@Ralizah NEXT TIME, GADGET

@Ralizah Don't you play a bunch of gacha games?

The combat is so fun in this game. I cleared out the quarry, and it was glorious. Like a musuo game that wasn't trash. The enemies fight back and everything!

They could just put XI on current consoles and make the other releases irrelevant.

When my son was 5, he named his bearded dragon Dr Pumpkins. I trust 5 year olds, lol.

@Yor-sama yeah, I did turn the instant assassinations on in Shadows. I made the mistake of reminding myself where I was in Ghost of Tsushima, and that made it tough to go back to Shadows. I enjoyed my time with it though.

@Losermagnet2 bots fill in, but you need a connection to boot up for matchmaking. Notable that it launched ftp, then moved to a pay model. Also, there are currently 12 players on Steam, so...

@Yor-sama except it would probably be randomized and tiered in a "balanced" way so whatever you get is barely as good as what you already have, making exploration unrewarding. And I'm sorry, but assassinations need to be instant death. At least recent games let you toggle that. Crimson Desert has some awesome pirate armor.

@Simu001 it really seems that fans of this series (with Ubisoft's help) have turned it into the prime example of "push button, cool sh*t happens." I don't think that was the intent, originally. It went from it being a "cool" thing to silently assassinate someone in public and get away with it (ie social stealth) to "watch me take this guy down in just 39 moves" and sporting on fools. The games used to be almost QTEs with the amount of contextual movements. They practically played themselves.

I can't wait to play this with the kids. It's going to be a blast. One is seven, and this is exactly the game for him.

The first game's UI and general aesthetic looked like Nerf or Nickelodeon-core or something.

That is great to hear. I hope they tighten up the map barf.
Oh wait, lol. "Combat works like the original."
So it is bad. Nvm.

@AgentMantis So, MK1 sold 8 million...

It's WB, so the most fascinating thing about this will be how they ruin it.

@darthvirgin you can have your monocle moments internally.

Yeah, Push. Write more betterer. Take it from "@Darthvirgin."

Oh, car combat, sweet.
Oh, PVP, no.

I am excited for Wolverine because Insomniac, but most hopeful for Dawnwalker.
Trails just has too many entries.

@PushButtons yeah, the point is that is not fun.

@PushButtons you can get good enough at cheesing...

@Northern_munkey I mean you say that but I didnt get a Switch 2 and probably won't get one if they keep up their ridiculous hubris. I've had every Nintendo console since launch but was perfectly able to draw the line, and I'm sure others can too.

Download is required anyway, and I am sure there will be massive patches day one and following release. Situation with AAA sucks. I've just kind of accepted that it isn't what it used to be, and stick with more smaller games.

@Yousef- I have a feeling "those circles" typically do about as well with ladies in their sports as these circles do with ladies in their games.

@Yousef- I don't really know who she is. Like a UFC lady or something. I just didn't enjoy irl people in my Sonic racing game.

I think it looks great, and I think it will be at least a little borked at launch. Sometimes that is worth coming in on ground floor (Crimson Desert), sometimes it isn't.

Booooooooooooooo.

@Odium yuuuuup. I tried, but it played like garbage and the missions were subpar, even by the standards of when it was current.

Meh. I would rather they just re-released Transformed w/o Danicka Patrick.

If the stealth, combat, and missions aren't terrible this time, I will give it a shot.

I'd be interested if it were not an AC game.

@get2sammyb yeah man. I adore the Evercade. I just have a Super Pocket ftm, but it does the trick. The Turrican Collection and Roguecraft manuals have these great interviews with the developers. Love it.

I don't trust that Ubisoft can just have a pure, unsullied W. They'll pull some BS shenanigans to screw fans over.

@get2sammyb oh my bad. I always run down here and post that internet archive thing whenever the article mentions manuals, and just recently got into Evercade, so I get excited to share.

https://archive.org/details/snes_manual_archive
Here are high quality scans for every SNES manual.
Evercade carts have awesome manuals too, fyi.

@Mr_Vengeance1980 Hell yeah!

@Mr_Vengeance1980 have you heard Castle Rat? Check out their album The Bestiary. Like if Alice in Chains did proto-doom metal with a lady singing. Wolf is an amazing song.

I am in favor of exclusivity of true first-party games, but I think the big consoles are just too similar for it to be as meaningful as it used to be. It used to be a question of whether competing consoles could even run their respective exclusives. Now, it just looks like they are taking their toys and going home, or saying "nO PoNiEs alLOwEd!"

@Yousef- k?

I was not super happy reading that Housemarque would be focusing on more AAA sized projects, but seems like they are killing it. Glad for them.

Yes. I would like to play this, please.

It is a game that is being made to keep it's hand in your wallet. And it looks exactly like what it is.

I'm looking forward to this one. Just want to stalk around at night with the cool movement abilities. I am anticipating a buggy release, so I might give it a bit.

I mean, maybe meth?
...this is meth, right?

@twitchtvpat First no because that is literally the most miniscule part of every game. Second, according to Ubisoft, it was tacked on in order to make the series "annually exploitable." So, no.
But I mean if we are holding on to something so cynical, can they bring back social stealth? Remember social stealth? The thing the series was actually supposed to be about?

Love to see Capcom killing it.

Remake the games without the Animus.

Until Lamb 2: Cruise Control, that is.

They put in Sam Sho V instead of 1 or 2. Very strange.

I just don't trust them with this series anymore.

I will try it cause VS is great...but man I can't stand card mechanics.