Assassin's Creed thread

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Pirate shanties, sinking ships, looting them, sailing the high seas... man I played Black Flag for like a hundred hours as a pirate and don't remember a second of the story.

ubisoft games are like porn, obviously there's a story there but you're not supposed to be here for the story, but for the action. you think any fans of far cry or watch dogs or assassins creed play them for the story, same with prince of persia and raymond. Does anyone know how Raymond: Origins reveals about the origins of shit from the main games? i doubt it

 

[Cheesy Beavy]

AC Unity is also quite impressive in terms of lighting and visuals.

It still looks better than a lot of the newer AC games

 

[Vassal]

ubisoft games are like porn, obviously there's a story there but you're not supposed to be here for the story, but for the action. you think any fans of far cry or watch dogs or assassins creed play them for the story, same with prince of persia and raymond. Does anyone know how Raymond: Origins reveals about the origins of shit from the main games? i doubt it

I'll admit I was interested in the story during the first and second Assassin's Creeds, but you have a point.

 

[Spooky Space Kook]

I'll admit I was interested in the story during the first and second Assassin's Creeds, but you have a point.

That's because modern AC titles don't really have a cohesive story, everything is held together by "lore" and little bits and pieces of info. Definitely more on the side of telling rather than showing and it negatively impacts the world building. It's kind like how the last few Far Cry games felt pretty bland story wise, Ubisoft just kinda expects their audience to just run around shooting and blowing shit up because it would take good writers to make something people want to follow. Same with COD singleplayer and pretty much most things in the industry at this point. Really worried about the next Elder Scrolls game being shit too due to the terrible writing and game design on Bethesda's last couple of titles.

 

[SmugAutist]

That's because modern AC titles don't really have a cohesive story, everything is held together by "lore" and little bits and pieces of info. Definitely more on the side of telling rather than showing and it negatively impacts the world building. It's kind like how the last few Far Cry games felt pretty bland story wise, Ubisoft just kinda expects their audience to just run around shooting and blowing shit up because it would take good writers to make something people want to follow. Same with COD singleplayer and pretty much most things in the industry at this point. Really worried about the next Elder Scrolls game being shit too due to the terrible writing and game design on Bethesda's last couple of titles.

AC was always meant to be a historical game set in the Crusades where you kill Crusaders and Muslims alike. It was hyped up in 2006 as a spiritual successor to Prince of Persia. The whole Animus thing was only added later. In hindsight, we would've been better off without it.

 

[grump]

ubisoft games are like porn, obviously there's a story there but you're not supposed to be here for the story, but for the action. you think any fans of far cry or watch dogs or assassins creed play them for the story, same with prince of persia and raymond. Does anyone know how Raymond: Origins reveals about the origins of shit from the main games? i doubt it

Whenever I want to be bored out of my mind about history I pop in an Ass Creed playthrough. Theres got to be some virtuoso among the team with how well they are able to suck all the excitement and flavor from historical events. Take Caesar for instance. One of history's most ruthless and cunning opportunists. The guy juggled and flatfooted his enemies at every turn and even in death he got the better of them in one of history's most famous assassinations. Practically tailormade fully historical character to be a compelling leader for the Templars or whatever they were calling them by then. But the game turns him into an incompetent boob who has the MC do everything for him. And he doesn't respect her because he's an evil sexist who don't like no strangu independent wimmin. I guess he eventually becomes associated with the Templar fillins but it hardly figures into the story. Complete waste of a plot. Then you have the Spartans put the Ubisoft Leonidas speech next to the one from 300 and it will all become obvious.

Its so awful. Whats even dumber is I see some idiots praising them for making history exciting and I have to wonder what they're smoking. The only thing they do well is the detail in the environments.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Whats even dumber is I see some idiots praising them for making history exciting and I have to wonder what they're smoking.

they're talking the pre-origins era. also they establish way back in 2009 that Caesar is a templar whod get merc'd by an assassin woman with a snake, so they somehow made their own canon boring.

 

[grump]

they're talking the pre-origins era. also they establish way back in 2009 that Caesar is a templar whod get merc'd by an assassin woman with a snake, so they somehow made their own canon boring.

Thats still pretty dumb. Brutus obviously would make for the better Assassin rather than some clunky sike it was actually a woman nobody ever heard of! If you're going to make historical fiction and you happen to have a piece of real history that fits in you use it.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

Thats still pretty dumb. Brutus obviously would make for the better Assassin rather than some clunky sike it was actually a woman nobody ever heard of! If you're going to make historical fiction and you happen to have a piece of real history that fits in you use it.

got that one wrong, you brought up such a good point i checked the wiki and she doesn't kill caesar but cleopatra with the famous snake. in general the world crafting in the desmond era was amazing. by the time of #4 they gave up on it, but it was a real big deal up until then, their website to hype up the release of 3 where you can travel the story in real time (the first 6 creed games modern day plots all happen in the fall of 2012) was fucking cool. they also had an aftermath timeline and you could track shit as it happened.

 

[Snekposter]

Thats still pretty dumb. Brutus obviously would make for the better Assassin rather than some clunky sike it was actually a woman nobody ever heard of! If you're going to make historical fiction and you happen to have a piece of real history that fits in you use it.

In AC: Brotherhood you find Brutus' armor as the final armor, and in the cage with the armor he left a note that says he got precursor visions of Caesar being a tyrant so he decided to go murder him.

 

[TrainWreckWatcher]

Mutahar doing damage control for Ubisoft:

The game is a constant stream of Diarrhea, no wonder he likes it. Probably reminds him of the great Ganges.

 

[grump]

got that one wrong, you brought up such a good point i checked the wiki and she doesn't kill caesar but cleopatra with the famous snake.

I think you had it backward. In prior continuity Brutus kills Caesar which would make sense cause thats what sort of happened at least in the legends but in the game it was retconned to where the MC secretly kills Caesar. Which c'mon okay obviously you'd want the assassination to be playable but you could have had the player control Brutus. I'm too lazy to double check but don't remember Cleopatra's death even being shown in game. Another typical ubisoft move to narrowly avoid having the story become exciting. .

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

I can only hope Naoe is fun to play as. I still find them fun to play, sue me. The blend of history and fiction is a concept I always found interesting.

That being said the woke troon shit developers can die in a fire.

I still can't figure out why they killed Lucy off. I heard Kristen Bell was supposedly very upset about it, so it tells me they had planned it. And of course then Desmond dies, but his body is kept in storage. The next girl is now stuck in the matrix (?) because of Loki. I can't be bothered with the current day shit. Unless I get to fight Melanie.

 

[Glory To Arztotska]

So the Greek/Norse/Egypt entries in the games have a "Discovery Tour" mode where you don't go around stabbing Templars or similar stuff and instead go through an interactive virtual history museum of some sort.

This honestly interests me more than the AssCreed games themselves, and I get all three through PS+, so I shall partake of them and report my findings here as to whether they're boss or dross.

 

[30+GameOvers]

AC was always meant to be a historical game set in the Crusades where you kill Crusaders and Muslims alike. It was hyped up in 2006 as a spiritual successor to Prince of Persia. The whole Animus thing was only added later. In hindsight, we would've been better off without it.

AC1 WAS a Prince of Persia game, that was later turned into it's own thing. This is why there are so many similarities. PoP died to AC just like Rayman did when Raving Rabbids took over.

 

[Vassal]

So the Greek/Norse/Egypt entries in the games have a "Discovery Tour" mode where you don't go around stabbing Templars or similar stuff and instead go through an interactive virtual history museum of some sort.

This honestly interests me more than the AssCreed games themselves, and I get all three through PS+, so I shall partake of them and report my findings here as to whether they're boss or dross.

As I can't imagine UbiSoft managing to keep their shitty politics outta history, that's a horrifying thing to read. I, for one, am looking forward to hearing about your findings.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Smash JT: Ubisoft Botches Assassin’s Creed Shadows Collector’s Edition Wall Scroll—And Japanese Fans Are Furious (archive)

Fans? I highly doubt there are any japanese Kangz Creed fans. Nip AC haters are furious but on the other hand they always are.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

So the Greek/Norse/Egypt entries in the games have a "Discovery Tour" mode where you don't go around stabbing Templars or similar stuff and instead go through an interactive virtual history museum of some sort.

This honestly interests me more than the AssCreed games themselves, and I get all three through PS+, so I shall partake of them and report my findings here as to whether they're boss or dross.

They were actually pretty fun. I like that they put them in the games.

 

[valerian]

Its never been more unequivocably over than it is right now.

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Trans yasuke is a meme i can get behind.