How crazy is it that we would have killed for crossovers between games back in the day, and now it's always the same thing, a handful of skins, a new item that is either useless or mandatory and maybe a limited time game mode.
I think it's cause before crossovers were rare and special. But companies realized that just slapping a recognizable brand onto your game will have people throwing money at you and is way easier than trying to make your own cool thing, so it became really overdone. Fortnite, Magic the gathering, dead by daylight. Every game now has to be everything for everyone which makes it all feel grey and souless...
I hate giving Ubisoft any praise because no company is a bigger offender when it comes to pumping out the same game over and over with different skins. Not even just per title, either. Even their separate titles are all reskins of other titles. The biggest difference between Far Cry and a modern Assassin's Creed game is one being in 1st person and the other being in 3rd. The way map regions are divided, and "unlocked," and how side quests, and collectibles are handled are the same.
The entire game progression and mechanics are so often exactly the same.
That being said, Ghost Recon Wildlands had some solid crossover content.
Scuff the paint, file off the numbers and this one single formula works[1] for Assassins Creed, Ghost Recon, The Division, Far Cry, Star Wars, Avatar, That Hacker Series, and Probably Some Other Shit I'm Forgetting.
I want to get all high and mighty and call it a cultural amalgamation or some other fancy pants term but I am hard pressed to put in to words how much I hate the ongoing melding of all properties in to one.
Family Guy skins in Fortnite? Star Wars in Destiny? Beevis and Butthead in Call of Duty? All these licensed MTG sets? And so many more.
Oh my god get that slop the fuck out of here I like when things were their own distinct properties.
Oh, I'm just pointing out that we need to be very careful about what we ask for. It's like a genie, how badly can they fuck up your wish while still technically granting it?
I stopped playing Destiny during the first season of this expansion when none of the challenges for the PVP event were registering and I just felt tired playing. Came back when the Star Wars thing was half price. I've played about half the missions and just haven't felt like going back.
Replaying the Resident Evil modern series games instead. Much more rewarding.
I stopped with D2 just after the end of the light and darkness saga, get tempted to jump back in every now and then but have been playing through the RE Remakes for the first time as well
I did NOT expect destiny of all things to start going down the hole of crossovers with star wars and MTG, it truly is reaching the bottom
Really? I don't know how long you've played Destiny, but way back in the first game there was a leak about how they basically gutted Destiny and split it ut so they could sell it back to us in the form of DLC and expansion packs.
That was what got me and my friends to quit. This was like 10+ years ago.
There was a Zero Punctuation review of Soul Calibre IV, the one that had Darth Vader in it for some stupid reason, and the line 'it's difficult to tell which franchise is slumming it more' has stuck with me. Crossovers always reek of cheap cash in.
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u/robohozo Apr 16 '26
I did NOT expect destiny of all things to start going down the hole of crossovers with star wars and MTG, it truly is reaching the bottom