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Assassin’s Creed Unity Not Locked to 900p on Xbox One and PlayStation 4

Ubisoft recently stated that Assassin’s Creed: Unity was running at 900p on both the Xbox One and the Playstation 4 for its recent demos. But they did not mention a final resolution for the finished game on either.

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The Ubisoft conference, thank god for you. The previous two have been terrible, but finally we saw some interesting games. But something has been bothering me during these conferences. I've heard this new phrase of persistent online gaming referenced several times and the idea bothers me because I can see it becoming the next big trend in gaming, this idea of "blurring the line between offline, co-op and online gaming" and basically combining all three instead of having them as separate elements. From a development stand point this is the easy route. Combine all three into one game and they don't have to do three times the work. I DO NOT WANT THAT. I hate that online gaming has become persistently more intrusive as the years have gone on. I'm an offline gamer almost exclusively. I don't like socializing in real life or in virtual reality, I don't like the online experience or the repetitive mechanics it uses. I am all about the single player experience. Frankly I don't want to play the same game over and over, I want the awesome experience of one and then be able to move onto another. Nothing bores me more in this world than repetition. I want diversity and as many great experiences as gaming can offer. I don't want to sit on call of duty and shoot people over and over in the same environments using the same outdated mechanisms endlessly. I think online multiplayer is as bad as gaming can get and I believe that developers that include it end up detracting from their single player campaigns because they split their focus. Admit it, the best games are NOT multiplayer and the very best do not include it at all. The last thing I want is games that force you to be online, that force you to have other people invade your gaming experience and not be able to turn it off and escape it. The single player experience is tailored to be by far the best, the most powerful, the most intense experience a game can offer. I admit the inclusion of other people can enhance a game dramatically but those games are rare, and I want the option to be able to choose. Its bad enough that games force you to go online to get trophies that enable you to obtain the coveted platinum. As a trophy whore I hate it and think that should be banned altogether. So the idea of persistent online gaming and the thought that it could become a popular trend in gaming makes me feel sick to the core. There is a huge portion of our society that don't want to be social gamers, and I for one am included.

Anyway the Ubisoft conference: Starting with Splinter Cell Blacklist, I've never been a fan of stealth games so I have no opinion. Rayman Legends I know will probably give me a heart attack. I hated Origins purely because trying to platinum that game was an exercise of enduring hellish frustration and rage and I expect Legends will finally kill me off completely. I've never actually watched South Park but the game looks awesome and I will be getting it on launch day. The Crew: more racing, who cares. Watch Dogs looked incredible, but we all knew that was a given. Then we had two casual games (well one and a bit, kinda) I won't even waste my time talking about. Assassin's Creed IV I will reserve judgement on until I play it, because I've never been a massive fan of the series (mainly because I find open world games unbelievably repetitive, not because the game is bad) and have been very put off by the poor attempt at innovation that was ACIII. And then finally the big one in my eyes, The Division. Not much gets me excited these days, but that looked incredible. Post-apocalypse in NYC is basically my idea of heaven, even enough to make me play a game online which I never do. It looked like everything I Am Alive was not. But just because it looked amazing does not mean it will be. We will have to see as more information becomes available.