digoutyoursoul
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I thought I had seen the end of the lazy devs thing, how can you compare those games to this too? Bizzare post dude
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Assassin's Creed Syndicate Review Thread
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I thought I had seen the end of the lazy devs thing, how can you compare those games to this too? Bizzare post dude
cripterion
Member
Don't worry I wasn't taking issue with what you posted, just an observation of mine based on the footage I've seen. Granted I played AC: Unity on pc but this game looks worse and the faces and their animation aren't looking good imo.
To be honest, when looking back at several Ubisoft titles, their male leads couldn't be anymore generic. Jacob Frye could pretty much be Aiden Pierce for me.
Eurogamer sold me with this description:
"First things first, here are all the things Assassin's Creed doesn't have this year. There's no bolted on multiplayer mode or any co-op options. It doesn't have any connections to a broken web service. It doesn't require you to play a companion app to acquire everything in the game. It's like a human being actually sat down to design a game with the simple requirement that it felt fun, rather than it being a £50 experience designed by a committee to link up a web of interconnected transmedia nodes. It's a huge relief. Next, here are all the things Syndicate adds back to the series' sandbox - simple things such as picking up and hiding bodies, whistling to attract attention - as well as several new methods of traversal to reinvigorate the game's parkour gameplay."
That's what I want out of an AC game. Now I just need to watch some of the game to make sure, but I'm sold on it now.
"First things first, here are all the things Assassin's Creed doesn't have this year. There's no bolted on multiplayer mode or any co-op options. It doesn't have any connections to a broken web service. It doesn't require you to play a companion app to acquire everything in the game. It's like a human being actually sat down to design a game with the simple requirement that it felt fun, rather than it being a £50 experience designed by a committee to link up a web of interconnected transmedia nodes. It's a huge relief. Next, here are all the things Syndicate adds back to the series' sandbox - simple things such as picking up and hiding bodies, whistling to attract attention - as well as several new methods of traversal to reinvigorate the game's parkour gameplay."
That's what I want out of an AC game. Now I just need to watch some of the game to make sure, but I'm sold on it now.
You lost me...
Yes.
Exclusive vs multiplat. Open world vs narrower focus. The types of gameplay isn't even comparable.
Calling the devs lazy is just insulting.
It isn't the dev's decision to release the game. The publisher pushes it out the door whether it's polished or not. It's a yearly franchise, Uncharted and GTA are not.
I think I got all of the reviews posted so far...
Was kinda anticipating these scores from gameplay I've seen of a review copy and I'm happy that AC is back. It looks super fun to play and I loved toying with the hookshot when I played a little. Makes scaling buildings fun again.
If I missed any reviews, post em here and I'll see that they're added to the OP.
Was kinda anticipating these scores from gameplay I've seen of a review copy and I'm happy that AC is back. It looks super fun to play and I loved toying with the hookshot when I played a little. Makes scaling buildings fun again.
If I missed any reviews, post em here and I'll see that they're added to the OP.
GlamFM
Banned
When did not posting not bullshit on forums not become a thing not?
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I'm not understanding you. I'm sorry for my typo, try the second, third or fourth sentences.
I actually loved Unity, and one of the things that made me really enjoy it was the lack of bullshit hamfisted forced-in dead-end "future story".
Still waiting until Syndicate is cheap on PC first.
How about Batman?
Karak
Member
Gonna be very honest. If I hadn't had the bugs...I am not sure I would argue against this too much.
To me it was that enjoyable. Again aside from the bugs and many of those seem very patchable.
nelsonroyale
Member
Lazy probably isn't the right word, but Ubi has a massive team working on this. Releasing another game in the franchise with lots of bugs after the last fiasco is...shoddy...very shoddy.
Because that is likely not the development staff's fault. They are under a strict deadline to release these things yearly, and that is all down to the publisher. These games have relatively large scope, yet they get pumped out at a very rapid pace leading to rushed and ultimately unpolished games..
It appears my comment in the Kotaku "misconceptions about game devs" thread was way off :/
Karak
Member
If you do youtube I PM'ed you ours with a blurb.
I think a lot of people felt this way.
esmith08734
Member
How prevalent are the bugs? Were you able to download the two patches?
ISee
Member
Which is odd, because their male villains in Far Cry (3+4) seem to have some sort of personality. Maybe they should design a templar story focused AC game where we play on the misunderstood side.
digoutyoursoul
Member
What about Batman? You did not mention it in the post.
The Jackdog
Member
Cool, sounds like its at least a pretty good time. Ill be picking it up
serious?
if devs where the only hand in the pot maybe... but it takes a whole team to get these out
i'm not sure we can put all on them man
It's nothing to do with laziness. Games are incredibly complicated, they have bugs. AC is on an insanely tight release schedule and Ubisoft doesn't care whether the game is actually finished when release date comes around. It's greed and idiot consumers buying the same broken game every year making it profitable.
Karak
Member
Patched up and ya the bugs were of two types. Some smaller prevalent ones with sound dropping, or AI having issues at various times, spawning problems as well.
Then a couple missions had major ones(put some footage in my review). These stopped a couple missions in their tracks completely resulting in 1 mission being redone 6 times before I could basically cheat it to get by. That was the worst one FYI.
That being said I sat back a couple hours to think hard on it before coming to the Wait for A Sale. The game behind those bugs is rock friggen solid. I just can't suggest a title with some of the issues it had.
Honestly if I hadn't had those bugs this would have been one of my Top 2 AC games easily. The duel protagonists, the setting reminded me at times of Gangs of New York, the acting was spot on, and the gameplay loop is fantastic.
A studio like Rockstar Games and Naughty Dog also has three times the time to develope their games.
I can't believe what I'm reading. Holy shit. Game devs sure are lazy working 40 hour weeks (and way longer during crunch). Fuck me.
Why are you making the assumption that bugs are left in because the devs don't care? They very likely do care and would fix them if they were given the time and resources.
TheSlySoul
Member
I like how AC's twitter only mentioned the 9/10 reviews.
esmith08734
Member
Ah geez. I have a $15 off coupon, so it seems enticing for $45.00, especially if it's like ACII.
JigglesBunny
Banned
Ugh, fuck off with this insulting crap.
As much as I lament Ubisoft for a variety of things, the LAST thing you can do is call them lazy.
They put out a completely new, vast open world with 30+ hours of gameplay a year, and it's lazy because they prioritized performance over visuals after last year's performance was awful?
No. Stop with that shit.
OT: Pretty damn good review scores. I think I'll give it a shot this year.
Silent Chief
Member
Batman was delayed and it's a fantastic game?
Yeah was still finding the link to your review, but it's in the OP now
Hi, have you ever programmed anything before?
they likely have a very strict deadline which they have to abide by. i'm sure more time would allow them to iron things out. How many devs are in charge of this series? Hopefully they get at least 2 years to develop
The Jackdog
Member
you mean a twitter account meant to promote the game isnt saying "look at our bad reviews too!"
i am shocked to the very core
esmith08734
Member
That's a little harsh. Some people just genuinely like the games..
Arkham City released two years after Arkham Asylum. Someone's not working hard enough.
esmith08734
Member
Lol, so true. The only program that might execute at maximum proficiency at all times is a 'Hello, World' program, lol.
Sun Bather
Member
Lazy no. The question you should be asking, is when it got ok for publishers to rush games out like this, and give developer teams stupid deadlines that can never realistically be met, without it being a buggy mess.
and that became ok when people kept buying the games anyway, in case you are wondering.
TheSlySoul
Member
There were many 8/10 reviews, which is why highlighting only 2 reviews that make your game look awesome is funny to me. It is not much better than Destiny promoting BioGamerGirl.
Publishers pushing things unfinished out the door sounds more likely than some lazy people sitting around going "eh, it doesn't fuck up most of the time so we good, push it through." It's beyond stupid to call a group of people dedicated to a thing for so long, lazy. Jesus.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Well said