Exactly, they managed to do that very well between the original and the trliogy despite the different locations and time periods but ever since the
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Exactly, they managed to do that very well between the original and the trliogy despite the different locations and time periods but ever since the
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Not to mention the blatant lack of imagination for the setting.
After the first game (which is not even an origin story for the Brotherhood), they just got stuck with western settings between the renaissance and the industrial revolution.
Not only did they miss the whole dark age (which would've been fantastic to explore IMO), they basically westernized the middle-eastern Assassins and made everything about Europeans+Americans.
Why? The Assassins decided to go only northwest from Jerusalem? How about exploring the Ottoman Empire? Why not go east towards India, China's Ming/Qing dinasties, exploring the Mongol invasions, Indochina, Indonesia, etc.?
Not to mention the blatantly obvious historic crossover they could do with japanese shinobis during that everyone keeps talking about. The game shows there are Pieces of Eden close to civilizations all over the world, yet here are we with 80% of the games focused on a small portion of the world map..
It reminds me of Hollywood's blatant whitewashing of every single thing they get their hands on.
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I see your point, but remakes usually appear when someone considers the experience could be enriched from newer technologies, newer filming techniques, larger budgets or adapting the story to the present day.
Oldboy 2013 is a western remake just for the sake of being western. It's a whitewash.
I am a sucker for Greece, Rome and Palmirans.
But I don't know, something is amiss with this game. I played AC IV a little and the art style didn't make me feel like I was in that setting.
Age of Empires 1 and 2 were amazing in that respect. In Age of Empires 1 I could feel how free and how tough live could be, how were the woods, the sea..., there were whales in the sea... I loved the setting.
Age of Empires 2 was really good too. You felt like Genghis Khan in its campaign and the narration was just top notch. Same with the campaign of Joan of Arc, you felt like she was the hero of France. Not to mention the William Wallace campaign.
The most ironic thing is it comes from one of the whiniest, bitchiest, most anoying and most self-richeous, black american directors ever, Spike Waa Waa Lee
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Slightly O/T but if that's your thing and you haven't already, check out Banished. When you're crops have been blighted and your reserves are low and winter is coming, it's grim. Have sunk an insane number of hours in just a few different play throughs.
I went to the game's homepage and then I found it at GoG! Thanks.
http://www.gog.com/game/banished
That's the kind of game I usually like, the evocative ones. I added it to my GoG Cart already, although I didn't pay yet, this is a bad month for me, economy wise.
From the video and the stills, it seems to get the atmosphere right.
In that sense, Age of Empires 1 made you feel you were in the ancient world, where there were plenty of freedom, lots of space, dangers, mythology -the unexplained created it-, wild nature was abound, and when you sent your little fishing ships to the sea, with a little imagination you could see you caught a fish with whiskers.
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Well, one thing we can hope for is that Ubi seems to listen to the gamers' requests. I mean there were some articles before ACU that listed the most asked for settings and both the French Revolution and Victorian London were quite high up there. So maybe if people are asking for something different, they'll listen.
Seeing literally every other open world game are running 1080/30 or 60fps on the PS4 with good to insane level of graphics, I don't see why the new AC games are struggling to hit 1080p at least. Good thing is I'll have way more than ENOUGH open world game to play to even begin to care about an AC game at this point.
And it seems so contradicting when compared with the presentation by Sebbi with GPU-Rendering, saving CPU cycles, virtual texturing and all that, i find it hard to believe that these improvements in rendering don't make it to AC, one of Ubis major franchises(if not the biggest right now).
New trailer:
http://www.gamersyde.com/hqstream_assassin_s_creed_syndicate_horizon_trailer-35570_en.html
Seems like dynamic TOD, called it. That's why it doesn't look as good as Unity. I am ok with that if we get fully dynamic TOD though.
http://www.gamersyde.com/hqstream_assassin_s_creed_syndicate_horizon_trailer-35570_en.html
Seems like dynamic TOD, called it. That's why it doesn't look as good as Unity. I am ok with that if we get fully dynamic TOD though.
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Some initial thoughts from Eurogamer who have played three hours of the game.
