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[Melter]

I know everyone loves to bash this game and I do agree with the criticisms but I am still looking forward to this game.

I’ve been waiting for a feudal Japan assassins creed to come out since the originals

 

[LectureMaster]

Not gonna lie. When I get towards the end of an AC game, I'm ready for it to be over. But these games are like my summer action flick. Just brainless fun. So for the most part, I don't mind the repetition. Just enjoying myself.

That's fair enough, I was on the same boat with you, mock me but I actually platinumed all three mythology trilogy.

Problem for me is that I simply don't have much time like I did say during COVID. Simply couldn't allocate the limited time resources to Ubi's games any more, lol.

 

[geary]

This looks better than ghost of Tsushima in every conceivable way.

 

[Topher]

That's fair enough, I was on the same boat with you, mock me but I actually platinumed all three mythology trilogy.

Problem for me is that I simply don't have much time like I did say during COVID. Simply couldn't allocate the limited time resources to Ubi's games any more, lol.

I've platinum Valhalla, Origins, Odyssey and most recently, Syndicate. I couldn't get into Mirage. Just didn't like the character. I'll probably plat Shadows as well.

This looks better than ghost of Tsushima in every conceivable way.

 

[Miyazaki’s Slave]

If they wait long enough all the backlash that kicked last year will die down and the title will sell a strong amount.

 

[Robb]

So they release footage that’s supposed to showcase exploration, and the first thing they choose to show is the character following a white waypoint-line through a forest?..

 

[EDMIX]

Its a patented system.
Which is why you only see it in WB games.

It's patented by WB, sadly. No one else can use it.

yo WTF! Thats some crazy work, for real, fuck WB for doing that and not doing shit with that concept lol

 

[viveks86]

Enjoyed this breakdown. Not liking the pathfinder feature, so that’s going to stay off. Rest looks interesting! Will wait for reviews before considering it.

 

[existensmaximum]

Am I the only one who thinks the Japanese setting is extremely boring and uninteresting?

 

[Robb]

Am I the only one who thinks the Japanese setting is extremely boring and uninteresting?

I agree, but I remember being stoked for it years back.

I think it’s just that they’re way too late to the party. I feel like we’ve gotten a flood of great games with similar esthetics/settings over the years.

 

[sendit]

Am I the only one who thinks the Japanese setting is extremely boring and uninteresting?

Yes. Over 8 billion people in this world, you're the only one.

 

[Fess]

I agree, but I remember being stoked for it years back.

I think it’s just that they’re way too late to the party. I feel like we’ve gotten a flood of great games with similar esthetics/settings over the years.

Yeah they’re too late. And also when people dreamt about an AC game in Japan they dreamt about being a ninja not a bulky rapper samurai. No forced samurai missions and I’d be excited, now I’ll be interested if I can mod it out.

 

[Gp1]

I'm going to post this again...

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

Man, just watching a sped-up clip of the girl drawing a bird was boring. In typical Ubi fashion, everything is tedium.

 

[Bry0]

Looks really good to me.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

Am seeing group of assassination targets per area a la AC Odeyssey.

That stuff gets repetitive over 100 hrs of playtime. I can see having fun but never finishing the game.

Hopefully Ubi takes each target seriously and create an interesting scenario around each. Keep fewer of them but make them high quality. That would make the game way more interesting.

 

[DonJimbo]

Ghost of Tsushima Copy Paste

 

[RyRy93]

Why am I supposed to dislike this game but like, let's say, GTA6?

Mission variety, interesting characters, a higher quality sandbox, multiplayer, etc.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

Am I the only one who thinks the Japanese setting is extremely boring and uninteresting?

I think it would've worked better set in metropolitan Kyoto or Edo in the style of AC 1+2

 

[Thebonehead]

No....just slow

While Topher

We need to be careful. These old men like Topher can suddenly turn

 

[b0uncyfr0]

That didnt show anything

 

[DownLikeBCPowder]

Am I the only one who thinks the Japanese setting is extremely boring and uninteresting?

I want to see meso America so bad... hoping one day.

 

[Grizzled Ghost]

I want to see meso America so bad... hoping one day.

I was wondering if they'd have to retcon the lore for that to have Assassins in pre-Colombian America, but then I remembered they retcon the lore in every entry anyway.

Edit: Plus they had Forebearer temples or whatever in Black Flag already so never mind

 

[Business]

How they are desperately trying to hide rap god Yasuke from everything they show about this game is funny and sad at the same time

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

 

[xrnzaaas]

I THINK I remember hearing them say that you can pick who you want to play as however you are forced to play as both, albeit very little.

Yasuke will be like Animus - the game forcing you to do some stuff you don't want to and you counting the minutes until it's over.

 

[TheKratos]

Probably the end of Ubisoft

 

[Xtib81]

I have a hard time being hyped for this one which is surprising because I've always loved AC games but idk, maybe it's the setting or franchise fatigue.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Not bad for an open world game, but I do not feel for the graphics much… Still find PS4’s GoT more pleasing to the eyes…

 

[March Climber]

You know what'd be cool? An Assassin's Creed game with the Nemesis system.

I for the love of me never get why this concept never caught on, I thought for sure we would see so many copy cats of that.

Shame. One of the few new concepts that imho should have been put in so many games.

Its a patented system.
Which is why you only see it in WB games.

While it's unfortunate the Nemesis system can't make it in, there is potential for another beloved system that could make it in, based on what I'm seeing in that final menu they brought up full of notable characters.

And I'm hoping they take that route with this game, with Nobunaga being the final card.

 

[Panajev2001a]

I believe WB put a copyright on it, similar to how one of those Japanese publishers (Koei maybe?) did with mini games during loading screens. Both went on to let a great idea simply rot.

I think it was Namco.

 

[Kenpachii]

Looking good will be there day 1.

 

[Kathanan]

What a beautiful game.. can't wait to play it. And made by the studio that did Odyssey my favorit AC game.

 

[DavidGzz]

Take Valhalla, make the combat better, better animations, better graphics, two very different playing protagonists, and give me awesome looking weather and landscapes and I am very excite.

 

[Kamina]

Perhaps i will buy this game when it hits the bargain bin eventually

 

[Lorianus]

Can one play as the ninja girl a 100% of the time or are missions forced to play as a certain character ?, her gameplay looks a 100% better and more interesting and closer to "Assassins Creed".

 

[rofif]

Yeah let’s pretend this somehow looks bad.

 

[rofif]

Yasuke will be like Animus - the game forcing you to do some stuff you don't want to and you counting the minutes until it's over.

That’s ignorant and racist.
Yasuke story has a great isekai potential. From not Japanese speaking black guy to samurai. That’s a dope idea.
Thank for they didn’t went with another boring same samurai stereotype

 

[Hudo]

but like, let's say, GTA6?

GTA6 has to prove itself to me, tbh. GTA 5 is the only GTA game that I just don't have the urge to play again, which is really weird (to me). And RDR2 was the first R* game that I dropped because it was more annoying than fun to play.

 

[Lokaum D+]

This looks better than ghost of Tsushima in every conceivable way.

 

[CartesianMan]

Looks good

 

[realcool]

I want to see meso America so bad... hoping one day.

[sneakily performs a human sacrifice to appease huitzilopochtli]

 

[MMaRsu]

That’s ignorant and racist.
Yasuke story has a great isekai potential. From not Japanese speaking black guy to samurai. That’s a dope idea.
Thank for they didn’t went with another boring same samurai stereotype

Wtf is isekai can we keep it English brotha

 

[Hudo]

Wtf is isekai can we keep it English brotha

Isekai is a genre where the protagonist of the story gets hit by a truck in our real world and wakes up/is reincarnated in another world (usually a fantasy one) with the knowledge he had. It got popularized by Sword Art Online. Which, ironically, is not really adhering to the common formula. Instead, it's players playing a "NetGear" game and getting trapped in it (unable to log out/return to the real world). So they are in another world, so to speak, and are aware that they are in a game. Not sure which manga established the "getting hit by truck in the real world"-thing, tho.

By the way: I can heavily recommend the manga "Tsuihousareru Tabi ni Skill o Te ni Ireta Ore ga, 100 no Isekai de 2-shuume Musou" aka. "I Got a New Skill Every Time I Was Exiled, and After 100 Different Worlds, I Was Unmatched".
Tia is best girl.

 

[PectacularOz]

DEI characters aside - this actually looks pretty good.

 

[ValiantInstance]

I got this free with my CPU so I hope it is good. I haven't played AC since Black Flag.

You'll either like it or be massively disappointed. Mirage was my first since Black Flag, traded it in the next day.

I still play the Ezio collection every couple of years.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Am I the only one who thinks the Japanese setting is extremely boring and uninteresting?

When it's made by people who can only produce boring and uninteresting trash. This is peak Ubislop.


On Isekai, that genre existed since long before being called like that. Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, The Neverending Story, Dungeon and Dragons...

 

[Kenneth Haight]

That is assassins creed gameplay for sure.

Easy pass. Last Ubisoft game I bought was Far Cry 6 and I didn’t even buy it, it was a gift .

 

[Solarstrike]

Day fukcing 1.

 

[Bartski]

This could be the best AC game to date