It's been such a great year for Ubisoft.
Gonna be a late one according to Brad :/
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It's been such a great year for Ubisoft.
Gonna be a late one according to Brad :/
They're probably gonna get away with it relatively unscathed so they probably don't care, is the thing.
Jimmyfenix
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EA gave me free games all weekend and today. I like this new EA
TharpDaddy
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Call of Duty sales started to drop due to lack of innovation, and that was just one series being formulaic. Ubisoft has has multiple franchises that all have the same formula, so they're going to be running them into the ground much faster than Activision ever could with CoD. It's sad that it's not even a joke to say The Crew is Assassin's Creed but with cars.
Stereogatari
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Everything about EA for the past year or so (since the year of apologies ended) seems centered around "Oh christ please, please, PLEASE like us" and it's worked out for fans for the most part. Even their E3 videos where they announce game ideas they had in the shower this morning, it's all "LOOK AT US BEING HUMAN!"
Time will show, but I'm not so sure about that.
"The ten people left at Criterion are making a game with a helicopter or something? Fuck if I know!"
Yeah, I mean, (some) people on GAF are gonna draw their lessons but I sincerely doubt the general public will react, either because they don't care, they're not aware of the alternatives, they're insensitive to creative bankruptcy, they only play heavily marketed games, they forget easily, and so on, and so forth.
Nothing would make me happier than to be proven wrong, of course.
This doesn't apply solely to Ubisoft btw but also stuff like EA sports titles (by far the biggest offender), pre-ordering broken games, etc.
BreezyLimbo
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Day 15: It's been 15 days since MGScanlon has last been recorded. The joys of wonder have been all but forgotten over the GotY podcasts. There is no end in sight to this drought. Many have fallen in the wait, they just couldn't go on. A few remain, chronicling the occurrences since then...but we will fall sooner or later.
Mushroomer25
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EA's had a REALLY weird 2014. Their entire E3 conference was centered around the reveal a game that leaked a full month early, and ended up being delayed out of the holiday season. Then they filled the rest of the show with vague conceptual videos that could easily have zero representation of the end product. Cut to last week, when they hype up a big Game Awards announcement - only for it to be yet ANOTHER video of dudes in a meeting room discussing concept art, punctuated by 10 seconds of engine footage.
Oh, and they've only released one major non-sports title this fall season - and it's somehow one of the year's best games overall. Punctuated by constant free game giveaways, and the slow improvement of Origin into a tolerable product.
nckillthegrimace
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Speaking of podcasting and hot-button issues, I just experienced ludonarrative dissonance. I think. I was playing Patrick's favorite game, The Evil Within, which thus far has been about sneaking past zombies and cowering in fear from the encroaching darkness of aspect ratio. So I clumsily snuck my way past like twelve dudes because the main guy can't melee to save his life, but then I finish the chapter and he's drop kicking zombies in the next cutscene. What. Why can't he do that while I'm playing? RE4 let me do that.
Fuck video games.
Fuck video games.
Wait...really?
Well, I've finally gotten over that whole "time moves so much faster than when I was younger" thing.
As for Dragon Age, I haven't played the new game yet and ignored almost everything about it because lol Bioware. But is this one actually good like the first Dragon Age, or is it only good if you believe that Mass Effect 2 was well-written?
How could that be this year?!? It feels like forever ago.
Oh wow. That Paul Barnett GDC video was from March. How long has this year been?
Days like this make me wish I drank.
It seems to be channelling closer to DA:O than DA2; more character customisation, choices have more impact, bigger and more varied environments, central plot and concrete stakes rather than broken up narrative, etc.
I don't like the combat as much as Origins though, it's still too close to 2, and though it makes some concessions to the Origins style (tactical overview character), it's kind of facerolly.
I'm only 3/4ths or so through it though. It may go to hell in the third act. Also if you've got Vinny-itis of feeling the need to collect everything this game might get you killed.
I read that when it was posted; the only thing I took away was that this is the first time Patrick's gotten into a western RPG. It doesn't really say anything about the game itself. It's entirely possible this is just the first time he's tried since he's actively been attempting to get into new types of games.
Even the discussion on last week's bombcast didn't really tell me anything because to be honest, I don't trust any of their opinions on this kind of game. Our tastes have just never matched up so unless Dave is talking I can't really say I put any weight into what's said.
edit: For example, this sounds real bad right here:
I don't think you climb towers, you drive up to a satellite dish and press a button to sync and it does the far cry style zoom out and into certain locations and unlocks icons on the map, at least the two I found in the beta was like that. I think when Jeff says it has towers he means the concept rather than physical towers.
The Dear Leader
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Is Rorie or Jason going to have any say in the GOTY stuff?
There have been several instances this month of me saying "that was this year!?" I don't know what's going on.
TharpDaddy
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It depends on what you're looking for. I love the game so far. I haven't been this immersed in an RPG in some time, and it's tied with Sunset for my GoTY. The combat isn't faceroll-y if you're on higher difficulties. You'll be forced to be in the tactics view in every fight on those difficulties and pay attention to positioning, combos, etc. I enjoy reading about the lore, the characters, the politics and the world.
I doubt Rorie will be but Jason was on the bombcast last week which was basically a test of the set up for the GOTY podcasts.
Hot Coldman
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can URL of the year please be twitch.tv/bazza87
Yeah I gotta cop to this. I'm playing on normal, so I can't speak for higher difficulties. I also might have stayed in the Hinterlands too long and overshot the level I was supposed to be at making most fights trivial.
Ultimately I would recommend it if you liked Origins. Then again, I quite liked Mass Effect 2, so our tastes might not align Archaix.
TharpDaddy
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Maybe. You'd have to use the tactics view in the Hinterlands until you got to a high enough level. No guarantees if you're fighting a bear or a dragon that your levels would be good enough.
Dragon fights might trip you up.
Basileus777
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You don't need tactical camera even on the highest difficulties. You certainly aren't forced there. The combat in the game plays out like KOTOR for the most part. It's the least tactical of the Dragon Age games.
If it's as late as the latest Bradcast I remember, it could take another 90 minutes.
StopMakingSense
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And going by how they didn't leave of the office till like 11 yesterday, who the fuck knows.
Basileus777
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Damn that Beard for playing Destiny instead of slaving over the editing software to get me my podcast on time.
I wish I had an alarm clock that would wake me once the Bombcast went up.
It would say 'It's Bombcast o'clock!" out loud and everything.
lazybones18
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They gonna have so much fun doing the new raid in Destiny
YESSSSSSSSSSS
BUNTING1243
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Griffin McElroy might have the best Vine account on the Internet
TharpDaddy
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I found myself getting dumpstered on nightmare if I didn't use tactical view, and same for about half the fights on hard. The companion AI is not intelligent enough to handle the harder battles, so I found tactical to be a necessity. On hard I could manage in the action view about half of the time, and the other half switch to tactical. On nightmare I found myself needing tactical almost all the time. Granted i'm not overleveled at all, and it's very possible i'm not good at the game.
Basileus777
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Are you crafting gear? I found most of the difficulty in the game to amount to a gear check. I started on hard, switched to nightmare after about 15 hours and barely used the tactical cam the last 2/3 of the game. Though a lot of that is because this game gets easier the farther into it you get.
this is like a site for white people looking to buy shirts to wear at rap shows
Wait...What does he say while zooming the camera exactly?
https://vine.co/v/Or2K0j61FnF
Cause it really sound like "Eh Sacrament" which is swear in French Canadian lol.
Edit: LMAO https://vine.co/v/hDjE3QnixKr
TharpDaddy
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I'm about 20 hours in, mostly messing around in the Western Approach at the moment.
I've crafted some gear yeah, my Mage is quite decked out. I'm still finding it a decently good challenge on normal at the moment but if I end up feeling too powerful i'll knock it up to hard or nightmare.
Bard wasn't kidding, this is a latecast.
BUNTING1243
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I think it's "wait a second"? Might be wrong though
ratcliffja
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