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No One Cares About Assassin's Creed Mirage, And That's Bad For Gaming

There's little interest in Assassin's Creed Mirage, which doesn't bode well for games deviating from the open-world blueprint.

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jambola546d ago

It's a DLC that was turned into a full game in a franchise that has had a game a year roughly for 20 years
It's back to the ones people were already sick of before
It's a Ubisoft game
Many reasons to have no interest

seanpitt23546d ago (Edited 546d ago )

I think the old school type of AC games better than the new ones, but mirage was very lazy you can tell the Devs did absolutely nothing to innovate on the old AC games it's basically worse than AC2 and 3 on a mechanical level with shinier graphics and world. They could have mixed up the combat made it more enjoyable but they just made it totally bare bone and that's just sad.. it basically Ubisoft all over

That why rockstar are so much more successful they innovative and won't make a game unless its superior on nearly every level to its predecessor.

lucian229546d ago

Old AC games were stale ever since the very first game lmao only reason two was good was ezio. Then the rest were all just bad games period.

The newer ones like origins and etc were good but needed to cut down on bloat and make the game Linear and tight. They're fun for a bit the. Get repetitive

seanpitt23546d ago

I would take AC1 to 3 black flag and unity over Valhalla and origins

BISHOP-BRASIL546d ago

It doesn't really matter if it is more linear than the last entries or not, by this point people are not tired of open world or linear Assassin's Creed games, they roll their eyes just from hearing the words "Assassin's Creed". They released 25 games (13 main line games) since the inception of the franchise 16 years ago, it's one fo the best examples of franchise fatigue in gaming, nothing they can really do about it but hold back a couple years (which for the Ubisoft suits must sound like I'm Martian or some shit).

Gamingsince1981546d ago

I'm a bit of a mix of each myself, I loved black flag and I loved the one with ezio in, I also loved origin, I would have loved valhalla too but there was sooooo much bloat and I am a completionist and it drove me crazy how much stuff there was to collect and do that was pointless but I had to do it to feel like I finished the game. AC mirage, well I haven't even bothered with it, it seems like AC 1 DLC

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glennhkboy545d ago

@seanpitt23 Origin has one of the best story in AC.

GhostScholar545d ago

1. I enjoy Ubisoft games

2. There hasn’t been a bad assassins creed game

3. That being said this is my least favorite ac game since odyssey

Sonic1881545d ago (Edited 545d ago )

Just like COD. Another Copy and paste DLC

Ashunderfire86545d ago

Just like Call of Duty lol 😆 DLC for both games, but one has legs with multiplayer.

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Shubhankar546d ago

"games deviating from the open-world blueprint"
??
Mirage is open world

gold_drake546d ago

yes, because Assassins Creed Mirage carries the entire gaming industry on its back.

sarcasm intended.

-Foxtrot546d ago

Not really

They basically turned DLC into a full on game, used the “it’s going to be like the old games” as an excuse to why it’s not as big as the main titles but even then still lied because there’s things in the game the guy can do which you could never do in the older games…like teleport to a target and stab them like the Blink ability in Dishonored.

If they are going to go back to AC roots then actually do that

isarai546d ago

Exactly! That's what killed it for me, like I was hoping it would be back to a more grounded experience. Gathering Intel, planning your approach, and using that combined with your skill to pull off sweet assassinations and make smooth escapes. Instead I teleport kill like 4 guys and parkour with the most limited parkour mechanics in the entire franchise?.

Funny cause I was waiting for them to f#ck it up somehow, and then they showed gameplay and I just laughed like "yup! There it is!"

-Foxtrot546d ago (Edited 546d ago )

Yeah they made the series super fantasy like so when they said it was going back to its roots I was all in.

Obviously we can’t say the franchise was full on grounded with some of the things in the game or story plot elements but the point is it was more grounded than what it is now

However using a character from the main games (Valhalla) was already a red flag, you don’t aim something towards the old school fans then make a character from your last main game the main lead in this one. Why? I want to play this to get away from the new games.

Soon as I saw the abilities and teleporting shit I was out .

RNTody546d ago (Edited 546d ago )

The warp kill was more stolen from Middle Earth the way it looked. But it also killed my buzz for the game, because I wanted a slow, grounded realistic type game like the original. They should just remake it at this point with AC Unity level art direction and that same Jesper Kyd soundtrack and I'd throw my money down!

wesnytsfs546d ago

I will buy the next RPG AC Im just not a fan of the stealth in video games its jut trial and error till you get it right.

jznrpg546d ago

I’m not a big stealth guy but I enjoyed some of the AC games , Metal Gear Solid and a couple other stealth games.
But I hate the follow the guy for 10 minute missions. They are more tedious than anything. If they could make them suspenseful instead of annoying I wouldn’t mind them but they’re just annoying.

wesnytsfs545d ago

I hate escort missions I think in any game.

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3 AAA Game Ports That Run Phenomenally On The Steam Deck OLED

Adam Vale of The Koalition writes: I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it again: If you are a PC gamer, then you’re eating like a king! This is true because so many publishers, such as Sony and Microsoft, have hopped on board the PC express train to Funville.

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FinalFantasyFanatic160d ago

I love the Steamdeck, it's pretty great, also amazing that we can carry a handheld computer around that can play so many games.

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Can we all stop pretending to be impressed that the iPhone can run AAA games?

Playing Death Stranding on a 6.9-inch screen might be funny but it isn’t the future.

RaidenBlack188d ago

No we can't "stop pretending to be impressed that the iPhone can run AAA game"
Plus its a first gen implementation. First gen implementation always has some drawbacks, as highlighted. The drawbacks will gradually diminish with future apple silicon refreshes.

Nitrowolf2188d ago (Edited 188d ago )

Yeah silly considerating it hasn't been that long since these games started dropping.

I will never use my phone to game for these titles, but even then I can acknowledge how impressive the hardware has gotten.

Vits188d ago

No, because it's impressive how far phone technology has come. Whether you like the Apple ecosystem or not, the simple fact that we can have phones running AAA games with this level of detail is impressive. And while I agree that phones likely won't be the future for traditional video games, at least not for the majority, the tech inside them could be.

ARM processors are becoming incredibly powerful and efficient, so I wouldn’t be surprised if, in two generations, consoles switch to them instead of the x86 platform they use today. The same is already happening with computers; premium workstations are already coming with Qualcomm solutions instead of the traditional AMD or Intel ones.

Neonridr188d ago

I mean, it'd be pretty nice if you had a device capable of doing everything you wanted. I can see the appeal here, even if I prefer traditional hardware for handheld gaming.

anast187d ago (Edited 187d ago )

The tech. is actually impressive, but how it's used is gross.

Arak187d ago (Edited 187d ago )

This mean consoles and pc are not using it's true power not even close to do so if something 10 times smaller weaker in theory can it also or the power inside this big hardware equipment are not truly been used as they supposed to and or they are using old tech in then while cellphones are using more advance newer tech inside them compare to the bigger more space hardware that in theory should give more space to squish more power into it but they are not.

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Assassin's Creed Mirage Optimized Settings: Best Graphics Settings for PC with Benchmarks

After a year-long Uplay (Ubisoft Connect) exclusivity, Assassin’s Creed: Mirage has joined its predecessors on Steam. The game is priced at half its launch price and still requires the Ubisoft launcher. As expected, the concurrent player counts are fairly low, peaking at 7,870 players two days ago.

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