That’s understandable but this is not acceptable to me personally. It’s too big a trade off and it doesn’t bold well for future games.
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If I’m not mistaken the engine AoM uses was built from the SR3 CTG engine.
Never played anything after SR3 so I wouldn’t know. 4 is nothing but an Expansion Pack turned into a standalone game with a 4 added in the title. I think that was publisher decision though and not Volition’s choice.
Sure, they have sand storms in the game to fit the setting but why not have the NPCs react to it like they did in previous games when it was raining? Was it because engine limitations also? 
Defending or finding excuses for a game that’s borken on release and a disappointment is also defending the idea of developers releasing borken and disappointing games for suckers to buy for $60 / $70 dollars. My honest opinion.
Get mad at Deep Silver & THQ, the publishers.
A lot of complaints I’ve heard seem to be about SR being underbaked and generic – not something you want your shiny new Reboot to be called. Game’s also buggy as heck
It’s pretty likely the dev team was rushed to release the game by a specific date and that’s why it’s probably so bland. They weren’t given the time they needed to create a better experience.
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i’m not sure how developers can stop people being disappointed in their game. releasing a disappointing game isn’t even in the same ballpark as releasing a buggy one. the latter is measurable; the former is subjective.
regardless, discussing reasons as to why things are borken (
), why certain features may have been left out, or whether they’re valuable to the experience, isn’t necessarily a blind defence of something. it’s taking in the ‘realities’ of development. it isn’t an easy job, especially with the kind of pedantic, highly-strung geek audience most games cater towards. i couldn’t do it. 
treating every potential line of reasoning as an excuse/defence of something you think is unjust is equally as exhausting as people blindly defending a game simply because they like it.
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“long awaited” fuck off, I’m waiting long for the Witcher 3 update 
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i’m surprised and not surprised that they’re stopping support for old gen. i understand the limitations of the older systems are holding them back, but this still feels a bit scummy. they released the game on old gen to get the money from the larger install base, fully aware that it would run terribly (or otherwise stratospherically incompetent), and now drop it a year or so later once they got the basics just about functioning.
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They say end of the year but these days you can’t be too sure
@Screaming_Meat So many lies when they said that they were happy with the performance on the PS4. Doubt anyone will forget that part anytime soon.
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they wasted so much good will on that too.
on top of that, they’ve spoken about this expansion for a little while, with no indication that it would be current gen only. so that’s another move that - given their recent history - i can’t help but frame as a wee bit shady too.
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I don’t care, I will consider buying Cyberpunk 2077 only when it costs under 5 dollars with all the expansions. All gamers should do this to send a message.
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Gamers unite!™ 
Maybe we should just not buy games made with heavy crunch/deathmarching no matter if it resulted in a great game. I am confident getting rid of that would also result in more realistic time tables and feature lists.
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Crunch culture is a hard thing to kill it seems
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absolutely agree, but with those changes i think audiences - and i include myself, of course - need to temper our expectations. our demand for this stuff is part of the cycle.
oh, and it would be cool if the hardware we use wasn’t linked to slave labour, concentration camps, and genocide too.
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End my suffering
We live in the most fucked up timeline
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Well it looks like the Holy Roman AC game is confirmed (which is good because I am most excited for that one) since they just came out with a Charlemagne pack for Valhalla. Makes sense since they make a few references to the HRE in the game proper and the second DLC is about his dipshit descendent.
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Still waiting for that magical AC game that might have Vlad the Impaler in it or at least the formation of the Order of the Dragon by Sigismund.
Ubi teased me a lot with references to him in the Ezio trilogy 
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Well, he was in Revelations. Dead, but was there
I’d probably be excited for the Japan AC game if it wasn’t part of Infinity, but we’ll see…
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He was a playable character in the multiplayer and one of the targets was an admirer of Vlad
There was also a sword that is said to be his in Brotherhood
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Well Wallachia wasn’t a part of the HRE but Sigismund is a possibility
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Vali I remember well. He had a neat backstory. The MP character I didn’t know about, since I never played the MP.
Brotherhood? His sword was in Revelations. The Spada Lunga is Italian and you only “pay” for it with the coins featuring Vlad, no?
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