• BashfulBob [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    We’re going all in on Quantity over Quality, it seems.

    Although… I gotta say, if you’re using the same engine and just building out settings with an asset designer, this shouldn’t be a huge stretch for a company as big as Ubisoft. Every department spits out location assets and you effectively cobble together an entire massive online world in pieces.

    It’s just a shame that the gameplay will be restricted to “Welcome Assassin, please collect six mangos from the mango farm and deliver it to the Mango Market in Mangostan. Then kill the Mango Man.”

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      The Mango Man!! My nemesis! maddened

      plot twist

      Mango Man was one of the good guys, and I was deceived into assassinating him! nooo!

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      The first 2 games really looked like they were building to an AC game set entirely in present day, and I was looking forward to it. When that never happened, I lost interest very quickly.

      I tried Black Flag a couple years after it launched and was so annoyed at how bad the stealth was I gave up in an hour. Like man, If two guard are walking shoulder to shoulder and I snag one and the other doesn’t even look, I’m out.

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        The first 2 games really looked like they were building to an AC game set entirely in present day, and I was looking forward to it. When that never happened, I lost interest very quickly.

        I wasn’t, as the overarching Dan Brown meets Ancient Aliens plot was always my least favourite part of the entire series. Still, the way the second and third Ezio games kept faffing about with said plot and the way AC3 sloppily discarded the “Desmond Miles has to stop the 2012 Mayan apocalypse” thing all four previous games had been building up to and then seemingly promising endless AC sequels just solidified to me that Ubisoft didn’t give a shit about the story at all and I just walked away

        I tried Black Flag a couple years after it launched and was so annoyed at how bad the stealth was I gave up in an hour. Like man, If two guard are walking shoulder to shoulder and I snag one and the other doesn’t even look, I’m out

        I’ve been meaning to pirate AC4 because people said it was good and because the idea of a pirate game is really fun even if I have to suffer through the trappings of the AC universe

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          I’ve been meaning to pirate AC4 because people said it was good and because the idea of a pirate game is really fun even if I have to suffer through the trappings of the AC universe

          AC4 is also funny because you play as an employee at Ubisoft who is using the animus to dive through history to find interesting events that you can insert into the slop video game the company is developing.

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    This franchise creatively died when Ezio’s arc was finished. It effectively died during Ezio’s arc and entered repetition but attachment to Ezio made it worth seeing through. Once he was done everything since then has just been attempts at recapturing it but you just can’t without introducing a fundamentally new edge to it. They had an opportunity to if they hadn’t turned marx into a socdem they could’ve gone a cool as shit revolutionary through history direction bringing some much needed edginess to the purpose of thousands of years of assassinations but nah endorsing historical materialism is too edgy for corpos.

    You could do something really cool with a revolutionaries through history idea but they’re just not creatively willing to give to the political edginess it needs to have a cultural impact. Let me hang Mussolini upside down as one of Ezio’s descendants and I guarantee you the game will be talked about literally everywhere. no-fash

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      I’d argue the Franchise died with ::: spoiler spoiler Desmond ::: in AC3, but it seems like I was the only person interested in the overarching story. After that only Unity felt like a good assassin game (performance issues aside), but for some baffling reason Ubisoft didn’t reuse any of the good bits in the subsequent games. I haven’t managed to get through any of the RPG era games, I just find their gameplay so mind numbingly boring.

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      1000%. Like, where the fuck will these games even be set? Ancient China, Medieval/Colonial Spain, Medieval Africa maybe?

      If the franchise wasn’t such garbage nowadays (but I realized that it honestly always was, especially when people take off the rose tinted glasses), I would seriously love something that could truly cover the place that was Russia before and during the October Revolution (image a game where you could organize soviets and general resistance to imperialist rule). But as someone else said, considering how they portrayed Marx, I don’t want them touching that shit with a 10 foot pole.

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          I have never played any Final Fantasy games, but looking at Ubisoft, I honestly appreciate them at least putting a number on their ridiculousness. Considering AC officially only counts to 4, you honestly wouldn’t think they already made 14 of these fucking games (including shadows).