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Daily Forecast posted:Yeah, nobody likes those, that poo poo is retarded. I really hope that literally every review panning the online 'features' teaches Ubisoft a lesson about the whole thing. Shields unlock some mid level gear. Shields in the rift unlock some higher level gear and Altairs outfit.
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ayn rand hand job posted:and Altairs outfit. I thought that was the companion app. edit: oh, it still is, just I guess the companion app unlocks things for you to collect or something? gently caress that. All of that. Daily Forecast fucked around with this message at 23:52 on Dec 14, 2014 |
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Lollerich posted:Nope, the dude's Mohawk name who voiced Connor is Bulaagawish, Connor's name is Ratonhnhaké:ton I don't know about the other native American actors/characters, but Noah Watts is Crow, not Mohawk, so they wouldn't use his tribe name anyway.
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Lollerich posted:Nope, the dude's Mohawk name who voiced Connor is Bulaagawish, Connor's name is Ratonhnhaké:ton That's a Crow name, the actor isn't Mohawk. What he's saying is that Connor's English name is trademarked but not his native name, since that would be uncool. And that all the Mohawk actors use their Mohawk names ingame. But that only applies to the Mohawk actors and hence not Connor's VA. EDIT: Can someone approve my club membership application (Bonds0097)? bonds0097 fucked around with this message at 01:50 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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I'm actually surprised they went through the effort. Most other people probably would have just said gently caress it, call the main character Flying Eagle and honestly I wouldn't see too many people getting mad since Mohawk naming conventions isn't exactly mainstream. Plus all the animus database things about the native tribes were interesting to me at least, though I'm probably in the minority there.
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bonds0097 posted:EDIT: Can someone approve my club membership application (Bonds0097)? Reinstalled Windows a few days ago and forgot to unlink and move AC:U before doing so, I'll fix that tonight and get you and whoever else applied tomorrow-ish. Though I believe there are only 4 slots left.
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Dec 15, 2014 07:26
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Amazon has Unity for $30 today. I didn't really pay any attention to the game before or after it came out, is it worth getting at that price?
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losonti tokash posted:Amazon has Unity for $30 today. I didn't really pay any attention to the game before or after it came out, is it worth getting at that price? No.
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losonti tokash posted:Amazon has Unity for $30 today. I didn't really pay any attention to the game before or after it came out, is it worth getting at that price? Yes.
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losonti tokash posted:Amazon has Unity for $30 today. I didn't really pay any attention to the game before or after it came out, is it worth getting at that price?
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Dec 15, 2014 10:03
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No. As a game it's an okay AC game, somewhere around Rev quality. As a piece of software it's not worth any money of any kind, and unless you know for sure you can run it without a hitch (that $30 says you can't) you shouldn't buy it.
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Orv posted:No. As a game it's an okay AC game, somewhere around Rev quality. As a piece of software it's not worth any money of any kind, and unless you know for sure you can run it without a hitch (that $30 says you can't) you shouldn't buy it. Unless the Xbox version is busted all to poo poo, I'm fairly certain I can run it. What does the $30 say about anything?
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losonti tokash posted:Unless the Xbox version is busted all to poo poo, I'm fairly certain I can run it. What does the $30 say about anything? The console versions are both complete crapshoots as well. The $30 says you can't run it, it's a turn of phrase.
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AC games are so poorly optimized that if I hundred-percented Black Flag on Medium/High at an embarrassing average of like 28 fps Unity would be unplayable by my exceedingly low standards on Low, right? I'm 99.9% sure of this but it can't hurt to get a "that is insanely correct" from people with experience with the PC version.
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:AC games are so poorly optimized that if I hundred-percented Black Flag on Medium/High at an embarrassing average of like 28 fps Unity would be unplayable by my exceedingly low standards on Low, right? I'm 99.9% sure of this but it can't hurt to get a "that is insanely correct" from people with experience with the PC version. What are your specs? But likely no, no you couldn't.
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losonti tokash posted:Amazon has Unity for $30 today. I didn't really pay any attention to the game before or after it came out, is it worth getting at that price? Thanks for the heads-up on this! I had just bought it from them for $40 on Saturday since that seemed like a good price at the time. Fortunately since it hasn't even delivered yet I just got customer service to refund me the difference. (I also had some leftover Amazon gift credit so the whole thing barely cost me $10 now)
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macnbc posted:Thanks for the heads-up on this! I had just bought it from them for $40 on Saturday since that seemed like a good price at the time. Fortunately since it hasn't even delivered yet I just got customer service to refund me the difference. or you could just cancel it and not buy it at all, which is the best choice
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Actually it's a really good game and you should play it. If you have a GTX 970.
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The AC games are pretty CPU heavy I think because even with a 970, loving Black Flag still isn't silky smooth 60 fps. Got a funny feeling Unity just flat out wouldn't run until I get a new motherboard and processor.
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I'm getting stable 40+ fps with the new AMD drivers (R9 280x) and have not encountered any weird bugs. I'm quite happy with the game, there's lots to do and I don't have a weird compulsion to 100% games so it doesn't put pressure on me. I'm playing with a totally stripped down HUD (no minimap even) and I find that quite enjoyable.
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Yeah Unity is just fine,  or no. It's not the best game ever but I don't think it's worthy of all the negative press / attention it's gotten.
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It's gotten the negative attention mostly due to technical problems which are still very much a thing as even some of the in-game systems don't work. It was so bad that Ubisoft had to give away free games so that people didn't feel ripped off, I mean come on. 'It works on my system so it's fine  ' *clicks on Ubisoft support subforum threads with thousands upon thousands of complaints*
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Orv posted:The console versions are both complete crapshoots as well. The $30 says you can't run it, it's a turn of phrase. How are the console versions crapshoots? You put the disc in and play the game. Is your turn of phrase you betting $30 that I can't run it on a console?
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bonds0097 posted:That's a Crow name, the actor isn't Mohawk. Connor's Mohawk name is the name of the son of Thomas Deer, the Mohawk consultant who worked with Ubisoft.
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Dec 15, 2014 16:48
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Unity is absolutely not fine. People were not dangling in the wings, eager to attack poor innocent AC:U for flaws it didn't have. It was (and still is) a seriously flawed game that is not worth anywhere near full price. When a company is giving away full-priced new games in apology for how bad their game was, that isn't a sign of an unfairly attacked game.
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ImpAtom posted:People were not dangling in the wings, eager to attack poor innocent AC:U for flaws it didn't have. Sure they were.
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Aphrodite posted:Sure they were. Yes, you're right. All that terrible framerates and nonfunctioning features and hilariously glitches were a wide conspiracy to make people not like Assassin's Creed. That is 100% a plausible thing. Ubisoft putting out a 12 noon review embargo and admitting openly their game was flawed was them attempt to, I don't know, fight fire with fire? The fact that people who complained about AC:U in this thread have said more positive things about AC:R is just because of a deep innate hatred for the French. Like, yeah, sorry if I'm sounding pretty sarcastic there but it takes a frankly ridiculous amount of denial to claim that AC:U was not (and doesn't remain) a fairly flawed product. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 17:03 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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So has anyone done the whole "play it in French with English subtitles" thing for Unity? If so, how'd it work out? I'm thinking of playing it like that after it gets here, because the whole faux British accents thing really grates on me in all the gameplay videos I've seen.
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ImpAtom posted:Yes, you're right. All that terrible framerates and nonfunctioning features and hilariously glitches were a wide conspiracy to make people not like Assassin's Creed. That is 100% a plausible thing. Ubisoft putting out a 12 noon review embargo and admitting openly their game was flawed was them attempt to, I don't know, fight fire with fire? And how hard it is to model women assassins.
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macnbc posted:So has anyone done the whole "play it in French with English subtitles" thing for Unity? If so, how'd it work out? It isn't really worth it. The French acting is pretty lovely. You might not notice it if you're just kind of glazing over the words but it's pretty low-effort. ayn rand hand job posted:And how hard it is to model women assassins. To give them the benefit of the doubt that was just an insanely stupid PR statement and if the rest of the game had been good would have been a bad joke instead of more icing on the cake.
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ImpAtom posted:Yes, you're right. All that terrible framerates and nonfunctioning features and hilariously glitches were a wide conspiracy to make people not like Assassin's Creed. That is 100% a plausible thing. Ubisoft putting out a 12 noon review embargo and admitting openly their game was flawed was them attempt to, I don't know, fight fire with fire? They're not mutually exclusive, genius.
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Aphrodite posted:They're not mutually exclusive, genius. That's a pretty convenient argument then. "People would have hated AC:U no matter what, it just happens that it also was a lovely product!" As I said, that also doesn't explain the more positive reception to AC:R.
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ImpAtom posted:Unity is absolutely not fine. People were not dangling in the wings, eager to attack poor innocent AC:U for flaws it didn't have. It was (and still is) a seriously flawed game that is not worth anywhere near full price. I don't really care about other peoples' experiences with it. My experience with the game was that it has been virtually bug free since the second patch and, after a bit of tweaking, running at a decent frame rate, so I'm judging it purely in terms of its gameplay, which I enjoy a lot more than previous AC games. The only things that haven't worked are the initiates and nomad stuff but that's no big deal. If you can't unlock one weapon there are always several others with identical stats. Getting 100% in AC games has always been exclusively for insane people. AC1 even trolled you if you were obsessive enough to collect all the little flags. There's enough variety to mess about and have fun without turning it into a chore.
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ImpAtom posted:That's a pretty convenient argument then. "People would have hated AC:U no matter what, it just happens that it also was a lovely product!" And an easily observable one. Just check posts from the weeks leading up to it. It's always the same. Even before the good ones. Even back when they hadn't made a bad one yet. quote:As I said, that also doesn't explain the more positive reception to AC:R. Sure it does. That falls under the "gently caress all that Assassination poo poo but the pirating is fun" banner like Black Flag.
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ACU was a broken piece of poo poo, no one is arguing that, and it certainly needed a lot more development time. By now, though, with the 1.3 patch and the new AMD drivers, my game is perfectly functional, co-op and all. The patch coming later today should hopefully fix the rest. The game is and always has been very good, just bogged down with technical and performance issues that to be fair they've been fixing at a pretty good rate. Imagine if EA had released this game, would have been something more like 'lol we have your money now gently caress off'. And also I honestly think a lot of the problem is people trying to run the game on loving toasters and then complaining when it doesn't work all that well Aphrodite posted:And an easily observable one. Just check posts from the weeks leading up to it. Reminds me of the Zelda cycle. Whatever the current one is is universally panned for being the biggest poo poo ever but then when the next one comes out, suddenly that game is fantastic. I remember a lot of hate for Black Flag, but now apparently it's golden. Once Victory comes out, people will whine about how much better Unity was because they won't remember the rocky release by then. Videogames!
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I'm not trying to justify the game's many technical flaws at launch or smugly stating that I have no problems. What I'm saying is that the battery of patches and improved drivers have made the game run quite smoothly now and that I think the game itself is fun, past technical issues aside. I didn't buy the game at launch or I imagine I'd be pretty soured on it as well. I bought it about a week ago and it was running probably at sub-20 fps a lot of the time, which is pretty poo poo but with the new AMD drivers that has gone up to steady 40+ and my hope is that Patch 4 (launching today) will improve that even further. To be honest, I think the game itself is great. The graphics are incredible, the animations are awesome, there is tons and tons of poo poo to do. A lot of the side missions are cool (I like the murder mysteries a lot), the customization is neat and the addition of co-op is pretty sweet, though I really want to start running some of those missions with non-pubs. I personally like the game more than AC4, simply because while I appreciated how well-done the naval stuff was, it's not a theme I'm a huge fan of. bonds0097 fucked around with this message at 17:28 on Dec 15, 2014 |
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Rogue didn't even really get a positive reaction. it was pretty much expected to be Black Flag 2.0, and it didn't really fail or exceed that. It wasn't the flaming pile of poo poo that Unity was on launch, but that's a pretty drat low bar.
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frozenpeas posted:I don't really care about other peoples' experiences with it. My experience with the game was that it has been virtually bug free since the second patch and, after a bit of tweaking, running at a decent frame rate, so I'm judging it purely in terms of its gameplay, which I enjoy a lot more than previous AC games.. "I don't care about other peoples experiences" when discussing a game even the developer admits is broken is pretty silly. Aphrodite posted:It's always the same. Even before the good ones. Even back when they hadn't made a bad one yet People are negative about literally every game on the internet until it proves itself different. Acting like it is people wanting to hate a game and not just the internet being the internet is silly. You're pretty obviously baiting for an Assassin's Creed 1 comment with the second part of this, but even the developers admitted AC1 was a pretty flawed experience. Aphrodite posted:Sure it does. That falls under the "gently caress all that Assassination poo poo but the pirating is fun" banner like Black Flag. If there is this giant angry backlash against Assassining like you claim but people like the piracy, you're either suggesting a bizarre pirate conspiracy or that the assassin parts are not being handled well.
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ayn rand hand job posted:Rogue didn't even really get a positive reaction. it was pretty much expected to be Black Flag 2.0, and it didn't really fail or exceed that. I never heard pre-release expectations for it to be Black Flag 2.0. I only heard that post-release. Everything I heard pre-release was "Well, it's the also-ran title for last-gen consoles only and Ubisoft isn't marketing it at all. What does THAT say?" In that vein, it greatly exceeded expectations.
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