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Assassin's Creed Unity |OT| Liberté, égalité, parité
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FUCK, too late for me now. Why people are so silly... oh man.
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You'll die if you get in a battle against 3 in many cases. The world and animations are top notch. The characters are the best leads yet and have tons of chemistry, and the story is like a chilled European Assassin's twist on some Shakespeare.
Flying0Dutchman
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first thing to do when playing this game is switch spoken language! Makes a world of difference! Aside from the frame rate having a blast. I don't know how hopeful I am about Ubisoft fixing the optimization on pc, its all over the place.
That only works for half of the cutscenes. The other half are unskippable. Very inconsistent game design.
To French I assume?
Sounds like an improvement, then. I was extremely worried about plot arc and characters, but it sounds decent enough. I'll wait for these horrendous glitches to be ironed out and I will consider it. Thanks!
Anyone else have any thoughts?
Bien sur
...I started in English and then thought,what am I doing this is the french revolution and french is my maiden(sp?) tongue lol...Got my first noticeable frame drop and it wasnt even because of the huge crowd,it was inside the Basilique Notre-Dame,climbing the wall it stuttered like crazy for some reason...but man the graphics in there,just beautiful...
I just wanted to post my initial expressions for some people that are still on the fence. I'm playing Unity on a PS4, on a 65" LED tv, with a pair of PS Gold headphones. So far, I have nothing but good things to say about the game.
Bear with me, I'm not saying this excuses the very real problems the game has. There is no denying the frame rate issues and glitches galore that are present in this game, BUT, so far, I have yet to run into anything that is game breaking. I've had only one issue with the lower frame rate, and that was while I was exploring a cathedral.
Yesterday, I was convinced I was going to just skip this game and spend my week off catching up on my backlog. However, I had a bunch of credit at BB, plus my GCU and I felt it was worth a gamble to try and form my own opinion about the game.
I am loving Arno, he is an extremely likable character, and his story has intrigued me so far. The game is gorgeous, lightning, atmosphere, music, everything oozes beauty IMO.
I love the customization options. Changing appearance and colors have always been some of my favorite parts. The hours I've played have been enjoyable, and as soon as my controller finishes charging I'll definitely be jumping back on.
I'm not saying everyone should give this game a try, but if you're a big enough fan, and have enough interest, then give it a shot.
Bear with me, I'm not saying this excuses the very real problems the game has. There is no denying the frame rate issues and glitches galore that are present in this game, BUT, so far, I have yet to run into anything that is game breaking. I've had only one issue with the lower frame rate, and that was while I was exploring a cathedral.
Yesterday, I was convinced I was going to just skip this game and spend my week off catching up on my backlog. However, I had a bunch of credit at BB, plus my GCU and I felt it was worth a gamble to try and form my own opinion about the game.
I am loving Arno, he is an extremely likable character, and his story has intrigued me so far. The game is gorgeous, lightning, atmosphere, music, everything oozes beauty IMO.
I love the customization options. Changing appearance and colors have always been some of my favorite parts. The hours I've played have been enjoyable, and as soon as my controller finishes charging I'll definitely be jumping back on.
I'm not saying everyone should give this game a try, but if you're a big enough fan, and have enough interest, then give it a shot.
iNvid02
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Posted this tweet earlier today. Got maybe 15 retweets after half an hour. Went to the store and when I returned home, it suddenly had 500. Now it's 1000+ :lol
that is stunning
Muffdraul
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To me it seems like they finally took a good hard look at what made AC2 the fan favorite. They didn't outright copy it, but it does hit a lot of the same beats so far. And adds some new ones. No idea how the story will pan out, but the initial set up after six hours has me very interested. The characters and dialogue are great. I was sorry to hear Corey May was no longer the main writer (because he got promoted to oversee Ubi's new global story dept.) but whoever took over is apparently just as good if not better.
The combat seems to be a minor evolution from AC3. Take that as you will.
Yeah, I'm actually having a lot of fun. It looks amazing and I dig the art. Haven't run into too many technical issues so far, but I might put the game down for a week or two and give my copy of Halo: MCC some love while the fixes and optimizations roll out.
Blue Ninja
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Posted this tweet earlier today. Got maybe 15 retweets after half an hour. Went to the store and when I returned home, it suddenly had 500. Now it's 1000+ :lol
I think I retweeted that too. Hilarious. :lol
No retweets for this little fella.
BananasWithGuns
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Enjoying it quite a bit so far, technical issues aside.
Only finished sequence two though, other than that I've just been doing side content. It's really nice to have an AC game with more verticality and beautiful architecture again.
Did a couple co-op missions as well and they're pretty entertaining although fairly laggy/buggy.
Hopefully Ubisoft can get a patch out fairly quickly because so far Unity seems to have all the makings to be on par with the Ezio trilogy.
Only finished sequence two though, other than that I've just been doing side content. It's really nice to have an AC game with more verticality and beautiful architecture again.
Did a couple co-op missions as well and they're pretty entertaining although fairly laggy/buggy.
Hopefully Ubisoft can get a patch out fairly quickly because so far Unity seems to have all the makings to be on par with the Ezio trilogy.
Blue Ninja
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Ubisoft today...
They knew what was coming.
WheelHoss1
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I know this sounds snobby, but it seems like if you can play this game on a good and especially a huge HDTV, there is a lot to like.
Playing it on an older 32" TV, I wonder if I'd be feeling the same way about it.
Playing it on an older 32" TV, I wonder if I'd be feeling the same way about it.
This game needs less crowd, save the big crowds for certain events not every damn corner.
I played up to 2 assassinations and I can clearly see this game as AC1 all over again, did you forget how horrible that ran on PS3?
But with the animations of AC3 and clean UI of AC2.
Overall it just feels like they started again, this is a cinematic AC game, at times the game literally has scenes that look like CG, faces and animations.
I played up to 2 assassinations and I can clearly see this game as AC1 all over again, did you forget how horrible that ran on PS3?
But with the animations of AC3 and clean UI of AC2.
Overall it just feels like they started again, this is a cinematic AC game, at times the game literally has scenes that look like CG, faces and animations.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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This game just looks amazingly beautiful.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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omg, video games finally nailed kissing.
I like the VAs. I hope Arno and Elise's relationship remains this charming. I hoped AC4 would bring the charming main character back ala AC2, but Edward rubbed me the wrong way. Got high hopes for Arno.
Go play AC1, this game went back to that "realistic" look and BIG Scale drawn distance.
AC2 and beyond all
Looked cartoony Gamey compared to AC1
Well if the game doesn't get any awards, there's always the "Best Kiss" category at the MTV awards...
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Oh, to be a fly on the wall at Ubisoft today...
Fantastic GIF.
Damerman
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YES! so much more dramatic and the VA are excellent... every single one so far.
RedAssedApe
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i wish the subtitles were larger though. hard to read the subs and focus on cutscenes for me
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Agreed. Acre looked gorgeous in AC1. Unity really gets back to that film look.
Just wait until you fall through the map that happened 3 times already, its pretty obvious
Ubi has to be working on a patch for this game and released it with a semi fix patch first day.
There's a million better ways to introduce the additional content you can get to via the app/initatives/uplay. That first chest is just idiotic haha. I also find it sad the app content can be unlocked for a measly $1.99, but I'm sure the grind on the app is hours upon hours. Which makes me weary of the app... and that's sad since I loved black flags app. I even made a thread about it last year, and how it was good but that I was scared about this in the future if it went down a bad road.
But the lack of proper skip like you said is just unforgivable...It is one of my biggest detractors from Destiny as well. That game is non stop repetitive content and not being able to skip the cut scenes makes me hate doing story missions over in Destiny. I'll try to 100% missions my first time through here in Unity to avoid that crap scenario, blah.
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I can't believe Uplay, the app, and initiative content is still borked. Come on Ubi. :/
I'm still going to judge this game on its own merit, but in the end this could make or break my hype for all Ubi products, including my personal most hyped of 2015 which is the division.
I was wondering that to but Noticed like Destiny this has "public" events and you can Join a fellow gamer.
I was just roaming around and it appeared "want to join" and you say yes. Missions was simple we did it, got a trophy then it logs you out.
Ugh, just read the same spoiler. Just started the playing PC version without any major issues.
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For some reason I clicked on this but only half read it yikes
Conscience Falls
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I read this post, scrolled up, blinked, thought "ugh, that sucks" before realizing I too was clicking it.
Haven't really tried heavy weapons but it seems like one handed weapons are the way to go. I was using long weapons for a while but long weapon master is useless late in the game since the followup attack is either avoided or barely does any damage (I'm using the Ceremonial Partisan). I was fighting a single enemy with a giant healthbar doing nothing but sweep>stab>sweep>stab for about 15 seconds til he died. By comparison using one-handed weapon master is fast, spammable and does a ton of damage.
PLASTICA-MAN
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Hey people, look what I found, the ubi templars are plotting their defense against us the mighty gaffer assassins : http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/941398-Unity-graphics-being-trashed-on-Neogaf?
The Sentinel
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Too late GODDAMMIT!!! the same fucking comment! what the fuck is wrong with some people these days?
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