mitch1971
Member
If you like black flag then the remaster of AC Rogue is much the same. Playing it at the moment. I love the ship gameplay.
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F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Hmmm
powerup-gaming.com
"Overall, Assassin's Creed: Mirage is a decent game in the series, but a largely forgettable one. After the dizzying heights of Odyssey and Valhalla, Mirage takes too much of a step back and relies too much on gameplay the series has long moved on from"
Exactly what I thought and said when I first posted in this thread. AC games became better with Odyssey and Valhalla and this kind of regression will net you the MEH reviews you deserve Ubisoft. Thankfully the Odyssey team is on Red and said it'd be a RPG sooooo...
Assassin’s Creed: Mirage Review (PS5) – We’ve Got to Go Back - PowerUp!
Assassin's Creed's gradual evolution from the original through to Valhalla has been staggering. What began as an open-world, semi-stealth, collectible fest changed over time until Odyssey and Valhalla cemented the franchise as a tremendously good historical RPG. Now, Ubisoft has done a full 180...
powerup-gaming.com
"Overall, Assassin's Creed: Mirage is a decent game in the series, but a largely forgettable one. After the dizzying heights of Odyssey and Valhalla, Mirage takes too much of a step back and relies too much on gameplay the series has long moved on from"
Exactly what I thought and said when I first posted in this thread. AC games became better with Odyssey and Valhalla and this kind of regression will net you the MEH reviews you deserve Ubisoft. Thankfully the Odyssey team is on Red and said it'd be a RPG sooooo...
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
When your 13th flagship game scores worse than the last 3 releases...Yeah, that's disappointing.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Huh, this seems like a HUGE positive to me.
The bigger the step back from the RPG loser games the better.
The RPG games were ass piled upon ass.
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Fake
Member
Remember that CGI video in the Black Flag opening?
If you have the game (as I do) with the lastest patch installed, thia video get 3~4 seconds censored.
The original video can still be watched on Youtube. In this scene, the main character show up getting up from the bed with naked ladies.
1:14
From the game
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mejin
Member
Yep, it's harsh.
But when we know the history of the devs or publishers you can't just say a flagship new title is ok to get such reviews.
People expected more just look at the pool in this very thread.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Odyssey is one of my favorite games ever and was my dream AC game for years. Ever since ACII when Ezio finds the statues of the 6 legendary assassins, my dream AC was having a female protagonist in Ancient Greece that could level up, and equip tons of weapons.
And then Odyssey happened. And it was ambrosia to me. Valhalla I will admit was a bit bloated and kind of overlong at 100h of gameplay and that's like before the like 5 DLCs but hey....
GHG
Member
When this inevitably sells poorly hopefully it will shut all the people up who have been crying about wanting AC to "return to it's roots".
They were on the right track with Origins but leaned too hard into the usual open world tropes with the subsequent RPG-lite entries. All they needed to do was tone down the ridiculous amount of map markers and copy-paste locations in favour of a smaller world with more hand crafted elements and they would have been on to a winner.
They were on the right track with Origins but leaned too hard into the usual open world tropes with the subsequent RPG-lite entries. All they needed to do was tone down the ridiculous amount of map markers and copy-paste locations in favour of a smaller world with more hand crafted elements and they would have been on to a winner.
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Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
What i find funny is most of negatives sound like positives to me.
After Origins, Odyssey was ass and Valhalla was fucking food poisoning.....I didnt even bother finishing it......some hours in I realized im not even enjoying myself right now, im just doing this almost like im obligated to.......im too old for this shit, uninstalled the game so im never tempted to open it and give it a chance.
Mirage im all in.
SJRB
Gold Member
It's not a "flagship game".
It started as DLC for Valhalla, got spun off into its own game. Smaller game, smaller dev team, smaller budget. Lower sales price. All of this was mentioned numerous times in interviews. Ubi couldn't have been more clear about what this is and what it isn't.
Zheph
Member
"Almost Perfect" ?! come on now... this should be rock solid 60
Kacho
Gold Member
Again with the screen tearing on both consoles. Need to see some PC performance results.
Zuzu
Member
I agree. The game is quite last gen-ish in its visuals. It shouldn't be that hard to run. PS5 version looks pretty solid though. Hopefully they will fix frame drops and screen tearing in the vertical panning camera movement. That's not acceptable.
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ShadyAcshuns
Member
So it didn't get ten scores, how very expected.
Zuzu
Member
Yeah they need to fix that (& the frame drops) on both versions. Not acceptable to have it dropping frames like that just because the player is panning the camera vertically.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Reviewing pretty much as I expected. A tighter AC experience after the incredible slog fest that was Valhalla is a great improvement IMO.
phant0m
Member
But it’s not a flagship, and has been explicitly marketed as a smaller, more focused title with a budget price. And it’s really not far off from the poll. The difference between 77 and say, 81 really isn’t the gigantic gulf this thread is among it out to be.
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Mr Moose
Member
Is that screen tearing I am seeing? That fps counter is shit.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
This review makes this game sound absolutely amazing.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Oh I know that. But they decided to take a DLC and make it into the new big release in the franchise. Same thing for RE3 Remake that was supposed to be RE2 DLC but got released as a full blown game.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
It started out as a DLC. They likely shifted during production
Works great if you have a mid-tier/high-end PC. The game has some traversal stutters but apart from that, it runs smoothly.
Assassin's Creed Mirage Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis
Powered by the Ubisoft Anvil Engine, it's time to benchmark Assassin's Creed Mirage and examine its performance on the PC platform.
www.dsogaming.com
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Sleepwalker
Member
I dont care about most of the criticism that ive seen thrown around except the ones about the story not being great. 
I might keep my preorder still.
I might keep my preorder still.
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Assassins Creed Meh-rage
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Gamefly da real OG shipping it out a day before retail, hopefully I have it by Friday.
Stafford
Member
Hmmm
Assassin’s Creed: Mirage Review (PS5) – We’ve Got to Go Back - PowerUp!
Assassin's Creed's gradual evolution from the original through to Valhalla has been staggering. What began as an open-world, semi-stealth, collectible fest changed over time until Odyssey and Valhalla cemented the franchise as a tremendously good historical RPG. Now, Ubisoft has done a full 180...
"Overall, Assassin's Creed: Mirage is a decent game in the series, but a largely forgettable one. After the dizzying heights of Odyssey and Valhalla, Mirage takes too much of a step back and relies too much on gameplay the series has long moved on from"
Exactly what I thought and said when I first posted in this thread. AC games became better with Odyssey and Valhalla and this kind of regression will net you the MEH reviews you deserve Ubisoft. Thankfully the Odyssey team is on Red and said it'd be a RPG sooooo...
Red is the one taking place in Japan?
Topher
Identifies as young
Gamefly da real OG shipping it out a day before retail, hopefully I have it by Friday.
Same
Kacho
Gold Member
yessir
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
Regginator
Member
If anything it's your post that reads like executive coping, lol. Mirage was hailed to be and marketed as the great return to the core of Assassin's Creed. Without all the bloat, without all that open-world nonsense, good ol' fashioned AC. Instead it's the second-worst reviewed mainline AC game of all time, only barely beating Syndicate.
In what universe (outside of your own mind) is this not disappointing?
Topher
Identifies as young
AC Valhalla scored an 80. I don't get the concern over 2 points.
Regginator
Member
Can't blame the young folks for adhering to a review system that old people like you destroyed.
graywolf323
Member
huh? Valhalla is at 83 on Open Critic that I see - https://opencritic.com/game/9439/assassins-creed-valhalla
and Mirage is currently sitting at 76 (https://opencritic.com/game/15005/assassins-creed-mirage), that’s a negative 7 point differential not 2
I was on the fence about getting it at launch or not (because there’s so much else coming out this fall) and reviews have pushed me to wait for the usual Ubisoft sales, maybe at Christmas if it goes to 50% off already by then
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F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Yup. Now that one I know will be right up my alley. I truly hope that the two protags play completely differently from each other though. Make the samurai more straight on assault style, while the kunoichi can be the stealthy type. Something like that.
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Topher
Identifies as young
huh? Valhalla is at 83 on Open Critic that I see - https://opencritic.com/game/9439/assassins-creed-valhalla
and Mirage is currently sitting at 76, that’s a negative 7 point differential not 2
I was on the fence about getting it at launch or not (because there’s so much else coming out this fall) and reviews have pushed me to wait for the usual Ubisoft sales, maybe at Christmas if it goes to 50% off already by then
Metacritic is 80
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F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Not on OpenCritic. Which is better as a metric IMO.
Kacho
Gold Member
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
You just....went and took time to take a screencap of Metacritic while the discussion was about Opencritic. Incredible.It literally takes two seconds to check
And what's funnier is that the two point difference argument is still wrong. Mirage is at 77 lol. 3 points!