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Message: [QUOTE="Pickle surprise, post: 25405, member: 16423"] While my example is not popular with many gamers, it is still popular overall in the gaming landscape so I am going to nominate anything to do with modern Ubisoft. The open world stuff they churn out does not appeal to me at all and seems to consist of repetitive copy and paste missions so I just avoid them altogether. However, the few times I played a Ubisoft game there is always something to ruin my experience. A good example of this was Steep, the snowboarding game. I was enjoying it well enough but I thought the focus on it being open world almost felt like a self parody. Why does a snowboarding game need to be open world, is selecting a track from a select screen really an outdated design choice? That was just a little nitpick though, my real gripe was that to make real progress, you have to cough up for a season pass or repetitively grind out previous levels in order to access the rest of the games. Indeed, the constant reminders to buy shit really showcased all the most horrendous elements of the modern gaming industry in full force and was a nasty reminder that you are not playing a game but using a "service". Having a screen that is constantly telling you to buy this or that is a surefire way to suck the soul out of a game and while the core gameplay of Steep was fine, the excessive commercialisation that modern Ubisoft indulges in made me drop the game lightning quick. Modern Ubisoft even ruined what I otherwise found an enjoyable adventrue in the remaster of Beyond Good and Evil. In this remaster is Ubisoft's own version of achievements/trophies, the “Connect” service. When you complete an in-game achievement in the new remaster, instead of just being a small, relatively unobtrusive notification that is on the top left of the screen, you will get a large box that covers most of the right side of the centre of the screen which obscures a much larger part of the screen and takes ages relatively to disappear. This sort of shit utterly destroys any sense of immersion in a game's world and sums up modern Ubisoft in a nutshell. Even beloved titles like Beyond Good and Evil are not free of immersion destroying corporate bullshit as Ubisoft has to remind you that hey, we can do achievements too! Unlike many gamers I usually have a rosy enough view of most of modern gaming as I avoid games laden with moicrotransactions and other blatant money grubbing. But even this little exposure to modern Ubisoft has made me empathise a hell of a lot more with those who have fallen out of love with gaming as a whole. If all of gaming was like what Ubisoft does these days then yeah, I would be playing nothing but retro stuff too! [/QUOTE]

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