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It just looks so unpolished. Each system, even the animation looks like it works to the bare minimum. None of the footage excited me or made me want to play it, which is a shame. Just wish they'd reduce the scope and focus on what made the series great. A game this size given the time Rockstar might take on a new GTA would likely be amazing. But they're churning them out every year with more and more bloat. The way they kept saying "a new feature for this year" said it all. Used to rinse each game in the series to completion, but personally I might give this a miss for Watchdogs. At least they seem to doing something different and I'm loving the setting. |
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Anthony_UK 3,094 posts
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Decks 31,013 posts
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Registered 6 years agoLooks absolutely bang average. -
Decks 31,013 posts
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Registered 6 years agoSurely they should aiming for something more now. Even putting in a decent animation system would make a big difference. -
JamboWayOh 25,236 posts
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Registered 8 years agoThis is very much a cross gen title. I'm underwhelmed. -
Phattso 27,426 posts
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Registered 17 years agoIt’s not even that. It’s rinsing the last drops of relevance from this gen’s tech. Hope the CPU jump in the new generation encourages them to actually do something new. -
Derblington 35,161 posts
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Registered 17 years agoAC is a franchise that could really do with them killing it for a couple of years and just reinventing the entire thing. Even when they shifted it to an RPG it had so much of the previous titles that it really didn’t feel any different to play, there was just more of it and it included level scaling, but they’ve entirely run out of narrative ideas to keep the time jumping/animus concept relevant at all. It’s still there, along with the assassins guild and the hidden blade, but it just doesn’t make sense or fit the game anymore.
If nothing else, just change the title and announce it with a load of marketing so that people are aware of it, then drop the assassin stuff (the animus, the eagle vision, the hidden blade, the leap of faith, etc.) and just make historical fiction across different eras, leaning into the things that make them stand out via relevant gameplay and animation to each title. -
DUFFMAN5 26,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoJust watched JORRAPTOR (YT) thoughts after 6 hours with Valhalla, it is only 11 minutes. He is my "goto" guy for AC Creed, I have no affiliation other than enjoying his AC content.
Worth a watch. He is generally pretty balanced.
Based on his playtime, he was happy but it does need some work.
Also ACG got several hours with the same part of the game. Liked it BUT that it is very much in the same vain of the previous games. He makes a very good point about the need for maybe changing the presentation.
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Daeltaja 2,061 posts
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Registered 11 years agoThe state of the animations and combat. Ragdolls bouncing all over the place, characters gliding over surfaces like air hockey pucks, dodgy hit detection.. None of the stuff I hated about Odyssey has been addressed. -
garryo'neill 52 posts
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Registered 3 years agoI just think it needs another year in the oven, but they won’t do that because they need it out for commercial and business reasons.
I actually think odyssey looks better than this and I’m playing that on a base 2013 PS4. -
Derblington 35,161 posts
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Registered 17 years agoYeah, loads of YTers got to play the same 4 hour event. The general feeling seems to be that it’s Odyssey with a new color palette and more blood in the combat.
If you liked that game enough and fancy playing it again, here you go. If not it’s a skip. Nothing is really different about it. -
DUFFMAN5 26,890 posts
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Registered 17 years ago@Daeltaja
In fairness a few more months to address, (July, Aug and Sept at least?) and we don't know if the build is a month or so old.
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FoxMoody 144 posts
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Registered 1 year agoAs long as it's similar to Odyssey gameplay wise, i'm okay with it as long as we don't have quest bloat as we did in Odyssey. -
SnackPlissken 3,512 posts
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Registered 4 years agoWhat happened to Beyond Good & Evil 2? No interest in AC, Watch Dogs, Far Cry.. just give me BG&E2. -
SnackPlissken 3,512 posts
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Registered 4 years agoOh wait I know why. Everyone wants to play the next iteration of a boring open world game where the main character has absolute zero personality. Fair play Ubisoft. -
Rhaegyr 5,499 posts
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Registered 10 years agoLet's be fair - Jade from BG&E barely had any personality; it was more great character design than actual character.
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Dombat 1,918 posts
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Registered 10 years agoUbisoft leaning so heavily on their main open world franchises is disappointing but not unexpected.
I burnt out on them so long ago (and therefore stopped playing them) that I think I could actually play one of them again. I’m actually leaning towards Far Cry 6 at the moment, although that could change. My interest in both Valhalla and WD Legion waned after yesterday’s showings somehow. -
johnnyrocketfingers 380 posts
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Registered 3 years agoFoxMoody wrote:
It looks to be similar, even visually.
As long as it's similar to Odyssey gameplay wise, i'm okay with it as long as we don't have quest bloat as we did in Odyssey.
I'm excited for this. A little bit shook they've pushed Legion back in to the same holiday release window. October-November always gets too busy!! -
Rhaegyr 5,499 posts
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Registered 10 years agoDitto - I'm ready to 'go back' to a few of Ubi's franchises (last Far Cry I played was 3, last AC was Black Flag) but the appeal's not there for me; can't put my finger on what exactly it is though. -
Syrette 51,181 posts
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Registered 19 years agoSnackPlissken wrote:
Yeah... pretty sure this is nonsense.
the main character has absolute zero personality.
I get a lot of the criticisms aimed at Ubisoft games with open worlds, but the vast majority of them have had decent protoganists at least, in my opinion.
Of course Watch Dogs Legion by its very nature might be lacking in personality in its main characters... but then perhaps it deserves some credit in that respect for not being "boring", for trying something new and different. -
Derblington 35,161 posts
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The Easy Allies preview of WDL made it sound pretty good, and the near-future London looks great. -
DUFFMAN5 26,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoHaving watched a few YTers previews of this and WD and if I had to pick one it would be WD.
In saying that I will be getting both as I am a fan of both series. I thought WD2 was a great game, never quite got the hate for it. I understand it was the protagonists in it, never really bothered me. The world was great to mess about in. -
Dombat 1,918 posts
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Registered 10 years agoDerblington wrote:
Thanks, I’ll take a look.
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The Easy Allies preview of WDL made it sound pretty good, and the near-future London looks great. -
Dombat 1,918 posts
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Registered 10 years ago@DUFFMAN5 I don’t think it’s so much that WD2 received hate, but more that many people (like me) didn’t give it a chance. After the first WD I just lost all interest in Ubisoft open world games and especially wasn’t interested in a WD sequel at the time. -
MrFlay 4,670 posts
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Registered 13 years agoHuge Ubisoft sale on Xbox. Far Cry, AssCreed and Watchdogs have huge (90%) discounts. Far Cry 5 is a tenner.
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DUFFMAN5 26,890 posts
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Registered 17 years agoDombat wrote:
Honestly mate, 2 is a great and FUN game, even if you found the original po-faced, I loved that as well to be fair. Also 2 had great multiplayer modes.
@DUFFMAN5 I don’t think it’s so much that WD2 received hate, but more that many people (like me) didn’t give it a chance. After the first WD I just lost all interest in Ubisoft open world games and especially wasn’t interested in a WD sequel at the time. -
Bichii 4,672 posts
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Registered 4 years agoDUFFMAN5 wrote:
Both look pretty awful but if I was made to play one with the threat of death if I didn't then I'd pick Valhalla as it's Vikings. Somehow they've made Vikings seem dull and generic though.
Having watched a few YTers previews of this and WD and if I had to pick one it would be WD.
In saying that I will be getting both as I am a fan of both series. I thought WD2 was a great game, never quite got the hate for it. I understand it was the protagonists in it, never really bothered me. The world was great to mess about in. -
MrWonderstuff 3,617 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI enjoyed WD 2 - thought da kidz were a bit too cool snd hip for me me - cos I'm just not. Multiplayer was great though - nothing quite like hacking a player and watch them tear up the street searching for me. London looks sooo London - as a Londoner this is going to be one surreal experience - especially Camden where I worked and socialised in. -
Tuffty 4,954 posts
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Registered 15 years agoAs someone who's played a lot of Odyssey I can see Valhalla is very much another one of those games. If I have to be honest, I'm quite disappointed that this is what we're getting after an extra years development time. I saw footage where the main character was circle strafing around a wolf firing arrows into it and it just reminded me of the worst aspects of Odysseys combat all over again. I certainly hope this promise of high enemy diversity is true. Also interesting to hear the game has no side quests at all. Also female Eigor looks so bland and uninteresting, like an NPC from a previous game. Nothing like Kassandra. Would need to see how it all comes together when I actually play it but so far my hype level is pretty flat, the first time I've felt this way about an AC game in a long while. -
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Maybe the next "true gen" AC game will be different, but even if it is, I would only imagine tweaks to the formula.
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