Assassin's Creed thread

GloryToArztotska said:
As someone who has only put in time on Black Flag, are the 1st two games worth a lark today?
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I enjoyed Odyssey even if it departed from the original stealth gameplay. Especially because they offered the NewGame+ functionality and I played through 4 or 5 times completely switching things up.

The story was great, the game world and quests entertaining and without DLC content the game did not become too repetitive.

Valhalla was very boring and turns into a terrible slog.
 
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Gobermental Supervisor said:
I enjoyed Odyssey even if it departed from the original stealth gameplay. Especially because they offered the NewGame+ functionality and I played through 4 or 5 times completely switching things up.

The story was great, the game world and quests entertaining and without DLC content the game did not become too repetitive.

Valhalla was very boring and turns into a terrible slog.
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Was asking about the very 1st two Assassin's Creed games with Ezio but appreciate the information all the same. 👍
 
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GloryToArztotska said:
Was asking about the very 1st two Assassin's Creed games with Ezio but appreciate the information all the same. 👍
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Oh, with Ezio. I did enjoy the Ezio games a lot, but they are very linear in their story and freedom of movement compared to todays games, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but worth noting.

If you can get them in a Humble Bundle or on the high seas for cheap/free, they are totally worth it. Just please avoid throwing good money at Ubisoft, they deserve to starve.
 
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Gobermental Supervisor said:
Oh, with Ezio. I did enjoy the Ezio games a lot, but they are very linear in their story and freedom of movement compared to todays games, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but worth noting.

If you can get them in a Humble Bundle or on the high seas for cheap/free, they are totally worth it. Just please avoid throwing good money at Ubisoft, they deserve to starve.
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Way ahead of you, I can already download the Ezio Collection through PS+.
 
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Jace on ice said:
Steam has only 40k active players and it's already starting to drop.

Are these niggers trying to tell me that there's an additional 950k players on console?

Seems unlikely.
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Steam wouldn't keep track of Uplay playerbase, keep that in mind. Still is rough to hover around only 40k concurrent players on 'Day One'
 
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Are we gonna make it ubibros?
 
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Slop has become my guilty pleasure. Dustborn and Veilguard last year were so bad they were actively hilarious. Dustborn should have finished with the player saving Mecca by fighting Trump on a giant mecha Jesus. I've been excited for this game. These frenchies have surpassed even my own imagination with how far they can go. I thought it was bad before release but I'm enjoying this way more than I thought I would.

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Ser Prize said:
It makes sense when you realize they did Yasuke out of spite. The writers at Ubisoft have been seething about players preferring male protagonists since the higher ups made them add Bayek in Origins. So they made Yasuke the male choice to 'own the chuds'.
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Syndicate actually. There was a leak right before Valhalla came out that involved devs complaining about corporate intervening and preventing them from making games with female protagonists.
>Syndicate was suppose to have equal parts of the Frye Twins but corporate told them to focus more on Jacob, so he was the focus of all the promotional material and he's dead center on the boxart while Evie is in the background. The story focuses substantially more on Jacob as well
>Origins was suppose to have Bayek die early on and have you play as his wife, like Haytham/Connor in AC3. Corporate came in and told them to keep Bayek as the protagonist, hence that weird ending with Aya being the one that killed Caesar and starting the Brotherhood
>Odyssey was suppose to only have Kassandra as the only choice, corporate came in and forced them to include a male choice. They just grabbed the villain and swapped the characters. Ubisoft Quebec still SEETHES nonstop about this one and mentions Kassandra being the canon choice every chance they get despite 2/3rd of the playerbase picking Alexios
As the leak didn't include anything about Valhalla since it came out around that time and the "canon" choice is female Eivor and male Odin, I'm willing to bet corporate intervened again and they just asked the Odin VA to do more work since he has the same VA as male Eivor. Syndicate being the initial part of this shitshow leading up to Shadows is fitting since they're both made by Ubisoft Quebec. Yasuke was 100% done out of spite to convince people to prefer their female protagonist and to get back at corporate for forcing a male protagonist.
 
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Edgy But Dull said:
Syndicate actually. There was a leak right before Valhalla came out that involved devs complaining about corporate intervening and preventing them from making games with female protagonists.
>Syndicate was suppose to have equal parts of the Frye Twins but corporate told them to focus more on Jacob, so he was the focus of all the promotional material and he's dead center on the boxart while Evie is in the background. The story focuses substantially more on Jacob as well
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That's a GOOD thing!!! What's wrong with you wanting to play as an action girl, especially in a Viking setting, it's already bad enough how brown this game is.
 
Edgy But Dull said:
Yasuke was 100% done out of spite to convince people to prefer their female protagonist and to get back at corporate for forcing a male protagonist.
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So you're telling me corporate looked at all the bullshit starring their chosen main character and were totally ok with that? Not to mention all the other odd stuff they inserted that is questionable at best. The one thing that the business leads wanted was a male lead? The rest they found excusable, that's crazy.
 
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Steam wouldn't keep track of Uplay playerbase
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First off, they ditched UPlay for Ubisoft Connect. Second off, ain't no using that hot slice of shit until they have to. Lastly, "densely packed console players"; Failguard proved that being on "other platforms" means fuck all.
 
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Day of the Cope said:
First off, they ditched UPlay for Ubisoft Connect. Second off, ain't no using that hot slice of shit until they have to. Lastly, "densely packed console players"; Failguard proved that being on "other platforms" means fuck all.
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The idea that the PC gaming market is some tiny fraction of gaming as a whole is laughable and always has been. Steam beat it's own concurrent player record back in December of last year at 39.2 million people playing at once. For Sony to hit 40 million concurrent ps5 players out of the 75 million units they had sold by the end of 2025 that would require more than 50% of their install base, assuming no one has had to buy a replacement console for any reason, to be playing online concurrently. And if we take Sony's monthly active users from February at 129 million from across all of their services, so including ps4, any ps3 systems still being used, anyone logged into the service on a PC, unique users(a single ps4 or ps5 can have multiple user accounts on it) that it would still require almost 1/3 of their entire playerbase to be playing online concurrently. There's just no fucking way that's true, and why Sony tried so hard with helldivers to get PC players on PSN accounts. I'm sure the story from Microsoft is similar with their constant free gamepass PC trial offers and shit.

Hell, even Steam last reported 132 million monthly active users back in 2021 which is more than Sony is reporting as their record now. And that's just looking at Steam, not including GOG, EGS, and the people who for whatever the hell reason buy games directly from Ubisoft, EA, etc. It's the same reason claiming that games also released on gamepass might eat into Steam sales(like Avowed) is laughable cope, because plenty of games launched on gamepass are also on Steam and doing just fine there.
 
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Steam allows access to players numbers, Ubisoft does not show shit on their UbiConnect platform.
They can pretty much tell you whatever they want and especially talk about how great the reviews are.

But any non-retard knows that only people who own the game (or got a press copy) can leave reviews, which means all the gamers who categorically refuse to buy the game get no say.
The worst reviews happen for games that sell out the players or straight up lied about its content, and players make their unhappiness known in the reviews. If players already know the game will be garbage, they will not buy it, meaning games that will suck and gamers already know will suck, will have better reviews than they deserve.

When the investors get their information they cannot lie about the financial viability of the product and it will be total garbage.
 
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