Assassin´s Creed III

[Wolvieboy17]

Dated? Just from looking at the in-game facial animation and the weather effects in those videos, you can already see it's better than any Assassins Creed game has ever looked, and I thought Revelations still looked pretty great.

 

[Llama_Shepherd]

Also, how the hell do you pronounce his birth name?????

His name is Ratohnhaké, so I'd imagine "Rah-toe-nah-kay". But Connor will do for now.



Everything is looking good so far. I hope that this game in terms of story is the length of two games. One to tell the story of Connor and the other to finish Desmond's.

 

[Soapy]

Looks abit dated visually.

You look a bit dated visually.

 

[Whiskey Tango]

lol that dude is like Mikey from the old Life cereal ads.

"He won't eat it. He hates everything."

 

[ProjectPat2280]

lol that dude is like Mikey from the old Life cereal ads.

"He won't eat it. He hates everything."

Yea, thats his act. He doesn't believe half the bull s**t that dribbles out of his mouth, he's just saying it to say it. I mean its the same lines in every single thread, over and over again.

His name is Ratohnhaké, so I'd imagine "Rah-toe-nah-kay".

Ratohnhaké:ton (Ra-doon-ha-gay-doon)

Ok, which one of you is correct?

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Me, because I read it on the website where I got all that info, from the same source.

Not sure how the last part of his name works... is the 'ton' section like a surname or the name of his clan or something? Is that how it works?

Also, he is Half Indian, Half British.... does this mean part of the story will involve finding out who his father/mother is?

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Dated? Just from looking at the in-game facial animation and the weather effects in those videos, you can already see it's better than any Assassins Creed game has ever looked, and I thought Revelations still looked pretty great.

Looks about the same to me.
Weirdly (and I can't think of many cases like this) the original Assassin's Creed arguebly looks better than Assassin's Creed II due to the original supporting DirectX10 and the sequel only support directX9. as far as these types of games go, Arkham City looks about a generation ahead.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

I half agree with you about AC 1 graphics over AC 2, although that's not entirely the case. If you went screenshot for screenshot maybe, but AC 1 had extremely dark and grim colour palette which I think was used to mask some of the lack of detail on certain surfaces. AC 2 also had the vastly better movement and animations and the colour palette was beautiful in so many areas, Venice especially. Also I think larger and more varied environments in general.

Funnily enough, I've always preferred the cutscenes in AC 1. I really loved that function to press an interactive button when a glitch appeared to allow you to get a closer, more cinematic angle.

That said, you're wrong about those new screenshots. The textures of the clothes, the faces, the weather, the snow... It all looks much better.

 

[Why Are You Crouching Spock?]

Eh, I'd make comparison shots but it's too much effort and you'll probably just end up disagreeing anyways.

 

[StrainedEyes]

All this info sounds exactly like what the AC series needed to shake it up. I think they took a misstep with the Ezio trilogy, they were all too similar and it really just felt like filler until III was ready to be announced.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Well you play on PC, so your idea of how Revelations looked is probably different to mine, but I read those screenshots are console, which if true, means those graphics are far better.

Also, even if they're the same graphics as Revelations, that doesn't mean it's 'dated', that game still looked pretty good. We're essentially at the end of this generation of consoles life, they can't push things that much further. Just because it's at the peak of the standard doesn't make it 'dated'. Dated is a game like Kingdoms of Amalur or X-Men Destiny.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

All this info sounds exactly like what the AC series needed to shake it up. I think they took a misstep with the Ezio trilogy, they were all too similar and it really just felt like filler until III was ready to be announced.

Who cares though? If it was going to take them 3 years to make this game anyway, I know plenty of people (myself and I'm pretty sure Spideyville included) sure as hell appreciated having more AC games and story to enjoy until this point.

Also, I would argue that those Ezio games were probably integral in really helping Ubisoft nail the formula for a winning game, working out the kinks, improving the economy, mission structure etc.

 

[Spider-Who?]

Well you play on PC, so your idea of how Revelations looked is probably different to mine, but I read those screenshots are console, which if true, means those graphics are far better.

Also, even if they're the same graphics as Revelations, that doesn't mean it's 'dated', that game still looked pretty good. We're essentially at the end of this generation of consoles life, they can't push things that much further. Just because it's at the peak of the standard doesn't make it 'dated'. Dated is a game like Kingdoms of Amalur or X-Men Destiny.

Why are you wasting breath arguing with him? Hasn't it gotten old?

 

[Wolvieboy17]

I wasn't arguing, I was having a discussion. If those screenshots are PC then they may well be similar to the Revelations graphic he is used to since he played that on PC too.

Just from a console players perspective, those look phenomenal.

 

[SpideyVille]

I was going to mention this earlier when I saw the cover art, and the new details and description only add to this, but I'm getting a big Red Dead Redemption kind of vibe from this. Like the look of the snowy areas, and now with the hunting, I see a lot of visual similarities to those areas in RDR, such as Blackwater and the mountain areas.

 

[Spidey-Bat]

I felt the same. Basically RDR 100 years earlier with Assassin's Creed.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Yeah, I get that vibe too... Except it's AC, not Rockstar, and I always preferred the immersion of the AC games over the recent Rockstar games. Rockstar sandbox games kinda get old after a while and you end up just being this generic 'kill every NPC ever' type guy, but in the AC games I ALWAYS feel like a bad ass Assassin and I always feel 100% immersed in the time period.

Red Dead and L.A. Noire always felt more about their specific genre than their actual time period to me. Like L.A. Noire felt more like a Detective Noir film than any kind of exploration on the political/social climate of the time period.

 

[DareDemon]

This game looks way too amazing to be real. FAKE!

Seriously though, holy crap. Stunningly awesome. I imagine Desmond will get very useful skills through the bleeding effect through Connor. I always wondered how a non-city Assassin could work. It seems so obvious now: EXACTLY LIKE THIS. I can't wait to play this. October 30th is wayyy too far away, but luckily my deployment will hopefully speed up the time.

 

[StrainedEyes]

Who cares though? If it was going to take them 3 years to make this game anyway, I know plenty of people (myself and I'm pretty sure Spideyville included) sure as hell appreciated having more AC games and story to enjoy until this point.

I care because I loved AC and ACII, but I got so burnt out on the series that I skipped Revelations entirely. The first AC felt so unique and awesome and ACII was a huge leap forward, it's just surprising to me that it turned into a yearly franchise of incremental upgrades, à la COD.

I'm glad that from what little info there is, ACIII seems like an appropriate leap from ACII.

 

[Sebastos]

Wow, wow and wow....everything just sounds incredible. Boston and New York as the setting? **** yes!

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Yeah but i mean, having more games as an option is having no games for 3 years. I mean, you didn't have to play the sequels but without them there would be no choice but to wait.

Plus as I said, they were integral in helping them hone many aspects of the game, particularly Multiplayer which I think is one of the most unique MP types around. I still love playing it.

It'll be interesting to see how that changes in this game.

 

[SpideyVille]

Who cares though? If it was going to take them 3 years to make this game anyway, I know plenty of people (myself and I'm pretty sure Spideyville included) sure as hell appreciated having more AC games and story to enjoy until this point.

Also, I would argue that those Ezio games were probably integral in really helping Ubisoft nail the formula for a winning game, working out the kinks, improving the economy, mission structure etc.

Personally, yeah I really loved what they did with the Ezio trilogy because it provided for a great character experience, being able to see a character practically from birth to death is something I don't think I've ever seen before in a series that I've played before. And for me, I remember pre-ordering Brotherhood the night before it was released because I had just finished ACII for the first time when I got my PS3 that week and I was instantly hooked, and that feeling never changed during my playthrough of Revelation.

But my only complaint would be that the sequels did feel a little too similar. Revelations not so much, but Brotherhood definitely did and my only regret was paying full price for both of them, especially since the price had dropped just a couple of weeks after release. But at the same time, I only did that because it was one of those games that I simply couldn't wait for. I know ACIII will be different but as far as the Ezio sequels go, they felt more like big DLC pack than full games compared to ACII, and the MP hasn't really given me a reason to keep playing.

 

[The Squirrel]

I didn't expect this much info to be coming out so soon. This game might actually get me interested in this series again.

 

[Wolvieboy17]

It was worth it for me just for the totally unique experience of playing a game series that covered the entirety of a characters life, from birth to death. That was really fantastic.

 

[KingMob]

Well, I guess I'm buying this now.