Accidentally found this.

Two projects listed for InXile...? It was updated for Clockwork Revolution so if the other project was Wasteland 3 then surely it should have been updated at the same time as Clockwork. Also to note, the 2016 isn't when he started working with InXile, he has other studios listed underneath so it's 2016 for the whole section but there's two projects listed under InXile.

There's a lot of writers working with InXile who have little videogame experience but a lot of book experience, they're authors before videogame writers, I like that. It actually bothers me a great deal that 343 works with so many brilliant authors but none of them are/were ever involved in the videogames, writers like Eric Nylund, Greg Bear (RIP), Kelly Gay, Troy Denning. Greg Bear should have been involved in Halo 4...Eric Nylund is probably long gone from Halo now but we still have Kelly Gay and Troy Denning.

Put Kelly Gay or Troy Denning on one of the games! These people know the Halo universe and lore inside out.

Good to see AC get dog walked, go back to bloated RPGs.

Now make a JRPG. or hi fi sequel. Leave that horror nonsense to the birds. 

^ That looks like a really cool article, I just skimmed through it, I'll have a read of it in a minute.

It's down to 82 now, an absolute travesty. Proving that critics are biased against Xbox yet again for the 2nd time this year. Critics gave Gran Turismo 7 an 87, 5 points higher than Forza Motorsport, even though it had microtransactions that cost as much as $200 for the most expensive cars (single cars mind you, not whole car packs, but single cars), limited numbers of cars available in the store (meaning they could sell out and you couldn't complete your car collection), always online DRM that caused outages as long as 30 hours, and some reused car and track models from much earlier games in the series (which therefore made them very outdated).

By comparison Forza Motorsport has no cash for currency microtransactions, much better designed in-game store and car collection mechanics, and every single car model and track built from the ground up for current gen. And what do the critics do? They give it an 82 average on opencritic, lower than any other Forza Motorsport except for 5, and it is only 3 points higher than FM5, even though it has more than twice the cars and 3 more tracks than FM5 did at launch.

I'm so f***ing done with like 95% of game critics at this point, I've gotten to the point where I treat them exactly the same as movie critics, which is to say not giving any of them a single click on their reviews. 

Those are the only ones that appeal to me.  Assassin's Creed *Red will score higher.

Yeah, I have to laugh at that myself. I told so many people who were begging for AC to go back to the classic formula that it was a bad idea. There is a reason why Ubisoft evolved the series into WRPG's to start with, it's because people had grown tired with AC games as they were in the past, which is precisely why AC Syndicate has the 3rd lowest reviews in the mainline series and was a sales flop (selling about half the copies of earlier AC games), even though it is one of the best games in the series. Ubisoft evolved Assassin's Creed at precisely the right time to save it from total decline. Now they let whining classic AC fans influence them into giving them a brand new game in the series in the old formula (instead of sticking to remakes to satisfy the classic AC fans instead), and what did it get Ubisoft? A 76 review average on AC Mirage, which makes it pretty much tied with the aforementioned AC Syndicate for 3rd lowest reviewed mainline game in the series. 

Ubisoft will definitely be sticking with the RPG formula after seeing these reviews, because all 3 RPG AC games reviewed better than Syndicate and Mirage, the 2 most recent classic formula AC games. We already know that the next 2 AC games, Red in Feudal Japan and Hexe in the Holy Roman Empire circa 1500-1600's, are back to the RPG formula. Maybe we will get the rumored remakes of AC1 and AC4, but I think it is safe to say they will stick with RPG's for brand new AC games moving forward.

I can't adequately describe just how much I hate this argument. Yes...Ubi went back to the old formula...but they did it in the most low effort way imaginable. It doesn't take old school AC and iterate upon it in any way to provide something in any way beyond those old games. Hell, it doesn't even go so far as to meaningful overhaul parkour back to be on par with AC Unity. It's the most barebones callback to classic AC imaginable. 

I would LOVE a full classic AC game, and never had even any remote interest in Mirage, because it never looked like anything more than a pumped up DLC, that yes...probably will be held up by people to say "SEE! CLASSIC AC IS DEAD!"

It's 84, OpenCritic has accidentally added an 8/100 which has dragged the score down by 2 whole points, Lol.

An 84 is a great score too, it's extremely hard for sim racers today to reach 90, I can't even remember the last one which did it. Preferences are changing and that is evident by the stupid comparisons to Forza Horizon. There are things that is does wrong though, such as having poor AI, a grindy system (that grind can easily be fixed in an update) and uninteresting campaign but if you read the content of the reviews it's basically universal praise for the graphics, performance (on Xbox), simulations, physics and car customisation, so the foundation is there.

There are a lot of 8s with a ton of praise but then a 5.5 dragging the score down a whole point too, Lol. Oh and the online has a lot of praise. If they fix the grind then it could have probably saved it a whole point since that is one of the most common complaints and bring it to an 85, they unfortunately are unlikely to fix the AI. Can't fix stupid with the Forza Horizon comparisons though.