See I think that has made the game a lot, lot better. Black Flag, all you had to do was sit and kill everyone in the room with the ridiculously easy parrying, body shields and guns. That is before we get into the darts. Black Flag had no challenge, as all you had to do was kill everything and it was crazy easy.
I will take the actual variety in Unity over the checklist quality of Black Flag. Unity's mission actually are different, they actually present variety. Black Flag has the illusion of variety, but the truth is it is all the same, divided by whether you are on foot or on your ship. Even the Ship missions boil down to the same thing time and again.
we were talking abut the combat, not missions
The combat and the missions go hand in hand. How the combat is handled in the missions changes how they can be played. Again one reason the lack of having Batman's belt works for me or combat bein super basic, is that it forces the player to use their brain and not confront every problem with, "shoot, parry".
There was variety inside class, but it was minimum. What mattered was the different types of weapons. The swords, the axes, the spears, using a rifle as your main weapon. Each was used differently. The speed and strength, the actual timing.
Maybe you aren't use to challenge in your video games? It took me a bit of time to get a hold of the combat in Unity. Maybe 4 or 5 hours of playing, but I have kicked the crap out of dozens of baddies repeatedly. Mainly because I can't help myself. I enjoy the fighting too much.
The fact that nearly every enemy has a gun. Its not just the snipers, but the regular guys you fight on the ground as well. Its unbalanced when you have 3-4 guys aiming and shooting at you at once. Like I said earlier, unless you have medicine handy, you're screwed
Something being frustratingly difficult does not make it unbalanced (see Bayonetta 1/2 or DMC 1 or 3), and in no way is the combat unbalanced in Unity nor is it all that difficult. Unbalanced would be vanilla Sagat in the original Street Fighter 4.
If you are in a group of say, 20. All you literally had to do was shoot your guns, which put you in an animation, back away, and parry if the time called for it. If you wanted it to be really easy, you'd just use smoke. That is not balanced.
First, that is over-exaggeration. Not every enemy has guns, and those that do put it away when you are close enough to engage in swordplay. More importantly, the game gives you tools to deal with. Smoke isn't simply used for easy kills, it is used to close the distance.
Naked Bats point is fine. When he calls unbalanced, I'd actually call balanced, but the theory is the same.
I can't imagine half the gamers today trying to play some of the better games from the NES and Super NES era. Not knowing where to go in Zelda, trying to beat Mega Man X. Some of he more ruthless Castlevania.
I can't imagine half the gamers today trying to play some of the better games from the NES and Super NES era. Not knowing where to go in Zelda, trying to beat Mega Man X. Some of he more ruthless Castlevania.
The vast majority of games today are so easy. Any resistance is meant with, "the game is broken".
It is probably why I enjoy the third person hack and slash games. Well, the good ones like DMC 1, 3 and 4, Ninja Gaiden and the Bayonetta series. They still understand challenge.
Such a waste of potential, now every AC is killing someone close to the Assassin. This is basically the next gen version of Assassin's Creed 1, same type of missions over and over again. Very disappointed, at least I didn't paid a single penny for it. The OST is spot on tho, not surprising.
