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[Fess]

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

A bulky samurai in an Assassin’s Creed game… Nah.
Let’s be real. It doesn’t matter if it’s a black, green, blue, purple guy. They should’ve focused on the ninja. That’s what everybody dreamt about with an AC game in Japan. Playing as a ninja. Can’t get more assassin that that.
Having the bulky samurai jump around and climbing walls and what not like an assassin is going to look ridiculous and not being allowed to do that during his missions would end up with the ’counting minutes until it’s over’ scenario.

Best case scenario would be to make it a player choice like in Odyssey.
1. Play as samurai and the ninja is the villain.
2. Play as ninja and the samurai is the villain.

 

[Hudo]

Best case scenario would be to make it a player choice like in Odyssey.
1. Play as samurai and the ninja is the villain.
2. Play as ninja and the samurai is the villain.

That could've been cool.

 

[Zuzu]

It's good that the towers don't completely reveal all the points of interest on the map; rather you're still encouraged to go to them to find out what they are exactly. I would like to see them also incorporate systems of Star Wars Outlaws into the game wrt exploration. Outlaws made big steps forward for Ubisoft games in promoting and enhancing world exploration. It'd be great if they can bring some of the exploration systems of Outlaws over into Assassin's Creed.

 

[rofif]

Wtf is isekai can we keep it English brotha

fish out of water

 

[rofif]

A bulky samurai in an Assassin’s Creed game… Nah.
Let’s be real. It doesn’t matter if it’s a black, green, blue, purple guy. They should’ve focused on the ninja. That’s what everybody dreamt about with an AC game in Japan. Playing as a ninja. Can’t get more assassin that that.
Having the bulky samurai jump around and climbing walls and what not like an assassin is going to look ridiculous and not being allowed to do that during his missions would end up with the ’counting minutes until it’s over’ scenario.

Best case scenario would be to make it a player choice like in Odyssey.
1. Play as samurai and the ninja is the villain.
2. Play as ninja and the samurai is the villain.

so now the problem is that he is "bulky" ?!
Are you fucking kidding me.
you got skinny japan lady too. And 50 other samurai games.
Every AC is essentially a samurai game too

 

[Trilobit]

Looks like Ghosts of Tsushima but better. Way more verticality.

One of the most disappointing things about GoT was the lack of exploration. I very quickly learned that there isn't anything exciting hidden in places. At most some katana designs or clothes. I hope Shadows does that better, but I wasn't very impressed by Odyssey either.

 

[Fess]

so now the problem is that he is "bulky" ?!
Are you fucking kidding me.
you got skinny japan lady too. And 50 other samurai games.
Every AC is essentially a samurai game too

Yes that’s the problem and no I’m not kidding. Go look at a video when he’s fighting, he’s huge. Then imagine him starting to climb walls or sneak in the grass…

 

[ABrokenToy]

Same boat/water animations from the last several games, check!

 

[knguyen]

My first impression after 15 seconds into the video: It's the same shit!!!

 

[rofif]

Yes that’s the problem and no I’m not kidding. Go look at a video when he’s fighting, he’s huge. Then imagine him starting to climb walls or sneak in the grass…

he is a samurai
hard not to look big in that armor. Samurais are warriors. not climbers but the game will do both probable just fine

 

[Nankatsu]

I would have preferred the whole game to be with the ninja to be honest.

The whole vertically and flexibility that the game tries to offers doesn't suit that well into a mountain of a Samurai.

 

[solecon64]

Genuinely can't understand how anyone could be excited for this game when it's the exact same thing as any of the previous three releases in the series.

Why wait for March 20th for this game when you can already boot up AC Origins, Odyssey or Valhalla, have blacked.com videos playing on the second screen and you're set.

 

[rofif]

Genuinely can't understand how anyone could be excited for this game when it's the exact same thing as any of the previous three releases in the series.

Why wait for March 20th for this game when you can already boot up AC Origins, Odyssey or Valhalla, have blacked.com videos playing on the second screen and you're set.

ok? It's not for you?
AC game being an AC game. what a surprise

 

[Fess]

he is a samurai
hard not to look big in that armor. Samurais are warriors. not climbers but the game will do both probable just fine

And that’s why he doesn’t fit in as an assassin where you’re supposed to be sneaky and nimble and able to hide in plain sight. How can he hide anywhere or do any acrobatics? I’d say that he can’t. And then we’ll end up in that scenario where you’re counting minutes until it’s over if there are forced samurai missions with gameplay restrictions.
It’s called Shadows. They should’ve focused on the ninja.

 

[rofif]

And that’s why he doesn’t fit in as an assassin where you’re supposed to be sneaky and nimble and able to hide in plain sight. How can he hide anywhere or do any acrobatics? I’d say that he can’t. And then we’ll end up in that scenario where you’re counting minutes until it’s over if there are forced samurai missions with gameplay restrictions.
It’s called Shadows. They should’ve focused on the ninja.

he will do all of those things.
If this is the thing you cannot suspend your disbelief over... how the fuck are you playing any games.

 

[Laptop1991]

At this rate, Ubisoft will have shown the whole game off by the time it releases, and i'm still not buying it.

 

[Fess]

he will do all of those things.
If this is the thing you cannot suspend your disbelief over... how the fuck are you playing any games.

Then it’ll look silly. Look at the video I posted. Imagine him rushing at a building starting to climb or hide in a crowd…

 

[rofif]

Then it’ll look silly. Look at the video I posted. Imagine him rushing at a building starting to climb or hide in a crowd…

I love how huge he is. He is probably like 1.85cm compared to short japanese people.
Doesn't mean he can't be fit.

 

[Fess]

I love how huge he is. He is probably like 1.85cm compared to short japanese people.
Doesn't mean he can't be fit.

As said it’ll look silly, unless they put in some restrictions on what he can do.
But as a villain he would be cool or if they made a dedicated samurai game. I just think he’s a terrible choice for a main character in an assassin’s creed game.

 

[Represent.]

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.

Tell me one thing that Tsushima does better than this game - Because its not combat, exploration, visuals, or story.

Lol

That game has got to be the most overrated game of last gen, over praised by the same group who hated on TLOU 2.

 

[geary]

Tell me one thing that Tsushima does better than this game - Because its not combat, exploration, visuals, or story.

Lol

That game has got to be the most overrated game of last gen, over praised by the same group who hated on TLOU 2.

I'm with you. Is first iteration of AC by Sony

 

[GudOlRub]

Woke this, woke that, meanwhile I'm wishing for this to be a gigantic flop simply because I just want RPG nu-Assassin's Creed to die already

 

[MMaRsu]

Woke this, woke that, meanwhile I'm wishing for this to be a gigantic flop simply because I just want RPG nu-Assassin's Creed to die already

You're not getting Old AC back either way

 

[kikii]

Yes that’s the problem and no I’m not kidding. Go look at a video when he’s fighting, he’s huge. Then imagine him starting to climb walls or sneak in the grass…

wait is this Yasuke >> ?

 

[SJRB]

I would have preferred the whole game to be with the ninja to be honest.

The whole vertically and flexibility that the game tries to offers doesn't suit that well into a mountain of a Samurai.

They're basically offering two different playstyles: verticality, stealth and sneaking with the shinobi, and bruteforce fighting with the samurai.

 

[RedC]

I'm glad I haven't played an Assassin's Creed game in years, because I'm looking forward to this including playing as both characters and their playstyles.

 

[simpatico]

I can play this entire title with just my imagination. Having played Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla and seeing what I've seen of Shadows, I can confidently say that I experienced everything the game has to offer. The 10-hour tutorial. The slight promise of impending enjoyment after that, which never really pans out. The "ugh" you audibly leak out when you're looking at your Steam account thinking about what you want to play that night. You paid $70 for it and an already have 55 hours invested, but geez it feels like you're not even halfway done and you must force yourself to boot it when really you just want to zone out to Vampire Survivors. The story is slow and pedantic. Cardboard characters punched directly out of late 20th century TV tropes. Dialog complexity inspired by teen lit novels. Minimalist yet somehow cluttered UI that makes you opine for the handcrafted, human nature of Oblivion and Dark Souls menus

 

[CompleteGlobalSaturation]

Because Rockstar has an actual history of delivering the sole movie games that are worth playing in GTA V and RDR 2. Those are not especially world shattering, but they are certainly better than the Snoy walk 'em up or the Ubisoft AI generated brainrot.

Rockstar games with their great story telling yet dogshit gameplay.

 

[GudOlRub]

You're not getting Old AC back either way

Perhaps it's wishful thinking yes. We'll see.
I think it depends on Shadows and Black Flag's remake success or lack thereof.
Mirage was supposedly quite successful, so if Shadows bombs but Black Flag sells well I think the chances mainline AC games begin shifting away from the RPG mechanics are quite high..

 

[Party McHardy]

Verticality was really missing in Ghost, this appears to have lots of variety.

 

[FeastYoEyes]

Looks good, but will it be fun?

 

[StereoVsn]

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...

A Connecticut Yankey in King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain is a classic as well.

 

[mdkirby]

I’ve always thought it looked like it could be reasonably fun. I just don’t want to reward Ubisoft for their poor life choices, so I’m gonna wait a year, and get it in a sale.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Tell me one thing that Tsushima does better than this game - Because its not combat, exploration, visuals, or story.

Lol

That game has got to be the most overrated game of last gen, over praised by the same group who hated on TLOU 2.

my Dad aways told me this "Son, do not start an argument with stupid ppl, because you won't be able to reason their stupidity out" i ll follow his advice.

 

[geary]

Perhaps it's wishful thinking yes. We'll see.
I think it depends on Shadows and Black Flag's remake success or lack thereof.
Mirage was supposedly quite successful, so if Shadows bombs but Black Flag sells well I think the chances mainline AC games begin shifting away from the RPG mechanics are quite high..

You got Mirrage...Did you bought it? Did you liked it? Want more games like Mirrage?

 

[Mister Wolf]

Nice visuals.

 

[Lunarorbit]

Just like all the other ass creed recently.

Huge map but no depth.
Crap enemies that scale
Meaningless weapons
Paper thin convoluted story
Horribly implemented rpg mechanics

Just like star wars outlaws.

 

[Pasta la Vista]

"Exploration" while following a line to a map marker.

 

[Fbh]

Visually it looks nice.
It will probably be as boring to play as all open world Ubisoft games though, which have never had any exploration anyway.

 

[Teh Chosen Juan]

I think Topher was too, but not sure.

holy shit! i don't know which way is up anymore! i'm in too deep! topher is playing chess while we're playing CHECKERS!!!

 

[Topher]

Tell me one thing that Tsushima does better than this game - Because its not combat, exploration, visuals, or story.

Lol

That game has got to be the most overrated game of last gen, over praised by the same group who hated on TLOU 2.

I'm just laughing at this notion that there is nothing Tsushima does better without even playing Shadows. To me, the visuals look much cleaner in GoT and the cleverness of using the wind to point a direction is much better than a solid white line. There. "One thing"

And I love TLOU 2, so much for that worthless generalization. You are just living up to your tag yet again.

 

[HYDE]

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

I don’t understand the love for RockStar open worlds either. It’s 90% boredom imo

 

[Shaki12345]

he is a samurai
hard not to look big in that armor. Samurais are warriors. not climbers but the game will do both probable just fine

Nobody looked that big back in the "days". Nobody was really aware how bodybuilding really worked.

This dude could NEVER exist back then like he does in the game. People just want to play as a NATIVE ninja or samurai. Not as a superhuman.

 

[rofif]

Nobody looked that big back in the "days". Nobody was really aware how bodybuilding really worked.

This dude could NEVER exist back then like he does in the game. People just want to play as a NATIVE ninja or samurai. Not as a superhuman.

He got armour on and is just looking tall next to Asians.
I look just as big as him next to Japanese people. And I am a ninja

 

[Shaki12345]

He got armour on and is just looking tall next to Asians.
I look just as big as him next to Japanese people. And I am a ninja

Dude, he is extremely muscular which is IMPOSSIBLE in those days.

 

[RaduN]

Looks gorgeous.

It's shaping up to be one of the best AC in a while.

 

[ungalo]

I don't really care about AC anymore but i'm still waiting for a map that feels as impressive and varied as Origins, that still doesn't seem to be the case.

I don't know if it's because of the choices of historical context in the next games, but they're struggling to recreate this sense of scale the environments had in Origins (proportions of the temples and statues were obviously exaggerated, for the best).

 

[Topher]

Yes that’s the problem and no I’m not kidding. Go look at a video when he’s fighting, he’s huge. Then imagine him starting to climb walls or sneak in the grass…

But you wouldn't use him for sneaking missions, right? You would use the Japanese female.

 

[Shaki12345]

I don't really care about AC anymore but i'm still waiting for a map that feels as impressive and varied as Origins, that still doesn't seem to be the case.

I don't know if it's because of the choices of historical context in the next games, but they're struggling to recreate this sense of scale the environments had in Origins (proportions of the temples and statues were obviously exaggerated, for the best).

Double post on accident.

 

[Trilobit]

Yes that’s the problem and no I’m not kidding. Go look at a video when he’s fighting, he’s huge. Then imagine him starting to climb walls or sneak in the grass…

Can you imagine him trying to sneak around on someone's roof? It'd likely sound like *clomp clomp clomp clomp* lmao.