Assassins Creed Shadows - 8/10 GS, 82 MC Update: 2 million players already

It means that GameSpot gets a salary. Ubi wouldn't pay them for the 6/10 their games deserve.

I'll pass on this. To people playing this, have fun.

It's almost like peoples' opinions can make them less objective and distort their views of reality 🤔😋

Also, Ubisoft has made A LOT of good games in the last 5+ years. I'm not sure what people are smoking. There's a lot of excellent talent under the Ubisoft umbrella.

People got me defending Ubisoft and I generally dislike them [as a business].

Alternatively, it means professional reviewers have graded it on established, industry metrics and found it to be an above average series for the most part, while consumer reviews have largely aligned with this .

Sorry, but you're the outlier here. Which is fine, that's what makes it an opinion. But it doesn't make the game shit.

So many years on this site and I'm still hearing the same tired arguments.

@last_lap: The ratio of cut scenes to gameplay for the length of the game on howlongtobeat shows more gameplay in GoT

I'm going to get this as soon as I am done with Xenoblade X. (it will be a while lol)

oh snap!

Calling these games shit is kinda nuts when actual shit games get free-passes all the time. Ubisoft as a company gets away with a lot of terrible business and treating employees like garbage, not going to deny that, but are the games really bad or just not catered to you?

Wouldn't even call myself an Assassins Creed fan what-so-ever, played the first two to competition and they're frankly not for me. However that doesn't mean it's a series without merit. It's one of the defining gaming series of the HD generation. Just because a game isn't clicking with you (or me) doesn't mean you can't appreciate what they do well.

Ubisoft have an established openworld template they follow because it has a large demographic that want more. Large open worlds with a lot of attention to detail, with fetch quests.

Heck at one point every game was trying to be an Ubisoft openworld game, glad they're not anymore but the fact many looked at Ubisofts sales and stated "hey I want a cut of that pie" speaks volumes to how many people actually enjoy the Assassins Creed, Far Cry, etc games from Ubisoft.

Now I do find the new games direction a little on the nose and quite offensive.. yes. However I'm sure past Assassins Creed games have rubbed people the wrong way also. They've had games set in Italy with you killing a pope...

Long story short, if it's a good game for people who typically like Assassins Creed? is it really doing anything wrong?? games are made to make its demographic satisfied, and seems Shadows succeed on that front.

Find modern Bioware being a steaming pile of shit has lead many people to look at every large corporation with a once favored background turned sour as "dead on release" this isn't always the case. Not all AAA games made by these poorly managed companies are bad.. sure many are, but put down your pitchforks and let Assassins Creed fans have this one.

@SolidGame_basic: One of the best games set in Japan ever, you should get on this (after finishing Xenoblade ;)

Go woke, sell a million copies!

Its got a better Steam score then MH Wilds...lol

I locked in 3 hours, I'm playing it in Immersion mode. It feels better to hear them speak in the language they’re meant to. It is grounding and immersive as the characters feel like they belong to the world and not just actors talking in English. Also, if you are a fan of "Shogun" FX show, this is what you can expect within that era. Portuguese definitely made their precent in Feudal Japan much like what happens here for AC Shadows. (Seriously, if I hear any of you say I never watch Shogun, I'm gonna be upset because you have no excuse to not have watch it)

The graphics and environment are really great, slightly more impressive as Ghost of Tsushima and the gameplay is pretty much fine. Where in Ghost of Tsushima is painterly and mystical, but Shadows is more grounded but still strikingly beautiful. The amount of life in the world is amazing. Wildlife and movement everywhere took me by surprise for sure.

Stealth gameplay is the best. The addition of the prone mechanic really adds a new layer to the stealth. It feels like a Kojima game (MGS Stealth wise) at times, and as always, Kojima comes off as a hit or a miss to me. My expectations were low but so far, it's definitely rising.

Pretty sure that makes it the biggest launch in Assassin's Creed history. The previous biggest launch Valhalla took a week to reach 1.8 million. Shadows did over 1M in under a day.

Its sales are not surprising given feudal Japan was the most anticipated setting for over a decade. Even the controversy wasn't enough to kill over a decade's worth of anticipation.

@davillain: Shogun was an amazing novel (the whole Asian saga from James Clavell was good; Shogun, Taipan, King Rat), and a great TV show. I still need to finish it (I think I was around the part with the earthquake? Maybe a bit past that).

Yeah I might have to jump over to Japanese language. The English voice acting is fine but the woman's voice is a bit annoying. I also tend to read the subtitles anyway, so might as well switch to native voice acting.

Yes! It's the feature I never really knew AC games needed. Sort of obvious, though, in hindsight

It made me realize they should just port over more stealth mechanics from Ghost Recon Breakpoint, actually. Prone, cover in mud, etc.

I think its good for morale congrats on a good launch! As usual for me and ubisoft games, waiting for the ultimate edition to go on mega discount before buying... and probably wont ever touch until 5-6 year later.

Sounds like a lot of people are having fun with this one. I haven't played an AC game in over a decade, but maybe I'll give this a shot sometime.

Lol they said " players" for a reason. You can subscribe to Ubisoft plus for $17.99 and play it. Wiith this budget it needs to sell well over a million copies or hold those subscribers.

How many times do you need to lose this game? This feels like Dragon Age Veilguard all over again. They celebrated for the first few days only to tell you it flopped 3 months later.

Valhalla hit 1.8 million sales in one week this hit 1 million players many if which are probably playing through Ubisoft plus which doesn't require them to purchase the game. Players are not sales.

A lot of people play it on Ubisoft+, its sales will be fine, people have been waiting for AC set in Japan for too long

Valhalla hit 1.8 million players in one week, not sales. Shadows hit 1 million players in under a day. By the same players metric, Shadows appears to be heading for a bigger launch than Valhalla.

Ubisoft didn't report Valhalla's sales, but reported that it grossed $1 billion after 2 years. However, that figure includes revenue generated from DLC and possibly Ubisoft+ subscriptions.

Best review is up.

Talking shit and you don't even play the games, that's 🤡 like behaviour 🤦‍♂️

On a side note, say Litchie did you go to the lounge and read my BoTW assessment?

Never heard of this how long to beat, but it takes a while to beat PDS.

If I see a game being played and clearly see that it's lame, I still can't talk shit about it because I didn't hold the controller? Makes zero sense to me. Would I play everything I think looks lame just to make sure it's lame, i'd be miserable.

Yes, I did read. Glad you liked it somewhat.
Barren world, breaking weapons, bad bosses. All legit complaints being shared by many others. I don't really agree about the barren world complaint many has though. If it happens to be barren where you are, just glide over it? Don't really see the problem. It's not like you have to walk for 10 minutes over nothing. I'm glad the game didn't put a repeated 3 million times task on the map like an AC game.

@Litchie: Looks lame, that's just silly, and a lame excuse. Even if got 10's across the board you still wouldn't play it would you?

As for BotW it is baron in most parts of the map unless it's around one of the cities where campaign missions are. Now sure you don't want to bloat in all areas, but most enemies when you reach a new biome are just variants from other biomes, there was little diversity with the enemies.

Now if we're talking scores I believe it's rated high 90's on metashitic, now that's embarrassing because it's not a 9/10 game.

I did enjoy it for the most part but it did drag on a little towards the end, and when I bear the last boss I was happy, them annoyed that it wasn't the last boss and having to ride horses in the game is punishment I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

Of course not, already said it looks lame. Other people's opinions, if they come from GameSpot or other people I don't trust, mean nothing to me.

The Last of Us, Uncharted series, Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, Death Stranding.. There are so many games that get such high scores despite sucking tremendously. Me looking at games and forming my own opinion is usually a thousand times better to go on than random people's views.

Just trying to make sure people don't forget that GameSpot's scores are influenced by the economic support of publishers. It's good that people know this so they don't do the mistake of trusting something GameSpot writes.

I watched a few streams, and honestly I don't understand how Ubisoft managed to make Sengoku-era Japan look so boring. Most of dialogs and quests plot feel like they were written by ChatGpt. All characters look and sound soooo unremarkable.

In AC Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla, we had at least a bit of mysticism and of supernatural, which was a step in the right direction. This game looks just too plain and boring. It's like they were so scared by all the scandals, they decided to play it super safe, so not to offend anyone anymore.

This actually makes me want to try Rise of the Ronin instead, which is not afraid to be silly and exaggerated to flavor a bit its own historical setting. The main hero looks extravagant and memorable, antagonists look anime-style villainous and the boss battles are cool and epic.

Shadows is night and day better than Rise of the Ronin.

@taint: Even better than Ghost of Tsushima?

WAY better. GoT feels like an indie game in comparison.

Yeah, I notice the comparisons after playing Shadows for so long. It's truly day/night.

I don't believe you 🙂 I checked the Steam reviews and most metion a forgetable story, which is a thing with all recent ubisoft games. Ubisoft storytelling has been in a decline for a while. Do you have more concrete evidence rather than it's a "night and day" ?

He is right though. I played GoT and it was good, but playing this one is so much better.

In what way? Don't get me wrong, I want to give this game a chance. But I am mostly concerned the story will be another Ubisoft run-of-the-mill generic plot only to fit the historical context. And I had played and completed ALL AC games, except for Valhalla that i quitted after 200hrs because it was ridiculously bloated. Now, I just want to prioritize my gaming time and refuse to let my time get wasted with another generic story and content.

Steam hasn't broken 50k players. That ain't good for this series, to the say the least.

1 million players is not 1 million purchases, this game might dig Ubisoft in the dirt too deep with out downsizing the company or selling it off to a bigger company like Tencent.

This is another Star Wars Outlaws, another Dragon Age Veilguard.. Its no Monster Hunter Wilds. I don't understand why so many people are acting like this launch is a big success or great launch.

These numbers are horrible for UbiSlop, They need this game to do massive numbers, last several games they released did horrible financially. This is their last big change to salvage some success, AC is their biggest franchise. They need this game to be a BIG success to make up for their last releases...

It still hasn't passed Dragon Age Veilguards peak on steam.. That game went F2P on playstation + in less than 6 months. Bioware ended up closing down the studio and the director stepped down and left the company. Great games don't do that. UbiSlop is going to close down if they keep up this mediocrity. Will any of you guys be surprised if in 6 months Ubisoft is laying off a bunch of people or sell off their properties? I wont. Ill be sad i wont get another Splinter Cell game or Rayman game. I don't even want a new Splinter cell game from Ubislop. They would probably make Sam Fisher gay or something.

Well, I could have also said AC Shadows is a copy of Tenchu: Stealth Assassins😅

But all jest aside, Ghost of Tsushima has barely any of AC’s parkour focus (what it does have is very focused and puzzle-oriented like Uncharted 1/2/3) and is much more swordplay-oriented. The reasons I play both Ghost of Tsushima and AC Shadows are completely different. The open-world is one feature, albeit an expensive and time-consuming one for the devs, but it doesn’t define the whole game. I'm enjoying it a lot more than Ghost of Tsushima, which isn't that high of a bar but...the real question is, will Ghost of Yotai be any better? Hard to say as I need to see more gameplay details later this year to speak more.

But Ubisoft plus launched in 2023 , 3 years after Assasins Creed Valhalla. AC Valhalla had much less ways for you to play the game without buying it.

Because they are desperate to ignore the elephant in the room. The fact progressive activist are killing games with dumb decisions is something that many people who share the same viewpoint will refuse to admit.

The only thing that's better then Ghost is the stealth and parkour system. Ghost has better voice acting, Story, Combat, world exploration and mission structure. I'm 8 hours in and the story is horrible in AC shadows.

^lol

Congratulations UbiSlop you really have done something

oh boy. the AI has shown up.

Ubisoft+ launched for PC in 2019, a year before Valhalla launched. But Ubisoft+ didn't reach Xbox until 2023.

@drfecalstein:

You're comparing apples to oranges here, especially when Ubisoft have their own PC service separate from Steam. A better comparison would be AC Valhalla:

Valhalla - 15,679 Steam CCU (peak)

Shadows - 47,616 Steam CCU (first day)

Shadows is doing much better than Valhalla on Steam. Keep in mind that Valhalla went on to gross $1 billion (including all revenue streams).

@drfecalstein said:

@elderlord99 said:

@drfecalstein said:

1 million players is not 1 million purchases, this game might dig Ubisoft in the dirt too deep with out downsizing the company or selling it off to a bigger company like Tencent.

This is another Star Wars Outlaws, another Dragon Age Veilguard.. Its no Monster Hunter Wilds. I don't understand why so many people are acting like this launch is a big success or great launch.

These numbers are horrible for UbiSlop, They need this game to do massive numbers, last several games they released did horrible financially. This is their last big change to salvage some success, AC is their biggest franchise. They need this game to be a BIG success to make up for their last releases...

It still hasn't passed Dragon Age Veilguards peak on steam.. That game went F2P on playstation + in less than 6 months. Bioware ended up closing down the studio and the director stepped down and left the company. Great games don't do that. UbiSlop is going to close down if they keep up this mediocrity. Will any of you guys be surprised if in 6 months Ubisoft is laying off a bunch of people or sell off their properties? I wont. Ill be sad i wont get another Splinter Cell game or Rayman game. I don't even want a new Splinter cell game from Ubislop. They would probably make Sam Fisher gay or something.

Because they are desperate to ignore the elephant in the room. The fact progressive activist are killing games with dumb decisions is something that many people who share the same viewpoint will refuse to admit.

Congratulations UbiSlop you really have done something

welcome back clownwenzen. Only you could post such drivel, and fake steam charts without context.

Do you honestly think Shadows will sell anywhere near Vahalla?

Keep in mind Steam has grown substantially since 2020.