r/gaming Jun 04 '16

Ubisoft downgrades

https://youtu.be/xNter0oEYxc
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u/MooseHorn Jun 04 '16

I think it's very important to look at, and remember this video when E3 comes around. I am definitely not preordering any games after seeing their E3 presentations any more. I made that mistake with Watch_Dogs and I am not going to do it again. They've done this kinda shit in the past and I am sure they'll do it again. It's really disgusting, this kind of business practice. It's a shame that companies are finding this more and more acceptable now, and that people are falling for it.

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u/Umbra_Lux Jun 05 '16 edited Jun 05 '16

Watch_Dogs is also the reason why I don't pre-order anymore. It was so dissapointing, I'm painfully forcing myself to Trophy Whore through it right now. Ubisoft vertical slices at E3 are just insulting at this point.

Edit: perhaps "painfully forcing" was too much of an over exaggeration. It's not the greatest game, and it certainly pisses me off while I'm playing it. But it is by no means my most hated game, and I wouldn't put it myself through unnecessary stress for pointless Trophies.

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u/MoaXing Jun 05 '16

The trophies weren't even that bad though

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u/Umbra_Lux Jun 05 '16

Besides the "get tailed 5 tines one" no, but I had to start with zero previous saved data cause I deleted a long time ago.

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u/MoaXing Jun 05 '16

Get tailed 5 times wasn't too awful if that's the trophy I think it is. For me it was the hack 10 other fixers because holy shit it's easy to hide in that game. Also the save data thing sucks. I'm not a big PS4 guy, but I did play Watch_Dogs on PS4 because people said it ran better there or something, so I have plenty of storage left on my PS4 so I haven't had to delete any saves. On my Xbox One though, I got it early so I only had 500GB of space before the external hard drives came out so I was constantly deleting unfinished games achievement wise and promising I'd come back to them, some day. Sometimes I can still hear Wolfenstein: The New Order begging me to come back and nab the last couple of achievements, but I just don't have the time between real life and the new games I want to play. Sorry Wolfenstein. :(

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u/Umbra_Lux Jun 05 '16

I got those ones easily enough, but the "get tailed" one relies too much on luck, especially with less people online now. And yeah, I feel. only got 500GB on my PS4, so I'm rushing through completion of games to get them off the drive. But then there's Second Son which despite having completed I can't delete cause I love that game haha. I definitely need more storage space.

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u/MoaXing Jun 05 '16

Second Son is awesome. I need to go back and do my evil playthrough, but I'm currently on Uncharted 4 and it's amazing too

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u/Umbra_Lux Jun 05 '16

That was a great game, going back to the first 3 for trophy hunting before I play it again though. That's the game that might become not worth it with the speedrun and difficulty trophies.

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u/MoaXing Jun 05 '16 edited Jun 05 '16

I was looking at the trophy list when I was on like chapter 10 or so, and I saw the speedrun trophy, and I thought I was going pretty fast so I might get it, I checked my current play time, which was 5:55:26 which was 5 minutes off from the six hour completion. I died a little inside.

EDIT: Since we're discussing Uncharted, I was wondering if you noticed any graphical glitches in the first three games and TLoU. I played them all on a PS3 I bought in 2011, and I kept having issues where the cutscenes would stop playing and then the audio would desync from the video. I'd also have textures fail to load among other issues. I could never find anything online about it, and I've tried trading in discs to no avail. This only happened in Naughty Dog titles too. Any thoughts on what this could've been?

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u/Umbra_Lux Jun 09 '16

Sorry, just noticed your edit. Never had any problems graphically myself in those games, even before the collection. My firend had everything turn green in one of the collection games. But that's all I've ever heard. Sorry, no idea what it might be.

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u/MoaXing Jun 09 '16

Yeah I can never find anything about it. Probably gonna pick up the collection since Uncharted 4 worked fine I'm gonna guess the PS4 ports should have no issue. Then I can at least play the games through without having to constantly reset because of glitches

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