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Great, a character made for the sole purpose of satisfying button mashers in fighting games.
nicolas-chocolat:
what the hell are you talking about…
It's a joke. Parodizing the fact that visually, it matches the playstyle of newbie fighters that light to hit the same buttons repeatedly in a spam to win fashion. I didn't think one would have to explain this!
Great, a character made for the sole purpose of satisfying button mashers in fighting games.
Incognis' bullet-point review of Assassin's Creed Unity (PC)
Let's start short and sweet for people who don't enjoy my lengthy walls of text. Impatient child-friendly summary: ______________________________________________________ What the game brings to the table:
Richer Graphics
1-4 player Co-op with a matchmaking system
An app for smartphones/Windows 8-10 that is used to unlock extra chest
Nostradamus eaglevision riddles
Mystery solving missions
4 random generated civilian evens you can aid in frequently (Thieves, beggars, public executions, and strong-arm thugs)
Controlled descent parkour
Far more animations for subtle nuances and weapon type combat
Customizable mix and match clothing pieces and color swatches
Chest that unlock witch challenges on tiers
Beautiful architecture
Bugs and crashes (Many being fixed as we speak)
A curious form of graphics optimization where max texture is no more impacting than minimum, hundreds of npcs make virtually no impact on FPS, but the game outright tanks when shadows,anisotropic filtering, or anti-aliasing is touched.
Serious demands on ram, HDD space, VRAM, and CPU
Lack of support for a ~majority~ of PC users when it comes to "minimum requirements"
Another protagonist who is on-par with Ezio in terms of likability, but doesn't get enough story to shine.
Strange draw distance issues and environmental fogs
NPC pop-ins even within immediate vicinity of your character!
Absolutely MASSIVE NPC crowds
Some pretty top notch clothing textures
Some of the more impressive environmental sounds, conversations, and subtle audio nuances that I've seen
The magestic environs of France.
Inner building environments to cut through or enter and infiltrate
A retuned and more difficult combat system and AI
Guns for every damn person in a suit....
More collectible stuff than you can shake a stick at.
16-18 co-op missions that can be played solo
About roughly a dozen brief side missions
A reboot-type story that stands alone and doesnt require ANY knowledge of the previous games as it has practically no ties to the older ones. (It's a spinoff that contributes NOTHING to the rich story of the AC Universe)
Decent voice acting as always
A huge arsenal of weapons
A RPGification where clothing and weapons contribute a sort of stats to your character
Skill points to learn you every day assassin moves at a more dragged out pace
Some clothes that make SENSE when stealth is concerned (Visually to blend in)
The ability to knock down enemies and kill the on the ground
tiered enemies with varying difficulty
Lockpicking mechanic which is BS
Line of site cover and detection (Crude stealth mechanic)
Microtransaction store to "Buy your way to not sucking because you don't want to invest time into a game you bought" you lazy ----s
A very basic Guild Mechanic which isn't fully utilized yet due to currently unavailable features.
a Heist type of mission (Each time you or teamates are detected, the reward decreases)
_______________________________________________________ What the game takes away
Counter kills
Chain combo kills
Whistle-luring enemies to your cover to kill them (Replaced by a very clunky line of sight and cherry bomb mechanic
Those stylish robes Ezio wore. Apparently Ezio had better fashion taste than the French!
Plenty of story to help build character development and likability.
A longer more robust story that ties in the templars and their plot for domination via rare artifacts. (It was severely downplayed and felt more like a high school fanboy's writings)
The "National-Treasure"-esque plot in the modern world which lead to a more complex mystery and a more cryptic type of plot development
Desmond's crew or ANY ties to the modern world save for a single lady who talks to you like a headset narrator/tour conductor.
Any sort of "magic mcguffin" you chase after to beat the templars to and is later trivialized by a more elaborate plot.
The slightly faster paced combat of the older games
the camaraderie and idle chit chat scenes
A great majority of the humor (what little it presented)
Tranquilizer darts
The insane number of bombs you could make in the ezio trilogy
The female escorts
pickpocketing random people
Punching random people
the ability to fight with the assassins blade/blades
Double blades (Although there is still a lingering doublekill animation that suggest it.....wut..)
Infinite duration/duration eaglevision (Now has radius + cooldown)
Side story arcs with more personal cutscenes and character building
A horse to ride
various zones to go to with stuff to do in each
Enemy ability to climb buildings and rooftops in most cases
That little aiming beam when lining up a shot
Variety of missions and events
Creativity
any sense of unpredictability
Backup assassins
Thieves and Warrior assistance
New things to do
The ability to engage with the crowds of people (Seriously, you should be able to start riots and mayhem at some point of the game!)
Epic scenes like being dragged on a rope at the back of a carraige just to get the guy you are trying to kill (Seriously, its now like AC1 all over again and is lather rinse repeat)
Another big city sand-boxish world full of repetition which feels overall hollow if you have been a long time Assassin's creed player due to a lack of stand-apart variety from the previous titles.
A lack of explanation for how Arno knew parkour and fighting skills prior to his encounter with the assassin. (The training for 2 months thing made made nice sense and was well executed without being a chore)
Those crazy eagle vision based easter eggs and cryptic messages based off old real life mysteries and puzzles
Continuity
last but not least, ANY "log out of the animus and do something in modern time events" You are now just a player being a player who is playing through to help some vague woman who represents an industry for data collection purposes...nothing is built upon that, nor is there any modern day templar plot AT ALL in the game.
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Seriously, she needs to let it go!
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Assassin's Creed @assassinscreed · 1h 1 hour ago .@RantechRadio @Ubisoft FPS is not locked on PC. So Assassin's creed will NOT be locked on PC! Time to get back to my predorder... :)
Rantech Radio Twitter and Assassin's creed Official Twitter.
This is funny, but at the same time...no joke! If you go to download from a site..the right one will give you your desired program....the wrong one will flood your PC with useless malware, bullshit software you never asked for, and annoying popups and toolbars!
Pandemic Disease outbreak! Highly Contagious!
Apparently Ubisoft has brought to our attention that since we have discovered the PC gaming culture over 20 years ago, we have contracted a crippling illness that disables our ability to see things under 48 frames per second. After doing some research, we have learned that this disease has spread far and fast since then affecting hundreds upon thousands of other gamers and we now estimate it can be up into the millions! The only known remedy for this disease is to provide content around 60 Frames Per Second (FPS) or greater to ease their pain and the latest scientific research has shown that imagery equal or exceeding 1080P in quality has been proven to give these patients a healthier life as they steadily recuperate from this horrid illness. Due to this incurable illness and inability to see things under 48 FPS, we have not been able to see any media or gameplay of Assassin's Creed Unity which was one of this years most anticipated titles we had multiple pre-orders of. As a result, we regret to inform you that will will NOT be reviewing the game and that we have all cancelled our preorders here and requested that Ubisoft please understand the needs of those less fortunate who can only see things in the 60FPS range. Ubisoft unfortunately has rejected our pleads and has now shifted blame to Microsoft for their inability to optimize their game for the more needy and visually impaired. We shall keep you up to date on things as they unfold. ~Incognis~ Host of Rantech Radio and its subsidiaries
Questions or comments?
The abridged version of Incognis seeing all of Ubisoft's talk on Assassin's Creed Unity
An extended Gauntlet playthough with me and the crew!
Stirring the shit-pot: Console wars VS PC
Just thought I'd quote myself from a debate I had recently. Enjoy getting your jimmies rustled! "Nobody has to pick a side on gaming platforms except poor people or narrow minded/myopic fools who have no idea what they are missing out on! Games are there for fun, not to choose like your favorite football team and have a pissing contest about which is better! But most gamers miss that point these days because all they see is "buy buy buy" and they feel they have to justify their meager purchases by berating the opposing the platforms they couldn't afford or have a ridiculous ungrounded bias against.Each platform has its benefits and drawbacks. Each can be bought for around the same price range (Between the platform cost and 4-16 titles) if you are a smart shopper, each can be customized in appearance, each can be hooked to a monitor or an HDTV in the living room, ALL of them can use a controller and have hd support, and now they all have PC architecture with their own proprietary operating system/UI. It really boils down to "Do you want to make a ready-made PC built exclusively for gaming and a handful of apps for 399-599, or do you want a custom built one from 375-1500 that can do all the same and more, but might leave some of your friends who chose the former and can't afford to buy the latter out of the loop?"People choose consoles because they are a cookie-cutter build that everybody can feel the same level on and it narrows it down to 1 of 3 choices, while PC build can vary wildly and while one friend might be able to play a game on his nice pc, another might have opted out to skimp or didn't know what parts to get so his cannot run the latest game...hence where the silly argument of "well you have to upgrade a pc every 1-3 years!" comes from. Typically, I only have to upgrade my pc's once every 4-6 years (Average console life except the last gen) because of my builds and they don't cost me something stupid like $1500.Part of me feels the last generation of consoles held us back in gaming tremendously in terms of graphics and innovations due to the hardware limitations of their humble specs and the fact they are still pushing games for them 10 years later instead of kicking out the next line FOUR years later as the release agreements allow them to release a console as early as. The plus side? Game developers have learned a TON about game optimization on significantly weaker hardware. The downside? Due to the fact that the newest gen is only just now coming our this last year, games have been kept to a workable level to be console friendly instead of pushing for higher tier graphics and performance. Running games at 30-60 frames per second in the modern day (many games being coded to be capped/optimized to or at 60FPS unless worked around) just feels insulting. If you have ever played games at higher than 60 frames per second, you would be wondering why we haven't been doing it for every game!Alas, I could go on about this...but I wont much further. To summarize, I love consoles and PC and Arcades, however I feel from a design standpoint that we had plateaued in quality games and graphics and innovation ever since the last gen consoles overstayed their welcome. Tons of good games, but they could have been better. And no, Graphics isn't the point of my argument... Innovation, physics, more hardware demanding features that might contribute to gameplay elements, and whatever else may lurk around the corner that I'm unaware of is!"
"Top Tier: Gauntlet" Is up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAwIZf8EbDY
Premier Episode of Top Tier: Gauntlet!
Currently uploading the first co-op episode of Top Tier. A branch channel dedicated to co-op and teamplay let's plays and parodies. Today we will be covering the new release of an arcade classic: Gauntlet! A written review will follow here shortly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAwIZf8EbDY
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Currently Plying: Marlow Briggs and the mask of death
I'm about halfway through the game so far. Its a pretty amusing game with some great self awareness and some silly humor. It doesnt try to take itself seriously and feels more like an arcade version of Dante's Inferno with a smidge of God of War in there. The main villains' voice actor is James Hong, who uses his most iconic voice which makes it hard to take the villain seriously if you ever watched Kung Fu Panda because all you can imagine is a sinister Mr. Ping. The story line? It's bare bones. You're a fireman and have a girlfriend who is doing some employed research of Mayan artifacts under the villains order. Then you and her decide you and her want out, he declines saying it isnt option, has you killed, kidnaps her ala damsel in distress trope, you are brought back to life by a mask of death.... no further explanation... get to the action! Kill some stuff! Pretty straightforward! The soundtrack feels it lends itself to God of War and Dante's inferno, so it captures the feel of grandness if you feel as a PC user you are missing on that vibe. The scenery is always constantly changing and changing camera angles, always keeping you on your toes and preventing stagnation while also never being afraid of poking fun of its own design as well.
The Level design: It seems to lend itself more to the feel and scop of Dante's Inferno than God of War in how it presents itself and how the layout works.
The weapons: the scythe gets 4 forms as the game goes through. It feels like Dantes scythe broken up a bit more in features and each mod having its own unique fighting style and use. Scythe for general use, the tonfa style for faster combat, the ropescythe for long distance multi target light but fast damage, and a mace for head
The humor? If you like late 80's early 90's cheese and action flicks, this game needs to be in your collection. Some people just don't "get it" because it wasn't their generation... this game might not be well for them.
The final fight? About what you'd expect from a Dante's Inferno feeling game, although the final round becoming a bare handed fight to show off your machoness was a twist! Collectibles are a challenge to find on standard playthrough unless you do some exploring. The price? The game is 4.99 off sale, I just picked it up for .99c....totally worth it. Easily a $10 title.
The gameplay length? Estimated about 4-5 hours. (I squeezed out a nice rounded 7 hours on my first playthrough!) About the length of your well packed DLC. Not too shabby.
The graphics? Not bad. Dated for modern day picky PC gamers, but it runs at a high framerate of 120FPS while looking decent enough from its set distance to not break you from the game. It's so fast pace you rarely get much time to appreciate the atmosphere for closeups anyhow!
Credits: a challenging mini-game with a rocket helmet trying to dodge credits... touch them and explode. more to come.... More will be added/edited to this article as I get time. Thoughts?
Trying to figure out a way to entertain people and get more views~
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Random conversation exchange of the day between DanO and Akasen
