Assassin's Creed

I can back all of the above. The combat is the worst of all of these RPG life AC games because it doesn't have abilities to differentiate in the combat which just leaves you with something that's pretty basic, stiff and doesn't have good feedback. However, stealth is very viable, I had fun sneaking into places not killing anyone, taking my time. And Baghdad is a great location. Short enough to see through to the end.

I reckon you will get 20 quids worth out of it. To be honest if I got 10 hours of enjoyment out of £20 I wouldn't be upset.

Every single Assassin’s Creed I’ve thought this’ll be the one that keeps my interest and doesn’t have any of the modern day shite, And just focused on a good story. Every time I’m underwhelmed and lost interest about 6 hours in.

The locations mostly look nice but the maps have too much empty/pointless space and there’s too much of the Ubi Clutter.

Nah. Shit combat is shit combat. It doesn't fly for Hitman's shit combat and it doesn't fly here.

I wanna say Unity tried a similar approach, combat would put you up against the wall as you could die quite easily. But your reward for doing well and getting out of it was some nice looking animations and combat that felt weighty with different finishers. In Mirage they say Basim is a glass cannon but enemies still took too long to kill and there's little variation bar using some tools so you're just seeing the same sword swings repeatedly that feels tired even after 30 hrs. There aren't even any abilities.

If they wanted to commit to it the combat needed to be so that you could kill enemies quickly but so could you. Make it so that you can take maybe one or two hits max. You can kill enemies with 1-2 few hits too, successfully parrying enemies string of attacks can be an instant kill. If youre in a group, killing someone could get you a free hit on an enemy if theyre close enough, similar to Rise of the Ronin. Short encounters to get in and out but you'd be focused throughout for the risk of dying.

It does seem like a pretty lame justification.

No combat at all would arguably have been better than shitty combat, if you want to commit to pure stealth gameplay; however, insta-fail stealth sections are widely hated, so perhaps they didn't dare to make the whole game like that.

It does make me wonder whether the Splinter Cell remake (assuming it hasn't been canned) will be as stealth-heavy as the original, or whether they'll include more combat in the name of "player choice."

Instafail stealth sections make me not purchase a game of I know about them in advance.

I want the combat of Ronin with the stealth of AC basically and I would be happy.

That's how I play Ronin too. Thing is, we've already played the idealised version of an AC game in this setting in Ghost of Tsushima. So I do hope they do something worthwhile with the game because it does feel like they're a few years too late maybe.

The stealth in rotr is really basic though and the ai is t very good as dealing with it.

Just looking at that it feels so lazy it's unbelievable. Oh, you're a historian from THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, I guess he didn't know any other places in Japan. It's up there with saying I went to London University.

They were pointing to the like/dislike ratio and negative comments to the reveal trailer uploaded to the Ubisoft Japan account as proof that the Japanese hated it. Because as we all know, only Japanese people could see and put a dislike on that vid with no possibility of it being hijacked for review bombing. If you look at the comments too, they're so obviously google translated, the translation pumped out into perfect English.

Anyway about the game. I think it looks nice, I like the small improvements to stealth like going prone, grabbing people, knocking out non lethally. The combat showcase does nothing to assuade my fears tho. Doesn't look fluid to me. There's even a part where Yasuke goes to kick the guy and it immediately like cancels out of that and their swords are clashing, didn't look good. Also something to be said about hip hop music playing exclusively for Yasuke, I think thats a bit of a mis step from them.

It's 5:10 in the trailer. I don't enough enough about the genre of music so maybe hip hop is the wrong term, Japanese instrument inspired EDM maybe? Leaving aside that you give this music to Yasuke, I just think it clashes with the setting and isn't a good fit, like it's too modern sounding for something in game as opposed to a marketing trailer.