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[R6Rider]

And it shows... It looked good in movement and lighting was great, what is this shit?

What? The lighting in the image of Shadows looks fucking terrible.

 

[Represent.]

Looks alright - Was expecting much better. I've played this game before already.

 

[Topher]

Game looks like an AC game to me. I'm in

I'd probably have some dumb fun with this. I'll pick it up for 70% off when it hits Steam.

I'm going to join Ubisoft+ for a month. $18 and "three days early access".

 

[Killer8]

And it shows... It looked good in movement and lighting was great, what is this shit?

Why is texture resolution in the interiors worse than a game from 2004?

 

[John Marston]

I still have Odyessy and Vahalla unopened (from deep discount Black Friday). I could get through those while waiting for this to drop in price. Maybe by late December or January/early spring (within 2-3 months of launch)

Ubi games usually go on sale pretty quick so that's a good idea

I enjoyed both Odyssey & Valhalla but sometimes in small doses.
Otherwise you'll get overwhelmed or lose interest.

 

[GHound]

Yep. That sure does look like a modern Assassin's Creed with some "what if Samurai Champloo but zero personality?" type beats.

 

[delfrickintree]

Of course they show you patting a fucking dog like it’s a new thing

LOL of course it has muh doggo to appeal to redditors

 

[Quantum253]

Ubi games usually go on sale pretty quick so that's a good idea

I enjoyed both Odyssey & Valhalla but sometimes in small doses.
Otherwise you'll get overwhelmed or lose interest.

Especially with the Ubi formula. I was going to start Odyssey after getting 100%/Plat in Origins, but I was done.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

Not the samurai hip hop

 

[AyraSutoraifu]

Burn.

 

[EDMIX]

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.

lol ahhhh yes, shit from a decade ago, that must be relevant today /s

 

[Mr Hyde]

Just watched it. Game looks very rough. Combat and animations are a step back and it just feels clunky. Valhalla looked more next gen than this. Black protagonist feels out of place considering the time period. The writing was pretty cringe too. "Such beauty shadowed by suffering". Oohhh

 

[Gaiff]

I remember a sidequest in Valhalla where you rescued a wolfdog with some kids and after completing the quest that dog would be a permanent addition to your settlement.

You escort the dog with the kids (Basically a walk & talk) and a young boy says something like "She seems like a good dog! Maybe she's missing her wife?".

I just yelled in my living room "GETTHEFUCKOUTTAHERE!!"

Like an 8 year old boy living in 873 A.D. would have progressive thinking and modern sensibilities fuck off with that shit

I immediately pictured some blue haired 20 something lower tier writer with some prison tattoos who couldn't help herself.

Anyway it's very minor but I hate that shit.

It's even more stupid than that. A girl first says, "Maybe she misses her wolf-husband." Then the other one retorts, "Or maybe her wife, we don't know."

Yes, we know, you little shit. Wolves pair with a mate of the opposite sex. Not to mention, why the fuck would a kid in 9th century Britain say, "we don't know" as if homosexual wolves were common lmao? Even humans weren't.

 

[Gaelyon]

nope. the samurai stuff just kills it for me. if it was only the ninja girl, i'd be good. the series isn't named 'warrior's creed' for a reason...

Well you can play half the game as a ninja. In that regard it's a massive improvement since the last 3 games. Did Cassandra from AC Odyssey look like an assassin ? She's a giant half goddess. AC Valhalla ? Even in Origins you're not exactly an assassin. There's still Mirage though.

 

[DeepEnigma]

That been done in entertainment business since the business began.

There are ways you can give the illusion of a threat. Not standing perfectly still.

 

[DragoonWalker]

Besides the Tsushi rip off combat the thing that stood out to me was how lifeless the towns looked despite all the foot traffic. All the civilians seem wooden and fake somehow? WTF happened, we had the most impressively alive world in Unity at the START of last generation. Looks like they gave up. Where Winds Meet is looking better in this regard.

Naoe's english VA is HORRENDOUS, like the second coming of nu Ada Wong, I'm gonna play it in Japanese if they let me. Surprisingly her in game model is a babe and doesn't have man chin like she did the reveal cinematic.

 

[ProtoByte]

So the cqc looks mediocre, but the stealth suite and level design looks way better.

Ghost 2 has to step its game up on that front big time.

 

[StereoVsn]

I liked it. Some hip hop with Yasuke remind me a bit Samurai Champloo. Ninja girl gameplay is classic old school AC infiltration that's fine. You can choose front assault or stealth switching gameplay and character, that's solid in my opinion. Graphics are good, seasons changes... It's still an Ubi formula game but seem a good one. Hopefully the story is ok.

If they actually licensed Champloo music, this game already would have been 2x better.

 

[Kilau]

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

Damn this looks great for a PSVITA game.

 

[Neofire]

Definitely getting this game lol..... hoping it does well to piss off the snowflakes even more.

 

[Roufianos]

Funny how the black protagonist will save them from the 'white men making Asian game' that Ghost of Tsushima got.

 

[StereoVsn]

Fucking idiots with a degree, blue hair, and zero life experience.

This would have fit perfectly in those Japanese anime about 8th grade syndrome.

Imagine Chunibyo MC covering her left eye and uttering those lines!

 

[MethodRed]

Easy pass

 

[John Marston]

It's even more stupid than that. A girl first says, "Maybe she misses her wolf-husband." Then the other one retorts, "Or maybe her wife, we don't know."

Yes, we know, you little shit. Wolves pair with a mate of the opposite sex. Not to mention, why the fuck would a kid say, "we don't know" as if homosexual wolves were common lmao? Even humans weren't.

Thanks for clarifying, it's been a while

 

[simpatico]

Why is the combat music theme feudal Japanese trap beats? This combat is so ass. Watching this again now that I'm home. These people in a nice little Japanese town all just take turns getting slaughtered by this foreign dude in samurai garb. It's so strange. Very little noticeable effect from the crowd. No commotion. In fact they gather around to watch. Ubisoft use to be a lot better at the slop making. This is far sloppier than Origins, Ody or Valhalla. Even though they were all kinda bland, it was a quality bland. The clipping between the local town guards and the ground when they're getting bounced off it by Yasuke does not look AAAA. The ninja lady has an attack set straight from a Diablo IV rogue. Looks very cheap. Also climbs comically fast.

Is this the "main" Ubi team?

 

[Fake]

"I won't be alone, the shadows are with me"

Jesus christ who wrote this?

Maybe he is going to watch Sonic 3 movie?

 

[Juza]

水が張られてる田んぼに潜伏するとか間抜けすぎるな

夏の水田も春の桜も秋のススキも一緒くたに描いてるのは許してやれ！ フランスに四季はないらしいぞ！

 

[Fbh]

Gameplay looks worse than Ghost of Tsushima and I was already pretty lukewarm on that game.
Easy pass

 

[proandrad]

Makes sense Yasuke doesn't use sealth, dude is a foot and half taller than everyone around him. It's actually hilarious.

 

[R3TRO]

I was looking forward to this but ngl I'm already tired of games set in Japan. What a boring environment.

 

[GymWolf]

Besides the Tsushi rip off combat the thing that stood out to me was how lifeless the towns looked despite all the foot traffic. All the civilians seem wooden and fake somehow? WTF happened, we had the most impressively alive world in Unity at the START of last generation. Looks like they gave up. Where Winds Meet is looking better in this regard.

Naoe's english VA is HORRENDOUS, like the second coming of nu Ada Wong, I'm gonna play it in Japanese if they let me. Surprisingly her in game model is a babe and doesn't have man chin like she did the reveal cinematic.

Yes the npcs looks janky as fuck.

I have no idea why ubisoft doens't share tech between studios, the watch dogs games have decent animations for the ncps but the ac games always have these weird ass animations and they get worse, i swear origins had better animations...

Rdr2 looks like 2 gens better npcs wise.

 

[Inspector Q]

I am assuming we are missing a lot of context here, but the way Yasuke walks into the village and talks to some random lady for a few seconds and is suddenly convinced he needs to go on a murder spree is kind of dumb, lol. Then you have this Naoe girl dive bombing some dude which is immediately followed by her and Yasuke cracking jokes. Probably overreacting since a lot of the AC protags have been wisecrackers, but this seemed pretty silly. Maybe these are just random side missions with meaningless targets so I shouldn't be overthinking it?

 

[sigmaZ]

With all the recent Asian hate, I'm not sure having a black man running around chopping up asians is not as woke as they think. Maybe this is revenge for RE5.

 

[Draugoth]

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

The duel system is a straight copy from Tsushima but worse

 

[Topher]

The duel system is a straight copy from Tsushima but worse

I mean......not like Tsushima didn't take anything from AC though.

 

[semiconscious]

Well you can play half the game as a ninja. In that regard it's a massive improvement since the last 3 games. Did Cassandra from AC Odyssey look like an assassin ? She's a giant half goddess. AC Valhalla ? Even in Origins you're not exactly an assassin. There's still Mirage though.

i put up with origins, but basically passed on the other 2. i liked mirage. if playing half an assassin's creed game as a ninja means i gotta play half an assassin's creed game as a warrior? I'll stick with the oldies...

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

I'd love to have been a fly on the wall in the Ubi meetings when they came up with "forward" and what other cringe ideas were proposed.

 

[Hugare]

It was baffling seeing red and blue cues to antecipate unblockable/blockable attacks JUST like in GOT (but with none of the animation polish)

They know it will be compared to hell and back with GOT, but they dont seem bothered by copying the same combat mechanic from GOT

Shows how creative bankrupt they are over at Ubisoft

 

[March Climber]

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.

I’d argue we have about 2-3 generations left before there’s no more need for them to do that. Graphical fidelity will simply catch up to artistic vision, making this cease to be a problem.

 

[March Climber]

Isn't the whole point of AC to be stealthy and blend in. How is a big giant of a man going to blend in? If he was shorter and disguised I could see it, but no he is a massive dude with a club. He also looks different than everyone else. Stands out where people are staring at him in the streets as he walks. Looks more like an end boss than a game protagonist.

This talking point has made zero sense ever since the reveal. They explicitly stated Naoe (the woman) is the assassin/stealth character and he is the tank.

I’m starting to think this is some elaborate meme.

 

[Punished Miku]

It was baffling seeing red and blue cues to antecipate unblockable/blockable attacks JUST like in GOT (but with none of the animation polish)

They know it will be compared to hell and back with GOT, but they dont seem bothered by copying the same combat mechanic from GOT

Shows how creative bankrupt they are over at Ubisoft

Honestly Ghost copied the entire AC combat system pre-Origins.

 

[DavidGzz]

The way he manhandles these shrimp men is the cherry on top of the outrage lol.

 

[LastBattle]

I thought it looked pretty good
Especially the female ninja stealth gameplay. Gave me major Tenchu vibes.

 

[Zannegan]

It was baffling seeing red and blue cues to antecipate unblockable/blockable attacks JUST like in GOT (but with none of the animation polish)

They know it will be compared to hell and back with GOT, but they dont seem bothered by copying the same combat mechanic from GOT

Shows how creative bankrupt they are over at Ubisoft

It'll sell on name and setting alone. The series is like Madden at this point--if you like em, you like em. No need to look into the next title beyond the fact that it exists.

 

[hussar16]

Lighting is nice for 2016

 

[hussar16]

There is a 20 year difference between these two Ubisoft games:

I sorta prefer the one on the bottom it's not so flat and looks more like some old cgi

 

[TheDarkPhantom]

While it looks pretty good I promise you Ghost of Tsushima 2 will make it look like dog shit in comparison. Gameplay wise I doubt it will feel better than GoT 1 or Rise of the Ronin, nevermind Sekiro. I say all this as an OG AC fan whose played almost every entry in the series. That's not to say I'm not interested, just got a sense of "been there, done that" and in a better way, we'll see.

 

[genesisblock]

I need to rub my eyes after that "gameplay" reveal. This is a PS4 game, right? And they just switched mid production into PS5 because this is not what I aspect an assassin's Creed visuals to be this... Mediocre.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

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

Turn-based combat system.

 

[Heart_Attack]

So the Black Ninja character is a tank that can run through walls? Lmao. The combat looks pretty bad. Good luck charging $70 for this one. Anyone interested in this, should just sign up for a month of Ubisoft + for $18.