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bleughmacaroni posted:Wait, if that was their original idea why didn't they stick with it? It sounds much better than what we're stuck with now, I'm not even sure how you'd describe Aiden Pearce. Because generic revenge story #231 was more appealing to Ubisoft execs or something.
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It would never qualify as a bar fight without something or someone being tossed through a window. You can't wait for something to happen before the guy runs off and you chase him for however many times it happened.
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Ramos posted:Nah, he's just about as beard-y and unwashed as I'd expect from a "professional" hacker. Plus hacking makes you good at martial arts in this game, so whatever. I apparently got ripped off somewhere then.
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Nov 18, 2015 16:07
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Tin Hat posted:This is something that I still don't understand from the last LP. What is Aiden's aversion to using cash? Wouldn't it leave less of a trail, and thus be the preferred method of payment for your average super-hacker? Seems like all the constant transactions of him stealing and spending other people's money would raise some huge red flags at the bank. Wedemeyer posted:I assume it's easier to electronically wire money from his many accounts than to go to an ATM where there's a camera and try to get cash out without a card? Seriously. Don't forget that in order to make the money he hacks available for use, he has to go bluescreen an ATM and pull cash out. Aiden is absolutely a cash kinda guy.
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Nov 18, 2015 17:31
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Samizdata posted:I apparently got ripped off somewhere then. So does that mean that you didn't get ripped?
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Nov 18, 2015 17:38
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I really hope you get back at that Junto fellow... turn him into the next Nancy! Very funny that Ironicus brought up the Presidential Fitness Award. I almost had it, but the agility test is where I failed, ironicusly enough.
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Nov 18, 2015 18:36
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Zereth posted:That's why he bluesceens the ATM first. I figured he was bluescreening the ATM so it would allow transfers between accounts that don't share a common owner. But then I never watched the animation closely enough to see if he grabbed at something near the cash-spitter, so...does he?
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Nov 18, 2015 18:58
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Felinoid posted:I figured he was bluescreening the ATM so it would allow transfers between accounts that don't share a common owner. But then I never watched the animation closely enough to see if he grabbed at something near the cash-spitter, so...does he? Yeah, he makes the machine spit out a big hunk of $20s.
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Nov 18, 2015 19:03
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TwoPair posted:"Clara, turn off my hack inhibitors" From a couple pages ago, but a thought just struck me (I went and spoiled myself). There really is a moment like this later on. I won't go into specifics, but... It's one of the few actual heartstopping moments this mess of a game manages to pull off.
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Nov 18, 2015 20:10
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Vague spoilers are still very annoying, hth.
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Nov 18, 2015 20:15
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Please somebody gif that fat guy running back and forth after being saved (9:30-10:00).
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Nov 18, 2015 20:18
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Screw the fat guy, someone get Ray into a better game. Already, he's my favorite character, dude don't take any poo poo.
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Nov 18, 2015 20:58
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As bad is the Codecouch coat is, it's probably what I'd wear the whole game since everyone is treating you as some kind of legendary hacker vigilante, I should look the part Edit: Anyone that audio log talking about some kind ghost of a former developer stuck inside the CToS code? Think that will ever come up again?
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Nov 18, 2015 22:01
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Edit: Anyone that audio log talking about some kind ghost of a former developer stuck inside the CToS code? Think that will ever come up again? That log was the person who was hired to replace Raymond Kenney going "yeah his fingerprints are all over this software". It was a metaphor.
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T-Bone is the best character. I almost considered getting the T-Bone DLC, but then I remembered that my copy of Glance_Hounds is borrowed from a friend, and it would mean buying Watch_Dogs related content for a game I don't actually own. The Aisha Tyler bits are good because I can imagine I'm watching Archer rather than Aiden Pierce's antics.
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HenryEx posted:So does that mean that you didn't get ripped? Nope. Nor do I do any martial arts other than the lost skill Shaolin "Flail Madly And Hope You Don't Get Injured Too Quickly".
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OldMemes posted:T-Bone is the best character. I almost considered getting the T-Bone DLC, but then I remembered that my copy of Glance_Hounds is borrowed from a friend, and it would mean buying Watch_Dogs related content for a game I don't actually own. So, you're saying Aiden could be in some sort of place of hazard. Some type of location or place of peril. (P.S. Aiden's hide outs are DEFINITELY the way to get ants!)
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Samizdata posted:So, you're saying Aiden could be in some sort of place of hazard. Some type of location or place of peril. On the other hand, I have my doubts Aiden has ever read a book.
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Nov 19, 2015 04:47
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You know what's good? Solar panels for something that's underground.
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Zom Aur posted:You know what's good? It's there to absorb all of the underground sunlight duh.
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Nov 19, 2015 10:33
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you can't see the complex series of mirrors in place that direct sunlight to it because everything explodes
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Nov 19, 2015 10:41
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I think just about the only way to redeem Watch_Dogs is to let it stew until Assassin's Creed finally hits the present day about 2-3 years from now, and then have Aiden as a mission contact for like one chapter in the vein of "completely distasteful weirdo that we begrudgingly work with until he dies messily at the end of the 4th task he gives us". "This guy has a body count comparable to some wars, and he won't shut up about his sister? wife?... Why do we have to deal with him again?"
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Nov 19, 2015 14:46
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deadly_pudding posted:I think just about the only way to redeem Watch_Dogs is to let it stew until Assassin's Creed finally hits the present day about 2-3 years from now, and then have Aiden as a mission contact for like one chapter in the vein of "completely distasteful weirdo that we begrudgingly work with until he dies messily at the end of the 4th task he gives us". But Creed itself has been getting progressively worse, I mean even by its own standards it had a bump with Black Flag, but it's swan diving and there aint no bail of hay. By the time they catch up they'll be as bad as each other
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actually syndicate is apparently one of the best assassin's creed games like it doesn't have the ship but it does the base gameplay better than any game since brotherhood edit: I think the best thing they could do to that franchise at this point tho is to take a year or two off and reboot it without the future stuff Manatee Cannon fucked around with this message at 14:52 on Nov 19, 2015 |
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Nov 19, 2015 14:50
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Onmi posted:But Creed itself has been getting progressively worse, I mean even by its own standards it had a bump with Black Flag, but it's swan diving and there aint no bail of hay. By the time they catch up they'll be as bad as each other I guess what I'm going for is, I'd be weirded out by a Watch_Dogs_2.0, but I'd love to see Ubi try to jam it into some of its wishy-washy shared universe poo poo, like that one Abstergo facility you find in Far Cry 3. Aiden is just way too gross of a character to leave behind forever. I want to see him poo poo up somebody else's game, too.
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Nov 19, 2015 14:53
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Manatee Cannon posted:actually syndicate is apparently one of the best assassin's creed games I heard otherwise but I guess that's always going to be the division of opinions. You know how it is, some people say a game is the best of all time, some people say it's complete poo poo and sometimes the truth is somewhere close to but not quite on one of those extremes except Watch_Dogs everyone said it was complete poo poo and look at it.
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Nov 19, 2015 14:55
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I'd like to think that everyone can agree that syndicate isn't worse than unity at least
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Nov 19, 2015 14:57
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Manatee Cannon posted:I'd like to think that everyone can agree that syndicate isn't worse than unity at least Oh, absolutely not, not even the stuff I've heard about it is "Worse than unity" I just think it's suffering under the heel of becoming a yearly franchise, so it's changed from "Oh hey neat Assassins Creed" to "Oh, Assassins Creed." It's like the next CoD in "Well that's coming out this year" for me.
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Nov 19, 2015 15:05
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oh for sure, I think making any game yearly will do that and is probably a mistake in general as far as quality goes
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Nov 19, 2015 15:08
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In CoDs favour they seem to be willing to change things up pretty well as the series goes on.
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Manatee Cannon posted:I'd like to think that everyone can agree that syndicate isn't worse than unity at least Are we talking gameplay or story? What I've heard of Syndicate is that the gameplay is improved and polished and the characters are likable, but the story isn't worth it. Unity had a mediocre story mixed with incredibly bad glitches to the point where the game was practically a beta.
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Considering the AC 4: Black Flag and Watch Dogs tie-ins, they should just make Watch Dogs 2 and future entries be the modern-day Assassin's Creed they've been wanting to make all the time. Dedsec are the assassins, Blume are the templars. The AC games will take place in that Animus with occasional trips outside (or they can remove modern day parts entirely with Watch Dogs around).
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They might eventually lead up to Modern Day Assassins Creed. There's an extremely brief cutscene of Shaun and Rebecca leaping out of the window like the assassins of old and Shaun has a taser Hidden Blade in his wrist, haha.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:45
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Ubisoft could make some (more) money if they stole Syphon Filter's taser and put it in a sandbox game.
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Nov 19, 2015 20:53
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chitoryu12 posted:Are we talking gameplay or story? What I've heard of Syndicate is that the gameplay is improved and polished and the characters are likable, but the story isn't worth it. Unity had a mediocre story mixed with incredibly bad glitches to the point where the game was practically a beta. If anyone is playing AssCreed for the story, they have lovely taste in video games.
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Black Flag's story is good, because it's about a guy desperately trying to escape Assassin's Creed but all his pirate buddies keep dying.
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Superanos posted:Considering the AC 4: Black Flag and Watch Dogs tie-ins, they should just make Watch Dogs 2 and future entries be the modern-day Assassin's Creed they've been wanting to make all the time. Dedsec are the assassins, Blume are the templars. The AC games will take place in that Animus with occasional trips outside (or they can remove modern day parts entirely with Watch Dogs around). "Evade the Ye Olden Times cops/foil the Templars by hacking the Animus and inserting a tank into the memory" would be an interesting mechanic for an Assassin's Creed game.
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Nov 20, 2015 03:47
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Tao Jones posted:"Evade the Ye Olden Times cops/foil the Templars by hacking the Animus and inserting a tank into the memory" would be an interesting mechanic for an Assassin's Creed game. Wasn't that the plot to Saints Row 4? By which I mean it's an awesome idea. Hell just hack Spider Tank into the animus, they've got all the models and animations done already
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That is all explained away by the fact that the animus proceeds to stop functioning if what you do derails too much from the given memories. I suppose if you wanted to take the wacky scifi route, you can start editing the MEMORY GENES via your actions within the animus, thereby somehow making you a god both in and out of it via historical revisionism.
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