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Assassin's Creed Syndicate Review Thread
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wanderingprostheyltite
Member
That game aged poorly really quickly, booted it up again maybe 6 months ago and was surprised how crummy it looked. Then again R* tends to do that to other open worlds
WrenchNinja
Member
It's a real sad thing that the story is more focused on the douche brother.
midasmulligan
Member
how does the male protagonist compare to the one from black flag? Hope there's more depth and character here, don't want have to re live the life of another shallow ass clown that was what-ever-the-fuck his name was from black flag...
WrenchNinja
Member
Apparently he is another shallow ass clown.
DOWN
Banned
good thing I didn't bring up laziness
Thanks!
Sarcasm?
FleckSplat
Member
Haven't properly played one of these since Brotherhood. Time for some AssCreed.
Possumowner
Member
I feel like ive entered the twilight zone....i did not expect these scores
Gormless Noodle
Member
Interesting, looking forward to see what the general consensus will be under gamers.
Structural sexism unfortunately
Always-honest
Banned
So is it not the same gameplay as all the others? Same repetition?
Or just way better done?
Or just way better done?
It blows, but it's not unexpected sadly. :/
Come on Ubi, here's hoping the next game is a female protagonist.
there's a female protagonist on this one.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
It seems to go from being good to being bad.
IMO the good could come from your A-list gamer who thinks the mundane parkour is something great because it's straightforward and tails itself around the graphics.
Then you could say some people are just jaded because they feel a burn out.
Idk how to feel to be honest. I'm a bit burned out and I know it's more or less a cinematic, run down a single path, get to the location, etc etc.
Iconic characters though? Corvo from Dishonored seems more iconic.
GI and IGN feel like their review team is in the video game spirit once again, but who knows. I'll wait until it has dropped in price or something.
IMO the good could come from your A-list gamer who thinks the mundane parkour is something great because it's straightforward and tails itself around the graphics.
Then you could say some people are just jaded because they feel a burn out.
Idk how to feel to be honest. I'm a bit burned out and I know it's more or less a cinematic, run down a single path, get to the location, etc etc.
Iconic characters though? Corvo from Dishonored seems more iconic.
GI and IGN feel like their review team is in the video game spirit once again, but who knows. I'll wait until it has dropped in price or something.
It's almost as if annualization was a bad idea for quality.
If you don't like the traversal then I doubt you'll enjoy it
MHWilliams
Member
I mean, if you don't like Assassin's Creed, this game isn't going to tempt you.
Kssio_Aug
Member
Really positive scores, but I'm still not convinced. By everything I've watched it seems Unity with grappling hook and without a cooperative mode.
Have they said anything about those smartphones apps that blocks in-game content behind stupid, boring, time-consuming mini-games? What about those infinity and useless collectables or chests that contains literally nothing worth it?
It's okay that the game may actually plays better than Unity. But to me at least I can't see Syndicate becoming a trully better Assassin's Creed without a trully improved combat system and without the story being fixed (what I believe will recquire a reboot).
Have they said anything about those smartphones apps that blocks in-game content behind stupid, boring, time-consuming mini-games? What about those infinity and useless collectables or chests that contains literally nothing worth it?
It's okay that the game may actually plays better than Unity. But to me at least I can't see Syndicate becoming a trully better Assassin's Creed without a trully improved combat system and without the story being fixed (what I believe will recquire a reboot).
SRTtoZ
Member
Not sure why people are surprised. Unity had the same thing happen and that game was pretty bad all things considered (bugs, framerate, bullshit app chests, mediocre story/gameplay) and outlets still gave it 80's 90's and even a perfect 100. All Ubi really had to do was release a game that ran well without as many bugs and stupid bullshit and wallah, a pretty decent 8/10 game. I still think people who have AC fatigue will want to skip it but if you are craving an open world collectathon in Victorian London, you're in luck.
MHWilliams
Member
Unless I missed something, there's no app and no Ubisoft account only chests. The golden chests in this game are just special items. Ton of collectible items though.
NavyPharaoh
Member
This! First thing I thought to myself after seeing the scores was this game reviews well every year. Then after if we, the players decides it's shit, outlets like IGN will talk about the game like they never gave it a high score. Take Gamespot for example. They gave it a 9, now go watch the Lobby with my man Danny O'Dwyer and it sounds like all the same problems are there. Brain dead AI, a big world with zombie like citizens and an unfollowable plot. The main issue is freedom to solve Assassinations like you did bases in MGSV. From what I read the freedom isn't there and in the couple of video reviews I watched, they never addressed how the gameplay improves at all. in fact the gameplay looks exactly the same and the fact that I haven't heard it's different at all, tells me it's not different at all.
bananafactory
Banned
You've played it already?
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
I love how games can look good sitting still, but I can only take so much of ---|-------|------|
The formula isn't bad, but sometimes it goes there when I'm not ready for it.
They send you to your next destination and a cutscene plays and it's either adding more or it's just going to go.
I always hope they do it better and make it more natural.
PrimaNocta
Member
nice reviews. I'll pick this up sometime in December. Too many games this november.
MHWilliams
Member
It is another Assassin's Creed game.
Seriously, if that's a problem, Syndicate won't change your mind.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
So? Different people. Different opinions.
Well, they escaped it from a critical standpoint (the current metacritic score is fairly in line with series trends). Who know how they'll fare commercially though.