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ACIV Dev: ‘Present Day’ Level Explorable, Has “Amazing Content”

GameFront: "Ubisoft conducted a Q&A session with the game’s Lead Writer, Darby McDevitt, who answered a number of interesting, and not-so-interesting questions posed to him by some of the game’s many fans."

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Mr_Pinky3913d ago (Edited 3913d ago )

"@adamk678 Will there be dialogue options/ conversations in present day?"

"No… because YOU are the protagonist, we didn’t want to put words into your mouth."

Or your too lazy to make an interesting story set in the Present and you can't be bothered with it.

Juno is free, they should of introduced a new character, hell even if it was Desmond's father at least then we can see how they deal with Juno and what she has in store for the world.

By the way I didn't know Juno was an A.I. I thought when they said she was a prisoner it meant her full physical body

"@KamalElgamel13 will the new character have a relation to Desmond?

No, Abstergo’s tech has improved. They have genetic memory cloud servers that allow anyone to dive into another’s memories."

Oh come on thats just ridiculous, when you went into the Animus it was nice to know you were playing a descendent of the character in the present. Now they don't have any relation to them

I feel like they arn;t even trying with the present timeline, they could do so much story wise. What about if the way to stop Juno was to find a descendent of Eve for example

Xof3913d ago

...Or maybe there aren't dialog options because Assassin's Creed isn't an RPG series, and has never incorporated any dialog choices of any kind into any of its games.

...And don't get too worked up over the present-day stuff. It's mostly just there to frame the meat of the game, which is the historical story. Honestly, it never really felt to me like they were trying all that hard with the present day stuff outside of AC3. The only real benefit it conferred to the games were the little animus-hacking mini-games/collectibles in AC2+.

doogiebear3912d ago

You could have put a big "SPOILERS" warning at the top y'know -_-

Mr_Pinky3912d ago

and why would I do that

It's an article about AC4, talking about the game and the past games.

It's your own fault your in this article

C-Thunder3913d ago

I hope this is the last of these and they move on to something else.

phantomexe3913d ago

Already confirmed it won't be but if your burnt out on them try something different. You don't have to buy them.

C-Thunder3913d ago

Missed that. I don't have to buy and I won't. It's just a shame that game companies feel the need to drive everything into the ground.

Kalebninja3913d ago

bro these games are fun i dnt see why ur mad they keep making more the gameplay experience keeps getting better its nt like u played for the stry it was nvr really good to begin with

kneon3913d ago

Does anyone actually care about the present day part of AC games? I know I don't, I see those segments as annoying interruptions to the real game.

phantomexe3913d ago (Edited 3913d ago )

I do and i'm sure hardcore fans of the series will care. I want to know as much as i can about whats going on in the AC universe. There so much more to the AC universe..not just want happens in the games. Book, comics all tie into these games. It makes it awsome man. Love these AC games.

Landquake3913d ago

Maybe it's Ubisoft's fault due to the way they neglected the present day sections in favor of the historical sections, but I still don't see why people don't understand that Assassins Creed isn't about the historical stuff, it's about the end of the world. The whole reason for all of the historical segments was due to Desmond needing to learn how to become a master assassin to fight the modern day Templars and, in doing so, he had to relive the memories of people such as Altair, Ezio, Connor, etc. Why people fail to understand that and why Ubisoft has failed to show its importance is beyond me.

kneon3912d ago

I understand what the present part is about, but for me they have failed to make the present interesting.

bluetoto3912d ago

@Landquake

Took the words right outta my mouth. Irks me that so many AC "fans" have absolutely NO clue what the series is all about.

AceBlazer133913d ago

I always thought the past was just a means to get Desmond and the player up to speed on the state of things and then the game would eventually be completely present day but Ubisoft chose a different direction.

dcj05243913d ago

I keep on expecting a game where you're in the present day and you finally stop the modern day templars. Oh well

kneon3912d ago

I expect that what will happen eventually, but so far it's more like the present is just a vehicle that's designed to allow them to jump around into various times and places and still have it make some sort of sense.

AceBlazer133913d ago

In assassins creed 2 the purpose of ezio was to train Desmond it would have been cool if Desmond wore the assassin's cloak in present day to stop the Templars.could you imagine running around a modern day city killing politicians and officers,diving off skyscrapers,leaping across buildings and shit a bit ambitious but I'm sure it's doable this is how I saw assassins creed progressing but instead we get never ending game after game after game.

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Leaked Early Prototype Footage Reveals Development Stages Of Several Assassin's Creed Games

Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.

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The Best Pirate-Themed Video Games (Not Skull and Bones)

BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.

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thorstein48d ago

PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???

And they never fixed it.

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag vs Skull and Bones Video Comparison Is an Eye-Opener

Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.

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OtterX62d ago (Edited 62d ago )

I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)

/grabs popcorn

isarai62d ago

My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?

Chocoburger61d ago

Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.

It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.

porkChop61d ago

11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.

The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.

Jin_Sakai61d ago (Edited 61d ago )

What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.

darksky61d ago

It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.

LucasRuinedChildhood61d ago (Edited 61d ago )

No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.

Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.

Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."

yeahokwhatever61d ago

i know this to be at least part of the puzzle from experience.

senorfartcushion60d ago

It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.

SyntheticForm61d ago

God, I'd love a remake of Black Flag.

Yi-Long61d ago

Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.

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