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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 (143,581 Views)
Twisted
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So are the modern day characters still American then or what?
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No idea about Unity/Rogue, but for Black Flag you are a silent protagonist played from first person perspective. The only indication of his personality I've seen so far is some diary entries you can view on his tablet.

The modern day parts have all been set in a fictionalised version of the Ubisoft Montreal offices that is supposed to be Abstergo Entertainment. For the most part, it all sounds like standard North American accents.
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Nov 12 2014, 11:20 PM
Valkyria Chronicles, how I missed you
Sega appear to be happy with how it's performing. I hope this means a PC release for VC2 will be considered. Oh and a localisation of VC3 would be nice too! The fan translation is good, but the voice acting in the first two games made them that much more special.
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The bedlam of ship boarding in BF actually makes the combat kinda fun. I was wrong in my earlier post: there are actually some decent stealth missions sometimes. I even like the Abstergo stuff this time around.
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After playing a fair bit of unity over the weekend I can see what all the hate is for.
The game suffers massive framerate drops for no reason, you get shot through walls by AI too often and I've been trapped hanging off invisible walls
It's still fun but the framerate issues are really starting to annoy me
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Farcry 4 is a beautiful game. Played maybe 3 hours last night and loved every bit :)
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I have to play it on medium setting because my graphics card broke last year and I didn't have the money to get a decent replacement. So it looks like balls.
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Nov 19 2014, 04:21 PM
I have to play it on medium setting because my graphics card broke last year and I didn't have the money to get a decent replacement. So it looks like balls.
I know it's blasphemy but I'm playing it on XBONE. Looks great and plays great.
Hopefully I remember to plug in the Elgato and I'll capture some screenshots tonight
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Started on GTAV last night. Boy, this is a great fun game. Really enjoyable. And man does it look good. So far I've played a couple of hours and found that it's already fixed a fair few of the problems that I had with GTAIV with the ludo narrative of Nico. Looking forward to really getting into this game.
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Is it me or is Black Flag particularly long for an AC game? It keeps seeming like the story's nearing its end and then it throws another curveball. That said I got distracted with ship raids and Mayan stone collecting (gotta know what's behind that door even though it's probably some lame power up).

Kenway's dream/hallucination was really beautifully presented. I like the tongue-in-cheek stuff on the Abstergo side of things.

Altogether it's probably my favourite of the series, or at least on par with AC2.

Edited by Moo, Nov 23 2014, 03:13 AM.
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I don't know. The main story line seemed to be similar in length to the other games. Sailing around was a lot more fun than the wilderness in the last game, so I guess that padded things out a bit for me.

If you're thinking "I've been playing for ages and Edward still hasn't officially joined the brotherhood", you're probably further through the game than you realise.
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It's moreso that Edward keeps setting out to find the observatory and then next thing you know he's diverted by a new situation having nothing to do with it (Blackbeard and the medicine, for instance). I don't actually mind because some of these mini-plots aren't bad in themselves, and at least Edward isn't a stoic bore like Connor was.
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If anything, the plot after the medicine sequence felt fairly compressed compared to what came before. You do find the observatory, but that isn't the end of the game.

If you've been enjoying the ship battles in the game, make sure you give the legendary ship battles a go (the ship icons in the four corners of the map). Even with a fully upgraded ship, they are a challenge to beat. And if you finish all four, you get rewarded with a special ram attack which you won't ever need because you've just sunk the four most powerful ships in the game.
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Just finished it. Looks like they kept the tradition of a lackluster ending. Throughout the series there has never been a compelling lead villain (and Ezio has been the only compelling protagonist). The final battle is always against random some Templar dweeb with power fantasies. I think only the Borgias in Brotherhood came close to interesting.
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Well, it was a little different:

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Of course, it kind of reminds me of AC3's ending, in that it is promising something cool for future games which probably won't live up to that promise.
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