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That game was supposed to come out following the hype of Black Flag because Ubi (rightly) thought people wanted more of the ship combat of that game. Black Flag came out in 2013. They missed the boat for hype for this game by 9 years.
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Sandwolf posted:That game was supposed to come out following the hype of Black Flag because Ubi (rightly) thought people wanted more of the ship combat of that game. I'd assumed it was complicated hush money for someone
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Sandwolf posted:That game was supposed to come out following the hype of Black Flag because Ubi (rightly) thought people wanted more of the ship combat of that game. That was the last good asscreed game in my book, so it's as good a game as any for them to try and copy. But by now, Ubi has probably already copied over the cartoon art and cheesy animations to skull and bones and ruined it.
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leap into history lol
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Jul 12, 2022 05:19
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That beauty can be yours for just 52  (no fatties) : They put more effort on the webpage than on Valhalla's UI lol : https://secretlab.eu/pages/assassinscreed
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Jul 16, 2022 23:22
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Kuiperdolin posted:They put more effort on the webpage than on Valhalla's UI lol : wat? i mean i have plenty of complaints about the ui too but.. you do realize ubisoft didn't make this webpage and has nothing to do with this other than licensing the brand to a chair company right?
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Jul 16, 2022 23:28
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Fair enough, I thought it was a Ubisoft website but I have the intellectual honesty to recognise when I'm tecnically wrong... Still a wretchedly tacky chair.
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Jul 16, 2022 23:53
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yes it continues to boggle my mind how much money goes into utterly stupid poo poo like this, on both ends
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Jul 16, 2022 23:58
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Nothing is true, everything is for sittin’
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I have a Secret Labs chair and it’s absurdly comfortable
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Not worth the money, tho
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I've been randomly dabbling in AC Odyssey lately and while I still think its the weakest of the Layla trilogy what helps a lot is all the overpowered abilities the DLC added. An ability that refills four adrenaline bars and does massive damage really streamlines the awkward combat! Playing on a PS5 so it doesnt take 2+ minutes to access the menu is also really helping. About to embark on the First Blade DLC for the first time ever, to find out the...origin of the assassins I guess? Didn't we already see that happen far in the future?
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Jul 21, 2022 03:29
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I think it's my favorite, mostly on the back of Kassandra and the setting (though Origins is beautifuller).
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Wolfsheim posted:I've been randomly dabbling in AC Odyssey lately and while I still think its the weakest of the Layla trilogy what helps a lot is all the overpowered abilities the DLC added. An ability that refills four adrenaline bars and does massive damage really streamlines the awkward combat! Playing on a PS5 so it doesnt take 2+ minutes to access the menu is also really helping. If you haven’t done it yet do literally everything else you want to do in the game first before you do the First Blade DLC. I’ve never encountered anything that makes me dislike the rest of a story and all the characters when I previously greatly enjoyed them before like that one.
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Arivia posted:If you haven’t done it yet do literally everything else you want to do in the game first before you do the First Blade DLC. I’ve never encountered anything that makes me dislike the rest of a story and all the characters when I previously greatly enjoyed them before like that one. I assume you're talking about the forced heterosexual relationship the plot foists upon you but no worries, I'm playing a bisexual Alexios  I remember that controversy because it's the only thing I heard about the DLC after it came out, it was such a bad decision that it completely overpowered any possibility of hearing about other spoilers entirely
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Jul 21, 2022 03:41
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It doesn't help that one of the chapters is all about ship combat that many people dislike.
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The best thing about this dlc is that at least it's not Atlantis.
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I am an Odyssey apologist so I would say that Atlantis maps look great. I still don't understand what was that story about and the best thing I can say about the story is that at least this puts you into the hero's shoes. I am yet to see a good Assassin's Creed expansion. Free additions to Odyssey, on the other hand, were great, cause they've added a lot of decent side stories. Of course, it only works if you enjoy the basic gameplay and a lot of people seem to be tired of it just from mainlining the main story which also means doing some of the major regional questlines or exploring a lot. But it's more than I can say about any other AC DLCs which all feel worse than the game they expand upon. I still didn't play any of Valhalla's additions but I don't hear anything good about them.
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ilitarist posted:I am an Odyssey apologist so I would say that Atlantis maps look great. The vertically whilst visually cool, made getting around tedious.
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Atlantis also has modern Kassandra, so it's clearly the best wait, but it also instantly ends that, hmm
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Did they ever finish Tombs of the Fallen? Like you get some kind of secret artifact at the end of them but you don't get enough to unlock the final door?
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ilitarist posted:I am yet to see a good Assassin's Creed expansion. Counting only the major ones : Good : Da Vinci Disappearance (BroHood) Revelations (BroHood) Freedom Cry (AC4) Rogue (AC4) Meh : The Lost Archive (Revelations) Dead Kings (Unity) Hidden Ones (Origins) Curse of the Pharaohs (Origins) Bad but in an interesting/entertaining way : Tyranny of King Washington (AC3) Aveline (AC4) Jack the Ripper (Syndicate) Last Maharaja (Syndicate) Jut bad : all of Odyssey all of Valhalla gently caress you Ubisoft : Battle of Forli/Bonfire of the Vanities (AC2)
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Jul 21, 2022 10:59
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Revelations and Rogue are standalone games, not expansions. I never played Freedom Cry but I also had an impression it's a separate game. You can buy it separately but it's also included in the AC4 Gold Edition, and it's clearly closely related to AC4 so it probably counts. I have no memory of Da Vinci Disappearance so I googled it. I see it was bundled into PC version so I didn't know it's an expansion. Maybe it's good too, I don't remember.
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Jul 21, 2022 11:35
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I really liked the Ripper stuff. Was good to actually follow-up on an Assassin victory.
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I know Rogue isn’t that short but it feels like it. After Shay’s turn unless you’re combing for optional collectibles things felt they moved super fast.
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TjyvTompa posted:Did they ever finish Tombs of the Fallen? Like you get some kind of secret artifact at the end of them but you don't get enough to unlock the final door? Part 2 is supposed to come out sometime in the fall.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:I really liked the Ripper stuff. Was good to actually follow-up on an Assassin victory. The tone was a huge miss for me. I didn't care much for Syndicate's Saturday Morning Adventures in Victorian London, but it was somewhat consistent. The Ripper takes a huge turn into Not Your Grandma's Victorian London and it felt forced and underexplored. And because of a huge timeskip I expected some general story relevance, but it's not related o any of the Assassin/Templar stuff and even doesn't seem to be part of Animus thing, yet we somehow get Animus glitches when we play as Jack who isn't available in Animus. I know it sounds like nit-picking and not that I care about Animus, but when the tone feels broken it takes you out of immersion on all levels and those things start bothering you. Atlantis inconsistencies bother me but I don't care about Bayek or Eagle Bearer's ability to set their sword on fire, you know what I mean.
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I felt having it as a separate DLC let the tonal differences work in a way that would have failed if it had been integrated into the main game somehow (like the WW1 section).
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There's also the fact that they indavertently spoil the end of Ripper in a throwaway line of the WW1 sequence. I suspect that sequence was to be the DLC, and Ripper was supposed to be in the main game, and they switched rather late in the process. Just like there's a lot of hints that Henry Green was planned to be a third playable character at some point.
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Kuiperdolin posted:Counting only the major ones : Was this the one where you have to use all the Da Vinci vehicles? If so I'm already calling BS on this list because that wooden tank and mini submarine were so bad to control that I forgot nearly everything else about the DLC despite Da Vinci being one of the premiere characters of the series quote:gently caress you Ubisoft : On the AC2 flipside I'm gonna say this one wasn't bad because a dozen rapid fire assassinations with some challenge modifier at the very end of the game as a lead-in to the finale was one of the only times the series really went all-in on the whole "you are an assassin" concept Of course that's me playing it rolled into the remastered Ezio trilogy several years later so if it was ridiculously overpriced at the time or something I wasn't privy to that
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Wasn’t the issue it was removed from the base game to sell as DLC, and as a result there’s just a big missing chunk of story unless you bought it?
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i know revelations was a full game but imo it's the most boring full game in the series and i understand why people might confuse it for a dlc, it felt like a smaller and less fun ac2/brotherhood with a thin coat of paint and a lovely new tower defense mechanic i saw 20 posts in this thread and thought there must be some news but i guess its just ranking day again
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I only played Revelations up to the bizarre fort defense tactics battle and stopped, I may finish it someday but man every new mechanic they introduced was bad
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Wolfsheim posted:I only played Revelations up to the bizarre fort defense tactics battle and stopped, I may finish it someday but man every new mechanic they introduced was bad The bombs were cool and completely pointless given how overpowered everything else was.
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I never once used the bombs or found any use for the bombs. AC2 series of games the combat was so easy. You could just parry every move into an assassination.
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Wolfsheim posted:I assume you're talking about the forced heterosexual relationship the plot foists upon you but no worries, I'm playing a bisexual Alexios It's not just that. It takes a game that is largely carried by a set of likeable, interesting characters, where the devs left enough opening that you can fill in various motivations as you see fit. Then it takes those characters and says "actually here's the precise canonical version of them, and they're pretty boring and unlikeable tbh"
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Earwicker posted:i know revelations was a full game but imo it's the most boring full game in the series and i understand why people might confuse it for a dlc, it felt like a smaller and less fun ac2/brotherhood with a thin coat of paint and a lovely new tower defense mechanic
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The problem with Ripper is that it it extends a vanilla story that is already an act longer than is welcome, in a game that itself was probably just one too many at the end of a series. If you go back and play it as a standalone thing then it holds up reasonably well. e: caveating, there isn't actually much assassinating to do, which is a bad thing for obvious reasons.
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RenegadeStyle1 posted:I never once used the bombs or found any use for the bombs. AC2 series of games the combat was so easy. You could just parry every move into an assassination. Was it those games that had the especially brutal counter kill animations? Back when those older titles were coming out, I remember people complaining about how easy the combat was, but I always had fun just mowing through guys, stabbing them in the face with axes and stuff during counters. Since origin I've hated the way combat flows.
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