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Okay, I wanna change my score for Assassins Creed Shadows to 86.

After watching gameplay footage, I don't think it's going to be as bad as I thought and also games media will give it help because of their friends who work at Ubisoft have their jobs on the line.

So my list as of right now:

Kingdom Come Deliverence 2 - 81
Monster Hunter wilds - 93
Ghost of Yotei- 88
GTA 6 - 97
Fable - 78

I'll add the rest when I have a think about them or I get more information and closer to release.



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Good idea! I don't think I ever bothered with multiplat or Xbox before, just Nintendo and Sony. But this makes it easier for me.

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 75
Civilization VII - 87
Assassin's Creed Shadows - 78
Avowed - 88
Monster Hunter Wilds - 89
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 79
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater - 90
Grand Theft Auto VI - 93
Metroid Prime 4 - 92
Ghost of Yotei - 81
Fable - 82
Layton and the World of Steam - 81
Doom: The Dark Ages - 86
Death Stranding 2 - 81
Pokémon Legends Z-A - 80
Borderlands 4 - 79
Judas - 85
The Outer Worlds 2 - 84



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Switch: 161 million (was 73 million, then 96 million, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million, then 151 million, then 156 million)

PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 40 million (was 60 million, then 67 million, then 57 million. then 48 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

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Kindom Come Deliverance 2 - 82
Civilization VII - 90
Monster Hunter Wilds -90
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 83
Grand Theft Auto VI - 96
Metroid Prime 4 - 94
Ghost of Yotei - 88
Fable - 91
Layton and the World of Steam - 82
Doom: The Dark Ages - 88
Death Stranding 2 - 88
Pokémon Legends Z-A - 84
Borderlands 4 - 80
Judas - 85
The Outer Worlds 2 - 84

Keeping my previous guesses for the games I didn’t include here.

I’m guessing the list will expand significantly once the Switch 2 is revealed.

Last edited by BonfiresDown - 6 days ago

BonfiresDown said:

Kindom Come Deliverance 2 - 82
Civilization VII - 90
Monster Hunter Wilds -90
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 83
Grand Theft Auto VI - 96
Metroid Prime 4 - 94
Ghost of Yotei - 88
Fable - 91
Layton and the World of Steam - 82
Doom: The Dark Ages - 88
Death Stranding 2 - 88
Pokémon Legends Z-A - 84
Borderlands 4 - 80
Judas - 85
The Outer Worlds 2 - 84

Keeping my previous guesses for the games I didn’t include here.

I’m guessing the list will expand significantly once the Switch 2 is revealed.

Yup bound to be a couple of new games then. I'll make sure to tag everyone that has entered when more is added.



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2025 OpenCritic Prediction Leagues

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 81
Assassin's Creed Shadows - 85
Avowed - 87
Monster Hunter Wilds - 90
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater - 92
Grand Theft Auto VI - 98
Metroid Prime 4 - 91
Ghost of Yotei - 89



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  • Assassin's Creed Shadows - lowering to 79
  • Avowed - raising to 79
  • Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 - 78
  • Civilization VII - 89
  • Monster Hunter Wilds - 89
  • Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 - 81
  • Grand Theft Auto VI - 95
  • Metroid Prime 4 - 93
  • Ghost of Yotei - 90
  • Fable - 83
  • Layton and the World of Steam - 86
  • Doom: The Dark Ages - 88
  • Death Stranding 2 - 85
  • Pokémon Legends Z-A - 83
  • Borderlands 4 - 79
  • Judas - 81
  • The Outer Worlds 2 - 84


I'm lowering my AC:S prediction down to 72. Two delays from Ubisoft -- who is in desperate need of happy investors atm -- screams to me that development is progressing horribly. One month of extra development is not going to save anything...the game is toast.



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firebush03 said:

I'm lowering my AC:S prediction down to 72. Two delays from Ubisoft -- who is in desperate need of happy investors atm -- screams to me that development is progressing horribly. One month of extra development is not going to save anything...the game is toast.

You're not taking into account that it will get bumped to high heaven by Games journalism cause Ubisoft and so many jobs are on the line. Some might even be friends. It'll be a "Return to form" for Assassins Creed even if it's garbage but tbh, I don't think it will be garbage. From what they've showed, it looks mechanically very solid and more than enough for games media to justify high score unless it's broken.

I'm trusting my gut here and going with the high 80's. 



I think AC will do at least low 80's. They'll have had 4 extra months to polish out as many of the bugs as possible from the earlier gameplay they released, as well as to fix some of the other criticisms that the game received that they are able to fix in 4 months time (things like the wrong time period architecture and outfits that people found). The latest gameplay footage they released just a few days ago looked very good, basically no reused animations or assets from earlier AC games it looked like. AC Valhalla averaged about 83 and AC Shadows looks significantly better than Valhalla to me at least, a proper return to AC form with an actual ninja assassin we can choose to play as for most of the game, and the best stealth options the series has ever seen.

The vast majority of game critics were never going to care about the whole Yasuke "was he actually a samurai" controversy imo, most game critics are not in the culture war camp that cares about that. On top of that, Ubisoft is practically on death's doorstep and the critics know that AC Shadows is probably their last chance to turn things around before they are forced into a sale that will result in probably at least a dozen studio closures and thousands of laid off developers, or forced to close those studios and layoff those developers themselves, I can't see game critics being willing to put the final nail in Ubisoft's coffin, they are more likely to try and bail them out with inflated review scores in the hopes that it will boost the game's sales. 

I'll wait for the final previews before the game releases and adjust my AC score then if necessary.

Last edited by shikamaru317 - 4 days ago

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: 85
Civilization VII: 90
Assassin's Creed Shadows: 77
Avowed: 82
Monster Hunter Wilds: 87
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: 87
Metal Gear Solid Δ: Snake Eater: 87
Grand Theft Auto VI: 95
Metroid Prime 4: 92
Ghost of Yotei: 90
Fable; 87
Layton and the World of Steam: 82
Doom: The Dark Ages: 90
Death Stranding 2: 87
Pokémon Legends Z-A: 77
Borderlands 4: 75
Judas: 80
The Outer Worlds 2: 85



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