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Assassin's Creed Syndicate |OT| Once more unto the glitch
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JimmyRustler
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Nice impressions and all but I am curious why you bought Syndicate in the first place if you dislike the Ubisoft formula so much... You like to burn money?
Hyped for Victorian London, basically. It's in his post.
JustinJ004
Banned
He got it because he was hyped by the setting which seems to be the case for a lot of people, myself included.
Edit: Bah...
SomedayTheFire
Member
I dislike the Ubisoft formula as well, but for some reason I love it in this, probably because it makes me explore more of the city and god I love exploring this city.
Hamster Plugin
Member
AC Rogue has female enemies as some of the hiding assassins. Guards are still all male though, probably for historical accuracy.
Somehow they even did it on the PS3, where a Naughty Dog guy said there's not enough memory for female enemies.
Fuck, had finished the game so didn't think much of clicking this, but hadn't seen this yet. Womp.
The Bioshock series has had male and female enemies since the beginning.
Norwegian_Imposter
Member
I cant wait to go home and keep playing it 
Norwegian_Imposter
Member
Out of interest, without spoilers is the ending garbage? I am loving it so seeing the ending be garbage will be disheartning.
The fact this OT is slow as hell makes me sad as this AC is fantastic and I bet the sales will deem it a flop
The fact this OT is slow as hell makes me sad as this AC is fantastic and I bet the sales will deem it a flop
Plague Doctor
Member
I am sincerely shocked and surprised how good this one came out. The street gang element is pretty awesome and I actually like the twins.
Out of interest, without spoilers is the ending garbage? I am loving it so seeing the ending be garbage will be disheartning.
The fact this OT is slow as hell makes me sad as this AC is fantastic and I bet the sales will deem it a flop
I'm very excited to play this, but Best Buy fucked up when I tried to preorder for the GCU $10 cert, so now I'm waiting for Black Friday. I imagine a lot of people have been conditioned to wait for BF deals when it comes to AC.
Ending is good fun. Unless you mean modern day, then it's just more of the same. But even then it's not enough to call it crap. Syndicate is heartwarming fun.Out of interest, without spoilers is the ending garbage? I am loving it so seeing the ending be garbage will be disheartning.
The fact this OT is slow as hell makes me sad as this AC is fantastic and I bet the sales will deem it a flop
Markitron
Is currently staging a hunger strike outside Gearbox HQ while trying to hate them to death
So the series' overarching story is still meandering from game to game? There have been 4 games since AC3's ending and they still haven't gone anywhere with the storyline.
keltickennedy
Member
I have a Season Pass code for PS4 if anyone was interested.
$20 Paypal. $10 off. PM me.
$20 Paypal. $10 off. PM me.
Season pass is $30 though?
keltickennedy
Member
Oh...I thought it was $40. $20 then. I'lll edit my post
The "Ubisoft Forumla" doesn't mean anything because it has nothing to do with actual game play systems of each individual game
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
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Level 10 in sequence 6, super OP. Still have some stuff to find. Glad that the hate train finally stopped after this game's release and it got good reviews, because holy shit the threads were full of confirmation bias and hostility.
Lurking GAF without being able to speak must have been torture
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I would only lurk occasionally. Seeing two faux outrage threads the day before reviews tho. Ugh. >_>
darkwing-buck
Member
Brass Knuckles + Evie= The Boss
Target is having a crazy liquidation sale of AC Unity displayed with Syndicate.
you can get it for $9.99 in-store until the 31st. There was a display up at the front of my store with Syndicate and Unity. but they didnt have any more... iono i price matched with toysrus though with a picture of the tag if anyone is interested of jumping in Unity before Syndicate... 10$ is pretty good price for a mostly patched Unity (im having more fun than i wes led to believe it would be anyway)
you can get it for $9.99 in-store until the 31st. There was a display up at the front of my store with Syndicate and Unity. but they didnt have any more... iono i price matched with toysrus though with a picture of the tag if anyone is interested of jumping in Unity before Syndicate... 10$ is pretty good price for a mostly patched Unity (im having more fun than i wes led to believe it would be anyway)
Get_craycray
Banned
Well Unity was set in France... but I figured that sales would be off. Not sure if the same happened between AC3 and AC4, but I know Black Flag seemed to have legs off the good word of mouth...
Get_craycray
Banned
I think the main problem was the lost of trust from the fans regarding Unity's catastrophic launch (and a loooot of bad publicity). So it stuck in people's mind. The setting doesn't play that much of a role in sales here, IMO.
Add to that an AC fatigue that becomes more real every year and... there it is.
Yup. It's moving inch by inch at this point.
RedAssedApe
Banned
Syn is set in UK and sales are down there too haha
matrixman92
Member
oh shit. Welcome back! You missed people actually talking positively about assassins creed haha
matrixman92
Member
one of these ps4 exclusive murder mystery thing is so awesome. Its pretty much a spoof of one of my favorite movies
sweeney Todd. It takes place on Fleet Street. There is a barber named Feeney Sodd. Also a character you interrogate named Joanna.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
I did see that part.
One of these years its going to boom
Hopefully next year considering the ending of this game.
thelurkinghorror
Member
Today I did a Charles Dickens mission and I was like that: "what a fucking bug is this? Holy shit ubi". But then I finally realize what happened... never experienced something like this in AC. So cool.
The investigation missions are also too good to be true.
The investigation missions are also too good to be true.
FoxnHurley
Member
The investigation missions are very enjoyable so far. Completed four of them so far--they're a nice change of pace to do some detective work rather than stabbing numerous people in the jugular for the good of London! I actually jotted down the clues, locations of them and suspects on paper to help make accurate accusations. Good stuff
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Deleted member 471617
Unconfirmed Member
Quick question -
I'm on sequence 4 and have finished memories 1-4 and can play memory 6 but memory 5 is locked. I prefer to play the memories in order but wanted to know if I have to play memory 6 in order to unlock memory 5?
Any help would be grateful. Thanks.
I'm on sequence 4 and have finished memories 1-4 and can play memory 6 but memory 5 is locked. I prefer to play the memories in order but wanted to know if I have to play memory 6 in order to unlock memory 5?
Any help would be grateful. Thanks.
rockman zx
Member
The relationship between Evie and Henry is so frikin awful, is like it was written by a 12 year old girl, I wonder what is going to happen by the end of the game, starting sequence 9 right now. Game is awesome by the way.
SJRB
Gold Member
Yeah I'm not feeling it either, feels too forced.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Still working my way through sequence 4 but enjoying it so far.
As expected I'm not really a fan of driving carriages but aside from that everything else has been pretty great.
As expected I'm not really a fan of driving carriages but aside from that everything else has been pretty great.
Personally this has been the best Assassin's Creed in a long time. (I didn't finish 4)
I've already beaten the game and kinda sad that I have because I've enjoyed my time with it.
Almost have the platinum trophy as well, maybe 4 or 5 trophies off I think. Well played Ubisoft, well played.
Just months ago I had already written this game off, had no plan to buy it or even play it but I'm glad I did.
I've already beaten the game and kinda sad that I have because I've enjoyed my time with it.
Almost have the platinum trophy as well, maybe 4 or 5 trophies off I think. Well played Ubisoft, well played.
Just months ago I had already written this game off, had no plan to buy it or even play it but I'm glad I did.
How old is Henry anyway? Didn't he know their father? If he did then he can't be that young.
Anyway, they didn't need to give Evie a love interest...
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
Henry is 25. And since their factor seemed to have been a master assassin, a lot of people knew him.
I'm enjoying it, which says more about how bad Unity was than anything else. The horse and carriages are beyond fucking stupid however. Its just like they decided they had to have it in the game regardless of how silly and not-fun it is. It's also weird you can't ride a horse on its own like in some of the SUPER early games in the series. That's actually something I think with every new AC game I play, they somehow manage to complicate or straight-up remove elements that have always worked and then throw in a bunch of new stuff that is borked or uninteresting.
It's so confusing. As I said I am enjoying Syndicate way more than Unity, but that's only because it manages to capture the very basic elements of a good game.
I really wish they'd scrap everything and go back to square one. New engine, new characters, new modern story (or no modern story), new gameplay. Just start from scratch.
But I guess the all ighty ollar wins out.
It's so confusing. As I said I am enjoying Syndicate way more than Unity, but that's only because it manages to capture the very basic elements of a good game.
I really wish they'd scrap everything and go back to square one. New engine, new characters, new modern story (or no modern story), new gameplay. Just start from scratch.
But I guess the all ighty ollar wins out.
thelurkinghorror
Member
Ubisoft need to trash all this assassin vs templar bullshit and start over with a Doctor Who esque structure: time travelling and a fresh story every time.
Seems pointless because you would just end up with what assassins creed is now, or end up with a game thats completely different
Fleet_of_Foot
Member
I agree that driving the carriages doesn't feel great. But I've made my own fun of it.
- Constantly be hitting the "whip the horse to go faster" button.
- Constantly be hitting the "ram the carriage beside you" button.
- (Optional): Constantly be saying "Get the hell out of my way!" and laughing as you do it.
Is the story about the love story? If not, it doesn't need to be developed. Seems more like a connecting point to explain the "secret" level. Correct me if wrong.