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[Topher]

Voted low 80s. Game looks good to me so I’ll find out for myself. See no reason to believe scores will be inflated regardless.

Won't be putting too much stock in reviews any more after Avowed.

Avowed reviews were about right, imo. Really good game.

 

[CliffBronger]

Does anyone actually think reviews of this game will be honest? It's all going to be "Ubisoft had so much courage to tell the stunning true story of the black samurai Yasuke"

After Dragon Age: The Veilguard, who's ever going to take "professional" game "reviewers" seriously ever again?

You can't even trust YouTube reviews anymore.

Remember the "Bioware is back" that many YouTube reviewers where pushing after the closed preview.

 

[knguyen]

Ubisoft, the master of recycling game assets.

 

[Kacho]

10AM Pacific tomorrow


Draugoth , you should update this to the OP too.

Damn, didn't know D DestinRL was a PC bro

 

[Chuck Berry]

“Back to its roots…”

“Return to form…”

 

[Kacho]

“Back to its roots…”

“Return to form…”

you coppin' brah?

 

[Frexerik88]

You can't even trust YouTube reviews anymore.

Remember the "Bioware is back" that many YouTube reviewers where pushing after the closed preview.

Previews are not the same a reviews, playing a slice of a game during a closed preview will never be the same as playing a game for a review.

 

[Chuck Berry]

you coppin' brah?

Hell naw son

 

[touchfuzzy]

86, book it

 

[Just_one]

94

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

87 MC. Bunch of 8s and 9s.

 

[Saber]

You can't even trust YouTube reviews anymore.

Remember the "Bioware is back" that many YouTube reviewers where pushing after the closed preview.

There are a few reviwers on youtube that are not like mental illness of gaming journalism.
Skill Up for instance, I may not agree with some of his takes but he is not the one to give high scores for a game just because the guy is black or progressive or whatever. He was incredibly harsh on Dragon Age saying the game was for low brain people treated as if they were children.
Angry Joe is another not so popular with forums or here on Gaf because of his screaming repertor, but he doesn't give a fuck about skin color or anything. If the game is bad he will say it, he gave very low scores to Veilgard and its both one of his most dissapointed games and worst games in his top list.

 

[Fake]

Does anyone actually think reviews of this game will be honest?

Will be as honest as Deathloop.

 

[spons]

High 80s. Boring gameplay, meager story but well made from a technical perspective which is good enough for a high score considering the current landscape of unoptimized crap.

 

[Kacho]

Hell naw son

Huge. Can't wait to see how well this sells.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Huge. Can't wait to see how well this sells.

Are you? I figured you were holding out for Xenoblade

 

[Trekinspace88]

Ubisoft, the master of recycling game assets.

Nothing wrong with that as the Yakuza/Like a Dragon series does the same thing too.

 

[Kacho]

Are you? I figured you were holding out for Xenoblade

Nah, I'm holding off for XCX.

Shadows is the first AC I'm skipping. The drama and creative choices soured me on the game. Didn't bother with Outlaws either. Ubisoft needs to do some serious soul searching.

 

[Skifi28]

Ubisoft, the master of recycling game assets.

You can make a case about recycling game design, but how are they recycling assets in a game taking place in Feudal Japan?

 

[Aion002]

I think low 80s. If it hits 87 to 90s I might buy it...

 

[Doctor Hades]

I've enjoyed all the Assassin's Creed games to date but have never finished any of them, although I came close with the first game on Xbox 360.

The problem for me, as with many of Ubisoft's formulaic open word games, is that I get completely overwhelmed with a busy map full of icons and an endless mission log (and that's without any of the DLCs which just increase the bloat). I still get 30+ hours out of the game and until that point have a lot of fun exploring and taking in the story before I inevitably literally lose the plot and interest in playing further. There is a saying that you can have too much of a good thing and that is certainly true of Ubisoft's games.

As such, I am waiting on the reviews of Shadows before deciding whether to buy this for PC or not. I am hoping that this offers something unique to the franchise, like Origins did a few years back, and isn't just a remix of the recent Assassin's Creed games but just set in Japan. I am also hoping for a smaller more focused game like Mirage, which wasn't a bad game per se, just one that felt very derivative and unoriginal.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Why? Shadows has better stealth but Combat in ronin look order of magnitude better and i don't really expect shadows to have a better plot or less shitty open world minigame activities.

Is it just for the production values?

Combat looks better than Ronin to me, especially because of the options you have, be it weapons or abilities or playstyles. I got the plat in Ronin, it won’t be hard for Shadows to beat it in story and I also don’t expect it to have so many characters that you don’t give a shit about anyone.

 

[Von Hugh]

73 and a universal stamp of "shit sux".

 

[Certinty]

The only thing that can truly put me off this game is it being compared to Valhalla.

If it's as repetitive and bloated as that, i'm automatically out.

Something similar to Odyssey and I'll probably bite but still hoping it's less RPG-like than even that.

 

[DirtInUrEye]

The scrappy and inelegant fight system doesn't look befitting of a game higher than the 7 scale.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

I wonder if 10 hour expansion you get for pre-order is one of those two in the season pass or not...
Cuz if it is, then the price of the season pass should be reduced by 50% for those who pre-ordered the game.

As I mentioned on page 1, there's no season pass....

 

[Aguero9320]

like, brother, what are we doing here.

I believe the common parlance is ‘their own research’

 

[Agent_4Seven]

As I mentioned on page 1, there's no season pass....

I haven't followed the game much before recently. It's good to hear that there won't be season pass and hopefully there'll be just one expansion eveyone will get for free after pre-odering the game.

 

[T4keD0wN]

I am an optimist for this one. Highest rated AC game in at least the last 10 years is my expectation, which is surprisingly a low bar to clear as far as metacritic scores go.

 

[Paasei]

Quite funny how there's more hype for the reviews than the actual game.

 

[Arachnid]

Will be as honest as Deathloop.

Deathloop was great though

Poor mans Dishonored when it came to gameplay, sure, but a pretty cool main time gimmick IMO

Quite funny how there's more hype for the reviews than the actual game.

Tons of drama around the game. Both extremes are eagerly waiting and hoping for extreme reviews to justify their hate/blind support lmao

 

[Zacfoldor]

79

 

[Rivdoric]

What is a "Return to form" kind of score ?

 

[Toots]

OC put the blurb of one review early accidentally.

Court Lalonde with the hard hitting review

 

[ManaByte]

Tons of drama around the game. Both extremes are eagerly waiting and hoping for extreme reviews to justify their hate/blind support lmao

Whoever posts the lowest review score is going to be rolling in the money from the confirmation bias shares.

 

[MMaRsu]

Court Lalonde with the hard hitting review

Thats super reads like

Assassins Creed Shadows is a game set in japan. You can explore. It is a game

 

[Lucifers Beard]

If Rise of the Ronin was a 76, this looks like it should be 86 minimum.

Due to grifters and the drama, I am guessing 78-80.

What makes you say that? Are you basing it purely on aesthetics? Because the combat in Rise of The Ronin will almost definitely be lightyears ahead of what Shadows will offer. If you're basing that on just graphics (which is a shit metric for video games specifically) then sure, it will definitely look better than Ronin.

My take is that I imagine Shadows will be mildly different in gameplay to the last set of AC games, but ultimately still stuck in the Ubisoft bloat template. Loads of map markers, exploration based on waypoints rather than being organic and a bunch of 'towers' to liberate. Combat will be decent but offer nothing really new or unique but the graphics will be great without a doubt.

 

[Toots]

Thats super reads like

Assassins Creed Shadows is a game set in japan. You can explore. It is a game

Dude is an AI or a disabled worker with a heavy case of down syndrome to think "open world game gives player freedom to explore" is an useful thing to add to his review

 

[ValiantInstance]

“Back to its roots…”

“Return to form…”

I fell for that with Mirage. To be fair it was my first AC game since Black Flag.

I actually felt ill after a couple of hours, traded it in the next day for close what I paid for it. Ubisoft games these days are just things to mark time until something more interesting comes along.

 

[SJRB]

OC put the blurb of one review early accidentally.

“You can use the controller to move your character and you can jump while you traverse from one point to another.

8/10”

 

[Kacho]

Thats super reads like

Assassins Creed Shadows is a game set in japan. You can explore. It is a game

Can't believe how low the bar is these days.

 

[Saber]

Thats super reads like

Assassins Creed Shadows is a game set in japan. You can explore. It is a game

And "it has east things and words, so it must be japanese".

 

[Chuck Berry]

OC put the blurb of one review early accidentally.

As opposed to every other Ass Creed that was severely limited in terms of traversal, exploration and "history."

 

[AJUMP23]

I think due to the people against this game being on the "wrong team" to the journalist they will peg the score at a 90. Game is probably a mid 80s.

 

[MonkD]

With the damage control required for this mess I'm sure that the "journalist" will give more favourable reviews. Honestly hoping the game will be good. But the controversies surrounding the game could be enough to drag down the mediocre performance and gameplay.

Outlaws felt so janky and low effort. Hoping this one is better. Valhalla was solid(with DLC and all).

 

[diffusionx]

Modern game reviewers score games based on how woke they are. This will get great reviews.

 

[Elios83]

I hope it's good, there has clearly been too much fake drama around this game and many have enjoyed to thrive on it.
The biggest issue I see is the usual Ubisoft gameplay loop becoming boring and stale by mid game.

 

[Fake]

Deathloop was great though

Poor mans Dishonored when it came to gameplay, sure, but a pretty cool main time gimmick IMO

Be a good game is one thing. Be a 10/10 is another.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Kinda getting tired of these Japanese and Chinese 'history' RPG/ fighting games. Been so many over the last few years

Sekiro, Ghost of Tsushima, Black Myth WuKong, Rise of Ronin, Wo Long, Nioh, Dynasty Warrions.........now....Ass Creed Shadows and then Ghost of Yotei

Can't they come up with something new?

 

[diffusionx]

Deathloop was great though

Poor mans Dishonored when it came to gameplay, sure, but a pretty cool main time gimmick IMO


Tons of drama around the game. Both extremes are eagerly waiting and hoping for extreme reviews to justify their hate/blind support lmao

Deathloop was ok. Felt like the cut down version of something much more ambitious and interesting.

It was a decent 7.5, but not a 10/10 lmao. It was totally forgotten at game award time which says it all.