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[Draugoth]

While the Xbox Game Showcase showed gameplay for the first time, Ubisoft gave an extended look at Assassin's Creed Shadows gameplay during Ubisoft Forward on Monday. It's over 13 minutes of what to expect with the game when it launches on November 15.





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[Gaiff]

Alright, in terms of graphics, it looks really good.

 

[Griffon]

 

[DeepEnigma]

Can't not wait to see how UbiSoft butchers historical Japanese culture and accuracy.

 

[Jormatar]

It's funny how influental Ubisoft games were for Ghost of Tsushima and now you can see here how influental Ghost of Tsushima became for a Ubisoft game.

This basically looks bigger but less polished version of Ghost of Tsushima.

 

[Fake]

Time to edit wikipedia.

 

[AtomicStarving]

Same dogshit gameplay. Who would tho... I tried to warn people

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

The dual character thing just appears clunky given that GOT lets you switch from proper samurai to straight up death ninja on the fly.

 

[DeepEnigma]

Same dogshit gameplay. Who would tho... I tried to warn people

"Don't worry, we'll just stand here stiff as a board, one at a time as you dispose of each one of us."

 

[Revolutionary]

Ubisoft: "He's black so he's gotta have hip-hop music, right?"

 

[LordCBH]

Very much looking forward to this one.

 

[Kenneth Haight]

Can't not wait to see how UbiSoft butchers historical Japanese culture and accuracy.

 

[The Cockatrice]

English voice acting is horse shit, combat looks bad af, stealth is decent, atmsophere ok. 6/10

 

[simpatico]

Launching so close to PC release of Ghost of Tsushima is a mistake. Combat looks ass in comparison. And the ninja parts…. I mean Sekiro exists

 

[Firestartah]

Literally finished Tsushima a few days ago on PC. This looks worse in every way, yes even graphically.

 

[adamsapple]

Tsushima 2 looking fine.

 

[SolidQ]

Japanese VA

 

[Gaiff]

Launching so close to PC release of Ghost of Tsushima is a mistake. Combat looks ass in comparison. And the ninja parts…. I mean Sekiro exists

8 months later is close?

 

[GHG]

Tsushima 2 looking fine.

That's because you've become accustomed to slop and have no taste.

It looked awful.

 

[rm082e]

Launching so close to PC release of Ghost of Tsushima is a mistake. Combat looks ass in comparison. And the ninja parts…. I mean Sekiro exists

Yeah, honestly I got a few hours into Sekiro. This has me thinking I should just go play that and GoT on PC and ignore Shadows.

 

[kruis]

AC:S looks nice and polished, the sections with the female ninja look fine, but I still can't get over the ridiculous choice of a black samurai. It feels weird to have a game where a huge black guy crushes and demolishes an endless parade of Asians, especially in the light of the large number of cases of random street violence by black men against random Asians in the real world.

 

[Sephimoth]

I'm actually offended by the hiphop beats that drop during the Yasuke fight. WTF UBI

 

[adamsapple]

That's because you've become accustomed to slop and have no taste.

It looked awful.

I think you watched a low bitrate stream, it looks pretty good.

 

[Firestartah]

8 months later is close?

from May to November there are 6months lil bro

 

[Gaiff]

from May to November there are 6months lil bro

Thought it had come out in March for some reason. Still, 6 months isn't close.

 

[Gaiff]

AC:S looks nice and polished, the sections with the female ninja look fine, but I still can't get over the ridiculous choice of a black samurai. It feels weird to have a game where a huge black guy crushes and demolishes an endless parade of Asians, especially in the light of the large number of cases of random street violence by black men against random Asians in the real world.

You can't be serious.

 

[simpatico]

Yeah, honestly I got a few hours into Sekiro. This has me thinking I should just go play that and GoT on PC and ignore Shadows.

Oh with ease. Both of those games were made with love and passion. This game is just a work assignment the devs accepted.

 

[Nankatsu]

Samurai sir, this way, I beg you.

I died.

 

[Firestartah]

Thought it had come out in March for some reason. Still, 6 months isn't close.

Normally should be fine, the prob is it doesnt really look better, certainly some unique stuff especially with the shinobi but dunno if enough. Maybe the console crowd will be more for it.

 

[STARSBarry]

I think you watched a low bitrate stream, it looks pretty good.

Ah yes because this is what the game will actually look like.



Like Ubisoft are THE company that consistently do this, to this day. Il believe it when the game is physically in people's hands.

 

[Teamhelperjr]

Looks cool, maybe I can just play it and pretend Kunta Kinte is japanese.

 

[Xtib81]

Looks decent/good but you can tell it's the same engine. Still stupid AI, still stupid robotic crowd, still shitty facial animations/lio sync..

 

[GHG]

I think you watched a low bitrate stream, it looks pretty good.

The stream bitrate doesn't improve the combat/gameplay along with the dollar store voice acting and music that sounds like something you'd get if you typed "Japanese hip-hop" in to any AI music generator of your choice.

 

[Party McHardy]

Can't wait to over-level the ninja and get slaughtered when you're forced to use the samurai.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

4:16 - Dude just standing there waiting his turn while his friend gets massarced by the protagonist (I'm sorry I couldn't watch anymore beyond this point in the video)

Next gen coat of paint with old ass gen gameplay. Fucking hell

 

[TheChadOfGaming]

 

[SolidQ]

3.40+ Yasuke can't climb the walls

 

[Audiophile]

All I can do is think back to the og ACII presentations and how much soul they had compared to this lifeless husk.

 

[adamsapple]

Ah yes because this is what the game will actually look like.



Like Ubisoft are THE company that consistently do this, to this day. Il believe it when the game is physically in people's hands.

Ok .. but clearly I'm talking about the stream they're showing itself, not what it could possibly look like at release.

The stream bitrate doesn't improve the combat/gameplay along with the dollar store voice acting and music that sounds like something you'd get if you typed "Japanese hip-hop" in to any AI music generator of your choice.

I dunno, game play doesn't look any better / worse than other similar games. The only thing that'll make it a slog is how much open-world vomit Ubi injects in it, but otherwise what they've shown today all seems fairly competent.

 

[rhodesianshepard]

Fucking can't believe they still can't get combat right. Ghost of Tsushima will have like 1/4th of the budget of Shadows and Ubisoft still can't develop engaging combat

GOT combat doesn't even have a ton of depth, but looks so smooth compared to Shadows

 

[StereoVsn]

I think you watched a low bitrate stream, it looks pretty good.

Combat looked awful. IMO of course.

 

[Slothbeing1209]

Graphic looks good.
Only thing this did better than Ghost of Tsushima is stealth.
Combat looks ass.

 

[Gambit2483]

If Yasuke can't use stealth or get around nimbly what's even the point? Am I missing something?

 

[AltogetherAndrews]

Only thing this did better than Ghost of Tsushima is stealth.
Combat looks ass.

It did?

 

[GymWolf]

Super meh if have to be brutally honest.

Both graphic and combat looks whatever.

 

[Red5]

If Yasuke can't use stealth or get around nimbly what's even the point? Am I missing something?

Yasuke is a Samurai or a retinue, you can play as a female ninja for the stealthy bits and as Yasuke for the punchy bits.

 

[Gaiff]

I don't really see the point of Yasuke if Naoe can fight and use stealth. She's the prototypical AC protagonist. Why do we need Yasuke?

 

[GHG]

I don't really see the point of Yasuke if Naoe can fight and use stealth. She's the prototypical AC protagonist. Why do we need Yasuke?

Diversity quotas.

 

[GymWolf]

The stream bitrate doesn't improve the combat/gameplay along with the dollar store voice acting and music that sounds like something you'd get if you typed "Japanese hip-hop" in to any AI music generator of your choice.

Yeah the music was strangely just there, usually the ac games have good ost.

 

[Radical Dreamer]

Bleh, black samurai yasuke will teach these japs the way of honor, lmao

But seriously, it doesn't seem impressive in the slighest