'AC Shadows Is Not The Ninja Splinter Cell Game I Hoped For' From IGN - Luke Reacts
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Actually the random day and night cycle is intended to make it difficult for Digital Foundry to compare console to PC and their various graphics configurations.
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A joke on a Luke video about AC. Things are getting better down here.
I really don't see the point of playing Yasuke unless you are at a boss fight.
A lot of people started with Odyssey and Valhalla and just went for smashing stuff, totally ignoring stealth. He's also probably much better with certain quests and crowd control.
Except, either him or the IGN guy mentioned in this video, some bosses are mandatory with one of them.......... which is by the way the opposite of what people on TH-cam have been blabbering about so far...
@@xSavedSoulxyes Ubisoft needs to stop trying to be a a ghost of Tsushima discount copy trying to pander to everyone.
I also don't see the point of the other one disappearing when you make a choice. Why not make it like RE 5. Currently their only similarity is dual protagonists and foreigner killing natives. But only RE5 gets the hate for that.
I think that is the point of Yasuke
Remember in AC when you would fight of 7 guys and feel like a badass assassins. Now you whack a big guy for ten minutes. Before having to go find a higher level sword or does fire damage. Oh the days of AC I miss
The combat in the old games was awful. It was far far too easy. It was always quicker and easier to fight a ton of enemies rather than sneak past them. If I was 50% blind and had one arm i could still beat every combat encounter without taking a single hit. It was so easy its boring. Unity however, did the combat perfectly. They shouldve kept that sort of combat system.
Yeah, but those 7 guys would just stand around waiting their turn to get lit up!
@@yadafty7671 The combat in virtually every RPG from 2010-2020 was awful. The same reskinned "press y to counter" combat system in almost every game. People were so conditioned to it they'd dunk on any game that didn't give them the same thing for the 10th time.
@@warriorwebb8746 so NOW you guys don’t care for realism.
I remember when you could just spam the same buttons to win fights with fists, most of the time without any challenge. The controls were awkward, combat options were limited, fast travel was annoying, cutscenes couldn’t be skipped, tailing missions were repetitive, and the AI was terrible.
I wish it was more like as you go in as one character, the other character goes in by themselves; and you see what they’re doing. It would make sense for solo missions with each.
The problem is Yasuke would be alerting the whole area.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035Surely they could come up with some type of objectives for the other character to do other than just wait outside the door doing absolutely nothing...Anything would be better than that!
true. But they would have to rewrite the whole story XD
If they both go in, Yasuke would have the whole place to the ground before Naoe even reaches a side entrance XD
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 i think if your making a game with two characters like that. You should design quests with that in mind. Or make the assassin only be able to do the assassination missions🤯 other missions for yasuke: like sieges or boss fight confrontations. I would’ve loved that
@ but that intrudes on player choice.
The mistake was putting a non-parkour character in an AC game.
29:12 Yasuke using a disguise? Yeah he's going to blend right in...
An Italian man dressed in stunning white robes with red accents and the symbol of his secret cult on his stomach walked around Italy and was called a master assassin.
Don't read too much into it man
@@dankim7831in 2 it’s because it looks like a Florentine nobles outfit and in revelations he looks like half the city outfit wise. Brotherhood is an exception but even then the city of Romes number 1 color is red so.
@willvermillion1025 lol except everyone knows who Ezio is in Florence 😂.
@@dankim78317 ft tall black man in a nation where there are zero colored people and the average height is around 5ft… The real crime here is not choosing a native to the region as the mc like they did in every other game… Ezio - Italian, Conner- American, Altair- Assyrian, Arno - French, Edward- Caribbean, evie- British, bayek- Egyptian… This is the only assassins creed where they change the main character to pander to a specific demographic and it ruins the entire game should have just had a Japanese man and woman, they should have saved the African mc for the African themed assassins creed
@@LordDarshdanedward was not from the caribbean 😂 he was a welshman. That was like one of the main points of his character
14:30 A small cutscene of the 2nd character holding off reinforcements/going after a secondary objective like securing intel would do wonders for the “you or me” situation.
Call of juarez did this really well. Itd give different missoins for each brother e.g. Blow up the bridge while the other brother gets the horses to flee the scene.
Imagine in this you could choose to play as nawe for boss fight, yaskue goes and fights the boss while you prevent reinforcements coming then get into a position to assainate the boss while yaskue fights him.
@@Unspairing Thats funny because wasn't Call of Juarez published by ubisoft?
@@casualviewer111 just published, it's not by any their subsidiaries, as Techland was the dev for all of them
This exactly. Shadows' narrative seems ideally designed for this kind of story. During the open-world questing, the NPC is off "questing" elsewhere. During the more linear segments, you can easily design it so that Naoe is picking off snipers from the wall, or Yasuke has challenged someone to a duel and is causing a scene to distract the guards, or either one is pretending to be a dignitary/servant to steal info while the player does their thing. It doesn't have to (always) be shown; just have the characters set it up, and have minor set changes based on who you play.
This is exactly what I was thinking! That would make it way better than the other character literally waiting outside the door doing nothing...
They could easily balance boss fights for Naoe by maybe still forcing you to fight in the open, but if you played as her in the mission leading up to the fight, you would be prompted to do optional stealth objectives to weaken the boss along the way, like destroying their armor so they take much more damage, poison their food so they start with reduced health or destroy their weapon so they don't do as much damage with a crappy replacement.
Odyssey had a very simplistic version of it, where most region leaders were well hidden and protected at first, but as you chip away at objectives in that region, like burning supplies and taking out camps, their guards will gradually leave their side, and if you do enough for them to hit rock bottom, they might just sit on a rock in the open all alone! So you could fight 5 minibosses and an actual boss at the same time if you really wanted, but you could also erode that boss by doing side content, and it feels like it would fit Naoes playstyle so much, where Yasuke don't get the same objectives, but also don't really need to weaken the bosses first, as you are already plowing through guards anyway...
The Odyssey gameplay you mentioned reminded me of the Middle Earth games and I loved that mechanic
@@bryanchristianabrigo I just like it when games reward you with ingame benefits instead of maybe just a bit of extra cash or xp for doing side objectives...
That's actually very neat, maybe I should've given Odyssey a shot, I thought stealth would be bad in it thanks to the combat focus.
@@lucasLSD Stealth is fine in Odyssey, it's no worse or better than other AC games to be honest... And combat is actually LESS fun for me than before, simply because encounters take AGES on higher difficulties.
Ubisoft just closed another studio, and continuing more layoffs.
Which one?
@@Gandung_007support studio (Leamington, 186 Devs) that made guitar hero and supported avatar etc
Well they do have something like 20,000 employees so laying off 300 isnt that big of a deal
These companies should be releasing games people actually want. There's no excuse for these million, billion and trillion dollar companies. @@austindrake4697
We don't report negative things here, this is a safe place for ubisoft fans 😅
Ubisoft told me that I'm not the customer they want.
Aww poor baby, point to the doll and show me where Ubisoft touched you 😢
@@ATLsF1N3ST91 be careful you’re gonna choke w all that boot in your mouth.
lmao
@@ATLsF1N3ST91 in the same place your mother did 😭
You’re not even the one they deserve.
"You want to do it or you want me to do it" LMAO!
That’s ign for ya, making a positive video for the people who want to like the game, AND a negative video for the people who want to hate it, genius
Could just be coverage from different people? Watch the actual review come from another different person and get a 9.
Luke also made a preview and seems impressed now he agrees with the negatives with ign. The cycle has begun.
It’s almost like multiple people work at the company and have different opinions.
@@gilbertoarellano8525 Its almost like there's also a clear profit motive for not taking a real stance, or are you too dumb to see that?
“Players didn’t like when the game would randomly decide to make things slip or a wall to break.”
Sounds about right *looks at climbing and the rain starts in Breath of the Wild…*
I actually like the mechanic, what I don't like is how easy it is to cheese it by pausing and eating consumables.
Wow, I completely forgot about how much I hated the rain in that game lol
It's not bad if it's done sparingly. It shouldn't feel like it's just slowing you down.
I feel like that was a strawman, you could have skill based obstacles like there's some birdshit on the roof or something that makes you slip if you run over it. or a wall could have cracks and wear that would indicate it's weak.
@Numenorean921 Idk how Syndicate’s playtests were or how their attempts were executed. I’m no expert, for the record, I just heard that statement and thought of the frustration of climbing progress pretty much halting in BotW because it just decided it should rain right then, and it’s not much of a fault of skill. I think skill-based obstacles are fully fair, but to be skill-based, it also needs to be either telegraphed well enough (like you said, cracks in the wall to indicate breakable) or allow the player space within to be able to overcome it.
Like I said, idk what they did for those players to test it. It could’ve simply been down to execution, not giving the players the proper info/time to overcome it, because that, as believable as the event could be, can feel terrible to fail as a result. So idk if such a thing can be successfully made random and feel satisfying, at least not for me.
In the end, Yasuke really is killing the game. If the rumors are true, the initial idea was to have a Japanese man instead of him, which could mean that Shadows just had a sex choice like past ACs. But because you cannot do that with Yasuke, now you have 2 characters that you weirdly swap at almost any moment and the one you are not using takes a sit?
And because one of the few historical facts we know about Yasuke is that he was very tall, they decided to make him combat focused, which sounds fine initially, but Naoe can algo do that and even more, so there aren't many reasons to play as him.
This would have worked better with just Naoe or choosing between playing a man or a woman with the same abilities.
Its not like that. You cannot just swap anytime. If you are fighting in a castle you have to LEAVE COMPLETELY and break immersion and run all the way outside the castle to then switch. Its ridiculous.
I find the odd thing about Shadows is why do you play as one fictional character or a historical one? I mean Naoe is supposedly, I think, based off a historical character so why not just play as that historical figure. Unless what you said about Yasuke being shoehorned in rumors are accurate, it seems the story was just two fictional characters and you can pick either gender with no game play differences.
@@wilcooutI’m not someone who’s been on the side of hating this game but anyone can see from miles away why he was added into this game.
Dude, yasuke isn't just some character they came up with out of nowhere and wasn't just added to the game for reasons you think he has been around for a while he even has his own show on netlflix and also looks way cooler than naoe she looks cool as well. Ubisoft added both of these characters to cater to old school fans and the fans who like the new assassin's creed games like origins etc they are trying to reach a middle ground no matter how much ubisoft tries to amend their mistakes you people will never be happy and always complain and I've played assassin's creed since the first game.
@@Nicko-jv3jvstop coping, everybody know why he was added. In reality Japanese history literally only ever wrote 3 paragraphs about the guy. Lmao
If they wanted a smoother dual-protagonist system, they could have considered a Skyrim-style companion system. You’d travel with two characters and seamlessly switch between them with a button press, like GTA 5. While you control one, the other could act independently-following commands like "stay here," "distract those guards," or "fight here." The AI could also avoid breaking stealth or getting in your way unless called over.
This could have also extended to the recruiting system, letting you choose a recruit with unique abilities to be your companion during exploration. If you eventually want someone else, you’d return to the hideout to swap them. It would make character-switching more fluid, strategic, and fun.
You are confused about something... This people did everything in their power to NOT make things smooth. In a game where everyone wanted an asian character, they... well, you know. It shows they were going against the current on freaking purpose... OH? This would look cool? Then we will do the opposite!
@spiritualzorro Brah chill out. I was just giving an example of how I would have done the dual protagonist system.
Also, there is an Asian protagonist. It's Naoe, the Assassin in the game called Assassin's Creed.
Stop trying to conjure up issues from thin air. There is no reason for you to be so confrontational over a random suggestion, for a game, from a stranger on TH-cam.
Honestly I think they should have done the Syndicate route with the protagonist swap. Give each of them bespoke and parallel and intertwining stories that will combine into the full narrative, withe ach story having checkpoints related to how far you get in the other, more or less. Either that, or in those missions where they are in the same place at the same time, like the castle assault mentioned, that there's a provision for a seamless character swap, similar to what Dynasty Warriors has allowed since they allowed you to bring two characters into battle and hot-swap between them as you wished. Mind, this is something that would be best permitted ONLY for arena type events (boss fights really) and not as a general mechanic.
If it were like Syndicate, then people would complain about not being able to stick with their favorite character the whole time.
In reality, they should’ve just made assassins creed 5 following Arno’s story. Every AC fan has been really hoping for Arno to get his revenge against Shay for all he’s done to his father and the creed. The fact that they haven’t made a direct sequel in a decade boggles me.
@@markuskidd546 I’d love to see that fight play out as Shay is one of my favourite AC characters, but people complained that Rogue was too similar to AC4 and Unity’s launch was awful. I don’t think Ubi want to touch those game engines or characters again unfortunately, but I’d love to be proved wrong
Or - as I thought at the be try beginning when just the title and names dropped: you get a prologue with both of them fighting each other and you switch between them to get a quick feeling of their combat (which you can skip) and then at the end of the prologue you decide which path you want to follow. (which would include buffing naoe a bit and making yasuke a bit more flexible so that they can fight their hole story alone) would also open up for another playthrough more obviously
@@xSavedSoulx nobody would favorite yasuke lmao.
Making a two character story certainly comes with challenges, but also opportunities. Ubisoft really said we are going to ignore the all the challenges, and not take advantage of any of the opportunities lmao
They should have done a Joel and Ellie situation where if you play as one the other will be a supporting character and helps in the fight in stealth or when in nonstealth combat if they couldn't implement the batman style.
was thinking that
Part of the fun of AC games was approaching the fort/castle from a particular direction of your choice. For example, scaling the cliff face to get into the fort at the less guarded side. If you can't do that in Shadows that sucks.
12:33 excellent point actually. And they had a very good excuse to split the 2 characters: one does frontal damage and draws the guards, the other engages in sabotage and confusion, the player path being the true plan and the other a diversion. At least that would explain why they’re not together at the final room.
What puzzles me the most is why Ubisoft didn't use the good example they themselves set in AC: Syndicate. At the end of the game, there is a mission where both Evie and Jacob participate, infiltrating the Buckingham Palace, if I remember correctly. What they did was to switch between each character, making them infiltrate each in their own way, using their advantages, and working together towards a common goal. It felt logical and realistic. This switching between characters in the middle of a mission is indeed bizarre. I would expect there to be missions that force you to play with either one of the protagonists, but it appears the answer is no.
The worst thing would be if gameplay is designed around switching characters mid-mission, like having boss fights that are incredibly hard with Naoe, but a piece of cake with Yasuke. Yet, I feel this will be exactly the case, which means it will be impossible to fix post-launch. If that is the case, it would make everyone wonder why they had to make two characters in the first place. If anything, it shows the expanding gap between developers and gamers, it's like developers don't really know what makes a game fun any more.
At about 7:55 where he’s talking about there not being 1 shot assassination, I agree with what he says but also it felt really cheesy in ac syndicate to go into a maximum level hideout and then just clear it without breaking a sweat because I have smoke bombs that completely stuns and blinds them and I can 1 shot all of them but in ac odyssey I planned how I’d attack the base more
It's like watching a car wreck in Slo mo
Call of juarez did this really well. Itd give different missoins for each brother e.g. Blow up the bridge while the other brother gets the horses to flee the scene.
Imagine in this you could choose to play as nawe for boss fight, yaskue goes and fights the boss while you prevent reinforcements coming then get into a position to assainate the boss while yaskue fights him.
The yasuke combat looks like a witcher 3 tryhard rather than an assassin's creed combat
Looks more like ghost of Tsushima discount combat as they def took inspiration from it.
tf does this even mean ? it looks nothing like tw3
it looks nothing like witcher 3? If anything, it looks better than what we had previously in odyssey etc and that had barely any hate.
@@jingleballs9935 they deff took inspiration from it? what lock on third person thats been a thing almost 30 years
? It looks nothing like Witcher 3 at all.
Male and Female ethnic Japanese ninjas... we asked too much...
Even if there ethnicities were correct it still would have been a bad game. AC hasn’t had a good game since black flag
Yeah man. On top of that they could’ve still had yyasuke in the game to some extent but naturally you have to make him a main character. Not a whole lotta stealth in that choice. I wouldn’t have played the game anyway but I see why it’s a complaint. I just don’t trust Ubisoft so wouldn’t buy it to begin with.
As I’m listening to the video and hear about disguises even being used loosely is hilarious. You cannot disguise yasuke lol. Just would be comical.
It feels to me that Naoe was supposed to be the main protagonist here and Yazuke was shoehorned in later on during the production.
Seeing how little innovation Ubisoft commits to AC games after all these years, especially in stealth mechanics, makes me appreciate past games like Hitman and MGS all the more. Hell, they don't seem to have progressed all that much since Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, and that was 20 years ago....
Japanese armor is designed to mainly protect the wearer from slashing based attacks, and arrows, and not much from thrusting attacks, while allowing the user to still be mobile. You can easily thrust through traditional Japanese armor with any competently made katana or similar weapon, so the argument that it doesn't make sense to assassinate someone in armor doesn't actually hold up and that's not even taking into account of "how" O-Yorio armor is placed. With an upward thrust, a katana will essentially bypass the armor because it has an overlapping design placement so as not to restrict mobility.
In contrast, early European plate armor is designed to protect from a wide variety of weapons, including thrusting attacks, arrows, slashing attacks and bludgeon based weapons, and this versatility comes at the cost of mobility.
Assassinate should always be a one shot, especially from someone of the Assassins Brotherhood and with the element of surprise.
I think just buy the Ninja Gaiden 2 remakster and then buy Ninja Gaiden 4 releasing later this year. It's kinda just amazing how Ubisoft ruined a simple concept of having an assassin's creed game in japan by trying to do too much to stand out.
Been thinking of buying that ninja hai den game but have never played it and got kingdom come 2- great so far.
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They should of had an ability to call in the other character like in the ezio brotherhood games where you call in assassins to help take out people, at least it felt like they were all around you and helping you. Felt cool!
you can but it's like ac3 where they are unique characters instead of random recruits
I don’t get why people are saying yasuke has no point. This is a role playing game. If you want to play as a samurai tank play yasuke. If you want to play as a ninja assassin play naoe
What you mentioned about accessibility is really a huge problem with UBI gameplay design in general. I honestly think this design feature hinders player’s engagement and immersion waaay more than it’s worth the ‘convenience’.
It’s like they get so afraid of people complaining about something that they backtrack and overcorrect the feature to the point that it’s just a gimmick rather than engaging. Like the idea of taking away the bird so people can do their own prepping and scouting, that’s cool, lean more into THAT by making npcs maybe talk about stuff or design areas where the clues they give to find a place or someone can be done in game. But UBI get scared and introduce scouts, which is basically the bird but with more steps and actually less engaging because now you have to go into a map to do it rather than in game. This is what I mean by over correcting!
Also we are already in menus too much in these RPG games! Tinker with gear, menu, find a location, menu, upgrade anything, menu, different vendors, menu and now scouts is just another menu feature. It’s too much man ! Why aren’t vendors like the food vendor in a restaurant or inn you can walk into? All vendors just stand outside and lead you to a generic menu that looks like every other menu, even for gear.
Im I’m very happy with the new stealth difficulty that doesn’t just make guards spot you faster, but makes them smarter. I like that they look up, hear better, pursue longer and are just generally more dynamic. But then UBI don’t make that the default in design or also don’t heavily market it, so people will think it’s just same old.
I appreciate not being able to one hit assassinate guards who are meant to be highly skilled (not leveled). I don’t like that arbitrary levels play a role, but I do like the idea of skill, where some enemies can’t be assassinated from the front if they see you coming. I think they should market all these features way more and go into detail as to how they work, rather than marketing the normal stuff. I’m surprised not many of the previews even mentioned it.
I'm disappointed at my cat for not being the dog Ive hoped for
Odyssey did not have a 1 hit assassination setting. That was only introduced in valhalla.
It was introduced in the very first Assassin's Creed.
You sly bastard @@hemanownsyou I see what you did there
@@hemanownsyou 😮
It absolutely does have that setting.
@@SerLevi I'm literally playing the game right now. It doesn't
Every 2 hours you play the game a year goes by ...... 50 hours to finish the game would mean 25 game years had passed. I wonder how that is going to work with time per day? For instance in Valhalla a 24 hr day took about an hour of game play so that would mean a season lasts just 2 days. I can see why they had to ditch the change to day/night option we had in the last 3 games.
This reminds me of when people playing Deus Ex Human Revolution with non lethal ghost builds and you come to the 1st boss fight and its forced combat to defeat him. The excuse was ( I don''t know whose idea it was) but to have a different developer in charge of the boss fights and apprently they didn't talk to the team to say " hey what if players who are doing ghost non lethal builds
Ubisoft solved 1 shotting harder enemies in Tenchu Shadow Assassin's. You can special 1 shot Armored enemies if you're truly undetected(they're not suspicious), completely silent, or with the help of equipment. Those bastards were annoying and hard to kill because they would hear you unless you were prone in the dark.
Yeah, but that would require AC directors and execs to actually know the history of the studio and what made the previous games great
You could also have it be like brotherhood and treat the one you're not using as the assassin you call in, if you're Naoe and need a distraction call in Yasuke to brutally assassinate someone and run away pulling guards. Or if you're Yasuke and in combat call in Naoe to stealthily pick off straggling guards mid fight.
luke your mistaken a day night cycle is an hour i believe. and seasons change every 3-4 hours. so it’s not 40 minutes to go through a season.
The 2 character setup definitely seems like it would be better suited to a coop mode. Or at the very least, have one controlled by AI as some have already mentioned.
Looks like Ubisoft checks are starting to bounce
I fixed my old Xbox 360’s broken disc tray recently so I’ve been replaying AC2 and I can never go back to these modern AC games. It just reminded me of how good those first AC games were and I know Ubisoft can never replicate it
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I replayed ac2 and it was pretty rough. 3 was alright but ac2 drags with the dlc being forced in the ezio collection
Eh. I'd say the golden age of AC games was with Unity and Blackflag. Unity was the first one with multiplayer and Blackflag had the coolest character plus ship mechanic.
Every AC past these have only gotten more repetitive or worse in microtransactions.
@dudebruh8534 Brotherhood was the first AC game with multiplayer. It was fantastic
Thank you for being genuine and not accepting their money, earned some respect
Yasuke is like a built-in combat cheat code lol
28:36: Calls in an allied NPC to do that. Literally Yasuke sitting on the sidelines...
Yasuke gameplay sounds exactly like how it was predicted to be. It was either that or seeing a man in full samurai armor nimbly imitating Spiderman, which would’ve been a bridge too far for suspension of disbelief.
Taking IGN’s opinions on video games is like taking Helen Keller’s opinion on fashion.
12:48 if they ever remake Big Bang Theory, Luke would make a great Leonard Hofstadter.
A way they could fix the "one protag waiting outside the boss room" problem is having one of them be AI. If you're Yasuke, your job is to distract the opponent with open combat to force an opening for Naoe to get the assassination. If you're Naoe, your job is to pester the opponent with stealth and ranged until the assassination chance presents.
the writing is on the wall for this game. Its awkward social justice message will be its absolute detriment and the mainstream media is starting to realize it.
Or maybe it was never that deep, it's an original title and fiction, I'm confused as to why these even became a critique for this game. Assassins creed has always been a historical fiction verse, nothing new here. But you people made politics your life and brought this tiresome culture war bs with you wherever you go
yall think any minority is social justice lmao
@ seethe
@ well thats what it is right? inserting things where they wouldn't normally be for reasons
@@tychodragon it's funny now they insist that this is fiction, where yesterday they are doubling down that Yasuke was a real samurai that served Oda. I have this theory where us Asians are a white adjacent to their eyes, so Asians don't get the same treatments as other minority. I really don't like culture war but it's easy to notice now what they are trying to do.
Seeing people not understand Shadows reminds me of when Ghost Recon Wildlands came out; people played the game like GTA V and messed it up alot
All FromSoft needs to do is to come out of nowhere and say "WE ARE BRINGING BACK TENCHU" and everyone will forget that this game ever existed.
I still have my copy for ps2
Nobody wants tench to become.yet another from soft fxkon clone....how many times do.yall want to bet that fckimg formula to death
Yeah. But naah. These days they will destroy it. I had good memories with the series, especially the first one.
@@TumpalManurung4 amazing games from Stealth Assassin to Fatal Shadows.......Assassin.......Shadows, Ubisoft made a mediocre Tenchu confirmed 😅
I hope FromSoft announces a new Tenchu game shortly after this trainwreck and shows everyone how to do this properly.
if i could get a sequel to Tenchu Z, i would gladly give my soul to Ares.
Not being able to one shot thensamurai makes no sense to me. Sure for video gameness rpg stuff maybe but... no matter how heaviky armored, how skilled of a warrior they are... they're only human and all armor has gaps. A small blade like the hidden blade will always find an entry point. It's called ASSASSIN's Creed not not Combat Creed. Single killimg these enemies is pert of the fantasy of the game.
IF they want forced combat make actual forced bosses not these skull open world enemies that can't be one shot.
Exactly 💯
Stop using logic. :D Grinding for 2 hours to progress to the next main mission and buy time savers is what everyone wants you toxic gate keeper.
I agree, but this only applies to enemies that are higher level than you. And I can see why they do it, it makes sense. If you could just one shot anyone no matter their level, it would be way too OP and you would breeze through the game in 1-2 hours. I’m not sure if there is a middle ground they could create instead of just making them damage sponges…I really like the idea of it being more realistic, but I think I’d rather this than being able to one hit anyone, any time.
Just like every other rpg Ac game you’ll be able to upgrade your assassination ability. This isn’t a new decision it’s been in every game since origins.
@juveintheusa6261 and it's why I absolutely despise every single one as an assassin's creed fan. They're not bad games but god are they terrible assassin's creed games. Kills the fantasy and was a terrible decision for the series.
They literally implemented the AC Brotherhood system where you can call on other assassins to assist you. If they replaced the random hires with simply the other main character, it would make the dual protagonist system so much better. In other words, whenever you play as Naoe, you can call on Yasuke to help you take down enemies. Either that, or simply have the other protagonist go in separately and be taken over by AI, and there could be a button that would allow you to switch between controlling wither one on the fly. It's just so bizarre to me for them to offer 2 protagonists like Syndicate, but implement it so weirdly.
I think the video is fair. What I want to say that might be random is whoever is playing the game in IGN is so frustrating to watch play. He basically stealth take down one person and then gets caught continuously
I think the visual detection setting you mentioned in your AC Shadows review video would be a good default setting, instead of it being an option to make the game "more difficult." You mentioned it drastically increases the perception of the guards and their behavior, so in 1 way, perching in the middle of the open in broad daylight on a rooftop stalking all the guards wouldn't work because the vertical perception of the guards would be improved and instead of just looking horizontally, they'd look around like an actual person and see the large body mass that's just 15 feet in the air, staring back at them.
This in turn might force players to take better advantage of all the new systems or tools, such as the lighting that's being discussed.
In the same way one-hit assassinations across the board might not be the best setting by default for this game, enemy detection being dumbed down might not do the game justice since it will open players up to simply sticking to their comfort zones that they've used throughout the series and keep things simple, ignoring new features...rather than taking advantage of them and experiencing everything new the game has to offer.
Simply put, force players to experience new features, or what's the point? It's a recurring theme now with what we've seen of AC Shadows. "We have this, but you don't need to use it." Same thing with, oh...I don't know...one of the main protagonists? Yasuke is pointless. He's been successfully written out of the gameplay by making him entirely optional and inconvenient.
I really want this game to succeed, but the game is so scared of itself.
I’m pretty sure the only reason this game has the light and shadow tech in it is so I could be copy/pasted into the Splinter Cell remake.
I don't need a game to be stupid hard to utilize what's i n it. Like you talking about Withcer 3. I domt need it on death march to find utility in potions and buffs. Not everyone is an epic gamer that needs a challenge lol. Some just want to chill and hear a new story.
He’s not saying it needs to be super hard, just hard enough that it forces you to utilise the systems within the game.
I can see his point but do agree a bit more with yours because I always used my full capabilities in the Witcher 3 no matter the difficulty. I had no idea why anyone wouldn’t lol. I also think the witcher 3 combat is great and never understood the complaints but I played it slower and took time with the attacks. As ciri it was a little sloppy.
luke u didn’t turn up the ac shadows difficult. u just answered yer own question. deathmarch made u use all tools. well when u turn shadows up to highest difficulty the enemies can see u way easier and can even see u on rooftops etc, so u will then have to use the shadows etc to get kills. so its the same thing as witcher 3, u have to turn up shadows difficulty to make the shadows feature work the way it’s suppose to, period!
The issue of having the character do things you don't want them to because the controls aren't accurate is a problem from Unity forward, before that the characters did things you didn't want them to because the controls were TOO accurate and not well tutorialized
That's one of the things of having two characters with two very different play styles. If the game allows for the use of one character throughout, some people will complain that the game gave them no reason to swap characters.
Conversely, if the game was designed in a way that heavily encourages swapping characters, there will be people who'll complain about not being able to properly stick with one character.
coop mode would be insane and would explain pretty much everything
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Like DMC 5 with partial Co-op in one mission.
I think if the guards were more advanced like if they saw dead body in the open they will alert everyone, it would have made more sense to use the shadows to kill the targets.
I'd love to see them add the chance of slipping or tripping when free running, but with a function to recover before it foils your plans
I expected the IGN video to be complete nonsense but it is actually a completely fair take. With games like Splinter Cell under their belt, there is no excuse for Ubisoft to drop the ball on the shadow and light mechanics, specially since it is already implied in the title's name ffs
U already put out a video with your thoughts of the game, dont need you to spout it all again here! Wasted 20mins of this ‘reaction’
I think there was some sort of misunderstanding or something. From what I gathered, the day/night cycle is 40 mins. The season changes around 2.5 - 3 hrs
Luke, many of the things you discuss are really good. This conversation needed to happen 4 years ago, because there is no way they could adjust or implement one thing literally just one thing in the next few weeks let alone the next 6 months.
the more we see of this game the more im certain tencent is gonna own the company and im here for it. sorry that this games going to fail i really wish they did better but its going to be fucking abysmal mark my words.
Thief 1 & 2 - two of the best games I've ever played. I would so love to see this franchise return in a big way.
Best bow gameplay, best stealth gameplay, challenging levels with lots of dark surprises that often scared me,
witty and sarcastic dialogues, nice swordplay and the Robin Hood satisfaction of stealing from the bad guys.
personally im comparison ac shadow with ghost of tsushima for the art direction, story, gameplay and graphics quality if ac shadow can't compete then i won't buy the game (waiting for discounted complete edition 1 year later) yup
letting you play only this size of a map is a dick move
Opening up a Luke vid this early is nutty
It would've been cool if you when you choose either Yasuke or Naoe to infiltrate a castle, you could order the other one around to create gameplay opportunities. Yasuke can order Naoe to help him in a fight if he's spotted or have her assassinate guards when he's in stealth, like the assassin recruits in Brotherhood. If you're Naoe, you could order Yasuke to start a brawl and distract guards like the mercenaries of older games.
Something tells me that the seasonal stuff will suddenly be locked into spesific stuff when you REEEAAALLY want a spesific one for a single quest.
No idea why.
Like you’ve already made you shill video. You don’t have to run to it’s defence
2:00 I can't even play the wither 3 on story and sword without getting clapped.
13:31 They should've found a secondary role in the story for the character that isn't played in that quest. That way there's choice, consequence and narrative impact.
When it comes to the whole "invisible walls in the assassination missions" thing, I wouldn't be surprised if this was an issue that stemmed from the fact that the dev team is inexperienced. Ubisoft said themselves that a majority of the devs working on the game are so new that they've never been through a full cycle (meaning this is the first game they've ever made).
If that is the case, I wouldn't be surprised if they put invisible walls up because the level designers and mission programmers are so inexperienced that they don't know how to work together to make good environments for these missions, so the mission programers just go in and make a linear pathway for the player because if they don't, the player wouldn't experience the designers intended experience which... is the wrong way to go about designing a game like this, i.e. an open world action RPG.
Other games can get around this via world design, by creating a set pathway due to the world being designed around that path, but if the level designers have to put up invisible walls because the world designers didn't design the environment in such a way for them to make a tailored encounter... the level designers need to suck it up and just let players play the mission how they want. Imposing restrictions via invisible walls is probably the dumbest way they could have gone about this, because when you do that, the mission ceases to be a blackbox mission.
33:35 This part you describe reminds me a lot of an experience I had playing DnD once. I was playing an Assassin-esque character and our DM allowed me to go off in a certain section and stealth my way up to a key character in a castle, and when I got to the room he was in I passed a stealth check that put me in the room with him completely unaware that I was there. I then proceeded to say, "I roll for initiative" thinking that I was going to have to fight him and the DM looked at me confused and was like, "I was gonna let you just killed him if you passed the check for a sneak attack but alright, you walk in and yell at the guy to square up, loosing the opportunity to sneak attack and now this is a combat encounter" and I felt so stupid. That's what this sounds like.
I am still waiting for the full story of this game. I want to know if there will be a plot twist in the end of the game like "Yasuke: I really am not a Samurai, I was just a warrior tasked by Master Nobunaga to help him in his cause"
The Fromsoft method of difficulty slider makes it so that if you beat the game on “easy mode” using summons, magic, Op weapons etc, you can replay the game and have an entirely new game with totally new mechanics to engage in that you had bypassed.
I don’t understand why ING is harder on Shadows for rehashing some of the same mechanics from previous Assassin’s Creed games but when Spider-Man 2 rehashed just about everything from the previous games it was ok, or at least they were more forgiving.
Thing is, IGN have hundreds of employees, the same person rarely reviews a game
maybe because Spiderman has only 2 games, but AC has been the same since Origins, maybe they forgive it for that? A sequel set in the same universe, city and theme is probably bound to have more repetitive aspects
Cause Spider-Man isn't a 17 year old franchise made by the same company.
AC Odyssey had the best systems still to this day. You could one shot every NPC in the game outside of bosses IF you just built assassin damage. The adrenaline to super amp your assassin damage was such an amazing system too. If you have adrenaline you could perform a mega assassin attempt and it one shot even mercenaries if fully built. All they had to do for Valhalla was keep the best parts of the RPG systems from Odyssey and it would have been the best AC game ever. Now there is no hope.
Even if day night cycles were 10 minutes, a 40 minute season is definitely not enough days.
With such an incredible backlog of games out there I am simply amazed there are people willing to spend time on yet another recycled Ubi game.
Your portrayal of the dual protagonists system was amusing! 😂
That's why it should've been a first ever co-op ac game
@@dmitriyvasechko173 You do know that Assassins Creed Unity exists, right?
Unity was a fire as game. Sadly I didn’t have money cuz I was young. I got it years later when co op stopped working 😭😂
Please be a good game. I beg as an old AC fan.
It’s going to be mid, just like every other Ubisoft slop. Buy something else
Get it when is 65% off in 4 months
@@LordMuzhy Ubisoft never made goty material games, even a decade ago. Doesn't mean it's necessarily mid
“Except disappointment and you won’t be disappointed” just saying…
@@fikanovak4065Was Assassin's creed 2 mid? Was Far cry 3 mid? I don't care about Ubisoft but even I appreciate those 2
I really like AC Syndicate assassination mission since it really actually feels like you're an assassin, I never understand why Ubisoft replace that in exchange for generic boss battle instead of Hitman style assassination
2:05 I played The Witcher 3 for the first time when the PS5 version came out. I got the platinum in my first playthrough which means I played on Death March. I’ll be honest I never once used oils or potions at all for the entire playthrough. I only started using them when I was on the second DLC blood and wine. At that point I realized I should have been using that stuff during my first playthrough.
I understand the reasoning for restricting Yasuke’s movement, but he needs more unique interactions than just being able to shoulder bash paper walls
I think it would be a cool feature for yasuke to be able to remove his armor to move more like an assassin (climb a wall like in previous titles) but loses his defence.
Also an increase in attack speed
I get it, but that seems like he'd just be a worse version of Naoe at that point. The whole deal with the split is that Yasuke is the heavy, Naoe is the assassin. He can't slip in and out of armor at will (it's immersion-breaking and VERY gamey), so what fun would you get out of playing him?
I know what they were going for here, but I think they would've had a better time with a single protagonist who could switch between the two forms on a per-mission basis. But then you lose the "honorable samurai" fantasy, so... yeah.
i think perhaps a better implementation would be if both characters were going to split up to complete different tasks at the same time and you get to decide who you follow and control, rather than the one person just waiting awkwardly
That "...........luv you!" Bit killed me 😆🤣😂😅
If combat is only fun with one hero and running around the world is only fun with the other hero it's a big problem, do I need to use one hero to travel from A to B then swap for any combat?
So much over explaining… this should have been half the length
14:20 timeframe, wholly agree. if you choose to do a main content mission, your choice should not be changeable during the mission. it can break immersion, especially if someone only plans on using Yasuke or only Naoe. hopefully they here how weird it is and change that, but doubtful.
They should have added an assist button so one of the characters arent waiting outside. If you dont play as Yasuke you can have him get rid of a samurai using his bow for stealth.
the light and shadow is actually practical and useful if you are stealth hardcore who has playstyle called "ghosting", it's a famous playstyle in assassin's creed community to completing a task or mission without killing anybode (except the on in the task).
IGN breaking the narrative? Considering they didn’t even get the historical accuracy with how Nobunaga was like a hero to the common peasants at the time. I’m not expecting a respectable game in any aspect. Sakura trees and other “Le anime plants” off season, levels in an assassins creed game, and illegal use of Japanese protected and trademarked items and religious artifacts. The lack of attention to detail is at every layer of the game before you even get to clickbait topics 20:24 Himeji castle is absolutely stunning btw, I think photos aren’t allowed of the interior of the top floor due to how religious artifacts are in Japan but I recommend going to Himeji and visiting the castle. Maybe Taiyo Park there if you have to time as well. (You know how in Islam they don’t allow depictions of Mohammad? They have a similar rule with religious artifacts in Japan that’s why you won’t see a lot of detailed stuff of what’s inside shrines.)