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    Replaying Fez has reminded me how good that weird thing is. I also played a championship on Formula 1. For a game from 1995, the handling feels alright. Very tippy-tappy but it's fine until you get into the gravel. Also, that chicane en route to the Wall of Champions is horrid. I'd forgotten the Nurburging had a decent first corner, once upon a time.

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    So I finished the main story now in Assasins Creed: Odyssey.

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    Then, after that, I proceeded with what felt like the "real" main story and killed off the rest of the cult.

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    Apart from that, I've done most of what seems worth doing in the main game. I've killed/beat all of the Legendary animals, and all 3 mythical beasts - which were all the most fun three fighs in the game and the only real boss-fights, something I missed quite a lot in the main story otherwise. I have uncovered most of the world map and been to all islands as far as I can tell.


    So, now I just started the "Gates of Atlantis" or what it's called, and it involves this Layla Hassan in modern times quite a bit. I don't really understand much, as this is the first Assassins Creed game I play and there seems to be this other, parallell story arch that goes across games but in modern times? Anyway, I read the expansion is really good, so gonna give it a try.

    All in all the game has been amazing though, but it suffered a bit from monotony after a while. The landscapes are all the same, the forts are all the same, the enemies are all the same, etc.

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    The modern part of the story is wall to wall tedious bullshit. Ignore/skip anything it'll let you.

    I've been playing Ghost of a Tale and it's quite fun. Quite a pure stealth game, at least at the stage I'm at, as you can't kill/permanently incapacitate enemies to give you the run of the place.

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    Can someone explain what the story even is though? I don't really get it and how it connects to the actual Assassins in the different series.

    Do all of the AC games have this sort of game-of-thrones like notion of it's mostly normal humans around, but the odd insane supernatural element or creature all of a sudden?
    (we are talking game of thrones 1-5 here).

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    Before humans there were these alien folk who ended up being worshipped as gods and had magic technology and stuff. The Templars want the magic to rule the world and be evil, the Assassins are anti-Templars. Modern day folk use the Animus technology to send people back in time to relieve people via.... genetic memory? Or something? To get clues on all this stuff.

    That is very broad strokes but honestly it's mega dull. It'd be much better if it was just historically set Assassins vs. Templars to be honest. Keep some of the alien shit I guess as there's been some fun stuff but really I'd be happy if that was kept vague. Though I gather the Odyssey DLC is fun. Kassandra gallivanting around with women even more giant than she is.

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    One of the things I enjoyed most about Jumanji 2 was how it shone a light on appalling vide game narratives.

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    DLC for Streets of Rage 4 coming. Who is IN?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Before humans there were these alien folk who ended up being worshipped as gods and had magic technology and stuff. The Templars want the magic to rule the world and be evil, the Assassins are anti-Templars. Modern day folk use the Animus technology to send people back in time to relieve people via.... genetic memory? Or something? To get clues on all this stuff.

    That is very broad strokes but honestly it's mega dull. It'd be much better if it was just historically set Assassins vs. Templars to be honest. Keep some of the alien shit I guess as there's been some fun stuff but really I'd be happy if that was kept vague. Though I gather the Odyssey DLC is fun. Kassandra gallivanting around with women even more giant than she is.
    It had so much promise when Desmond was starting to unravel. They should've rolled with the "We're training you be an assassin but in the process we've properly snapped your head in half."

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    I thought Desmond was dull as dishwater from the get-go so I always just rattled through his stuff as quickly as humanly possible.

    That said there are definitely people who dug it and have the opposite opinion to me on this and it's just as well as without them we probably wouldn't have got a sequel at all to the incredibly meh original game.

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    He was definitely dull. Then he stabbed Kristen Bell and and the internet Egyptian spoke to him. It got nuts, just for a second.

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    Finished Ghost of a Tale. Final mission is balls but otherwise I really enjoyed it. It's a brilliant game given it was mostly a one-man show that developed it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    Before humans there were these alien folk who ended up being worshipped as gods and had magic technology and stuff. The Templars want the magic to rule the world and be evil, the Assassins are anti-Templars. Modern day folk use the Animus technology to send people back in time to relieve people via.... genetic memory? Or something? To get clues on all this stuff.

    That is very broad strokes but honestly it's mega dull. It'd be much better if it was just historically set Assassins vs. Templars to be honest. Keep some of the alien shit I guess as there's been some fun stuff but really I'd be happy if that was kept vague. Though I gather the Odyssey DLC is fun. Kassandra gallivanting around with women even more giant than she is.

    Cheers this helps

    The concepts of Assassins and Templars as some form of organised entities or guilds didn't seem to much exist in Odyssey though? There's the cult but they are quite explicitly called a Cult.

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    Yeah for Origins and Odyssey it's all about the organisations that sort of paved the way for them I think. In the case of the Templars I think it's all meant to be the same organisation in different forms. Whereas I don't think that's the case with the Assassins, I think that's meant to be just different groups rising up to biff the proto-Templars.

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    Prods and Caths. Got it. Although Ubisoft would like to remind you it's a company of different beliefs and cultures.

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    I'm enjoying Disco Elysium all over again. Playing more into empathy, emotions and substance abuse this time and I'm solving some stuff in a slightly different way.

    Cuno is still a prick and full scouse voice acting doesn't help his cause.

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    Oh yeah, I heard that it received a massive update. Might have to give it a go too. Fantastic game.

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    I never finished it for some reason.

    I really should as I was enjoying it a lot.

    Might buy it on the Playstation when a sale happens and restart on there.

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    I've made better headway with Cuno this time. Didn't even have to give him a clip round the ear. I'll be interested to see how it plays out.

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    Should have slapped him down anyway.

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    I haven't even tried in either playthrough, and not only because I'm never playing a physical enough character to have a good chance of it. I didn't meet Cuno's dad in my first playthrough but did this time but that whole thing is kinda sad when you get into it.
    @Pepe didn't you try it and it go badly?

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    Yes, I made a physical character with that sole purpose. Took a swing and missed. Dropped that playthrough right then and there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ian View Post
    I haven't even tried in either playthrough, and not only because I'm never playing a physical enough character to have a good chance of it. I didn't meet Cuno's dad in my first playthrough but did this time but that whole thing is kinda sad when you get into it.
    @Pepe didn't you try it and it go badly?
    He's still a cunt.
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    Yes, I made a physical character with that sole purpose. Took a swing and missed. Dropped that playthrough right then and there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Pepe View Post
    Yes, I made a physical character with that sole purpose. Took a swing and missed. Dropped that playthrough right then and there.


    On my first I took a total punt on having a swing at Measurehead and it actually worked with a 5% chance or something. Well I think he might always catch your fist but if you succeed it lets your boot him in the danglies.

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    My problem was that I made a character with such low physique that failing to run away from your hotel tab while giving the owner the middle fingers killed me so many times I restarted a new character.

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    That sounds like a questionable level of commitment to that one decision.

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    I've been expecting that but still

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    Visual novels that copy children's stories word for word > The rest of the creepy shit.

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    Apparently Firaxis are working on a "XCOM but Marvel."

    I mean, I want that and will play it but I want XCOM 3 more.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shindig View Post
    Visual novels that copy children's stories word for word > The rest of the creepy shit.

    There's something off with this statement

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    Seriously, the only two I've enjoyed have been based around Cinderella and a children's novel from 1905. Although the latter had to sneak in a gay marriage between two adolescents. So ... err ... there's still that.

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    Got quite a different closing sequence in Disco Elysium this time. Also saw Cuno's full story and it's pretty good, glad I was able to pursue that a bit more this time.

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    'Don't blame him, blame society.'

    Come on now, Ian. Do not sympathize with that twat.

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    Spark him out.

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    I'd be as seething as Pepe if I'd failed to beat up a child too, tbf.

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    I’m playing Suzerain and it’s having a massive impact on me. Every decision feels monumental And like I made the wrong one but I feel the need to play the character/person I am.

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    Disco Elysium was on sale on the PS store so I picked it up last night and started a high intelligence, specialising in visual calculus.

    It was a semi-productive first day as I got my hotel bill down from 130 to 60 by injuring myself running into the wheelchair lady. I also had a talk with Cuno which obviously went badly.

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    I also got this in the sale. Went with a sensitive start. No idea why. I always go physical when given the choice, normally.

    I tried to knock the little scouse fucker out, but fell over in a heap. I'm also locked out of my room at 9pm at the end of the first day.

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    Aw man, you're really playing the role properly.

    Such a good game, and I really think not going for a physical type is a great decision having done two different variants of that now.

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    My hope is to play as a complete degenerate piece of shit, as much as possible.

    So far, I've asked everyone that I possibly can to give me money, tried to punch a hole in some woman's door, and took some wheelchair-bound broad's brooch and pawned it for a few quid.

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    When’s it coming on Xbox
    I'm a twit

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vercetti View Post
    My hope is to play as a complete degenerate piece of shit, as much as possible.

    So far, I've asked everyone that I possibly can to give me money, tried to punch a hole in some woman's door, and took some wheelchair-bound broad's brooch and pawned it for a few quid.
    I hope you're pumping points into electrochemistry and doing whatever the Horrific Tie tells you.

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    Pards gets it. "

    I should really do another run.

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    I've been hitting whichever drug you get from the pawnbroker pretty hard, and rattling a few cages.

    Also getting vibes that I might end up banging some rent boy.

    That Titus geezer fucking hates me, too

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    I died of depression when inspecting the levers in Kim's car on my first playthrough. That was quite something.

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    Dead on arrival. £250.

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    Taking your controller with you enabling you to take your game library is a nice feature but that’s pretty much where it ends.

    If you’re going to make something like this don’t price it at the exact price point of the Switch ffs.

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    That's the thing. It's clearly a complex piece of kit being designed to play what is essentially mobile games. They want the Wii market but that market no longer exists or is 15 years older/dead at this point. And the ones still alive probably have a phone.

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    The Switch USP is Nintendo, otherwise you might as well just use your phone

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