Assassin's Creed: Shadows | Review Thread

What scores do you think Assassin's Creed: Shadows will get?

  • 65-69%

    Votes: 7 2.5%

  • 70-74%

    Votes: 14 4.9%

  • 75-79%

    Votes: 38 13.3%

  • 80-84%

    Votes: 133 46.7%

  • 85-89%

    Votes: 77 27.0%

  • 90-94%

    Votes: 12 4.2%

  • 95-100%

    Votes: 4 1.4%
  • Total voters
    285
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I'm really enjoying the stealth a lot more than any other AC game - it's genuinely really good.

I was riding around my horse on a thunderstorm and the graphics looks so dang good - genuinely impressed!
 
saintjules said:
First thing on the Google search lol


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That's not the reason, shill up is friend with some gamergate people or some shit, it's because of his friendships not for something he said.
 
sigmaZ said:
I like his presentation and he's easy to listen to, but his takes on things feel wildly inconsistent to me. It's like he doesn't have central values to inform what he likes and doesn't like so while he'll rightfully lambast something like FF16, he'll enjoy other games that exhibit the same things he criticized. I feel this way less with people like ACG where they have almost more dry (in a good way!) neutral approach, making note of the good and bad as they go along ultimately leaving it up to the player/viewer to decide how they feel about things. It's a safe, but professional approach to critique.
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Yeah, i don't rate his reviews any higher than your average youtuber tbh, he is just more pleasant to listen at.
 
Karak said:
I do think that, and maybe this is due to running a channel, but newcomers to gaming. I mean even if its been in the last 4 years they could have played 1 or maybe not who knows. Long series often run into that kind of discussion.

That being said glad to see it reviewing well and people seeming to dig it a ton. Its also nice seeing folks leap in who have played most of them and feeling the stealth and combat differences. While it is weird to constantly hear "combat and stealth are the same" and "I don't think the huge changes are good" in the same reviews is fucking weird.
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AC2 reviewed well, and AC4 aka black flag did too, that recent one is barely at 80 which is not well for AAA game, most ppl skip on 80meta games, besides lets be real, game is fricken DEI infested, ubi cucks put black main protag into feudal japan ffs, black protag would make more sense in ac3, ac4 and unity even(tons of black slaves around in that era/areas), not to mention in ac origins which was in africa/egypt, in ac shadows aka feudal japan it makes 0 sense unless DEI forced...
 
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GymWolf said:
That's not the reason, shill up is friend with some gamergate people or some shit, it's because of his friendships not for something he said.
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No need to defend rainbow forum and their stupid takes/ideology, bro, they ban anything that isnt heavy leftleaning(aka crazy libtard) there and skill up tries to somehow be in the middle so its obvious it wouldnt go well for him there ;)
 
Black_Stride said:
Why do people watch and/or listen to Asmon?
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He os funny to watch, but he os not wrong about AC imo.
Mibu no ookami said:
LOL, so tired of this grifter and having to defend a shitty company like ubisoft.

There is no way to call this game a failure based on its CCUs, particularly before the weekend.

It's already nominally tied for 2nd best CCU on Steam in the franchise's entire history... but NOW they're going under as a result? Not going to provide his video views, but unless his argument is that Ubi Soft needed an extraordinary win here, I don't see the logic.

This game will almost certainly outperform Assassin's Creed Origins.

I also don't know why people want to pretend like this genre is SUPER popular on PC in the first place.
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Dont forgot to say that is the 2nd best CCU cause its the first DAY ONE AC game on steam, so, imo beeing second its not a great metric.

10 yeara Ago i would agree with you that AC was a console game, but today ? Nah, look at the numbers that other "console games" are making, or you gonna tell me that Monsters Hunter was super popular on PC back in the day ?
 
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PeteBull said:
No need to defend rainbow forum and their stupid takes/ideology, bro, they ban anything that isnt heavy leftleaning(aka crazy libtard) there and skill up tries to somehow be in the middle so its obvious it wouldnt go well for him there ;)
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Where i was defending the purple cunts? I just pointed out why shill up is banned.

I think they accused him of having far-right friends or some shit.

I was banned for saying that is ok when a white actor voice a black character and made the example of darth vader actor, you think i don't know how much of an asylum that place is?
 
I haven't felt a strong enough impulse to buy this one. I've played a few recent AC games and I rarely, if ever, finish them.

I dropped KCD2 because I had an urge to finally finish ER, which I did, so now I feel KCD2 is more deserving of my time.

I'll probably just wait until it's added to PS+ at some point.
 
rofif said:
He doesn't give unfiltered opinions lol.
He is a huge right wing extremist and populist. He actually bans everyone with any sane or different opinion. Somone has something to say in chat and gets a permanent ban. He showed few months ago that he got like 11k people banned in last 2 years. It's an echo chamber.
And his opinions are not unfiltered. His opinions are just crude worded and riding the popular hate bandwagon just for views. He is a smart guy. He milks these topics. He was talking about ac shadows almost every day for months.
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You lost me at right wing extremist.
 
Some of the takes I've seen regarding this game on GAF in these threads for the past week have been something else...

From both the overly critical and overly defensive,ya'll are embarassing!

I think the world population has entered some kind of brain damage state that's yet to be diagnosed. It's the only explanation seeing so many users turn stupid for the sake of a Ubisoft game of all things.

It's a damn game!!!

You don't like it? Then express your feelings about it and move on,stop riling shit up as if it's your job to change other people's opinion on it to mirror yours.

You love it? Then share your opinion on it and go play it instead of parroting about it to people that don't agree with your opinion like a Ubisoft investor in need of sales instead of you know...playing the fucking thing!

For all the complaining we do about the retards on the purple forum we sure turn stupid as well from time to time and it's sad to see this shit as I'd like to think we're better than them.
 
Any comment about this from those who played both games?


Because from what I remember, Unity was largely disliked/ignored on release.
is this video made to look shadows look bad?
 
rofif said:
Any comment about this from those who played both games?


Because from what I remember, Unity was largely disliked/ignored on release.
is this video made to look shadows look bad?
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No point comparing Unity with the RPG AssCreeds, the parkour its worse than in Odyssey but it is not bad
 
rofif said:
Any comment about this from those who played both games?


Because from what I remember, Unity was largely disliked/ignored on release.
is this video made to look shadows look bad?
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Unity fans are the worst AC fans, and it's not even close. Every hated this game when it released and as soon as AC switched to the RPG format, these same people started using Unity as some kind of poster child of what AC is supposed to be. No one like that game and now it's the classic AC fan darling, it's a joke. Games like Unity, and it's reception, are why have games like Shadows in the first place.
 
Lokaum D+ said:
Dont forgot to say that is the 2nd best CCU cause its the first DAY ONE AC game on steam, so, imo beeing second its not a great metric.
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It's not, Unity/Syndicate/Origins/Odyssey were all day one on Steam.

Besides, Steam CCU has little bearing on a games console popularity. EA Sports FC 24 had a peak CCU of 107k. Are we supposed to believe it only sold 20% more than Dragon Age Veilguard?
 
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Mibu no ookami said:
LOL, so tired of this grifter and having to defend a shitty company like ubisoft.

There is no way to call this game a failure based on its CCUs, particularly before the weekend.

It's already nominally tied for 2nd best CCU on Steam in the franchise's entire history... but NOW they're going under as a result? Not going to provide his video views, but unless his argument is that Ubi Soft needed an extraordinary win here, I don't see the logic.

This game will almost certainly outperform Assassin's Creed Origins.

I also don't know why people want to pretend like this genre is SUPER popular on PC in the first place.
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I want ubisoft to fucking die.
It's the place creativity dies and corporate slop takes over. Ubisoft is the industry in 15 years. It's void of any creativity or risk taking. Perfect for people that want low risk investing absolute sheit for people that like the medium.

I truly hope ubisoft will stop fucking making "games" and invest into housing or something. Just stay the fuck away from my hobby.
 
Zathalus said:
It's not, Unity/Syndicate/Origins/Odyssey were all day one on Steam.

Besides, Steam CCU has little bearing on a games console popularity. EA Sports FC 24 had a peak CCU of 107k. Are we supposed to believe it only sold 20% more than Dragon Age Veilguard?
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lets just wait and see what happens, if sales are great and Ubisoft remain as it is, all grifters were wrong, if Tencent buy out Ubisoft this year, all grifter were right, there is no reason for me to argue or defend a company that is plague with harassments scandals and abysmal management decisions that ll probably cause the layoff of hundred of ppl around the globe.

Also, Syndicate didnt realease at the same day on Steam, Origins and Odyssey both games have bigger CCU than Shadow at the moment, the only one of the RPG AC that has a lower CCU is Valhalla that wasnt a day one release on Steam.
 
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rofif said:
Any comment about this from those who played both games?


Because from what I remember, Unity was largely disliked/ignored on release.
is this video made to look shadows look bad?
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Eh, that video goes out of it's way to make Shadows look bad IMO

Unity had a bunch of weird contextual parkour issues, just like literally every game in this series (seriously, every one has had assassins not do what I wanted them to do at some point, but Naoe is doing it with less frequency so far). Unity had a good sense of momentum due to animations, but the parkour itself really wasn't that much different to previous games. Still, IMO it had the best parkour in the series, until now.

Shadows has objectively better parkour. Naoe has more variety in animations (tons of fun vaulting, hurdling, sliding, and flipping animations), has that cool dedicated diving button, has a grapple for swinging and scaling, and she's significantly quicker. There's also more variety in objects her animations work on, vs Unity that has a few contextual rails you can hurdle, and some copy pasted Y trees for you to stand on (it benefits from one of the more homogenous settings we've seen in the games, which is more of a negative). In a single small slice video, it's easy to make Unity look better. It's not.

Also, like Rafter pointed out, Unity is one of the games that killed the old school style of AC with Syndicate. It's overrated by purists these days. Still, I give it props for actually trying to focus on stealth and being the first game to give us crouch stealth. It also still has the best assassin robe customization in the series IMO, so it's not bad. Shadows is infinitely better in all respects except customization.
 
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Lokaum D+ said:
lets just wait and see what happens, if sales are great and Ubisoft remain as it is, all grifters were wrong, if Tencent buy out Ubisoft this year, all grifter were right, there is no reason for me to argue or defend a company that is plague with harassments scandals and abysmal management decisions that ll probably cause the layoff of hundred of ppl.
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I think some sort of buyout is likely, Ubisoft has had too many failures and such that even if AC Shadows is on the level of Valhalla sales, which I personally doubt, it won't be enough by itself to save a company with 20k employees.
 
TheDarkPhantom said:


Two hours of credits is actually insane, Ubisoft needs Elon to go in there and DOGE the fuck out of the company.
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Ubi has always had a bloated pipeline with studios all over the world working on a project.

I've never played a mainline Ubi game without insanely long credits.

Considering how fragmented their development is, it's actually kind of amazing how they bring everything together in the end.
 
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Two hours of credits is actually insane, Ubisoft needs Elon to go in there and DOGE the fuck out of the company.
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I mean, makes sense that many people worked on it with how much more attention to detail it has vs other games in the series. Is the skippable credits supposed to be a negative?
 
ValiantInstance said:
He gives unfiltered opinions and his chat aren't sycophantic towards him and will tell him if he's wrong.
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Is this supposed to be unique or something? There's a million other youtubers who give unfiltered opinions.

Asmongold isn't funny. He isn't charismatic. He isn't insightful or intelligent. His commentary adds absolutely nothing of value to anything he opines on, so why people even watch this guy is beyond me. He's an average nerd without anything interesting to say.
 
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I know, I've played most of them but 2 hours has to be a new record, who knows 🤷‍♂️
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And people wonder why Ubisoft is in the spot it is. On what planet do you need this many people to make a video game? Total mismanagement of resources and people.

For comparison, Kingdom Come 2's end credits are 12 minutes long. It's every bit as pretty as this game, it's longer than this game, just as many cut scenes, vastly more dialog, etc, etc. and Warhorse only has 250 employees total.
 
rofif said:
He only played wow all his life, knows nothing about games and only will cheer dude bro games like doom or space marine 2.
He got no idea what good game is, people preferences and he bashes console gaming into the ground while owning a pc company. How subtle.
Also, since trump won, he is idiot mask off and went 100% fully trumpist retard.
Imo he is one of worst people online right now. Huge audience so he is dangerous and can kill games too or at least influence sales a lot.
And of course he just rides the hate train for every disliked game. Huge grifter
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It will never cease to amaze me that grown adults know these people get paid from views and engagements and still show up to say "I trust this dude, he says it like it is"

People complain about reviews being bought and paid for, but will still devotedly follow grifter reviews that are deliberately skewed to make money and go viral.
 
GymWolf said:
That's not the reason, shill up is friend with some gamergate people or some shit, it's because of his friendships not for something he said.
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The most dystopian shit I've ever read.

The red wind of communism is at work here.

"You are friends with the wrong people comrade. To the gulag with you." or more like actually "I see your nephew didn't support the party line, unfortunately we are going to have to punish the entire family."

It's crazy that people even keep up with other people's associations. That's of course nobody's fucking business, but to figure out a way to convince onesself that such obscurity should serve as adequate evidence of wrong think, to the point of deplatforming someone, that's dystopian 1984 shit right there. Way worse than banning someone for hating TLOU2.
 
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Ozriel said:
It will never cease to amaze me that grown adults know these people get paid from views and engagements and still show up to say "I trust this dude, he says it like it is"

People complain about reviews being bought and paid for, but will still devotedly follow grifter reviews that are deliberately skewed to make money and go viral.
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He doesn't make a dime from views on Twitch, he switched to an alt account years ago so Twitch couldn't run ads on his channel, and the only ads that have run since were when Twitch momentarily forced them on him because he's actually making them lose money. Meanwhile, all the streamers who talk shit about him and push this "grifter" narrative run maximum ads at every opportunity available. Grifter is a meaningless term that has no consistency, other than "person saying something I don't like".

Asmongold, could be making millions of dollars a month on Twitch, but he chooses not to, and since "grifting" is all about making the most money possible that exactly jive, does it? Also, agreeing with someone isn't the same as trusting them. He'd be the first to tell you to think for yourself, which is the opposite of what most of the people who constantly shit on him do.
 
PeteBull said:
AC2 reviewed well, and AC4 aka black flag did too, that recent one is barely at 80 which is not well for AAA game, most ppl skip on 80meta games, besides lets be real, game is fricken DEI infested, ubi cucks put black main protag into feudal japan ffs, black protag would make more sense in ac3, ac4 and unity even(tons of black slaves around in that era/areas), not to mention in ac origins which was in africa/egypt, in ac shadows aka feudal japan it makes 0 sense unless DEI forced...
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Did you mean to respond to me? This has nothing to do with what I was talking about.
 
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