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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 8, 2014 2:13:36 GMT 1
Who else HYPED for this? I can't wait to climb on Paris's most iconic landmarks, like the Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Sept 8, 2014 5:50:48 GMT 1
Assassin's creed burned me out when they changed Lucy's character to a Templar with unadvertised DLC, then doubled down on it with the mind-fuck that was III.
I bought black flag on the steam sale because it was a deal, but I still haven't installed it yet.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 8, 2014 6:27:28 GMT 1
Black Flag might actually be my favourite of the series. It took the fantastic naval combat of III, and based most of the game around it, making it way more seamless, fun and deep. Also, the characters are fun and very well-acted, especially the protagonist.
One of the best things is it also has practically none of the overbearing hand-holding ACIII had. You set sail out into the open world, free to do nearly anything as soon as you want pretty early on, and most of the missions, especially the assassinations, are more open-ended.
I also loved how they changed the modern day stuff from a Da Vinci Code ripoff to a brilliant satire of video games/developers/Ubisoft themselves.
But yeah, I was being a bit sarcastic when I made this thread. I'm not really feeling Unity. It seems quite soulless and uninspired. The "Women-are-too-hard-to-animate" thing and the English accents are also killing it for me. Plus, pic above is ridiculous.
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Sept 8, 2014 7:29:36 GMT 1
So these exclusive pants have in-built jetpacks?
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Post by jklinders on Sept 8, 2014 10:20:44 GMT 1
If there are pants that increase speed, why do we not see people wearing them in sporting events? Seems like a pretty useful thing.
As far as pre-order campaigns go this one is pants.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Sept 8, 2014 10:55:19 GMT 1
Given the setting, it would have been more appropriate if you got an upgrade that increased the speed with which you got into other people's pants.
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Post by Cali on Sept 8, 2014 11:21:56 GMT 1
Syphilis would make you slower, though. It'd also make enemies flee a lot more.
That'd be awesome: The Syphilis DLC. Instill fear into the hearts of enemies and potential lovers alike. Only the most hardy and determined of assassins may qualify!
Count LaDavies of Lorraine: "No, I want to live!" *Runs away, and Templar chase ensues*
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Post by Tillian Panthesis on Sept 8, 2014 11:27:41 GMT 1
Well, that's one way to put a spanner in the Templar's wheel. Much more effective than their infinity plus one pants offer.
Repose en paix.
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 8, 2014 12:46:49 GMT 1
Liar, liar pants on fire indeed...
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Post by Cali on Sept 8, 2014 20:28:29 GMT 1
Zing!
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Post by Warhammer Gorvar on Sept 8, 2014 22:36:27 GMT 1
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all night. Please tip your waitress and drive home safely. Except Buch, you can go crash in a ditch. Limey bastard.
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Post by Mr. Glow on Nov 13, 2014 3:44:24 GMT 1
This is really interesting/sickening. Unity's probably the first AC game (including the obviously unfinished, poorly designed and just not very fun AC3) to be getting such bad reviews. Apparently, Ubisoft miscalculated, because it turns out most gamers aren't such big fans of microtransactions, needing to play a companion app to unlock in game content, and being kept in the dark about major technical faults until after they've bought the game.
I do find it darkly hilarious that AC:Rogue, the last-gen cash-in, that rehashes not one but two of the previous games, and was developed in ten months, is being far more well-received than Unity, Ubisoft's flagship "Next-gen starts here!" game.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Nov 13, 2014 7:38:23 GMT 1
Just read a review that hints they might be worse than EA this year, what with the fallout over watchdogs & this!
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Post by Mr. Glow on Nov 13, 2014 8:08:25 GMT 1
I may agree with that. I'm probably forgetting some stuff, but I think EA have kind of more been skulking in the shadows this year. They seem to have done alright with Inquisition, giving Bioware time and not having an extremely douchey post-release embargo like Unity.
Ubisoft on the other hand... Between Watch_Dogs and Unity, they just can't seem to not fuck up. Also they didn't announce BG&E2 at E3, which broke my heart.
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Post by jklinders on Nov 13, 2014 11:29:50 GMT 1
Ubi has made a lot of missteps.
One of their engineers is alleged to have out and out said at a meet and greet in a programming class that they were being influenced into artificially imposing parity between the xbone and the other platforms in terms of frames per second caps (please take with a big grain of salt as the source for that was a reddit blog called, I shit you not Glorious PC Gaming Master Race), they have been stupid enough to try to tell hardcore PC gamers (of which I am not one as I cannot use my machine to calculate the last digit of PI like theirs likely can) that frames per second are not important and no one really cares about whether they are more than 30 or not. These same engineers were alleged to have claimed that features were out and out cut out of Watch Dogs to appease one of the platforms. Those were the less histrionic allegations shared by that blog.
Ubi's game client has finally pissed me off tot eh point that I am disgusted with the need to use it to launch a game. It takes colossal fuckups to make a client even less user friendly than Origin but gosh darn if they did not pull it off. I didn't even know about the micro transactions or the need of a second game to unlock content. Whoever added that shit needs to be kicked in the crotch until there is nothing left but mush there.
EA has come across in the past as shatteringly incompetent but not necessarily hands in your pocket greedy like this. This is approaching Activision's "buy our CoD map packs at $15.00 a pop" greedy. It's a fucking shame as Ubi used to be a pretty good go to company when it came to some of the Sim games I like. though they have been fucking those up pretty badly too. they need to get their house in order before they see another cent from me.
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