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[Mendax]

people are still yapping over the accents =.=

if Unity had english with french accents everyone would be giggling and making even more jokes about the game all the time (like they are during a ubisoft press conference) because it sounds stupid, silly and lame. If you want an immersive experience you put the game on the audio language of its setting (french) with english subtitles....

Everyone has an accent. The accents are british because they had brits do the voice over. If they had americans do it you would be crying over american accents in a european country or sth like that.

 

[Aces&Eights]

Not to be a grumpy gus but after that abortion called Unity and the horrendous performance issues, required apps, glitches and overall clusterfuckery, I'm gonna go ahead and wait for reviews on this one.

 

[Loxley]

syndicate? syndicate? does that term hold any meaning in relation to the industrial revolution? seems more of a late 20th century thing to me. wth.

Well, the Oxford English Dictionary defines a syndicate as:

A group of individuals or organizations combined to promote some common interest.

You could say the Assassins are a syndicate. It also could be referring to crime syndicates and the like.

 

[Aces&Eights]

Well, the Oxford English Dictionary defines a syndicate as:

A group of individuals or organizations combined to promote some common interest.

You could say the Assassins are a syndicate. It also could be referring to crime syndicates and the like.

I think you will be playing as Ice-T and be part of his rhyme syndicate.

 

[strafer]

I hope the game has another pretty redhead

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

Another dude (those are manly hands)? I'll pass on that alone.

 

[delSai]

I don't like Syndicate as much as Victory :S

 

[Green Yoshi]

I hope they show more than CGI. We already know that it plays in London.

Concerning Last gen, why don't take the world of AC I and produce another game in it? Should be cheap to make.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

Is Unity worth playing on PC now after all its patches? I held off due to it being a mess, but I still want to play it.

 

[sjay1994]

I don't like Syndicate as much as Victory :S

We will all probably get over it in a few months, like we did with "Beast Souls"

 

[ZhugeEX]

I don't like Syndicate as much as Victory :S

No one liked "Wii" over "Revolution".

 

[Quentyn]

The US site has a different teaser video.

http://ubistatic2-a.akamaihd.net/ncsa/ac/video/ac-knuckles-video.mp4

And another still image.

 

[Red Hood]

Usually I'd be all over this with the Victorian Era design, but Assassin's Creed hasn't been interesting for me in a pretty long time now. I was very hyped for Unity because everything felt like it would be the fresh start the series needed, but it was basically just an improvement in the graphics department. Core gameplay didn't change for shit, and I don't expect Victory to do it either.

TL;DR - Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

 

[drigosr]

Black and Gold? Hummm...

These colors settings will compose good scenarios.

 

[Xpliskin]

Ubi pressed the marketing button.

So gameplay demo at E3.

 

[Demon Ice]

Cool.

The website is very glitchy for me.

Preparing you for the game itself.

Speaking of, I wonder if used copies of Unity have dropped below $10 yet.

 

[Mobius 1]

I just bought Unity, ugh... yearly updates are madness.

Ok, curious about the Victorian setting. Let's see it.

 

[Triggerhappytel]

Ok, the basics:

- Kill the ridiculous and useless "huge crowds" thing.
- Kill co-op. It didn't work, it wasn't creative, and it simply wasn't fun. Keep iterating on the interesting and creative multiplayer the series was building on before.
- A better map. The scale of Paris was often impressive, but the actual meat and potatoes of the level design itself was rote, safe, and boring.
- The combat was somehow more awful than ever. Revamp it completely (and I do mean COMPLETELY) again, or just go back to the simple stuff it had before.
- Whether through input lag or just plain wonky controls, the up/down new method of parkour did not work well. Scrap it or rework it.


There is a LOT that I need to see before I give this game a chance. Even at $12 AC Unity was a colossal disappointment.

Interesting criticisms; I haven't really followed the game, but I'd not read these things before. I was kind of intending on getting it when the PS4 price has dropped low (about £12) but based on your comments I think it would annoy me and I might just give it a wide berth altogether.

 

[ViciousDS]

that whole skills unlock thing in Unity pissed me off so much, doing co-op missions just to unlock points to unlock skills.....I hope they fix everything that was wrong about Unity....because I really did like the concept of it and the atmosphere in the game.

 

[Loakum]

Ubi pressed the marketing button.

So gameplay demo at E3.

Hosted by aisha tyler, with an reference to having "girl wood' (I should had added this in the E3 prediction thread)

 

[OléGunner]

If the present day is the same load of horse shit we've gotten over the last couple games i'll be very disappointed.

I enjoyed the modern timeline with Desmond but Ubi have fucked that up so much.

 

[Markitron]

Please be the opposite of Unity in every way.

 

[ogbg]

I liked Unity so looking forward to this. Better stealth mechanics and console performance would be welcome though

 

[Deleted member 17706]

I would love the irony if the characters in this one had a French accent, to balance all the French being very English last time around.

They were English in the English dub. It was a dub.

The way they handled it in the previous games was what was more ridiculous. Making them all have heavy stereotypical accents and throw in random phrases in their mother tongue just looked like they were all trying to practice their English skills on a national level or some shit. It was dumb.

 

[Chaplain]

Hoping for a non-CG trailer. Show real gameplay and disclose what system its running on somewhere in the trailer.

 

[LAA]

I like the look of the setting of this AC... Only problem is whether Ubi can deliver on a few things...
Not gimping the PS4 version to "avoid debates"
Not releasing a buggy mess on launch
Not littering it with micro-transactions
Preferably not have more than like 3 editions (though not as major as the other things)

If they can do that, it's looking more hopeful I'll jump back in

 

[Deleted member 17706]

Hoping for a non-CG trailer. Show real gameplay and disclose what system its running on somewhere in the trailer.

I doubt we'll get any gameplay before E3.

 

[FollowTheWind]

Another dude (those are manly hands)? I'll pass on that alone.

You'll pass on a game because you wanted a female character? What? Idgi?

 

[Red Hood]

...because I really did like the concept of it and the atmosphere in the game.

Its potential and atmosphere have never been the problem with Assassin's Creed, it's the execution that nowadays is downright shit.

 

[tringworldso]

12 May... does this mean a GameInformer cover story is out of the picture?

 

[privitsan02]

Well Unity bombed critically and definitely made me less excited of the franchise after the fantastic Black Flag. At this point it just seems pointless to get excited for new AC when there will be another the following.

I still wish they never had the present day nonsense and went with a more "Zelda" route with each game being loosely connected with their respective time periods.

Best wishes.

 

[hawk2025]

They were English in the English dub. It was a dub.

The way they handled it in the previous games was what was more ridiculous. Making them all have heavy stereotypical accents and throw in random phrases in their mother tongue just looked like they were all trying to practice their English skills on a national level or some shit. It was dumb.

Er, they do this in Unity.

The characters are constantly using french phrases and words spliced in with English.

 

[Loxley]

The US site has a different teaser video.

http://ubistatic2-a.akamaihd.net/ncsa/ac/video/ac-knuckles-video.mp4

And another still image.

I'm wondering if "Rooks" is a syndicate of some sort - hence the name change. The brass knuckles are certainly a classic image of old-timey gangs.

 

[funo]

Another dude (those are manly hands)? I'll pass on that alone.

Just wait for the reveal then *wink* *wink*

 

[Prine]

Skipped unity due to franchise fatigue, still not completely enthused.

 

[mgs2master2]

Cool.

The website is very glitchy for me.

Probably like the real game.

 

[Evolved1]

Hmm I wonder if they'll finally figure out what an analog stick is used for in this one...

I've bought all the (not mobile) AC games, I will not buy this. Even if people are singing its praises, I don't fucking care.

 

[Chaplain]

I doubt we'll get any gameplay before E3.

I agree. However, they know by now that people usually complain that the trailer is CG. Hopefully they avoid their yearly fumble in their reveal trailers (Watch Dogs, I am looking at you).

 

[elhav]

How can they milk it to this extent and still get away with it? It's become even worse than Call of duty games, and that's no easy feat.

Congratulations Ubisoft you fuckers.

Stopped playing at around Revelations/3, since it seemed like Ubi were running out of steam. Wonder how much it evolved from then, but I assume not by much, if at all.

 

[Eggbok]

Can the combat not be shit this time? Ubipls.

 

[hydruxo]

I agree. However, they know by now that people usually complain that the trailer is CG. Hopefully they avoid their yearly fumble in their reveal trailers (Watch Dogs, I am looking at you).

Eh, even if it's CG I'm cool with it just because Ubisoft at the very least makes some fantastic trailers for the AC games. We'll see gameplay in a month anyways so it's all good.

 

[qa_engineer]

Another Assassin's Creed game? Really? Didn't Unity just come out not too long ago? Jesus H they are really milking this franchise. The last Assassin' Creed I played was AS3, and that was fun for all of 2 hours.

 

[SJRB]

Hoping for a non-CG trailer. Show real gameplay and disclose what system its running on somewhere in the trailer.

Say what you want about the games themselves, but Ubi's CG trailers are always god-tier.

 

[mdubs]

I'm in as long as there isn't any sailing to bog things down.

Another Assassin's Creed game? Really? Didn't Unity just come out not too long ago? Jesus H they are really milking this franchise.

Err, clearly you haven't been paying attention to the release schedule the franchise has.

 

[@Wreck]

wheres the line

i'm ready!

more AC!!!!!

HYPE!!!!!!

 

[OléGunner]

Another Assassin's Creed game? Really? Didn't Unity just come out not too long ago? Jesus H they are really milking this franchise. The last Assassin' Creed I played was AS3, and that was fun for all of 2 hours.

Hmmm not sure why you're acting surprised.

A yearly AssCreed is as inevitable as a new COD.

 

[Glass Shark]

I always liked the modern-day plot portion of Assassin's Creed. As soon as Ubisoft gave up on that, I stopped caring about the series altogether.

 

[qa_engineer]

Hmmm not sure why you're acting surprised.

A yearly AssCreed is as inevitable as a new COD.

Not so much surprise as I am dumbfounded that they can pump out AssCreeds game at the rate that they are. I mean Ubisoft might as well be labeled "The asscreed factory"

 

[elhav]

Hmmm not sure why you're acting surprised.

A yearly AssCreed is as inevitable as a new COD.

Yeah, only now it seems like two a year is gonna become the new norm for Asscreed

 

[FollowTheWind]

Not so much surprise as I am dumbfounded that they can pump out AssCreeds game at the rate that they are. I mean Ubisoft might as well be labeled "The asscreed factory"

But they still make a lot of other games... Why the surprise, its the same with every annual franchise, from sports to shooters. At least its different and we got this open world adventure game.