Great right up, I've only played it for about 4 hours but I'm really enjoying what I played.Upgrading my score to 9/10This is a different game to Tsushima and Rise of Ronin. Those were mostly combat, this is mostly stealth and ninjas. Although combat is satisfying as well, with good choice of weapons - katana, tanto, kusarigama. I've not even touched Yasuke apart from the intro, just played a few hours with Naoe. The game looks gorgeous on my 5090, night + rain = chef's kiss
My take on recent Samurai games:
1. Sekiro - the best combat, atmoshpere and setting - 10/10
2. Tied among Tsushima, AC:S - 9/10
3. Rise of Ronin, Like a Dragon:Ishin - 8/10
LAD:Ishin has the best story, characters and acting by very-very far; Tsushima has accessible combat that is quite nice but not much depth, AC:Shadows is a gorgeous accessible ninja simulator (parkour never felt more at home, shares all of GoT flaws -acting, story, shallow'ish), Rise of Ronin has the most complex combat and the highest difficulty but very little else.
PS Ninja Gaiden 2: Black 2025 is up there with Sekiro, beating it in combat depth and replayability wise, but falling short in atmosphere and setting
Assassins Creed Shadows - AC finally (at last) heads to Japan
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Given the amount of Chinese designs in Shadows, and the fact Crouching Tiger is a Chinese martial arts film, you sorta did.
The start is mental for cut-scenes. I tried sitting through them, to get the vibe and the backstory, but man they really layered them on. I ended up tapping the space bar through the last half of them. Thankfully they taper off.
Ive grown to really dislike long and many cutscene games, im here for gameplay and gameplay alone.
I havent boubht the game but if combat and exploration is good with many bases to raid im interested.
its not like its well written and interesting...
it feels like they want a theme park experience with so much forced cutscenes, rather than an actual game, all they do is detract from the game itself.
is it so you don't realise the game loop is basically running from one place to another? it's almost like a curated theme park, quickly from one diorama to the next diorama.
If you watch an NPC I get the feeling they will just do the same thing forever without variation unlike in skyrim.
the NPCs seem to have one or 2 animations at most, It's like being trapped in a dementia/senile apocalypse.
Theres one bit where you free some prisoners and they just run and stand outside doing nothing....
I'm scared to watch and find out because it will destroy the illusion of a "living world" and not just a static diorama
if this was made 10-15 years ago there would probably be NPC factions that fight each other and try to take over different parts of the map etc.
I'm guessing not here unless its through advancing a quest.
yet they spend so much time on pets and other crap for the hideout?
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Really enjoying it so far just playing the ninja girl.
The enemies are a bit tanky though so you have to be really careful to try to stealth kill as many as you can in a base before you tackle any of the 'brutes' that might be wandering around in the base.
The enemies are a bit tanky though so you have to be really careful to try to stealth kill as many as you can in a base before you tackle any of the 'brutes' that might be wandering around in the base.
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People really pay full price for Ubisost games?
Depends on the game I guess, Anno 1800 was easily worth full price, so was The Division, having said that, with the prolific nature of Cdkeys, I dont tend to pay full price for anything...regardless of how good the company is thought of...if I can get it on Cdkeys instead
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Grade-A slop indeed. A relentless onslaught, a monotonous drone, a turd on the beach
I'll pay full price for certain games... Impressions on this so far is I'll easily get 60 hours entertainment out of it... Probably closer to 120hrs... So even at full price that's 50p an hour to keep me entertained.
Beats going for a £6 pint of beer that will last me maybe 30mins..... That works out at a staggering £12 per hour to keep me occupied!
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Most pc gamers don’t even blink at spending thousands on hardware, but then lose their minds at the thought of spending a few quid on games to use on the hardware?
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I know what I'm getting with hardware, it doesn't promise one thing and then deliver something else entirely.
Plus can be objectively measured innit.
Bonus plus, I actually own the hardware, unlike a pc game.
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nVidia's GTX 970 4Gb begs to differ. And the RTX 5000 series with a mystery ROP count.....
... but I take your point
Well, you know exactly what you are getting with this game..it's assasins creed
so it has a theme.. this time Japan, with slightly better graphics and game play, as it should have being the newest one.
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Well, you know exactly what you are getting with this game..it's assasins creed
so it has a theme.. this time Japan, with slightly better graphics and game play, as it should have being the newest one.
Didn't notice anything better about the gameplay.
The combat controls are better and more intuitive, IMO.