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What are you currently playing?; What video game are you playing right now?
Topic Started: Dec 11 2013, 10:14 AM (143,582 Views)
Twisted
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Wouldn't say favourite but AC1 was a pretty good game and I enjoyed my time with it.

Weirdest thing about the new one is all the british accents. Makes no sense. In the other games set in Italy, sure they all spoke English but at least they had Italian accents on them. No idea why they couldn't do the same for this one.

It definitely seems like this is just more of the same from the AC series and if you've been playing them all then you're probably pretty tired of it by now. However I would consider picking this one up very cheap at some point having skipped all the others. At least it would feel kind of fresh. I just think the city looks fantastic and I would like to run around in it.

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I liked AC1 and 2. AC1 was one of the first PS3 games I played, and I went in with zero expectations: it was bundled with the console, and as far as I could tell it was about a guy in a hoodie.

It is kind of a bit depressing what they've lost in the series since AC2 though. I really enjoyed the glyph puzzles in that game: the way you needed to find important buildings, then climb all over them to find the glyph. You'd then have to solve a series of puzzles, each one revealing a piece of media (which wasn't always tied directly to the game: e.g. stuff about WW2).

The closest equivalent in AC4 is hacking into people's computers in the present day (which are highlighted on the map), and completing one of 3 minigames. In most cases, the info revealed is seems to be filling in blanks of the series' story so far, rather than something new. The largest was a text dump containing the script for the unreleased expansion for the Facebook game they had a while back.
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Regarding accents: when you think about it, the characters speaking English in Italian accents makes no sense. Technically they should be speaking English in an English accent. That would better reflect the world as the protagonist hears it.
Edited by Moo, Nov 14 2014, 09:37 PM.
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I don't follow.
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Moo
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Ezio in reality hears Italian in an Italian accent, so the purest translation that taps best into his experience would have him speaking English with an English accent.

It's just a niggling point. Ezio's voice is cool. But it doesn't make logical sense that we hear him talking imperfect English when he speaks perfect Italian.
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Okay I can see where you're coming from. Though at times in Unity there are lines of French dialogue in French mixed in with English an English accent. It's a tad jarring in the gameplay I watched. I would still prefer them to speak English with a French accent.

It's not a big deal, I could just play the game in French with subtitles and make it even more immersive in that sense.
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Because Italian people really think in English and then translate when they speak and listen?

Edit: actually, in AC2 didn't they say that it was the animus that was doing the translation? And that the occasional Italian word was explained as a glitch in the translation?
Edited by jamesh, Nov 14 2014, 10:38 PM.
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I can't remember.

There's a cool scene in Snake Eater where Snake is talking to a Russian scientist. They're talking in an American and upper class English accent respectively, and then the Russian suddenly says "Your Russian is superb." Before then you simply assume they're talking English and then you realize you've been hearing the conversation as they, speaking in perfect Russian, would be hearing it. If the Russian voice actor had been speaking English with a Russian accent, that wouldn't have made any sense.
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Obviously I should've expected it at this point, but it's a shame that Black Flag's stealth missions often result in rote combat. It's just ridiculous that Ubisoft haven't learned how to build stealth-based environments/AI behaviour by now. I haven't been able to finish a single mission without combat so far. I think the issue is that stealth-based gameplay design requires time and precision that AC's annual schedule won't allow. Even the first stealth mission is an absolute mess that nobody would have completed unnoticed their first time.

That said, at least the main character isn't another stoic bore. I like the sea shanties! I like the ships! I like the undertones of conspiracy in the Abstergo office!
Edited by Moo, Nov 15 2014, 02:09 AM.
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Here you go, seems they have the option to play the entire game in French with subtitles if you want an authentic experience. Personally I can't stand the French accent. Aside from bogan it's the only one I really dislike.

http://www.techtimes.com/articles/15645/20140915/ubisoft-explains-abscence-of-french-accents-in-assassins-creed-unity.htm

jamesh
Nov 14 2014, 10:32 PM
Edit: actually, in AC2 didn't they say that it was the animus that was doing the translation? And that the occasional Italian word was explained as a glitch in the translation?
Yep. They did
Edited by Derpstrom, Nov 15 2014, 07:19 AM.
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That explanation also sounds a little bollocks. If their reasoning is that they wanted "unaccented" dialogue because the Animus is doing the translation, then everyone should be speaking in an Australian accent when I play the game, and a US accent when Americans play it. That's obviously not happening.
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I'd more say it just sounds inconsistent with their previous stance however I guess they can change.. or they just got lazy... or they realised that the only French accents they could get were those aweful ones forom that Vita game, I forget the name
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jamesh
Nov 15 2014, 11:04 AM
That explanation also sounds a little bollocks. If their reasoning is that they wanted "unaccented" dialogue because the Animus is doing the translation, then everyone should be speaking in an Australian accent when I play the game, and a US accent when Americans play it. That's obviously not happening.
Maybe the Animus checks the user's employee details and defaults to an English accent.

Also "authentically" speaking an English accent in Unity makes more sense than an Australian or American one because homeland French is being complemented by homeland English.

Also considering Napoleon would have spoken French in an Italian accent, they could've hired Ezio's voice actor.
Edited by Moo, Nov 15 2014, 12:13 PM.
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So where is the present day story set for Unity? If it's the same as AC4, then it is Abstergo Entertainment's offices in Montreal. In which case, French accented English would not be out of place at all :)
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Not to mention the game is developed in Montreal (or part of it at least), so how hard could it have been to get people with French accents?
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