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Started by Hiatus February 11th, 2014 3:21 AM
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derozio

door-kun best boii

Male
Akihabara
Seen June 27th, 2020
Posted August 16th, 2019
5,514 posts
14 Years
Me at its reveal - OMG HOLY ♥♥♥♥ I'M BUYING A NEW PC FOR THIS GAME.
Me after its release - Naah, not gonna bother. I'll stick to my 10+ year old DMC3.

I can see where the complaints are coming from. Ubi are trying to homogenize most of their games. From what I've heard from gamers around the web, most of their games seem to share mechanics. They're all in for sharing assets across all their games - this, while cost effective, prevents them from coming up with something truly original. They're just recycling a lot of stuff over and over again. In hopes that they'd be able to make good games without having to go through too much trouble and save costs at the same time. But it is obviously not working. Ubi shouldn't look at Activision/EA for game releases. But rather look at companies like Rockstar and Valve. The ones who are stubborn as hell with their games and refuse to release them unless they're absolutely sure their games are gonna be fun.

As for the Assassin's Creed franchise, I lost interest after AC3. I had already kinda given up on it after Revelations but...well, AC3 ended and I was like "Eff this, I honestly don't give a crap about the series anymore". Still haven't played AC4. Although I've heard good stuff about it so I'll play it sometime. But I'm not as big a fan of the franchise as I used to be. You know, back in the AC2 days. Those were the days when I was CRAZY into this franchise.

TRIFORCE89

Guide of Darkness

Age 33
Male
Temple of Light
Seen November 25th, 2017
Posted October 21st, 2016
8,122 posts
19.1 Years
Watch_Dogs had so much potential, and I think Ubisoft want it to be their next "Assassin's Creed" franchise, but they released a broken promise, and an ~okay game. It felt like Assassin's Creed 3, or Revelations, in terms of the content and how lackluster it was. AC3 was the introduction of their new engine, and ever since Ubisoft have been releasing games on it; they've been buggy, unfinished feeling, expansive, and frankly the world they create in both Watch_Dogs and AC3 collapse in on themselves. They're beautiful, but dead, expansive yet unpopulated.
this really explains my gameplay problems with AC3 so well

twocows

The not-so-black cat of ill omen

Age 32
Male
Michigan
Seen February 19th, 2023
Posted April 30th, 2021
4,307 posts
14.2 Years
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I've done a few plot missions and a few side missions and so far my verdict is: the hacking/on foot stuff in the plot missions is a ton of fun, the side missions are hit and miss, and the driving segments are bad and made worse by lag (I have a pretty darn good computer and the latest GeForce driver and I cranked settings down to the bare minimum aside from 1080p res and I'm still having problems with choppiness while driving).

The few plot missions I've done have been more fun than most of the rest of the game combined. Too bad I hear the plot itself sucks, but the missions are fun.


In other news, finally bought and started playing the recent South Park game and started on Planescape: Torment. The former's fun as hell, the latter's all right so far, though I'm not very far into it yet.
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seeker

Ireland
Seen November 1st, 2019
Posted May 20th, 2018
10,593 posts
14.1 Years
I've done a few plot missions and a few side missions and so far my verdict is: the hacking/on foot stuff in the plot missions is a ton of fun, the side missions are hit and miss, and the driving segments are bad and made worse by lag (I have a pretty darn good computer and the latest GeForce driver and I cranked settings down to the bare minimum aside from 1080p res and I'm still having problems with choppiness while driving).

The few plot missions I've done have been more fun than most of the rest of the game combined. Too bad I hear the plot itself sucks, but the missions are fun.


In other news, finally bought and started playing the recent South Park game and started on Planescape: Torment. The former's fun as hell, the latter's all right so far, though I'm not very far into it yet.
The fact is, they have performance issues across the board. I tried this game on a GTX 770, with a 4.2 GHZ (AMD, meh) CPU, with tonnes of RAM, the works, still had to turn things down. A GTX 780 can just about max settings, but I wonder with what kind of FPS?

That said, the longer it goes on, the more you see wrong with it, and the more repetitive missions get. They're never not fun (to a degree anyway), but they are repetitive as hell. Infiltrate this area, hack in here, kill this guy, oh no he's getting away, chase him in car, can't shoot out from car so keep ramming him, okay cool he's getting out of the car run him over until he's dead because if you get out you'll probably die, escape the area, mission complete, queue really annoying gravelly voice acting from main character, insert boring plot progression point here etc. Not to deter you, it's not a bad game, but it's not without it's faults. Post-game I was like "whelp, I have no desire to keep going!"

South Park game is fantastic! I have yet to finish it, but I'm 3/4's away through and I have to say, it's a tonne of fun with a few beers and some friends around haha.

twocows

The not-so-black cat of ill omen

Age 32
Male
Michigan
Seen February 19th, 2023
Posted April 30th, 2021
4,307 posts
14.2 Years
The fact is, they have performance issues across the board. I tried this game on a GTX 770, with a 4.2 GHZ (AMD, meh) CPU, with tonnes of RAM, the works, still had to turn things down. A GTX 780 can just about max settings, but I wonder with what kind of FPS?

That said, the longer it goes on, the more you see wrong with it, and the more repetitive missions get. They're never not fun (to a degree anyway), but they are repetitive as hell. Infiltrate this area, hack in here, kill this guy, oh no he's getting away, chase him in car, can't shoot out from car so keep ramming him, okay cool he's getting out of the car run him over until he's dead because if you get out you'll probably die, escape the area, mission complete, queue really annoying gravelly voice acting from main character, insert boring plot progression point here etc. Not to deter you, it's not a bad game, but it's not without it's faults. Post-game I was like "whelp, I have no desire to keep going!"

South Park game is fantastic! I have yet to finish it, but I'm 3/4's away through and I have to say, it's a tonne of fun with a few beers and some friends around haha.
Protag's voice reminds me of Hugh Laurie's House voice to me, to be honest.
VNs are superior to anime, don't @ me

machomuu

Stuck in Hot Girl Summer

She/Her
Take a left, turn right at the next stop, bear left for a few mil
Seen March 4th, 2023
Posted April 26th, 2022
10,505 posts
15.1 Years
Yeah, protag's pretty generic. He's your standard "Family member dies, wants revenge, uses a lot of snarky one-liners" protag without any flare other than the fact that...well, that he's a hacker.

The clothing options are joke, too. I didn't care much for it, but since I had the Digital Deluxe version at my disposal, I decided to check it out. And what you get is a bunch of recolors of the same outfit. Basically something you could do with little to no modding knowledge. I guess it's nice that they added it (?), but the half-assed nature really makes it feel like it should have been fleshed out or not added at all.

Nah

Age 30
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Seen 5 Hours Ago
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9.5 Years
I like how they are expanding to new areas, will the newest one really be set in feudal Japan? That would be an interesting setting as well.
I believe that the newest one (Assassin's Creed: Unity, iirc), is set in France during or around the French Revolution.
Nah ンン
“No, I... I have to be strong. Everyone expects me to."

Judge Mandolore Shepard

Spectre Agent

Age 35
Male
Marysville, Washington State, United States
Seen March 1st, 2018
Posted March 1st, 2018
9,433 posts
9.2 Years
Apparently, there is going to be two Assassin's Creed games coming out this fall. The other one is code named Comet. It seems to be set during the year 1758 during the Seven Years War.
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Nah

Age 30
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9.5 Years
I kinda wish that the AC series would actually go somewhere with its overall story. I haven't played 3 or 4, but it seems like the story is going nowhere....

And is it really necessary to release 2 of 'em in the same season?
Nah ンン
“No, I... I have to be strong. Everyone expects me to."

Raine

Age 29
Female
Ontario, Canada
Seen December 16th, 2017
Posted October 5th, 2017
3,722 posts
9.3 Years
Ubisoft seems to be all about quantity over quality \: Not that I've played many of their games, but whenever I look through gaming news, there's always a mention of some kind of Ubisoft game every single time. Child of Light was amazing though.

Judge Mandolore Shepard

Spectre Agent

Age 35
Male
Marysville, Washington State, United States
Seen March 1st, 2018
Posted March 1st, 2018
9,433 posts
9.2 Years
Ubisoft has been releasing multiple Assassin's Creed games in the same season since 2009. Course usually it has been one main and one or two other. Course seeing as Comet is a sister game to Unity, could be the first time two mains are released during the same season.

In other news the official release dates for the release of Thearyhthm Final Fantasy Curtain Call in North America and Europe have been revealed. The release date for North America is on September 16th of this year. Where as for Europe, the release date is September 19th of this year.
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Raine

Age 29
Female
Ontario, Canada
Seen December 16th, 2017
Posted October 5th, 2017
3,722 posts
9.3 Years
I might behind on the times or something, but I never understood the attraction with The Last Guardian. I've seen screenshots here-and-there over the past couple years, but what kind of game is/was it supposed to be?

Arc

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ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ
Seen March 17th, 2018
Posted January 31st, 2017
2,023 posts
15 Years
The Last Guardian is being done by Team Ico and Fumito Ueda. These are the guys that brought us Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Although Ico is the lesser known of the two. Shadow of the Colossus is regarded as one of the best games of the PS2 era, or even in the world by many. With that kind of legacy, don't you think people would be extremely excited for the The Last Guardian? Haha.

The Last Guardian has you play a young boy and is accompanied by his gargantuan friend, as they traverse who knows what. Information for game is rather scarce lol.

Raine

Age 29
Female
Ontario, Canada
Seen December 16th, 2017
Posted October 5th, 2017
3,722 posts
9.3 Years
The Last Guardian is being done by Team Ico and Fumito Ueda. These are the guys that brought us Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. Although Ico is the lesser known of the two. Shadow of the Colossus is regarded as one of the best games of the PS2 era, or even in the world by many. With that kind of legacy, don't you think people would be extremely excited for the The Last Guardian? Haha.
I actually have ICO & Shadow of the Colossus, the PS3 version, but I haven't touched it since getting it last summer D: I'm sure once I get around to playing it, I'll realize why people like it :P

Arc

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Seen March 17th, 2018
Posted January 31st, 2017
2,023 posts
15 Years
I actually have ICO & Shadow of the Colossus, the PS3 version, but I haven't touched it since getting it last summer D: I'm sure once I get around to playing it, I'll realize why people like it :P
You have had it that long? And you haven't touched it? whhhhhhy. Anyways, I definitely recommend playing Ico first. Even though SoTC is a prequel, Ico hasn't aged that well in comparison to SoTC. So, going from SoTC to Ico is slightly weird from a gameplay perspective.

Raine

Age 29
Female
Ontario, Canada
Seen December 16th, 2017
Posted October 5th, 2017
3,722 posts
9.3 Years
You have had it that long? And you haven't touched it? whhhhhhy. Anyways, I definitely recommend playing Ico first. Even though SoTC is a prequel, Ico hasn't aged that well in comparison to SoTC. So, going from SoTC to Ico is slightly weird from a gameplay perspective.
Heh, yes ;; Whenever I get newer games that I have more interest in, those take immediate priority over the rest...And every month, I'm buying at least one new game with everything else being backlogged in the process D: It's a horrible cycle.

Hiatus

Seen 1 Week Ago
Posted July 24th, 2021
12,283 posts
10.8 Years
In the past, I used to buy two - three new games for myself every month, but nowadays, though, it's the other way around completely; if I'm lucky to have enough free time, I might get something new once every six to eight weeks or so, haha. Changes of me finishing any of my games are highly unlikely, though, unless I find them extremely addicting. There's currently about two of them which I haven't even opened up yet, but will do pretty soon.

machomuu

Stuck in Hot Girl Summer

She/Her
Take a left, turn right at the next stop, bear left for a few mil
Seen March 4th, 2023
Posted April 26th, 2022
10,505 posts
15.1 Years
Another Blizzard MOBA, huh. Well.

See, for me this strange tide is changing. It used to be hard for me to get into games thanks to my moderately sized/large...ish collection of dig/phys games, so I used to be a lot a lot like Raine.

But then, strangely, the moment Summer started, I got into games I never thought I'd give a chance. I could swear I was addicted to Personas 1 and 2 for a while, and I can really get into the miscellany I have around. I think it's because there are so many games coming out this year for me that I just realized that I have to cherish what I have, gamewise. I don't mean this as some sort of virtuous message, but I do have a lot of games and, well, I have them so why not play them? It has helped the urge for new games go down a bit.

Also, on an unrelated note, I found this funny:
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Raine

Age 29
Female
Ontario, Canada
Seen December 16th, 2017
Posted October 5th, 2017
3,722 posts
9.3 Years
See, for me this strange tide is changing. It used to be hard for me to get into games thanks to my moderately sized/large...ish collection of dig/phys games, so I used to be a lot a lot like Raine.

But then, strangely, the moment Summer started, I got into games I never thought I'd give a chance.
Oh, I feel like that's what's happening to me right now. Games that I never would have touched or shown interest in a few years ago are starting to creep up on me. As a result, I'm buying all these games at one time DX Not that it's necessarily a bad thing that I'm trying to expand my gaming genres, but it's affecting my school productivity ;;