Well he needs to swing those oh-so-stealthy dual swords at somebody.
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AC4: First review
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Well he needs to swing those oh-so-stealthy dual swords at somebody.
Meant on PS4.
Do you really honestly believe after 6 games they finally put decent stealth in? Come on this is common sense by now.
But no let's trust the first review that sounds as suspicious as most first reviews do. Then we'll whine about how wrong it was after we all buy it just like always.
3/5 of it.
R3TRO
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Oh ho ho!
IncandescentPrecept
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Yeah, for real. Why would you think everyone know what aliasing is?
Lostconfused
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Oh no, I just don't think any game that will ever come out outside of kickstarter will have decent stealth by whatever metric you judge.
5/5 for the length of a game sounds like saying it's proportionate to itself, "the game is as long as it's long!", it's tautological. There's no need to put a score to it, if all they want to say is it doesn't overstay its welcome. I mean, what's a 2/5 or a 3/5 in terms of length, since they have to be speaking relatively and not in absolutes?
I want to believe!
I'm so ready for a AC game to go back to stealth and more open ended missions.
Sentenza
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I don't believe the review, but at some point, they're going to have to address the stealth and combat. Unfortunately, until sales start to wane, they don't have the incentive to do so.
Spider_Jerusalem
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Yep, and others will follow. Ubisoft invited the bigger outlets for a two-days playtrhough of the game on PS4, so many reviews will be for that version.
NTIETS13A_Superiority
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This is propably casual view on gfx as there seems to be quite a few differences in reality... Aliasing is dissapointing as iq should be numero uno consern in nextgen games.
I'm french and Jeux vidéo Magazine is a very bad magazine in terms of review, as the jeuxvideo.com french website.
Every AAA or big marketed game gets a 18. So don't pay too much attention to the score and be careful to the "good/bad" point, not always representative of the reality.
Every AAA or big marketed game gets a 18. So don't pay too much attention to the score and be careful to the "good/bad" point, not always representative of the reality.
SJRB
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All footage so far shows that the "stealth" is basically the same as in AC3: you hide in the bushes, only this time the foliage is dense enough so you don't stick out like a sore thumb like in AC3.
"Stealth" as a gameplay feature has no meaning whatsoever in an AC game, it's nothing more than standing behind an object so a guard doesn't see you. There is no crouch, no cover option to hide behind boxes or other objects, no sneaking movement.
It's shallow as hell.
Testing kits have been set out to some reviewers, I think. But doubt there are that many of them, as many reviewers get retail consoles.
SneakySneaks
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As someone who didn't hate AC3 as much as most GAF posters (
) I'm still going to wait on this one. I've done the AC thing so many times now it lost all the luster it once had. If GAF reviews are great (or if the ship is like the Suikoden 4 ship and I can add stuff and get treasure or decorations) I'll buy it for the PS4.
I liked Desmond too. Yeah, I know he was shit
Fixed.
How much of that is actually fun though. Theoretically AC3 had also lots of things to do.
Wait for it to appear for free on PS+. That's what I plan to do. The previous games all appeared there without fail.
This seems to be a common theme among multiplat titles.
I didn't expect you will see one from Ubi events. Ubisoft and Sony have a deal in regards to AC series
krameriffic
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It's not about being jaded and bitter, it's about pattern recognition and looking at how stealth and freeform tackling of assassination missions has slowly eroded away release after release since AC2. It's all in favor of a more guided experience that might trick some people into thinking their doing a stealthy approach, when really they're walking down a linear corridor built for them by the developer to kill a target in a cool way.
Killing_Joke
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I was sucked into the AC3 hype. Never again. Will wait for black friday, if not then a good a sale. It does look great though. I need me some more naval missions. 
hey_it's_that_dog
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Because NeoGAF. But more than that, why not just spend 1 second to google it?
They're saying you get a lot of hours of busywork for your 60 dollars. That's all.
fluffydelusions
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Pretty sure 780m beats any next gen GPU
I thought everyone liked follow missions?
Busywork in AC1 and AC2 was good busywork, that played on the core of the gameplay, however shallow it was. Then they turned it into checklisting (jump off the horse ten times!) and accounting (oh god ac3 why).
Vinterbird
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Review event was a few weeks ago for PS4.
Phat Michael
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Exactly. Those quotes could have come from Edge and he still would have said the same shit.
ShockingAlberto
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I for one wholly believe this month-early, next-gen, praise-filled review.
krameriffic
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It's more like the AC3 mission where you navigate across the big battlefield trying not to get shot, then move up some fallen trees to start down a linear path through the tree branches and some bushes that eventually ends at the top of a flagpole, from which you air assassinate a guy. There's really nothing to the mission other than doing exactly what the developers wanted you to do. And if you don't do it, you actually fail the mission.
Why did you have to remind me.
Lostconfused
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Fixed that for you. AC2 was already the start of this trend. But my point was aimed squarely at Derrick, because it doesn't matter what most people think is good or bad because to him it's all shit.
Well I didn't do it that way and didn't fail it, unless by fail you mean that you didn't get the 100% rating.
Vinterbird
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Off site event.
Sum-Mischief
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I been checking out this game here and there videos and articles. I changed my mind on this game and decided to get ...
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