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Looks like Assassin's Creed Valhalla is getting Iron Man and Thanos armour

From Eurogamer: "Assassin's Creed Valhalla fans may soon be able to wield the godly powers of Thanos and Tony Stark, according to leaked details found in the game's files.

Dataminer AndyReloads has already filmed himself strutting around like Iron Man in a new suit of armour that lets you wield a chest laser akin to Stark's own arc reactor.

The design of the armour, and especially the colouring, are obviously Iron Man-themed. But - thankfully - you're not actually Iron Man, and the rest of the design bears resemblence to those warn by the series' technological Isu race."

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RaidenBlack668d ago (Edited 668d ago )

🤦🏻‍♂️

-Foxtrot668d ago

This kind of shit proves that the franchise has become like a parody of its self

mgszelda1666d ago

People need to realize all the talent left long ago. Now they are just straight cookie cutter game developers.

BestBusdriver667d ago

Stupiddddd go back to the roots ubi.

MadLad666d ago

I'm by no means defending the skins, because I find them dumb, but Ubisoft is kind of damned if they do, damned if they don't.

Everyone says they make the same game time and again, then they soft reboot one of their major franchises and people go at them for it. Even when they're quality products.

It reminds me of of Tomb Raider. The series became directionless and repetitive, and the games started selling less and less. Even the remakes of the classics didn't do all that amazing. Then they reboot it, try to keep a lot of the essence of the originals, yet gives a new experience, and all of a sudden the series is back on the map.
Now you have a bunch of people saying they just want old school Tomb Raider.
You mean the same Tomb Raider you criticized for doing the same thing again and again and stopped buying?

You know what I'm getting at?

anast666d ago

I think if they didn't live service their SP games, minimize the grind, and changed up the format just a bit not even completely, people wouldn't be going at them. The main problem with Ubi is that they ruin beautiful games by doing or not doing all the stuff I just mentioned.

RaidenBlack666d ago (Edited 666d ago )

Commenting on only the Ubi AC part here.
People actually got fed up with the frequent release of ACs. Annual release fatigue is to mainly blame here more than anything. If you get somewhat same game every year (even if they're quality), people will respond with, "why another so soon? and why is it same?"
[from 2009 to 2020, there's been 1 or more AC released every year]
Ubi avoided the "why so soon?" complaints and instead tried to address the "why is it same?"-bit.
They weren't interested in making AC a triannual release (which actually should've been the case).
Hence to "change it up" ... they made it an RPG. But that shouldn't have been the solution.
People accepted AC Origins because it seemed different from AC Syndicate and wanted to try it out. But the novelty wore out. The franchise 'lost' the identity. With AC Odyssey people felt, its a quality game no doubt but its not the unique AC game that they fell in love with. Its just another vast action RPG.
{ They took the same approach with Ghost Recon. Wildlands was accepted since it was different but by Breakpoint, fans got fed up. Ghost Recon is supposed to be a smaller map pre-plan focused game. }
And if people argues with, "non-RPG AC won't work anymore" then Ghost of Tsushima is the perfect answer. Its basically AC Japan. And people will again be interested in its non-RPG sequel once it releases 4-5 years later. You need to give players time to absorb and cherish the last one and crave for the next one.
If taken time, done right and released less frequently ... an action adventure stealth focused AC game will always work. And this "longer less frequent release schedule" will give the devs ample time to come up with innovative ideas to inject into a non-RPG game.

yeahokwhatever666d ago

Odyssey, while super easy, is my favorite AC game by a mile.

-Foxtrot665d ago (Edited 665d ago )

How is it damned if you damned if you don't

The majority of people would love for them to go back to the games roots, sure it might be another open world game but if they don't go back to the games roots then you're STILL going to get another open world game from them so what do you want it to be? An open world game which goes back to the games roots or just another open world game which feels aimless.

You can still do something but do it with style, passion and quality

The reason those old Tomb Raider games failed and got called out was because the quality wasn't there, they half arsed them and they were constantly pumping them out, we were getting fatigued by them and while I personally liked Legends / Underworld they still didn't really hold a candle to the original games, even the Legends remake of the first Tomb Raider felt off. The first reboot had potential and as a game it was decent but it didn't feel like Tomb Raider

If you need to make a game feel completely different where it's basically a new IP, like the new Tomb Raider or new Assassins Creed games then do a new IP and put the old IP to bed for a little while until people are itching for one of those games again.

It's management at the end of the day, how they go about it, they don't have a clue and that's the issue, not us.

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anast666d ago

It looks like a Skyrim-Star Wars collaboration. Creativity is through the roof with this skin.

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Modern Games Are Getting Too Long

While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.

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GoodGuy0969d ago (Edited 69d ago )

Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.

IAMRealHooman67d ago

100% agree
All these ubisoft titles, Farcry, AC, Ghost recon, boast huge maps, but with the same, 3 missions or the same base to clear 100s of times. Hour 1 of any of those titles is the same as hour 100, there big for the sake of being big, with the illusion of player freedom, where we really want depth and player expression.

Ninver66d ago

Give me a solid 15-20 hour engaging single player driven IP any day. Life's too short you dig.

isarai67d ago

I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.

Abnor_Mal67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

Well people complained like the world was ending when a few games were six to ten hours of gameplay. Developers listened and started making longer games full of repetitive gameplay, time wasting fetch quest and other forms of bloat. In doing so they were able to justify the high cost of a game being sold to the customers at seventy dollars or more.

H967d ago

Filler, it's like a 80 episodes show where only the first and last episodes actually matter

Inverno67d ago

It's been a problem with pretty much every modern AAA game all through last gen and this gen. God forbid you point it out tho because all these big games are masterpieces and people lose their minds if you criticize them. Death Stranding is a fetch quest fest, but people will die defending it cause it's a "masterpiece".

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The Best Open World Games on PS5

Like a huge game world to truly get absorbed into? GameSpew has rounded up the best open world games on PS5.

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Don't let the Assassin's Creed Free Weekend Sneak up on You

This weekend from August 10-14, players can play for free Assassin’s Creed II, Brotherhood, Revelations, Black Flag and Valhalla on Xbox, PlayStation and PC (availability dependent on platform).

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dumahim299d ago

Thanks for the warning. I sure would have hated to have been surprised by installing a ubisoft game on accident.

Profchaos299d ago

Because you can't play all the games on every subscription already

KillBill299d ago

Valhalla is not on GamePass.

anast298d ago (Edited 298d ago )

I like Valhalla. The others haven't aged well.