clutch.as.it.gets.
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Could be the use of FXAA.
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Could be the use of FXAA.
I don't mind - it's freezing in germany too
But norway is 1000000 times more beautiful and you guys are all so nice - no drunken idiots that harass you at night. But I would fear that the beauty of all the fjords wouldn't be anything special anymore after living there for a while
Yeah, I was about to say that
There have been a number of cases where swiss stores randomly decided to all break street date. Skyward Sword and Mario 3D Land for example were sold openly weeks in advance everywhere.
And if they don't, I've been able to get games a few days earlier at GameStop every time I asked.
Guys, can we please spoiler tag that screenshot discussion. I managed to not look at it in enough detail, but can we at least not discuss its implications in the open? Some of us like going into the game fresh, and from what I can tell, this is something that Ubisoft have deliberately been trying to hide
Thanks for that; I've always wanted to live in Switzerland
I need to practice my Schweizerdütsch
The price here in Japan (where they don't generally break street date) might be the most ridiculous of all: the list price is Y7770, or about $98.00!
Of course, almost all stores have it for less than the list price:
http://kakaku.com/item/K0000398170/
...and typically, at brick-and-mortar stores, you can get another 10% back in points. In Japan, never pay list price!
clutch.as.it.gets.
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Watch the videos with the sound off.
krameriffic
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Never had that work. Employees at GameStop around here know not to do that, and I guess there just aren't that many independent stores that might not give a shit.
Yup, there's no way those 360 shots are the real deal. Both versions look pretty equal in their presentation.
keltickennedy
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Nope. Y is your secondary weapon use.
BTW, I got to play the game today. People should really stop posting any screens from the beginning of the game. They are HUGELY spoiler heavy, believe me.
Duebrithil
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While I haven't found anything resembling those screenshots (360 version), bear in mind the game seems to have a fairly agressive LOD, if this is something introduced with AnvilNext or it's just a consequence that the game has more open spaces and wide streets I cannot say. The game looks nice enough most of the time and on street level (although there is a certain amount of pop-in), but on a especially high building for example far off streets can appear to be a flat texture. The fact that the cities have wider streets also contribute to this being more evident. The forest areas on the homestead and frontier look great. Rich colours, deformable snow and wobbling tree branches on free run.
Regarding framerate I've only had one big slowdown, rest of the time the game has the typical AC framerate wobble. What they seem to have improved is the amount of tearing (I don't have the best eye for it though), in cutscenes I haven't noticed the amount of tearing that ACII/B/R had and gameplay seems to hold well. I reiterate, I'm not the best at seeing the tears, so someone more used to it might notice it better.
I'm not a fan of the redesigned control scheme: some jumps have to be manually triggered with A so I end up holding RT+A anyway and you can't drop-grab ledges like crazy anymore (or at least I don't have the upgrade, if there is one). Maybe I'm just to used to the puppeteer controls. The combat mechanics have abandoned the usual "RT blocks and X afterwards counters" to resemble more Rocksteady's Batman games.
All in all it's a decent game, but with only 6 hours invested it's too early to make a judgement.
Agreed. It was a nice surprise so going in clean is the best option.
Muffdraul
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sm fucking h. >=|
I figured they only did that in Revelations due to the sloppiness that goes with a short dev cycle. Hutchinson, you suck.
They really didn't have many ideas on tall things you could climb in rural Colonial America, did they? xD so they just decided to give you a really tall wooden pole.
Small question to those that have played the game, how spoilery are those three screenshots that have been posted? i mean, I still didn't see the face of the character in them, so I guess that surprise in the beginning of the game that people have mentioned hasn't been completely ruined for me, right?
Doesn't make much sense to waste a face button on something that holds very little importance, meta control scheme or not.
TheVoidDragon
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some photos of the 360 version i have seen on a spanish forum
this is for real?
I really hope that isn't true. It looks terrible.
petethepanda
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No way any of those are legit.
Yeah, if you directly compare the price in swiss francs/yen with the US dollar, it sounds like a lot, but you also have to consider the economy and all that stuff. For example, new PS360 games in Italy are usually about 60, which sounds worse to me than the 80 francs in Switzerland even though it's slightly less.
Prices have gotten MUCH better lately, too. Until last year, the usual price for new PS360 games was 100 francs.
pharmboy044
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Those are not 360 shots. Those are from the Vita version, Liberation.
petethepanda
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They're not, Vita version has a different interface and generally looks entirely different than that.
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Oh God, my Ubiworkshop Edition has been shipped! Excited! Jumped around like a kid for around 5 minutes heh. Specially since this is my first online-ordered game!
So the A and B buttons are photoshopped?
So the A and B buttons are photoshopped?
They are not, Liberation runs at a much lower resolution, has a different HUD, and doesn't even have that character or location in the game.
EDIT: To quote myself from earlier:
Nope.
Someone just decided to take screenshots in a poor place. I'm sure the city sections look much better.
Obviously two different games.
Glad that its been confirmed.
Biggest-Geek-Ever
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Why is Connor in a colonial Silent Hill?
Muffdraul
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It does to me. After doing it in the first three, they should have continued. Arbitrary changes suck.
moai
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it has begun.
pharmboy044
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Sorry guys, I was sure I saw those screens in the Vita version of the thread. I was totally off.
Whatever one you want. Seriously.
7echnicolor
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Wuthering_Heights
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These days it just comes down to which controller you prefer and if you like achievements or trophies. Graphical differences have become negligible on consoles.
Yeah, it looks like a difference comparable to the last few games in the series. Which makes me think that the engine hasn't been all that revised. I'll stick to the 360 version yet again.
Agreed.
If you're going to judge its looks, don't use only those screens for reference.
Its not an arbitrary change though. Keeping a button pretty much useless for 98% of a game when you're adding in a whole lot of new features would be arbitrary. It's better for that button to actually have something the player can use mapped to it. Especially when you already had another button for lock-on (which would be a head related task) that was used about as frequently as the Synchronize button (which is essentially the only use for the Head button when you already had a different interaction button). With Circle/B being the interact button for a ton of other things, it only made sense to further that and to move eagle sense over to a less necessary controller area. Opening up Triangle/Y for a combat button only makes sense considering the amount of killing options available to the player at this point in the series.
keltickennedy
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For the updated combat it ends up working out I think. I think you will have less of a problem with when you play the game. I think what was wrong with Revelations is that it was so similar control wise to previous games, why the heck did they just change one little thing? AC3 combat is really different, B/O to counter enemies attacks, then A/X for breaking an enemies defense or disarm if you are just using your fists. Y/triangle is whatever you have as your secondary weapon. You can alternate between all these in the flow of combat. Hell, you can even use the bow to counter an enemies attack. It is really impressing me.
CambriaRising
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Four images from the upcoming art book.
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Awesome
Most interested to hear if the Wilderness is as fucking god awfully boring as the countryside in all the other AC games. If they can manage to not make the huge expanses of nothingness boring, I'll be completely on board. Of course I am forced to be on board due to my love of Revolutionary War history either way, because I have to see how they molest early American figures and events. But still!
Muffdraul
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It's not really a big deal, just midly irksome and niggling. I barely even noticed it even in Revelations. AC3 does sound totally rad... stop making me want it more than I already did. Which was already more than it's possible to humanly want something!
Circle/B wasn't "Interact". It was "use your hand". To open a door, to hit a swtich, to sign the lease on a shut down storefront, loot a body, to throw a knife, whatever. Look, you're not going to convince me to be happy that they abandoned the puppeteering thing, which I always valued as a cool little AC trademark. Give it up.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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So the Benedict Arnold missions are PS3 exclusive.. Well thats fucking bullshit.
This whole platform exclusive DLC is a joke. They really think im gonna go pick up a PS3 just to get this extra content? Absolutely not. Do i want it? Fucking right i do.
All this platform exclusive bullshit does in piss off the consumer in the long run.
This whole platform exclusive DLC is a joke. They really think im gonna go pick up a PS3 just to get this extra content? Absolutely not. Do i want it? Fucking right i do.
All this platform exclusive bullshit does in piss off the consumer in the long run.