Shenmue Dojo

ACIII was a good game until it made you stop playing as a white man.

Teepo, just post a cock pic or GTFO. Stop teasing us with this lame sub qwerty jocking.

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This seems just about as "right up my alley" as an AC game could possibly be. The environments look fantastic, and as I've said before, the theme itself is just pure gold for me.
Just hoping the story doesn't suck.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

....Sorry, that trailer was very pirate heavy, must have had an effect on me. I think it looks great. The developers have said it's a seamless open world, which sounds very promising. I've seen in numerous interviews that they're really hammering home the point that 'stealth is back' and they know that AC3 was perhaps too combat heavy and so they're back to emphasising on proper assassinations. Of course, it doesn't look it considering Kenway has two cutlasses and two pistols to use but I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

I'm definately curious about this even if I was a little slightly burned by AC3. Perhaps the expectations were a little too high and the disappointingly dull protaganist and story, undermined with bugs and glitches, makes me hope that this one isn't as rushed. I think it needs to be convincing, it just sucks that I try to get immersed into AC3 but just can't with the texture pop in and NPC's being randomly generated right in front of your eyes or even disappearing into thin air. All this talk for AC4 sounds like the open world pirate game I always wanted. Here's hoping they have the time to give it that extra bit of polish. If so, it could really be incredible.

Have they seriously already released gameplay footage from AC 4? It's all a little too soon isn't it? I haven't even played AC 3 yet (partly because it sounded like the franchise's lack of focus had only got worse with 3, and that was already my main criticism of the prior games). I actually do like the setting of this new one, and the ship battles or whatever will be cool...but I really really think this series is suffering from over exposure. Or at least it is with me, and I'm sure if Ubi continue releasing AC games at this velocity, it won't be long before every else gets a little tired of seeing them too. Or maybe they won't, I guess we'll find out. Much like Tuffty though, I won't mind so much if they spend more time polishing this game and emphasising more of a focus, rather than just getting a bunch of fragmented dev teams to bosh it out. But again, I don't find the speed at which this is going forward to be particularly encouraging.

You want too soon? They are already talking about next years game

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013- ... creed-game

*face palm* What is it with people these days, they don't seem to understand the concept of over exposure and saturation. They get a formula that seems to be working, and proceed to flood the market and flog us to death with it. I really don't think the franchise will ever get it's focus back (not that it was ever all that focused and tight in the first place, to be honest), but it will make everyone sick of the sight of it soon enough.

I think people are just starting to get over kil on it. I mean the games due this year are not even finished and they are already talking about next years game.



Set up a Chinese account and you can get ACIII for free

http://marketplace.xbox.com/zh-CN/Produ ... noSplash=1

Its in English as well.

I can see why they can do it at a better quality than Act because around 7 dev teams work on each project but for me personally i don't like yearly releases no matter what type of game it is.

I do still plan to get the games Ive skipped at some point but i would like to see more new IPs. Or maybe have 1 or 2 of these teams help make Beyond Good and Evil 2.

AC if written by Lionhead.

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