What game are you waiting for in 2024?
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The last update I got from KS was Nov ‘22 - it said that all backers now had access to the beta game but I decided to wait until the full release. I was kinda expecting that to be sometime in ‘23 though
Thank grud for the Cyberpunk 2077 VR mod to scratch those interface itches
(Going from the KS comments it looks like the devs are waiting on the soundtrack band)
Cites skylines 2 for Xbox. Bought a blinkin keyboard n mouse for it n all.
Project UN by SKC games ...
Thanks for the heads up on War on the Sea. It looks good. I remember the name but I didn't look too deep plus, I think I got it and Task Force Admiral mixed up in my head.
TFA is carrier force management; WotS has some real nice surface ship tools plus carrier operations (with limits afaik). I saw some of the maps were the Solomon Islands / Guadalcanal ... big plus for me. I've read about those battles for decades. I now must do more research.
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts looks interesting but not as much as these two.
Thanks again
TFA is carrier force management; WotS has some real nice surface ship tools plus carrier operations (with limits afaik). I saw some of the maps were the Solomon Islands / Guadalcanal ... big plus for me. I've read about those battles for decades. I now must do more research.
Ultimate Admiral Dreadnoughts looks interesting but not as much as these two.
Thanks again
Wow - I'll be going full-blown Deckard with this...!
Thanks for posting - it's on my wish list (now)!
E: Oh... it already was......
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I'm ready for UBoat. I had February in mind but it's planned in March / April now. They seem to push it a bit closer to realism. Map rework will feature positional errors with contacts. I guess you get good resolution with periscope. We could reliably plot targets and courses in Wolfpack (there is no targets tracked, gotta do it yourself) so I'm confident that it can be a good gameplay element. Just need the right UI solution for it (multitude of targets might just be clutter).
Maybe I continue one of my Long Dark playthroughs to bridge the gap...
Maybe I continue one of my Long Dark playthroughs to bridge the gap...
Just saw some intro vids from the new Assassin's Creed Shadows and it definitely looks cool.
The AC games often get a lot of flak, especially the more rpg oriented ones, but I don't care, I'm a sucker for the AC series and realy like them, most of them anyways,
The new game takes place in feudal Japan, a setting I've been hoping for since AC Origins.
Release date is November 15th
The AC games often get a lot of flak, especially the more rpg oriented ones, but I don't care, I'm a sucker for the AC series and realy like them, most of them anyways,
The new game takes place in feudal Japan, a setting I've been hoping for since AC Origins.
Release date is November 15th
I'm pretty happy with Uboat as a light sim. All I'm waiting for is the Type II and then I'll loose months in that game.
Looks like the update wouldn't be out until June/July, maybe even later.
There isn't really much of that era. Except maybe some console game. We had Lords of the Rising Sun on Amiga, Total War Shogun and that was pretty much it I think. There is Ghost of Tsushima but that only plays on Tsushima island I gather. You'd guess with the success of the Shogun TV series there might be some kind of RPG being inspired. I'd be down for that. But AC? I don't think they have what I want.
Landlubber. You know you can do all the calculations yourself and the map will not feature easy mode in 1.0. Torpedovorhalterechner will also be implemented. Yeah, I guess we have to wait until late summer. I also wait for Type II. Puts me back in the good old days of SH3, 250 m vision in dense fog, but we intercepted the freighter and sunk it. They never knew what hit them.
I have been enjoying beta testing this game.
I expect it to be released this year. The finished product should be pretty amazing.
I expect it to be released this year. The finished product should be pretty amazing.
Even as a general fan of the AC series as a whole...AC shadows will never compete with Ghost of Tsushima. Ubisoft just got on the feudal Japan setting way too late and too late in that era judging by the guns I saw in the advertisement. It'll also be tailored to suit Ubisoft's racially diversified version of Feudal Japan rather than reality...I can see it coming already.
Ghost of Tsushima will be out in a few days on Steam for comparison, 21st if I remember rightly.
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Even as a general fan of the AC series as a whole...AC shadows will never compete with Ghost of Tsushima. Ubisoft just got on the feudal Japan setting way too late and too late in that era judging by the guns I saw in the advertisement. It'll also be tailored to suit Ubisoft's racially diversified version of Feudal Japan rather than reality...I can see it coming already. Ghost of Tsushima will be out in a few days on Steam for comparison, 21st if I remember rightly.
Actually for a Ubisoft game that part could be historically accurate.
Yasuke - Wikipedia
It's actually a pretty good period for intrigue, lots of back stabbing that affected Yasuke too.
I feel dirty praising Ubisoft.
Yasuke...a historically factual person, perhaps... but he was no Samurai and held no social rank...and by feudal Japanese law, not permitted to carry weapons apart from a short wakizashi sword, neither would he have been permitted to own or wear personal or clan armour, even that of his liege lord.Actually for a Ubisoft game that part could be historically accurate.
Yasuke - Wikipedia
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It's actually a pretty good period for intrigue, lots of back stabbing that affected Yasuke too.
I feel dirty praising Ubisoft.
His character has been fictionally exagerated and added to the game to satisfy a racial diversity tick box, nothing else. It's Ubisoft we're talking about here after all
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Then there's this one for the serious Space Pilot.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNtil6xiN6o
Flight of Nova - small number of planets planned afaik; apparently its focus is on newt space flight within a solar system (I think) including planetary landings. The Orbital Simulator looks good too.
Flight of Nova - small number of planets planned afaik; apparently its focus is on newt space flight within a solar system (I think) including planetary landings. The Orbital Simulator looks good too.
Still waiting on STALKER 2. How good it is and how it runs will probably determine how eager I am to upgrade my GPU this generation.
Neither Ghosts of Tsushima nor AC Shadows are documentaries or presented as particularly historically accurate, and both are riddled with high-fantasy elements. The basic gameplay also involves combatants surviving attacks that would immediately maim or kill any real person, as is par for the course for combat action games. Increasing the prominence of, or outright co-opting, a historical character is a pretty minor exaggeration relative to the rest of what's going on. Personally, I've got no problem with inclusivity in what is ultimately a fantasy reinterpretation of a loosely historical setting...as long as the game doesn't try to ride on it to the expense of something else. One or two black samurai are eminently less jarring to my sense of historicality or immersion than walking off an unguarded swipe from a sword or getting magical Shinto charms from a shrine.
That said, AC isn't really my kind of game and Ubisoft has been on my 'do not patronize' list since they triple charged me for Shadowbane twenty odd years ago. Their DRM is usually pretty brutal too.
Neither Ghosts of Tsushima nor AC Shadows are documentaries or presented as particularly historically accurate, and both are riddled with high-fantasy elements. The basic gameplay also involves combatants surviving attacks that would immediately maim or kill any real person, as is par for the course for combat action games. Increasing the prominence of, or outright co-opting, a historical character is a pretty minor exaggeration relative to the rest of what's going on. Personally, I've got no problem with inclusivity in what is ultimately a fantasy reinterpretation of a loosely historical setting...as long as the game doesn't try to ride on it to the expense of something else. One or two black samurai are eminently less jarring to my sense of historicality or immersion than walking off an unguarded swipe from a sword or getting magical Shinto charms from a shrine.
That said, AC isn't really my kind of game and Ubisoft has been on my 'do not patronize' list since they triple charged me for Shadowbane twenty odd years ago. Their DRM is usually pretty brutal too.
Ach, I'm a fan of the AC series as a whole so I'll be adding the latest episode to my collection through my connect+ sub when it arrives. As long as the gameplay is fun and the story is engaging, I'll enjoy it just the same as I have all the others...history be damned
Before Toyotomi Hideyoshi united Japan anyone can be made a samurai, Hideyoshi himself was a peasent (sandle bearer for Oda Nobunaga). Hideyoshi changed that along with the rule about only samurai carrying sword.Yasuke...a historically factual person, perhaps... but he was no Samurai and held no social rank...and by feudal Japanese law, not permitted to carry weapons apart from a short wakizashi sword, neither would he have been permitted to own or wear personal or clan armour, even that of his liege lord.
His character has been fictionally exagerated and added to the game to satisfy a racial diversity tick box, nothing else. It's Ubisoft we're talking about here after all
A little bit more and maybe a little less vague.
The True Story of Yasuke, the Legendary Black Samurai Behind Netflix’s New Anime Series
The new show tells a story based on Yasuke, widely regarded as the first-ever foreigner to be given warrior status in Japan
I did say could be historically accurate and I'm kind of with you about the diversity tick box. I was thinking from the opposite direction though, Ubisoft scouring Asian history to find a point with the most diversity they could exploit. There are other periods where there's a lot of ninja/shinobi used, most likely after the Tokugawa took over. At the same time, I have a feeling the plot will lead to spoilers Honno-ji Temple spoilers, it actually makes a good story for assasins.
Yeah, I used to be a history weeb.
Really got into it after playing Shogun Total War.
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Just watched AC Shadows trailer and they actually used the name Yasuke!
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