Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
And it is still the worst Ghost Recon game ever made. Hell, this game even has nothing to do with the Ghost Recon at all. It's like making Rainbow Six: Wildlands and saying that it's Rainbow Six. Well, hell fucking no.
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Ubisoft: Ghost Recon Wildlands is still 2017's best selling game worldwide
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A reminder that all the outlets and all the threads and all the podcasts across the entire gaming sect of the internet are basically not representative of what "people" seem to play. This game is effectively the Madden of shooters I guess. Neither seen nor heard in our parts, but plaaaaaayyyeeed.
For what it is it's a great game. If you have people to play with it's a lot of fun, I haven't tried solo but it's a competent and well made game. That's fine if people don't like that type of game but the alpha nerding about games just because they aren't a visual novel or 2D pixel art rogue-lite are tiresome. There's nothing wrong with a blockbuster.
If you're not going to play online/with friends, might as well skip it.
Check out a YouTube channel like Downward Thrust, there are breakdowns on how most Ubisoft games outside of R6 Siege do not hold on to player bases. Drop off for The Division was catastrophic, and For Honor has had problems as well.
Snkfanatic
Banned
Can't say I agree at all, as I said in my previous post I have played it all solo and I have put 50 hours into it and I still have a lot to do. Love it so much I even bought the Fallen Ghost DLC full price the other day.
Definitely a GOTY contender that really showed how GAF doesn't necessarily reflect the general gaming audience given how humble the OT was compared to how much it sold.
Gotta say I still don't regret preordering it, MP has been amazing fun in this.
That's kinda how it's been for me too except I tried the beta. There's this dudebro gamer friend in our group who always gets hype about these games and they don't wound up turning out particularly good, but since he had no one else to play with I tried it and others followed suit.
And man, as you said, I too am not ashamed to say I was completely wrong with my preconceptions. Me and my friends wounded up basically 100%ing the beta and were happy to find out the full game held up just as well.
Gotta say I still don't regret preordering it, MP has been amazing fun in this.
That's kinda how it's been for me too except I tried the beta. There's this dudebro gamer friend in our group who always gets hype about these games and they don't wound up turning out particularly good, but since he had no one else to play with I tried it and others followed suit.
And man, as you said, I too am not ashamed to say I was completely wrong with my preconceptions. Me and my friends wounded up basically 100%ing the beta and were happy to find out the full game held up just as well.
Eppy Thatcher
God's had his chance.
Wildlands was a legit fun online Co-Op kill everything fest. Of course it was gonna sell gangbusters...
I was just talking to a friend of mine about how I actually miss the flight/drive times between missions because we had pretty hilarious/insightful/chill conversations while bombing across the countryside in a helicopter during a lightning storm.
Game had a great sense of presence in this world. And that .50cal sniper oooohhhhhh boy.
I was just talking to a friend of mine about how I actually miss the flight/drive times between missions because we had pretty hilarious/insightful/chill conversations while bombing across the countryside in a helicopter during a lightning storm.
Game had a great sense of presence in this world. And that .50cal sniper oooohhhhhh boy.
OfficerRaichu15
Member
It's weird cause all the people I know who have wild lands hate the game. Congrats to Ubisoft though. They just throw something out and it sells lol
(Except Rayman and Steep)
(Except Rayman and Steep)
It did move away from the formula, though? No towers, focus on open and emergent gameplay as the story.
I play it solely as a singleplayer experience and love it. Like the Metal Gear roleplaying sim I wanted but MGSV didn't quite deliver on.
Co-op is amazing though.
Drillary Clinton
Banned
With the missions structure literally being "go here and collect this to unlock next mission"
Snkfanatic
Banned
Yeah the gunplay in this game is a lot of fun. Also love the painting and customizing. Flying around in the chopper doing missions solo has just been so much damn fun. I couldn't imagine how much I would adore this game if I had a dedicated group of friends to play with.
Also love the variety in the world, lots of different locations. Especially love the Snow and Swamp area. Not to mention the awesome salt flats.
Yup just like last gen was known for its "cinematic shooters" this gen will be remembered for its open world co op games.
Luckily there are enough games for everybody, but no doubt that the hottest trend and the best selling games of this gen are co op open world shooters.
Single player campaign is pretty fun on it's own because of your AI squad, BUT they can also piss you off because they're not very smart. The sync-shot makes up for it, though.
... yeah, and that's not what most ubi open world games are?
Snkfanatic
Banned
True, I have had an occasion where they won't revive me, but that has only happened 2 times in more deaths than I am willing to admit. Honestly most of the time I tell them to stay back unless shit hits the fan, then I send in the rebels and them.
Curious how much of this game you have actually played. It's got the same variety a GTA game has as far as mission structure.
I'd say the low amount of people playing it is more telling than the sales numbers.
Retention is in the basement.
It sold big and played a lot on Xbox but that was months ago. Just like for Honor
2017 is a very good year. There's too much out right now.
spawnsniper
Member
So guys, this or the division?
I'll be playing alone.
I'll be playing alone.
Magic Mushroom
Member
Not so much co-op shooters as open world games in general. See also Witcher 3, Horizon, The Phantom Pain, Breath of the Wild and others. Luckily, there's no shortage of SP games either.
This. Division was a relatively miserable experience IMO. (Especially played singleplayer - I did have some co-op fun.)
Play Wildlands like an open world MGS or Splinter Cell game with the AI NPCs as your 'superpower' (auto-headshots on a cooldown).
Division alone is pretty damn miserable. The world is utterly beautiful but the gameplay is far more repetitive than Wildlands, the world is considerably smaller, the combat and situations far less emergent (nothing better in Wildlands than rebels and cartel getting in a huge gunfight in a city while you sneak about).
SuperDowns
Banned
Throwing shade and hyperbole here.
No. That was a small Amazon only deal and it wasn't an actual bundle. Just a copy of the game with an Xbox
Haha, seriously. They get in the way more than they help sometimes....most missions I just do on my own (when I'm not playing co-op). You can't really rely on them to kill anything, they can't drive/fly (understandably), and sometimes they let you get ambushed while they stand around twiddling their thumbs. But they come in so clutch when you need to shoot unreachable targets.
Boss Mog
Member
Good, Wildlands is a good game that did a lot of things right, specifically drop in/out co-op; I'm looking at you Just Cause 3. And Ubisoft delivered on the original trailers so that's another positive. And PvP is still to come, that will probably help boost sales a bit when they release it.
DriftingSpirit
Member
4+ months ago.
spawnsniper
Member
Awesome, thanks for the info.
It's pretty weird, the game is non existent on gaming sites and communities like GAF and others but obviously there are millions of people who are more casual that are absent from the gaming community who play this.
This game show that GAF and gaming online in general (including big sites) can be an isolated bubble sometimes.
NullPointer
Member
Still think its one or two patches away from greatness (AI mostly), but its still a great time in co-op.
Deserved, but the game also deserves continued dev support. The premium DLC has been a disappointment on several levels.
Deserved, but the game also deserves continued dev support. The premium DLC has been a disappointment on several levels.
The Dear Leader
Banned
I bought it day to one and didn't really play a whole lot but I just recently came back to it and it's been really fun, it has its merits for sure.
Vital Tundra
Member
Honestly kinda blows me away. From what I have played it was average to bad in almost every regard.
The low population numbers say most people agree with you.
SanguineShark
Member
We haven't had many decent co-op games lately, and I believe it's partly why this sold so well. People are thirsty for another large scale co-op shooter, a la Borderlands 2.
I thought that was painfully obvious. COD and FIFA rarely dominate gaming headlines or message boards. Yet they are the 2 best selling games.
Huge Succeeded
Banned
The game that proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that GAF is its own bubble
Any time there's a new Minecraft thread you've got idiots waltzing in
I kid you not
literally openly wondering why anyone is even talking about that weird kids game with the ugly graphics that nobody actually plays.
I'm not fucking with you, or exaggerating for effect. That is a sentiment you'll find posted several times in several Minecraft threads from the last few weeks.
That's GAF for you. A wonderful world where the word 'niche' means anything that isn't a AAA exclusive
Any time there's a new Minecraft thread you've got idiots waltzing in
I kid you not
literally openly wondering why anyone is even talking about that weird kids game with the ugly graphics that nobody actually plays.
I'm not fucking with you, or exaggerating for effect. That is a sentiment you'll find posted several times in several Minecraft threads from the last few weeks.
That's GAF for you. A wonderful world where the word 'niche' means anything that isn't a AAA exclusive
Aztechnology
Member
I hate to say me and buddies contributed to that success, which I do not believe was deserved. It was a supremely derivative game that became a slog by the end. The whole thing was a cookie cutter experience, no really interesting missions, very little diversity and almost no interesting dynamic reaction/usage of factions and villians. You never felt you were actually fighting a cartel, so much as doing the same old Ubisoft checking the boxes/collection type thing. There was no dynamicism in the game. I think that's what ultimately bugged me about a lot of other Ubisoft games like assassin's Creed over the years too. But this was much more pronounced in those ways.
The land was really cool, but my God was none of the story even slightly worth playing.
At least it says one thing though. People definitely want Co-op games. Which I'm all for.
The land was really cool, but my God was none of the story even slightly worth playing.
At least it says one thing though. People definitely want Co-op games. Which I'm all for.