XboxOZ360 writes:
"Now if only more development houses would fight back against the various individuals and small companies that exploit their titles, we would have even better games. Why, because developers would not loose the millions of $US each year to piracy and leaked game code.
There was a time when ones integrity meant a lot, and that if you shook on something with another, your word was considered gold. Then NDA's (Non-Disclosure Agreements) became necessary to ensure industry 'secrets' and IP remained that of its legal owners. But even that is no longer a safe bet that your property is in safe hands with ANY employee or 3rd party company you may deal with.
Ubisoft have filed suit against the Charlotte, North Carolina-based company called Optical Experts Manufacturing (OEM) for what they call "an extraordinary breach of trust and gross negligence" on the part of OEM which allowed copies of its PC version of Assassin's Creed to be distributed several weeks prior to its public release date.
This is what stuns me so much. Yes, we can and do have the ability and technology to acquire these games, yet we also demand bigger, better and stronger games which in turn require more financial investment by both the developer and publishers concerned. But what do we do, we 'steal' their product, and turn right around ask, nay, demand, that they make mor..."
This should make fans and collectors very happy. PureArts & Ubisoft Announce Assassin’s Creed Hunt for the Nine 1/6 Scale Diorama Assassin's Creed Hunt for the Nine 1/6 Scale Diorama available for pre-order on January 25.
AC3 was released during a turbulent transition period for Ubisoft and the Assassin's Creed series. It ventured into uncharted territory, narratively and mechanically, which caused it to receive mixed reviews. At its core, though, it's a damn good stealth game.
Nope, I hated 3, connar was bland, literally the most flat character in the entire game. Not to mention to myriad of bugs, camera issues, and that annoying thing where he automatically ditches his weapon you payed for for the sake of a cool finishing move forcing you to trek back to your base after almost every encounter just to re-equip your own weapon. It just didn't work as fluidly as the others like 2 and 4
The series peaked at AC3 for me. It’s been my favourite in the series. Connor will always be one of my favourite video game protagonists.
No. Game was BORING. Connor was really dull. Environments, while impressive, because of the geographic location and time period were not really exciting to be in. I would love some kind of game set in there colonial American time period, but a game like AC that back then centered around parkour and vertical traversal really didn't fit those environments.
Nope
There was a lot of issues but mine is how they handled the war
They told us Connor was not going to get involved, that the war was more of a background setting for the real story and it wasn’t going to be one sided
They lied, even the cinematic E3 trailer showed Connor emerge from the Colonist side and slaughter the red coats to get to his target, inspiring the Colonists to fight back
I just thought it would have made more sense lore wise that the red coats were mostly compiled of Assassins fighting the Colonist templars who wanted to take the new world for themselves.
Since the Red coats lost the war, it would then explain how the Templars started to gain the upper hand and how on the future the assassins were mostly killed off and the Templar’s had pretty much taken over everything.
Instead it just felt like they didn’t want to p*** off the American audience
Even Haytham was cool, he should have been an Assassin through and through and should have been the main lead.
I’m one one of those weird people that liked Ass Creed 3, but to be fair I never got around to finishing it.
There are good video game protagonists, and there are bad video game protagonists.
I disagree that max is unlikable. Chloe is infinitely more unlikable in my opinion.
Most of these aren't even that bad. Especially comparing to others like Squall "Whatever" Leonhart, Forspoken's Frey, and the guy from Atomic Heart.
i had to stop reading after the "blatant misogyny" in the Dantes inferno section.
i actually liked Max haha.
the forspoken chick is missing tho
Wow thats crazy.
Now you know why games end up costing so much,and why majors like Ubi, EA etc lose millions each year, money that if they did get, would fun more games, help open more studios and get innovative young developers to dig deeper into new IP's . .
How can they do that if we (we're all opart of it) steal their property, or condone it in some way.
Now if only the other studios would get more serious...
PC Gamers are suffering thanks to piraters, they're happy that they're getting games for free, but then complaining that no one brings good games onto the PC. Catch 22!