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There's 2 types of videos you make Yongyea. ones on God of War & other Great games. Yongyea: "Oh dear, oh dear, gorgeous." and those about Shit game companies making shitty decisions Yongyea: "You fucking donkeys"
@@gameuniverse5973 rewrite that comment lol. Also, Ratchet & Clank is not by Naughty Dog, its by insomniac, so not really. Naughty Dog has stated they don’t know what to do with the Jak & Daxter IP. Nothing is better than an aimless game.
To be fair, it's a remake. They don't have to create an entirely new game, the mechanics have already been designed for them. All the studio had to do is update the assets to a modern look and they could have released the trailer to an overwhelmingly positive reception. There is so many basic things wrong with that trailer though, that I think that studio is simply incredibly incompetent. Ubisoft should have seen that coming though, because they created that studio and should have recognised the competence of the people working on it.
4.99:make you gain ten more seconds of rewind time 9.99:you can get a custom skin for your dagger 4.99:skips a section of the game 25.00:Ezio dlc pack including a skin for the prince and changes the dagger to look like a hidden blade 1.00:you can make a new safe slot
Even Assassin's Creed is slowly falling apart without a major release for close to three years now, and what little has been released showing nothing but quickly declining quality.
These days ? Ubisoft was never a studio were you felt you had a good game without any downsides. Either it was DRM or monetisation or ultra-casual apporche, copy/past formula; Ubisoft never failed to put a poop on top of the cake.
@@Siegdrifa It's mostly just that they can't seem to get something of middling quality out, but nowadays they are just fumbling the ball in every way possible.
I mean, I think that asking "Just what is going on with Ubisoft" is a question one could ask about a number of subjects regarding this company in the past couple of years.
The going gaming question trend nowadays is more like: "Just what is going on with (insert AAA gaming company here)?" I'm getting more reliable gaming experiences from the B-team Eurojank simulator companies and solo developers.
The original trilogy are my favorite games of all time. It makes me immeasurably sad, and woefully disappointed that this is happening to it. Though I still have hope that all this delay is due to their dedication to making a quality remake.
*Creed Salazar* WW and THRONES had female models that would not be allowed cus real women back then were not that sexy 🙄 *i have two copies of it PC and PLAYSTATION* and I’m proud to say so . They tried the cash grab with FORGOTTEN SANDS 🔥 and no one remembers that shit🔥 then the two character game I paid 1.98 for on the pc (no one remembers this either)
@@guyverGODZILLAheiseiERA I understand that eng is not your first language.... but 1- we know that some characters from ww and the two thrones are going to change heavily in remakes.... but it has nothing to do with how sexy woman are in real life. Its more about how spineless new company are and who they are trying to make happy with their modules. 2- op were talking about original trilogy. It was Not about forgoten sands. That game is not from trillogy. Sands of time, warrior within and the two thrones are from trilogy. And i agree with op comment. They were pure masterpiece in that time. We are not talking about games and things you are talkimg about. It does not matter . Trilogy is confined story which other cash grab entries does not effect it
@@Disconnect350 True, but the upgrade would be nice. The game had some flaws I'm sure could be improved upon as well, it wasn't perfect, and bringing a new generation of audience to the franchise when it was at its peak I think would be good if the game is done right. Unfortunately it's more likely to not be done right under the current state of Ubisoft, but as I said: I still have hope.
@@gameuniverse5973 can we please let AC die already. AC came from Ubisoft working on Prince of Persia. Now something new should come while working on AC. Soon there will only be 10 games. Halo, COD, AC, need for speed, MW, FIFA, etc etc.
They probably waited to announce pre-orders until the micro-transactions were designed, it's just taking way longer than expected to attach a game to them.
Just bc of it's Ubisoft i think they canceled it to amp up the prices later. Made by Montreal and most likely with next gen fancy grafs and stuff. They sure will boost the price bc more costs ..and bc They can.
I have vivid memories of the original PoP with its 2D graphics. But PoP Sands of Time? That, I have fond memories of. The acrobatics really set up the stage for the whole series and the combat wasn't something to sneeze at either. The 2nd game Warrior Within tried to take on a more serious role. But they managed to finish it off nicely with the Two Thrones. I'd be more than happy to replay my high school days in my more powerfully advanced PC.
It seems like since Cyberpunk 2077 release, game companies are seeing how important feedback is. I rather games take years and time for a better outcome then rushed and halfassed. I just don't understand how they can toss out a new Assassins Creed so quickly but others are on the back burner.
It’s because publishers will make a deadline for developers to finish a game so the game doesn’t end up like Star Citizen where your developers spent 10 years for only 10% of a game(if you can call it that). Some publishers though gives developers a ridiculous deadline of a year, sometimes less to produce a game. The end product of some publishers pushing this kind of deadline are developers working non-stop crunch time and the product is completely broken and unfinished, which then causes said developers getting laid off. So far the best publisher seems to be Microsoft actually learning their lesson from back then and now are allowing developers to take their time to make a product, but to also remind them and push the developers to not take 10 years to make a product.
Ubisoft let their Indian counterparts to do this remake for diversity as well as since the story of this game takes place in India without realizing if they're even up for the task or not.
There is like 2 or 3 different studios making ac games. That’s how they pump them out so quickly. It’s also a money maker and a more important ip that PoP or other troubled games they have. Far cry and ac makes them money.
@@mmehedii4906 source? Willing to take this seriously but I want to see how you learned this. Don't push back on me tho. Genuinely interested in knowing if that is true or not.
Meaning they will absolutely ruin the kickass female. Because Fara IS competent and vocal and doesn‘t take shit from the prince, despite technically being a slave (former princess). She did what was necessary every step of the way. Including the hero‘s sacrifice for the greater good. The remake will shit all over that.
Still waiting for yongyea's reaction to Fifa going full NFT after seperating from EA. Like I never imagined fifa getting worse after seperating from EA.
EA primed and lubed the gaming industry for that level of panhandling. Thank them for it. They worked hard the last 10+ years to get to this level and now everyone else is cashing out too.
@@cosmosofinfinity because it encourages bad practices, and most of the time you don't know the product is shit till it comes out. Why preorder just have some self control and wait till the game comes out then make a decision.
@@cosmosofinfinity don’t give money to anyone before they deliver. Like the guy above me said, have some self control. You just look like a child who doesn’t understand the value of a dollar the way you speak.
@@gameuniverse5973 Ubisoft used to be great and then they started sharing the same engines and mechanics across there games and then open world basically ruined the originality because they all now have a bunch of terrible filler that is tiring and time wasting
If Ubisoft is gonna do a remake of a game, they NEED to take a look at these titles: -Final Fantasy VII Remake -Resident Evil 2 Remake -Demon's Souls (remake) -Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled -Resident Evil 4 Remake -Destroy All Humans! (remake) -Mafia: Definitive Edition Even Silent Hill 2 remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake are looking spectacular! But I want Ubisoft to not just look at these titles but compared them to the original releases so that they may understand what remakes all about.
@@1988foxtrot, I don't get my hopes up either. They can monetize anything they touch, even Rayman, if he comes back, expect his game to be monetized too
Eventually if they can't make a functional product this should stop happening because of the financial risk, but Assassin's Creed is still working for them somehow
I highly recommend the Prince of Persia Retrospective from I Finished A Video Game. A really incredible video covering the series from its origins, on all the ups and downs. A great way to learn a lot about the series you (I certainly didn't) may not know.
@@gameuniverse5973 how did they forget? Not every IP can cross 3 generations. We got 3 games and 2 DLC stories across 2 generations before giving us Ghost of Tsushima
Man…. I thought I was having a fever dream because I heard about this at one point in time and never heard about it again. Literally thought I imagined this remake.
I remember times when companies stole each others ideas because of one's success. Now they steal each other ideas cause one was able to get away with selling shit.
This is really telling. As they are real warriors for justice when it’s safe for them, but when there’s even a slight legal risk they all just stay silent.
At this point it's clear that Ubisoft's heart just *ISN'T IN IT ANYMORE* & doesn't even want to ever revisit this IP for the foreseeable future yet alone give it the proper care, resources & treatment it deserves. Ubisoft might as well just cancel it just to save us all some time & save themselves their time & resources..
They probably raided the studio for staff at the start of COVID to prop up the big game timelines, never reassigned them back, and then when the studio collapsed because people hated it and quit, they had to handball it to the next one with an empty slot.
Why they don't go for cel shading if they not gonna making super realistic hi-res texture and polygon, cartoon/anime styled would be feel so good for Prince of Persia and better for saving development time.
Personally I'd rather no game comes out at all than a bad remake comes out and Ubisoft says there's no interest in PoP when it does poorly and we lose any chance of a good remake coming out in the future.
@@iortizjunior we don't see it as the same company anymore, much like Rockstar, it's just not the same company, did you see that gta "remaster" shit show?
The only thing that I remember from Prince of Persia Warrior Within is that big ass in the opening cutscene, I miss the days where you could do something like that in a video game...
I have played sands of time fully for the first time about two years ago. It's remarkable how well it holds up. The platforming especially feels great.
God I can’t get over what they did to my boy Prince of Persia Dude looks like an accidental gigachad, and this remake has him looking like a melted Ken doll
Man i hope this game comes out someday i honestly don't even care if i forget about it for a couple years and it comes out in 2024 maybe that'll make the wait easier to stomach
This one hurts a whole lot😞 I love the Prince of Persia series. I grew up playing the very first game & its sequel both on Super NES, have the entire Sands of Time trilogy on PS2, Forgotten Sands & the underrated reboot on PS3 plus I love the Disney & Jerry Bruckheimer-produced movie. I just wish that someone would rescue PofP from stupid a@$ ubisoft who clearly don't really care about PofP anymore.
From games I've seen trapped in development hell, 9 out of 10 when a different studio comes in to take over development, it usually means we're starting over from scratch. Way to go Ubi!
9 minutes 41 seconds: As soon as I saw Ubisoft Mumbai based on my software developer experience my spidey sense started tingling. These cheap outsourced software development shops have a reputation for crappy low quality software for non-game business software that's well deserved. I see for games it's no different. Cheap software created by low paid and inexperienced developers is actually *really expensive* when you look at the technical debt and substandard results. Sadly, the c-suite execs still don't get this.
Prince Of Persia was one of my favourite games of all time, the trilogy (yes, even two thrones just because how cool the dark prince was) was amazing! Sands of Time took my heart while Warrior Within made my jaw drop! Damn, I'm sorry to say this, but I would have taken both SOT and WW with that trailer graphic if Ubisoft actually made them... Let's see what will happen
My excitement has pretty much died.. I'm still really hoping they make this game happen sooner than later, but the SoT trilogy is literally my childhood thanks to them. It is honestly heartbreaking how things played out and how hype it was that the game was gonna come out so suddenly and then to rip that all away at the last minute. Kind of devastating really. I'll be far happier with the game we will hopefully get at the end of all this, but it just won't be the same. If they kept more in touch with fans about the development of SoT Remake I'd feel a lot better but we have all been left in silence and it just aint right with the very game that honestly kind of put them on the map 20 whole years ago. Heres to hoping the game survives this development hell
Its funny to think about how the Mario plus Rabbids games are genuinely the best games coming out of Ubisoft right now. Which is so ironic considering everyone initially wrote it off when they first heard of it. But hey I guess that's what happens when the developers of a project love and respect what they're making and who they're making it for.
It’s pretty clear cut what happened. They though of making a reupdate of the game from the original, thus the lower grapics as they weren’t redoing them from scratch but just paintcoating, and gdd ad ve it to a minor studio. Then Covid arrives. Now, I’ll admit I may be wrong, but Mumbai? That’s India right? They handled it horribly, so the studio probably didn’t work the thing at all. They get to the status check date and realize the game is in the ground, and…they didn’t just shift it, It’s abundantly clear they told Monteal to start again, thus the undefined release date and the pre-order cancellation. Overall, it’s very indicative that Ubisoft sees this as a quick buck project and they are shifting gear only because they got caught heavily pants down and in need to play this right now.
For god sake Ubisoft. It's a remake. You rebuild what has already been made. The blueprint is laid out in front of you. How on earth could you get the development of this game wrong? We just wanted this game to be good at the least.....you couldn't even get THAT right
I miss the days when AAA game developers felt competent. Even with all the shovelware that used to come out, gaming felt better back when it seemed like the industry gave a shit. It's sad how many old and beloved franchises were just abandoned. I can hope for a new Sly Cooper, Dark Cloud, or TimeSplitters ... But I have very little faith a new iteration (or even remakes) in these series would be fun.
@@iswitchedsidesforthiscat No, I'm just not into making dumb generalizations. Ubisoft is a huge company with many subsidiaries and not everything they put out is AAA. Or do you seriously want to argue that e.g Just Dance is a AAA franchise? No? Thought so.
@@Howitchewstofeel5gum It's not about whether the teams make triple A titles, it's whether Ubisoft finances those projects with a triple A budget. Most people would expect a quality product from a big company with a budget. I wouldn't call that farfetched, what would you think?
Yong, will you cover the allegations against Marty Stratton and id Software by Mick Gordon regarding the DOOM Eternal OST? I feel like this is very important.
If I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
@@gameuniverse5973 nah man. Did you even read it? It's a whole new thing and it's huge. If I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
Man, I can only imagine what the games industry would be like without delays. There would be so many terrible, unpolished, unfinished games… well, more than usual.
You mean to tell me that the terrible, unpolished, unfinished games we already get aren't enough? 😆😆 I wish we could go back to when games released, they released in a finished state
I honestly thought the environmental detail in the game was perfectly fine. It was just the character models that looked a bit weird and needed some extra work... I seriously hope this whole thing isn't just cancelled completely. I still want to play it. X(
If I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
I've been wondering the same... Something tells me he's got a VO gig in a Bethesda game and doesn't want to fuck that up by covering an important story.....
I mean technically it kinda a good thing since that means they themselves are admitting it not on par witch is surprising considering how glitchy odyssey was
in my time in the software industry i have learned one simple truth - Indian and SEA locations cannot be trusted to not screw up even the simplest development tasks.
It's not their fault sometimes. Big companies love to cut costs on software and infrastructure for overseas branches. We're also talking about Ubisoft, one of the most grossly mismanaged companies in the industry. I wouldn't be surprised if they drew the roadmap on an Etch A Sketch.
@@Gungrave123 rockstar India was a large part of rdr2's development. So, how was their work? This is not difficult to understand that there was a mismanagement of resources from ubisoft's top brass and ubisoft's other big games like watch dogs also had the same issue of graphics downgrade.
What probably happened is that when COVID kicked in Ubisoft raided all its low-priority games for staff to keep the big money games on track, and in this case just never assigned the staff back while refusing to let them hire more because ‘we’re totally giving the staff back, Soon TM’. Eventually the studio collapsed because people hated it there, and they have to hand it to someone else - losing all progress meanwhile.
It’s almost 2023 I’m not spending any money on a game that looks like it came out in 2012. Games should at bare minimum look good, dare I say great and play at a bare MINIMUM 60 fps. This is not a good look for Ubisoft. The whole live service assassins creed thing rubbed salt in the wounds, the whole nft thing, this is a company in a free fall of decline folks.
Whilst it looks more cartoony.. I think the issue is the lighting being so flat. If they fix that. I think that would do alot. Right now it looks like they rendered the trailer with shadows turned off.
If I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
This means that UBI Mont-Real is starting everything from scratch. This will take a few years. Also most of the remaining Senior Devs work on the AC series. So I think there will be a lot of junior devs working on POP.
Prince of Persia SoT was one of the redefining game during its time. A game with a compelling story and unique quick rewind mechanics. But if the remake cannot give justice, better not release a remake at all.
Sounds like a classic scope creep situation to me. They may have started out with a minor graphics update and then when people dunked on the graphics they decided they needed to make it better. Then, given the passion behind the feedback, ended up having to strip the whole thing back and rebuild the whole thing more or less from the ground up.
I'd be happy enough with a 4k graphic upgrade for the trilogy tbh. Not looking for anything different and it's Warrior Within I'm looking forward to the most
Just a reminder Ubisoft had their cheap labor mobile sweatshop studios based in India Pune / Mumbai working on this so called "remake" since early 2017 only pulling them off in May 2022 after the backlash got bad enough
I was 100% on board with what they initially showed. Yes, it just looked like a remaster, but it was all this game needed. It looked like a visually improved version of the game, but still kept the visual aesthetic of the game I played on Xbox 19 years ago.
Yeah, if I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
Don’t forget that at one point there was going to be a filter for the entire game and a skin set for the prince that would make the game look like the original but it was a PRE-ORDER BONUS.
This is starting to feel like another Skull & Bones or Beyond Good & Evil 2 type of situation... I hope the new Ubisoft Montreal team manage to pull this project together, a Prince of Persia Sands of Time Remake deserves a great launch.
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Ubisoft dev are just gotten more lazy then when they wasn't before
There's 2 types of videos you make Yongyea.
ones on God of War & other Great games.
Yongyea: "Oh dear, oh dear, gorgeous."
and those about Shit game companies making shitty decisions
Yongyea: "You fucking donkeys"
@@overthinkingisbad maybe no more .Dots.Squad.!?🤷🏻♂️
The character models look the same as the original, this is not a remake
Prince of Persia deserves so much love from its developers and Ubisoft. But what did we expect….it’s Ubisoft
Prince of Persia is the Spyro of Ubisoft has a big following but get overshadow by a similar game ac for pop and ratchet and clank for Spyro
Ubisoft should have at least got Jordan Mechner, the creator of the Prince of Persia series, to come on board and help with the development.
PoP walked so AC could run, Assassins Creed would probably have never existed had they not made the 2000s PoP trilogy
@@gameuniverse5973 rewrite that comment lol. Also, Ratchet & Clank is not by Naughty Dog, its by insomniac, so not really. Naughty Dog has stated they don’t know what to do with the Jak & Daxter IP. Nothing is better than an aimless game.
@@-Anonymous-. oops I meant ratchet and clank overshadow Spyro
Ubisoft never ceases to disappoint its fans
TBF I don't think Ubisoft itself has many fans. Prince of Persia does, however.
To be fair, it's a remake. They don't have to create an entirely new game, the mechanics have already been designed for them. All the studio had to do is update the assets to a modern look and they could have released the trailer to an overwhelmingly positive reception. There is so many basic things wrong with that trailer though, that I think that studio is simply incredibly incompetent. Ubisoft should have seen that coming though, because they created that studio and should have recognised the competence of the people working on it.
These days? I think they've been like this for a long time now...
ubisoft still has fans? talk about loyalty
Still waiting for a new Rayman.
Clearly they cant find a way to make it a live service with lots of microtransactions
4.99:make you gain ten more seconds of rewind time
9.99:you can get a custom skin for your dagger
4.99:skips a section of the game
25.00:Ezio dlc pack including a skin for the prince and changes the dagger to look like a hidden blade
1.00:you can make a new safe slot
@@gameuniverse5973 don't give them ideas!
@@gameuniverse5973 The first thing that came to my mind was: the rewind is a daily resource. Want more? Pay up.
Yup, wouldn't surprise me if this was the case
@@gameuniverse5973 dmc5 has something similar
Gotham knights: "I'm gonna look as outdated as possible"
PoP Remake: "Hold my dagger of time"
At least GK doesn't have micro-transactions, but the 30fps for new gen was trash.
@@tsugikuniyoriichi22 but Ubisoft don't do microtransactions... that's EA...
@@tsugikuniyoriichi22 They have forgotten to remove the life service crafting system.- Now it is a tedious, terrible grind fest.
@@aahzmandiaz2767 I agree on that too like.... the gameplay is alright but everything else is just....
Won't be surprised if it looks like ps1 graphics at this rate.
Ubisoft just can't do anything right these days without screwing things up for themselves.
I am just thinking on how is the division and watch dogs series dead now because of their lackluster recent games
Even Assassin's Creed is slowly falling apart without a major release for close to three years now, and what little has been released showing nothing but quickly declining quality.
These days ?
Ubisoft was never a studio were you felt you had a good game without any downsides.
Either it was DRM or monetisation or ultra-casual apporche, copy/past formula; Ubisoft never failed to put a poop on top of the cake.
@@Siegdrifa It's mostly just that they can't seem to get something of middling quality out, but nowadays they are just fumbling the ball in every way possible.
@@Satellaview1889 There hasn't been an AC game since Syndicate.
The moment a greedy company gives back money, be ready for the worst case scenario.
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So true my man.
I mean, I think that asking "Just what is going on with Ubisoft" is a question one could ask about a number of subjects regarding this company in the past couple of years.
The going gaming question trend nowadays is more like: "Just what is going on with (insert AAA gaming company here)?"
I'm getting more reliable gaming experiences from the B-team Eurojank simulator companies and solo developers.
@Angry JayByrd probably is money laundering
They have more projects than they can handle.
@@moshunit96 I feel like this has been the real problem with Ubisoft for the past decade
The original trilogy are my favorite games of all time. It makes me immeasurably sad, and woefully disappointed that this is happening to it. Though I still have hope that all this delay is due to their dedication to making a quality remake.
*Creed Salazar* WW and THRONES had female models that would not be allowed cus real women back then were not that sexy 🙄 *i have two copies of it PC and PLAYSTATION* and I’m proud to say so . They tried the cash grab with FORGOTTEN SANDS 🔥 and no one remembers that shit🔥 then the two character game I paid 1.98 for on the pc (no one remembers this either)
@@guyverGODZILLAheiseiERA
I understand that eng is not your first language.... but
1- we know that some characters from ww and the two thrones are going to change heavily in remakes.... but it has nothing to do with how sexy woman are in real life. Its more about how spineless new company are and who they are trying to make happy with their modules.
2- op were talking about original trilogy.
It was Not about forgoten sands. That game is not from trillogy.
Sands of time, warrior within and the two thrones are from trilogy.
And i agree with op comment. They were pure masterpiece in that time. We are not talking about games and things you are talkimg about. It does not matter . Trilogy is confined story which other cash grab entries does not effect it
The game doesn't need a remake to begin with it.
@@Disconnect350 True, but the upgrade would be nice. The game had some flaws I'm sure could be improved upon as well, it wasn't perfect, and bringing a new generation of audience to the franchise when it was at its peak I think would be good if the game is done right. Unfortunately it's more likely to not be done right under the current state of Ubisoft, but as I said: I still have hope.
God dammit Ubisoft, you've done it again. It wasn't the first time, and it won't be the last.
I wonder if assassin Creed samurai will actually be good since that what fans wanted for a long time a ac taking place in Japan
And people will continue to buy their crap because it seems most gamers are idiots
@@gameuniverse5973 can we please let AC die already.
AC came from Ubisoft working on Prince of Persia. Now something new should come while working on AC. Soon there will only be 10 games. Halo, COD, AC, need for speed, MW, FIFA, etc etc.
@@gameuniverse5973 Bruh just let AC rest for at least 2 years please
@@gameuniverse5973 Too little, too late.
Especially when Ghost of Tsushima already exists.
They drastically underestimated how much time they need to add every possible micro transaction.
They probably waited to announce pre-orders until the micro-transactions were designed, it's just taking way longer than expected to attach a game to them.
Cant believe they had the decency of cancelling the preorders, knowing Ubisoft
Its not decency, it’s avoiding trouble with consumer law.
@@zavi3rz pretty sure that was sarcasm
Nah, they also dont care about that
what a great company who cares so much for their customers!
Just bc of it's Ubisoft i think they canceled it to amp up the prices later. Made by Montreal and most likely with next gen fancy grafs and stuff. They sure will boost the price bc more costs ..and bc They can.
I have vivid memories of the original PoP with its 2D graphics.
But PoP Sands of Time? That, I have fond memories of. The acrobatics really set up the stage for the whole series and the combat wasn't something to sneeze at either.
The 2nd game Warrior Within tried to take on a more serious role. But they managed to finish it off nicely with the Two Thrones.
I'd be more than happy to replay my high school days in my more powerfully advanced PC.
It seems like since Cyberpunk 2077 release, game companies are seeing how important feedback is. I rather games take years and time for a better outcome then rushed and halfassed. I just don't understand how they can toss out a new Assassins Creed so quickly but others are on the back burner.
It’s because publishers will make a deadline for developers to finish a game so the game doesn’t end up like Star Citizen where your developers spent 10 years for only 10% of a game(if you can call it that). Some publishers though gives developers a ridiculous deadline of a year, sometimes less to produce a game. The end product of some publishers pushing this kind of deadline are developers working non-stop crunch time and the product is completely broken and unfinished, which then causes said developers getting laid off. So far the best publisher seems to be Microsoft actually learning their lesson from back then and now are allowing developers to take their time to make a product, but to also remind them and push the developers to not take 10 years to make a product.
@@Unchainedful star citizen allows you to pay for ships that don't even exist in the game yet
Ubisoft let their Indian counterparts to do this remake for diversity
as well as since the story of this game takes place in India without realizing if they're even up for the task or not.
There is like 2 or 3 different studios making ac games. That’s how they pump them out so quickly. It’s also a money maker and a more important ip that PoP or other troubled games they have. Far cry and ac makes them money.
@@mmehedii4906 source? Willing to take this seriously but I want to see how you learned this.
Don't push back on me tho. Genuinely interested in knowing if that is true or not.
They're probably updating the story for a "modern audience" the same with the Splinter Cell Remake lol
Meaning they will absolutely ruin the kickass female. Because Fara IS competent and vocal and doesn‘t take shit from the prince, despite technically being a slave (former princess). She did what was necessary every step of the way. Including the hero‘s sacrifice for the greater good.
The remake will shit all over that.
Still waiting for yongyea's reaction to Fifa going full NFT after seperating from EA. Like I never imagined fifa getting worse after seperating from EA.
I mean it was basically was nfts with fifa with you collecting digital chars that you can sell off to other people also
@@gameuniverse5973 yeah. But that was lootboxes with EA. This is after EA. Like fifa is doing web 3.0 & nfts after seperating from EA.
If there is anything worse then EA it's nfts (and Activision)
EA primed and lubed the gaming industry for that level of panhandling. Thank them for it. They worked hard the last 10+ years to get to this level and now everyone else is cashing out too.
Fifa, the organization, has ALWAYS been bigger crooks than EA...so no surprises here.
DON'T PRE-ORDER THINGS!
@@cosmosofinfinity because it encourages bad practices, and most of the time you don't know the product is shit till it comes out. Why preorder just have some self control and wait till the game comes out then make a decision.
@@cosmosofinfinity don’t give money to anyone before they deliver. Like the guy above me said, have some self control. You just look like a child who doesn’t understand the value of a dollar the way you speak.
@@Griff03
They want them shiny, pre-order exclusive items
Ubisoft was making a Prince of Persia remake?
Ubisoft owns prince of Persia?
@@gameuniverse5973 Ubisoft used to be great and then they started sharing the same engines and mechanics across there games and then open world basically ruined the originality because they all now have a bunch of terrible filler that is tiring and time wasting
Yes but outrage culture. Then Ubisoft being too insecure to release this of all things.
Goodmorning
@@sayahriadh4040 good morning, how are you?
If Ubisoft is gonna do a remake of a game, they NEED to take a look at these titles:
-Final Fantasy VII Remake
-Resident Evil 2 Remake
-Demon's Souls (remake)
-Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled
-Resident Evil 4 Remake
-Destroy All Humans! (remake)
-Mafia: Definitive Edition
Even Silent Hill 2 remake and Resident Evil 4 Remake are looking spectacular!
But I want Ubisoft to not just look at these titles but compared them to the original releases so that they may understand what remakes all about.
Let's hope this series is brought back again without any means of monetization.
You know it will. Ubisoft can't help themselves to not fuck over their customers.
@@1988foxtrot, I don't get my hopes up either. They can monetize anything they touch, even Rayman, if he comes back, expect his game to be monetized too
@@1988foxtrot for five dollars you can rewind time even further by ten seconds
@@arrowghost Rayman already has a mobile game that does that
Eventually if they can't make a functional product this should stop happening because of the financial risk, but Assassin's Creed is still working for them somehow
I highly recommend the Prince of Persia Retrospective from I Finished A Video Game. A really incredible video covering the series from its origins, on all the ups and downs. A great way to learn a lot about the series you (I certainly didn't) may not know.
Just wanted to write the same thing!
Yes! That video was amazing. I went and grabbed a few of those games after watching it.
I want this to turn out good. These were some of my favorite games growing up.
Atleast Ubisoft remembers your IP sucker punch has forgotten about infamous
@@gameuniverse5973 I would love a new infamous game at some point but I also like sucker punch branching out. I thought Ghosts of Tsushima was great.
@@gameuniverse5973 how did they forget? Not every IP can cross 3 generations. We got 3 games and 2 DLC stories across 2 generations before giving us Ghost of Tsushima
You've been off the drink, right Harry?
@@thereseemstobeenanerror1219 yep, and I’m dying for a smoke.
Man…. I thought I was having a fever dream because I heard about this at one point in time and never heard about it again. Literally thought I imagined this remake.
I remember times when companies stole each others ideas because of one's success. Now they steal each other ideas cause one was able to get away with selling shit.
It's almost like they want to fail so the next generation of indie developers can take their rightful throne.
Game of thrones in the nutshell
Yong saying: '' i mean it looks like prototype footage''
And i am here like: hopefully it is.
Do you intend to make a video about Mick Gordon and the Doom Eternal OST statement? It seems like every major channel is ignoring this story.
This is really telling. As they are real warriors for justice when it’s safe for them, but when there’s even a slight legal risk they all just stay silent.
At this point it's clear that Ubisoft's heart just *ISN'T IN IT ANYMORE* & doesn't even want to ever revisit this IP for the foreseeable future yet alone give it the proper care, resources & treatment it deserves. Ubisoft might as well just cancel it just to save us all some time & save themselves their time & resources..
Ubisoft had a heart? News to me. I would think that serial abusers wouldn't have hearts.
@@thereluctanthipster6075 You know what i meant..
Agree. This IP is dead.
They probably raided the studio for staff at the start of COVID to prop up the big game timelines, never reassigned them back, and then when the studio collapsed because people hated it and quit, they had to handball it to the next one with an empty slot.
Or could be development hell.
Shit happens my guy. Just chill.
Why they don't go for cel shading if they not gonna making super realistic hi-res texture and polygon, cartoon/anime styled would be feel so good for Prince of Persia and better for saving development time.
Personally I'd rather no game comes out at all than a bad remake comes out and Ubisoft says there's no interest in PoP when it does poorly and we lose any chance of a good remake coming out in the future.
Hearing the Montreal team were the one's that made the original makes me wonder why it wasn't them doing this remake from the start.
Yeah!
They were busy with more easy to milk titles.
I replayed Sands of Time last year and it still holds up. Definitely one of my favorite games of all time.
Man I missed Prince of Persia
Aged like milk tbh.
It does not hold up at all.
No. graphics and game mechanic wise, its loss its charm. the game fight is very sterotype. the only "classic" to it is the story adventure and music.
I still play the original trilogy. It holds up.
I'll bet they will now cram price into open world game with lots of icons and grindy missions
Upon seeing the title: There is a Prince of Persia Remake!?
Sees the word Ubisoft: Oh...
you do know ubisoft made the original games right?
@@iortizjunior we don't see it as the same company anymore, much like Rockstar, it's just not the same company, did you see that gta "remaster" shit show?
@@kendarr because those remakes are not made by rockstar.
@@kendarr the comment still feels pretty bizzare knowing that it was originally developed by Ubisoft.
Lol gamers being indignant about something they didn't know existed before this video.
"2020 has been a year like no other" they really are scraping the bottom of the excuses barrel and blaming anything but themselves.
Still waiting for a sequel to the 2008 game. The Prince and Elika were the best
That's a classic right there
I'm still bitter that they never ported the epilogue dlc to pc.
Just finished that game last night. Desperately needs a sequel
❤️
That gane killed the franchise.
It's no better than Sonys walking sims, yo can't literally die in that game
The only thing that I remember from Prince of Persia Warrior Within is that big ass in the opening cutscene, I miss the days where you could do something like that in a video game...
Speaking of Ubisoft and troubled development, anybody remember Beyond Good and Evil 2?
Almost forgot.
I mean it's a ambitious game. No wonder we didn't hear anything.
I have played sands of time fully for the first time about two years ago. It's remarkable how well it holds up. The platforming especially feels great.
Ubisoft jumped the shark a while back
God I can’t get over what they did to my boy Prince of Persia
Dude looks like an accidental gigachad, and this remake has him looking like a melted Ken doll
Welp I know what I'm doing. Giving up all hope and playing through the original instead.
Man i hope this game comes out someday i honestly don't even care if i forget about it for a couple years and it comes out in 2024 maybe that'll make the wait easier to stomach
This one hurts a whole lot😞
I love the Prince of Persia series. I grew up playing the very first game & its sequel both on Super NES, have the entire Sands of Time trilogy on PS2, Forgotten Sands & the underrated reboot on PS3 plus I love the Disney & Jerry Bruckheimer-produced movie. I just wish that someone would rescue PofP from stupid a@$ ubisoft who clearly don't really care about PofP anymore.
From games I've seen trapped in development hell, 9 out of 10 when a different studio comes in to take over development, it usually means we're starting over from scratch.
Way to go Ubi!
9 minutes 41 seconds: As soon as I saw Ubisoft Mumbai based on my software developer experience my spidey sense started tingling. These cheap outsourced software development shops have a reputation for crappy low quality software for non-game business software that's well deserved. I see for games it's no different. Cheap software created by low paid and inexperienced developers is actually *really expensive* when you look at the technical debt and substandard results. Sadly, the c-suite execs still don't get this.
Prince Of Persia was one of my favourite games of all time, the trilogy (yes, even two thrones just because how cool the dark prince was) was amazing! Sands of Time took my heart while Warrior Within made my jaw drop! Damn, I'm sorry to say this, but I would have taken both SOT and WW with that trailer graphic if Ubisoft actually made them... Let's see what will happen
My excitement has pretty much died.. I'm still really hoping they make this game happen sooner than later, but the SoT trilogy is literally my childhood thanks to them. It is honestly heartbreaking how things played out and how hype it was that the game was gonna come out so suddenly and then to rip that all away at the last minute. Kind of devastating really. I'll be far happier with the game we will hopefully get at the end of all this, but it just won't be the same. If they kept more in touch with fans about the development of SoT Remake I'd feel a lot better but we have all been left in silence and it just aint right with the very game that honestly kind of put them on the map 20 whole years ago. Heres to hoping the game survives this development hell
Its funny to think about how the Mario plus Rabbids games are genuinely the best games coming out of Ubisoft right now. Which is so ironic considering everyone initially wrote it off when they first heard of it. But hey I guess that's what happens when the developers of a project love and respect what they're making and who they're making it for.
how can this industry consistently fuck up making games that they already made over a decade ago?
To cancel the pre-orders, sounds like a restart for building the game. No other reason why they would not take the money on the table.
It’s pretty clear cut what happened. They though of making a reupdate of the game from the original, thus the lower grapics as they weren’t redoing them from scratch but just paintcoating, and gdd ad ve it to a minor studio.
Then Covid arrives. Now, I’ll admit I may be wrong, but Mumbai? That’s India right? They handled it horribly, so the studio probably didn’t work the thing at all.
They get to the status check date and realize the game is in the ground, and…they didn’t just shift it, It’s abundantly clear they told Monteal to start again, thus the undefined release date and the pre-order cancellation.
Overall, it’s very indicative that Ubisoft sees this as a quick buck project and they are shifting gear only because they got caught heavily pants down and in need to play this right now.
I remember when Remake would mean REMAKING SOMETHING
@@cosmosofinfinity and hey, by the looks of it it's coming out pretty nicely huh LMFAO
For god sake Ubisoft. It's a remake. You rebuild what has already been made. The blueprint is laid out in front of you. How on earth could you get the development of this game wrong? We just wanted this game to be good at the least.....you couldn't even get THAT right
I miss the days when AAA game developers felt competent. Even with all the shovelware that used to come out, gaming felt better back when it seemed like the industry gave a shit. It's sad how many old and beloved franchises were just abandoned.
I can hope for a new Sly Cooper, Dark Cloud, or TimeSplitters ... But I have very little faith a new iteration (or even remakes) in these series would be fun.
Ubisoft Mumbai are not AAA developers and Montreal has only had a few months to even work on the game, so I'm not sure what you're on about.
@@Howitchewstofeel5gum If you really need to have it explained like that you are clearly too dense to grasp it anyway.
@@Howitchewstofeel5gum Ubisoft is triple A company. Are you living in a different dimension from us?
@@iswitchedsidesforthiscat No, I'm just not into making dumb generalizations. Ubisoft is a huge company with many subsidiaries and not everything they put out is AAA. Or do you seriously want to argue that e.g Just Dance is a AAA franchise? No? Thought so.
@@Howitchewstofeel5gum It's not about whether the teams make triple A titles, it's whether Ubisoft finances those projects with a triple A budget. Most people would expect a quality product from a big company with a budget. I wouldn't call that farfetched, what would you think?
Did he always look like he was from that El Dorado cartoon? Not talking about the fidelity, just the character design.
Oh, this game was initially being developed by Indian branches of Ubisoft? The delays make so much more sense now 😂
Please keep covering this! Thank you
Prince of Persia: Sands of Time: Definitive Edition
Rockstar pulled it off flawlessly. What could go wrong?
Feels like Ubisoft management is a bit incompetent. Again. And again. And..
Yong, will you cover the allegations against Marty Stratton and id Software by Mick Gordon regarding the DOOM Eternal OST? I feel like this is very important.
Technically it been a thing a while back just that Mick just made a blog post about it
If I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
@@gameuniverse5973 nah man. Did you even read it? It's a whole new thing and it's huge. If I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
Thank you for bringing this to light, The original trilogy was my childhood and I've been waiting for this remake ever since their announcement.
Man, I can only imagine what the games industry would be like without delays. There would be so many terrible, unpolished, unfinished games… well, more than usual.
You mean to tell me that the terrible, unpolished, unfinished games we already get aren't enough? 😆😆 I wish we could go back to when games released, they released in a finished state
Aww fuck... *Please* don't be cancelled. I really wanted this to come out...
Ubisoft should release prince of persia at once there are already two years of delays and changes many have eagerly awaited
I honestly thought the environmental detail in the game was perfectly fine. It was just the character models that looked a bit weird and needed some extra work... I seriously hope this whole thing isn't just cancelled completely. I still want to play it. X(
It looks like it was done in Unity3D back in 2005
The trailer was indeed pre alpha footage, some footage came out later with some changes, including new models and new lighting
Would like to hear YongYea's take on the recent Mick Gordon open letter about DOOM Eternal
It's probably being updated for modern audiences.
Kind of surprised you haven't covered the Mick Gordon stuff from Doom Eternal yet, seems right up your alley
If I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
I've been wondering the same... Something tells me he's got a VO gig in a Bethesda game and doesn't want to fuck that up by covering an important story.....
What happened, didn't mick broke with bethesda like a year ago?
@@LockeTheCole I'd argue that not reporting on a story just to cover your own ass would be big lack of integrity
Honestly sometimes yong is on stories fast and sometimes he just seems to get around to them slower than usual. He probably plans to cover it
Man with how popular a good 3rd person Action game can be altered days, a Sands of Time Remake done well would probably do numbers
Oh Ubisoft!
My inner child will continue to cry. I grew up with PoP, it deserves way more love than this.
They are trying to make it pay to win with suprised mechanics
I'm getting a feeling that this game will end up on a future episode of "Wha Happun"
Ok...the fact that ubisoft is canceling PRE ORDERS is a grave concern
I mean technically it kinda a good thing since that means they themselves are admitting it not on par witch is surprising considering how glitchy odyssey was
The delay was due to the extra time they needed because they had to add numbers and health bars above the enemies head's
in my time in the software industry i have learned one simple truth - Indian and SEA locations cannot be trusted to not screw up even the simplest development tasks.
It's not their fault sometimes. Big companies love to cut costs on software and infrastructure for overseas branches. We're also talking about Ubisoft, one of the most grossly mismanaged companies in the industry. I wouldn't be surprised if they drew the roadmap on an Etch A Sketch.
Aside from prince of Persia can you give any other examples of that ?
@@vivekkparashar look no further than Ubisoft themselves - Skull and Bones.
@@Gungrave123 rockstar India was a large part of rdr2's development. So, how was their work? This is not difficult to understand that there was a mismanagement of resources from ubisoft's top brass and ubisoft's other big games like watch dogs also had the same issue of graphics downgrade.
What probably happened is that when COVID kicked in Ubisoft raided all its low-priority games for staff to keep the big money games on track, and in this case just never assigned the staff back while refusing to let them hire more because ‘we’re totally giving the staff back, Soon TM’. Eventually the studio collapsed because people hated it there, and they have to hand it to someone else - losing all progress meanwhile.
I didn’t even know they were doing a remake
same
How?
Because there not advertising it
Same here.
It’s almost 2023 I’m not spending any money on a game that looks like it came out in 2012. Games should at bare minimum look good, dare I say great and play at a bare MINIMUM 60 fps. This is not a good look for Ubisoft. The whole live service assassins creed thing rubbed salt in the wounds, the whole nft thing, this is a company in a free fall of decline folks.
I know Im in the minority, But i just want a continuation of the Nolan North Prince and Elika story.
Me too. 2008 reboot had such an emotional ending.
Whilst it looks more cartoony.. I think the issue is the lighting being so flat. If they fix that. I think that would do alot. Right now it looks like they rendered the trailer with shadows turned off.
I bet you anything we arnt gonna be able to tell a difference
Can't believe Yong is just completely missing one of the biggest stories of the year...
I know right!? He completely missed the news about Mick Gordon and what id Software/Bethesda did to him.
If I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
It doesn't even look like it's Unreal Engine 4 or newer & I'd think any sort of remake nowadays would have to be.
This means that UBI Mont-Real is starting everything from scratch. This will take a few years. Also most of the remaining Senior Devs work on the AC series. So I think there will be a lot of junior devs working on POP.
Ubisoft needs some serious change of management. They seem completely out of touch and going down hill fast.
Prince of Persia SoT was one of the redefining game during its time. A game with a compelling story and unique quick rewind mechanics.
But if the remake cannot give justice, better not release a remake at all.
I had no idea this game didn't come out...
Ubisoft is quite literally incapable of releasing a game without managing to fuck up in spectacular fashion... for the 900th time.
Saw you were voicing the new Ares skin in smite. You did a fantastic job! So happy for you!
Sounds like a classic scope creep situation to me. They may have started out with a minor graphics update and then when people dunked on the graphics they decided they needed to make it better. Then, given the passion behind the feedback, ended up having to strip the whole thing back and rebuild the whole thing more or less from the ground up.
I'd be happy enough with a 4k graphic upgrade for the trilogy tbh. Not looking for anything different and it's Warrior Within I'm looking forward to the most
Just a reminder Ubisoft had their cheap labor mobile sweatshop studios based in India Pune / Mumbai working on this so called "remake" since early 2017 only pulling them off in May 2022 after the backlash got bad enough
I was 100% on board with what they initially showed. Yes, it just looked like a remaster, but it was all this game needed. It looked like a visually improved version of the game, but still kept the visual aesthetic of the game I played on Xbox 19 years ago.
Had a feeling it was doomed once the price was announced. Clearly a budget title from the start, such a shame
The day that dev was using keyboard with only one finger during Ubisoft forward event was the day I knew this was dumpster fire.
Just what the heck is going on with Mick Gordon and ID just straight up not paying him for 11 months.
Yeah, if I had to guess, maybe YongYea has some skin in the game (like having done voice work for id Software/Bethesda in Doom Eternal) and he didn't want to tick off one of his clients since it's a huge source of revenue.
Don’t forget that at one point there was going to be a filter for the entire game and a skin set for the prince that would make the game look like the original but it was a PRE-ORDER BONUS.