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Something that I had somehow missed about Syndicate is that your Assassin's Hideout is a train. A train! Also, this: 
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Oct 13, 2015 16:09
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Something that I had somehow missed about Syndicate is that your Assassin's Hideout is a train. A train! Calling Bozza to the AC thread. Also, I'm trying not to get excited for this. I'm waiting until at least Christmas to pick it up so that I can get an idea of a) how broken it is, and b) how bad the story is. I want to like it, but Unity really spoiled it all for me. Also, I'm not thrilled by the fact the inventory system seems to be following in its footsteps, even given the amusing info.
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Oct 13, 2015 17:08
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Pesmerga posted:Calling Bozza to the AC thread. Also, I'm trying not to get excited for this. I'm waiting until at least Christmas to pick it up so that I can get an idea of a) how broken it is, and b) how bad the story is. I want to like it, but Unity really spoiled it all for me. Also, I'm not thrilled by the fact the inventory system seems to be following in its footsteps, even given the amusing info. Sadly it's far too late for me not to be excited about it, so I shall take the hit in terms of a) potential broken-ness and b) potential terrible story. I really didn't like the way you had all those different trousers and coats and gloves etc etc in Unity, I'm pretty sure that's been mostly done away with, in terms of clothing at least, so you still get a variety of weapons but fewer meaningless hat choices.
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Oct 13, 2015 17:16
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Sadly it's far too late for me not to be excited about it, so I shall take the hit in terms of a) potential broken-ness and b) potential terrible story. I really didn't like the way you had all those different trousers and coats and gloves etc etc in Unity, I'm pretty sure that's been mostly done away with, in terms of clothing at least, so you still get a variety of weapons but fewer meaningless hat choices. I said try, but I know I'm going to invariably pick it up as soon as I'm finished with Rogue, because I can't quit this horrible series. I just want one 'no war but class war' style quote 
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Oct 13, 2015 17:19
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Pesmerga posted:I said try, but I know I'm going to invariably pick it up as soon as I'm finished with Rogue, because I can't quit this horrible series. I just want one 'no war but class war' style quote I'm just hoping you can burn down a hipster cereal cafe.
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Oct 13, 2015 17:19
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Sadly it's far too late for me not to be excited about it, so I shall take the hit in terms of a) potential broken-ness and b) potential terrible story. I really didn't like the way you had all those different trousers and coats and gloves etc etc in Unity, I'm pretty sure that's been mostly done away with, in terms of clothing at least, so you still get a variety of weapons but fewer meaningless hat choices. I liked the choices, since they let me be more strategic about mission approaches. Infiltration? Wear the sweet Phantom outfit. Battle? Musketeers or Military outfits. Just wish that it was more of a straight upgrade path instead of 6 or so levels to one line of gear.
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Oct 13, 2015 17:32
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Seems like Steam has a sale on "stealth games" and for some reason it includes most of the AC series: http://store.steampowered.com/sale/stealth_sale/
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Oct 13, 2015 19:22
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I always fall for the stupid loving hype on this series. I've bought everyone but only beat 2. But i'm getting hyped for this ugh.
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Oct 14, 2015 00:49
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Kopijeger posted:Seems like Steam has a sale on "stealth games" and for some reason it includes most of the AC series: Has Rogue gone on sale ever?
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Oct 14, 2015 01:51
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Capn Beeb posted:Has Rogue gone on sale ever? It's $18 on uPlay.
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Oct 14, 2015 01:54
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Pork Pie Hat posted:Sadly it's far too late for me not to be excited about it, so I shall take the hit in terms of a) potential broken-ness and b) potential terrible story. I really didn't like the way you had all those different trousers and coats and gloves etc etc in Unity, I'm pretty sure that's been mostly done away with, in terms of clothing at least, so you still get a variety of weapons but fewer meaningless hat choices. I am going the story will be ok at least. every time they ever tried to make a super serious assassins creed with no humor at all it turned out bad. (1,3 and unity) the characters seem likable enough and the villain/hero dynamic is simple like in 2/brotherhood. glitchs are up in the air and so is combat. also new trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08yEh3r35II yeah it forrest gumpy but so was 2, brotherhood and revelations and 4, its just no body remembers the pazi conspiracy and sulyman the magnificent and Benjamin hornigold. Dapper_Swindler fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Oct 14, 2015 |
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Oct 14, 2015 02:46
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Sylphid posted:Have there been any screenshots of the Baker Street outfit? That's one of the main reasons I preordered the Gold Edition. Wait, did you seriously pre-order the rip-off version of a Ubisoft game for an in-game item you hadn't seen? 
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Oct 14, 2015 04:26
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ayn rand hand job posted:It's $18 on uPlay. Oh, nice. I didn't see it on that Steam sale page. $18 is pretty solid for Rogue.
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Oct 14, 2015 04:28
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Dapper_Swindler posted:also new trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08yEh3r35II yeah it forrest gumpy but so was 2, brotherhood and revelations and 4, its just no body remembers the pazi conspiracy and sulyman the magnificent and Benjamin hornigold.  The folks joking about Queen Victoria being an Assassin got it right! This is gonna be the best or the best trainwreck. No in-between
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Oct 14, 2015 04:30
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Kopijeger posted:Seems like Steam has a sale on "stealth games" and for some reason it includes most of the AC series: Oh cool Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is on sale?
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Oct 14, 2015 04:32
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Kopijeger posted:Seems like Steam has a sale on "stealth games" and for some reason it includes most of the AC series: Well, they are ostensibly games that require or encourage stealthiness.
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Oct 14, 2015 07:40
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HaitianDivorce posted:
This isn't new info though. I'm pretty sure prior glyphs revealed she had an Apple of Eden. I don't think she was an assassin though. Not sure why people are getting worked up about historical figures showing up. They always have in these games...its just the people showing up weren't "common knowledge" figures. I'm sure to someone who studied Renaissance Italy, 2 and Brohood are just as Forest-Gump-history.
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Oct 14, 2015 17:54
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More historical figures means more historical figures to high five and/or hug
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Oct 14, 2015 21:05
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If you failed to hug Leonardo you need to quit video games forever.
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Oct 14, 2015 21:12
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This is going to be the most Forrest Gumped AC ever, they will be unable to have one cutscene without a brass knuckle fight against a famous writer, every beggar will be a member of the Royal Family in disguise, there will be memes with words switched to fit the historical period.
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Oct 14, 2015 21:19
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They should do one of those murder mystery sidequests where the victim's face has been all cut off and they look like the busted people from Unity
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Oct 14, 2015 21:27
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Snuffman posted:This isn't new info though. Oh yeah, I'm absolutely exaggerating about Queen Victoria out-and-out shanking motherfuckers but it's still so goddamn goofy that the game seems to have had its characters picked by opening up a textbook to a description of Victorian London and sucking out all the proper nouns. It just feels like such a producer-mandated thing. "Oh, our consumers really liked it when we included Leonardo da Vinci in our game set in Renaissance Italy, so why don't we include literally everyone that people might associate with London circa 1880?  "
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Oct 14, 2015 21:53
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People see thing they don't recognize, it's eh. People see poo poo they do recognize and it makes them feel smart or something. It's why every piece of DLC or pre-order stuff has a name that you will drat sure recognize.
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Oct 14, 2015 22:18
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Palpek posted:This is going to be the most Forrest Gumped AC ever, they will be unable to have one cutscene without a brass knuckle fight against a famous writer, every beggar will be a member of the Royal Family in disguise, there will be memes with words switched to fit the historical period. Oh no, Queen Victoria is gonna say "keep calm and carry on" at some point isn't she
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Oct 14, 2015 22:21
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"We are not amused."
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Oct 15, 2015 00:35
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It's not like this is new, either. In AC1, all of Altair's targets are either real historical figures or stand-ins, and of course both Al Mualim and King Richard were real guys. It's just that fewer people recognize namedrops from the time period.
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Oct 15, 2015 02:07
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I'll be the first to poo poo on AC and Ubisoft's embodiment of cynical bullshit, but honestly the best writing this series has produced is when it's self-aware of its absurdity and just embraces it in cool dumb ways. Unity's story was boring loving trash because it barely utilized the big things most people know about that time period, and when it did "utilize" them it was in the most dull way possible. There's a bunch of poo poo that will always, always be mandated in this series, it's up to the devs saddled with those mandates to try to make them work. You know what other game made it so you could play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with its conspirators and pop conspiracies? Deus Ex, and it loving owned. Granted, that's also because they weren't forced to make it so it can neatly fit into an annualized franchise, so it could actually, you know, end, but the point is you can make this dumb poo poo be surprisingly engaging. Regardless of how entertaining the story is, though, it'll still be great fun to sit through needlessly unskippable cutscenes, or if they stop being pretentious about cramming their ~vision~ down our throats that way, they'll still find a way to have overlong walk'n'talks or rigid instafail tailing missions or something.
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Oct 15, 2015 12:35
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There's a really cool interview with the architctural consultant of AC2 which shows how they were researching the time period: http://www.archdaily.com/774210/maria-elisa-navarro-the-architectural-consultant-for-assassins-creed-iiquote:Another aspect we dealt with was the look of the buildings -- they were modeling, and I would meet with them periodically to verify the accuracy of the historical reconstruction. Sometimes, for gameplay purposes, they needed to have walls with a lot of texture so that Ezio could climb them, but when the time came to lay those parts out, there were some inaccuracies. For example, I remember a balcony with a wrought iron railing that couldn't have existed in that time period. I was responsible for detecting those issues.
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Oct 15, 2015 13:16
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I actually really miss the laid-back AC poo poo. after playing MGSV and mad max, I do miss just being in a big city with tons of people and clambering around roofs, climbing giant clock towers and poo poo. I haven't had that experience since AC2 and didnt play another since AC4, which was fun but made me miss grand architecture--AC4's mudhuts and plantations didnt do it for me. I'd love for Syndicate to be a good game but I've heard it's technically rough and lovely which sucks.
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Oct 15, 2015 16:08
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MinibarMatchman posted:I actually really miss the laid-back AC poo poo. after playing MGSV and mad max, I do miss just being in a big city with tons of people and clambering around roofs, climbing giant clock towers and poo poo. I haven't had that experience since AC2 and didnt play another since AC4, which was fun but made me miss grand architecture--AC4's mudhuts and plantations didnt do it for me. I'd love for Syndicate to be a good game but I've heard it's technically rough and lovely which sucks. I'm reserving judgment until there's actually a proper review out and not just previews based on an unfinished product, personally. (Though it wouldn't surprise me if it's Unity all over again.)
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Oct 15, 2015 16:11
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New videos: Lambeth https://youtu.be/JUojoruiDfs The Thames https://youtu.be/5XSeNlSP_Uo
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Oct 15, 2015 18:56
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For those that haven't played Dying Light, the movement system is more or less first person Assassins Creed. In some ways it's even better than Mirrors Edge in that department.
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Oct 15, 2015 19:05
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Palpek posted:There's a really cool interview with the architctural consultant of AC2 which shows how they were researching the time period: http://www.archdaily.com/774210/maria-elisa-navarro-the-architectural-consultant-for-assassins-creed-ii thats neat. Pork Pie Hat posted:New videos: oh poo poo they brought bar songs/shanties back. I remember them talking about that in one of earlier videos.
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Oct 15, 2015 22:11
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When I played AC1, I was caught up in clues and conspiracy pointing to something amazing happening in 2012, and I kept playing the games towards that goal. The Italy arc really seemed like it would lead to a huge payoff. Then we got AC3's ending, killing the overall arc. I guess I'm admitting I liked the modern storyline. Before it was running and climbing and stabbing for a hugely important reason. Now it's just running and climbing and stabbing because Ubisoft thinks it has a cash engine. They should bring back that guy who had an idea of which way to go with the franchise.
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Oct 16, 2015 01:34
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Do we think this will have actual out of animus stuff? I missed it in Unity. I enjoyed the game dev office thing from Black Flag and Rogue. It's been a while since they had proper out of animus sections like the old games had.
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Oct 16, 2015 01:42
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The Uplay Challenges/Rewards leaked and Karl Marx has a motherfucking mission chain YES
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Oct 16, 2015 01:52
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:The Uplay Challenges/Rewards leaked and Karl Marx has a motherfucking mission chain YES he is in the trailers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08yEh3r35II
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Oct 16, 2015 03:50
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Dapper_Swindler posted:oh poo poo they brought bar songs/shanties back. I remember them talking about that in one of earlier videos. Yeah this year they're doing murder ballads, which will be amazing.
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Oct 16, 2015 10:35
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All of the district videos are here: http://eaglevisionlondon.com each with a different song. I like the Whitechapel one the best.
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Oct 16, 2015 12:11
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Pork Pie Hat posted:All of the district videos are here: All I get when I link there is a making-of video on Youtube.
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Oct 16, 2015 12:50
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