Comment on Ubisoft Cancels Press Previews of Assassin's Creed Shadows

UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I mean cancelling preview copies of Space Marine 2 seemed to work out. They got to finish cooking and it paid off for them in the end with everyone’s minds being blown (I haven’t played it yet myself, but I’ve seen reviews).

  But that’s most likely not the case here.

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  • PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I feel like Space Marine 2 reviews were mostly just people trying to make a point, either towards the state Helldivers 2 was in, or the fact it’s a game that doesn’t pander to LGBTQ and stuff.

    Either way, I think the game is highly overrated. I played like 4-5 hours of it, it’s an okay game. It has some serious issues that I think doesn’t fit the score it received, like no option to change FOV or camera distance (character often takes up like 1/3th of the screen) or that the game is pretty bad with keyboard and mouse, some in-game screens don’t even allow the use of a mouse, it’s clearly designed with consoles in mind.

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    • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Taste is always subjective. I watched Charlie play it on YouTube, and he played the whole thing with mouse and keyboard and he fucking loved it. Like he was literally about jump balls deep into the tabletop and mini aspect of the IP.

      Also, “pandering to LGBTQ”? A) it’s 40K, which aside from aesthetics is one of the least sexual franchises of all time. B) fuck off with that shit.

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      • PunchingWood@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        That’s what I said, it doesn’t pander to LGBTQ. Unlike a lot of other games in recent times. So people are gonna encourage games that don’t make that one of their main focus points of the game.

        People can downvote me all they want but that doesn’t change the fact that a lot of people are also done with making games about politics and DEI.

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      • LordGimp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        You can’t argue that 40k panders to the LGBT crowd because fuckin obviously if you’ve ever even looked at a 40k title, but you also can’t really argue that 40k isn’t at least a little sexual.

        You got ratlings, pretty much everything slaanesh, aeldari waifus, and the entire Ciaphas Cain series. And while yeah, you don’t exactly get steamy love triangles in mainline 40k lore, you also have callidus assassin’s and sisters of silence popping up all the damn time. Sex isn’t the focus (mostly. Looking at you ciaphas) but it’s certainly present in the setting.

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