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Ubisoft head office: Meh, near enough.

It is a 'work in progress' build in the leaked footage (it's stamped onto it on bottom right) so I'm hoping the character models are place holders and additional textures and lighting will be added....

You can really feel that next gen upgrade!

Who gives a gooseberry fool, its stolen work in progress footage from who knows when and running on who knows what. It doesnt represent anything....

Saw the footage. Didn't realise the Vikings were so multicultural!

You have to admit though, the bit where he's attacked by dogs looks shite, like.

And if there were a gaming trope destined for Room 101, it's definitely the "Glowing breadcrumb trail to the next objective" bollocks. Get in the sea.
You've built an open world game, you should encourage organic way finding and exploration.

Well......to be fair. The light on the road is only used when you engage auto travel to a destination you pick. In AC Odyssey you sometimes are not told where to go but directions (north of a city or west of some mountains) so you pick a spot on the map where you think something is and when you engage auto travel it will bring you to the closest point a road can (along with that line of light), so yeah, you're kinda wrong here Lewis because A-It's not your next objective, lots of times it's organic exploration and B-you never have to engage auto travel so you'll never see that line.

As much as Origins and Odyssey was great, I was kinda hoping the gameplay would evolve a bit more with Valhalla. But this is Ubisoft we're talking about so this is going to be what every AC game going to be like for the next 10 years.

imbusydoctorwho wrote:As much as Origins and Odyssey was great, I was kinda hoping the gameplay would evolve a bit more with Valhalla. But this is Ubisoft we're talking about so this is going to be what every AC game going to be like for the next 10 years.

This. I mean, if IF it looks a LOT better and is 60fps on next gen then ill be in but if not ill wait for a sale.

speedboatchase wrote:Saw the footage. Didn't realise the Vikings were so multicultural!

strawberry float off with this "historical accuracy" dogwhitle.

Knoyleo wrote:

speedboatchase wrote:Saw the footage. Didn't realise the Vikings were so multicultural!

strawberry float off with this "historical accuracy" dogwhitle.

The series depictions in recent years attempted to be historically accurate, now they don't. Ubisoft's call but for me, that lessens the time travel wish fulfilment of the original series hook. Looking forward to your buzzword-laden reply about how I'm 'gaslighting' you.

Photek wrote:In AC Odyssey you sometimes are not told where to go but directions (north of a city or west of some mountains) so you pick a spot on the map where you think something is

Well, that shows me up for not having played Odyssey, they sounds pretty good actually.

Photek wrote:so yeah, you're kinda wrong here Lewis because A-It's not your next objective, lots of times it's organic exploration and B-you never have to engage auto travel so you'll never see that line.

It was grumble aimed at the open world game scene as a whole really. The only game I suppose you could say it was ok, would be GTA where you literally use a SatNav in-game.

speedboatchase wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

speedboatchase wrote:Saw the footage. Didn't realise the Vikings were so multicultural!

strawberry float off with this "historical accuracy" dogwhitle.

The series depictions in recent years attempted to be historically accurate, now they don't. Ubisoft's call but for me, that lessens the time travel wish fulfilment of the original series hook. Looking forward to your buzzword-laden reply about how I'm 'gaslighting' you.

I can't speak for the relative historical accuracy of either this game, or the previous ones, because I'm not a historian, but good to know that the existence of just 2 dark skinned NPCs in some leaked gameplay footage is enough to convince you that this is more historically inaccurate, and ruins your wish fulfilment.

speedboatchase wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

speedboatchase wrote:Saw the footage. Didn't realise the Vikings were so multicultural!

strawberry float off with this "historical accuracy" dogwhitle.

The series depictions in recent years attempted to be historically accurate, now they don't. Ubisoft's call but for me, that lessens the time travel wish fulfilment of the original series hook. Looking forward to your buzzword-laden reply about how I'm 'gaslighting' you.

You can try and track down Stephan Molyneux if you want that version of history. Until then, absolutely do strawberry float off with this racist gooseberry fool.

Un-buzzwordy enough for you?

Some twitter plebs also annoyed you can be a woman using the historic argument as well not realizing Viking women lead and fought alongside the men.

It's strawberry floating embarrassing. If your first thought after seeing half an hour of gameplay is "There were two black people in there, I don't like that!" then that's your strawberry floating issue, not the game's.

Awful.

Photek wrote:Some twitter plebs also annoyed you can be a woman using the historic argument as well not realizing Viking women lead and fought alongside the men.

It's quite amazing what information about the past people will stick with just because they spent an hour learning it when they were ten.

Whoa, whoa, whoa wait a minute! They put black people in my game about DNA time travelling assassin templars and space aliens who have been influencing our species for generations!?!?

That's just too far fetched man!

Jenuall wrote:Whoa, whoa, whoa wait a minute! They put black people in my game about DNA time travelling assassin templars and space aliens who have been influencing our species for generations!?!?

That's just too far fetched man!

Sigh. As I stated before, one part of the original hook was the time-travel angle and ability to revisit history as it was. Naturally, you need to incorporate a whole wrap of sci-fi and fantastical nonsense to justify that. Previously, all of that nonsense was narrative loops through you could experience history, albeit pop history (eg. the take on Da Vinci in AC2).

If you're not interested in how the Vikings looked, acted or arranged society, then they become little more than a character swap rather than a new perspective. For example, I love reading about Aztec culture and I think that would be a fantastic setting for a future AC title, but I'd love to see experts guiding that characterisation, rather than 'well, this is the 2020 societal ideal and we'll swap these character models and give them different outfits'.

Why aren't they all eating and singing about spam