Assassin's Creed Syndicate - Did You Know Gaming? Feat. Brutalmoose - General

[QUOTE=RichyZ;48928565]But people didn't mind that basically every character in AC2 was super historically relevant?[/QUOTE] Besides, the whole point of time travel in any sort of way is seeing important historical events and seeing or meeting historically important people. Otherwise we're just fucking around in Victorian Britian on a gene based time machine for no good reason.

[QUOTE=ThePanther;48928376]So, did they actually research all this stuff, or did they just read a script that came from ubisoft?[/QUOTE] They interviewed some of the Devs. "Thanks again to Ubisoft! They let us interview key developers and gave us behind-the-scenes information not yet published on any other outlet!"

[QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;48928975]Besides, the whole point of time travel in any sort of way is seeing important historical events and seeing or meeting historically important people. Otherwise we're just fucking around in Victorian Britian on a gene based time machine for no good reason.[/QUOTE] It's still ridiculous when this game about street gang leaders is somehow also buddies with Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, and fucking [I]Karl Marx[/I].

[QUOTE=cdr248;48931244]It's still ridiculous when this game about street gang leaders is somehow also buddies with Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, and fucking [I]Karl Marx[/I].[/QUOTE] Marxist's are gonna go batshit insane over that one, and call me cynical but the rope launcher just makes me think of the Arkham Asylum series.

I got this for free with my GTX 970. That's why I thought I should play the main AC titles I still haven't finished before playing it next month. Yesterday I bought AC Unity for 20€. I didn't hear much about it apart from graphical glitches and crashes. I was really mad when I was confronted with microtransactions, a stupid companion app and this weird "Initiates" bullshit. If I'm informed correctly, this crap will also be part of Syndicate. Ubisoft needs to stop existing in my opinion. No matter how decent the games of their developers basicly are, I'd rather see their franchises dying than getting tortured and dragged through the mud by some assholes who stated they should make you pay 200 bucks for each game.

Well AC was originally meant to be a trilogy, but then Ubisoft saw the cash cow mooing, i want a proper end to Desmonds story tbh.

They freed up the initates stuff iirc, don't need to use that. The microtransactions are definitely "eh", but luckily are "pay us to not play the game", and the companion app shit is just dumb.

I want a WWII AC game set in Berlin then again that would be pretty much saboteur [editline]18th October 2015[/editline] Wait so you're telling me Karl Marx is in the game, but I [I]can't[/I] kill him? Worst game of the decade commie scum/10

I want something in China or Japan. Kinda like that stupid sidescroller spinoff but an actual AC game. So much potential in that setting.

[QUOTE=cdr248;48931244]It's still ridiculous when this game about street gang leaders is somehow also buddies with Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, and fucking [I]Karl Marx[/I].[/QUOTE] The central premise of this series is that Assassins and Templars have been at war for thousands of years and argue over what to do with relics left by an ancient race of superhumans, I can accept they'd know important people along the way.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;48931435]Yeah they went back on the dumb companion app thing and initiates and now they are just little side things that you can take or leave with no real consequence. [editline]18th October 2015[/editline] But Desmond's story did end pretty properly? [sp]dude got killed and his dna was extracted by the templars to keep their hunt for the pieces of eden going[/sp][/QUOTE] See i don't think it was i think he had a bigger role to play in all of it. [editline]19th October 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=itisjuly;48931635]I want something in China or Japan. Kinda like that stupid sidescroller spinoff but an actual AC game. So much potential in that setting.[/QUOTE] A Japanese Samurai Templars vs a Chinese Ninja Assassins proper game would be fucking amazing, i've been wanting one forever they'd be stupid not to do one.

[QUOTE=RichyZ;48920729]Would you like your great-grandfather/mother be demonized in a videogame millions will play?[/QUOTE] If my great grandfather/grandmother got into a game for any reason they would think it would be rad as shit. Its Victorian London. If anyone gets offended they are being as petty as possible. We are talking fucking centuries ago. We have everything we could ever get from it. = Anyone that would feel offended by any means over anything in Victorian London should be laughed at. It would be like some fucking 1/100th native american going on a crying spree about pilgrims and American colonization today. Seriously, if you get offended over fucking Victorian London in 2015 you are just a petty little fuck purposely looking for attention and to start shit. [editline]18th October 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Pvt. Martin;48920593]When you put thousands of thousands of dollars into your video game and someone get's offended, you do NOT want to get someone offended, not even a chance of it. It's not a matter of doing for stupid reasons, it's just not taking a risk with one person getting unreasonable offended by a video game and calling their lawyers to sue for a lot of money.[/QUOTE] LOL sue? Sue for fucking what? "Uhh judge their being mean to my century dead old relatives I never even knew existed or gave a fuck about until this very moment because of video games even though we have written history" How much do you think that even holds up in court? Sue someone due to fucking history? Anything historical centuries old must now be baby proofed and PC apparently. Someone 1000 years later might get offended!

[QUOTE=Source;48932853] A Japanese Samurai Templars vs a Chinese Ninja Assassins proper game would be fucking amazing, i've been wanting one forever they'd be stupid not to do one.[/QUOTE] I can see them doing a turn of the century Japan game similar to The Last Samurai. I'd dig it. [QUOTE=Source;48931406]Well AC was originally meant to be a trilogy, but then Ubisoft saw the cash cow mooing, i want a proper end to Desmonds story tbh.[/QUOTE] Desmond's story is finished, he was meant to save the world by [sp]using The Eye within Juno's Temple[/sp] In doing so, however, Juno is 'free' and building power somehow some way. If you'll notice, Black Flag has shifted the focus from finding Pieces of Eden and now the major plot element has to do with these Sages (whom are active even in the modern day).

[QUOTE=-Ben_Wolfe-;48933009]I can see them doing a turn of the century Japan game similar to The Last Samurai. I'd dig it. Desmond's story is finished, he was meant to save the world by [sp]using The Eye within Juno's Temple[/sp] In doing so, however, Juno is 'free' and building power somehow some way. If you'll notice, Black Flag has shifted the focus from finding Pieces of Eden and now the major plot element has to do with these Sages (whom are active even in the modern day).[/QUOTE] Which was a fucking shitty god damn cop out. They were literally tickling everyones dicks with an AC as modern Desmond for YEARS. Subject 16(or whatever) extremely well done death and character was also completely wasted because of this change of heart.

[QUOTE=HoodedSniper;48933045]Which was a fucking shitty god damn cop out. They were literally tickling everyones dicks with an AC as modern Desmond for YEARS. Subject 16(or whatever) extremely well done death and character was also completely wasted because of this change of heart.[/QUOTE] I don't think they ever had the intention of doing a full blown modern day AC story, beyond the segments in AC3. I think it was more of wishful thinking from fanboys. Not to mention, isn't it more or less unanimous from fans that the modern day segments are people's least favorite parts (regardless of the fact that that's where the actual plot of the franchise is)?

Rope launcher is cool but I think they missed a neat opportunity to have something like this [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring-heeled_Jack[/url]

i really can't bring myself to care about the setting or characters doesn't help that it seems the templars went back to the "super evil politician" and "super evil banker" type throwaway characters

[QUOTE=-Ben_Wolfe-;48933475]I don't think they ever had the intention of doing a full blown modern day AC story, beyond the segments in AC3. I think it was more of wishful thinking from fanboys. Not to mention, isn't it more or less unanimous from fans that the modern day segments are people's least favorite parts (regardless of the fact that that's where the actual plot of the franchise is)?[/QUOTE] depends what fans you ask. I think the Desmond Story before he bit the dust was really well. In fact, the way he dies is so fucking lazy and casual I have doubt in my ubisoft just scraped whatever the fuck desmond was leading to be. Im more mad at them wasting my time with Desmond.

I got a copy of this free with my new GTX 970 Strix Card, so I'll be trying it at some point. Least it'll keep me entertained for the 2 weeks between it's release and Fallout 4. [QUOTE=Jund;48933819]doesn't help that it seems the templars went back to the "super evil politician" and "super evil banker" type throwaway characters[/QUOTE] To be fair this [B]is[/B] the industrial revolution, when there was plenty of super evil politicians and bankers. :v: [img]https://haleyghiringhelli.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/e5169.jpg[/img] I mean doesn't this scream "Boss Fight!"? :v:

[QUOTE=Jund;48933819]i really can't bring myself to care about the setting or characters doesn't help that it seems the templars went back to the "super evil politician" and "super evil banker" type throwaway characters[/QUOTE] Yeah, I watched some gameplay, and there's a mission where you have to save some kids working in a factory. Beyong the stealth looking horrible (literally bumped into an enemy, nothing happened, but let's see the finished game I guess), the mission was literally "Kill the foreman". I'm not saying the game should turn into an ethics discussion, but is it too much to ask for some reflections upon what would happen to the kids - or maybe whether it's [I]necessary to kill the foreman[/I]? Apparently being a lonely orphan without a place to live in London was [I]great[/I] back in the 1870s. And how about just threatening the foreman or find a different solution? In Syndicate every problem is just solved by killing someone. Taking over a gang means you kill some of the gang members, and the rest join you right afterwards and everyone is happy because apparently you just killed the bad members of the other gang or whatever. Or look at the fight arenas. Literally dozens of men brutally dying - no reflections upon this even makes sense from a logistical point of view. Syndicate is a game that [I]really[/I] doesn't want to be anything more than a simple power trip in a total black/white world. Doing anything thought provoking would be sin.