Yesterday Ubisoft revealed that Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation will have an option called “Touch to Kill” that allows players to use the Vita’s touchscreen interface to attack instead of the standard gamepad controls. The function essentially freezes time for a moment and allows players to select a string of enemies to attack.
But why does this even need to exist? It doesn’t augment the gameplay in any discernible way. Actually, it forces players out of the gameplay for a moment and then treats them to a short quick time event. Mashing buttons would be preferable in my book. At least then I’m actually playing the game.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
EA has announced it will engage in a shareholder-pleasing share buyback program just a couple of months after mass layoffs at the studio.
Hanzala from eXputer: "With Ubisoft's practices becoming increasingly anti-consumer lately, the destruction of The Sands of Time Remake looks almost inevitable."
Hey Ubi, here's a gun, don't shoot yourself in the foot.
*Ubi takes gun, aims at foot, empties clip*
I don't know that they get much of a choice when it comes to some of these platforms. Something along the lines of:
"Oh, you'd like to develop on the Vita? Great, just make sure you include game mechanics that utilize every single asinine control method we've put on there, or nun4u."
All-too-plausible conjecture, in my opinion. I suspect many developers would forgo such lameness if they truly had the choice.
"Actually, it forces players out of the gameplay for a moment and then treats them to a short quick time event."
A QTE is still a gameplay mechanic. Regardless of what you think. Secondly, QTE's are "quick", they have a time limit for you to initiate the action as "quickly" as possible. AC VITA's interface is merely a multiple-option touch feature. NOT QTE.
Amazing isn't it. It's the best interface possible on other platforms but a gimmick on the Vita. PATHETIC
the moment sony, MS, and Nintendo stop creating new ways to play games, these same guys will whine that everything is the same...
Think the touch screen feature they showed in the ACL trailer looked rather pointless, the rest of the trailer looked very good.
It looks like Ubi is actually treating the handheld game at least with some diginity. Not like Activision and their Vita CoD.
Considering how abysmal Vita's sales are atm, this game could only help..How much remains to be seen.