Criminal Upper said:Altair is so garbage in the first game, it was only in ACII where they actually gave him a decent backstory and made him kinda cool.
Ezio 4 lyfe, yo.
Enosh said:that's part of his charm ^^
Ugh, you would guess a multi-national dev team, who have worked on a game centered around Arabic history would know that this shit is not how Arabic is written.ChocolateCupcakes said:
I enlarged it a bit in case anyone knows what it is.
Wow... You just reminded me that Brotherhood exists. I've played the first two and played brotherhood beta, but I completely forgot that Brotherhood was an entire entity of it's own. Never liked the whole idea of that game to begin with, and beta was only fun when I played with people in my friends list.Ricker said:Loved the first two to death but got annoyed at those place you had to liberate or whatever in Brotherhood,they where hard to do at first and just gave up but i`ll get back into it this year...a new one is always good news,the franchise is great.
shagg_187 said:Wow... You just reminded me that Brotherhood exists. I've played the first two and played brotherhood beta, but I completely forgot that Brotherhood was an entire entity of it's own. Never liked the whole idea of that game to begin with, and beta was only fun when I played with people in my friends list.
Beta was fun with you all!! <3Irish said:Wow, Shagg. Go out and play Brotherhood this instant.
Brotherhood is worth it for its awesome single player alone - have yet to touch the multi although I hear its got its good parts.shagg_187 said:Wow... You just reminded me that Brotherhood exists. I've played the first two and played brotherhood beta, but I completely forgot that Brotherhood was an entire entity of it's own. Never liked the whole idea of that game to begin with, and beta was only fun when I played with people in my friends list.
shagg_187 said:Beta was fun with you all!! <3
Lyphen said:I do hope it's about Altair forming the Assassin's, creating the code, and starting the war with the Templars. I just want to go back to the Crusades.
Gomu Gomu said:Ugh, you would guess a multi-national dev team, who have worked on a game centered around Arabic history would know that this shit is not how Arabic is written.
edit: Unless it's intentional? I don't know.
Altair definitely is more interesting than Ezio. Totally agree. But Ezio's story was about how a carefree adolescent transforms into the greatest assassin in Italia. It was pretty good too.The Antitype said:Altair had a great back-story in AC.
He was a gifted assassin, the best of them all, but he was arrogant and egotistical. He took the philosophy of the assassin's as an excuse to do whatever the hell he wanted.
His arrogance cost his friends life and limb (literally). His feet were put to the fire, and he was forced to re-learn and embrace the assassin's philosophies. Just as he was reaching epiphany, he learned that the man he looked up to never believed or abided by the philosophies he was preaching.
So he was forced to search for the truth within, set things right, and basically be the biggest badass on earth.
Ezio is a great character in his own right too. Just different.
Irish said:Yeah, nobody else (that we play with) really played the MP though, so I never really touched it that much.
The SP portion is huge, so that is where I spent all of my time. It's a lot of fun.
Juan29.zapata said:Why would they write Altair's name backwards? There's something fishy here.
shagg_187 said:Heh. Love how Joystiq is not publishing my comment that the name of the game, logo, etc is already out there cause they don't post take rumors from GAF even though its all taken from the swf.
This man speaks to my heart. Bro's for life.The Antitype said:FUCK YES!
I've been wanting another Altair story since the idea of Brotherhood demonstrated that Ubisoft was willing to expand the lore around the ancestors.
I am so excited. So ready to head back to the Crusades!
The follow-up to the original AC is so interesting.
Altair is alone. He has no Assassin clan to help him. The Templars are stronger than they've ever been, now that their enemies have been dispatched.
He's on the run. But he still has a mission.
Imagine an Assassin's Creed game where you're constantly on the run yourself, while you're hunting people down and completing missions. Totally adds a new sense of urgency when you don't have a base of operations to fall back to.
miladesn said:http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5251069024/m/2211095329/p/2
people on ubi forums got the other screens from the video, looks like dates of historic events as usual..
Amir0x said:Would buy this but hopefully it's a massive improvement over AC1 if it is Altair. I didn't like AC1 at all. AC2 was such a colossal change and improvement that I then became a massive fan (of everything except the abysmal storyline).
Gomu Gomu said:Ugh, you would guess a multi-national dev team, who have worked on a game centered around Arabic history would know that this shit is not how Arabic is written.
edit: Unless it's intentional? I don't know.
Kinda funny how given Ubisofts history I find the 'OMG it takes place in Russia!' google translation more believable than the actual arabic guy saying that the text is something else.miladesn said:http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5251069024/m/2211095329/p/2
people on ubi forums got the other screens from the video, looks like dates of historic events as usual..
Irish said:I think there is just so much good stuff in AC1 that gets overshadowed by certain elements like mission variety when people remember the first game.
The assassinations themselves have yet to be matched. Everything about them including the lead-up, the targets themselves, the places and events that they took place in, the dialogue with the dying target, and the final escapes were all so awesome.
Irish said:I think there is just so much good stuff in AC1 that gets overshadowed by certain elements like mission variety when people remember the first game.
The assassinations themselves have yet to be matched. Everything about them including the lead-up, the targets themselves, the places and events that they took place in, the dialogue with the dying target, and the final escapes were all so awesome.
This image is an insult to Arabic language speakers everywhere. I can't even begin to count how many things are wrong with this. What the hell, Ubi? AC1's ingame Arabic was just fine.ChocolateCupcakes said:
I enlarged it a bit in case anyone knows what it is.
shagg_187 said:English is written left to right. Arabic is written right to left. It's a classic case of marketing team opening Character Map and literally converting English to Arabic, thus not caring about the grammar or the style.
This is how you spell Altair in Arabic: آل طاهر
This is how they have spelled it: ر ح ا ث ل ا
Notice how the characters aren't combined together and spelled seperately, as if they wrote A L T A I R.
This is a very common practice in gaming industry and is noticed in EVERY game where they pretend to be in Middle East. They even mix up the language at times.
green sticker said:If this does have something to do with Russia, that would be awesome.
Speaking of which, has anyone read the AC: The Fall comics? Wonder if there are any hints there.
Lesiroth said:This image is an insult to Arabic language speakers everywhere. I can't even begin to count how many things are wrong with this. What the hell, Ubi? AC1's ingame Arabic was just fine.
all of themssolitare said:How many have there been this gen?
shagg_187 said:LOL I know. Sadly, it's a VERY common practice in gaming.
Here's a more recent example. Battlefield 3.
The game is set in Iraq. They speak Pashto. Ugh... lol
I refuse to believe they can be that dumb. I hope this is the case of them trying to be enigmatic rather than revealing.Lesiroth said:This image is an insult to Arabic language speakers everywhere. I can't even begin to count how many things are wrong with this. What the hell, Ubi? AC1's ingame Arabic was just fine.
miladesn said:No, it doesn't have anything to od with Russia, that's google translate fail.
Zeliard said:One thing I've always thought was dumb was the change in the sequels when it came to the post-assassination dialogue scenes. They still have the whole Animus/dream world thing but now it's only in the service of Ezio saying like one meaningless line.
What's the point? If you're going to continue the rest of the charade then keep the dialogue, or else do away with the whole thing altogether.
Irish said:Yeah, that was really annoying. If they aren't going to do the whole back and forth, there really is no point into taking the player out of the world at all.
and it's sound effect, so good.Ether_Snake said:But I like the world falling apart effect
And what's written in Arabic is just what's written above in English jammed into a translator.shagg_187 said:LOL I know. Sadly, it's a VERY common practice in gaming.
Here's a more recent example. Battlefield 3.
The game is set in Iraq. They speak Pashto. Ugh... lol
Juan29.zapata said:I don't even speak the language, and now I know I will feel awkward each time I see these kind of writing.
Get it right, for God's sake!