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Enjoy Five Minutes of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag’s Gameplay Showing Combat and a Fort Battle

Today is the last day of the Russian trade show Igromir in Moscow, and some more interesting videos are surfacing, like this five minute long clip of Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag showing combat and a naval attack on a fort.

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Omar913859d ago

Holy crap this looks bad. The AI is horrible not to mention the buggy animations.

Tdmd3859d ago (Edited 3859d ago )

lol at the disagrees. Just look at 2:09 ! Does people actually thinks that's a good AI? Throught the whole battle, the player wasn't hit once! The only time he got hurt was when he accidentaly stepped on fire. ¬¬

Omar913859d ago

The truth hurts apparently lol

cyguration3859d ago

The recharging life is what got me... dang. No challenge whatsoever.

Idiot AI + recharging health = easy mode forever.

Campy da Camper3859d ago

The enemy just stood there when he was hit. Herp derp guess I'll tie my shoe...

ZBlacktt3859d ago (Edited 3859d ago )

It looks like they really dumbed it down for people playing it there. The games does NOT play like that at all. I've played it....

You can see at 1:16 he should have died. But the game is set to not have players die. Yep, dumbed down for the Japan market. No one has fun when you die often.

IA is not even going after him.... way dumbed down.

You can tell this whole game is set to learn mode. He can sit there and scroll through his weapons menu. No one ever comes after him in the game.

Aside from the issues of frame rate transfer in filming off screen.

fooltheman3859d ago

It's russian.... ^^

No japanese...

ab5olut10n3859d ago

doesn't look all that great to be honest

fsfsxii3859d ago

This looks... bad, really bad

CrossingEden3859d ago (Edited 3859d ago )

For the people saying "IWANTTEHPCVIRSIONNOAW!&q uot; This video is a good wakeup call for them, no idea what's going on with the pc version right now.

fsfsxii3859d ago

LOL, some disagree knight has gone berserk

cyguration3859d ago

Ubisoft reputation management.

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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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thorstein59d 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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OtterX73d ago (Edited 73d 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

isarai73d 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?

Chocoburger72d 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.

porkChop72d 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_Sakai72d ago (Edited 72d ago )

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

darksky72d 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.

LucasRuinedChildhood72d ago (Edited 72d 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."

yeahokwhatever72d ago

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

senorfartcushion71d 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.

SyntheticForm72d ago

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

Yi-Long72d 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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