Pretty cool. Black Flag is a great game.
Shame about the multiplayer though. I played a load of that.
Shame about the multiplayer though. I played a load of that.
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Assassin's Creed: The Rebel Collection announced for Nintendo Switch (Black Flag + Rogue)
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Good AC games, will be tempted to buy these. I've not been impressed with the suspiciously grindy Origins and Odyssey, so some old style AC on the go will go down well with me.
I've always considered AC2 and Black Flag to be the best AC games. You should definitely play it.
You know, I'm jealous of people who are going to play this back to back for the first time. Rogue is a great sequel to Black Flag and the closest this franchise had been to a "Empire Strikes Bad". Of course the plot is resolved on ACIII.
Any action adventure fan should. Play this.
Just disable the minimap and as. Much of the hud as you want. The AC games have the awful custum of spelling the game for you on the hud so at the end of the day you don't pay attention to what's going on on-screen.
Any action adventure fan should. Play this.
Just disable the minimap and as. Much of the hud as you want. The AC games have the awful custum of spelling the game for you on the hud so at the end of the day you don't pay attention to what's going on on-screen.
looks like rogue will be downloadable and not on the cart :/
Hopefully that means higher quality assets, rather than being more AC Switch games which are pretty much just the Xbox 360 versions running at higher resolution.
It seems to be a package deal, like ACIII and Liberation were.
No surprise. Liberation HD was a Vita game so of course that was going to be small enough to fit on a cart with AC3 (hell I was shocked it did at all). Black Flag and Rogue are full-fledged PS360 games. Putting two on a 16Gb cart was never going to happen, and there's NO way they'd even consider a 32GB cart without Nintendo possibly footing the bill which is what many speculate IIRC for The Witcher 3 because of how massive of a deal it is.
What worries me is if this will be a stupid FF X/X-2 scenario where the code is treated as DLC. It's useless since used copies may never be complete without a working code, and folks can't just sell/give the other game away. However that might've been due to that being based on the PS4 version which was a native 2-pack, rather than the Vita version being two separate games. Rebel is a unique 2-pack for Switch based on separate games. It should be fine here.
Only the European or also the American? Also, why not use a bigger cart, Witcher is going to do so :/
i can't imagine it being like ff10/10-2, it'll most likely be like spyro.
The fact there's a special banner makes me think it's a code in a box which is preferable. It at least gives a use for Rogue should folks not want it.
If Rogue is a download in Europe, anyone interested in the game should expect that to be the case in other regions as well.
That would result in a substantial cost increase. The economics of a collection of old Assassin's Creed games (that costs probably €40) are not the same as the economics of The Witcher 3.
Only just realised this is a thing and it's coming to Switch, AC BF was my favourite AC game. Only played it once back in November 2013 so not sure if I will buy again..
You won't be able to play Rogue without having Black Flag, which means you won't be able to give it away.
There's just one icon to launch both games, so it'll be like FFX/X-2.
Never played Black Flag. What makes it so good?
How's the atmosphere of the game? Is there a night/day cycle? I love sunsets in games. :)
How's the atmosphere of the game? Is there a night/day cycle? I love sunsets in games. :)
It's a mostly-pirate-styled game (plus standard AC lore) set around the Caribbean - so you've got the tropical islands, a sunny world occasionally interrupted with massive storms, a ship you can (mostly) freely sail around that world, and a crew who you can recruit who'll sail with you, sing songs on deck, and fight by your side in naval combat.
And yes, there's a day/night cycle. You can get some idea of the time and weather cycles and how they affect the game's atmosphere from time lapse videos like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZQHbozIMF4
Black Flag is one of the best AC games (maybe my favourite).
Rogue is very good, pretty underrated since it came out on last gen consoles and was the side dish in the shadow of AC Unity, which itself got bad press. A lot of people just overlooked it. It's pretty similar to Black Flag gameplay wise, but with a very different setting and a protagonist unlike any other in the series.
Rogue is very good, pretty underrated since it came out on last gen consoles and was the side dish in the shadow of AC Unity, which itself got bad press. A lot of people just overlooked it. It's pretty similar to Black Flag gameplay wise, but with a very different setting and a protagonist unlike any other in the series.
they're not voluntarily losing money in the US. all regions or nothing. Why not use a bigger card? because it's massively expensive and Witcher 3 is a prestige port for Nintendo which they're probably cutting Bamco a deal for.
The plot thickens (not really? 🤔).
As they still have the previous cover without the partial download info banner, I went to the Amazon.com listing and directly asked if both games are on cartdridge. I was expecting a generic answer (This is a cartdridge version or something along those lines) or no response at all.
Well, Ubisoft Support gave a very concrete response:
https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx2HELF4TA3WE78/
I still don't trust that they will be using a different cartdrige size in USA, but 🤷♂️
As they still have the previous cover without the partial download info banner, I went to the Amazon.com listing and directly asked if both games are on cartdridge. I was expecting a generic answer (This is a cartdridge version or something along those lines) or no response at all.
Well, Ubisoft Support gave a very concrete response:
https://www.amazon.com/ask/questions/Tx2HELF4TA3WE78/
I still don't trust that they will be using a different cartdrige size in USA, but 🤷♂️
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AC4 is actually a prequel to three so you should be good. The ending may not mean as much to you without having played three but you should be fine.
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Thanks! I follow the saga but had no idea it was a prequel lol.
I hope they do a real Black Flag II. Complete without the assassin-mechanics.
Like an actual real Pirate game.
Like an actual real Pirate game.
Unless you really want to dedicate yourself to a series playthrough, it's fine to play this ahead of (or just instead of) III and Liberation. Both as a game and as a re-introduction to the series after potentially 10 years, IV is a lot better than III.
Holy fucking shit what is this? never heard of it bust must have it!
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Only the historical parts are a prequel to AC3. The modern/overarching storyline is a sequel to it. And Rogue is entirely a sequel to AC4, though the historical story is still a prequel to the one in AC3.
If you play AC4 first, there will still be spoilers for AC3, and Rogue has spoilers for all the games that came before it.
they announced that as their big new thing like four E3s ago lol
Officially no, it was announced for a 2018 release which was delayed to 2019 and then 2020.
Unofficially...well, we haven't had any significant new media since E3 2018, and the last news of any kind was the last delay. Ubisoft don't commonly publicly announce games and then cancel them (it has happened, just not often) so I think it's likely that something will emerge sometime, but it's anyone's guess at this stage.
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Thanks! A lotta good content for the price.
Let's hope performance/Audio quality is good.
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Hopefully they learned from the Switch port of AC3. It had poor audio at launch, but they patched it in August with higher-quality audio. Performance and bugs still leave something to be desired, though.
Get black flag if you haven't played it. It's one of my best Assassin's Creed games. Got it on physical and digital on PS4 and gifted a few copies to friends.
It's very good!
It's very good!
Yes, and the Aveline single mission. That mission not exactly a huge amount of content but it's nice that it's there anyway.
Probably this will be the same price as ACII Remastered in most countries. That'd mean €40. Last year that somehow translated into a price of £30 in the UK. Whether that'll be £30 this year or go up to £35 or similar, I guess you'll need to wait and see, since there's no eShop listing yet.
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