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njsykora posted:Yeah, it's also I think the last one under the old AC style. It was pretty well received if memory serves, though that might've only been because it was following Unity. If I remember correctly Unity made them realize it was bad business to be churning them out so quickly (as in costing them money), so they took their time a bit more with Syndicate while I assume another team built the new engine that they used for Origins and Odyssey.
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Syndicate is very good, it's another rear end Creed in the Ezio Trilogy mould but it's really very well done, I'm about 20% done with Unity and Syndicate is far better, I got up to 99% sync iirc.
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Asscreed Syndicate and Faeria are up for free on EGS now Next weeks game will be InnerSpace
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repiv posted:Asscreed Syndicate and Faeria are up for free on EGS now Syndicate is on the level of Asscreed 2, it’s really good.
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It's also the first game I've seen on EGS to need a second login, as you still need to login to a Uplay account.
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njsykora posted:It's also the first game I've seen on EGS to need a second login, as you still need to login to a Uplay account. Rayman Legends also requires you to login to an ubisoft account.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Syndicate is on the level of Asscreed 2, it’s really good. But is it good without the $30 DLC.
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OgNar posted:But is it good without the $30 DLC. I think the DLC is missions, weapons and outfits. No additions that integrate into the main campaign in such a way that they would be unmissable.
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repiv posted:Next weeks game will be InnerSpace Is that the one where your fly a spaceship inside your computer?
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Inside Martin Short, actually.
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Kerbtree posted:Is that the one where your fly a spaceship inside your computer? That is Operation: Inner Space.
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OgNar posted:But is it good without the $30 DLC. The Jack the Ripper side story? That's pretty inessential.
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zer0spunk posted:ubisoft dlc pricing is wild I bought Syndicate with all the DLC for like $15 on the PS4 two years ago.
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Feb 21, 2020 01:10
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god, I fukken loved this game
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I got the base version of AC: Syndicate free with my graphics card near release and really enjoyed it, got about 50 hours out of it getting to 99% sync. Never bothered with the DLC but the Dreadful Crimes stuff looked interesting (there are a couple taster in the base game), an rear end Creed game at the time was the last place I expected to see murder mysteries where you have to use your head. It's definitely better than Revolutions, 3 and Unity.
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Necrothatcher posted:The Jack the Ripper side story? That's pretty inessential. The Last Majaraja was ok, if not terribly inspired. Crime investigations were terrible on the JtR dlc, so I'm actually glad that the investigation DLC wasn't part of the season pass for some reason.
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I can't imagine ever recommending DLC for a already bloated open world game, as someone who enjoy them.
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Bloated open world game? I hadn’t considered that was possible.
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Syndicate has you going on ghost hunting missions for Charles Dickens and helping out labor activists for Carl Marx, so playing it is basically Praxis. Edit:By "helping out" I mean murdering Capitalists.
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yea but does it have a load of escort missions like usual
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Gamerofthegame posted:yea but does it have a load of escort missions like usual Not that I remember.
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Gamerofthegame posted:yea but does it have a load of escort missions like usual I'm okay with this if I get to escort capitalists to a guillotine.
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KillHour posted:I'm okay with this if I get to escort capitalists to a guillotine. Wouldn't that be the previous game, set in revolutionary France?
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cogito ergo incommo posted:Wouldn't that be the previous game, set in revolutionary France? They hosed that up royally, by making the Templars responsible for the Revolution.. They had an era that basically gave them everything they could need for an interesting story ("What if the Assassins actually achieved a society of freedom and anarchy, but it backfires horribly?") and tossed it all out the window so that you could sulk while hunting down a previous incarnation of David Bowie. That's not a joke, that's literal canon in the lore of this game. Admittedly, it's a pretty cool piece of canon, but still. They also removed the non-lethal options, so you come across as a psychopath who murders the poor to restore balance. EDIT: Like, seriously, the whole period of the Terror should have been a highpoint for the series because it fits the theme so well. For game after game, you're killing people for the greater good and the belief that terrorism against those who force their will upon others will gift the people with the responsibility to make their lives better. Then someone comes and takes that idea to its conclusion, becoming a new tyrant in the proces. It should be a game about the Assassins winning a pyrrhic victory, finally reaching the endgame of their creed (a state of anarchy in which the nothing is true, because the old truths are abandoned, and everything is permitted as the people are free to build their own system out of the ashes of the old) and seeing the whole thing fall apart because people don't need Templars to dick each other over. You could take that story in so many interesting directions, and Unity threw them all out of the window as soon as it got the chance. Play Syndicate, though, because it rules. A Worrying Warlock fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Sobatchja Morda posted:They hosed that up royally, by making the Templars responsible for the Revolution.. They had an era that basically gave them everything they could need for an interesting story ("What if the Assassins actually achieved a society of freedom and anarchy, but it backfires horribly?") and tossed it all out the window so that you could sulk while hunting down a previous incarnation of David Bowie. That's not a joke, that's literal canon in the lore of this game. Admittedly, it's a pretty cool piece of canon, but still. They also removed the non-lethal options, so you come across as a psychopath who murders the poor to restore balance. I never played Unity (because I read a couple reviews), but what the gently caress? My favorite part of Syndicate was slowly stalking through child sweatshops, murdering all the adults, then liberating the children.
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Skwirl posted:I never played Unity (because I read a couple reviews), but what the gently caress? Xander77 fucked around with this message at 11:40 on Feb 23, 2020 |
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Xander77 posted:I wrote a fairly long screed. Full of spoilers, but if you're not going to play the thing anyway... lol what's the five character word you're using in place of "assassin's" when referring to the title that it's censoring? "rear end's"?
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One of these days I'll end up playing the rest of the AC series, but after AC3 went and took no real perspective on the American revolution, with Templars on both sides and doing nothing with Freemasons, it was obvious that the writers didn't have the guts to meaningfully weigh in on important historical events. Connor was just really super into an independent America for no clear reason, which was awkward when his tribe allied with the British since they knew that the independent Americans would not honor border treaties and conditions would worsen a lot with independence, which they did. So it kinda makes sense that they'd retreat further into the past to time periods without presently relevant ideology, which is a shame, since that squanders a fair amount of the freerunning system in eras when people weren't building as tall.
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FFT posted:lol what's the five character word you're using in place of "assassin's" when referring to the title that it's censoring? "rear end's"?
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We got some new stuff today. Black Desert Online is free to keep on Steam if you get it until March 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/582660/Black_Desert_Online/ And Epic's weekly freebie is Inner Space
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SlothfulCobra posted:One of these days I'll end up playing the rest of the AC series, but after AC3 went and took no real perspective on the American revolution, with Templars on both sides and doing nothing with Freemasons, it was obvious that the writers didn't have the guts to meaningfully weigh in on important historical events. Connor was just really super into an independent America for no clear reason, which was awkward when his tribe allied with the British since they knew that the independent Americans would not honor border treaties and conditions would worsen a lot with independence, which they did. We should be grateful for that because it gets real awkward when they do things like declare that Hitler and Stalin used the alien artifacts to hypnotize their countries
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Serperoth posted:Black Desert Online is free to keep on Steam if you get it until March 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/582660/Black_Desert_Online/ we are the bartmen now
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Serperoth posted:Black Desert Online is free to keep on Steam if you get it until March 2: https://store.steampowered.com/app/582660/Black_Desert_Online/
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Xander77 posted:Welp, hope it wasn't anything good, because it's unavailable in my region. it's an MMO that the comments say is very heavily RNG dependent and reliant on the cash shop so no it wasn't
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baka kaba posted:we are the bartmen now disgraced simpsons creator writers in,
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I think the only reason why people even know about it is because of Griffin and Justin doing a Monster Factory with it.
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It is for me and I'm also very surprised it wasn't F2P to begin with.
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You’re surprised they tried to milk initial sales and then microtransactions? That’s the go-to business plan for MMOs for a while now. -Initial cost -Free month to month with premium subscription -Microtransactions -Remove initial cost a couple years down the line to pick up everyone else they can who might make microtransactions.
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