways was to make them think that was to reward autists who memorise every possible way to make holes in the wall and call it "strategy". There are some low mechanical skill thinking games offline like chess but when it comes to vid games, it is still the star craft, duel quake, and dota 2 that rewards high iq. Games that don't require mechanical skill are preying on idiots who want to put in 0 effort, and never actually learn anything because the next game comes out and all the autistic knowledge of walls means jack shit. There is a simple reason for that. People that are good generally want BOTH mechanics and strategy. It is a general willingness to learn, adopt, and compete. Eliminate one and the feat of becoming good at the game is only half as satisfying.

Also I am sorry you were stuck in bronze season one in ow but first 3 seasons were actually really fun.

 

And one good "Splinter Cell" at top of that.

 

This is a nice Reddit thread we have here.

Siege is "the thinking man's shooter" and games running at 20-25 FPS is better than 60+ because reasons.

 

Well, the thread title is like a shout to the world to announce the poster's successful lobotomy.

 

Relying on chance instead of player skill = higher skill ceiling
The more you know

Or maybe just 90% of Souls fans on the Codex aren't fucking retarded like you.

All FPS tournaments should be done at 30FPS and on gamepads because handicapping your players makes the game more competitive.

 

If controllers came with PCs then online shooters probably would have gone controller only by now to make it "fair to everyone" and reduce development time from porting the console versions. Thankfully PCs don't come with controllers, so they have to support both.

 

Exactly. I'm total shit with a reticle and still manage to play well due to awereness and tactics. Oh and communication. Communication is king in Siege. Or, put in another way: it's the game that most values information / Intel I've ever seen.

Also: what is a non-E-sports "thinking man" shooter though? ARMA? I've played tons of ARMA 2 and 3 both single- and multiplayer and disagree it rewards tactics as much as Siege do. For all glorified physics and muh simulation, ARMA shootouts are pretty basic pixel-hunting (and sightseeing) over far distances where effective use of tactics and strategy is much less prevalent than it's players like to brag about.

 

Well... that was... rough.

 

Soul games are shallow.

 

And For Honor's fighting system is pure garbage designed to imitate fighting games by people whose only experience with fighting games was mashing buttons in Mortal Kombat, your point? It's also shallow.

 

Assasin's Creed:Origins is good. Not an RPG at all as some claim, but a good, fun game.

 

https://www.pcgamer.com/ubisoft-apologizes-for-homophobic-slur-in-the-division-2/

Praise Ubisoft!

It's just a copy-paste from some album cover, but PoliticallyCorrect epicGamer won't stand for this transgression.

 

What a load of crap. Who told you For Honor tries to imitate 2D arcade fighting games like Mortal Kombat, dude? I like it precisely because it avoids that shit. Instead it reminds me much more a semi-realistic, Bushido Blade / Kengo -like with Souls influence.

 

"Fuck the police". It's street art in-universe, what else could it be?

(it's also kind of ironic since the US became a lawless post apoc shithole where gangs execute people on the street and you play as what passes for the police)

 

Ubisoft is giving away Ass creed Unity for free in Uplay, they will donate 500.000 € to France for Notre dame reconstruction and they are open to give the information they gathered when developing that game for Notre dame's recreation.