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[GrayFox]

I strangely thought this was just a Call-of-Duty-like FPS. I'm slightly interested after hearing the  truth! I might buy it someday in the future during a Steam sale. I have a bunch of other games to play anyway, so no rush to buy it.

[Greenbane]

It appears to be the Ubisoft game template + (parts of) standard MMORPG template + a third-person cover shooter.

I suppose it's an uncommon combination of tired formulae, and that might be something, but I'm particularly averse to the former two, having already played them extensively in other forms over the past decade. I'm reluctant to pay anything resembling full AAA price for an only mildly innovative product, and this kind of creative stagnation really shouldn't be further rewarded.

[Strife26]

There is no game that can't be described as x+y+z.

[Zangi]

Sure you can: Shooty Bang Bang, MMO-Like, and umm... I dunno, you are probably right.

[nenjin]

Thought experiment: describe DF as X + Y + Z and do it justice.

[jocan2003]

God game + Psycho + crazy-complex

Done.

[Strife26]

Dungeon keeper + rougelike + procedural generation

[nenjin]

Dungeon keeper + rougelike + procedural generation

Close enough. Although you misspelled Rogue.

[Strife26]

So I did. For whatever reason, that's the one word that I'll consistently fuck up on.

Edit: I seem to be responsible for 10 out of 592 posts containing rouge on the forum, all of them typos, the majority in different threads, and several corrected by others.

[Man of Paper]

Dungeon keeper + rougelike + procedural generation

Close enough. Although you misspelled Rogue.

Nope, I think he's right. Just like rouge, you apply Dwarf Fortress to your face and it can change drastically.

[Greenbane]

There is no game that can't be described as x+y+z.

If you're vague enough, no, no game escapes x+y+z. The universal Ubisoft game template isn't particularly vague, though, nor is the bundle of specific MMO trappings this falls for (area gating, grinding, meaningless quests, spongey enemies, numbers everywhere, painstakingly tiny gear progression, arbitrary gamey currency for PvP, to name a few).

One might argue I was being vague with "third-person cover shooter", and then simply conclude The Division is "Ubisoft Game goes MMO".