HaitianDivorce posted:

Shay starts off with facial hair like the hilarious beard you tried to grow in high school/the first year of college and drops it as soon as he goes full Templar. It would be funny if it was a sign of him growing up at all but I'm not really sure his reasons for turning against the Brotherhood are entirely sensible. He goes from causing an earthquake in Lisbon to accusing Achilles of ordering him to do it intentionally in about five in-game minutes, but surely he's had time on the trip back to cool off and reason it out that Achilles has literally nothing to gain from intentionally leveling a city.

Speaking of which, the earthquake in Lisbon looks fantastic, even if its only gameplay is "hold down the right trigger and push the joystick forward."

The renovation stuff from Brohood is back but this time it's in gorgeous eighteenth century Manhattan . Same as in those games, it looks like it acts as a further money sink/maker for your ship, but it also requires metal and wood and other stuff you'd need to otherwise upgrade the Morrigan. Obviously by the end of the game I expect to be swimming in extra stuff but it might generate some interesting short-term trade-offs.

The supporting Assassin cast is very clearly there to all get murdered and I kinda roll my eyes every time any one of them comes on screen.

Modern day sections are a painful retread of Black Flag's so far without any Assassins to offer any sort of bright spot. Just like with the main campaign, it's hard not to feel like everything you're doing is making things worse in the ~meta-narrative.~

I've progressed to the point where I mentally replace any mention of the "First Civilization," "the Precursors" or "Those Who Came Before" with "Lizard People" and I'm wondering if I could do the same thing with the Templars and Assassins.

Kirios posted:

So I've heard Ubisoft hosed up pretty royally on Unity...can anyone here detail what are the major issues with the game?

MinibarMatchman posted:

don't worry I'm sure they're still "working on it"

also lol http://finance.yahoo.com/tumblr/blog-ubisoft-gets-crushed-after-abysmal-assassins-creed-165926902.html

Mustang posted:

Something from LA Beast thats somewhat related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeq1SHoIOXE

BaconPigbutt posted:

I started playing AC3 today, but it`s so, so buggy. I only played until sequence 3, and there were already several missions where I had to reload more than once after the scripted stuff stop working, carriages going invisible middle cut-scene, rifles that don`t work, a total mess. Am I just the unluckiest guy in the planet or is this normal?

Palpek posted:

You're going to love the hell out of it then.

Crappy Jack posted:

The language makes it sound like you can give those away, so it sounds like your order will come with codes for each of them, which you can choose to use or give away as you wish.

Orv posted:

Out or preload?

Orv posted:

It does.

Orv posted:

I haven't gotten my nuuvem key yet.

Crappy Jack posted:

Yeah, but I think they wanted to build up an emotional connection to the Jackdaw. I think they even said in marketing that it was like a second character unto itself. So switching around multiple ships just doesn't give you the same connection as that ship you upgraded from nothing into a fierce demon ship that terrorizes the high seas.

Capn Beeb posted:

Palpek posted:

If anything Black Flag 3 should be set in the Viking world. This would own both as an Assassin's Creed setting and sailing environment.

macnbc posted:

Hundreds? Try Up to 100,000.

Pork Pie Hat posted:

Just started playing and holy crap these accents are awful. I mean, at leat Sean in The Saboteur had a comedy Irish accent but Shay... Wow.

Still, stabby murder fun.

Palpek posted:

Revelations is worse but it's still cool and finishes the Ezio trilogy nicely. Many people were disappointed with it because it's no jump in quality just a sequel in a new (worse) city and everything new it brings to the table isn't particularly great and was dropped from AC games afterwards. There's also the series fatigue aspect setting in if you play the games one after another.

AC: 3 is bland, boring and features the worst protagonist of the series, you should skip it. It was basically Ubisoft switching to a new engine and the mechanics are half-assed. Half of the game is a tutorial and the environments suck. The only downside of skipping it is that you won't see the conclusion of the modern-day plot that started with AC1 if you're into that. Also Ubi basically hasn't touched the modern-day plot in any major way since this game so it's like the last chance to really experience it.

AC: 4 owns hard though and introduces sea environments, it's basically a new take on Pirates! with an AC twist. It's the best AC game since Brotherhood.

AC: Rogue is Black Flag 1.5 improved and expanded upon so if you enjoy AC: 4 this will be more of it.

AC: Unity is another switch to a new graphical engine and falls into the same traps that AC: 3 did. It's not as terrible though and may be even enjoyable to an extent. It's just fumbled in many aspects and the good ideas don't outweight the bad ones.

Orv posted:

Here is the only good part of AC3. You can now play other, good AC games.

TARDISman posted:

III's best moment was clearly the part when Haytham

Kurtofan posted:

Speaking of accents, apparently they're back in Chronicles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JapuE16BPrY

I guess the French accent is harder to pull off than Chinese, Indian or Russian.

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

You should all be ashamed of yourselves: http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/video-ubisoft-says-it-will-learn-from-assassin-s-creed-unity-mistakes/0149386

Dapper_Swindler posted:

right, story trailer dropped. looks like a guy richie movie, which is ok with me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GXqBOw-8n8

also karl marx is in the game as a quest giver.

macnbc posted:

No AC title is only in development for a year. They have different teams working on them and they're staggered. Syndicate likely started development after Black Flag.