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Black Flag Resynced has 30+ MD data files that aren't recorded online anywhere.......... This is so tragic 😭 you cannot ask me to spend $100 just to read like 10 minutes worth of text files scattered across a game I've played 5 times (Also it's criminal Ubisoft is charging $100 AUD for a remake)

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And also the Roberts retcon in the remake makes me really mad, so fuck em I'll get it in a couple years when it's on sale for $10

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I don't think I'll play Resynced for a while... I have played the original like 5 times through? As recently as last year. Yeah there's new MD rifts, but all the MD lore is just 1KB text files now so who even gives a shit anymore, certainly not Ubi

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It had a lot of style and it does feel like AC is slowly crawling it's way back up the quality bar as the years go on. And, as always I love the characters. Yasuke is one of my favourite AC protagonists ever, I love Naoe being an angry whirlwind of death, I love (most) of the hideout cast too

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I think Shadows will be remembered for being the worst paced story overall - it has like 7 endings split across over a year of updates and DLC, and only certain parts were allowed to interact (wonder what Tsuyu had to say about black tides, for example)

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Ultimately, it was an ending of best fit, put together to tie up a story that was made up of so many messy threads that didn't get the time they deserved

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To give Naoe the same hatred for the Templars that drove Yasuke all along, maybe finally pushing her to seek out the Assassins for real

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SPOILERS I kind of wish they had killed Yasuke. For a moment, I really thought they might! But then I realised they didn't put a "point of no return" box at the start of the quest so they couldn't have... But it would have been such an emotionally powerful moment,

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Made the rest of the game feel like it was maybe leading to something after all. Even if that something was an ad for Black Flag and a continuation of the "tainted ones" bloodline nonsense from Odyssey I liked the fakeout with the hidden vault under the vault, cool bit

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So I finally, FINALLY finished Shadows true ending - no not yasuke's ending, not Naoe's ending, no not the epilogue, no not the DLC, no not the final rift, no not the final project, the Black Tides questline. Ending number 7? Anyway, it was pretty good!!

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Like oh my god running through entire camps of soldiers as Naoe and taking out like 8 people in under 15 seconds is just, it's incredible, how did they make it feel so fluid and expressive, I've never been so addicted to the flow state as in this game Shame the story sucks but yknow

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AC Shadows sure is just, the best these games have ever felt to play isn't it If they can ever marry the Shadows quality of gameplay with a Valhalla quality of writing, I think they'll have peaked the RPG formula for these games

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Tucked away behind a desk is a tiny dark red one. It sits on top of a pool of blood, claw marks all around. Yeah, this ship is fucken haunted

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There's a captains log about an issue with the reactor, but even still it's all functioning fine... Who hailed us? Down in the computer core rooms hidden among shelving units overlooking the corpses are a number of tiny little adorable plushies.

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The ones without a spacesuit you can see have either frozen to death, or otherwise rapidly decomposed. Temps 22°C. Also... If everyone's dead, who hailed us?

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On board, the grav drive is still functioning and all the lights are on. No signs of life, starborn senses can't find anything. Oh wait, corpses. UC marines dead in their suits, scientists and engineers dead on the floor.

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Got hailed by a lone UC ship asking us over comms to help with repairs, telling us to dock. Okay, wierd, shields and hull are all good, all it's systems are up, hmm this smells like an ambush maybe? The ship stops moving and doesn't respond to our hails

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Bethesda's still fucken got the sauce man, they never stopped. Starfield gets so much shit but did anyone really play it, like really really play it, it's full of absolute gems there just ain't no way

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I don't think there's ever been a game in my entire life that I've played through twice, back to back with basically no break. It hooked me so much, I've been thinking about it every day.

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I was originally a bit annoyed I'd have to replay the game in NG+ to see the ending, but I'm so so glad I did. This story is so tightly written and interconnected that you'll never get the full picture on a first run, even if the information changed in NG+ is mostly hints and flair

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It's a game it's a musical it's multiple songs and a photo exhibition and a short film and a story and a poem, it's a science experiment, it's an ocean, it's a spiral. it's such a deep web of threads woven together, how did this get made, how did this get written

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𝐃𝐄𝐕𝐎𝐍 𝐈𝐍 𝐇𝐄𝐋𝐋™ @devononearth.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

I wish I could put all my feelings about Alan Wake 2 (and by extension Control and Alan Wake 1) into words but I just don't even know how to describe the experience I've had going through this wild rollercoaster of a narrative

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Reposted by Ceres_O7

Oh did the ceasefire last until friday market close again

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Ceres_O7 @cereso7.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Holy shit Control is practically required homework for this game it's insane. I suppose you could also view Alan Wake 2 as required homework for Control, most of the connections would be just as insane both ways But wow there's a LOT happening between these two series

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Ceres_O7 @cereso7.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

JESSE FADEN IN THE AW2 DLC???

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It's a mystery where you start with more clues than the detective...

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A random email mentioning a specific thing, she pins it to her board. You, having played Control, know exactly what that thing is, and its implications.

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Her thought process is so deductive and rational but if you played the previous games, you know that she's playing against a stacked deck here, in circumstances she really can't grasp the full extent of.

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and I think what's so brilliant is that if you played AW1, American Nightmare, Control, and Control AWE you are almost, putting together your own version of the mystery on top of it all.

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You know what I'm loving about Alan Wake 2 is Saga's investigation board. Piecing the mystery together through her eyes is so much fun

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*glances at my massive rant thread about the ammo spawns in the level design of Alan Wake* Huh, I used to think I was neurotypical didn't I

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They placed a weapon gear check, the only one in the entire game, like 5 seconds down the critical path right near the end of the game, to force the player to go find that pistol first

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Either the gun is optional and therefore useless (you can't force the player into a fight if they don't have a weapon) or they need to guarantee the player has a gun before the next fight, but come on it's been the whole game and there's never been a weapon gear check surely they won't just...

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Honourable mention goes to the bit halfway through the second last level where they take away your gun in a cutscene, 2 mins later you can find a gun in a shed just off the critical path.

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Story is it's own beast, and from what I understand about Control and AW2 it gets even more nuts from there...

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And then in the later levels once they're willing to up the power fantasy a bit, friends with light and guns. Or, lots of ammo early, huge fights alongside NPCs. Or, drive car with light. Or control moveable spotlight for wave defense. Etc etc etc - they just kept mixing it up maybe 5 times a level

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