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I only ever end up playing AC games years after they've release and I just got to 4, which is pretty fun though something happened with the controls because Edward seems weirdly 'sticky' and grabs things I didn't want him to. Plus, he does not scale cliffs or trees as well as Connor could (immersion!). And the fact that treasure chests are literally everywhere and give negligible amounts of money -- not cool for a pirate game. Anyway, doing the hacking missions in the real world you can read this email exchange about 'new ideas' for future AC products. It's a fake email chain.People are suggesting interesting and somewhat quieter things and then this one guy is like nah bro, we got do BIG WAR poo poo EVERYONE KNOWS like the french revolution and victorian england! ...then they did it for the next games after they had made fun of how vanilla and lame the whole idea was. Wish those chronicles games were full game settings. There's also a ridiculous excuse as to why there will never be anywhere near modern era-ish AC games (cars break the animus; seriously).
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ultrachrist posted:(cars break the animus; seriously). I'm betting it's a jab at Anvil engine limitations. Outside of the two pirate games we haven't seen Anvil (or whatever the new Unity engine is called) handle large numbers of physics objects.,
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Mokinokaro posted:I'm betting it's a jab at Anvil engine limitations. Outside of the two pirate games we haven't seen Anvil (or whatever the new Unity engine is called) handle large numbers of physics objects., There's some handwaving stuff about cars absolutely loving with someone's motor control and causing the simulation to desynchronize not so much a slam as in plausible deniability
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May 6, 2015 23:54
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ayn rand hand job posted:There's some handwaving stuff about cars absolutely loving with someone's motor control and causing the simulation to desynchronize Actually it says that people seem to go into a semi-comatose state when driving, and now when I actually drive I'm conscious of the fact that this is why car wrecks happen.
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May 7, 2015 00:00
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Nothing pisses me off more than when the game decides I need to chase someone and my character decides it's time to climb this wall facing 90° away from the dude I'm running after because my arm clipped it or some poo poo.
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The car bit was just a jokey handwave for why the fictional games company only makes Assassin's Creed games. When real-life Ubisoft wants to make games in a modern setting, they're not Assassin's Creed games. Edit: I mean, these days they basically are, but they don't use the same framing story Tempo 119 fucked around with this message at 05:07 on May 7, 2015 |
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Tempo 119 posted:The car bit was just a jokey handwave for why the fictional games company only makes Assassin's Creed games. When real-life Ubisoft wants to make games in a modern setting, they're not Assassin's Creed games. Watch_Dogs is supposedly set in the modern day setting of Assassin's Creed. You even kill a character from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag during Watch_Dogs.
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If Watch_Dogs had a better story it would be actually fun because the gameplay is cool. The protagonist is such an unlikable creep that it really drags it all down. Basically if they actually did make it an Assassin's Creed game with the mechanics from the series (like faster climbing) it would have been for the better.
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May 7, 2015 14:21
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Yeah, Aiden was a pretty awful protagonist. Being a vigilante out for revenge when it's his own drat fault in the first place and he invades peoples privacy, including his own sister who he is unhealthily attached to in a very creepy way.
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Like near the beginning of the game he visits his sister because it's his nephew's birthday and the game changes atmosphere from 'awkwardly trying to reconnect with his only family left while having some sort of ptsd' to 'a stalker just called his sister while her child and brother are in the same room and now you have to chase him and kill him right there in the loving street' I started wondering what the hell is this poo poo.
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The next game in the series (presumably Victory) will be formally announced next Tuesday at Noon EDT. I'm desperately trying to work up some excitement for this but after Unity so far I'm failing.
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macnbc posted:The next game in the series (presumably Victory) will be formally announced next Tuesday at Noon EDT. Victory: We promise not to gently caress it up this time, really.
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I for once will not be there day one. Maybe day 81 or something.
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yeah i bought unity like a week ago finally and havent hit any bad glitches, also they fixed all the companion app bullshit so its not mandatory(or even mentioned as far as i can tell)
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I'm still on board and will probably buy Victory because I'm pathetically invested in this series.
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man nurse posted:I'm still on board and will probably buy Victory because I'm pathetically invested in this series. Victory will probably not suck. It's been the pattern lately, even numbered games are good and Victory is AC 6.
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Skoll posted:Victory will probably not suck. It's been the pattern lately, even numbered games are good and Victory is AC 6. So...like Star Trek movies then (before the reboot at least.)
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Mokinokaro posted:So...like Star Trek movies then (before the reboot at least.) Even-number theory still works fine in retrospect since Into Darkness makes the 2009 Star Trek look masterful. And of course counting Galaxy Quest. I wonder what the Galaxy Quest of the AC series will be.
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I loving hate Ubisoft and Unity was Ubisoft garbage to maximum but goddamn if that grappling hook mechanic (greatest thing you can add to ANY game) pays off and Victorian England looks good without graphical fuckups then I might be interested. That is presuming Ubisoft actually learned anything from Unity's meltdown but who even knows, since this game is coming only a year after Unity.
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Ten bucks says Victory and Unity were in somewhat parallel development and Victory is going to be slightly less broken but broken in the same ways.
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Kibayasu posted:Even-number theory still works fine in retrospect since Into Darkness makes the 2009 Star Trek look masterful. And of course counting Galaxy Quest. Shadow of Mordor.
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Kibayasu posted:I wonder what the Galaxy Quest of the AC series will be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnk15Wf6xMU
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Shadow of Mordor. Shadow of Mordor was loving awesome except for the
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Kibayasu posted:I wonder what the Galaxy Quest of the AC series will be.
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Orv posted:Ten bucks says Victory and Unity were in somewhat parallel development and Victory is going to be slightly less broken but broken in the same ways. Turn the crowds down and get the god drat frame rate up to at least 30... ...is what they won't do because they're morons. I made it through Unity but god drat it was a slideshow and those massive numbers of NPCs were worth it maybe once, and even then it was just visually. Has anyone mentioned that Ubi's staking their entire holiday on this one game?
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I can't imagine Victorian London will be as busy as Unity's French Revolution. The streets are more cramped, dirty and probably full of orphans. Not revolutionaries.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:I can't imagine Victorian London will be as busy as Unity's French Revolution. The streets are more cramped, dirty and probably full of orphans. Not revolutionaries. Pre-order from Gamestop now for exclusive neglected chimney sweep armor set
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Mr. Fortitude posted:probably full of orphans.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:Watch_Dogs is supposedly set in the modern day setting of Assassin's Creed. You even kill a character from Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag during Watch_Dogs. Yeah they cross over but what I mean is you're not doing the game-within-a-game thing because Abstergo only "makes" (ie. "is the framing story for") Assassin's Creed games. Although... you could make a case for Far Cry 3 being an Abstergo game, with all the guide books(? or whatever they are) lying around the office in Rogue. TheScott2K posted:Turn the crowds down and get the god drat frame rate up to at least 30... They're not total morons, turning down the crowds was the first thing they tried and it made no difference. Whatever they did to make the streets so busy is one of the things that actually works like it's supposed to. Tempo 119 fucked around with this message at 01:44 on May 8, 2015 |
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man nurse posted:I'm still on board and will probably buy Victory because I'm pathetically invested in this series. Same. Same!!!!!!!!
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Zedd posted:Already been out for a while: The Saboteur. I'd go tits up without me smokes.
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TheScott2K posted:Turn the crowds down and get the god drat frame rate up to at least 30... upgrade your potato, Unity ran fine
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Arglebargle III posted:upgrade your potato, Unity ran fine Played it on the Bone which, while technically a potato, is also pretty much the target spec level for the game. The framerates were garbage.
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MinibarMatchman posted:I loving hate Ubisoft and Unity was Ubisoft garbage to maximum but goddamn if that grappling hook mechanic (greatest thing you can add to ANY game) pays off and Victorian England looks good without graphical fuckups then I might be interested. Actually, considering the way the AC games are developed, that doesn't surprise me at all.
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Hannibal Smith posted:The AC3 DLC had a magical flying power that basically functioned like a grappling hook, and it fit so well into the gameplay of the series that I'm surprised it took them this long to implement it into an actual standalone game. It's really sad that the Tyranny of King Washington was more playable and fun than AC3 was, sans Haythan's section.
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The title and main character's name appear to have leaked; they're Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and Jacob Frye respectively.
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:The title and main character's name appear to have leaked; they're Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and Jacob Frye respectively. Weelllcoommmme to the wooooorld of tomorrrooowww, brought to you by Abstergo Industries.
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:The title and main character's name appear to have leaked; they're Assassin's Creed: Syndicate and Jacob Frye respectively. Oh joy. Sounds like another white dude. At least this time he has a reason to speak with a British accent.
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Ubisoft will only make spin-offs about people who aren't white dudes.
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So I've skipped AC for the past few years and picked up Black Flag for $5. Holy poo poo. It's like RDR but with boats instead of horses. It makes me want to play Rogue when I'm finished but no one can convince me that the arctic is more compelling than the loving Caribbean. HaitianDivorce posted:Pre-order from Gamestop now for exclusive neglected chimney sweep armor set You joke but that actually sounds loving awesome.
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