Assassin's Creed

I don't know about the gameplay but Unity looks very cool. And many reviews, here in France, were raving (including historians experts of the revolution era !).
I guess I'll get it… when I'll make the jump to the new gen consoles...

Feel like next summer it might be Arkham Knight that tips me over into getting a next gen is I'll play this then. For now I'll consider Rogue.

paris looks great, just the detail in the natural lighting when going inside to outside or vice versa is crazy. the combat/parkour overhaul is good too. seems like the weapon variety they've added is very dark souls influenced. claymore?! ac4 was fun but felt like more a pirate spinoff. unity goes back to feeling like ac2. if they can just fix the floating npc glitches...

the ac unity patch blog is pretty lolsy for the comments. reminds me of the good ol days when ilx had random googlers posting

joseph55 2 hours ago
how do I get a patch 3 for ACU. game sucks. VERY POOR PORFORMANCE.

liongeek 2 hours ago
how do i clame my free game

RangoDj801 9 hours ago
i Assassins creed for the creew change. Thanks

grand_ekinoks 11 hours ago
Hi, my accounts are in Assassins Creed Unity Gold. Far Cry 4 free I want from you ...

Has anyone tried Rogue? Tempted!

so it seems this giant new unity patch has solved the problem of crowd pop-in by, uh, adding an animus highlight to it to make it a feature rather than a bug?

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/350/9/9/ignor_by_chabbles-d8a3ukh.gif

good job ubi, keep on keepin' on

i was given an xb1 copy of this as a gift. i've played a couple of hours and it's both beautiful and boring as fuck.

heh, i actually like that effect

it falls somewhere between ingenious and shameless

it's both beautiful and boring as fuck.

played a good amount of it and this is accurate. i tried the latest patch last night and didn't see any weird pop-in like that

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/t_original/vljtyqnqmm0rlzta13hr.gif

just got home to a 39gb patch for this on my xb1 ffs

good job ubi, keep on keepin' on

i guess this could have spoilers but who gives a shit. its hilarious this can happen in a cutscene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DzsFMsIZPM

http://abload.de/img/1415715578-ulol2cskj.gif

http://www.ign.com/videos/2014/12/17/what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-tetris-ps4

LOL

that is pathetic

what the hell, that's nuts. how can anything get released like that?

my colossal unity patch is still downloading btw

If Tetris blocks are too hard to render no wonder they couldn't do female player characters.

lol

Well, this is a thing. Who knows enough about Renaissance-era Spanish history to figure out how he's going to fit in? He's a contemporary of Ezio and has all of his fingers intact.

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/assassins-creed-first-look-heres-michael-127715456582.html

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Meet Michael Fassbender as Callum Lynch in Assassin’s Creed.

Based on the massively popular — and prolific — video-game series of the same name, the movie version is set to open in theaters Dec. 21, 2016.

Before hardcore Assassin's Creed gamers start scratching their heads (and filling up the comments) about how exactly Callum Lynch fits into the game world, we can tell you that Fassbender’s character was created specifically for the film. (The movie isn’t retelling any of the existing games, but rather introducing new characters into the same world.)

Lynch discovers he is a descendant of the secret Assassins society through unlocked genetic memories that allow him to relive the adventures of his ancestor, Aguilar, in 15th Century Spain. After gaining incredible knowledge and skills he’s poised to take on the oppressive Knights Templar in the present day.

Also starring Marion Cotillard (The Dark Knight Rises), Michael Kenneth Williams (12 Years a Slave), and Ariane Labed (Before Midnight), cameras start rolling for Assassin's Creed on Monday. Filming is set to happen in Malta, London, and Spain.

that's a baffingly competent cast for what is sure to be a terrible movie

this scene will be a challenge even for fassbender

http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--yz7qRVtQ--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/n18tgsjmf9vwk2gjdj2m.gif

not even a fassbender bends that fast

Solid reviews is enough to tempt me back to this generally disappointing franchise.

Has there ever been more time and effort put into something that absolutely no-one gives a shit about than the futuristic bits of these games

after six years of posting on this thread I finally played AC2 & now am playing Brotherhood. & they are worth the wait. just bought the rest of the AC games available for 360, when I finish those maybe it'll be time to get an xbone/ps4. the setting of AC3 still seems lame to me but as long as there's exploration and little dinky tasks and killing I'll be good.

Black Flag is the one! so so fun.

Yeah, Black Flag is the standout of the series, though I remember being really pleasantly surprised by Brotherhood. Before Witcher: Blood and Wine was released I was playing AC: Syndicate, which looks wonderful but is a bit of a drag. It's huge but feels really small.

Had quite a bit of fun with AC: Syndicate until I leveled up way beyond what I needed to complete the game.

I am 2/3 through AC3 lol & yes it more or less sucks but I want to get the trading system going so I am faithfully doing all the dumb homestead missions. but all I really want are some good assassination missions! instead I ride around on a dumb horse telling my soldiers when to shoot which is basically "as soon as I arrive". I'm in the prison sequence which is quite fiddly & restrained: I want to fuck up the guards calling me a half breed but I don't see how I can fulfill the mission when doing so, so I hold off and pickpocket some moron. but it's not as bad as the war segments. I'm not gonna bother getting all the highpoints since the urban ones are terrible ( I don't give a fuck about the northeast usa) & the frontier ones are mostly just the same tree! hunting is ok fun because I guess I like killing animals by stabbing them in the head. also I haven't figured out how to upgrade anything yet: I guess I can't get more health than I started with? so when I try to fight more than 3 people at a time I die a lot. I want to level up but I don't see how. whatever, it's not that hard. the naval parts have been very fun so far & I'm looking forward to playing black flag next.

Best thing about AC3 is that Black Flag was built off of it.

ok finished AC3 tonight, what a bummer. such inept writing, such a dreadful lead character, such misconceived gameplay. all these complicated systems for crafting and it's good for making a couple of cool weapons and for making money that you won't need once you have the cool weapons, since you get enough money to upgrade your ship without crafting/trading. & it ended abruptly. the BEST part of the game was Haytham, a jerk with flair, unlike Connor, a boring jerk. the naval missions were pretty good so yeah Black Flag should be a joy. I'm gonna play Mass Effect 2 & Dragon Age 2 first though (trying to finish out my 360 games before choosing bw xbone & ps4 for Origin etc

I've never played any of these games but the new one looks promising.

they're always available for like 15 bucks not too long after release which is sometimes enough for the privilege of futzing around a big open world for a few hours before getting bored

Good to know!

Viking rap battles though!

I'm gonna play Mass Effect 2 & Dragon Age 2 first though

(I miss JLV.)
A crapload of Ass Creed games are on sale at Best Buy right now for BF/November; what are generally considered the good ones these days? I've only played the first. I assume the Ezio games are still held in high regard, but everything after that is a mush to me.

I liked Odyssey. Sun-drenched with a charismatic protagonist. Origins a slightly less good version of that

The London one is boring imo

I played them all up to Syndicate. Yeah, the Ezio games were great. 3 was ok, could have gotten most of the fun out of just Freedom Cry though. Black Flag was ok enough, Unity was disappointing (& I love the setting), didn't bother with Syndicate because I don't really care about London. I got Origins pretty cheap, I guess I want to try it, not sure about the Greek one, really these all sound exhausting these days.

Odyssey is great fun if you just like wandering around endless gorgeous landscapes solving tons of sidequests, a la Skyrim. The main character is cool like Biscuits said, and some of the historic Greek characters they've included are surprisingly fun. The main plot is a bit meh/predictable, but there are several intriguing subplots. I know some people dislike the Fate of Atlantis DLC because it sidesteps the relative realism of the main game and takes you to straight inside Greek mythology; there's a sci-fi explanation for all that, though it's rather flimsy... But I like that one too, it's visually quite inspired and fun to play.

origins, odyssey, valhalla are the new rpg-style Definitely Not Witcher 3 ones if that appeals

Sun-drenched with a charismatic protagonist.

Alexios or Kassandra?