Stupid article. Sure Ubisoft has lost their way recently, but to imply that all their games are trash is just dumb. Millions of people enjoyed the RPG version of the games, Origins and Odyssey especially. Valhalla got worse than Odyssey in every regard and they tried to go back to the roots with Mirage and failed miserably due to cutting corners and forgetting what made the originals great. I think they realize this and will try to stay true to the remakes roots.
Honestly if you just took Black Flag and remade it with the same story, voice recordings, gameplay etc and plopped it into their modern engine with a few QoL upgrades (removing tailing missions, etc), it would be perfect imo. Do you really think they would try to RPGify Black Flag? Not sure why the writer is so freaked out. Worst case us they somehow screw them up and make them worse, in which case you can still go play the originals. I for one look forward to see what they can do as ACIV is one of the best games ever made imo.
