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Doctor Spaceman posted:I just found out they wrapped up the Juno plotline of Assassin's Creed (which was the main modern day bit at the very end of AC3 and all of AC4, Unity and Syndicate) in a loving comic. I looked this up out of sheer curiosity a few weeks ago and was genuinely stunned. What on earth kind of mismanagement was going on here
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What the gently caress? I was one of the dozens of people who actually liked that plot! Got spoilers for it?
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Nov 16, 2018 02:20
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OutOfPrint posted:What the gently caress? I was one of the dozens of people who actually liked that plot! Not empty quoting
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Nov 16, 2018 02:39
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OutOfPrint posted:What the gently caress? I was one of the dozens of people who actually liked that plot! The wiki has a pretty detailed recap of the comic storyline, but it also follows on from some of the other comics and spinoff stuff (eg the Koh-i-noor). The really, really short summary is that Juno uses the Shroud to make a new body for herself and she gets killed when the Assassins and Templars team up. Also Desmond's son is a Sage and now has the Koh-i-Noor.
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Nov 16, 2018 06:08
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That's the only reason I played the first 3 (5) games! Holy poo poo that's awfully and kills all motivation to continue.
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Nov 16, 2018 07:04
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Ubisoft has very clearly had no idea what the gently caress they were doing with the modern day plotline right from the first game. Which is why AC1 is all "Hey, the Templars are going to use a Piece of Eden to create mind control satellites" and the Ezio Trilogy/3 are "THE SUN IS GOING TO EXPLODE". Did those mind control satellites ever get resolved?
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Nov 16, 2018 07:16
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Still out there, controlling everyone's minds.
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Nov 16, 2018 07:24
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IIRC the sun didn't explode.
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The Lone Badger posted:IIRC the sun didn't explode. Desmond sacrificed himself to stop the solar flare which had the terrible consequence of releasing the terrible sealed evil who proceeded to body swap into a bacta tank and get shot in the head in a comic spinoff
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Nov 16, 2018 11:40
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I haven't played Odyssey yet, but are they still doing the extremely basic "You're playing an Abstergo game" metafictional wrapper or have they even ditched that? I assume there's no actual present day gameplay anymore.
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Nov 16, 2018 12:41
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Necrothatcher posted:I haven't played Odyssey yet, but are they still doing the extremely basic "You're playing an Abstergo game" metafictional wrapper or have they even ditched that? I assume there's no actual present day gameplay anymore. Actually there is, like in Origins there are few sequences in which you play the woman who uses a portable Animus to relive history and find alien stuff. I think since Origins she and her team went rogue and Abstergo is chasing them?
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Nov 16, 2018 13:01
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orcane posted:Actually there is, like in Origins there are few sequences in which you play the woman who uses a portable Animus to relive history and find alien stuff. I think since Origins she and her team went rogue and Abstergo is chasing them? For gently caress's sake. This stuff is actively putting me off the series at this point. Is the modern day stuff at least skippable/short?
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Nov 16, 2018 13:06
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Necrothatcher posted:For gently caress's sake. This stuff is actively putting me off the series at this point. Is the modern day stuff at least skippable/short? It's like 10 minutes in a game with hundreds of hours of content.
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Nov 16, 2018 13:14
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kazil posted:It's like 10 minutes in a game with hundreds of hours of content. Okay good - I just had visions of slowly trudging around an office block reading people's emails again.
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Nov 16, 2018 13:22
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I love that the follow-up to a game called "Origins" is a prequel.
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Nov 16, 2018 13:43
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I love that the follow-up to a game called "Origins" is a prequel. Just give it five years. Origins will be the seventh game in the series' chronological history before you know it.
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Nov 16, 2018 14:05
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RareAcumen posted:Just give it five years. Origins will be the seventh game in the series' chronological history before you know it. Assassin's Creed Primal confirmed
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Nov 16, 2018 14:15
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Can't wait for the Creed game where you play as a dinosaur.
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Nov 16, 2018 14:21
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I love that the follow-up to a game called "Origins" is a prequel. Assasins Creed Revalations contained no Revalations. And only one (botched) assassination. Lots of Creed though I think
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Nov 16, 2018 14:31
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Assasins Creed Revalations contained no Revalations. And only one (botched) assassination. It did, the revelation was that all of Ezio's life was basically a way for the ancient aliens to convey a message to Desmond which amounted to "hang in there baby"
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Sunswipe posted:Can't wait for the Creed game where you play as a dinosaur. i want a cutscene where a t-rex tries unsuccessfully to use a wrist blade with its tiny arms
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Nov 16, 2018 15:02
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Necrothatcher posted:For gently caress's sake. This stuff is actively putting me off the series at this point. Is the modern day stuff at least skippable/short? There are 3 modern day sequences in a game that can take 100 hours to beat, all of them adding up to about 15 minutes altogether if I'm being generous. Currently Ubisoft is in the process of trying to ghost the Assassin's Creed metaplot altogether. Pretty soon they won't respond to their texts at all.
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Nov 16, 2018 15:06
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I love that the follow-up to a game called "Origins" is a prequel. While the trailer for Rayman Origins showed a scene of the main character being created, not only didn't the scene make it into the game, but it was the latest chronological entry the series.
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Nov 16, 2018 15:20
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I love that the follow-up to a game called "Origins" is a prequel. Wait how does the Peloponnesian war come before ancient Egypt? (Please excuse my ignorance I haven't played either game yet)
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Nov 16, 2018 15:30
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Oblique Angle posted:Wait how does the Peloponnesian war come before ancient Egypt? (Please excuse my ignorance I haven't played either game yet) Origins wasn't Ancient Egypt. It was Egypt when Cleopatra and Caesar were around.
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Nov 16, 2018 15:34
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Oblique Angle posted:Wait how does the Peloponnesian war come before ancient Egypt? (Please excuse my ignorance I haven't played either game yet) Origins takes place in Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 40 CE), the Pelopponesian War took place from ~431-422 BCE. What we commonly refer to as "Ancient Egypt" existed for thousands and thousands of years. The most famously cited factoid is that Cleopatra lived closer to our time than the building of the Great Pyramids.
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Nov 16, 2018 15:35
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exquisite tea posted:There are 3 modern day sequences in a game that can take 100 hours to beat, all of them adding up to about 15 minutes altogether if I'm being generous. All three of those modern sequences involve platforming or stealth killing, too, so you're actually doing assassin stuff instead of slowly trudging around an office with a French Canadian in a turtleneck throwing plot at you.
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Nov 16, 2018 15:39
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Lunchmeat Larry posted:Desmond sacrificed himself to stop the solar flare which had the terrible consequence of releasing the terrible sealed evil who proceeded to body swap into a bacta tank and get shot in the head in a comic spinoff Technically he didn't stop the solar flare, he simply killed himself to use alien tech to shield the world from it. Would've been a fitting end to the series, tbh. Just finished reading the comic, can't believe the finished off an 8-game series' overarching plot with a 12-issue comic. Like, if I was someone who actually followed the games, I'd be fuckin' annoyed as hell.
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Thanks for the Odyssey info.Sunswipe posted:Can't wait for the Creed game where you play as a dinosaur. I would unironically slam down a pre-order if that happened with realistic dinosaurs.
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exquisite tea posted:Origins takes place in Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 40 CE), the Pelopponesian War took place from ~431-422 BCE. What we commonly refer to as "Ancient Egypt" existed for thousands and thousands of years. The most famously cited factoid is that Cleopatra lived closer to our time than the building of the Great Pyramids. Also, Cleopatra didn't speak Egyptian, she spoke Greek.
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Nov 16, 2018 18:58
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Schubalts posted:Thanks for the Odyssey info. Pretend I posted a screenshot from Trespasser here 
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In our world of endlessly repurposed nostalgia I cannot BELIEVE nobody has seriously attempted to reboot Trespasser. It's the perfect embodiment of a great idea that came way too early.
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Nov 16, 2018 19:09
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Cythereal posted:Also, Cleopatra Let's not mince words.
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Cythereal posted:Also, Cleopatra didn't speak Egyptian, she spoke Greek. She actually spoke both. She one of the only Ptolemaic monarchs to actually do so and it was a part of why they called her "the new is is".
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Cythereal posted:Also, Cleopatra didn't speak Egyptian, she spoke Greek. If movies and video games have taught me anything Greek and Latin are just English with a British accent. Schubalts posted:I would unironically slam down a pre-order if that happened with realistic dinosaurs. If and when we get an antediluvian AC that takes place in Isu times we better get rideable dinosaurs. I want to assassinate an ancient alien with a loving triceratops, Ubisoft!
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OutOfPrint posted:If and when we get an antediluvian AC that takes place in Isu times we better get rideable dinosaurs. I want to assassinate an ancient alien with a loving triceratops, Ubisoft! I, too, want another Turok game.
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OutOfPrint posted:If movies and video games have taught me anything Greek and Latin are just English with a British accent. And Egyptians are just Europeans with a little bit of smoky eye.
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RyokoTK posted:I, too, want another Turok game. I want a modern Rage Wars so bad.
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orcane posted:Actually there is, like in Origins there are few sequences in which you play the woman who uses a portable Animus to relive history and find alien stuff. I think since Origins she and her team went rogue and Abstergo is chasing them? She has a laptop where you can read about all the metaplot stuff, or ignore it as you please. I thought that was clever.
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Does the laptop have Codex entries? Because poo poo, I really needed those, I know jack poo poo of ancient history.
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