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STEAM | November 2015 - Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty Never Changes
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Leafhopper
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Forgot about that thread lol.
The Dear Leader
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PayPal just randomly gave me $3. Thanks.
London is rather small for an open world setting (think Constantinople rather than Rome or Paris), but all things considered it's probably the most mechanically and structurally sound open world game Ubi has made thus far. Most changes are for the better, however I really do hate that you can no longer manually jump as it leads to some frustrating random stops when traversing rooftops.
Does Sony just make their consoles out of really tasty plastic or something? I think I'm gonna go take a bite out of my PS2 now.
One too many stupid people complained about accidentally jumping to their deaths.
Funnily enough, though, I've accidentally jumped to my death in Syndicate (I went into a dive and hit a jetty instead of the water).What I've noticed that if you come to a ledge or obstical and your are holding the wrong transition button (freerun up or freerun down) you won't transfer immediately to the next object but wobble in place or stop dead and place your hands on the object. Problem is some of them look naturally look like the opposite and other objects that are of the same height behave differently. For example in Jacob's opening segement as you get outside there's pipes and boxes you can slide over using freerun down but wire spools which while the same height unless you have freerun up held you'll stop when you hit them.
Rooftops and chimney transfers are also like this and to an extent Unity behaved the same but there's far more geomentary 'clutter' in Syndicate that I think it gets confused a bit more easily.
To be fair it's so you could switch your gender by the couple switching places.
Also as a NPC in Mass Effect 3. Which actually irritated me somewhat, seeing as they were willing to spend all that work to have her as a NPC in the game but they couldn't be bothered to model or show Tali as other than a photoshopped stockphoto... yeah I was a huge Tali fan.XD
One too many stupid people complained about accidentally jumping to their deaths.
Weird. I dunno, having played every AC besides china and lberation (which I'm suffering through now), I'd have to say it's on you for dying at this point.
oh yeah that's key to my suspension of disbelief but the skin color slider is like totally unimportant!
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bethesda reasoning
One too many stupid people complained about accidentally jumping to their deaths.
I still need to experience need for manual jump in ACS. Parkour Up and Parkour Down work nicely this time. But again few days ago i saw comment or i heard somewhere that it would be better if Ubi would make climbing 3+ button processes (one button are hands, second one legs third one jump or something like that) and i just rolled my eyes. 90% of players in that case would just stick to the ground (me included and i like challenge).
impliedsignificance
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I'd be pretty interested in a "serious" parkour sim using a setup like that, but even more complicated. Get some triggers involved maybe.
Yeah, I've bumped into my fair share of things due to misinterpreting the permitted traversal mode, haha.
I've encountered many instances where I really should be able to jump to the next building but can't as the game wants me to use the rope launcher instead. It's also annoying when I can jump to the next building but instead of leaping to the roof I just sort of hop down to a window box. Unity controlled fine as far as I'm concerned, windows included.
Eeeeurgh... horrible choice for Samus
looool. Reminds me of the one time were Paladin Danse had a monologue about keeping the area clear and I switched out of the conversation (thank god you can do that) and killed a dozen Feral Gouls that Danse didnt care about with his dialogue.
Hero Prinny
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Why is it bullshit? The intro is less than an hour and once you start the real game you can go fuck a fucked up robot for all they care. Such an odd thing to complain about
Options.
Separate game sure, but not in AC game. That kind of game would require patience and it would have difficult learning curve so payoff for learning difficult moves should be big. There should be some rhythm in that system sou you can learn it easier. And that game wouldn't be big and mainstream for sure so i don;t think that we will ever see something similar.
Hero Prinny
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You do have options. They take control for the first 10 minutes and then its all you, dude.
Isn't that Viewpoint+Leap of Faith?
criesofthepast
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I enjoyed it back on the PS3. It is a lot of mindless fun.
Oooh yeah you might be right, it is just by the viewpoint. Thanks! Would have gone insane looking for some secret haha.
Yummy.
Game is trash in the end so it doesn't matter anyway, dood.
EDIT: What if Samus were a man?
I take it.
LurkerPrime
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Zero Suit Sam doesn't have quite the same ring to it.
It's a failure of imagination that Bethesda shouldn't be caught up on. To elaborate more would just walk into a spoiler minefield. You're supposed to be anyone in those games, but instead they've decided "hey, you're this."
I'll elaborate here (huge Fallout 4 spoilers):
It's essentially Bethesda saying "pretend whatever you like, but we know how things really are."
It's a failure of imagination that Bethesda shouldn't be caught up on. To elaborate more would just walk into a spoiler minefield. You're supposed to be anyone in those games, but instead they've decided "hey, you're this."
I'll elaborate here (huge Fallout 4 spoilers):
having a 'traditional' marriage with a child of your own, not adopted, is the only way Bethesda feels that players will feel invested in the family they show you for the first ten minutes, and this child's existence is crucial for a late-game twist, not to mention the driving point of the plot, as I understand it.
jediyoshi
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Holy shit this sentence is video game existential mindfuckery
Just a slob like one of us?
well tbh it's not so bad since fo4 is barely an rpg but if it was actually an rpg then having to force ur character to be straight or believe in marriage or anything like that is pretty bad
Hero Prinny
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Game is trash in the end so it doesn't matter anyway, dood.
EDIT: What if Samus were a man?
I take it.
thats lazy. I'm actually really against taking existing characters and swapping their gender just for the sake of it. Just make a new character and let it exist as itself instead of trying to take someone else's identity.
@Lurker, This is nothing new, in fallout 3 they basically show you how you was raised (I didn't check out your spoilers btw, I'm not done with the game). Even in New Vegas which is made by a different dev took some control over your character's back story by making him or her the one that delivered the package that destroyed The Divide.
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it's very different since u can actually roleplay quite meaningfully within the things that are preset like being a courier or the divide stuff. even in new vegas when ulysses criticizes for things your character did in their past life the whole reason it works it's because it mirrors the kind of things you've been doing as a player all the way until then. ulysses is talking to your character but also to you as a player. it's really well done and plays really well with rpg tropes and roleplaying, and you can roleplay how your character feels about what you're accussed of and what you've done. does your character care? is your character seeking for redemption? do you want revenge? or do you want to forget? or whatever
here you're given a kid and a husband and forced to go MY BABYYYYY every now and then because beth can't write or design for shit
in fo4 it makes sense cos everyone has a dad. not everyone is straight, believes in marriage or having kids, and it's limiting in a game that's supposed to be about roleplaying. its only saving grace is that fallout 4 is such an awful rpg that it doesn't matter since nothing really matters i guess
Sgt.Pepper
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Can someone explain to me why Amazon dropped the ball so hard when it comes to Digital sales?
I'm checking my amazon library and, surprised, I haven't bought a game there since 2 years ago.
I'm checking my amazon library and, surprised, I haven't bought a game there since 2 years ago.
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Hero Prinny
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So... What you're saying is that ulysses is dope and you want obsidean to make a new fallout? Cause if you are i tottally agree with you on both those statements.
LurkerPrime
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Yeah, establishing origins in RPGs is tricky to do right. Railroading is something that should be avoided, because it presupposes things about the character that could very well be contradictory or dissonant to the character you (want to) make. It gets even trickier if you want to tie their backstory into the plot somehow; play KotOR if you want to know how to do it right.
Actually thinking about it, Bioware's entire career has been making RPGs with backstories and origins relevant to their games. In that respect they've been pretty successful, I think, even in their worst games. (i.e. Dragon Age 2.) The Mass Effect series is probably their worst work in this regard, due to how ME2 is handled.
US only is rather limiting in regards to growth and competition.
Actually thinking about it, Bioware's entire career has been making RPGs with backstories and origins relevant to their games. In that respect they've been pretty successful, I think, even in their worst games. (i.e. Dragon Age 2.) The Mass Effect series is probably their worst work in this regard, due to how ME2 is handled.
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Jawmuncher
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Amazon Tony was moved to a new department and I suppose Amazon higher just figured it's not worth the trouble of trying to stay competitive.
They're shit now in the US as well
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