Current Events > Watched a stream of assassin's creed origins. Some info if you're interested.

(+) Yeah! (+)

*there are difficulty settings.
*can be played entirely stealth or balls to the wall action. Actual stealth, not typical ass creed style stealth.
*very similar to horizon zero dawn in how it actually plays.
*many ways to approach each target and mission
*the melee combat is heavily refined.
*the ranged bow looks pretty great in how it handles.
*the setting actualk feels very alive.
*the graphics look amazing.
*it overall looks like the freshest and most interesting the series has ever looked.

I went from meh I'll pass, to a day one purchase after watching the stream. This looks like what the series should have always been. And the ancient Egypt setting is fully realized and looks fun.

I really do need to stress how similar it looked to horizon in it's gameplay. It's like if horizon and ass creed 2 and 4 managed to make a baby, in a good way honestly. The character isn't stuff or limited, the movement, the combat, it looks great. It's made by the black flag team too btw.

Oh and if you're curious if it has any modern day stuff, this is your answer, I'm going to put it in big block spoilers so you can't tell one way or the other what the answer is if you don't want it spoiled:


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Yes it does. You play as a researcher in third person who is investigating the main character to try and impress abstergo. You go through ruins and dig sites and dig up artifacts and stuff in between animus segments of his memories trying to find some major piece of Eden.
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the only thing I want is for the series to bring Truth puzzles/clusters
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boxington posted...

the only thing I want is for the series to bring Truth puzzles/clusters

The spoiler part address that
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yea, but idk if those kinda investigations will be the same
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boxington posted...

yea, but idk if those kinda investigations will be the same

Not quite honestly, but it's still better than what we've gotten the last several games lol
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what time frame is it?

Old, Middle, New Kingdom or post-Alexander?
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pres_madagascar posted...

boxington posted...

yea, but idk if those kinda investigations will be the same

Not quite honestly, but it's still better than what we've gotten the last several games lol

that's true
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ROBANN_88 posted...

what time frame is it?

Old, Middle, New Kingdom or post-Alexander?

I'm not sure exactly, the pyramids exist and the Romans are a thing but haven't gotten to Egypt yet.
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I'm pretty hyped for this game tbh, everything about it looks stellar and like it'll be a top tier AC game.

But to address the spoilers part, what the fuck even is the modern day story anymore? Is Assassin's Creed III just supposed to be completely ignored or what? I remember playing AC4 but I don't remember anything about the modern day stuff except that it has in that abstergo office and that the side characters from Desmond's group was there, I forget their names. It's such a convoluted mess that I don't even know what's going on anymore. I haven't played Unity or Syndicate though, idk if those even have modern day stuff or what.
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Gamer99z posted...

I'm pretty hyped for this game tbh, everything about it looks stellar and like it'll be a top tier AC game.

But to address the spoilers part, what the fuck even is the modern day story anymore? Is Assassin's Creed III just supposed to be completely ignored or what? I remember playing AC4 but I don't remember anything about the modern day stuff except that it has in that abstergo office and that the side characters from Desmond's group was there, I forget their names. It's such a convoluted mess that I don't even know what's going on anymore. I haven't played Unity or Syndicate though, idk if those even have modern day stuff or what.

Syndicate and unity did not have any modern stuff at all.

At Least In This Game It Seems More Like The Modern Stuff Just Takes Place within the world, not furthering any plot from the series

But yeah, I'm getting it day one. Pretty hyped now.
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pres_madagascar posted...

ROBANN_88 posted...

what time frame is it?

Old, Middle, New Kingdom or post-Alexander?

I'm not sure exactly, the pyramids exist and the Romans are a thing but haven't gotten to Egypt yet.

it's probably post alexander. damn, I kinda wish it was older. I wanted to see pyramids under construction.

assassin's creed is a series i really wanted to love, and on paper it sounds like the perfect game for me, but when i played them (i played the first and second games) i just could not get into it. there is so much ubisoft filler crap (follow this guy/collect flags/etc), the modern day tie in stuff was a drag, and when you are actually doing the assassins stuff the stealth was really weak. it was basically "run up to guy, stab him in the face, run away"
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Zikten posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

ROBANN_88 posted...

what time frame is it?

Old, Middle, New Kingdom or post-Alexander?

I'm not sure exactly, the pyramids exist and the Romans are a thing but haven't gotten to Egypt yet.

it's probably post alexander. damn, I kinda wish it was older. I wanted to see pyramids under construction.

i see.
but pre Caesar, right?
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pres_madagascar posted...

Gamer99z posted...

I'm pretty hyped for this game tbh, everything about it looks stellar and like it'll be a top tier AC game.

But to address the spoilers part, what the fuck even is the modern day story anymore? Is Assassin's Creed III just supposed to be completely ignored or what? I remember playing AC4 but I don't remember anything about the modern day stuff except that it has in that abstergo office and that the side characters from Desmond's group was there, I forget their names. It's such a convoluted mess that I don't even know what's going on anymore. I haven't played Unity or Syndicate though, idk if those even have modern day stuff or what.

Syndicate and unity did not have any modern stuff at all.

At Least In This Game It Seems More Like The Modern Stuff Just Takes Place within the world, not furthering any plot from the series

But yeah, I'm getting it day one. Pretty hyped now.

I mean they did

it just fucking did nothing
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ROBANN_88 posted...

but pre Caesar, right?

pre Caesar would be before the empire, in the days of the republic. I don't even know if they had a presence in egypt then. Rome was very small in the Republic days. I know nothing about the game other than it's set in egypt. but i am just guessing based on you mentioning Romans being in the story, that this is probably not early egypt. Egypt was very old already even in the Roman days. so yea, this is probably like 2 thousand years ago maybe. while I would have preferred like 3 or 4 thousand years ago

Just looked it up, it's set in the Ptolemaic kingdom
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damn. that means it's not even pure egypt culture. that is when Greeks infected the Egyptian culture and changed it. I don't know why they didn't set it during classic egypt.

DarthAragorn posted...

it just f***ing did nothing

I don't know, my favorite character getting shot with her survival up in the air is kind of a big something.
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dave_is_slick posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

it just f***ing did nothing

I don't know, my favorite character getting shot with her survival up in the air is kind of a big something.

I forgot about that but I find it hard to care given how irrelevant they've been since AC3
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pres_madagascar posted...

Just looked it up, it's set in the Ptolemaic kingdom

nah, pre empire, i think the only Roman presence would be merchants and a couple sailors maybe. possibly a few scholars. nothing major.
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That sucks. I know AC3 gets a lot of hate, many people didn't care about Desmond's arch, and the modern day stuff, but I personally really enjoyed 3 and was looking forward to where they'd go after that very expecting ending. I wish they'd panned that out.
I almost wonder if maybe they were originally going to end the franchise right after 3 or something but because the franchise was so huge they didn't want to end it and basically just pretended it never happened.
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Zikten posted...

damn. that means it's not even pure egypt culture. that is when Greeks infected the Egyptian culture and changed it. I don't know why they didn't set it during classic egypt.

I believe you play as one of the last sheriff's of Egypt of sorts, during a time of turmoil
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ROBANN_88 posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

Just looked it up, it's set in the Ptolemaic kingdom

nah, pre empire, i think the only Roman presence would be merchants and a couple sailors maybe. possibly a few scholars. nothing major.

There's supposedly some Romans in it.
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pres_madagascar posted...

ROBANN_88 posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

Just looked it up, it's set in the Ptolemaic kingdom

nah, pre empire, i think the only Roman presence would be merchants and a couple sailors maybe. possibly a few scholars. nothing major.

There's supposedly some Romans in it.

One of the DLCs involves the Roman army I think
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DarthAragorn posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

ROBANN_88 posted...

pres_madagascar posted...

Just looked it up, it's set in the Ptolemaic kingdom

nah, pre empire, i think the only Roman presence would be merchants and a couple sailors maybe. possibly a few scholars. nothing major.

There's supposedly some Romans in it.

One of the DLCs involves the Roman army I think

Yeah that's what I was referring to.
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Isnt the modern day basically asbestos won and now the company brings people in to go into the animus to collect information?
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Is he a cold hearted badass or a jokester like ezio?
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Behaviorism posted...

Is he a cold hearted badass or a jokester like ezio?

Very stoic, but has a heart. Kind of like Batman honestly
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gonna wait until i get back from vacation to play. @_@

josifrees posted...

Isnt the modern day basically asbestos won and now the company brings people in to go into the animus to collect information?

Yes, But She's Not Abstergo. She's s researcher/archaeologist. Shes trying to impress abstergo by researching these ruins and then going into the animus to find out about something to impress them
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Jmm
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Looks fun, holy shit.
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Capital_Tenant posted...

Looks fun, holy shit.

Yeah, I went from a meh I'll pass to a I'm buying day one, type game. I had hoped it'd turn out well because it's the black flag team and I loved black flag, but seeing that it has actual stealth instead of ass creed type stealth made me happy. It being like horizon is a good thing.
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To address the modern day stuff up through Syndicate:

Juno (the bad First Civilization chick) escaped from the temple at the end of III by entering Abstergo's equipment when they came to find Desmond. From there, she manifest herself in the Abstergo databases.

In Black Flag, she had her husband, Aita, reincarnated in order to manipulate the player (the 1st-person Abstergo employee) into helping her. By Unity, she had basically taken over Abstergo's Helix system and was using it to increase her powers. By playing Unity and Syndicate, you were essentially acting as an in-universe character who was contributing to the Helix and empowering Juno even more.

Syndicate ends with Abstergo obtaining the Shroud of Eden and it's revealed that they're going to use it to bring a Precursor (presumably Juno) back to life.

...It's a bit confusing, but I think I got that right.

Both Julius Caesar and Cleopatra are literally part of the storyline in the main game guys. Jeez.
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Bio1590 posted...

Both Julius Caesar and Cleopatra are literally part of the storyline in the main game guys. Jeez.

Does she get naked?
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pres_madagascar posted...

Syndicate and unity did not have any modern stuff at all.

Yes it did. It was all in cinematics but it was there.

Behaviorism posted...

Bio1590 posted...

Both Julius Caesar and Cleopatra are literally part of the storyline in the main game guys. Jeez.

Does she get naked?

According to the ESRB the only nudity in the game is in brothels.
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Bio1590 posted...

Behaviorism posted...

Bio1590 posted...

Both Julius Caesar and Cleopatra are literally part of the storyline in the main game guys. Jeez.

Does she get naked?

According to the ESRB the only nudity in the game is in brothels.

Booooooooo
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How different is the combat and free running?
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LightningAce11 posted...

How different is the combat and free running?

It is and isn't. It's basically been super refined.
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