If you are canadian its literally on the box on all ubisoft games. "Can play in french"
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Assassin's Creed Unity Gamescom Demo
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If you are canadian its literally on the box on all ubisoft games. "Can play in french"
qa_engineer
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graphics look okay. I'll borrow this from a friend for sure, no more buying AC games.
Always-honest
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I'm not though. But thanx.
SirMossyBloke
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Black Flag....poor? Wtf is this haha.
CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls
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Fabric and the swish of the character's clothes looked fantastic. That 1:1 scale is sick too.
I'm talking of the pedestrian AI. WD can do a lot more of what ? I have the game, AI is nothing of special. I have tons of example, if you prefer. AC will be the same. Anyway AC4 it's 30 fps too & its a port.
Anyways, pretty sure it will be an available option. My cousin played the entire ezio trilogy in italian.
CriterionDog
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So you're using a compressed Youtube video to prove a downgrade?
Oh. I thought you were talking about the aggressive AI. The aggressive Ai in GTA is garbage imo. I didn't really pay much attention to the civilian AI in GTA V because I just didn't enjoy the game as much, and didn't really explore it. I noticed that the AI in Watch dogs is more reactive to you as a player than in GTA.
Also, of course AC4 is 30 FPS. Its an open world game that was a simple upres port of the PS3 version. TLOU had extra time and is not as large (in terms of scale as an open world) so of course its going to be 60FPS.
Can you name an open world that is 60 FPS on console?
Since its the demo from the ubi conference its possible, I think a better comparison might be the demo at microsofts conference. I think it happened around the same time of day as the gamescom one as well.
The E3 screens are the ones coming a compressed YT video :
http://youtu.be/wzBJPOcmke0
The GC ones come from Gamersyde.
You're embarassing yourself.
Looking at the original post (of the german forum), they are both from gamersyde
CriterionDog
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Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Like the other guy said, they're both from gamersyde, and once again, it's a different time of day, which can drastically affect a game's visuals. Case and point, here's another game where knee-jerk reactions led to misinformation and belief of a downgrade.
Lighting can and will drastically affect visuals.
AC4 it's more a sandbox than an real open world game, if you ask me. From an area to another, I seen different loading. The ocean it's more a 'loop' then a real area. I think this game could run at the same fps of TLoU. But it's my though.
CriterionDog
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Like the other guy said, they're both from gamersyde, and once again, it's a different time of day, which can drastically affect a game's visuals. Case and point, here's another game where knee-jerk reactions led to misinformation and belief of a downgrade.
Lighting can and will drastically affect visuals.
You're awesome for posting this comparison
edit: Anyone who has a PS4 and hasn't play ISS really needs too : P
Like the other guy said, they're both from gamersyde, and once again, it's a different time of day, which can drastically affect a game's visuals. Case and point, here's another game where knee-jerk reactions led to misinformation and belief of a downgrade.
Lighting can and will drastically affect visuals.
Lighting can do HUGE things for overall look, see GTA 5. But textures don't lie... If you're comparing AC Unity from E3 to GC and cite the lighting as the quality drop, you're lying to yourself.
Edit: I think the game still looks pretty good considering the scope of the city and crowd size but there is absolutely a noticeable drop in texture quality from E3 to gamescom. E3 was most likely PC hardware and gamescom is PS4 hardware.
CriterionDog
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I think GC (if it was the console version) was Xbox One right? The button prompts are Xbox, not PS4
Edit: I highly doubt it will be 60fps. They said they're targeting it, but I'm expecting it to be 30.
SJRB
Gold Member
...Nice try, but the GC demo has Xbox controller prompts.
Nice try? Simple mistake, console version was implied.
Could just be PC with the usual Xbox button prompts. Most likely is.
If the Gamersyde footage is nothing more than stream footage that would explain the muddy textures in the screens. Gonna go watch it for myself.
I dunno, at first I thought it was jus differentt time of day, lighting, and stream quality differences
But looking closer and there is definitely a downgrade in texture quality, especially the wood beams on the right, and maybe the stones.
Also perhaps E3 is PC and GC is X1? (or perhaps it really is a PC) and they are using X1 prompts to help hide an overall downgrade
conspiracy
edit: looks like everyone is already discussing this stuff.
Sephiroth503
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Yeah tell me about it. Very disappointing. Not even an attempt at a French accent.
Coming from a french company makes it even worse.
RedHotChimiChanga
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Assassin's did not kill the innocent. You are out of sync.
Stantron
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I'm wondering if we can play with French voice and English subtitles. I'm assuming they're already making the French voice work for that country, so it would seem fitting to at least allow us the option of changing it. Some people did this with Italian voice work on past Asscreed games, didn't they?
CyberPunked
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They're probably the same builds tbh. I doubt they would downgrade this close to release. The only reason Watch Dogs was downgraded was because it was shown of years before release of the game, and the consoles it was releasing on.
base shagohod
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Yup. Vinny from Giant Bomb definitely did this for at least AC2, so I'm sure it'll be an option.
With these pics I dont think it is up for debate, that the texture resolution has taken a notiecable hit/donwgrade, just look at the wood. But we can specualte reasons, one being PC, and the other being console, namely X1. And WatchDogs downgrade wasnt really shown till closer to release. Regardless Ubi is well known for many of there games getting downgrades, not just WD.
yeah those look like a downgrade in texture quality to me.
CyberPunked
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Well there's watch_dogs and Far Cry 3. Far Cry 3 was downgraded compared to footage shown of years before release of the game. All footage we've seen of Unity has been within 4 months of the games release.
didnt realize the reveal and release were so close, But still dosnt change that there is some sort of texture downgrade going on. between the two. But could be chalked up to being 2 different platform builds.
there were also downgrades for Red Steel 1, and ZombiU a bit. Or at least they had bullshots. As well as many other Ubi games having bullshots, but I guess that is a bit different.
Regardless game looks good and still hyped for it.
Also I thought the Far Cry 3 downgrade was compared to the E3 from its same year of release? no?
Exploratory
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/Shrug. I felt the exact opposite. NPCs having their own stories and plus the street side flavor text makes me think of GTA as a generation behind.
Glorious Ownage
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I felt like the whole NPCs had their own stories thing fell by the way side after a couple hours of play. I saw tons of repeats of character models and their stories even with the randomized algorithm and I stopped caring. I liked the idea though and I'm sure next time around it'll be better executed
In addition nothing they really did in the world reflected what it said about then so that flavor text didn't do much for my immersion
Domino Theory
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What I love about Unity that I feel the latest AC games (Revelations to Black Flag) lost is the sense of grounded intimacy between the player and the game world. Each world started getting bigger and more segregated.
I loved that despite a few horse back riding sequences, AC1, 2, and Brotherhood were so grounded in its gameplay and how you interact within missions and the environment.
Unity seems to be taking the game back to its intimate roots while adding the positive additions presented in the latest AC games. All while centering the gameplay around AC1's assassination mission structure. It's also adding new elements (stealth! Crouching! Skill trees!) all focused around its core set up.
I absolutely love it and can feel the AC1 and 2 vibes kicking in hard with this one.
I loved that despite a few horse back riding sequences, AC1, 2, and Brotherhood were so grounded in its gameplay and how you interact within missions and the environment.
Unity seems to be taking the game back to its intimate roots while adding the positive additions presented in the latest AC games. All while centering the gameplay around AC1's assassination mission structure. It's also adding new elements (stealth! Crouching! Skill trees!) all focused around its core set up.
I absolutely love it and can feel the AC1 and 2 vibes kicking in hard with this one.
Listen to this man! Fine texture details are easily lost in a video.
It's like a hollywood film about Romans, but every actor is a Brit.
Come on now, Ubi, we expect you to do that at the very least. Especially after Altair (in Revelations, but even the first game's VA was ethnically correct), Connor and everyone in ACIII, and even Edward + the supporting cast of ACIV.
Not game ruining or anything, but even with the option to play in French, it's just not the same.
It took maybe 45 minutes for me to see repeated lines and characters doing the same things from one end of town across the other in WD. After that, it felt like I didn't have to travel far in any direction to find the shitty beat boxer entertaining the ladies, or a host of other people saying/ doing the same things, just reskinned. It took a long ass time to to find anything repeating that same way in GTAV. There is so much more variety and flavor in V, it makes WD look a generation behind in that regard. Luckily it controls great on foot and with combat, so...hope for a sequel to really iron out the kinks.
I would take an Austrian accent over French any day. (But they couldn't even do that).
TetraGenesis
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But at least in that case they were speaking Latin, a dead language, not modern Italian, so it's pretty much fair game. Whereas in this case it's only a couple hundred years ago and the language still exists.