Assassin's Creed Series: Nothing is True, Everything is Permitted

I like what I've seen of Bayek so far. It looks like they've finally realized the 'stoic, moody' thing they tried with Connor isn't a bad thing as long as they have him show some emotions other than angry sometimes, which Bayek seems to do. I was worried Ubi was just going to give us yet another charming womanizer guy, like they seem to have been stuck with for a while now.

...needs a beard though.

13 writers to do quests. That is alot. I think more than either CDPR or Bioware has for single projects.  They're taking the quest idea seriously. 

Oh, wow, multiple protagonists too? Okay, I have never played any AC game, but that setting and that trailer blew me away. I do like how Bayek looks, but I was worried about him being a fixed, albeit rather awesome, lead. But if you can chose you Assassin, I am... preordering, I guess.

That woman near Starrick is a far better antagonist really

I liked Evie and Jacob too. I liked that there were times during the story where I didn't like one, the other or sometimes both of them and then in the end they grew enough that I ended up loving them both.

I agree that the Jack the Ripper DLC is good!

www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2017/06/15/this-800-assassins-creed-origins-collectors-edition-is-absurd/#6bdecc67482b

So, this is what you get with "collectors edition":


Highly detailed 28.7 inch (73cm) resin statue of Bayek, a protector of Egypt whose personal story will lead to the creation of the Assassin’s Brotherhood; and his eagle, Senu - By Ubicollectibles.

The Collector’s Certificate of Authenticity, numbered 1 to 999.

An exclusive replica of Bayek’s eagle skull amulet in resin.

Two exclusive Assassin’s Creed Origins Steelbooks™.

Four large lithographs signed by the Ubisoft Montreal studio artists.

Available on Day One:

The Assassin’s Creed Origins Gold Edition: The base game, the Digital Deluxe Pack and the Season Pass, which will give players access to all upcoming major expansions and equipment sets.

The game’s art book, featuring original designs and concept art created by the Ubisoft Montreal artists.

The game’s official soundtrack.

A printed version of the game’s hand-drawn world map.

Two original art cards.

They don't even sound that interesting or I simply don't care (other then maybe the season pass version which you can get a much, much cheaper prices). To put this into perspective you could get two (without shipping/tax) ps4 pro's at $798 or one ps4 pro and six games. 

Hand drawn maps are pretty damn expensive. There's a reason you only see a few examples of the true old maps (not facsimiles or reproductions, and DON'T YOU DARE ARGUE with me that the two are the same, because they're not for historical cartography) - they were expensive to make and often had parergon (17th century onwards) or cartouche.

As much as I'll hate myself for it, but Ubisoft might not be going too far. Of course, this is hardly a map of any historical accuracy (I can't speak for Egypt, but some of the earliest detailed maps of central Europe we get are dated 1519, 1569 and thereabouts, so 16th century) so that might diminish it's value in my eyes. Then again, they decide to go for the full deal (including parchment, or, more than unlikely, papyrus - I mean, most people would think parchment is what the ancient Egyptians of that period used, right... Well, I don't know when the game supposedly takes place, so I can't even tell you if parchment should exist back then) it might be a real piece of something.

But we know Ubisoft. It'll probably be printed on modern paper and look a lot like modern maps. In otherwords, they probably want to sell a worthless piece of shite and make a shitton of buck doing so.

You are being sarcastic, right? I mean, what do historical drawn maps, where cartographers spent years of their lifetime to go out on ships and painstakingly drew shorelines and such to scale to do with some dude "drawing" the map of a game world in an hour or two which is then printed and stuffed into a box that is sold for a ridiculous price in 2017?

Yea, when even the "God's Edition" doesn't include everything, you know you are dealing with Ubi.

How much do you want to bet that a considerable number of those 73cm statues will be broken on arrival?

Eh, point. This is fucking Ubi.

This isn't even a thing for me. If people have the money and want to spend it on that, more power to them. I would too if I could afford it As it is I'll buy the deluxe edition and be done