AK

Oi.

[AK @misthios_7]

@siegfriedmuell Didn’t the same happen in 1860’s in MAGA country?

[Innocent Bystander @InnoBystander]

Oh just feck off, youve bought everything else in cricket, The Ashes should not be for sale.....

[Thomas Davey @thomasguy789]

How would this even be profitable
India can’t even sell out their own tests 😭

[Matty @mattylufc_]

Piss off

[Mitsuki Das 🐧 @mitsuki_x_10]

Yebbaaa deiii oru opinion or padam pudikkalana pudikkalanu soldrathoda niruthungada. Adha vututu edhukkeduthaalum genz, pulithis nu ivanunga puluthra puluthu irukkeyyy

[Synth Potato🥔 @SynthPotato]

Three things Assassin's Creed needs to fix as a franchise, in order to be truly back to form:

1 - Procedurally Generated cutscenes: Ubisoft has relied on cutscenes that have no emotion, no proper motion capture for far too long. This style of cutscene has been a stain on every single Assassin's Creed since Odyssey, utterly ruining the presentation of any quest they are used in. Black Flag Resynced is getting across the board praise for how amazing the cutscenes from the original look in the remake, and is getting across the board criticism for how much of a step down these procedurally generated cutscenes are in the new content, it is actual whiplash when old cutscenes sometimes transition into these.

Going forward, this system needs to go entirely. It is okay to use this system in side quests in a huge RPG but it is absolutely NOT okay for the bulk of the main quest to have these, let alone in a non-RPG game like Black Flag. Especially when developers like CD Projekt Red and Warhorse Studios are making incredible cutscenes for both their main and side quests in arguably much bigger RPGs than Ubisoft's. Ubisoft needs to start delivering AAA level cutscenes again, this is a corner cut that simply cannot go on anymore.

2 - Writing: Assassin's Creed used to be a leader in storytelling in the gaming industry, now it's hard to even take their stories seriously. A company as big as Ubisoft NEEDS to start putting more experienced, truly great writers on their projects. It's pretty much a consensus now that Black Flag Resynced's new content is clearly written differently, and worse than the original game's content. There should not be this level of quality difference between old and new Ubisoft.

Ubisoft currently has Darby McDevitt as their only truly recognizable writer that we all know continues to deliver great material, but it is simply not enough for a company as big as Ubisoft to only have 1 truly notable writer and the rest of the writing to be so mediocre. This is a major aspect that will continue to hold back their games from being considered truly great if it is continued. Hire better writers, make storytelling a central piece of these games again.

3 - Non-linear storytelling and the Target Board: Recent Assassin's Creed games has adopted a non-linear style of storytelling where main quests suddenly gives you the freedom to go after any target out of a list of targets in any order. This is a huge issue because it means there can be no character development for the entire middle portion of the game, these stories are being forced into entirely eliminating character development, recurring side casts and any sense of progression in order to accommodate for the fact that the player can go through the main quest in any order. Naoe could not experience a life-changing event in one quest because the story HAS to accommodate for the fact that you can do these quests in any order, therefore every character in Shadows is static throughout the entire game.

Non-linear storytelling has to be entirely stripped out of this franchise going forward. Black Flag Resynced is all the proof you need that writing stories in a linear order makes a huge difference in how you write these games, it used to allow Ubisoft to have these games take place over the course of years, slowly developing and aging their protagonists and side cast through the story. Making them truly satisfying tales. Now, they are just boring target cleanups with small stories that don't connect to each other until the final act, where the story can finally move forward for like an hour before it wraps up.

Overall, Ubisoft's issues have stopped being gameplay. I think everyone who's played Shadows and Black Flag Resynced agrees that the gameplay of this franchise is in a good state, especially Black Flag in terms of non-RPG gameplay. The main issue remains storytelling and presentation, once that is fixed, I truly believe that Assassin's Creed and Ubisoft as a whole will been seen in a positive light again by everyone.

The ball right now is in the hands of Ubisoft Montreal with Assassin's Creed Hexe, if that game doesn't work out, I really think interest in new games from AC will simply end. And all that will be left is remakes. So I truly hope Hexe nails it.

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

Wow! To Chris, Emma, and ALL of your brilliant cast and crew. Thank you for an amazing night in a movie theater. I can’t wait to see it again!

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

Wondering if those who have spent months lambasting a film they haven’t seen will now, confronted by 5 star reviews for The Odyssey, reconsider their boycott, or whether they will dismiss the positive reviews as evidence of a woke conspiracy to overthrow Western civilisation?

[Tom Morris @tommorris32]

Major news out of England - Brendon McCullum is set to be sacked as Test coach.

Formal announcement as early as today. Still a chance he will continue leading the white ball teams.

Full coverage on The New Ball with @beastieboy07, Tuesday night 8pm on SEN.

@7Cricket @1116sen @SEN_Cricket

[Transfer News Live @DeadlineDayLive]

🚨 Real Madrid are pushing to part ways with Vinícius Júnior this summer and are prepared to go as far as offering him a share of his transfer fee to help facilitate a move elsewhere. 🇧🇷

The club are actively looking to encourage the winger to consider an exit.

(Source: Ramón Álvarez de Mon)

[Retney @retneysholocron]

“This generation will not be defined by its great games or incredible tech, but rather by corporate greed, mismanagement, and anti-consumer practices.”

Nailed it

[SpawnPoiint @SpawnPoiint]

PlayStation just confirmed physical game discs will be NO MORE from January 2028.

PS6 will be a 100% digital console.

Wtf. This is terrible news.

[Jozu 🇵🇦 @JozuJoestarr]

1000 american dollars for a console with no controller #CastrateSamAltman

[nico @forerolas]

endrick: me cae muy bien el archiduque franz ferdinand

ancelotti:

[Rob @iamrobtv]

Yea no.

On the gameplay front, sure. An improvement in almost every conceivable way from Tsushima to Yotei. Better traversal, open world and swordplay

But there is an ATLANTIC OCEAN SIZED GAP between Tsushima and Yotei as far as narrative goes. Tsushima tells the tale of a samurai becoming the first shinobi and struggling with the inner moral conflict of that. Sacrificing his honor for the greater good of his people.

Yotei tells a revenge story we’ve seen at least 1000 times across different mediums of storytelling. Decent story throughout but wildly mediocre, cliche final act

They aren’t even close. Tsushima clears 8 days a week

[javier sniffer ' Turkey (MDNI) @glorifiedturk]

my favorite part of red dead redemption 2 is when arthur morgan looks directly at the camera and says 'you should vote for kamala harris' and then starts singing old town road by lil nas x

[BLACKCAPS @BLACKCAPS]

One of our greatest ever, signing off.

Kane Williamson has announced his retirement from international cricket effective immediately.

Head to https://t.co/Pm8RiU65zt to read more.

[Blindinho @_Blindinho_]

Taniya dhan birthday celebrate pana nu cake laye potruke