Jim_Cacher
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It must be surreal to see these locations around you are transformed into video game perfectly. I hope an AC will set here, too (technically it has, but not in 3D).
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Assassin's Creed Origins gameplay previews
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It must be surreal to see these locations around you are transformed into video game perfectly. I hope an AC will set here, too (technically it has, but not in 3D).
Rellik
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Just so you know, spoiler tagging images doesn't work on mobile. They show the image clearly.
Goddamn, you're right. I totally forgot about that.
This is cool as hell. Can't wait for this game - and to one day go to Egypt (my gf is half-Egyptian but estranged from her fam over there)
The Last Wizard
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Yup, they had the perfect setup for the modern a day but blew it in favor of not having to worry about that part of the story which made it horrible in the subsequent versions or just didn't know how to do it without Patrice.
I can't believe nobody working there shared Patrice's vision and stood up saying "Hey, this is getting ridiculous, let's get back on track to where we were heading".
The modern day parts post III are borderline offensive to long time fans.
The Last Wizard
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Probably afraid of losing their job or made an example of:/
They fired Desillets for not being keen on the annualization, not because he was a bad developer or had a bad vision.
In fact, Origins being touted as a "return to form" means they also realize their lastest entries have been whack.
Where has the development team touted that the game is a "return to form" - the director talks about previous titles and his team's journey in this interview.
Whilst Origins is a particular leap and a small departure from previous AC games, I think the 'return to form' idea is just GAF's hardcore sentiment deciding to bash Ubisoft a little less. Syndicate was one of the best AC games ever and in my opinion, better than the "flawless" ACII. The core team of Origins have been working on it since Black Flag, it's nothing to do with 'realising their latest entries have been whack'. In fact, Origins at this point seems to have just as much in common with Syndicate than Black Flag/II.
I'm talking about "story" here.
Hey i liked Syndicate, but when you play the first three games you feel they were getting somewhere, like, they were written by really intelligent people who had this grand plan and were exploring those times with care and intellectual curiosity.
AC games after Brohood (With the very exception of the Altair parts in Revelations) are low hanging, lazy "blockbuster" material, with paper thin characters, black and white revenge plots and a copy pasted character for 6 games (With the exception of Connor, who people hate).
Abstergo turned into a videogame company probably makes Desillets roll on his bed every night.
AC Origins is being touted as a game "for long time fans", trying to "give them the answers they were hoping for" and abandoning the collectathons for "lore and world building". They say again and again that long time fans will find solace in it, which is a form of saying "Our lastest games have slapped you on the face if you cared before, please care this time".
However, I think the damage was done with the turning of Juno into a enamoured teenager and the whole Sage nonsense. I'm 100% such simplistic plot line was not what AC was heading to.
Crossing Eden
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The writer for Syndicate was actually really honest about why there hasn't been playable modern day segments. It's a time and budget issue first and foremost.
I was actually OK with the modern story treatment of Syndicate. It was all cutscenes which reduced the super horrible "abstergo office" gameplay and at least it advanced a little compared to the joke that were IV, Rogue and Unity.
Still, it feels like an afterthought and is completely anticlimatic, considering it was the anchor point of the series in its conception. It's not like the past story does not feel like a cartoon either, which means the narrative is has become completely uncompelling.
bear in mind that I'm talking from the POV of someone who is fan since 1, so I'm really invested compared to say, Black Flag fans.
From the team POV I'm sure it's true. But Ubisoft has like 30+ studios. As soon as the decision-makers do want the playable modern day segments, then the time and budget issue doesn't exist anymore.
What a complex quagmire this series has slurped itself into. Here's hoping Origins is a nice refresh.
IMO they blew it in favour of trying to be LOST.
Loads of stuff about the modern day narrative and how it was handled – from Assassin's Creed 1's finale which was the first insubstantial nail in the unrequited coffin – reeked of LOST's storytelling approach. That is, endlessly layering mysteries while never (or rarely) providing answers. At least they didn't "end" it with metaphysics.
IMO they blew it in favour of trying to be LOST.
Loads of stuff about the modern day narrative and how it was handled – from Assassin's Creed 1's finale which was the first insubstantial nail in the unrequited coffin – reeked of LOST's storytelling approach. That is, endlessly layering mysteries while never (or rarely) providing answers. At least they didn't "end" it with metaphysics.
Crossing Eden
Hello, my name is Yves Guillemot, Vivendi S.A.'s Employee of the Month!
It's more they have a finite budget and finite time, like they said, the more they invest in modern day the more they have to remove from the past sections based on how they make content.