Assassins Creed 2

[Lantyssa]

Also, I noticed Jade Raymond hardly did any promotion for this one. Heh. She's still the producer though. Look what you bastards did! Scaring a cute girl like that... Meh.  

Good.

[stray]

I'm all down for not only cute, but enthusiastic people to talk about games. There is a good in it somewhere... I mean, on one hand, there are booth babes promoting games at shows, who probably don't know or care much about it. And on the other hand, there are a lot of slovenly dudes who, half of the time, don't even seem to want to talk in interviews (the BF:BC guys come to mind recently). Or cocky fatasses like.... no wait, he's gotten enough shit. nvm

[Lantyssa]

We've been over this a lot, so I'm going to elucidate on my reply without going on an entire rant...  It's one thing to have a good looking developer out there talking about a game they are passionate about in an enthusiastic manner.  Then there's what happened with AC1.

[stray]

I was never quite sure "what happened" with AC1 other than Ubi knowing they had a pretty face, who also happened to have a functional lead position over her team. Nor do I mind promoting looks in general. It's great. Half of the world is looks and appearances and all that shit. The other half is more abstract/cerebral/what have you. I acknowledge both. So.. in my view, I think they had a fortunate situation. She happened to be both. Can't blame them for trying.

[NiX]

Actually, I think the big issue wasn't with Jade being the face of AC1. It was with what the "fans" did with that fact.

[Azazel]

If by "fans" you also mean the gaming press and the Ubisoft hype machine,  then yes.

[UnSub]

If by "fans" you also mean the gaming press and the Ubisoft hype machine,  then yes.

The handsome-ish male lead designer having a thick French accent didn't help their cause either.

[Khaldun]

I can't quite explain it but for some reason this game is just not catching me. I keep putting it in, playing a bit, and then finding something else I need to do.

[NiX]

I can't quite explain it but for some reason this game is just not catching me. I keep putting it in, playing a bit, and then finding something else I need to do.

I've had moments where I felt I was doing very redundant tasks. Solution was to cut out treasure hunting and just running to the ! marks, but I can see it not grabbing everyone. It has that Pre-conviction Splinter Cell appeal.

Edit: Anyone else find the muggers very annoying?

[Azazel]

If by "fans" you also mean the gaming press and the Ubisoft hype machine,  then yes.

The handsome-ish male lead designer having a thick French accent didn't help their cause either.

Oh Yeah, I agree! It's really terrible to read a print interview with someone who has an accent. It's all like "sooo ve vwere traying to set up ze geme soo thet Altai-aire hed too clamb zee buildeengs, no?" in the written text, since journalists never interview people with any kind of accent, and always transcribe phonetically.

I couldn't understand the last interview I tried to read from a DICE dev about BF:BC2, it was all Swedish chef gibberish. "yurgen flurgen" etc.

 

[LK]

Game had way too many superfluous goals and turned money into something that wasn't valuable. That actually might purposely done thematically, with the game about how you slowly find money to be meaningless in your pursuit of revenge and saving the world from the Templars, but I'm willing to say they stumbled into it.

[UnSub]

If by "fans" you also mean the gaming press and the Ubisoft hype machine,  then yes.

The handsome-ish male lead designer having a thick French accent didn't help their cause either.

Oh Yeah, I agree! It's really terrible to read a print interview with someone who has an accent. It's all like "sooo ve vwere traying to set up ze geme soo thet Altai-aire hed too clamb zee buildeengs, no?" in the written text, since journalists never interview people with any kind of accent, and always transcribe phonetically.

I couldn't understand the last interview I tried to read from a DICE dev about BF:BC2, it was all Swedish chef gibberish. "yurgen flurgen" etc.

 

One magical thing about the internet is that is shows moving pictures too. Assassin's Creed used a good number of videos to promote itself. Jade's videos got more hits than the french man.

I didn't say that was the only reason, but even journalists would rather take the phone call from the person they can understand.

And remember: internet==death of print. 

[Lantyssa]

One magical thing about the internet is that is shows moving pictures too. Assassin's Creed used a good number of videos to promote itself. Jade's videos got more hits than the french man.

Yes.  It was certainly the accents which account for that difference.

[NiX]

Yes.  It was certainly the accents which account for that difference.

It was her boobs and the fact that the majority of gaming is male and love to whack it.

Can we stop talking around that point now?

[schild]

Yes.  It was certainly the accents which account for that difference.

It was her boobs and the fact that the majority of gaming is male and love to whack it.

You need to put spoiler alerts around stuff like that.

[Azazel]

Yes.  It was certainly the accents which account for that difference.

It was her boobs and the fact that the majority of gaming is male and love to whack it.

Can we stop talking around that point now?

I don't think it became an issue until Unsub started trolling/acting really dense.