The Fuck Happened To Ubisoft?

Game-wise, I think Ubi generally cater to my interests more than any other 3rd party pub. The problem is that they lean too much on yearly or bi-annual releases of their major IPS, and lean on features from the other titles to help bring new features to the rest, making all them feel identical.
Far Cry, AssCreed, WatchDogs and Ghost Recon never used to feel similar. I don't remember the last time I was excited about one of their major titles, despite owning most and playing them now and again - it's more for comfort gaming than being really engrossed.
They still do more experimental stuff internally than the other pubs, I think, but they don't make much of them. Other than The Crew, which is still getting sequels.

Stop producing yearly updates for every big thing and a lot of the stale feeling would go away. Give each project more time and IP room to breath apart from the others. You'd probably solve a chunk of the staffing, crunch and burnout issues too.
But it's all easier said than done when you have 1000s of people on payroll and all of them need to be busy.

In the leak about the 7 AssCreeds in various stages of production, they said that each would have a different feel (or something to that effect). Would be nice if true but with each being so closely planned together I don't see how they'll have time or tech to really give them much separation. We'll see I guess.

I thought they had in a quiet way, anyway it's being developed and using the Snowdrop engine from Division, they're finally retiring Dunia.

Yeah but Blood Dragon was fun

I might have that wrong. Wikipedia says the map is about half the size of FC3, but can't find mention if it is a section of the original game's map. I vaguely recall when there were complaints about Primal reusing FC4's map that people said Blood Dragon did the same, but perhaps I imagined it.

To be honest, I've never played it, despite owning it.

PC before the xbox 360 generation (first R6 and Ghostrecon on pc) they seemed special, varied releases but that transition from 360 to the next gen on they lost all my attention.

Speaking of Far Cry, I tried 6 a couple of weeks ago during the free weekend and it was just essentially the same game that I'd played 3 times previously if we're going from FC3 as the where it became homogenised. I didn't give a shit about the story, gameplay felt incredibly similar and it didn't really look that great. I just remember playing and I didn't really feel anything, if anything I'd call it workman-like, it does a job but I couldn't feel any passion behind it and every cutscene I had I would instantly skip it.

Get The Division 2 played, well worth the time. The atmosphere is less claustrophobic but the gameplay and general improvements are really well done. I hope that they bring out another one, as they've set up a mobile-only version that I think is a tie-in with the upcoming film.

I'm inclined to agree although it was Assassin's Creed morphing into super-lengthy RPGs that finished it for me. It's not like older ACs were short but I just don't have the time for 60 hour+ epics any more.

The more linear, slimmed down games that are in the pipeline intrigue me, the amount of ACs confirmed and speculated about less so. At least they're all different in their own way (apparently).

Division 2 is a much better Vs AI experience than the first. Almost every single thing about it is better than the first other than the dark zone is terrible in comparison and the world just isn't as cool as the snowy New York.

Oh and no survival mode which was a huge miss.

I do love what they've done with Rainbow Six - they've made a proper tactical/team work based shooter, where team work is massively rewarded.

And I didn't think Wildlands and breakpoint were copies - I think breakpoint was a step backwards and was more doing what derbs said and mashed other ubi game features into it. I didn't want ghost recon division, I wanted Wildlands evolved!!!

Wildlands was dumb fun, with equal emphasis on "dumb" and "fun."

I didn't like Breakpoint at all until they patched in the option to disable all the crap they'd added since Wildlands - tiered loot, survival mechanics, etc. - and then I enjoyed it much more.

I've also only played Breakpoint (at launch, so with all the gearscore stuff), with Wildlands in my backlog. I liked it quite a bit. I've wanted to start Wildlands a few times already this year, and then got sidetracked with new releases, but I'd like to get to it soon.

It's massive! No joke I've been playing it on and off for nearly 3 years and still don't think I'm 50% and I'm not even wandering off to do side missions either.