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Sheivor is played by Cecilie Stenspil who's a great actress but she seems to have received direction to use a gruff and raspy voice which makes the performance feel extremely one-note and non-expressive imo. I much prefer her natural speaking voice. https://youtu.be/O1zRxAFbj5U
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PerilPastry posted:Sheivor is played by Cecilie Stenspil who's a great actress but she seems to have received direction to use a gruff and raspy voice which makes the performance feel extremely one-note and non-expressive imo. I much prefer her natural speaking voice. isn't it because she had her throat ripped open by a wolf as a child
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Jul 16, 2021 15:28
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I put the game into animus mode for the gender select and the forced ~gruff~ voice for sheivor got annoying after the second bit of dialogue so I think I'll switch to heivor for now
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Jul 16, 2021 18:41
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Heivor is an incredibly Nordic man. A voice and accent that feels authentic to a paradox multiplayer game or an Eve online op.
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Jul 16, 2021 18:51
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Eivor Varinsdottir is a lady. That's all I need to know. Let the Animus choose.
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Jul 16, 2021 19:01
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Sheivor superiority, IMO
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Jul 17, 2021 01:22
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I've given sheivor another chance because Heivor was too mumbly, and she's actually grown on me. Also is it just my lovely TV or is this game dark as balls? Is this just what HDR is like? I had to crank up the exposure heals to see pretty much anything indoors.
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Jul 18, 2021 01:31
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bike tory posted:I've given sheivor another chance because Heivor was too mumbly, and she's actually grown on me. It looked fine to me but I had calibrated HDR through my PS5 and then dicked with the in-game HDR stuff too. Probably depends on your tv as well. HDR can darken the overall image in some cases but the result is intended to be darker darks, brighter whites, and deeper more accurate color.
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Jul 18, 2021 02:13
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I'm playing Black Flag again. This is still the best one.
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Jul 18, 2021 02:20
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Lady Eivor changes drastically between Norway and England. It's like they recorded the VO for those parts of the game like a year apart and gave completely different direction. Her performance is basically what Geralt would be if he were a woman.
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Jul 18, 2021 04:06
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Jimbot posted:Lady Eivor changes drastically between Norway and England. It's like they recorded the VO for those parts of the game like a year apart and gave completely different direction. Her performance is basically what Geralt would be if he were a woman. Ah, that explains it. I made the switch to Heivor when I set off to England. Makes sense dev cycle wise.
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Jul 18, 2021 04:08
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Vince MechMahon posted:I'm playing Black Flag again. This is still the best one. Try Rogue next if you haven't already. A lot of people missed it but it's basically Black Flag standalone expansion.
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Jul 18, 2021 05:55
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(accidental doubleposting)
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Jul 18, 2021 08:34
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Playing Unity the first time and it's so good even though the movements are clunky and the map is cluttered with pointless little missions. Paris just feels right and not being able to climb everywhere or kill everyone easily makes figuring out your routes matter.
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I second the recommendation of trying Rogue if you, like most of the people me included, skipped it originally. The story outside Animus is hilariously useless and actually ends with a sort of self-aware joke about it. However, the game play, map and overall length is really good, balanced and well-adjusted, and it does not overstay it's welcome by padding up the story missions too much.
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Jul 18, 2021 18:34
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Thirding rogue; in a lot of ways, it's just a palette-swapped black flag, but black flag owned, so I don't mind
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Jul 18, 2021 19:03
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I launch AC Origins from Ubi Connect. It launches it as a steam app. Which then launches it as an ubi connect game.
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Jul 19, 2021 11:50
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Rogue's really good but it might be a bit much playing it straight after Black Flag.
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Jul 19, 2021 12:12
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bike tory posted:Also is it just my lovely TV or is this game dark as balls? Is this just what HDR is like? I had to crank up the exposure heals to see pretty much anything indoors. I don't find it too dark, but man, it's almost impossible for me to see the markers on the map. A little white glowing spot on a white map? I guess it's supposed to be hard to find, but this is just silly.
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Zombie Dachshund posted:I don't find it too dark, but man, it's almost impossible for me to see the markers on the map. A little white glowing spot on a white map? I guess it's supposed to be hard to find, but this is just silly. Yeah that was a questionable design choice for me. I guess they were trying to avoid making the map look too cluttered with icons before you explore it, but I think they overcompensated a little.
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Assassin's Creed maps have always been awful. I remember AC3 and its blue-on-blue map (terra incognita was a differently textured blue, and you had to hunt down patches of it for an achievement). Then for Black Fgag one of the first teaser images had a vey legible red-on-yellow minimap that got me all hot and bothered. For the release they went back to blue-on-blue.
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ilitarist posted:Try Rogue next if you haven't already. A lot of people missed it but it's basically Black Flag standalone expansion. I played a bit of it (got the two pack thing with the remaster on Switch) and the setting is just so boring that I couldn't get into it.
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Fair enough. Those games are all about the setting. If it couldn't grab you then there's no point in continuing.
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Any combat advice for Valhalla? I'm playing on the hardest difficulty which in the other rear end Creed games of this generation I've found challenging but manageable, but I'm getting my rear end kicked here. Ill probably just drop the difficulty if this keeps up but I'm wondering if there's something to the combat that hasn't clicked with me yet. Also any particular skills I should beeline? The skill trees are dauntingly large and hard to explore.
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bike tory posted:Any combat advice for Valhalla? I'm playing on the hardest difficulty which in the other rear end Creed games of this generation I've found challenging but manageable, but I'm getting my rear end kicked here. Ill probably just drop the difficulty if this keeps up but I'm wondering if there's something to the combat that hasn't clicked with me yet. Play it like dark souls not Assassins Creed.
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Jul 19, 2021 19:34
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Dodging slowing time is king. Power attack and throwing axes are good too.
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bike tory posted:Any combat advice for Valhalla? I'm playing on the hardest difficulty which in the other rear end Creed games of this generation I've found challenging but manageable, but I'm getting my rear end kicked here. Ill probably just drop the difficulty if this keeps up but I'm wondering if there's something to the combat that hasn't clicked with me yet. I too played them all on the highest difficulty setting and found Valhalla the easiest. Early on you might have some problems if you don't have enough food, so my advice is to run around and consume mushrooms from the ground when it gets dangerous. Another big difference is that bow is basically not a separate playstyle but part of your melee combos: to get down a stronger enemy you either use a special ability or shoot them in weak spots and then execute.
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bike tory posted:Also any particular skills I should beeline? The skill trees are dauntingly large and hard to explore. there's one that lets you do one hit assassinations regardless of enemy level which is essential if you are into stealth at all also one lets you double wield any two weapons in the game, there are many combinations of which that transform you into a killing machine. two 2h swords was my favorite but the hammer/flail combo and double hammer are also great also the one where you pick up swords off the ground and throw them is cool Earwicker fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Jul 20, 2021 |
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The dual-wield 2h trait also lets you equip a shield & two-handed weapon at the same time, which expands your arsenal options without taking away your shield, if you're a sword & board-liker. And if you're true freak, you can dual wield shields
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bike tory posted:Any combat advice for Valhalla? I'm playing on the hardest difficulty which in the other rear end Creed games of this generation I've found challenging but manageable, but I'm getting my rear end kicked here. Ill probably just drop the difficulty if this keeps up but I'm wondering if there's something to the combat that hasn't clicked with me yet. I like shooting things, so my top skills have been the one that lets the raven loot enemies you shoot, and the one that makes arrows always lootable back off enemies once they're dead (only seems to keep 1-2 arrows per corpse though, even if you've butchered it and shot ten into them).
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https://twitter.com/assassinscreed/status/1417153423649255426?s=21
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Jul 20, 2021 14:01
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Sudden update for Odyssey? Can't wait!
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Looks like Siege of Paris trophies have been added so that should be releasing within the next few weeks.
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Without necessarily spoiling anything or whatever I'm playing through Odyssey having finished origins and might get valhalla on a sale but are they still insisting on yanking you out of the cool poo poo into a dumb modern day plot with all the timing of a saturday morning cartoon commercial break?
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fast cars loose anus posted:Without necessarily spoiling anything or whatever I'm playing through Odyssey having finished origins and might get valhalla on a sale but are they still insisting on yanking you out of the cool poo poo into a dumb modern day plot with all the timing of a saturday morning cartoon commercial break? Yeah
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fast cars loose anus posted:Without necessarily spoiling anything or whatever I'm playing through Odyssey having finished origins and might get valhalla on a sale but are they still insisting on yanking you out of the cool poo poo into a dumb modern day plot with all the timing of a saturday morning cartoon commercial break? Yeah although I think it was noticeably less this time around
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I guess at this point it would be more surprising if they finally stopped that but I had to check. Thanks.
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Jul 21, 2021 07:12
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They basically did stop for Unity and Syndicate, it was Origins that started having playable modern day stuff again.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:They basically did stop for Unity and Syndicate, it was Origins that started having playable modern day stuff again. I haven't played Unity but I definitely think the Layla trilogy approach of 'read some emails and maybe have a five minute action setpiece near the end' is better than the weird POV cutscenes of a guy watching security footage of Shaun and Rebecca? For some reason? Both are better than the extremely lengthy, combat heavy modern day pieces of the Desmond era though
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Wolfsheim posted:I haven't played Unity but I definitely think the Layla trilogy approach of 'read some emails and maybe have a five minute action setpiece near the end' is better than the weird POV cutscenes of a guy watching security footage of Shaun and Rebecca? For some reason? Agreed. Odyssey DLC ending with melee fight against Otso, big bad templar enforcer that was advertised since Rogue. Five games. Five games later he finally shows up to beat you and he's alone and carries a stick. Unity and Syndicate are even dumber though. I don't think anything had even happened in Unity modern day. They searched for something in Arno's memories and... didn't find it. That's it. You can skip that game, dear fans of modern day plot.
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