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narc0tic_bird, do gaming w Why don't we have motion smoothing on current consoles?

Input latency for one, because the next frame is delayed where the interpolated frame is inserted.

And image quality. The generated frame is, as I said, interpolated. Whether that’s just using an algorithm or machine learning, it’s not even close to being accurate (at this point in time).

knokelmaat, do gaming w Let's discuss: Assassin's Creed

It’s hard to discuss such a massive series. It feels as if everything has been said about it and people have largely gotten tired of the formula, but hear me out.

I actually never played any of them, I recently started playing the first one (from 2007) on my Steam Deck and I am actually loving it. It’s such a simple, straightforward game, with a basic but engaging story and honestly gorgeous visuals for the time. The mechanics are delightfully limited, in a sense that it really helps me to turn of my brain and just enjoy myself. I really like the world and how dense it is: all objectives are reasonably close and movement is quick and agile. A real gem for the Steam Deck!

I most certainly will get the sequel trilogy, as that one seems to be loved by a lot of people.

Thavron,
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I have vivid memories of the first one and Brotherhood. Brotherhood had an excellent multiplayer mode.

DesolateMood,

Oh man I wish I’d been old enough to appreciate old assassin’s creed multiplayer before it died. I remember seeing my brother play it but I was like 10 at the time and more interested in cod lmao

Thavron,
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Oh man I wish I’d been old enough

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Berttheduck,

Hell yeah it did. I spent 10 minutes sat on a bench not doing anything and it was some of the tensest and best gameplay I’ve had in a multiplayer game.

DdCno1, (edited )

Chances are, AC2 might absolutely blow your socks off if you’re that much into the first game. It’s a massive step up in nearly every way - except that it went for a softer, more painterly look instead of the sharper, more realistic art style of the first game. The story picks up very nicely too and at least at that point, I was still fully invested in both the Desmond and Enzio part of the narration and how cleverly they were interwoven. There is a tiny bit of bloat, it’s not as focused as AC1, but from the perspective of someone who played the first game not too long after its release, this is highly subjective, since that title almost felt like a proof of concept at times that could have done so much more with its game world than it actually did - and AC2 showed that Ubisoft definitely listened to this kind of very frequently shared feedback back then.

I love the old warning on the Steam store page for AC1, by the way:

Requires a dual core processor or better. Please check system requirements before purchasing.

Those were the days. This was one of the first games I tried on my new gaming PC in 2008 (after the most powerful PC I had regular access to was a machine from 2001, with some 2003 parts) and it was definitely a title that showed off the power of this extremely cheap, yet capable system, just like Crysis and COD4. In a way, this series in particular was a dream come true, since I’ve always been hunting for games that allowed me to truly immerse myself in a 3D recreation of the past. Much earlier, I had gotten a glimpse of that with the basic 3D-rendered scenes of historic buildings in Encarta and the unfortunately very limited (even though I hyped this up to no end before playing it) Pompei: The Legend of Vesuvius (2000), but AC1 far surpassed every earlier attempt at digitally reconstructing historic places.

One can criticize the more modern AC games for a great many things, but one thing they are getting right is that they are putting more of an emphasis on the educational side of things: Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla all come with separate and increasingly fleshed-out educational modes (also available as standalone titles) that remove all normal game mechanics except for traversal and instead offer bite-sized excursions into the world, explaining a little bit of the history, while also explaining some of the decisions the developers had to make during production.

mtlvmpr, do gaming w Let's discuss: Assassin's Creed

My favorite overall is Black Flag but it’s not really an AC game so Brotherhood. AC really died with Desmond

SnotFlickerman,
@SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

AC really died with Desmond

Ouch, right in the nostalgia.

UprisingVoltage,

I’ve stared from Black flag up until Odyssey, then I went back the Ezio Trilogy.

At firt the Ezio games seemed janky and unpolished, but boy was I wrong. The percieved “jankiness” was due to the fact that you have actual control over the character, which can be difficult at first but extremely rewarding later in the game(s), with tombs and catacombs that feel like actual puzzles to traverse, nothing like the “parkour on rails” of ACIV. Unity’s parkour really felt like a step in the right direction, but players complained about it being a broken and rushed game and somehow Ubi understood that they needed to turn AC into The Witcher.

As for the present time story arc I think they really nailed it with Desmond. I love games that take real world history as a base and add a fictional twists to it, and the sense of uncovering an actual, worldwide conspiracy and the origins of humankind itself was there.

I understand they’ve acknowledged the fact that people don’t play AC for the present time story arc, but there was no reason to let it die in irrelevance from ACIII onwards. Layla’s arc might be a slight step towards the right direction, but we’re still far, far away.

This is all to say that yes, I agree with you. This series had (and still has) so much potential, but it was unfortunately hijacked by corporate greed time and time again, straying further from the original concept as time goes on.

I’m currently playing valhalla and plan on tackling ACIII next, and then Mirage.

ShinkanTrain, do gaming w Why don't we have motion smoothing on current consoles?

You really don’t want to use frame generation on low frame rate content.

robojeb, do games w what was the last game you played in 2024?

Dave the diver

MentalEdge, (edited ) do gaming w Why don't we have motion smoothing on current consoles?
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Because it introduces latency.

Higher framerates only in part improve the experience due to looking better, they also make the game feel faster because what you input is reflected in-game that fraction of a second sooner.

Increasing framerate while incurring higher latency might look nicer for an onlooker, but it generally feels a lot worse to actually play.

criitz, do gaming w Why don't we have motion smoothing on current consoles?

If your TV can do it why does the console need to do it also?

Curious_Mind03,

The way the TV is doing it has too much latency. There are graphics cards from for example Nvidia that have something called DLSS and it has very low latency. But GTA 6 will not come out for PC in the beginning and consoles don’t have such a feature right now.

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Kolanaki, do games w Playing Tunic first time
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You can sequence break the game and not ever soft lock it. You probably missed a puzzle or something. Check the manual for clues.

silverchase, do games w Playing Tunic first time
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If you haven’t done so already, I suggest you start taking notes while playing the game. You’ll need to keep track of what you have to come back to a place for.

DarkMetatron, do games w what was the last game you played in 2024?

A modded version of Final Fantasy Tactics

jay2, do gaming w What games are you nostalgic towards but wouldn't go back and play?

7th Saga. It’s a turn based top down RPG (similar to Final Fantasy 1 or Dragon Warrior 1). The games AI sometimes just kills you (and takes great delight in it). Easily the most frustrating RPG I’ve played.

Blaster Master for the Nintendo (NES) as well. Instead of evil AI you get evil level design that wants to kill you.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to have a sandwich and play some Leisure Suit Larry 3.

dj1936, do news w TURCJA: Tysiące ludzi maszerują w kierunku granicy z Kobane w ramach solidarności z ruchem oporu Rożawy
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Brawo

JoeKrogan, do games w What procedures do you take to save and archive your games?
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Roms and sailing the high seas

simple, do games w What procedures do you take to save and archive your games?

I mean realistically if a major store were to get shut down they would give you a heads up and a chance to download your games.

Sunny,
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Yeah fair point

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