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[Kaversmed]

The Ubisoft Montreal studio is at walking distance from me. I wonder what is going on there at the moment.

 

[Karak]

My List of stuff I noticed:

• Person Floating Over the City for at least 20 minutes
• Crash on Xbox One
• Person polishing shoes on a roof with no customer
• Customer getting shoes polished without a person doing it or a chair(looked like a BJ)
• Woman floating through walls
• Arno leaped off a building flew upwards then shot out into the street like a howitzer(many times)
• People change gender in crowds constantly

 

[Beelzebufo]

Bayonetta 2

Wii U doesn't count for metacritic scores.

 

[Zoned]

10000 NPC's yeah fuck that when your game runs at 10FPS. Idiots.

 

[Masquerader]

Jesus fucking Christ, how is this shit even getting 7's? That bullet point list alone would drop the game to a bare minimum of 5 for me. I don't like AssCreed so I'm obviously biased, mind, but a particularly broken and microtransaction-riddled AssCreed? Nightmare fuel.

I do like AssCreed, and I say that 5 would be an entirely justified score.

 

[Dysun]

Sad to see it turn out this way, looked great when it was revealed. Ubi's had a rough year

 

[boeso]

I should probably post this here too:

This game is giving me so much material to work with.

Wow great production value...see what you did there.

 

[MadLaughter]

This thread has garnered almost the same number of pages in 30 minutes as the Dragon Age review thread has in 10 hours.

Probably because failure is more interesting than success, but go spend your time thinking of awesome games! Not bad ones!

 

[oti]

Ubisoft, you have failé votre country.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Maybe I'll just play Rogue for a couple of days and hope some magic patch comes out that fixes a lot of the issues.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

No, honestly. After the third treasure chest I couldn't open, I just turned the game off and went back to Wii U.

I don't have a Wii U, but good man .

 

[LiK]

They needed so much more time to develop this new engine. Quite a shame. I await the patches.

 

[KojiKnight]

So is there a separate review embargo for Rogue?

No one received review copies, they literally just got their copies today, so it'll take a day or two at least for reviews to come out. Funny thing is, so far I've heard mostly positives on it.

 

[Ethelwulf]

Metacritic review color is now green. Cancelled preordered cancelled.

 

[canadian crowe]

meh only nintendo is delivering. those microsoft games are not selling well for a reason.

The reason certainly can't be quality since none of the fall exclusives are under an 80 on metacritic.

 

[Fox_Mulder]

Can't wait to read the Digital Foundry analisys

 

[plagiarize]

While that's true technically, it's such an overused excuse for when sites fuck up. Preview was ridiculous? Sorry, someone else wrote it. I'm not saying we should t have our own opinions, but passing off horrible stuff through that is going to become the norm soon. I dunno if SSD deserved that score, but ACU doesn't. Most of the reviews (even where th rating is high) have been written as if the game sucks.

Opinions... how do they work?

Almost every game has someone who hates it and someone who loves it. That's why you either find a reviewer with similar tastes to you, or you look at the wider picture, instead of flipping out because one single site gave a game you like a lower score than a game you think doesn't deserve it.

 

[Glass Shark]

This is a $60 video game set in revolutionary Paris that continually spams you to sign up for Ubisoft services via locked-away in-game content. This is a $60 video game that paces out unlockables and upgrades at the exact speed that Ubisoft wanted, but then offers to sell you “time savers.”

I keep reading this paragraph over and over again and getting angrier each time.

 

[RK9039]

Ok.

http://i.imgur.com/huYDJC2.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/U8zh6Pp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/c967tKu.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/SU6Jj9r.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/FzFdvYt.jpg

WTF is this?

 

[Toki767]

My List of stuff I noticed:

• Person Floating Over the City for at least 20 minutes
• Crash on Xbox One
• Person Shinning Shoes on the Roof With No Customer
• Customer Getting Shoes Shinned With No Chair(looked like a BJ)
• Woman Floating Through Walls
• Arno Leaped Off Building and flew Upwards then Shot out into the Street
• People Change Gender in Crows constantly

Did you get a video of that?

 

[digoutyoursoul]

That Videogamer review, shake my head, blatant technical issues yet recommends it with a 8. £40-50 ? You can fuck off.

 

[mnz]

Man do IGN and Gamespot ever give a score outside the 7-9 range?

Haven't people attacked Kevin van Ord more than once this year over scores that they thought are too low?

edit: I think it was for Legend of Korra (3) and Driveclub (5).

 

[PapaJustify]

Ubisoft needs to learn that releasing a product with technical bugs and performance issues as bad as this game are unacceptable.

They should have ever since Revelations. But as long as they sell millions, they will get away with this...

 

[Einbroch]

Pretty much expected. First game on the new consoles on a new engine. Would have been pleasantly surprised if it was great, but expected these middling scores.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

I didn't review the game, but I played an early copy.

These are 8 concerning things I experienced in Assassin's Creed Unity's first 2-3 hours:

http://www.ign.com/blogs/jdavisign/2014/11/11/8-real-things-i-experienced-in-assassins-creed-unity/

(Also this is probably the worst AC since 1).

Edit: I see GAF was faster than me on this one. So... there you go.

Jesus, shit like that shouldn't even deserve to score a 7.

If we start to allow this where will it end?

 

[ryan299]

I got this today with the target deal. Now debating if I should go exchange it for something else.

 

[Windom Earle]

I didn't review the game, but I played an early copy.

These are 8 concerning things I experienced in Assassin's Creed Unity's first 2-3 hours:

http://www.ign.com/blogs/jdavisign/2014/11/11/8-real-things-i-experienced-in-assassins-creed-unity/

(Also this is probably the worst AC since 1).

Edit: I see GAF was faster than me on this one. So... there you go.

This is thread worthy amount of bullshit.

 

[Konosuke]

Destiny and AC:U will fight for disappointment of the year.

Haha, no, Destiny has that in the bag by a long shot.

 

[bob page]

8 Concerning Things I Experienced in Assassin's Creed Unity by Justin Davis.

God damn. Bravo to this guy for publishing this alongside their review.

 

[CitizenCope]

My List of stuff I noticed:

• Person Floating Over the City for at least 20 minutes
• Crash on Xbox One
• Person polishing shoes on a roof with no customer
• Customer getting shoes polished without a person doing it or a chair(looked like a BJ)
• Woman floating through walls
• Arno leaped off a building flew upwards then shot out into the street like a howitzer(many times)
• People change gender in crowds constantly

• 
  
  These are actually selling me on the game. Stop!

 

[Mononoke]

It's shameful that they shipped a game in that state. Should have had another month or so of optimisation.

Looking forward to seeing what Ubi has to say on this issue. I'm sure it will be horseshit.

Yeah agreed. I know I shouldn't keep bringing up my cancer (it's kind of tacky), because NO consumer deserves this kind of product for $60. But I'm still super emotional from everything. It's like, come on Ubisoft I just spent a year fighting cancer, all I wanted to do was celebrate beating it by playing your game. Goddamnit.

Oh well. As I said in my other post, I'm just super grateful that I get to live. And I played a lot of great games this past week (Horizon 2, Morodor, Sunset Overdrive, Bayonetta 2). So I really can't complain. And GAF really made Unity stuff a lot better with all the pictures and messing around.

EDIT: I guess the point I'm making is, people spend their hard earned cash on this. Gaming is entertainment, but it also means a lot to people when they get to play these. They want to enjoy it (whatever they have going on in their life). I just think these companies should be more proud of their games to not release it this way, and to also respect their consumers for what they are paying for. That's really what I'm saying. Regardless where a consumer is coming from when buying this game. It's not always just as simple as them being out $60. It feels shitty too.

 

[Elios83]

74 metacritic, seems like a rushed game with potential. The atmosphere and Paris have been praised by everyone at least.
After Watch Dogs and this Ubisoft should really reconsider their quality control.
Hopefully the game will continue to be patched quickly to make the experience better.

 

[ironcreed]

Elder-Geek review - A buy :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdEsoPwoeJQ

Reviewed on PS4 and says there is more to love than hate, but does not shy away from criticism. He also says that it runs well for the most part. Great review.

 

[Raven77]

I suggested waiting for a sale which i usually attribute to around half price. So probably not no.

Ahh okay, thanks for the suggestions. Also, yeah Gameinformer is plastered in AC Unity ads so no surprise at the score there.

 

[Anth0ny]

I didn't review the game, but I played an early copy.

These are 8 concerning things I experienced in Assassin's Creed Unity's first 2-3 hours:

http://www.ign.com/blogs/jdavisign/2014/11/11/8-real-things-i-experienced-in-assassins-creed-unity/

(Also this is probably the worst AC since 1).

Edit: I see GAF was faster than me on this one. So... there you go.

holy fucking hell.

where are these 7s coming from?

 

[Karak]

Did you get a video of that?

I am sure I did. I record through the entire game

 

[Blimblim]

Everyone misses Jespers music, yet Ubi doesn't listen. So I take it ambient music is non existent in this game then? ffs ubi.

I'm starting to wonder if it's actually Jesper Kyd himself who left and went to work with Desilets on 1666.

 

[Morrigan Stark]

No, honestly. After the third treasure chest I couldn't open, I just turned the game off and went back to Wii U.

Haha, I like you.

 

[giancarlo123x]

I have my copy in my locker. 90 more minutes till I can form my opinion.

 

[Chris1]

10000 NPC's yeah fuck that when your game runs at 10FPS. Idiots.

Yeah I don't get what Ubi were thinking. Cut the NPC count down a few hundred to get the frame rate stable, I mean when you're talking that amount of NPC's I doubt there is a massive difference between like 600-700 and 1000 NPCs.

 

[barit]

8 Concerning Things I Experienced in Assassin's Creed Unity by Justin Davis.

Disgusting. Why such things don't pull a big fat red flag in ANY review is beyond me.

 

[Coolade]

Alex Navarro live stream discussion http://youtu.be/iQcnpGVt1ZE

 

[Skyzard]

How does the PC version run then? Most of the complaints seem to be technical issues, but that shouldn't be an issue on PC.

Of course companies never do separate reviews for a PC version.

I'm not taking my 780ti out for dinner for a month.

 

[Einbroch]

This is thread worthy amount of bullshit.

What is? This is another editor. Not the reviewer. Opinions, experiences, etc.

 

[iNvid02]

another critically middle of the road game under alex amancio, i wonder if they'll let him direct again.

 

[Toki767]

I am sure I did. I record through the entire game

I want to see it lol

 

[Reedirect]

Well, this is pretty much a disaster. At least the snaps of all those bugs gave me a good laugh until I turn my attention towards Dragon Age next week.

 

[Unknown One]

Can't wait to read the Digital Foundry analisys

Can't wait for the fps parity!

 

[brandonh83]

Q) How do I hold all these NPC's?
A) You can't.

 

[Karak]

Yeah I don't get what Ubi were thinking. Cut the NPC count down a few hundred to get the frame rate stable, I mean when you're talking that amount of NPC's I doubt there is a massive difference between like 600-700 and 1000 NPCs.

Frame rate is one thing but they entire crowd changes as you play. Gender, class, clothing, animations. Its like walking through a random character generator.