@Old_Hunter_77, it's another how AC should be better video. How should it better Easy Allies? How should it be better Easy Allies?!
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The Thread where I air my grievances with the Assassins' Creed series SPOILERS EVERYWHERE
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Maybe I'll listen to it later but lemme just guess:
- It should have more interesting exploration, not just map markers where you press a button to chase the blue icon (insert reference to Elden Ring or Kingdom Come Deliverance or Indian Jones).
- It should have better combat because of (whatever games are considered to have good combat, I lost track) or less combat because it's AssCreed should be about sneaking around.
- It should be like Hitman, using the environment more.
- Bloat open world ubisoft formula handholding icons checklist engaging (gotta cover those SEO gamer journo words!)
I hadn't watched everything yet either, but the lady in the middle said she wants thr mini map back
Given the cycle of nostalgia, how long until Ubisoft formula open world handholding icon games are popular again? Currently I'd say we're in the klugy janky brown-era PS2->Skyrim nostalgia phase, a day I didn't think I'd ever see, so maybe like 5 years until Immortals Fenyx Rising will be get a remaster and be hailed as the good ol' days of gaming?
PS1 and PS2 era, but without the brown. Seeing the indie trends recently. The closest so far to brown was Evil West, but that has way more color than a majority of seven generation games of that ilk. It is more of a 360/PS3 throwback. Gungrave GORE and HF RUSH are 6th PS2 throwbacks you're looking at.
If remakes count, Resident Evil 4 is very brown, at least in the Village. Turns to grey in the Island, but the Castle has a fair bit of color to it. So they got that much right.
Brown is as much as state of mind as a color palette.
Dragon's Dogma Again, Indiana Jones and the Circle of Trends, a game that just came out whose name I already forget except I know it starts with an A and looks like Skyrim, and Kingdom Come On Delivery Me From First Person Survival Mechanics Too all look like "brown" games to me.
Dragon's Dogma Again, Indiana Jones and the Circle of Trends, a game that just came out whose name I already forget except I know it starts with an A and looks like Skyrim, and Kingdom Come On Delivery Me From First Person Survival Mechanics Too all look like "brown" games to me.
The island has a lot of blue when outside. Brown when you're in the cave sections, but there is still a distinct art style to them.
That still has plenty of color. It's really only brown in the early segments. Dynsaty Warriors Origins is actually colorful, while only having brown areas in the early levels. Indiana Jones still has you explore lush green jungles at some point. Ninja Gaiden II Black is a remake of 360 from 2008, that was and still is more colorful than the game which were out at the time. II Black has the same amount of color as the original ,but better lighting and shading. The closest the game ever gets to brown in either versions, is this one boss section in the Underworld fighting Volf (INVINCIBLE RULER OF STORMS!!!). You're there for like 5 minutes tops.
Ninja Gaiden 4 has even more color and neon going for it.
BTW, back to Shadows:
The reason that I say "brown" is a state of mind more than a color palette is precisely because I wasn't talking about actual color.
Basically I was thinking about jank, and a sort of charming kluginess that marked the late PS1 to early PS3 years. That feeling of trying to walk around a mountain and it looks like you can climb it but you can't except sometimes you can if press spacebar enough? Or where there would be a day/night cycle but it wasn't always consistent. Where you would get arrested for accidentally stepping on a cat in one part of town because the movement is so janky but then you can just loot the local lord's throne room in front of guards and no one cared.
And at the time we were cool with it because, hey, that's how video games are, it's pushing technical boundaries, we're all figuring this out. Or we'd just have fun breaking it, using mods, messing around.
That is brown to me.
But then AAA games got technically better and I got older and that's no longer charming or interesting to me. For the same reason I don't want to go back to 420s TV resolution or rewinding tapes.
Except hearing people talk about and seeing clips of the games I mentioned- man, they seem so "brown."
Anyway, I listed to Easy Allies and after the lady mentioned wanting minimaps and being a video game garbageman (cleaning up open world checklist stuff, a term I like and am gonna use now), she made an excellent point about the positive value of AC games being like this, expressed better than when I've made a similar point:
For many gamers, it's like the only non-sports game they're gonna play every once or twice a year. It's comforting, it's a predictable level of quality, and it's something we can play for like a year and then every couple of years there's another one in a different setting which is cool.
Huber did good explaining the title of the video and he's right I'm sure about its limitations and I'm also not surprised. He is not the only one to criticize the story, characters, quest design, and voice acting. And I expected this because Mirage was sorely lacking in this. It's why I'm waiting a while to play it. I just cannot justify paying full price for it if- as he and many are calling out- every quest is just "go here kill that" and the assassinations aren't of interesting characters or with cool set pieces.
Basically I was thinking about jank, and a sort of charming kluginess that marked the late PS1 to early PS3 years. That feeling of trying to walk around a mountain and it looks like you can climb it but you can't except sometimes you can if press spacebar enough? Or where there would be a day/night cycle but it wasn't always consistent. Where you would get arrested for accidentally stepping on a cat in one part of town because the movement is so janky but then you can just loot the local lord's throne room in front of guards and no one cared.
And at the time we were cool with it because, hey, that's how video games are, it's pushing technical boundaries, we're all figuring this out. Or we'd just have fun breaking it, using mods, messing around.
That is brown to me.
But then AAA games got technically better and I got older and that's no longer charming or interesting to me. For the same reason I don't want to go back to 420s TV resolution or rewinding tapes.
Except hearing people talk about and seeing clips of the games I mentioned- man, they seem so "brown."
Anyway, I listed to Easy Allies and after the lady mentioned wanting minimaps and being a video game garbageman (cleaning up open world checklist stuff, a term I like and am gonna use now), she made an excellent point about the positive value of AC games being like this, expressed better than when I've made a similar point:
For many gamers, it's like the only non-sports game they're gonna play every once or twice a year. It's comforting, it's a predictable level of quality, and it's something we can play for like a year and then every couple of years there's another one in a different setting which is cool.
Huber did good explaining the title of the video and he's right I'm sure about its limitations and I'm also not surprised. He is not the only one to criticize the story, characters, quest design, and voice acting. And I expected this because Mirage was sorely lacking in this. It's why I'm waiting a while to play it. I just cannot justify paying full price for it if- as he and many are calling out- every quest is just "go here kill that" and the assassinations aren't of interesting characters or with cool set pieces.
420p CRT TVs have a niche use actually, some pixel art games from that era were drawn to look "right" when displayed on a CRT, so if you wanna play those games, you'll actually get more out of them playing them on an old tv like that.
I find that a lot of issues with pixel art looking 'bad' can also be fixed by lowering the display resolution without having to apply a CRT filter, or buy a CRT TV on Ebay and receive a box of packing peanuts. Maybe not to the same extent as the CRT but it's better than nothing.
Welp, Biatch Musk is weighing in on his opinion, still trying score "gamer cred". The AC Shadows account claps back. The same is with Grummz too. The grifters really can't handle the truth and the success of a game where two non-white leads are the main characters.
Lowering resolution fixes the sprite art looking overly pixelated, but not other aspects. It's definitely better than nothing though.
And hey, if you have a cat, they love jumping in those peanuts. It's like those ball pens for little kids or something, but feline.
Well its an Ubisoft open world game so it likely is complely mediocre. Those games are the quintesencial 6 to 7/10 games. Which actually isn't too bad. They won't set your world on fire but they're a great fall back option during release draughts.
I'd say u/BrawlMan is being generous. Yahtzee f'n hates this game, and of course he does. Not only is it mediocre ("bland" is his favorite descriptor) but a complete waste of time for a reviewer interested in new game ideas and narrative driven experiences. And it's like 80 hours or whatever.
That's why I've argued that other than reporting on game technical performance in the service of consumer protection, reviewing AC games is like reviewing Madden games- pointless. Unless one day something really egregious or remarkable happens with one of them.
Oh, are the egg rolls at PF Changs a little oily? Well you kind of knew what you were getting yourself into when you were tempted by the ample parking, didn't you?
@NerfedFalcon, @Old_Hunter_77, @CriticalGaming, and @hanselcaretaker2,
It looks like Ubisoft will be sticking around a lot longer.
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It looks like Ubisoft will be sticking around a lot longer.
Ubisoft and Tencent are forming a new company that will take control of its most successful franchises: Assassin's Creed, Far Cry, and Rainbow Six
Tencent will be a minority shareholder in the new venture, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2025.
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