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Never Seen Before Assassin’s IV: Black Flag Internal Video Shows Next Gen (PS4/Xbox One/PC) Effects

During a conference held by Nvidia in Montreal Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag Associate Producer Sylvain Trottier introduced a very impressive video that was never shown before, used internally a few months ago to showcase the effects specific to next generation platforms (PC, Xbox One and PS4) to the publisher’s executives.

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GarrusVakarian3864d ago (Edited 3864d ago )

The foliage and the way the wind blows the rain looks awesome,i really like that.

I really hope they are putting as much effort into the quality of the story/missions as they are into the tech features.

nick3093864d ago

Shouldn't the cross gen games for the old gen be priced properly ? Kind of unfair for people who have yet to upgrade.

Abriael3864d ago

Do you get less fun?

More effect doesn't mean less development effort and costs, as a matter of fact the older gen versions may have required more optimization to run smoothly.

AliTheSnake13864d ago

These things have always been there On PC. Yet You still payed more money on the console version.

TacticAce3864d ago

Everytime I see the features in this game I think of how incredible Elder Scrolls 6 will be..

Eldyraen3864d ago

As much as I love Bethesda games I'm doubtful it will be quite up to snuff compared to some next gen games (pre mods).

Their games typically look good but with everything else they push in their games they have to cut back a lot more too. I am hoping though they push PC a bit more than they did with Fallout/ES as we got some boosts but not that substantial till modders got a hold of it.

Granted I still expect a great looking game (Fallout first most likely--fingers crossed for VGA reveal) but not expecting it to be quite as nice as some. Bethesda games are typically heavy on physics even if limited form (physics enabled anyways as being able to create piles of junk is still rare in games today) which would probably limit a few things. They can create work arounds though as even PC had numerous unofficial options by tweaking ini.

Done being a downer though as I can't wait to see whatever Bethesda brings to the table.

osprey193864d ago

Great graphics, brilliant concepts, epic looking gameplay, fully customisable ship and main character,brilliant backdrop for the story and finally a badass main character. This has the potential to be an all time classic.

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Leaked Early Prototype Footage Reveals Development Stages Of Several Assassin's Creed Games

Prototype footage from several of Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed titles has leaked, revealing early stages of their development.

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The Best Pirate-Themed Video Games (Not Skull and Bones)

BY JASON MONROE: The very best pirate-themed video games that you should play instead of the disappointment that is Skull and Bones.

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thorstein76d ago

PoE: Deadfire, Unless you have a or PS5 or an SSD don't bother, loading times are insane. A minute and a half to go into a room to investigate a desk in an inn and then an additional 1 1/2 minutes to leave the room and then load to leave the inn???

And they never fixed it.

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Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag vs Skull and Bones Video Comparison Is an Eye-Opener

Ubisoft has just released Skull and Bones on PC and consoles. And, from the looks of it, the game wasn’t received well by some gamers. Not only that but it appears that Skull and Bones can be worse than Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, a game that came out a decade ago.

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OtterX90d ago (Edited 90d ago )

I wanted a Black Flag sequel so bad. It's still my favorite AC entry. The fact that they ignored everything that we loved about that game in this "spiritual successor" is making me enjoy watching this game crash and burn quite a bit. Either do it right or don't do it at all. (I understand the legal binding they got themselves into with the Singapore government to release this game at all costs)

/grabs popcorn

isarai90d ago

My thing is, if the Singapore govt was forcing you to do it at all cost, why not make what people wanted? How did ubi delay it for 5yrs, then again for 1yr and not just make a similar experience to black flag? How do you spend so much time and make so little?

Chocoburger89d ago

Ubisoft did make a sequel, Assassin's Creed: Rogue. It has a short campaign, and its packed with filler side quests for upgrades, but it's still a decent time.

It released on the same day as Assassin's Creed: Unity, so it was mostly forgotten.

porkChop89d ago

11 years of development. Multiple restarts. All the while people have been saying they don't want some pirate game where you can't even get off your ship. 11 years of people telling Ubisoft all they want is a pirate game that's basically Black Flag without any of the assassin or animus stuff. Yet they still served up this trash that no one wanted, charged $70 for it, and had the balls to call it AAAA.

The Guillemot family honestly needs to be forced out of Ubisoft. They've doubled down on everything players don't like about their games, they want AI to create "rough drafts" of their stories rather than letting their writers do their jobs, and they literally do not give a shit what their playerbase actually wants. 5-6 years ago their stock was worth more than 4x what it's currently worth. The company is dying.

Jin_Sakai89d ago (Edited 89d ago )

What has happened to developers? How can you possible make a worse looking game 11 years later? It’s honestly mind boggling.

darksky89d ago

It's because the older developers were better at it. The new generation pass most of their exams by copying code from around the web so are not nearly as good at understanding what they are developing.

LucasRuinedChildhood89d ago (Edited 89d ago )

No, here's the truth:
https://www.channelnewsasia...
This was made in Singapore and it's the first game of this scale to be made there. Ubisoft would probably cancel it normally since it clearly wasn't shaping up well but they were getting government grants to try build up the industry there.

Do you really think game developers are radically different than just 10 years ago? And this game has been development since Black Flag released.

Using one crap game to trash a whole industry of developers is stupid. It's like saying "Alien Colonial Marines proves that game developers suck now."

yeahokwhatever89d ago

i know this to be at least part of the puzzle from experience.

senorfartcushion88d ago

It's the multiplayer aspect of the world. MP games look worse than single player games, period. Every comparison we keep seeing are for games like Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and Skull and Bones. They all have multiplayer focusses.

SyntheticForm89d ago

God, I'd love a remake of Black Flag.

Yi-Long89d ago

Enough has been said about this game already. The gaming world shrugged when it was announced so many years ago, and instead of listening to all the criticisms from the community back then, Ubi just sailed on and kept making a game nobody really wanted. What a waste of money and effort.

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