Ubisoft Is a Sinking Ship
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มี.ค. 2024
- Skull and Bones is a monumental disaster, and Ubisoft is run by a bunch'a hornswaggling landlubbers. spits
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AAA game industry today: "Pay us $70 to play our game. Now pay us $10 more to not have to play it."
"And then buy this cosmetics pack for 15 dollars. Or every individual item for 5, there's 6 items per set... and 10 cosmetic sets to choose from!"
Pay $10 for the intended play through or don’t pay, and grind 50 extra hours to get to the point where you can have a normal play through.
Pay $15 for battle pass cosmetics but also not have it unlocked immediately... so you gotta grind within a few weeks to unlock cosmetics. If you don't have time to beat the battle pass.... you're SOL
Ubisoft+
Every time they charge extra $10 it makes me wanna get any game less and less. I would rather support indi from now on. I don't think there has been any mainstream game i picked in the last few years, they all just reek so bad and no amount of price tag they choose for them will change their quality, or rather the lack of.
It's called "Skull & Bones" because the game is barely a skeleton of what Black Flag was.
"But it will get better" I am sick of the asshats who defend these companies. I am a old school assassin creed player. They ruined my games.
They thought when we said wanted a pirate game without the Assassin's Creed stuff, we meant "take out every aspect of gameplay that was ever in any Assassin's Creed game other than Black Flag", not "take out all the meta sci-fi present day/ancient aliens stuff".
More like “Skin & Bones”
Well done for copying someone elses comment
@@MagicSpartan1992skin & bones implies there is more than just bones
It's called Quadruple-A because it makes you want to shout "AAAA!"
at the start of last year,2023,i made a "so,A=20 bucks." joke reflecting upon the base price of the first ever game claiming to be an AAAA-Forspoken.
It's also the sound the junior-level devs are making in the basement.
Damn I laught a lot reading this comment 😂
its actually called AAAA because its supposed to be called AAAA(ss), you could also say that they meant the battery size!
The only game I know of that can at least justify itself being a AAAA game is Star Citizen.
Ubisoft talking about using AI to write NPC dialogue shows how much they value both artists and players. They see you as nothing more than a mindless content consumer, one so uninterested in quality that you can be sold randomized gibberish pumped out endlessly by a machine.
You hit the nail in the head there.
and the worst part...there not completely wrong if sales has anything to say about it in the past
NPCs reacting to what you say dynamically could be very cool, I think you're being a tad too cynical about the idea. The implementation, however... I have 0 faith in ubisoft.
"artists" yea these people shouldnt be valued if you see the crap they produced in the last years. if they use ai instead paying sweet baby inc thats a good thing
@@Platzhalterxy If you look into how these things actually come about it has little to nothing to do with the actual devs.
Fun fact: Quadruple A is a term in baseball used to describe someone who was really great at the college level, but crashed and burned hard when they got into the pros.
I remember coming across this fact online when reading a review for a bad game that called it a quadruple-A experience.
Lol
Ironic lol
It's starting to resemble a scream.
Nice.
unbelievable the amount of irony that company drips out trying to peddle it as gold
You could say that Ubisoft's unyielding dedication to live service games and microtransactions has become something of a "sunken" cost fallacy
Case in point: The game Skull and Bones, that's already dead on arrival AND dead in the water, too.
@@JJ18355 the cost has sunk so low at this point that in order for the theoretical ship to reach said depths it'd have to be crushed and reduced to sawdust from the overwhelming pressure of the water
@@sackfu7952because boats
@@JJ18355That’s the joke
NFTs
The ship is sinking. It's keeping itself above water, but sooner or later, its stamina bar will run out.
And yes, apparently, ships have stamina bars. According to ubisoft.
Their little sea legs get tired from running around all the time
….as someone who was ONLY interested in skull and bones because I specifically love naval combat….what the hell…
@@Blackdragon271if you are on PC try holdfast, it might be dead now but was a pretty funny indie game
Skull & Bones was a good idea when the scope of the game was on par with For Honor. A small game specifically for fans of the naval combat. The problem is that they took this niche concept and decided it would be a AAAA super blockbuster that everyone in the world wanted to play.
“It’s hard to sink a ship this big”
Pretty sure that’s what they said about the Titanic and the Bismarck
Hindenburg! It's an air ship 🌈
Ubisoft thinks they're taking the Bismarck on the Titanic's voyage when they're actually taking the Titanic on the Bismarck's voyage.
Does that about some it up?
In fairness, it was genuinely hard to sink the Bismarck
But "hard" is not "impossible"
And the Costa Concordia
the problem with ubi, is that it's french. meaning there's french government money in it.
and that means that it'll get bought up the moment that happens.
Arlo talking down on AAA gaming is becoming one of my favorite genres
"AAAA" game you meant 😅
He literally just had a video about how we need to save the gaming industry jobs and then the next vid is dunking on a gaming company's latest release. Ubisoft going to see this vid and fire 20% of their staff 😖
More TH-camrs should start calling these companies out for their practices regardless of whether or not they'll actually have an impact.
@@fenrirslipThat's why I'm a patron on Second Wind. Yahtzee and Frost are doing the gods' work on that front.
Sure, but he's also Nintendo's biggest diehard shill.
Not to say he's never scrutinized Nintendo before, definitely not. It's just ironic that he's always willing the give the most anti-consumer company a pass.. but also dunks on other companies like this. Ubisoft certainly deserves it but where is Arlo when Nintendo is coming after preservation and emulation? I feel like THAT is something that deserves his attention more tha.. Ubisoft's frequent blunders.
Dude is a Nintendo TH-camr talking about Ubisoft and he is HARSH with his takes, (again, ubisoft deserves it) but where tf is that energy with Nintendo???
The crew may be bailing water, but the captain is helping by drilling another hole to let the water out.
nah the crew just became unplayable lmao (forgotten ubisoft racing game)
@@oinkitysploink2213 You know that meme of that kid holding a sandwich and looking like, "HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR HUR!"? That.
The funniest thing is, a mere 8 days before the release of Skull and Bones, a Live Service game, made by a then nearly unknown company, Helldivers 2, was released, and that one exploded simply by... being a good game.
When Ubisoft sinks you can be sure that the people keeping it afloat right now are going to be drowning on the lower decks while the ones who set the bad course will be taking the safety boat that just so happens to be loaded with the remaining treasure.
Sadly it is always people in the bottom felt the bad first and people at the top collect the reward first.
What a great society we have. What, it's always been this way? Wild
@@armorhide406 yep. functional societies oldest foe, nepotism.
And capitalism too
@@thechosenone2123 if you think its an issue unique to capitalism..
You tell them Cookie Monster
HMMM NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM 🍪 🍪
Arlo reminds me more of Grover than Cookie Monster but without a big nose because they're both slim.
@@TrevortheTrainFan This is Cookie's son, he does not share the same cookie addiction, so he isn't as big
this is video game monster the son of the King.@@robertallen5091
@@robertallen5091 I thought it was his nephew.
I interviewed with Ubisoft about 3 years ago to work on the Splinter Cell remake. They gave me a vibe that once the game would be finished that they were going to lay people off. During the interview, I said, don't hire me if you plan on laying me off in one years time. I couldn't get a straight answer from them, so I pretty much knew the deal. I have friends who still work there, and they've told me terrible things about Ubisoft. They try so hard with their whole DEI BS, but its just a front for their toxic culture.
Especially with the gatekeeping considering the assassin's creed team have wanted to do a game with just a female protagonist but had to add a male option to appease upper management
DEI is toxic in and of itself. It's discrimination based on race and sex.
@@mrheroprimesThat's some good irony right there.
I really fuckin hate to see it because there are soooo many talented enviromental designers in ubisoft. Its seriously the one thing they always nail 100%
Also I had a lot of fun with breakpoint but, like the video mentioned, the game play loop is just so much of the same
"I used to genuinely think they were a cool company, I didn't really know anything about them." Cut. Print. Beautiful.
Why? Because it's a complete sentence?
We all knew skull and bones was going to be a disaster. All it took was the knowledge that they were being my forced to finish it by the Singapore government
That thing is still releasing? I forgot it existed.
This was never even confirmed. Just a rumor.
@@Openreality It came out a month ago.
impossible! it's a AAAA game!
@@Bababaaaa
I still forgot it existed lols. Goes to show how little i care anymore i wasn't holding out that it would be good because greedy soft.
I thought the people of these comments should know TH-camr Ross Scott (Accursed Farms) the creator of some of the oldest Machinima on the platform has put together a campaign to make governments create laws against Live service games, using the termination of The Crew and Ubisoft as the major focal point but his scope includes all companies that do this. If you would like to get involved there are 3 videos on his channel that cover what you can do depending on what country you live in, the more people get involved the more likely it is to see action.
YESS!! I was honestly expecting to see more of this in the comments. thanks for spreading the message
Even the Titanic didn't sink as fast as Skull & Bones.
The Titanic sank relatively slowly at around 2.5 hours . The Lusitania and Empress of Ireland sank in under 20 minutes.
@@randomlyentertaining8287 And yet it had more time to save things than that game.
To add to the analogy. Ubisoft is not only run by a captain who is sinking his ship for treasure while hurting his crew. The treasure he finds at the end is "The friends we made along the way." While all the crew lays beaten and dead with the captian unharmed and confused and underwhelmed at their prize.
Worse yet, he's trapped in a room where the mechanism holding the door shut requires blood, which if he had even half a crew available, they would be able to spare enough blood apiece to satisfy the debt without passing out, but because he has sacrificed them to every trap on the way to the treasure, he will have to pay in full if he wants to leave.
-Now for my personal head cannon- The crew has a mutany but decided to leave the captain to pilot his own ship... eventually the French sailors are picked up by a Japanese Yacht called the Miyazaki and all get employed having successful fulfilling careers in game development designing poison swamps😂😂
@@jordanhunter3375 I think we're really stretching the sinking ship analogy at this point, that's basically 70% of an action-adventure novel you just wrote.
Pirate games more fun than skull and bones:
1. Sea of thieves
2. Actually pirating black flag on a PS3 emulator
3. Becoming a pirate irl
check out Sid Meier's Pirates! a classic
I mean, Black Flag has a PC port, you don't have to go to the trouble of getting a PS3 emulator.
@@TheMultiTasker3 I was thinking more both
Hee hoo pirate the pirate game and not really wanting to give uni any more money
4. Sly cooper 3
Shadow Gambit...
I'm new to the channel and I have to say, the conceit of a blue monster pretending to be a man operating a blue monster is just beautiful.
Being french, I think the end of Ubisoft is great news.
While we do have smaller cool companies making nice games, Ubisoft is sucking a lot of local talents, and waste their potential.
If/when Ubisoft falls appart, a ton of devs will join/build new companies and produce nice stuff.
"I'm not a fan of evil people. It's just...not my thing" Bless you Arlo.
whn you realize every workplace has abuse
@@luluna5228that’s an over generalization if I’ve ever seen one
the virtue signaling is so obvious 🤪
(I'm not serious)
@@JGr2000it also ignores the fact that abuse is scalable
To be fair, some evil deserves fans, the Joker is a great villain, and Megamind was the true hero regardless.
You either die a hero or live long enough to become a Triple-A Game company.
*Quadruple-A
Or are Valve and switch lanes
@@smokescreen100i mean, they kinda did die as a game producing company, its all platforms now no?
Ubisoft was always shit, don't pretend they were ever "heroes"
@@wiwysova
Always shit? Rayman’s okay I guess. I’d say back then they were more morally gray than anything else.
They crippled Black Flag recently too. It's unplayable past a certain point without a mod to fix the once online part of the game and if you use that mod, your newly attached Ubisoft Connect account will get banned and without the ability log-in, the game simply won't launch making it online only... despite the online portion being no longer supported...
Basically, I'm not shocked and I just hope Steam/modders can undo their evil nonsense.
There was an online portion in Black Flag?
@@houndofculann1793Yeah, it worked like that mode in Metal Gear Solid V where you sent soldiers to fight in missions overseas.
thats not even the worst thing. The Crew, one of my favorite racing games, just became COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE because it was a constant live service game. despite 90% of the game being playable offline. its funny because fans digging through the code found that there was a beta for a "play offline" mode that never saw the light of day. the modders cant get to it though because its encrypted. all ubisoft has to do to make the game work is essentially flip a switch, but they can't be bothered
@@houndofculann1793Yeah, like the other bro said... but you didn't used to be required to log in... so they added a required login after removing the only online portion which is just... What.
To make you buy new games more or less, wouldn't put it past them, definitely up their alley at this moment.
"Some people are having fun..."
There's no accounting for taste...
Honestly, a pirate game is an idea that writes itself. Spiritual successor to black flag. Customizable player character captain, give em a backstory if you wanna be spicy. Customizable lead ship. Baldur's Gate 3 style of npc crew and crew management. Maybe give it a supernatural potc style undercurrent/subplot as a differentiating 'upgrade' to black flag. Boom done. If it needs multi-player, set that in a secret sea beyond the coral reef or something so you're not trying to make your main ocean both a plot AND a crowded wifi arena.
That sounds really fun actually
Lol literally so many gamers with great ideas. It's like no one at ubisoft plays games and isn't interested in directly asking us what we want.
Hey, wanna play Mount and Blade with a pirate skin?
Game is called Carribean: Blood and Gold
@@Jaguar21010Those that do have no power, and those with power probably haven't touched a game since Pong. Ubisoft is cancer.
So Sea of Thieves?
"They said we couldn't do it, they said we shouldn't do it, they begged us NOT to do it, but we did it anyway!" - Ubisoft probably
Thank you Soldier TF2
I love that instead of a drawn avatar you use a puppet. Its adorable
Skull and Bones' development is reflected in the game. They started going strong(literally just remake Black Flag for next gen), made some bad moves due to poor choices early on(the quest marker was in the wrong spot) then ran out of steam and had to slog for way too long to reach their destination(they ran out of stamina).
Then once it was all said and done, they realized that they had spent a ton of money for a pile of poop, just like we did buying the game.
Honestly kind of an insult to sinking ships
Yeah, at least Titanic was entertaining
Sinking ships actually have the decency of actually sinking 🤷♂️
The longest, slowest sinking in history (I quit ubi years ago)
@@pinguman13 Ubisoft the Ghost Ship
@@thekiss2083 Depending on whether you mean the movie or the real life event, this could be a 1/10 or a solid 11.
To be fair: the AAAA moniker is technically accurate. The phrase we associate with big budget titles and superior quality actually originated as a business term describing budget size, and if there's one thing that Skull and Bones has shown us, it's that if you want to build a build a money bonfire, it's gonna take a LOT of cash.
AAA has never been about quality. Always been about the budget. Personally I've stopped caring about AAA games 20 years ago because they didn't appeal to me at all.
@@bretonfabrice AAA was always the blockbusters of gaming - big budget, fancy tech, maybe not the deepest piece of art but nonetheless quite fun and a benchmark for what can be achieved with current tech (for the most part). Meanwhile current day AAA is only the outrageously overbloated budgets and barely anything else, not even the tech is all that impressive as it's mostly copy-pastes from whatever they released last year with barebones optimisation (S&B is the first game in years that I said looks actually ugly for what it's trying to be - quadruple A? sure, if it was released in 2016, maybe).
Granted, improvements in game graphics aren't anywhere near as massive and noticeable as they were, say, in the 90's but it's still telling when a pixel art indie title feels like it has better graphics than a billion dollar AAAA title.
A Great man once said, "If it's not fun, why bother"
So wait... you're telling me UBISOFT... of all devs do not know what the definition of insanity is?
Oh the irony.
The Ubisoft that made Rayman 2, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and Assassin's Creed 2 is long gone and I just have to accept that. Sigh.
Such a shame /gen
Same with me except for rainbow six vegas series
And Mario + Rabbids. And Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown.
At this point I hope they just do remakes and remasters those are most of the only good games they got. Just give me rayman 2 HD and I'll be so happy
@@AlphaladZXAsomewhere, a monkey’s paw curls
There’s a part of me that wants Ubisoft Milan (or whichever division does the Mario Rabbids game) just breaks off from Ubisoft taking the Rayman Rabbids IP with them to save them from Ubisoft’s clutches 😭
Yes, agreed. Protect Mario + Rabbids from Ubisoft!
Let them have rayman too
Ubisoft Milan + Ubisoft Paris
And have Ubisoft Montepellier do the same with Prince of Persia
@@peachymiku6432 Nintendo wouldn't let Ubisoft tarnish the Mario brand in that way, they heavily monitored that to make sure they released them in a good state
I can't even imagine how soul-crushing it must've been to be a game dev working on Skull & Bones.
I think we all used to like gaming companies at some point, it's until a specific CEO takes over and takes the direction of the company in terms of "How can I make the most money off of this?" rather than "How can I make this game the best?"
Studios used to have a certain renown, like when you knew a certain studio is making a game it's going to be a breakthrough, a banger or both (id Software, Blizzard etc). Then corporate came and only saw value in the brand name and not the people that made it so they got rid of the artists and ended up tarnishing both the brand name and the final product.
If that ever happens to FromSoft then I'll flat out cry
22:20 'companies don't want a lot of money... companies want ALL THE MONEY' Arlo just encapsulated corporate greed at its core
I thank James Stephanie Sterling for enlightening us with that knowledge all those years ago. THEY WERE RIGHT!!!!
@@PsychoDiesel48We love Steph
Evil
@@PsychoDiesel48hwnbaw
The bizarre thing is that they're _not_ getting more money doing it like this. Almost every single one of Ubisoft's recent games have been major commercial "failures" according to their "expectations". The biggest exception I can think of was the first Mario+Rabbids game!
My friend worked at Ubisoft. When he said that he had a friend who loved Starlink in a meeting one of his bosses laughed and said "you found the entire audience who is enthusiastic about Starlink!"
haha i was there i laughed when he said that he’s right btw
ngl that’s a pretty funny line lol
A large portion of big western devs are sinking ships. Bioware, Bethesda, Sony, Ubisoft, Blizzard - the list goes on~ Meanwhile overseas devs such as Cdprojekt Red, Owlcat, Larian Studios, Atlus and Squeenix are cleaning up.
CD Project Red sadly isn't what it used to be, I'm afraid. For me they really dropped the Ball on Cyberpunk and most really important Staff that made Witcher 3 what it is has left the studio by now.
@@Reconforce13 Cyberpunk at luanch was a mess. But, I give them brownie points for continuing to work on it years after they had made their initial sales.
There are plenty of devs/publishers that will drop something into the market and wipe their hands clean asap, regardless of the state of the game~
@@user-mw2ww6pi5x
@Reconforce13 : "Cyberpunk at luanch was a mess."
actually,such a mess that a czech music band took one of the legendary songs from that country and using its tunes and rhytms they turned it by their own lyrics into a cp77 release state mockery song
@@r3l1csvk Didn't know that, will definitivly look that up later
@@Reconforce13 unfortunatelly i do not know if there are any translations of the lyrics on google for they deffo are not on youtube
Just stumbled onto this channel and gotta say, love your writing and the muppet theme.
Insert overused “if buying isn’t owning then piracy isn’t stealing”
Is it truly overused if it keeps being relevant and further being proven valid?
"Piracy" isn't stealing in the first place. If you illegally copy software, the original owner still has their original copy = not stolen. If you take Bob's car, he no longer has that car = you've deprived Bob of that car and any usage of selfsame car = stolen.
"Piracy" and "theft" are propaganda/brainwashing from the software industry (started by Gates in the 70s with that "don't copy that floppy" campaign), because nobody gave a rat's ass when they told the truth: "copyright infringement".
@@hauntorthegiraffebiscuitit’s overused.
If you’re gonna pirate, pirate. Don’t pretend to moralise. These are video games, not water.
Nobody needs to sit around and play video games all day. They just want to. Big difference.
So just steal that shit without acting like it’s somehow virtuous.
@@JupaIt's not stealing it's piracy they are different things
Buying is owning but piracy still isn’t stealing.
Sly Cooper 3 walked so that Black Flag could run.
Meanwhile, Skull n Bones is trying to fly, but is looking to have as much lift as a lemming.
lmao i played through sly 3 last week. I was thinking about the ship section aswell 😂
No Sly 3 is a good game...BF has some good pirate sections on your ship. That's all.
You mean Dodo.
The Sly Cooper 3 ship section is INSANELY GREAT. I love the game, and the pirate section of that game felt so short since the ship combat was only a few missions, but damn was it making me wanting more
@@GoodlyPenguin Not to mention the bossfight on the ship! It absolutely slaps! Mechanically annoying but the whole scene was just a great experience
30 minute videos of Arlo roasting corpo gaming companies are amongst my favorite kind of Arlo videos.
*Man... I missed games like Oblivion... (even if he started with the Horse DLC stuff)*
You paid around $10, and get tons of quests, npcs, elements, classes, races, dungeons, loots, spells creation, and all that...
While here, you pay 7x more, to just.... travel in an ship...
It's crazy how Kingdom Hearts III is like 10% pirate simulator, and that's the most fun part of the game, and Ubisoft makes an entire pirate simulator that's a flaming disaster. How do you get shown up by a fraction of another game that isn't even the same genre?!
KH3 has a million problems but that Pirates level is perfection on all fronts.
Totally! And Ubisoft has done it successfully in the past too haha
Assassin's Creed 4 is literally already a better pirate game than this, and that one's from Ubisoft! All they needed to do was swap out the assassination bits with more ship customization and some fleet control, yet somehow they managed to fail in every possible way...
I mean, Sly Cooper 3 'bout perfected simple pirate simulation, and that was more than ten years ago.
@@tomforge614 hell yeah glad to see someone else bring it up!
*This is important:* I'm surprised you didn't talk about *The Crew.* Ubisoft is not simply stopping support, not simply delisting the game from stores, but Ubisoft is *intentionally breaking the game.* Meaning that *every single person who purchased this game will not be allowed to play it anymore because Ubisoft simply decided this to be the case.*
they own the ip, players own a license to their ip. I don't understand why people don't understand that a license is not ownership of the product. You agreed to their terms when you bought the game, they warned you you would not own the ip, and that they could do whatever they wanted with their ip regardless of your purchase.
@@n1lknarf And for the people that bought discs of The Crew, what do they get but a useless piece of e-waste? I know licensing is the reality of games ownership right now and the industry is more digital than ever, but it would take them a day or two to flip a switch that allows offline play for the rest of time. No amount of "you accepted the terms" will ail the waters of the pure dissent Ubisoft shows for game owners. You should have standards for this bullshit, as should everyone else.
That refuted *zero* things I said. I don't care if Ubisoft is taking people's games away because they "said so." What Ubisoft is doing here is undeniably scummy and deserves to be called out. Whether or not Ubisoft gets the picture other not, companies need to understand that this is *not okay.* @@n1lknarf
Found the bootlicker
@@n1lknarf I'm sure that's how Ubisoft likes to think of it.
15:42 I will NEVER unhear the foghorn association with Skull and Bones. Thank you, Arlo!
Ubisoft really turned into Abstergo Interactive Entertainment
Ubisoft has also destroyed Just Dance. They turned it into a live service, stripped out many functions, made so many features behind their Just Dance+ subscription, a service that has less than half the songs in their previous Unlimited service. They deleted customized playlists. They put the previously free kids mode behind a paywall. They turned a party game into a single player game by only allowing one player's scores to be retained. They removed the World Dancefloor multiplayer mode. They stopped porting over songs from Unlimited into JD+. They made new season maps available only to JD+ despite saying they will add free content all year long. Most people I know that play Just Dance are sticking with 2022+Unlimited, but Ubisoft will turn off Unlimited soon.
I know most gaming sites and channels blow Just Dance off, but it is probably Ubisoft's biggest cash cow and now they are chasing that game's loyal players away. The developers say most changes came from the execs. They said they know the current live service game is majorly lacking but they can't do anything about it. It seems like Ubisoft execs are determined to destroy all of their successful franchises.
Sounds like JD needs it's own version of the spiritual successor to Guitar Hero, Clone Hero.
I'd be surprised if there wasn't some form of fan effort to open source JD.
It's amazing, given the time it's taken to make Skull & Bones, that another company didn't look at the reveal, see the fan outcry, make the game people were asking for themselves, and release it BEFORE Skull & Bones.
Oh you mean Sea of Theives?
Sea of Thieves: "Am I a joke to you?"
@@mmmario8004 yes. At this point I can't see any reference to that game and not immediately think of Lazerpigs video.
@@jadedflamesi like sea of thieves but its still pretty mediocre sometimes and it was way worse when it came out
@-lord1754 Is every game since updates became a thing not better than when it came out?
Every time Ubisoft releases a game now, the only thing that runs through my head is, "And the crowd has gone mild"
7:33 I don't think I've ever seen Arlo be so unapologetically blunt before. 😂
Vaas: Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fucking thing... over and over again expecting... shit to change...
Man, I miss the days when I could use that language without youtube deleting my comment.
@@WobblesandBeanyou know you've lost the plot when you have people like myself. Who are left leaning. Telling you that shit is too PC. TH-cam and Facebook are run by pansy ass AI algorithms.
The Singaporean government deserves a round of applause for managing to force Ubisoft to reap what they sew
*sow
@@ainternet239nah, he means they have to wear the shitty clothes they made 😂
I’m sure the Singaporean government is very happy their investment that undoubtedly went absurdly over budget was also a massive flop
@@GirthChecki dont get it
@@frankiecedeno3724I think your getting the Government mistaken with Ubisoft there fantastically happy that it went over budget that money went back in to there economy and all those people where able to have a Job for nearly a decade for a country that’s a win you think they gave a damn about that shitty game selling well?
And there it is, when we are forced to make choices based on special interest groups rather than talent dedication or success, we fail. And deservedly.
The way you talk and emote your puppet is so similar to shows like Sesame Street and Elmo's World, I love the effort and dedication to the craft!
I'm reminded of an old Doctor Who quote.
"Everything has its time and everything dies" (2005).
Everything dies, except Rayman, Rayman is eternal.
GIVE US RAYMAN 4!!
Unfortunately that includes Doctor Who
@@Fraxzor doctor who died the Capaldi regenerated
Doctor Who is famously the only thing that doesn’t die, lol. Just churns out insane amounts of great content every year.
Memento mori
Anyone remember Ubisoft's NFT attempt? They were only two companies to really jump in on that craze, along with Squeenix
I thought people will Gobble it up, just like they Gobble everything else, but I laughed so much when I read only few ppl bought it
Square is still very much invested in NFT's
but Ubisoft has pulled out
They still are doing NFT stuff… the new launch they did a month or so ago went well
I love that the video game monster watches Stephanie Sterling. Yall are awesome.
I squealed aloud when you mentioned Beyond Good And Evil, I played that game and became obsessed with it back when I rented it for the GameCube, and that alone should date how long I've wanted some answers for the after-credits cliffhanger.
I lost faith when the style changed to hyper realistic. The game had a strong aestetic that contributed to its overall tone. Also making Jade's uncle super gross, eating flies and shit, like... yes he's a pig man but he was never like *that.* He had enough shame to swear Jade to secrecy about how the jet boots are fueled, I can barely imagine the guy hawking a lougie.
This is my first video of yours but I'm subbed now. 😊
ubisoft makes the highest budget shovelware ive ever seen
Every time I've heard Ubisoft refer to the idea of a "AAAA Game," all I can think is Spinal Tap. "....This one goes to 11."
Same lol
I'm 43 and nearly my whole life I believed that Spinal Tap was a real band until last year when my friend told me they are a parody band. I didn't believe it until I checked Wikipedia.
@@TheItalianTrash Oh. Oh, you sweet summer child. It's ok though, "Tonight I'm Gonna Rock You Tonight" still slaps.
"Have I ever told you the definition of insanity?" Ubisoft in a nutshell
As a frequent R6 Siege Player it is a miracle that this little Ubisoft boat is still sailing. Altough it seems to be manned with a skeleton crew at most.
I have never seen Arlo go in so ruthlessly on a company before and I am absolutely here for it
Absolutely love this trend of content of Arlo not pulling punches on exposing this screwed up industry. Keep it coming, good stuff.
He literally pulls his punches on nintendo
@@lckfan3696 So you weren't around for the "okayest direct ever" drama
You want more of this, go give The Jimquisition a watch. Stephanie's been on the AAA industry's ass like this since the days of horse armor and the dawn of DLC. 😂
@@SherlocksLeftNipple Oh fuck no, its 20% wrestling and watching a shadow of JIM FUCKING STERLING, SON!
I miss Total Biscuit :(
I’ll never forget when we forgot to buy something in town, so the summoner (pathfinder 1st Ed) teleported us back to the tavern we stayed at a week before. And then back to out camp site as he then knew the location. We where pretty high level, approaching the last book for rise of the runelords.
Love the metroid prime music in the background. Automatically a great video!
Fromsoftware's ship: sailing over the waves through the power of slow, steady, well done work, pioneering and exploring new lands with extreme success and bravery
Pokémon Company: A tiny boat full of holes with a rope tied to Nintendo's mother ship.
Capcom's: full of fans rowing with the power of friendship
I’m convinced GameFreak gave up when they realized that they’re just Nintendo’s Pokémon broodmare after each and every single one of their non-Poké-projects were total DUDS
I’d refuse to finish a complete game too if I knew people would still buy it and actively defend it as if it were their own life *cough* Scarlet & Violet *cough*
capcom made 1 hole with their weird stance on pc gaming recently but otherwise yeah mostly fine surprisingly.
And then there’s Toby Fox with his crew of 10 and First Mate Temmy.
@@yeez13 I completely lost any and all hope I ever had after Little Town Hero became a thing
@yeez13 My friend keeps defending Scarlet and Violet because he didn't encounter any bugs. Knowing him, he also probably didn't put more than a few hours into it tbh.
This video was hilarious and insightful but let's not sleep on how impressive Arlo's puppeteering is. Between the AAAA moment and the cell phone bit at the end I thought it was as professional as the Muppets. Super impressive work. I don't know what training Arlo has with puppets but I so wish I could do that!
It's funny you say that. I literally thought while watching this, "I wonder if they work on Sesame Street for their day job?" The puppeteering looks that professional!
"Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?"
I remember watching the release during E3 and was so excited by it. I signed up for the beta as soon as the trailer finished. And then, after all this time, this is what they came up with. Heartbreak cant even begin to describe how it feels
Just gotta say, your puppetry is just so good in this video. The frustration motions feel so damn genuine.
That's because he is literally just a blue guy
Arlo is just some guy, you know?
The saddest part about beyond good and evil 2 taking the vaporware crown duke nukem forever is that at least duke nukem had the excuses of going through thr hands of multiple different developers.
And the game was redone from the ground up multiple times as technology and graphics changed over the years.
Glad I found you , I subscribed!!!! Thank you for the content and time
I like to think of the rising trend of "1 year later" game reviews as the true day one reviews because actual day one games feel like beta tests for the sole purpose of bringing in money to fund their sinking ship until they can potentially release a hopefully finished product a year later (other wise known as the "no mans sky effect")
My prediction for the future of Ubisoft
CEO: "It's just...good business..."
VP: "Abandon ship! All hands, abandon ship!"
I bailed on Ubisoft years ago. Truth be known, it is very challenging to find a AAA game you really want to play, enjoy playing - that does not get yeeted. In the side bar videos to this one, there's a video asking, "Is 2024 the Year the Game Industry Collapses?". You know, it just might be for these AAA producers.
Good riddance. There's enough great content from smaller publishers to support a gaming hobby of any size, even if you play thousands of hours a year.
Too many rtards buying this stuff for that to happen. I haven't bought a ubisoft game since Creed 2.Haven't purchased a cod game since ghosts. Borderlands 3 was the nail in the coffin for 2k, and I won't be buying their games either. You may ask me what game is there to play then? My answer almost fcking nothing it's all old stuff. Even Kingdom hearts 3 was a huge letdown for me. Squareenix was supposed to not go down that path, but they did. Everything in our lives is MONEY MONEY MONEY it's annoying asf
Hey Arlo, I'm a new viewer and I love your vids! I noticed that the captions are missing some lines spoken - is it based on an older version of the script? I was a part-time captioner and a rule that was really hammered in is that captions should follow everything being said in the final cut.
Many Deaf people and others that rely on captions are missing some of the flavor and character that you bring! It may not seem like a big deal but it greatly enhances the experience for those who need it.
I enjoyed hearing some Metroid phenandra drifts in the background
As someone who played the original beta and then the new ones I can say that my interest in S&B sank so fast there were no survivors.
It was like my interest was HMS HOOD and Ubisoft delivered a direct hit to my magazine.
I don't think enough people appreciate the greatness of that reference.
Drachinifel where are you??
The company sure is a Farcry from what it once was.
Bud dum tiss
They do everything to Just Dance around the obvious elephant in the room.
This reminds me of the Bismark.... Great video, thanks for your work
Edit: that "Ugh" at the end. I feel ya, bro.
first time watching your videos. this one was awesome. subbed
Arlo: I used to like Ubisoft.
**paper mario music fades in**
The Arlo special
This whole video basically describes modern Disney as well
I mean, you can pretty much name any multi-billion dollar tech company and this would be mostly true. Companies that big aren’t interested in selling a product for people to buy, they’re only interested in creating a service for paid subscribers to use for a consistent income.
@@jimmynagy2662AKA Capitalism sucks on a fundamental level.
Yep. It's called Corruption.
But Arlo would disagree and say that Disney is nothing like Ubisoft when he unfortunately doesn’t know that they’re just the same because Arlo lives under a soundproof Boulder thinking that it’s his luxurious castle and that he is the all knowing king.
@@otakumarcus
lmao you just sound like an underage dork, something about the diction gives me the impression of a passionate but not very bright preteen
Really well done commentary!!
Red Steel is now a cult classic. One of those games that got hate when released, but now are seen as great titles. Try playing it again.
Courier: "So you have no idea what you're doing."
Fantastic: "Naw, man, I know exactly what I'm doing. I just don't know what effect it's gonna have."
They'll never learn, once the ubisoft ship sinks they will just pretend they're a submarine now and continue downwards into the cold depths of the ocean
Fun fact about Prince of Persia: The lost Crown. One optional boss in the game turns invincible due to a bug and unbeatable until you reload your savefile if the boss jumps to the left. It's also has some other fun minor bugs like climbing away from walls and at one point you can get out of bounds.
but the game while not inventing anything new it's pretty fun.
Ubisoft rn is that scene in PoTC where literally everyone gangs up on HMS Endeavor and the only thing Cutler Beckett can say in response is *_"It's just.... good business......"_*
I wish games went back to the old PS2/GC/XBOX era mindset, just make a good game under a reasonable budget and ship it out, they don't need to be AAAA games or live services, just good games that people want to buy
This. I don’t mind most recent games being cinematic and cutscene heavy (well almost) but just give me some style and gameplay variety. No one wants 20 different walking simulators with the same boring objectives. God, I could boot up San Andreas on my ps2 and instantly fuck around and do anything I want. Doesn’t bog me down with anything. Don’t get me wrong, some old games were cutscene heavy as well, but the creativity was off the charts. Nowadays games try to be like films and it’s getting stale.
Fully agree on this 💯
Hi-Fi Rush was a game that felt like it worked under that mindset and it feels like a game you'd find in the PS2 library.
@@Viper-ft3tk Hif Fi rush is great exception
@@skibidi.G no
If you go to the center of the map in Skull and Bones on the third day of the third week of April a sea monster rises out of the ocean and if it sees its own shadow on the surface that means three more years without a good pirate game
Watching a muppet talk facts is amazing.
And the funny thing is, Rare produced Sea of Thieves. Practically, announced at the same time, and released far sooner.