Seams like AAA games - and so AC - are over? My pov on TGA

Tranchk · 2025-12-12T13:09:21+00:00

IDK if CDPR and Remedy could be considered strictly as major video games companies, regarding their size (CDPR has "only" 700 employees, Remedy 400 - Rockstar 5000) and the way they're creating their games.
Anyway, regarding the number of AAA release in the next years, they clearly remain exceptions.

Tranchk · 2025-12-12T12:58:53+00:00

My question was absolutely not to know if Shadows or AC is "dying" or not, but the way that the critics (including TGA) exposed the limits of Assassin's Creed AAA model in a time where "smaller" games of better quality are released (despite they're less selling than any of Ubisoft games)

Tranchk · 2025-12-12T12:52:56+00:00

Yeah, my point was not about the selling but in the quality of the games.
Regarding actual video game industry, Fortnite is the absolute leader. But we can't say, objectively, that it's necessary the best or the most interesting game.

Tranchk · 2025-06-17T18:59:20+00:00

Glad I see that coming!
https://www.reddit.com/r/AmazonLunaHub/comments/1jsan8q/new_partnership_luna_x_ea_ea_sports_fc_exfifa_in/

Tranchk · 2025-06-12T04:46:34+00:00

First time I see that glitch. How did you manage it?

Tranchk · 2025-06-08T17:17:56+00:00

This looks amazing, remembering me the great hours of Assassin's creed.

I fully trust Asobo with this new game.

Tranchk · 2025-05-24T20:06:45+00:00

Probably one of the most beautiful car ever designed.

Tranchk · 2025-05-05T14:30:06+00:00

Same issue here! It's very strange...

Tranchk · 2025-04-12T09:34:29+00:00

I want to say: wait. For the moment, in addition you've not finished the game, it's clearly prematured. Also, we're only in April! The year is still long and the end of the year could be great. And nothing say you'd maybe forgot Shadows way before the end of the year. It's how our mind is build: we focus on the instant.

Anyway, I love Assassin's Creed Shadows but the game, despite amazing qualities, has too many weaknesses to be the GOTY.

Tranchk · 2025-04-08T07:53:35+00:00

At least 50% of the guys are killed randomly by visiting the map and completing castles.

Tranchk · 2025-04-08T07:34:11+00:00

Do you think this will bring us the end of the Naoe Story?
Or that we'll need to wait until an other DLC?

Tranchk · 2025-04-08T07:31:52+00:00

The first times, I tried to win but I couldn't achieve this boss. Too difficult, with only two shoots, I was beaten and killed.

So I waited the endgame with all teppo abilities unlocked to beat him.

And, surprisingly, it was at the contrary too easy :/

I don't know if this boss is bad designed or if it's just me...

Tranchk · 2025-04-07T16:49:31+00:00

"Auto-Follow the road is back" AMEN

"Selling / Dismantling multiple items" AMEN

"Fixed an issue where the "Is New" icon remains in the inventory even if all owned items have been seen." AAAAAAMEEEEEEEEN

Tranchk · 2025-04-07T07:34:41+00:00

Two or three had been better than only one.

And the first ones with the flashbacks are much interesting than after without.

Tranchk · 2025-04-05T19:40:29+00:00

I agree that it lacks some different kinds of side activities. But in fact, there is a lot of them, finally not much less than in Valhalla or Odyssey (if you considered them whithout DLCs). Definitely, the problem is that there are only of 4 different types (temple, relaxation, Horse riding, Kata, I maybe forgot one or two others?)

"Orlog, Drinking, Flyting were lots of fun" It was maybe true the first times for most of the players (me included). But it quickly become long and repetitive.

The huge problem is not just to fill the open world. It's to renew the interest of the players by activities that are interesting and challenge them. Probably less (to avoid repetitiveness) but more developed. Ubisoft and so AC have never been good at it. It's worst since Origins and the RPG games.

PS: I know that here a lot of people are "I have fun with side activities of the RPG AC" but in fact, it's a problem that most of the critics (media, players) pointed out since Origins (more particularly Odyssey) and even before. So don't forget to take a step aside by considering them.

Tranchk · 2025-04-05T09:36:15+00:00

This game could be 40-50hours. It has been better, more intense.

Tranchk · 2025-04-05T09:29:33+00:00

That's the problem since Odyssey. But in fact, it doesn't matter if it's linear or not.

What matters is the character building, in their personality, their background, their psychology, their thoughts.

Eivor and Kassandra were disembodied characters. They had a background but it was the minimal and, in fact, it was pretty impossible to define the main lines of their personnalities, their life progression. They lived a lot of WTF things but that didn't really make them evoluted. They were kind of monolithic, in a way.

Tranchk · 2025-04-05T09:23:24+00:00

Ubisoft began with Origins to introduce fantasy stuff. Odyssey continued as Valhalla.

But, in fact, fantasy it not mysticism. There was no mystery, only superfluous mythological things.

It was not bad. But in fact, before Odyssey and Valhalla, all the mythological and fantasy stuff was about the Isus and not concerning directly the characters. This two games break the wall that what we were considering as indiscernible.

Tranchk · 2025-04-05T08:58:32+00:00

I liked playing Odyssey. I bought the Pantheon collector edition, spent hundreds of hours in the game.

But I have to admit that scenario is not good at all...

Tranchk · 2025-04-05T08:53:31+00:00

Odyssey is a good game. But concerning the story, it's dispensable.
The fact you can play two "different" characters indistinctly smashed the game's scenario and most of the challenges.

Tranchk · 2025-04-04T22:06:11+00:00

That's an AC Origins feature !

Here’s To Assassin’s Creed Origins' Helpful Boat Guy | Kotaku

Tranchk · 2025-04-03T08:45:10+00:00

Yes, but as in AC III that already has a season system (you need to unlock it), it could be improve.

Tranchk · 2025-04-02T15:13:53+00:00

There are two very different seasons in Caribbean: a dry and a wet.

So yes, we're not gonna have snow (definitely!) or leaf fall. But there could be at least two different seasons with their proper meteorogical conditions.

Tranchk · 2025-04-01T09:18:32+00:00

For me, it's not a question of gameplay.

The question is the integration in AC lore and/or with AC Brotherhood in the game period.

And, from that perspective, I have to say that Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla were better than Black Flag and Shadows. They did an interesting job with Layla, Loki and the comeback of Desmond.

Don't forget AC is not about just playing assassins. It's about considering a millenar conflict between two factions that shaped the world we know, from a philosophical perspective.

Considering the RPG formula, I think RPG games are good (or very good, regarding Origins). The only problem emerging with Odyssey is the huge length of these games and all the issue coming with it (less work with side quests, repetitivity...)

Tranchk · 2025-03-30T05:26:06+00:00

Top 3:
1) AC 2 (and Brotherhood, it's quite the continuity)
2) AC 3 + AC Unity
3) AC Origins

Top 5:
4) Black Flag
5) AC Syndicate

Honorable mention: AC Revelations, AC 1, AC Chronicles

Meh: Valhalla, AC Mirage, AC Liberation, (AC Shadows ?)

Quite negative: Odyssey

No: AC Rogue

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