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[dead souls]

What a disaster 2014 has been...

Yep, I'm glad I haven't upgraded to a current gen console yet. I'll just keep working on my backlog.

 

[AngryMoth]

Sigh, I was really hoping would turn out good. Maybe next year.

 

[Karak]

Damn.

Sad but true man.

But at least we have Rogue which rocks.

 

[Mendax]

The Ubisoft Montreal studio is at walking distance from me. I wonder what is going on there at the moment.

go have a look and report back aferwards

 

[PumpkinSpice]

The Ubisoft Montreal studio is at walking distance from me. I wonder what is going on there at the moment.

They're probably well aware that the game that came out has problems.

Probably they are back to crunching for patches.

 

[mdubs]

Ehh still jumping in, it has no naval combat so that is a big plus, I'll probably enjoy it still because of the setting

 

[Zabuza]

Not even gonna touch this one, even for free.

 

[Reg]

Bloodborne will save next-gen next year.

But seriously, I am heartened to see even outfits such as IGN nuking this turkey.

7.8 is nuking?

 

[antitrop]

Holy shit.

2014 has been a mess.

This game was made by like 10 different fucking studios.

Ubisoft is a mess.

 

[Toki767]

I'm glad it's getting these scores tbh. I regret pre-ordering and pre-loading it. I should have known better. But at least scores are matching up with the games poor performance and issues.

EDIT: I didn't want it to fail. I wanted this game to be great, and to love it. This really sucks.

Can you get a refund?

 

[Ishan]

jesus 90+ metacritic aaa games so far have been tlou:R and Halo MCC . And im sure gta v R will be the same. 2014 has been fun . Hello 2015 get here fast.

 

[UnluckyKate]

quick dirty translation

jeuxvidéo.com 8.5

Going back to the series' basics and revamping many of its mecanics was a bold bet, largly achieved with success by Ubisoft's teams. Paris is not only one of the most beautiful city ever done in open world, but it's filled with written side activities and interior places you can visit without loadings. Freerun is still fluid but not perfect, so as the combat system, more demanding for sure not that deep in the end. You aren't an assassin's making law in town anymore, you are back being a blade inside dense crowds, a point highlighted by the new convincing infiltration system. Even with it's story without any strike of light or some technical imperfection, AC Unity stills is an excellent wine that drives the series' gameplay on a good path and that will keep you busy for long hours in front of your screen.

http://www.jeuxvideo.com/articles/0002/00020095-assassin-s-creed-unity-test.htm#infos

I wonder how big was the check on this one. This site is well know for over grading, it's french ign after all.

 

[Zalman]

8 Concerning Things I Experienced in Assassin's Creed Unity by Justin Davis.

 

[RK9039]

Holy shit.

2014 has been a mess.

It has been for some big AAA games, smaller titles have been amazing this year.

 

[TheBaronOfNA]

Gamereactor UK 7/10

"At times it's glorious, but at the same time frustrating. It can be summed up in those moments when you are trying to craftily slip in through a window to stab a guard in the back of the neck, but instead end up leaping into a courtyard full of soldiers like a clumsy idiot. You will scream, swear and pound your head against the coffee table, and then you'll reload the game, because when it works, it really works."

Sound like a AssCreed game to me...

 

[Osahi]

I'm glad that reviewers are being honest but it's such a shame, really wanted this game to be good (as I'm sure lots of people did). The French Revolution as a time period was something I anticipated greatly and it's sad to see it squandered. I'm a pretty big fan of AC games despite the annual releases (I even kind of enjoyed my time with AC3). Its been an entertaining trainwreck since this game's announcement but I'm still bitterly disappointed that its turned out this way. It'd be great for the Ubisoft to afford the AC teams the time needed to polish their games (just look at how DA:I has turned out with the extra time) but ah well, its unlikely to happen. Probably the first AC game that I might skip altogether (or at least pick up a long way down the line).

Play it. Chances are you'll enjoy it. I sure did, and after the patch the framerate isn't unplayable (on PS4 at least, only version i played.)

 

[Gbraga]

Hopefully, this time, reviews talk as much about framerate as the should. It hurts me every time i see games with bad frame rates getting 9 and 10s...

Eh, I think The Last of Us and Shadow of the Colossus deserved every 9 and 10 they got. I have nothing against people subtracting points because of framerate issues, but trying to impose that standard is beyond ridiculous.

 

[Art Vandilay]

I think if a game can sink down to the single digits and there isn't anything that can be done about it, even with patches, I think it deserves a way lower score than what it should be. I think anything below 30 FPS is either distracting or if it's consistently under or well under 30 FPS, then game breaking, making me not want to play it.

Could they not lower the resolution?

 

[KojiKnight]

How did PlayStation LifeStyle give it a perfect score? (10/10)

How do you get noticed as a small review site in a realm of larger ones? You intentionally post great reviews for bad games, or bad reviews for good games. Then you get one person to post it in a popular forum and suddenly you get thousands of views as people go "wtf?"

 

[ANDS]

"Gamers want a game to be bad"? The fuck are you talking about? Some gamers want bad games to receive appropriately bad scores, that's what it is. And that's a good thing.

Uhm. More than a few have slipped into this thread with what can only be considered glee at this "annual franchise" failing hard, which suggest - outside of playing the game - some gamers WANTED the game to be bad.

 

[Vizzeh]

Ubisoft deserve these scores for all their bullshit, im glad review sites have held their nerve and shown some backbone. All the PR rubbish, parity and a complete rush out the door yearly cycle that results in a technical mess in non-optimised games only means 1 thing:

Greed!

 

[blitzcloud]

I think the idea of getting 1 game per year caused another breakdown considering this was the "leap of faith" title with so many wanted changes. In the end, the time frame was too small to do a fine craft of all the elements in a cohesive manner. shame, i wanted to play it.

 

[tbm24]

Good god, what happened - I wasn't expecting reviews to be that brutal.

Looks like a rent to me now, good work Ubisoft.

I'm still only a few hours in but I'd say the game is definitely worth playing if you like AC series at all. May not be worth the $60 to many, but it's at least worth playing so go for it.

 

[samuraidino]

A return to form for the series..... That being the form of Assassins Creed 3 though....

 

[plagiarize]

Oh shit you guys NOW in 2014 climbing and stabbing is tired. Good thing it wasn't last year.

Last year we had a sweet open world sea to sail around, improved ship to ship combat and ship to ship boarding. Unity takes that all out, and doesn't improve on the main gameplay systems.

 

[Green Yoshi]

Wow, i'm surprised, AC3 all over again.

AC 3 only had a very weak beginning, the rest was awesome. PS3-version of AC III has 85 points on Metacritic btw.

 

[Vidpixel]

The game is actually scoring pretty decently, and it sounds like the core game is enjoyable, but all this talk of technical issues means I will skip on Unity for the time being.

 

[Dreathlock]

Seriously?

 

[Data West]

What a disaster 2014 has been...

Hasn't Dragon Age been getting really high reviews?
And Sunset Overdrive which was only a few weeks ago?
As well as Bayonetta 2?

 

[PodcastFips]

Metacritic is up at 70...

And it just changed to 72 because Gaming Age's 50 was removed. Huh?!

 

[Raven77]

So Kotaku says the missions are boring

Gameinformer says the missions are engaging



...Not sure who to trust here. I mean, anyone in the US can get this game for $40 bucks today so at least it wont cost $60.

 

[Wind's Howling]

I am wondering if Ubisoft will have the balls to consider putting out a statement about the issues this game is clearly dealing with, and not just the technical side of things.

 

[eizarus]

7.8 is nuking?

It is for an IGN review. The community there has pretty much forced anything less than 8.5 to be shit.

 

[midasmulligan]

But didn't they wrangle, squeeze, and choke every ounce of power out of the ps4 for this game lol...f*ck outta here Ubi

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Could they not lower the resolution?

I know right... or get you know, better developers?

 

[UrbanRats]

ahahah i wanted to post this image, but in relation to Ubisoft keeping their "ONE GAME PER YEAR" stupid mantra.
I hope it finally catches up to them, after AC3 already was a fucking mess riddled with bugs.

Actually, it's two fucking game a year, since they have Rogue.

 

[Amir0x]

It... really has.

I want to give credit here and now to two companies though that have bucked the 2014 trend and deserve a lot of praise.

MICROSOFT and NINTENDO.


Microsoft's stable of games this holiday season - Forza Horizon 2, Sunset Overdrive and Master Chief Collection - are clearly designing within the limits of the technology provided for them on the platform and the result is a mostly completely solid 30fps experience (or in MCC case, 60fps). Yes, Sunset is 900p, but it understood what it had to pare back to get it to run acceptably technically and the result is everything else looks wonderful. It's one step back for a dozen step forwards.

Same for Nintendo. Bayonetta 2? Wonderful. Captain Toad? Wonderful. Mario Kart 8? Great. Smash Bros. Wii U? I haven't followed it but I'm sure it'll run great


THANK you companies who continue to ensure we aren't face stuffed with technical abominations.

 

[Toki767]

So Kotaku says the missions are boring

Gameinformer says the missions are engaging



...Not sure who to trust here. I mean, anyone in the US can get this game for $40 bucks today so at least it wont cost $60.

Have you seen Gameinformer's site? It has AC Unity ads all over the place.

Obviously different tastes and opinions, but GI's review seems to be the exception and not the norm so far.

 

[Chakan]

Well, I'll wait a little longer before getting this one. Not paying full price for this mess.

 

[Comet]

Ambition gets to be an excuse for releasing a product that has this many problems?

This isn't 'indie ambtion' where they release a game for the first time.

This is a AAA development studio with thousands of people working on one game with millions and millions of dollars behind the project.

So a little Q/A is expected.

During short deadlines QA is the first thing to be sacrificed.

 

[Wind's Howling]

And it just changed to 72 because Gaming Age's 50 was removed. Huh?!

It is still there. Click on the ''See all .. Critic Reviews''

 

[SillySinStorm]

I was so close to going with this over FC4. It's looking as though it was a wise decision (although if FC4 is utter balls i'll punch a kitten. Twice).

 

[GDJustin]

I didn't review the game, but I played an early copy.

These are 8 concerning things I experienced in Assassin's Creed Unity's first 2-3 hours:

http://www.ign.com/blogs/jdavisign/2014/11/11/8-real-things-i-experienced-in-assassins-creed-unity/

(Also this is probably the worst AC since 1).

Edit: I see GAF was faster than me on this one. So... there you go.

 

[Jeff-DSA]

The technical issues (framerate, bugs, getting stuck in geometry) alone should prevent anybody from giving this a 10/10 score. Case closed. You can't reward something a perfect score that has so many glaring technical issues. That's disingenuous and wrong.

Not that anybody really cares what I personally think, but anybody who scores this game perfectly, I will no longer trust anything else you review. Ever. There's clearly an agenda or something shady going on if you can hand out a perfect score to something so problematic.

 

[Wynnebeck]

So glad I didn't get this last night.

 

[Always-honest]

What a shame. The setting could have been amazing.
Not buying Ubi.

 

[Mendax]

A return to form for the series..... That being the form of Assassins Creed 3 though....

AC3 wasnt so bad. i encountered literally ONE bug/glitch in AC3 and I 100%-ed it; I had multiple versions of Achilles spread across the hideout even though he was dead and buried lol.

 

[LiveFromKyoto]

They're probably well aware that the game that came out has problems.

Probably they are back to crunching for patches.

They hired writers to do internal reviews and knew exactly what it would score, hence the mid-day embargo.

 

[DukeBobby]

It is for an IGN review. The community there has pretty much forced anything less than 8.5 to be shit.

Poor Alien: Isolation.

 

[Alienous]

Uhm. More than a few have slipped into this thread with what can only be considered glee at this "annual franchise" failing hard, which suggest - outside of playing the game - some gamers WANTED the game to be bad.

Right, remember when everyone shat on Black Flag?

Oh, wait...