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Is it a hot take to think Syndicate is better than Unity?
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Feb 18, 2021 22:41
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exquisite tea posted:The French Revolution is filled with some of the most complex well-documented characters on the stage of human history and the game uses them like ayyyyy I'm Napoleon can you help me find my grandma's recipe I just know it's in one of the drawers over here. There's also de Sade! He's so random, lol. And it's not clear why is he specifically a historical character with the most screentime. It's also the only AC game that doesn't care about its setting and events at all. Syndicate is similarly bad but at least it invokes typical Victorian themes. Unity plot is a generic story that could be easily set up in any setting at all. The closest it comes to characters being involved in real historical events is fall of Bastille... And everyone knows it was almost empty at the time, not full of prisoners and guards.
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Feb 18, 2021 22:42
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Is it a hot take to think Syndicate is better than Unity? Not at all.
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Feb 18, 2021 22:48
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Is it a hot take to think Syndicate is better than Unity? I hope not because I think so too!
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Feb 18, 2021 22:56
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Is it a hot take to think Syndicate is better than Unity? I think it's consensus that it was good but underperformed because Unity killed interest in it
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Feb 18, 2021 23:04
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It was incredibly forgettable but the city looked neat and the zipline was cool.
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Feb 19, 2021 00:26
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Mantis42 posted:It was incredibly forgettable but the city looked neat and the zipline was cool. Yep. It was very simplistic, not what you expect from the most modern part of the series. You basically have a grand Bond villain with a Bond speech (the only one I remember was directed at his minion, not even at heroes). His minions are villains of the week and your ragtag of heroes kills them one by one. In their first hour in London they meet Charles Dickens and Alexander Bell (an eccentric inventor of everything). There's also Karl Marx who is funny foreigner with some good intentions but our characters would never describe themselves commies, no sir. 10 years old Arthur Conan Doyle helps you do a detective work. As I've said at least this story has some connection to a historical setting unlike Unity, but it's like an AC spin-off for kids. And it has 17+ ESRB rating!
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Feb 19, 2021 07:12
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syndicate had some of my favorite assassination animations. love how you can walk up to someone on the street and calmly punch a hole in their neck and then just keep walking without missing a stride as they collapse behind you also racing around on a horse drawn carriage was more fun in that game than in rdr2
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Feb 19, 2021 23:10
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the syndicate assassination animations are real good but nothing will ever beat Ezio just hurling the 2H swords as hard as he loving could in 2/Brotherhood
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Feb 19, 2021 23:14
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Earwicker posted:syndicate had some of my favorite assassination animations. love how you can walk up to someone on the street and calmly punch a hole in their neck and then just keep walking without missing a stride as they collapse behind you I don't think it's as good as the horses in rdr2 (unless we're specifically talking only about the carts & carriages in that game, then i agree) but yeah getting around by driving was way smoother and more fun than I expected from this series, considering even basic horse-riding wasn't fun in any of the games up until then.
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Feb 19, 2021 23:30
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Shimrra Jamaane posted:Unity’s story is literally nonsensical and that’s coming from someone who’s studied the French Revolution. In fact knowing about the French Revolution ahead of time makes things worse. yeah. like i never expected anything deep, but it doesnt even really follow the revolution which ok fine, background works but it doesnt even do anything fun and uses poo poo as set pieces. Sandwolf posted:Robespierre’s whole poo poo is hilarious in that game, like they remembered they had to put him in, so the Terror comes off like it lasts a weekend. i mean the whole revolution in the game feels like weird week long cluster gently caress which sure it was a cluster gently caress but lol.
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Feb 19, 2021 23:32
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Ainsley McTree posted:I also just didn't think Unity was very fun or that the story was well-told or written Unity had that magical opening that made main dude suave, dashing, and everything you would want out of a Harlequin published bodice ripper. Then the rest of the game had nothing approaching that.
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Feb 20, 2021 00:12
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They had nothing to say about probably the most contentious series of events in human history.
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Feb 20, 2021 00:23
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Mantis42 posted:They had nothing to say about probably the most contentious series of events in human history. My completely unfounded theory is that they intended to feature the revolution more centrally, but then realized how confusing and complicated it actually was and never got around to figuring out how to do it before deadline
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Feb 20, 2021 00:33
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Ainsley McTree posted:My completely unfounded theory is that they intended to feature the revolution more centrally, but then realized how confusing and complicated it actually was and never got around to figuring out how to do it before deadline This is how they did the US revolution so that tracks
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Feb 20, 2021 01:00
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Ubisoft is french right? Fuckin wild how they treated their own country with the same sort of distanced respect given to *checks notes* Montana cults and nepalese child slavery. I am 100% convinced that they attempt to push an ideology that I don't quite understand, like not a real one but some dumb Abstergo poo poo ideology. Anyways, I bought AssCreed Valhalla last week. My last session I was treated with the an oddly insulting who-done-it in Grantbridgeshire: I did like the set up. Hey I got 3 lieutenants, this is the mechanical path that is your first chance to build raid resources, so you get set-up fight, 3 raids, and an ending fight. Before that ending fight you can investigate the tunnel, read some letters putting out clues about yellow boats, and can viking shirlock out who's boat was the traitor's because each one is inscribed with a poem. I had suspicions from Gailin because he was the only one who's whole crew got got, and it was by wolves. Then he stabs a guy boss lady told everybody not to stab, and shrugs his shoulders and gives a real bad excuse. Then he broods. If he wasn't the bad guy, this would have been dope. If he didn't signpost himself so openly and over and over, it would have been dope. But this felt blues clues as gently caress. Birnya is now part of my crew because ol girl loves the city more than her swardsister
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Feb 20, 2021 01:04
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KirbyKhan posted:Ubisoft is french right? the main company is french but the team that makes many AC games including unity is french-canadian
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Feb 20, 2021 01:09
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Babe Magnet posted:the syndicate assassination animations are real good but nothing will ever beat Ezio just hurling the 2H swords as hard as he loving could in 2/Brotherhood Have we forgotten Fight Club Evie? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tz5fXas5AYE 
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Feb 20, 2021 01:27
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Coming back to this after playing some other stuff. I've got Sussex and Snotinghamshire left. Roughly how long am I looking st to finish the game if I just do main quests?
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Feb 23, 2021 14:47
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At least 20 more hours, possibly longer if you haven't done the mythology zones yet.
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Feb 23, 2021 14:57
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looked up from my phone to see this dude brushing my screen https://i.imgur.com/2ENeeoh.gifv
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Feb 23, 2021 14:58
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moist turtleneck posted:looked up from my phone to see this dude brushing my screen How'd you get that ship skin?
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Feb 23, 2021 15:21
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It's in the store, but you can buy it for opals from the kid in your village (reda?) [if the item is available that day]
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Feb 23, 2021 15:41
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moist turtleneck posted:It's in the store, but you can buy it for opals from the kid in your village (reda?) [if the item is available that day] Thanks. I've not been able to get the kid to ever load anything, always getting an error message and haven't been bothered to try to figure it out.
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Feb 23, 2021 15:46
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AC: Unity is a game set during a violent and bloody revolution where nobody cares about politics.
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Feb 23, 2021 17:08
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Yeah it's a Ubisoft game
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Feb 23, 2021 22:18
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Pwnstar posted:AC: Unity is a game set during a violent and bloody revolution where nobody cares about politics. i think the issue is less that and more it just doesnt do anything interesting with it. like id love to forrest gump around that time period but like idk you do anything outside a few of the co-op missions.
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Feb 23, 2021 22:26
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The Death of Marat is a murder mystery 
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Feb 23, 2021 22:35
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Sandwolf posted:Rogue is supposed to be a better game than III, right? Might as well just play through every one of these sons of bitches while I'm on a tear, but both cost $30 at this point in time for some reason, so I'm trying to decide which. btw just wanted to shoutout the Ubisoft employee lurking these forums, every rear end Creed is on sale on Xbox right now.
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Feb 23, 2021 23:33
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The only AssCreed game I really had any major technical issues with is Origins, it seems to have some kind of issue where it stops loading high-detail models after an hour or two and then just crashes.
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The Xbox store has an AC sale right now. Trying to decide if it’s worth $22 for the Black Flag/Unity/Syndicate pack. Or maybe just Black Flag or Rogue? Given how slowly I play these games I’ll still be on Valhalla in June.
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I picked up Rogue for cheap, and I'm not really feeling it. The ship combat is great, but everything else feels like an afterthought. Which the game basically is, being a cash grab to try and get some of the Black Flag money. The story and missions are bare bones, many systems that were in Black Flag have been gutted, and the game actively looks worse than Black Flag despite being built on its foundation. And now after Origins/Odyssey/Valhalla, the game world just seems beyond artificial and sterile. An unfair comparison for an older game to go up against the newest hottest, but the comparison remains.
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Feb 24, 2021 02:02
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exquisite tea posted:At least 20 more hours, possibly longer if you haven't done the mythology zones yet. Holy hell, seriously? I'm already at 120 hours. Might just have to put this off for longer.
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Feb 26, 2021 17:32
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I picked up AC Rogue Remastered on Xbox last night, because my PC copy is garbage with ultrawide support. Man, after ~300 hours of the recent RPG trilogy games, that 360-era control scheme is really... something to go back to. 
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Feb 28, 2021 16:47
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When is the dang transmog patch coming?
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Mar 3, 2021 06:53
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Quick question about Odyssey, I was farting around in the educational mode last night and I found a couple of weird little glitches in the Heraion of Argos and in Argos proper. They were like a waist-high, reddish-orange glow, Kassandra couldn't walk through them but could climb over them like it was a box or something. Are these unlockables, or something that's there in the main game that wasn't dummied all the way out?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69wDkXaR7c4 sounds like a smaller game set in either france or german/HRE is coming end of this year or beginning of next and the BIG AC game thats probably china comes in 2023.
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anyone else noticed a load more of those avenging a dead player things recently? I went 120 hrs with just one and have had half a dozen in the last few hours
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Skarsnik posted:anyone else noticed a load more of those avenging a dead player things recently? I got my first one ever last night. Also I didn't get any reward for it, so what's the point of doing them?
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