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Assassin's Creed Shadows New 7 minutes Combat Gameplay

simpatico

Member
They're going to deflect the blame of this flopping on the chuds, but based on these videos the game deserves to flop. Looks like an indie jankware title with a AAA HUD and menu stack. Ubi won't learn any lessons from this because everyone who gets paid to advise there will tell management the game was fine and failed because of internet racists.
 
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Generic

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They're going to deflect the blame of this flopping on the chuds, but based on these videos the game deserves to flop. Looks like an indie jankware title with a AAA HUD and menu stack. Ubi won't learn any lessons from this because everyone who gets paid to advise there will tell management the game was fine and failed because of internet racists.
I still have to see one bad thing in the gameplay videos.
 
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Pejo

Gold Member
I honestly don't even want to look at this game anymore. This will be the first time I plan to do a media blackout on a game that I don't intend to play.
 

mrqs

Member
Graphics are becoming better and better, but we really need an overhaul of clothing in gaming. It's really immersion-breaking for me when someone with large clothes doesn't have the movements and physics I expect. I know this might be super hard or even impossible today, but damn, how I hate clothing that doesn't feel malleable and fluid.

Really appreciate the effort with breakable objects tho! Looks awesome.
 
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EN250

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Can't watch atm, just need to know if they're using hip-hop bgm in a game set in feudal Japan, because the character is black?
Amazing lack of awareness, for the progressive devs, a black character set anywhere in any timeline = hip-hop :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 

Danjin44

The nicest person on this forum
No matter the setting still very much Assassin's Creed which I find bore to play, I honestly felt same way about Ghost of Tsushima.

None of these games comes close to Sekiro......I wish we got Sekiro 2 instead.
 
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The problem is Assassins Creed as a brand is poison.

Quantity over quality in every game for the last 10 years.

We all know how this game plays out and what you'll be doing in it, that classic Ubisoft formula that has been flogged over and over and over and over and over again............... so so boring.
It‘s not just AC, the same formula applies to Ghost Recon, Far Cry and many other titles as well.
 

Justin9mm

Member
Is it me, or does this look like they took some serious inspiration from Mortal Kombat?
OMG I immediately thought the same thing, something about the combat animations, camera angles and blood/gore splatter. In my head I was screaming Mortal Kombat from the theme song lol
 

ahtlas7

Member
I assume the video is edited to show how repetitive the gameplay will be?

And what happened to everyone’s favorite soundtrack?
 

EDMIX

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Best footage I've seen of this game

Same.

I'm ok with what I'm seeing from the parry, block and deflect stuff. I also love how the wind looks in the environments. Actually looks better then what they showed prior.

Still a day 1.

kurashu kurashu Thank you for that! I was able to look over it and want to see some of that bow footage lol I might do a media black out on it though to be surprised on a bit more stuff on day 1 release. We've seen enough

bring on dat steelbook!!!!!!!!
 
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Bitmap Frogs

Mr. Community
It's not bad actually. Very Tsushima-esque but whatever.

If that naginata move can be spammed however, people will 100% the game just pressing the spin-2-win move.
 

Heisenberg007

Gold Journalism
Not sure what the sentiments are, but I really enjoyed this video.

I think the game looks good; the weather system in particular seems impressive. I still don't like the combat animations or the fact that the destroyed, uprooted trees (during the fight immediately after the assassination) just vanish.

But overall, I think it might just turn out to be a good, fun game.

As with modern AC games, however, the pacing and bloat will determine how enjoyable it actually is. But I don't see it completely bombing as we initially thought.
 

Kenpachii

Member
Seems like we got a dagger user and a warrior. I am more a archer andy, so i hope they atleast give a option for that. Not much of a melee user. Visually the game looks great tho.

Also did they cancel the pre-orders? can't seem to pre-order the game on there website anymore.
 

EDMIX

Writes a lot, says very little
Not sure what the sentiments are, but I really enjoyed this video.

I think the game looks good; the weather system in particular seems impressive. I still don't like the combat animations or the fact that the destroyed, uprooted trees (during the fight immediately after the assassination) just vanish.

But overall, I think it might just turn out to be a good, fun game.

As with modern AC games, however, the pacing and bloat will determine how enjoyable it actually is. But I don't see it completely bombing as we initially thought.

I always wanted some open world game where the things you destroyed stayed destroyed after a bunch of combat lol I'm not sure what is needed for this though, like more Ram or something like this.


Seems like we got a dagger user and a warrior. I am more a archer andy, so i hope they atleast give a option for that. Not much of a melee user. Visually the game looks great tho.

Also did they cancel the pre-orders? can't seem to pre-order the game on there website anymore.

I believe looking into the combat page on their site, it does list like a Bow that can be used.

I like all options based on situation, like bow from a far to take out someone from a tower, dagger to go in stealth and sword to kill my way out lol

Visually, this game looks really really good, I want to see more of that seasonal system with the real time lighting to see how that transition looks like
 

DavidGzz

Gold Member
Wind's howling harder than in TW3. Damn.

Idk guys, the Shinobi or Ninja combat looks fire. Most of the jank from the previous titles looks gone. I loved that combo with the katana on ice.
 
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GymWolf

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Animations look a bit clunky and the combat kinda slow but at least it doesn't have the shitty precanned death animations of tsushima and the stealth is gonna be much better (not an hard task).

The graphic looks whatever, i'm not even sure if it looks better than 3 years old crossgen hfw.

Undecited between picking this one (with a month of ubisoft pass obviously) or avowed before wilds is gonna obscure every other game for 2 months.
 
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