Realism

[I HATE PEOPLE]

When scaling a windmill a small, skinny Japanese girl is capable of climbing several boards in one go just by pulling with her ARMS - not her legs like most people would - while surviving on turnips and dried fish.

[Shin Happens]

Spoiler for the OP.... NO one can climb like ANY of the characters in ANY AC game ever! Or did you think the Batman style grappling hook in Syndiate is realistic? Or how Kassandra/Alexios or Eivor scale steep mountains and cliff faces? Or how jumping off a steeple or view point into a mere haystack 50m down below can realistically cushion your fall so you get away unscathed?

[JiveTurkey]

Originally posted by I HATE PEOPLE:

When scaling a windmill a small, skinny Japanese girl is capable of climbing several boards in one go just by pulling with her ARMS - not her legs like most people would - while surviving on turnips and dried fish.

Yea its ridiculous. I need 100% realism in games where you go in the past through your DNA with the help of a VR headset and acquire the skills from your ancestors. I can't believe how far Assassin's Creed has fallen. There aren't even any desyncs in this game when you reach the edge of the map.

[I HATE PEOPLE]

Originally posted by longjohn119:

Originally posted by I HATE PEOPLE:

When scaling a windmill a small, skinny Japanese girl is capable of climbing several boards in one go just by pulling with her ARMS - not her legs like most people would - while surviving on turnips and dried fish.

The reason books, movies and video games were created is because realism and real life are boring AF ....... If you want realism then just go spend some time outdoors .....

Sure, but I mean... I just looted a tree from a chest. Not a seed, an entire adult tree with leaves and everything. Do the devs even know how plants work? Maybe THEY need to step outside for a little bit.

[maviscruet]

Originally posted by I HATE PEOPLE:

Originally posted by longjohn119:

The reason books, movies and video games were created is because realism and real life are boring AF ....... If you want realism then just go spend some time outdoors .....

Sure, but I mean... I just looted a tree from a chest. Not a seed, an entire adult tree with leaves and everything. Do the devs even know how plants work? Maybe THEY need to step outside for a little bit.

Bonsai tree?

I grew up gaming with superfast hedgehogs and plumbers that could jump 3 times their own height. there was also a game where worms had bazookas.

If finding a tree, stopping for a meal midfight to heal or climbing a building ruins your immersion or whatever we're supposed to say you've basically got three choices
1. grit your teeth and play through it
2. don't do activities in game that you don't think your character should or could do or
3. do something else.

[Jung_usm_Veedel]

And another lost soul searching for the meaning of life in a video game.

This is a game, and not everything in a game has to make sense.

Actually, I don't even know why I'm responding to a troll.

If you want pure realism, it would be advisable to go outside your front door.

[beluga25]

Originally posted by I HATE PEOPLE:

Yes, and I also just watched a scene where poachers - who are supposedly starving - killed a deer and then left the animal there on the ground by the edge of a moat with an arrow through its throat, didn't butcher it for meat or anything. Merely killed the animal and then retreated to their campfire.

The holes in the writing go beyond just an "uninteresting story".

The hole in your grasp of reality is even bigger. The reality is this is an
Assassin's Creed GAME. Realism is not on the docket. Their idea is not to sculpt a literary
masterpiece, but to extract as much money from buyers with as little effort as possible. Holes in the story, plot inconsistencies, illogical events, etc. are a given as much as we might wish otherwise.

This notwithstanding, I bought the game and continue playing it because I enjoy the gameplay--combat, exploration, etc. as well as the parts of the main quest and various side quests that do have okay writing. If you can't do the same you're probably better served moving on to something else, if you haven't already played it, with better writing like The Witcher 3 or Ghost of Tshushima (none of which are perfect either).

[Antigreedy]

Ubisoft games have never been realistic anyway.

[The Frisian Algerian]

Originally posted by I HATE PEOPLE:

When scaling a windmill a small, skinny Japanese girl is capable of climbing several boards in one go just by pulling with her ARMS - not her legs like most people would - while surviving on turnips and dried fish.

The game time travels for Christ sakes. Who expects "realism" in a bloody video game! Jesus.
Read a history book or watch a documentary if you want "realism".

[I HATE PEOPLE]

Originally posted by maviscruet:

Originally posted by I HATE PEOPLE:

Sure, but I mean... I just looted a tree from a chest. Not a seed, an entire adult tree with leaves and everything. Do the devs even know how plants work? Maybe THEY need to step outside for a little bit.

Bonsai tree?

I grew up gaming with superfast hedgehogs and plumbers that could jump 3 times their own height. there was also a game where worms had bazookas.

If finding a tree, stopping for a meal midfight to heal or climbing a building ruins your immersion or whatever we're supposed to say you've basically got three choices
1. grit your teeth and play through it
2. don't do activities in game that you don't think your character should or could do or
3. do something else.

No it wasn't a bonsai tree, it was a "large tall oak" tree or something. I looted it from a CHEST. How could an entire, living, full sized TREE be inside of a chest about two feet wide?

Now let's imagine a game where, instead of focusing on collectibles and huge beautiful worlds, you have to seek medical treatment if you get injured, for example. Or, say, if you keep banging your katana against armor plates it's going to get blunted and you have to go to a blacksmith to buy another one. So basically you have an operational cost which suddenly causes side quests to make more sense since you need to make money to fund the equipment you'll need for the more complex assassinations.

That would be serious game about a medieval assassin. This is just a freaking arcade game and honestly an insult to my intelligence. I don't know why they're not developing these games and instead focusing on the "shiny stuff"

[I HATE PEOPLE]

Originally posted by I HATE PEOPLE:

I mean at least respect the laws of physics, is that so much to ask? I am not playing a high fantasy game about worms wielding bazookas, it's supposed to be a historical low fantasy game and they don't even seem to understand how trees work, or how a teenager on a low protein diet wouldn't be able to catapult herself 2 meters in the air with the strength of her own arms alone

[MythicRocfordson]

Videogame

[HorzaEdeo]

Originally posted by MythicRocfordson:

Videogame

right? maybe take up mountaineering instead if it bothers you that much
do you post these sort of threads on every game you've played for 100s of hours cos NONE of them have realistic medical treatment involving hospitalisation and surgery

[Albert Whiskers]

Its a video game who cares

[BigJ]

Think the bigger issue is not that the game is not realistic, it doesn't ain to be, but that the stablished expectations are consistent.

So as an example when your leg breaks...you know that you can just ration to heal, but you never do so.

[I HATE PEOPLE]

Originally posted by HorzaEdeo:

Originally posted by MythicRocfordson:

Videogame

right? maybe take up mountaineering instead if it bothers you that much
do you post these sort of threads on every game you've played for 100s of hours cos NONE of them have realistic medical treatment involving hospitalisation and surgery

Rimworld does, Project Zomboid, Escape from Tarkov, Fallout 4 with Horizon mod... just to name a few. There's probably more