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SeantheMan wrote: »

AC hasn't been good in years.
Same of stuff over and over.

I'll maybe pick it up on sale in 2 years to try it, realise it's the same as the others...and turn it off

I seen the EAGLE Vision thing, and was immediately turned off.

How is that working in context ? He is seeing through a birds eye and can mark EVERYONE and everything on the map ?...way OP.

I'm really looking forward to it. Syndicate was a great game and was lots of fun but was panned or prejudged by a lot of people simply because "Unity was a mess" which made absolutely no sense.

I imagine the eagle vision will have limitations such as enemies that are not in the open and the ability to get too close.

That said, combat and stealth have been completely reworked soeagle vision won't aid the fairly handy combat system we're used to. It might give us an advantage of what's coming but enemies are tougher and need more planning.

Mickeroo wrote: »

Ah forgot about Rogue.

Everyone does . Never played it myself but a friend told me it was basically just a less fun Black Flag.

RasTa wrote: »

Why would people get excited about the yearly AC release? They doing something different to the series ala Mario?

Well they did skip last year and think they've finally recognised yearly isn't the way to go with it and people are sick of the same exact gameplay all the time, so I think they're trying different things with the game this time to try get people interested in the franchise again. I'm still not bothered with it though.

Penn wrote: »

Mickeroo wrote: »

Ah forgot about Rogue.

Everyone does . Never played it myself but a friend told me it was basically just a less fun Black Flag.

Not true at all. Rogue is probably the best in the series since Brotherhood. The only problem it had is that it released on the PS3 rather than PS4. A HD remake would be great.

I have all the Assassin's Creed games and preordered Origins the other day

There was me looking forward to playing AC Origins all weekend .


Ready to hit the preload button tomorrow , so I can have it ready for the weekend .

Then my sister in law rings my wife and says "Hey , fancy some visitors for the weekend "
Yay , visitors ,arriving Thursday or Friday :mad::mad::mad:

martyos121 wrote: »

Have the Dawn of the Creed edition on the way this week (not the €800 one obviously, next one down) so very much looking forward to AC:O as well. Can't understand the criticism of the series in general, there have been far more good ones than bad ones, have paced myself to finish the rest of Syndicate this week and it's brilliant, one of the best in the series and a great game in its own right.

I understand that some people don't like the "Ubisoft formula" for open-world games, but it works well and it's constantly improving so they have no reason to mess with it.

My issues (as someone who was a huge fan of the AC series probably up to Black Flag) were how badly they messed up the present-day story, how repetitive so much of each game was (while Black Flag introduced a lot of new gameplay elements for the sea-based stuff, the land missions were insanely repetitive and downright boring), and because there was a new game every year, the first half of each game always consisted of essentially having to start as an assassin and unlock equipment and skills that you've already used in previous games over and over again.

And then there's the Ubisoft formula too, and it was what really lost my interest in the series. I played Unity for a few hours and was enjoying it as the first bit was all story based in different locations etc, but once it actually broke from the story and you could enter free-roam in the city and a hundred icons suddenly appeared on the mini-map, I lost all interest in playing. It was my 5th year of playing an AC game in a row and I just couldn't bring myself to do it again. That's the issue. You start from scratch over and over again and the gameplay didn't change enough to warrant it. Another year, another map filled with hundreds of busywork icons and another story that won't be resolved this year because there's just going to be another AC game next year too.

Actually, I'd love an AC game where the assassinations are carried out almost like the heists in GTAV. You have to carry out surveillance on the place first, you can select from two or three different plans, you have to prepare for the plans, set tasks to other NPC assassins to help (and like GTAV, their levels/abilities can determine if they succeed or fail), and there'll be story-scripted events which can either help your plan or cause it to fail meaning you have to improvise. Maybe how well you carry out the surveillance determines whether or not you catch things that might cause your plan to go wrong.

Sabre0001 wrote: »

Wow, NeoGAF is down and allegations of sexual assault against its owner - https://www.polygon.com/2017/10/22/16516592/neogaf-tyler-malka-evilore-allegations-shutdown

welcome to last thursday:pac: