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Samtemdo8 said:
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I feel everyone is being to harsh on the new AC or the franchise in general because with the exception of AC Unity they clearly put effort in the games.

I mean what more could you possibly want out of the franchise?
Either something actually different or just for it to go away. Cuz guess what this new Assassin's Creed looks like... more Assassin's Creed. Which is exactly what people got tired of and why Ubisoft supposedly gave the series a year off. But as it stands Ubisoft can't break out of their design philosophy of making every new game just a slightly different combination of the same tired open-world game mechanics.

I was dry-heaving throughout that entire trailer. I longer even have the stomach content to vommit up anything substantial at the thought of a new shitty Ubisoft game.
We went from Medieval Europe, to Pirates, to Victorian England, to Ancient Egypt.

What more do you want!?
If it were up to me, Feudal Japan.
 

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Johnny Novgorod said:
Samtemdo8 said:
Casual Shinji said:
Samtemdo8 said:
I feel everyone is being to harsh on the new AC or the franchise in general because with the exception of AC Unity they clearly put effort in the games.

I mean what more could you possibly want out of the franchise?
Either something actually different or just for it to go away. Cuz guess what this new Assassin's Creed looks like... more Assassin's Creed. Which is exactly what people got tired of and why Ubisoft supposedly gave the series a year off. But as it stands Ubisoft can't break out of their design philosophy of making every new game just a slightly different combination of the same tired open-world game mechanics.

I was dry-heaving throughout that entire trailer. I longer even have the stomach content to vommit up anything substantial at the thought of a new shitty Ubisoft game.
We went from Medieval Europe, to Pirates, to Victorian England, to Ancient Egypt.

What more do you want!?
If it were up to me, Feudal Japan.
Why is Feudal Japan more special than Ancient Egypt?
 

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Why is Feudal Japan more special than Ancient Egypt?
The home of the ninja isn't special enough for you? They could easily play with the classic idea of a ninja, their tool use, assassinations, ancient chinese magic and japanese lore being rewritten as things done with pieces of eden, and if they're creative, maybe it could be interesting...I don't know.

Also, going back as far as ancient Egypt has the chance of limiting gameplay. I can imagine something like going from Far Cry 4 to Primal. The times are so different that one simply can't use the features of the other and you get less game for it.
 

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That Assassin's Creed preview made me feel ill as soon as numbers started popping up over NPC's heads.

Gosh, isn't it funny how they always show actual assassination missions instead of the commuting and icon hunting that makes up 90% of the real game.

Anthem looked pretty and scripted and absolutely nothing else. Aaaaand they did that cringe-inducing Ubisoft thing where people pretend to be having totes fo' realz multiplayer banter.
 

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Samtemdo8 said:
We went from Medieval Europe, to Pirates, to Victorian England, to Ancient Egypt.

What more do you want!?
Something new.

And no, a different skin on top of the same gameplay we've had for nearly ten years does not constitute something new.
 

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DaCosta said:
Samtemdo8 said:
We went from Medieval Europe, to Pirates, to Victorian England, to Ancient Egypt.

What more do you want!?
Something new.

And no, a different skin on top of the same gameplay we've had for nearly ten years does not constitute something new.
What possible new gameplay features can you think of?
 

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To answer Sam's questions, "familiarity breeds contempt." That's something that generally holds true. And from what I can tell, it seems to be a repetition of not only AC, but also Ubisoft's open-world formula as a whole.

That said, I've only ever played a bit of the first AC games, read some of the novels and seen the movie, so I'm neutral about it.
 

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Samtemdo8 said:
DaCosta said:
Samtemdo8 said:
We went from Medieval Europe, to Pirates, to Victorian England, to Ancient Egypt.

What more do you want!?
Something new.

And no, a different skin on top of the same gameplay we've had for nearly ten years does not constitute something new.
What possible new gameplay features can you think of?
Assassinations would be nice.
 

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Samtemdo8 said:
DaCosta said:
Samtemdo8 said:
We went from Medieval Europe, to Pirates, to Victorian England, to Ancient Egypt.

What more do you want!?
Something new.

And no, a different skin on top of the same gameplay we've had for nearly ten years does not constitute something new.
What possible new gameplay features can you think of?
I don't want more features. It already has too many features as it is, what it needs is to focus and do at least one of them right.

The game has platforming, but you just hold two buttons and point to where you want to go and the game does the actual platforming for you. The game has swordfights, but it's full of instant kill counters, and automatic chain kills, or good old-fashioned just mash attack till they're dead. It has stealth, but there's barely any actual stealth oriented tools and gameplay to it, beyond interminable tailing missions, and to reiterate, combat is so piss easy that it can be actually less time consuming to just run in and kill everyone than to try and make the stealth work.

I rather play a game with one gameplay feature done well, than one with a thousand done poorly.
 

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Hawki said:
That said, I've only ever played a bit of the first AC games, read some of the novels and seen the movie, so I'm neutral about it.
I'm pretty sure that's more than most people can say. Although I guess I'm in the same boat, I read practically all the Halo novels before even touching my first Halo game (and ended up hating it).

OT: Anthem looks amazing. But that's the problem, it only looks amazing. This strafe-in-circles, open area, jump around-y shooting ala-Mass Effect Andromeda is just tiring. The world does look interesting though and the graphics are incredible, but between the gameplay and the coop nature of it, I'm not sold.

AssCreed Whateveritisnow looks pretty shit. It looks exactly the same, except in Egypt which is undeniably cool. But the stealth looks exactly the same, the parkour isn't nearly as interesting as it was years ago, and the combat looks worse. That last bit in the gameplay demo with arrow was fucking hilarious.

The Last Night looks amazing, but it's not really my thing.

Crackdown 3... Oh dear.

Everything else in Microsoft's show were games we already knew were coming out and some other stuff that I have zero interest in.

In my opinion, Sony is going to have to work real hard to fuck up after EA and Microsoft's shows.
 

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You know looking at the new Wolfenstein trailer I still think its a damn shame they killed off Jimi Hendrix
 

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Paid mods are back and the dislikes are rolling in. Looks like the porn modders has their newest Patreonesque cash cow given my previous experience with adult game development.
 

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Zhukov said:
Anthem looked pretty and scripted and absolutely nothing else. Aaaaand they did that cringe-inducing Ubisoft thing where people pretend to be having totes fo' realz multiplayer banter.
What you don't talk to your multiplayer team mates like a bored HR rep doing an orientation for new employees?

The Anthem gameplay just kind of looks like they recycled Andromeda into an MP thing (beyond the bit it already had). Identical jump jet animation and everything,
 

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The new Wolfenstein looks pretty good, although I hope they don't turn into Team America too much. I look forward to seeing Blowjob get his ass kicked in increasingly more fucked up ways.
 

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New Wolfenstein looks pretty bad. Looks exact same as new order. and look another game announced with release date few month later. no more extra development time.

Now look at Metro Exodus. its a deep ambitious project and its getting release by the end of next year to make sure it will be masterpiece.

machinegames just change the entire theme of wolfenstein game. now look at music. RTCW has one of the GOAT soundtrack and feel like badass. not this some shitty 60s songs with more and more cinematic and scripted events.