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Snowglobe of Doom posted:
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Goodnight Cairo! We love you! Wasn't Memphis the ancient capital of Egypt? I could be way off.
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Nov 11, 2017 17:39
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No, Memphis is the ancient capital of great bbq.
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Nov 11, 2017 18:46
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FELD1 posted:Wasn't Memphis the ancient capital of Egypt? I could be way off. The time between the construction of the Great Pyramid and the conquest of Egypt by Alexander is about the same as the time between the conquest of Egypt by Alexander and the present day. There were a lot of capitals of a lot of different polities.
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Nov 12, 2017 00:59
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Memphis was the capitol of egypt at some point. The old kingdom I think, without googling it.
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Nov 12, 2017 01:39
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Memphis is the capital in AC: Origins and I'm totally sure they did their research
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Nov 12, 2017 01:52
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basic hitler posted:Memphis was the capitol of egypt at some point. The old kingdom I think, without googling it. 1-8th dynasties I think
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Nov 12, 2017 02:06
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precision posted:Memphis is the capital in AC: Origins and I'm totally sure they did their research I thought cleopatra and the ptolmeys resided in alexandria
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Nov 12, 2017 02:24
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Egypt is not my field but if I remember correctly Alexandria was capital from around the time of Alexander right up until the Arab conquest 900+ years later.
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Nov 12, 2017 02:33
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precision posted:Memphis is the capital in AC: Origins and I'm totally sure they did their research They even have you go inside the hidden chambers in the pyramids before it was confirmed to exist in real life.
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Nov 12, 2017 02:57
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Is AssCreed fun again? I hated III.
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basic hitler posted:I thought cleopatra and the ptolmeys resided in alexandria She's a usurper though, I'm only about 1/3 through the story but I could have sworn they were saying Memphis is the "official capital". I could be wrong.
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Nov 12, 2017 02:59
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Casimir Radon posted:Is AssCreed fun again? I hated III.
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Nov 12, 2017 03:20
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Casimir Radon posted:Is AssCreed fun again? I hated III. The gameplay for Origins have some significant changes now. You can’t kill everyone with counters anymore, and it’s more of an open world RPG.
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Nov 12, 2017 03:23
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Origins is a billion times better than III but it is still an AC game so depending on what you disliked about III you may still not be crazy about it. III has got to be one of the most lifeless video games (for a game with its budget and all the work they put into it) ever made. To the point where I'm still stunned one of the teams - I forget if they still switch off every other year of it is' just one bigger dev of Ubisoft's that does them all now - was able to stumble into making an excellent game with Black Flag. Syndicate is pretty good too but it's Victorian Britain so you may already be bored of the setting without even starting the game depending on what media you've consumed recently. But personally I'd say for the AC games Black Flag and Origins are the only ones I'd actually recommend to anyone even if I like the series overall.
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Nov 12, 2017 03:31
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I hear you get to hang out with Marx in Syndicate which seems pretty cool.
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Nov 12, 2017 03:44
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I’ve heard Rogue is good but got overshadowed by the other games
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FlamingLiberal posted:I’ve heard Rogue is good but got overshadowed by the other games Rogue has good gameplay, but its plot is terrible. Seriously, its protagonist is dumb as a sack of bricks. Also, he isn't a drunk pirate like the hero from Black Flag, so...
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Nov 12, 2017 03:50
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FlamingLiberal posted:I’ve heard Rogue is good but got overshadowed by the other games It also got overshadowed by being released on "the old console" and also by Unity sucking on toast Seriously I hope whoever decided "let's release two AC games simultaneously, one of which is great and one of which is horribly boring" got fired or demoted. It's just so weird that they did that.
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Nov 12, 2017 04:00
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Rogue has the same problem as Black Flag where the ostensible premise (being an Assassin in BF/a Templar in Rogue) takes forever to take off.
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Nov 12, 2017 04:01
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rear end Creed is a really weird series where they've churned out like a hundred games now; usually poo poo but sometimes really really good and there seems to be no real rhyme or reason as to which one the next game will be.
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Nov 12, 2017 04:16
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Did they finally abandon the stupid modern stuff in Origins or is that still being shoehorned in
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FlamingLiberal posted:Did they finally abandon the stupid modern stuff in Origins or is that still being shoehorned in It's still in but they are very very short segments that take like 5 minutes tops. at least so far in my game.
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Nov 12, 2017 04:50
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rear end Creed was supposed to pay off early on with all the history stuff imprinting Assassin skills into the generic bartender dude so he could go into their weird future world and take on the Templars. It started out as being more about showing you cool historical events and less about Assassin/Templar crap, but that eventually went off the rails and now it’s almost all Assassin/Templar groanworthy melodrama you couldn’t care less about over and over and over again. Just think about the mountains of fiction that has been written for that universe which nobody has ever read because it was all tucked away in collectibles. It’s such a waste.
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Nov 12, 2017 08:23
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well they also pulled the alien poo poo out when it was not remotely necessary, and at first it was okay nebulous Chariots of the Gods type stuff but then they just kept making it dumber and then they pulled the "what if templars were the good ones?!?!?!?!" for like 4 straight games and at this point everyone in the modern day stuff works for abstergo because i guess they're the good guys now hell i dunno i don't pay attention to that part of the games
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Taintrunner posted:rear end Creed was supposed to pay off early on with all the history stuff imprinting Assassin skills into the generic bartender dude so he could go into their weird future world and take on the Templars. It started out as being more about showing you cool historical events and less about Assassin/Templar crap, but that eventually went off the rails and now it’s almost all Assassin/Templar groanworthy melodrama you couldn’t care less about over and over and over again. Just think about the mountains of fiction that has been written for that universe which nobody has ever read because it was all tucked away in collectibles. It’s such a waste. Yeah I remember at the end of the first game (second?) they had your 'real world' character start to pull some assassin poo poo and take on their guards... then I don't remember sort of thing ever happening again. Either make it interesting or drop it entirely.
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Nov 12, 2017 09:40
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Why did everyone just went straight to MGS3 for the movie, do you guys not want a live action Vamp? What is wrong with you?
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Nov 12, 2017 12:21
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Snooze Cruise posted:Why did everyone just went straight to MGS3 for the movie, do you guys not want a live action Vamp? What is wrong with you? MGS3 works as a self contained and its brand of magical realism and alternate history makes a good lead in and setup to the rest of the series.
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Nov 12, 2017 15:34
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Snooze Cruise posted:Why did everyone just went straight to MGS3 for the movie, do you guys not want a live action Vamp? What is wrong with you? I'd rather get something new than an existing game's story and setpieces being reenacted by real people imho.
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Nov 12, 2017 15:35
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Yeah that kojima quote was great. I hope he betrays the audience. Make a movie about the guy who can't stop making GBS threads himself, Johnny
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Nov 12, 2017 15:59
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Barudak posted:MGS3 works as a self contained and its brand of magical realism and alternate history makes a good lead in and setup to the rest of the series. But... Vamp is a Vampire???
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Nov 12, 2017 16:08
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He's no vampire
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Nov 12, 2017 16:09
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Snooze Cruise posted:But... Vamp is a Vampire??? Thats not why hes called Vamp.
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Nov 12, 2017 16:10
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I dunno what any of you are talking about he is a sweet innocent vampire boy who has done nothing wrong.
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Nov 12, 2017 16:12
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Snooze Cruise posted:Why did everyone just went straight to MGS3 for the movie, do you guys not want a live action Vamp? What is wrong with you? What's wrong with an MGS1 movie?
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Nov 12, 2017 16:51
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How about just a Metal Gear movie. The whole thing is shot top-down.
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Nov 12, 2017 16:52
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Phylodox posted:How about just a Metal Gear movie. The whole thing is shot top-down. That would betray audience expectations. I played mgs4 at a buddy's house a bit, that was cool being rambo 3. Fighting russia would be topical nowadays too
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Nov 12, 2017 18:01
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The ideal Metal Gear movie to me would be a pretty close adaptation of the first two games. So the first half of the movie would basically be like The Raid. You get a pretty simple story and cool action of newbie Solid Snake getting established, meeting some allies/enemies as he infiltrates Outer Heaven, and getting betrayed as he learns more about Big Boss. And Metal Gear despite being clunky as hell and dated already has a perfect action movie cycle of sneaking around - oh poo poo something that makes sneaking around harder - new character/plot revelation - explosive firefight with a boss - repeat. Then the second half would be Snake and Miller/whoever Big Boss down to his base in Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake with Snake heading in as the others infiltrate more slowly/provide support. Like just copy Hard-Boiled where the entire second half of that movie is a few brief scenes of everyone ending up at the hospital and then an insane amount of squib-filled action and honorable posturing/support from the rest of the cast for forty-five minutes straight. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Nov 12, 2017 |
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Big Boss has to be Kurt Russel right?
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