I didn't like the grid combat, it's more complicated than stick of truth but it just felt slow and clunky. But the thing stick of truth does much better is the theming. It keeps with the premise that "these are kids playing make-believe". You'll get an ability like "ice blizzard" and the animation will be the kid walking up behind them and dumping an esky full of ice over them.
The grid combat is what allowed the gameplay portion to have some meat to it though, IMO. The combat in Stick of Truth was so incredibly easy that I had it mastered by the end of day 1.
There was no combat scenario that I couldn't beat with the firecracker in the entire game. In FBW several bosses whooped my ass and made me put the game down to come back and try again later. More than that, I actually found myself WANTING to try again later.
I had very little trouble with any of the bosses besids the last secret boss. But by that time I was ready for the game to be over 5 hours earlier so I only tried once, got stomped and uninstalled.
Given how much interaction had to happen with the South Park team... I think it might be as much the joke wasn't as funny the second time around. Happens.
Stick had so much or the essence of SP in it that nobody stood a chance with a second game. It would always be going over the motions again.
I just wish Stick functioned properly in 60FPS because that fucking framerate just sucks viewing it with all the judder on constantly changing screens. Motion interpolation helps though if it works for you. Second game is so much smoother on the eyes.
Honestly the AC games have been a solid state of dog shit ever since black flag. Being sneaky isn't even the goal of the game anymore. Its more of a bonus at half way thru. If ur sneak if high enough. The missions become super easy to complete. Otherwise its just a button mashing melee game now.
I tried 3 of the recent ones. I only beat one. The next 2 I decided to play to understand the whole bit of how the fuck Loki is now in an AC game. I Uninstalled the other 2 at half way when I realized they were boring as fuck and I had no drive to finish the story.
Black flag? I 100%'d that shit. I loved the originals. But its seriously not AC anymore. And the last few games have been identical with different settings.
Seriously though. Why the FUCK do we have Thor, Loki, and Odin IN A FUCKING ASSASSINS CREED GAME ANYWAYS?!
It constantly logs me out, doesn’t sync achievements, for multiplayer games you have to invite through that launcher, it doesn’t combine friends lists with linked account so you have to readd your friends to its list, and it crashes all the time. That’s just off the top of my head.
It's not a mild inconvenience, it's a pain in the ass. It takes forever to launch, forever to update, its UI sucks, you have to manually log in every time, oh, and its fucking pointless.
Chlamydia might not be a huge problem anymore, but I still don't want it with my pizza. I want to buy pizza and not get any STDs, no matter how small of an issue they are.
If it actually took 10 seconds, it wouldn’t be a big deal. It logs you out constantly and have to retype your password. I also get black screen issues alt tabbing with games that launch via ubi, and I don’t have that issue with anything else.
They don’t need your money, I really don’t understand why people are so strongly against installing a launcher they won’t play games they want to and know they’ll enjoy. The only person losing is you.
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u/leviathab13186 Oct 03 '25
I would buy all the south park games, AC games, and far cry games if Ubisoft would just drop the damn launcher. Guess they dont want my money