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Alter Ego posted:Would have expected them to be angrier that there's a female protagonist option. Wouldn't know it by the box art!
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The AC games always look so beautiful but I'm terrible at stealth games so I don't bother with them. My background is in history and it looks like it would be fun to roam through the environments. I'd like a whole game that's just exploring an ancient city, no need for sword swinging.
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Dick Trauma posted:The AC games always look so beautiful but I'm terrible at stealth games so I don't bother with them. My background is in history and it looks like it would be fun to roam through the environments. I'd like a whole game that's just exploring an ancient city, no need for sword swinging. Stealth is a tool rather than a focus, ha. Even the stealthiest games can be brute forced.
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Jun 12, 2018 18:15
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Oh and in one of the livestream clips they are driving the ship around and you see a shark pass just underneath a wave and disappear and I am super stoked to see oceans in an AC game again because Black Flag had some of the best ocean rendering in AAA gaming.
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Dick Trauma posted:The AC games always look so beautiful but I'm terrible at stealth games so I don't bother with them. My background is in history and it looks like it would be fun to roam through the environments. I'd like a whole game that's just exploring an ancient city, no need for sword swinging. Origins has (and I'm guessing this one will have) a "Discovery Mode," which is just exploring + audio tours. It's pretty neat.
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Lobok posted:Wouldn't know it by the box art! Yeah, that is odd--even Evie was on the Syndicate box art. Then again, Syndicate featured a universe where Jacob and Evie both existed.
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Jun 12, 2018 18:21
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wyoak posted:Origins has (and I'm guessing this one will have) a "Discovery Mode," which is just exploring + audio tours. It's pretty neat. Oh really now? 
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Dick Trauma posted:The AC games always look so beautiful but I'm terrible at stealth games so I don't bother with them. My background is in history and it looks like it would be fun to roam through the environments. I'd like a whole game that's just exploring an ancient city, no need for sword swinging. assassins creed hasn't really been a stealth game since, like, ac3
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I would barely describe origins as a stealth game; I can’t remember if any of the missions force you to be stealthy but I don’t remember ever being frustrated by it. Everything else in the game can be safely brute forced and if you drop the difficulty down, everything pretty much melts at the touch of your blade, I wouldn’t let anything dissuade you from playing it
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Thank you all for the info. Put it in my wishlist for when there's a sale. I watched a video about Discovery mode and it looked amazing!
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Finally got around to watching some videos of Odyssey and drat, I didn't realize they're basically just making Assassin's Creed into a straight-up RPG now. I mean, Origins was kinda like that already, but here you have dialog trees and everything! I like this direction a lot.
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Ainsley McTree posted:I would barely describe origins as a stealth game; I can’t remember if any of the missions force you to be stealthy but I don’t remember ever being frustrated by it. Everything else in the game can be safely brute forced and if you drop the difficulty down, everything pretty much melts at the touch of your blade, I wouldn’t let anything dissuade you from playing it Origins is a "stride straight through the main gates of enemy fortress and straight up murder everybody" game or at least that's how I played it. Stealth has been optional in Assasins Creed since they entirely dropped the annoying as gently caress "tail the enemy within the circle and don't get detected" missions.
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I'm not even really too annoyed at a lack of stealth focus in Assassin's Creed games. The historical Assassins killed people in really obvious, public ways on purpose as an intimidation tactic. The big difference in Assassin's Creed as a game is that your assassin generally survives doing that  I did a good amount of sneaking in bases in Origins, but really just because I enjoyed doing it more than I enjoyed a storm-the-castle approach.
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Alter Ego posted:Yeah, that is odd--even Evie was on the Syndicate box art. Then again, Syndicate featured a universe where Jacob and Evie both existed. Disappointed but not surprised. Like Mass Effect only ever having MaleShep.
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Harrow posted:I'm not even really too annoyed at a lack of stealth focus in Assassin's Creed games. The historical Assassins killed people in really obvious, public ways on purpose as an intimidation tactic. The big difference in Assassin's Creed as a game is that your assassin generally survives doing that Apparently in this game you don't even have to always kill your target, just intimidate them to pay or straight up steal the thing they stole from you.
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exquisite tea posted:Apparently in this game you don't even have to always kill your target, just intimidate them to pay or straight up steal the thing they stole from you. Oh poo poo, really? That's pretty fascinating. I wasn't expecting a "spare the target" option, but hey, the Assassins don't exist yet I wonder if it's possible to do a 100% pacifist playthrough.
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I think Eurogamer mentioned this in one of their "15 ways Odyssey is like an RPG" videos.
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Gamespot livestream is going to have AC:Yogurt on in ~10 minutes and is doing Cyberpunk after that!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arY6lepNdzU
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:Gamespot livestream is going to have AC:Yogurt on in ~10 minutes and is doing Cyberpunk after that! I find myself wishing that "Yogurt" was the recorded codename for the Odyssey project.
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Jun 12, 2018 19:44
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"People question everything, Socrates a bit of the pain in the rear end..." You don't say.
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I believe this takes palace during the time Athens said to themselves; why is everyone just fighting set piece battles to decide who wins wars, let's discover sieges and ambushes and actually look to hurt our foe. Spartan side goes hey that's not how you are supposed to be playing this!
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I hope they have Trials of the Gods in this and I really hope one of them is a trireme fight against Poseidon.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I hope they have Trials of the Gods in this and I really hope one of them is a trireme fight against Poseidon.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I hope they have Trials of the Gods in this and I really hope one of them is a trireme fight against Poseidon. Holy poo poo. Yes. YES. You've made me excited for something that won't happen, you gently caress. Maybe it could be a kraken too?
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Scylla and Charybdis would be more thematically appropriate.
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The Macaroni posted:Kratos already killed him. The best use of L3+R3 ever in gaming.
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Deakul posted:Holy poo poo. I wouldn't be so sure it won't happen. It was the first thing that popped into my head when I thought about what trials of the Gods they could do and it seems an obvious choice. Here's some game footage of a guy just screwing around and holy poo poo this looks good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ8O-rMhOQQ This one has ship combat. You throw spears at a bireme and it explodes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O72Z7FiGPkc Funky See Funky Do fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Jun 14, 2018 |
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"Malaka" within the first 3 minutes 10/10 GOTY
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This game went from zero to super omega hype over the course of like three days. October can't get here fast enough! 
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"Alexios" and "Kassandros" are both variants of Alexander...
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Wish the game was set 100 years later so there would have been hella Alexander The Great missions.
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When I saw the character names I initially thought Ubi was gonna pull some "the player character was actually Alexander the Great" reveal but that's at least a hundred years off from the Peloponnesian War. I guess they could still pull that out of their asses with Leonidas' Spear being a first civilization artifact or w/e.
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Before Origins came out I really wanted Assassin's Creed to take a hard turn towards stealth and focus on really advanced crowd stealth with less of a focus on being a one-person army who can kill dozens of dudes in a direct fight. I was very skeptical of this RPG direction. Boy was I wrong AC was never a good stealth game and I'm glad they decided to lean in to what people actually want: to roleplay in lovingly-recreated historical fiction settings
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I think Ubisoft very intelligently saw that both Bioware and CDPR were moving away from their traditional RPG offerings and positioned Assassin's Creed to be exactly that kind of game for those of us disappointed in the direction Bioware has been taking lately.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:This one has ship combat. You throw spears at a bireme and it explodes. Oh poo poo, you can go back and forth between boarding mode and commanding your ship mode, that's cool as hell
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it's asscreed tradition to start with an unfinished game and then blow everyone away with the followup. i guess i just didnt realize that's what was happening with origins too
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hello I'm the guy interested in an rear end Creed in a long while because it's gonna be an RPG now Is there a write up about the RPG aspects of it so far?
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frajaq posted:hello I'm the guy interested in an rear end Creed in a long while because it's gonna be an RPG now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R62H3xqL3w Also, when you kick bad guys off the boats they can get eaten by sharks!
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