Xaero Gravity
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New pictures of the dayFall continues to be my fav season
Legitimately gorgeous shots. Keep em coming
Thread: Assassin's Creed: Shadows | OT | My Neighbor Yasuke
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Legitimately gorgeous shots. Keep em coming
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Just beautiful. Damn why do they need to be retarded.
JORMBO
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The combat in the game gets way too easy way too soon. Same issue as all AC games. I can easily take on any number of enemies at this point and I am just wrapping up the first zone. It is also too easy to run around anywhere and get away quickly. All you have to do is take 2 seconds to jump on to a roof. None of the enemies know how to climb.
I think this will follow the same as all the other games. The first 10 hours are 9/10. When you hit hour 20 it is 8/10. Then going beyond that the game drops down to a 7/10 and probably will drag on longer then I have time to finish it.
These games always have the base of a good game sitting right there. But the bloat and lack of challenge always drags them down. They could be something special with a few minor changes, but Ubisoft always does the same thing.
I think this will follow the same as all the other games. The first 10 hours are 9/10. When you hit hour 20 it is 8/10. Then going beyond that the game drops down to a 7/10 and probably will drag on longer then I have time to finish it.
These games always have the base of a good game sitting right there. But the bloat and lack of challenge always drags them down. They could be something special with a few minor changes, but Ubisoft always does the same thing.
Saruhashi
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The problem is that the amount of content is one of their major selling points.
A selling point that the market seems to respond to.
I tend to find with these games like modern AC, Ghost of Tsushima, both Horizon games and even games like Jedi Survivor that the game is front loaded with nice looking scenery and areas and so on. The truth is that after a few hours though the game offers nothing new.
The problem is that in marketing materials "endless hours of content" sells games.
Yeah agree here, and that's why we're seeing those kinds of games not generating the numbers that they used to generate. Everyone did that multiple times already, for many hundreds of hours. I'm playing SW Outlaws right now and it's exactly the same.
That same structure and approach has been done for well over a decade on a regular basis. Changing the setting, adding some new features and making it look better did work for like the first ten years but at some point it's just boring.
When an Avatar, Star War AND Assassin's Creed game fail to sell enough copies, while being overall well made games, the devs need to find a new approach.
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Ronin will need a full on remake or a sequel because Shadows is a generation apart IMO. Shadows reminds me of that Witcher 3 gif before they gimped the visuals. Now it's finally a reality
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Honestly, the only thing Ronin has over Shadows is the combat, but it's the same Ubisoft checklist-style gameplay as Shadows; it just depends on what activity loops you prefer.
Ronin looks like a Ubisoft game but with "better politics".
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I mean @HE1NZ is not wrong. Both games have one big ass maps with different zones with each having the same missions you need to clear like a checklist. With Ronin it's killing x number enemies in a zone.
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the time I played with Ronin and I will continue playing after I finish Shadows but it's not some transformative experience over lowly Shadows or anything.
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed the time I played with Ronin and I will continue playing after I finish Shadows but it's not some transformative experience over lowly Shadows or anything.
Phunkydiabetic
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I know I said this in my last post…but they really need to work on the power curves and AI in the next game. You go from feeling super weak to feeling unstoppable with no consequences if 10 people spot you within a few hours. I unlocked Yasuke and it's even more obvious with him. Jamming the attack button mows through crowds of idiot AI guys that just stand there. If they do hit him he loses like 3% of his life.
The combat and stealthing around has zero tension when there are no consequences to getting spotted or being surrounded by 10 guys.
The combat and stealthing around has zero tension when there are no consequences to getting spotted or being surrounded by 10 guys.
For me, these games all became meaningless after a while. They're just throwing STUFF and CONTENT at you. Which is fun for some time, I put in a lot of hours into Odyssey, had a cool ship, great horse, fun. Until the point where I realized that it's meaningless busy work. Still had a good time overall, but didn't come close to finish the story, explored a lot though. I think Elden Ring did that better, making exploring important with items that can radically change or improve your build, it felt more rewarding because it mattered.
Dacon
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Better setting, better characters, better story, better combat etc.
Saruhashi
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Ah but how were the mountains in Rise of the Ronin?
I think Ronin is set in a far more interesting historical period.
Phunkydiabetic
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To be fair to Shadows it's also set in a very interesting point in Japan's history, the end of the so called warring period before the Edo period began. Tons of stuff was going on then.
The issue is Shadows completely squanders it.
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I finished the game and got the true ending about 65 hours in! Overall, I had a good time, but I had my fill of the side content, and I had way too many games to play, so I stopped and finished the main storyline. Maybe I will return later and finish the rest of the game
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I finished the game and got the true ending about 65 hours in! Overall, I had a good time, but I had my fill of the side content, and I had way too many games to play, so I stopped and finished the main storyline. Maybe I will return later and finish the rest of the game
I had a chuckle when seeing that play time, because it made me remember my time with Odyssey where I put in like 80h or even more and was still at the beginning of the main story because I just explored and did side missions all the time. Then dropped the game because I had my fill. I had a good time, these games can really suck you in with all that CONTENT.
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Yup, 60 hours in and I was still in Act 2. lol I still have a bunch of companion quests, Assassinations and a few castles to do. The knowledge skill ranks quest I ignored after unlocking rank 6 because you don't get any new skills rank 7 or beyond. I think this is why I think new games don't sell so well, there is just way too much stuff for the average joe to play through before moving on to the next game.
I'm currently playing Star Wars Outlaws and also barely did any story missions, but there was this bad ass outfit to unlock when maxing the trust of one of the factions in the game, so I immediately went for that. They definitely know how to hook you.
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A Nintendo Switch 2 version of Assassin's Creed Shadows has appeared on the PEGI website
A Nintendo Switch 2 version of Assassin's Creed Shadows has appeared on the PEGI website
Now that'll be an interesting one for that engine. This and Outlaws are visually very advanced games that run great on various hardware configurations. But scaling down so much will be something new, curious about the results.