You know, for some reason whenever the whole AA/AAA/AAAA thing pops up related to gaming I can never divorce it from the battery designations. And in an irony, as more A's are found on the battery packet, the smaller the battery is.
Apparently the AAAA game now exists (and Beyond Good & Evil 2 is one?)
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Regardless of anything else, I'm curious as to who was actually demanding that the game become open-world. Wasn't the original a stealth platformer?
But that aside, we seem to be getting into peak insanity with a "AAAA" game. It seems that right now, there's AAA (or now AAAA) games on one hand, mobile games on the other, and increasingly little in-between. Surely Ubisoft has to realize that there's a market for AA games, right? And that they have IPs that would fit into that?
But that aside, we seem to be getting into peak insanity with a "AAAA" game. It seems that right now, there's AAA (or now AAAA) games on one hand, mobile games on the other, and increasingly little in-between. Surely Ubisoft has to realize that there's a market for AA games, right? And that they have IPs that would fit into that?
Didn't Star Wars: The Old Republic cost like 200 million? And that was back in 2011.
I think I also heard the term 'AAAA' already get thrown around back in the PS3/360 era.
I'll say with zero sarcasm that Yakuza 0 probably has some of the best writing of any game I've ever played.
Someone already tried to push that one a few years ago. Can't remember which publisher, but it didn't catch up then.
Open-world is Ubisoft's bread and butter. You can fill it up with busywork grind and then sell "time savers" to let players get to whatever tiny amount of fun still exists in the game.
Sounds to me like a "5th generation fighter aircraft": more marketing trick than reality.
Assuming it didn't hit anything too vital, I'd actually suggest you'd have a much better than evens chance. Whilst not rare, gangrene was a relatively low chance. Permanent impairment (e.g. from poorly set bones and damaged tendons) would have been much more likely.
In terms of torso wounds, cut major blood vessels would be death, no tools to stop someone bleeding out. Anything more than a small wound to the stomach or small intestines, there's a chance a good surgeon might be able to suture it, but generally extremely bad news - peritonitis and almost certain death. (Of course, not many people had access to any surgeon worth the name, never mind a good one.) Liver and spleen are quite robust: can repair and regrow quite well. In the middle, kidneys and stuff: you can get by with only one kidney. Assuming unruptured, your intestines could be shoved back in if they fell out, and you'd have a shot.
There were also anti-infective techniques around in the pre-antibiotic and sanitation era. They often look like weird and stupid recipes, but some are mildly effective. Even with no understanding of germ theory and through random trial and error, they found some things that were an improvement.
I had been led to believe that there's the main story in Y0 and then there's all the wierd-ass side activities like running an Escort Service, singing karaoke or racing toy cars againest kids and they aren't terribly related but it's so much fun nobody really cares. Also apparently in one of the games you punch out a tiger in a fight because why the hell not?
I get the impression it's kind of like a Japanese take on Saints Row(yes, I realize the two probably were developed in parallel, not that Yakuza was copying SR), except trying to take itself a little more seriously.
Plague masks were thought to "dispel miasma", when in fact they accidentally worked by being a fairly effective filter stuffed with plants that had some good antimicrobial properties.
Too bad they wasted Vaas. Don't see him enough. Me personally, the best Far Cry games are Instincts and Crysis 1. The latter is not even published by Ubisoft and made up mostly of former Far Cry 1 devs.
Right now they own about 5 percent of the company, so they've got a ways to go and that 5 percent doesn't get them a seat on the board. Apparently they helped prevent Vivindi from taking over. https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/20/17144094/ubisoft-vivendi-sells-stake-tencent-deal
I honestly don't know if that would have been better or not at this point. I also don't really care either.
I was only really interested in Sassy Creed due to the HIstorical Tourism but Odyssey was way bigger and drawn out than it really needed to be(as much as I adore the Greek setting) and Valhalla looks to be similar but this time with vikings(because nobody has done vikings lately, of course).
With all the shenanigans with the sexual abuse/harassment and the "It's not political" BS, I feel like I'm pretty much done with them. If Valhalla turns out to be something amazing I'll no doubt be tempted but I also feel like I could probably go the rest of my life without new sasssy creeds, especially if they're going to be making these until the end of time.
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Yeah, at this point I'm okay with just playing the Ezio trilogy and Black Flag and leaving the rest of the series, and everything else Ubisoft made as well.
Yes - some plants, muds, etc. actually have antibiotic properties, and seem to have been well recognised and made parts of poultices. Alcoholic preparations of course could also beneficial, although at lower ABV (e.g. wine) probably more due to acidic or antioxidant properties.