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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Sept 28, 2024 14:08:40 GMT
Kinda of feels like we on the verge of another gamergate. It’s felt fairly quiet over the last few years but that crowd are a lot more visible again. Ubi should have told them to go fuck themselves, even if it’s isn’t the correct PR thing to do. |
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Post by Ulythium on Sept 28, 2024 14:10:41 GMT
It's an interesting point.
Maybe I'm just less immersed in the online cultures surrounding my other hobbies, but none of them seem to carry the same amount of "anti-woke" baggage as gaming does.
Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster that Font Geek exists.
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Post by JuniorFE on Sept 28, 2024 14:22:50 GMT
At this point I honestly think it all traces back to Trump, somehow, as insane as it sounds to say it. He was responsible for weakening (among many other institutions) the pandemic prediction and response teams and programs that were already in place, with the pandemic/lockdowns screwing with people's heads for years afterward... And more importantly, even if we assume that the pandemic would have happened and progressed exactly the way it did even with those prevention and response measures intact, Trump himself began giving a massive new platform and signal boost to such bigotry and hatred from before he even took office, legitimising it as best he could, and not only in the US... |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Sept 28, 2024 15:17:59 GMT
Might have to buy AC Shadows just out of principle.
Not full price though.
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Post by Wizzard_Ook on Sept 28, 2024 15:18:50 GMT
At this point I honestly think it all traces back to Trump, somehow, as insane as it sounds to say it. He was responsible for weakening (among many other institutions) the pandemic prediction and response teams and programs that were already in place, with the pandemic/lockdowns screwing with people's heads for years afterward... And more importantly, even if we assume that the pandemic would have happened and progressed exactly the way it did even with those prevention and response measures intact, Trump himself began giving a massive new platform and signal boost to such bigotry and hatred from before he even took office, legitimising it as best he could, and not only in the US... Yeah if i remember correctly it was in the run up to the first trump election that Steve Bannon, a part of the Trump staff, basically weaponised incels and boost all this anti woke nonsense |
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Post by Tuffty on Sept 28, 2024 15:50:51 GMT
It is weird seeing people attack Ubisoft for pushing a fictional history. Which is every single AC game ever. Bunch of tourists that don't care about the game, don't care about the series, were never going to play it. Just grifting for views and money. The ones to say keep politics out of gaming, doing just that.
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Post by baihu1983 on Oct 2, 2024 21:09:32 GMT
Co-op mode being added.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Oct 2, 2024 21:11:21 GMT
I've now taken user Baihu to be an official spokesperson for every game he provides information about.
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Post by JonFE on Oct 3, 2024 8:24:54 GMT
How is the character creation module going? You know, the one added to let "concerned people" design their own white version of Yasuke (Naoe is just fine, maybe a bit chest-light)? /s |
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Post by Vandelay on Oct 3, 2024 9:56:39 GMT
At this point I honestly think it all traces back to Trump, somehow, as insane as it sounds to say it. He was responsible for weakening (among many other institutions) the pandemic prediction and response teams and programs that were already in place, with the pandemic/lockdowns screwing with people's heads for years afterward... And more importantly, even if we assume that the pandemic would have happened and progressed exactly the way it did even with those prevention and response measures intact, Trump himself began giving a massive new platform and signal boost to such bigotry and hatred from before he even took office, legitimising it as best he could, and not only in the US... Yeah if i remember correctly it was in the run up to the first trump election that Steve Bannon, a part of the Trump staff, basically weaponised incels and boost all this anti woke nonsense Bannon actually was involved with a company that would sell in-game currencies for MMORPGs (WoW in particular, I think). I remember hearing that his time involved with the games industry made him realise how easy it would be to weaponise certain groups of gamers, as well as use the same tactics to get other groups onboard. Supposedly he learnt a lot from Gamergate. |
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Nov 5, 2024 16:00:22 GMT
Tried to play Unity last night and while initially pretty, the crowd tech falls off at a fairly close distance leaving some N64 looking models all animating in unison.
I was initially impressed but the whole running through the streets trying to escape or trying to jump up/down to get involved in/out of combat and the janky combat itself just fucked me off massively to the point where I uninstalled it. Nope!
This is probably why I enjoyed (using the term loosely) origins/odyssey because they traded a lot of the built up vertical city based environments with more horizontal fields/hills with the odd tall buildings.
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Post by Tuffty on Nov 5, 2024 16:31:20 GMT
I think a lot of modern games are a little too flat for my liking, Odyssey and Valhalla might be worst for it. But it's also down to the parkour not feeling as good as previous games even, feels a little too stilted for my liking. There's no nice flow between animations, you can almost tell exactly when one starts and ends.
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Post by crashV👀d👀 on Nov 5, 2024 17:40:54 GMT
The parkour was ok but it was the auto-latching or game logic assuming I wanted to jump from a building on one side of the street to the other and not jump to the ground for a fight. Nothing more annoying that your momentum disappearing and then having to slow drop backwards down to the ground while being shot at.
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Post by lukasz on Nov 5, 2024 22:11:07 GMT
The parkour was ok but it was the auto-latching or game logic assuming I wanted to jump from a building on one side of the street to the other and not jump to the ground for a fight. Nothing more annoying that your momentum disappearing and then having to slow drop backwards down to the ground while being shot at. Having little of that issue in black flag . Also that it does not work on some areas. And that in tomb raider you could do a wall jump. Not here so still get annoyed that he can't grab certain ledge. |
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Post by Blue_Mike on Nov 19, 2024 13:08:41 GMT
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Post by dfunked on Nov 19, 2024 13:31:00 GMT
Nice to see them giving some love to the older titles, but just do Black Flag already FFS!!!
Whatever happened to their CoD style portal that you'd run to play all AC games?
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Post by Jambowayoh on Nov 19, 2024 13:31:53 GMT
Nice to see them giving some love to the older titles, but just do Black Flag already FFS!!! Whatever happened to their CoD style portal that you'd run to play all AC games? I believe it was leaked recently. It's in active development currently, the launcher that is. I also believe a remake of Black Flag is being made by Ubisoft Singapore. |
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Post by zisssou on Nov 20, 2024 9:02:21 GMT
I vaguely remember buying Syndicate. And I think I dropped it because of the awful framerate. I might give it a whirl, as its on PS Plus.
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Post by zisssou on Nov 21, 2024 19:47:49 GMT
Syndicate is a genuine surprise to me. The setting is fantastic. I still would prefer the combat to be a bit tighter, but there’s been some great set pieces already.
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Post by paulyboy81 on Nov 21, 2024 20:26:40 GMT
Syndicate is one of my fave AC's. Loved the setting, got totally wrapped up in the story, not too big, not too small, grapple hook was properly decent as a traversal tool as well.
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Post by zisssou on Nov 22, 2024 9:36:11 GMT
I think what works for me is that I never got tired of the AC formula, as I kind of dropped out after 3. I'm not sure why I didn't buy Black Flag.. probably missed it due to other games that came out in 2013.
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Post by Whizzo on Nov 22, 2024 17:48:27 GMT
Never played Syndicate until now and I'm enjoying it, you can tell how much the new update is doing from watching the in engine prerecorded cutscenes look awful compared to the PS5 gameplay.
The game could use some AA to clean up the shimmer in the distance but I doubt that'll even get added but it's something you can tune out a bit.
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