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ampersandrew, do games w What is your favorite Assassin's Creed game?
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Surely you’ve upgraded your PC in the last ten years since the game came out, right? I’d recommend checking it out on a sale or something sometime.

ampersandrew, do games w What is your favorite Assassin's Creed game?
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Unity was the best in my opinion. Origins, Odyssey, and Valhalla are all the new design of Assassin’s Creed games that earned their own set of fans, but they’re so different from what came before with their faux RPG design. The fantasy is broken for me when I sneak up behind someone, stab them in the neck, and their health bar only goes down a little bit.

The first Assassin’s Creed game was very repetitive, but they gave you small assassination missions for you to figure out how to get, kill your target, and get out. The next several games in the series were better in every way except for perhaps these missions that mattered most, which they made extremely linear and scripted action missions.

Unity (set in Paris in the late 1700s) was an answer to those frustrations. There was a point in the dialogue where they specifically called it out. “So what’s the plan?” “The plan? Come up with your own plan. I’m not here to hold your hand.” They gave you expansive areas to carry out your mission, and you could find your own way in, kill your target, and get out. The game has some of its own baggage, like the loot system taking any challenge out of the combat later in the game, when the whole idea was that you were squishy that you should avoid combat, but it delivered on the experience the best since the first game.

Then Syndicate came out next, and they highlighted different ways to do your assassination like you were a big dummy, and they made a significant part of the game about street brawling, so I gave it a hard pass. The next game in the series was Origins, which brings us to the modern faux RPG era.

ampersandrew, do games w Concord Director Steps Down As Studio Behind Historic PlayStation Flop Waits For Sony's Decision
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When the game had a free beta, there was hardly anyone playing it. At some point you’ve just got server costs and promises of live service content rollouts that can only cost you money.

ampersandrew, do games w Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.
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None of those made hundreds of millions of dollars.

ampersandrew, do games w Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc.
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So like…no mention of which patents?

ampersandrew, do games w God of War Ragnarök - PC Launch Trailer
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Yeah, I think the strategy is so terrible that they can’t believe it, but they’ve publicly stated that’s the goal. I’m not sure what data they’d get out of it that they don’t get out of Steam achievements, but more likely it’s to brag about how many “active PSN users” they have, using a misleading number. Still, all I see when I see that requirement is online DRM.

ampersandrew, do games w Final Fantasy XVI is out now on Steam and Epic Games Store
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It was faster to load the higher resolution data back in the early 2010s on HDDs, so I don’t imagine it got any better for using compression now that we’re on SSDs.

ampersandrew, do games w God of War Ragnarök - PC Launch Trailer
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Starting with this one, it’s a requirement on PC, yes. Hopefully they do away with it due to lost sales, but they’re still at least pretending that they’re somehow going to convert PC players into console players.

ampersandrew, do games w Rivals of Aether II | Official Release Date Trailer (October 23)
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Nah, that’s not some inherent quality you have. I played fighting games regularly for basically my entire life, but it was only about 5 years ago that I started to really learn how they work under the hood and focused on how to improve. You can too! Also, “learning how to get good” is a skill that transcends any one genre, so I recommend you try it on one game or another.

ampersandrew, do games w Rivals of Aether II | Official Release Date Trailer (October 23)
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You play some more and get better. Nobody starts good at a game unless they spent that time getting good at a similar one. Probably right at launch will be tons of people at your skill level to learn with.

ampersandrew, do games w Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered confirmed by ESRB rating
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It’s got other strengths. Particularly the “kill enemy” part of that chain, on higher difficulties, at least.

ampersandrew, do games w Final Fantasy XVI is out now on Steam and Epic Games Store
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They’re typically optimizing for fidelity and performance ahead of install size. Multiple LODs can balloon an install size quite quickly, but they’ll give you better bang for your buck in other areas, and storage space is a concern that dissipates more in time, as you upgrade to newer machines.

ampersandrew, do games w Final Fantasy XVI is out now on Steam and Epic Games Store
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They paid more for it than they saw back in sales or expected new customers. What they’ve said publicly is that they won’t be using this strategy anymore, because it isn’t working. They claim free game giveaways are working, but I have my doubts as to how valuable those user acquisitions are.

ampersandrew, do games w Final Fantasy XVI is out now on Steam and Epic Games Store
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Expansion packs are a very old concept. That brand new game came out over a year ago. Also, it’s $25 for both DLCs.

ampersandrew, do games w Final Fantasy XVI is out now on Steam and Epic Games Store
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The exclusivity deals appear to have been good for no one involved: Epic, Square Enix, Sony, or customers, so I think we’ve seen the last of them outside of things Epic publishes themselves.

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