Rainbow Six 4 Q&A

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Upper right: What's the HWG from TFC doing there? Tell him to get back to the good game!

Hay guys I just had a new Q&A with the Ubisoft team:

Q: Why do you guys suck so much?
A: Because we are teh lose.

Rainbow Six: Counter Strike

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hahaha oh man this game is going to bomb unless it's got some serious pixie dust behind it.

6. ... Do you expect any backlash from the community?

Hopefully, the fans will appreciate the emphasis on realism in storytelling and our aim to delve deeper into the Rainbow universe...

So R6 didn't have emphasis on realism before? Come on... the answer should have been "Yes. We're obviously attempting to alienate our hardcore fans because we want more monies from casual gamers."

This isn't just Rainbow Six with an emphasis on realism and a "darker storyline". This is a game that breaks away from what makes Rainbow Six, Rainbow Six. Why call it Rainbow Six at all? I seriously hate when certain franchises get to a sort of popularity where their developers and publishers decide to pander to a broader audience. These types of sequels always fail - deservedly so.

They come out with a new R6 game every month. :/

Man, these fucking screenshots look like a fucking atari 2600. What the fuck happened to r6? Fuck.

What in gods name have they done? I want more Raven Shield with upgraded graphics and more weapons.

update: loling @ HEY TEAM RAINBOW YOU LEFT YOUR HELMETS AT HOME

Lol @ "darker storyline". Oh noes, it's grittier and it makes it feel more grown up, so I have decided I prefer it this way. Tragically, Ubisoft have got it right.

In addition, we are still delivering the core action that makes the Rainbow franchise what it is and we are hopeful that the fans will enjoy the experience.

I'm sorry, but I thought that the intelligent challenging style of gameplay, delivered through intense planning phases and short-but-sweet and satisfying with brief bits of action as an outcome was what made the Rainbow Six franchise what it is. Seriously, if I wanted what Counterstrike delivers, I would load up Counterstrike. When I want what I just described as Rainbow, I will play... well, the past 3 Rainbow games, which is why they are so appealing.

Fuck this Jerry Bruckheimer bullshit.

Wow. Sad. You know what I think happened though? I think UBI is reacting to Sim-itis. That's what I call when a Sim-oriented game gets slammed by supposed fans for not being enough of a Sim. You know, when Raven Shield came out and a bunch of people would really go heavy on the insults to UBI for anything not Sim enough, I'm talking calling them "fucking demon loving assholes who should die" for not including shrapnel modeling in the game or something. This has happened to pretty much every Sim category (driving, flying, naval, etc.). The fans get so nitpicky and offensive to the developer that they kill the product. Same thing that happened to ColinMcRae series too. I think UBI might have thought something like "fuck these pricks and their complete disregard for our work, we're going arcade", and so they did with these two Clancy products. It's obvious they're doing to R6 what they did to Ghost Recon: make it into yet another crappy console shooter and discarding everything that made the game unique.

Those screenshots are from the PS2 port guys, look at the lower left-hand corner of every screenshot.

Uh oh, I saw some "detail textures" in the first shot - looks like we're going to have upgrade our Voodoo 1's to cope!!

It's the year 2005, but looking at these screenshots, you wouldn't think that.

I can't wait until they get up to Rainbow Six 6... just because it's funny to say

and Rainbow Six 66 oh man will that be hilarious (not really)

WTF? Why does this game get so much love on the front page? It undeniably looks like complete ass. Is Ubisoft paying you guys????

this looks like crap

Ghost recon and now rainbow 6 both once stellar PC games now watered down for the xbox generation. Hopefully a PC developer can fill the void.

This game is going to suck more than Jurassic Park: Tesspasser.

I really love the in-house Q&A concept. Marketing wrapped in faux journalism.

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