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Assassin’s Creed IV could be the best Next-Gen launch title [Gaming Trend]

Gaming Trend Editor Ron Burke writes: We went hands-on with the PS4 version of single player for Assassin's Creed IV and have an extensive preview and video. Protip: It's vastly improved over III.

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Knightshade3918d ago

As a side note, the PS4 controller is indeed comfortable for a full 8 hours straight. :)

lilbroRx3918d ago

And you've played with it for 8 hours to know this?

Really, did you?

davidrobots3917d ago (Edited 3917d ago )

He's the one that wrote the preview., dude.

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Evil_Ryu3918d ago

as good as this looks i am reminded of assassin creed III and that is enough for me not to get this game

GarrusVakarian3918d ago

Although i don't think ive ever been as let down with a videogame as i was with AC3, i think just from the few gameplay videos alone that we have seen, we can tell this looks alot better than AC3. Im just curious to see some of the missions, i hope they aren't the same as 3 (passing you from stranger to stranger to do menial tasks for). I want AC4 to be more focused story wise.

Knightshade3918d ago

True, true. The missions I went on were not like that though - it didn't feel like a series of checkboxes. I even asked that very question in my interview with Ashraf.

GarrusVakarian3918d ago

@ Knighshade

Good to know man.

ForgivenZombie3917d ago

IMO, out of all the Ubisoft games at launch Watch Dogs seems the best.

ShutUpDonny3918d ago

I'm glad the changed the walking style of the protagonist. It looks more natural. Connor and Enzio was walking in a way that said :"Look at me! I'm a badass! And mysterious too!"

Kuse3918d ago

Day 1 Purchase for the Xbox One!

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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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thorstein112d 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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OtterX125d ago (Edited 125d 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

isarai125d 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?

Chocoburger124d 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.

porkChop125d 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_Sakai125d ago (Edited 125d ago )

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

darksky124d 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.

LucasRuinedChildhood124d ago (Edited 124d 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."

yeahokwhatever124d ago

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

senorfartcushion124d 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.

SyntheticForm125d ago

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

Yi-Long125d 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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