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[cleveridea]

Sell it then

why would I sell a game that:

redefines the franchise as a whole...astonishing attention to detail, paired with a great level of personalization and a fresh cooperative option make this game an amazing experience.

I mean thats LevelUp. Thats the most important endorsement of all.

 

[MHWilliams]

http://kotaku.com/regarding-post-release-review-embargoes-yesterday-i-1657482663

So is there any kind of law keeping them from breaking embargo dates? Kotaku is claiming they will not obey it in the future.

They're just saying they won't agree to early review copies for games with embargo dates past the launch date.

 

[Markitron]

Do get to keep my GAF credibility if I buy this, finish the story, and then sell it to fund a new Dualshock 4 (that I badly need)?

 

[bishoptl]

Doesn't make the other person a sucker though...

If someone is willing to gobble up a lesser experience while still paying full price, then yes - that is a valid definition. The best one, actually.

 

[Muffdraul]

Is there ANY chance at all that Ubi will fix these frame rate problems in the near future?

Or will this be a case of, 'sorry suckers we got your money. See ya for next years release,'

When AC3 came out, I thought "What a mess, but it could be great once they patch all of these obvious bugs." It seemed like an obvious thing they would simply have to do, to mitigate damage and tarnish to their flagship franchise's image.

But they never did fix those bugs.

 

[Skatewarp]

Hopefully the Metacritic score matches the framerate.

LOL
#DEAD

 

[digoutyoursoul]

why would I sell a game that:



I mean thats LevelUp. Thats the most important endorsement of all.

Yep, don't forget to buy the season pass

 

[Muffdraul]

AC Unity frame rate nightmare X1: http://youtu.be/-YdgnxdzE5g

I recorded this a moment ago

That's more than just dropping frames. That reminds of the stream on Friday showing the awful co-op session, it ended with all four guys climbing the highest tower in the area. When they all four got to the top, one guy was experiencing major frame rate holocaust just like that, but the other three guys were fine. It's a bug beyond a mere frame hit.

 

[theWB27]

If someone is willing to gobble up a lesser experience while still paying full price, then yes - that is a valid definition. The best one, actually.

I have no problem with raising standards....just can't promise it'll happen with Creed.

 

[gribbles]

So will rogue scoring higher than unity convince ubisoft to make the next mainline game another ship game as well?

 

[BRocknRolla]

I got this with my Xbox Bundle. Was really the only option as I had no interest in a white console.

But I definitely had high hopes given what a complete heel-turn Black Flag seemed to be. This sounds like something of a disaster. A real shame that the AC series and Ubisoft can't be trusted to make consistently good products.

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Yikes. Sounds like watchdogs set in the past

 

[hemo memo]

Videogamer bought their own copy for CoD:AW. I don't understand this embargo talk if you can get around it and if you really care about your readers specially with a technical mess like this one.

 

[sn00zer]

Shit....I was actually really excited for this....evrything they said sounded great.....was going to be my first Assassins Creed since the first one (I actually loved the first, played about an hour of two and realized it was the same damn thing and never looked back)

 

[C-DubSP]

I'm sure Digital Foundry is going to have field day with this one.

 

[Anfang]

I'm sure Digital Foundry is going to have field day with this one.

They already did.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=930976

 

[Sodding_Gamer]

Yeah this isn't the game's fault, you just have too many dust bunnies in your console's fan. Just grab a can of compressed air and blow those suckers out. If you're not familiar with dust bunnies they look like this:

#dead

 

[cleveridea]

Yeah this isn't the game's fault, you just have too many dust bunnies in your console's fan. Just grab a can of compressed air and blow those suckers out. If you're not familiar with dust bunnies they look like this:

This has given me more enjoyment than unity

true story

 

[King Gilga]

AC Unity frame rate nightmare X1: http://youtu.be/-YdgnxdzE5g

I recorded this a moment ago

That shouldn't even be allowed to make it past certification.

 

[Mory Dunz]

AC Unity frame rate nightmare X1: http://youtu.be/-YdgnxdzE5g

I recorded this a moment ago

Cistene Chapel, Poetry in Motion

 

[QuantumZebra]

I'm not pissed at review sites wanting to post reviews. If they want to follow the embargos, more power to them.


I thought it was silly of Gies to say within 2 tweets that you do not get as many readers to read reviews that are posted late, so they are going to post them as soon as they are allowed, thus following the embargoes (and getting more readers =clicks), but then saying they are doing it to better server their readers. It is flat out to better server Polygon, not the readers.

I get that its PR, but in a way Gies is right. I'd rather my review site of choice review a game than not review a game... regardless of the dubious practices of the publisher.

 

[CentroXer]

and yet another broken game beats Wolfenstein on metacritic scale. This is just sad.

 

[cleveridea]

and yet another broken game beats Wolfenstein on metacritic scale. This is just sad.

? on ps4 wolfenstein > unity, which is correct IMO

there arent enough reviews in comparison on xbox one to be as relevant

 

[THRILLH0]

That's more than just dropping frames. That reminds of the stream on Friday showing the awful co-op session, it ended with all four guys climbing the highest tower in the area. When they all four got to the top, one guy was experiencing major frame rate holocaust just like that, but the other three guys were fine. It's a bug beyond a mere frame hit.

Are you fucking serious?

 

[MadJackChurchill]

Always knew this looked like a huge step backwards. Now I can be all smug about it, yippee.

 

[system11]

It's getting much higher scores than it deserves. They should be punishing it for anti-consumer practises and being a shoddy product.

 

[CaLe]

Who cares about metacritic, God Hand and Nier also have a mediocre average on Metacritic, yet they are my favorite video games of all time.

Quoted for truth. Make up your own opinion of a game.

I finished Shadow of Mordor, but that game is more repetitive than mowing the lawn. I still enjoyed it, but nowhere near close to it's Metacritic.

 

[baconcow]

Definitely looks like a 10/10 (PlayStation LifeStyle) game to me. I like my games 15 fps.

 

[Gunslinger]

Performance is horrible on ps4. Crashed my ps4 already 2 times.

 

[-MD-]

AC Unity frame rate nightmare X1: http://youtu.be/-YdgnxdzE5g

I recorded this a moment ago

That's tragic.

Really glad I'm not a fan of this series, I feel for you guys. That shit shouldn't have even been printed to a disc in that state.

 

[Peterpan]

Wonder how well the PC version performs.

 

[Servbot24]

Yikes. Sounds like watchdogs set in the past

Watch Dogs got bad scores due to simply being a bad game, not technical issues. I haven't even heard anything about the actual game part of Unity yet.

 

[orthodoxy1095]

They're just saying they won't agree to early review copies for games with embargo dates past the launch date.

Sorry for asking this in case you've answered, but any chance you all are doing anything similar?

Are you fucking serious?

He can't use the word holocaust?

 

[BigJonsson]

Do you guys think they'll be able to fix these issues with patches?

 

[Touch fuzZy. get BizZay]

Watch Dogs got bad scores due to simply being a bad game, not technical issues. I haven't even heard anything about the actual game part of Unity yet.

That's a good point. But tbh I'm exhausted in general by the annualization of this franchise, so tech stuff aside, unless the gameplay is getting a major shot in the arm its a bad game to me.

 

[Truant]

Do you guys think they'll be able to fix these issues with patches?

Technically yes. Give them enough time and programmers and they'll be able to do it. Anything is possible with enough time.

But you know what? Time costs money. People cost money. This game is going to sell like hotcakes no matter what. People love their yearly AC game. I dated a girl once that never fired up her xbox, EXCEPT for whatever AC game Ubi put out. They don't really care, they'll make their money either way.

 

[EGM1966]

Do you guys think they'll be able to fix these issues with patches?

That's not the question, the question is will they?

I'm guessing probably not going by previous releases.

 

[BigJonsson]

Technically yes. Give them enough time and programmers and they'll be able to do it. Anything is possible with enough time.

But you know what? Time costs money. People cost money. This game is going to sell like hotcakes no matter what. People love their yearly AC game. I dated a girl once that never fired up her xbox, EXCEPT for whatever AC game Ubi put out. They don't really care, they'll make their money either way.

I'm debating cancelling it or holding onto it until the return window is up, ordered it at a good discount

 

[woen]

AC Unity frame rate nightmare X1: http://youtu.be/-YdgnxdzE5g

I recorded this a moment ago

A Sainte-Chapelle video again. We've known since a few days that's a buggy mission for everyone;

 

[Dartastic]

AC Unity frame rate nightmare X1: http://youtu.be/-YdgnxdzE5g

I recorded this a moment ago

Jesus fucking CHRIST. That was so bad I had to check and see if my phones cell phone connection was studdering.

 

[Muffdraul]

Are you fucking serious?

I meant holocaust as in a synonym for calamity, disaster, catastrophe etc. I was not referring to The Holocaust, and I would never make light of that.

 

[Truant]

I'm debating cancelling it or holding onto it until the return window is up, ordered it at a good discount

Same boat as you, my friend. I pre-ordered, because really love the french revolution and thought it would be amazing to get to play in that setting. I was also kinda excited about a good "old fashioned" AC game without boats and fleet missions. Just a well realized city, a cool coming-of-age story, and some amazing architechture. I was pretty much happy with that, combined with the improved free running.

However, it's the terrible technical stuff that's making me want to return it.

 

[cleveridea]

I'm debating cancelling it or holding onto it until the return window is up, ordered it at a good discount

is there anything else you are looking forward to?

Personally I was blown away by how good sunset overdrive is. Had a ton of fun with shadow of mordor. I loved PS3 GTA V so really looking forward to PS4 version, DA has great reviews.

Unity might have been acceptable if they launched in a vacuum but to me other games over delivered where unity disappointed,

 

[BBboy20]

For the past year I have learnt to never ever pre order a game again

Battlefield 4 online issues
Drive Club online issues
Halo MCC matchmaking issues
TitanFall overhyped
Watchdog's overhyped
Destiny overhyped with a review embargo after release

I have learnt to not ever buy a game on launch or pre order. Wait for reviews and also wait for impressions on bugs and online issues.

You could always trust Platinum. >.>

Agreed. Every game I've been excited about has fallen flat.

Only GTAV (hopefully) can save us now.

The WiiU has been saving us but nobody pays attention just because it doesn't have 8GBs of GDDR5 RAM.

 

[BigJonsson]

is there anything else you are looking forward to?

Personally I was blown away by how good sunset overdrive is. Had a ton of fun with shadow of mordor. I loved PS3 GTA V so really looking forward to PS4 version, DA has great reviews.

Unity might have been acceptable if they launched in a vacuum but to me other games over delivered where unity disappointed,

I have a bunch of PS+ games to play, and Mordor to finish up, and I haven't played the last 2 BF4 expansions yet, and I might get the Destiny expansion

I don't have any other pre-orders until February I think

 

[Strike]

I was going to pick this up when it hit $20 - $30 anyway. Hopefully they can patch out most of the issues by then.

 

[Donrule01]

I went to Best Buy and changed my preorder deposit from Unity to Dragon Age. Lady said you are like the 9th person who has changed their Unity preorder or cancelled it today lol.

 

[Sojgat]

Just yesterday, I was excited for this game.

How things change.

 

[cleveridea]

I went to Best Buy and changed my preorder deposit from Unity to Dragon Age. Lady said you are like the 9th person who has changed their Unity preorder or cancelled it today lol.

Nice. And quite a change after DA2

 

[ubiblu]

The key lesson we can take from all of this is to support Nintendo, a company that puts gameplay first and never (don't quote me) releases a half-arsed product.