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Well black ops will be good as long as you like mw2. The true test will be the next game when they have to make the entire thing themselves.Foliorum Viridum said:
(Iirc iw had always given them their updated engine)
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(Iirc iw had always given them their updated engine)
do the devs (or PR or whoever they are) actually say anything during the goldeneye QL? the QL EX are usually worse for it if they do.
maybe it was just some generic PR person they have to keep chained to the preview code and so they didnt feel bad about making fun of it infront of them :lol
maybe it was just some generic PR person they have to keep chained to the preview code and so they didnt feel bad about making fun of it infront of them :lol
I disagree. I find Desmond's character and storyline dull and cliched. He is generic and boring as a character, his sidekicks are incredibly obnoxious, and I couldn't care less what happens to him. I think the entire overarching Desmond plot line only serves to connect the games logically as a series, but adds little to the appeal of the games themselves. He's there to appeal to the western fetish of "look! It's you in the game. This guy is just like YOU! YOU are the one doing all of this!" You could eliminate the entire Desmond plot line and just have the games be examples of the Templar vs. Assassin fight throughout history and it wouldn't make a lick of difference. Altair and Ezio are the stars of the show.Xater said:
Yeah, I liked the talk they had on Idle thumbs about this a while back.
it was like the devs didn't have the guts to just say "here is a game about the crusades".
they had to fill it up with game-y sci-fi nonsense since there's an expectation that this hook is needed to keep our attention; that we can't just enjoy an unorthodox, historical setting on its own
it was like the devs didn't have the guts to just say "here is a game about the crusades".
they had to fill it up with game-y sci-fi nonsense since there's an expectation that this hook is needed to keep our attention; that we can't just enjoy an unorthodox, historical setting on its own
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slaughterking said:
Loving this game more every time I see it. I had no idea this had a single player aspect as well.
Probably my top choice this fall.
TheLegendary
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LCfiner said:
You're boring as hell
That's some avatar quote baiting if I've ever seen it
cuevas. PhD.
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LCfiner said:
I like the story
TheLegendary said:
I wasn't thinking about that. didn't want to bait.
I will give the sci fi story some props for one thing, though...
I may not have liked the real world aspect at all but i loved the glyph finding/ decoding they hid in the second game because it gave more of a reason to explore the structures in the old cities and was better than feathers. (when collectibles are super hard to find and there's a lot of them, i stop trying)
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LCfiner is absolutely right about Assassins creed. The whole sci-fi aspect is retarded and is only there because ubi was scared gamers wouldn't play a game set so far in the past. It also doesn't help that the twist to AC2 was one of the dumbest things I've ever witnessed. Fun game otherwise.
Why?Jay-B said:
As far as I know, it's the only AAA franchise about assassins. That should do to set it apart from the rest. The genetic memory bullshit does nothing but give it the stench of video game bullshit when it would have been perfectly legitimate to "just" be set during the crusades or in renaissance Italy. It's as if that were somehow not enough. The other crap really cheapens it in my eyes.
cuevas. PhD.
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You guys do realize this is a trilogy right? They are building up to present day combat in ACIII.
They could have made it a fiftythousand-ilogy if they had left out the sci-fi crap and just made random games about assassin's through time. Like the Total War series, they make similarly-playing games in all different time periods without an unnecessary connection between them. The unnecessary Desmond story does nothing but restrict Ubi's creativity because everything has to work around the overarching "plot," and that "plot" is pretty lame in comparison to the plots within the game proper.cuevas said:
cuevas. PhD.
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DaBuddaDa said:
After the three games (sort of like brotherhood now) you can expect several more that will do just that, limited animus stuff and mostly just showing you around the world.
slaughterking said:
very interesting gameplay here , but since someone will be hunting you everytime as you following your targets in that mode then it will depend on how much you can play as NPC as much as possible because if anyone see you doing un-robotic movements then you're toast and I see this can be more frustrating than fun sometimes.
but it's definitely very cool , not sold yet ,but looking forward to see the rest of the modes here.
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I thought the NPCs did some deliberately "un-robotic" movements themselves, so you wont immediately be uncovered if you accidentally do some stop-and-go or something.Totobeni said:
I think that concept is really, really interesting and the execution seems very solid so far.
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RiccochetJ
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Has anyone tried Hydrophobia? Even though GB was down on it during the quicklook, it actually made me interested in the game.
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jediyoshi said:
Thanks, wasn't gonna watch it but now I'm definitely not gonna :lol
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looking goodRZI said:
:lol yupjediyoshi said:
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Die Squirrel Die
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cuevas said:
I'd be okay with that. When (and maybe it's a question of If as well now) they decide to wrap up the Desmond part of the storyline I hope it's a short-ish epilogue to another game of Historical Animus Adventures.
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I played the demo. It was dull, and the controls were pretty bad. Nothing that couldn't be over come, but enough to put me off the game. I've read a couple users say that it's not that bad once you get to the meat of the game, but man, it does not start well.RiccochetJ said:
Wow, Irrational hate on Goldeneye. How can you say it was meh after watching the QL and those lot were having fun with it. Man, this board must have a different defenition of the word ''fun'' :lol
and Brotherhood looks amazing, my most anticipated game this year.Also,need to coment on the Trilogy comments. Ubi never said anything about trilogising this franchise. If you have played AC II you can see that this will have at least 5 itirrations with 5 different charcters.
and Brotherhood looks amazing, my most anticipated game this year.Also,need to coment on the Trilogy comments. Ubi never said anything about trilogising this franchise. If you have played AC II you can see that this will have at least 5 itirrations with 5 different charcters.
SapientWolf
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Where is my 3 hour / 1 level Brad Super Meat Boy quicklook? :lol
Zero-Crescent
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Maybe they're saving that for the Endurance Run? :lolSapientWolf said:
RaySpencer
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jediyoshi said:
Brad has no problems spoiling anything in any series, and its almost always for no reason at all.
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slaughterking said:
Okay that looked like a ton of fun. Seems like the perfect podcast game - just fire up a podcast and play some of that multiplayer since it seems pretty slow paced
Never played AC2 though - any word on a GOTY edition or bundle with Brotherhood that includes all the DLC?
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