The game require more horse power than the console have, so even if you did own one that wouldn't have completely solved the problem.

Is it just me or have more then half of the AC games been a mess on pc... Actually on a technicall level (framerate and bugs) they were Always a bit questionable on console too (at least the ones I played)m but this time they went overboard...

The AC games were always so polished and fluid, which was very important for the type of game they were. The decision to "EA" the franchise into the ground by releasing a new one every year resulted in more and more unpolished games. Plus, it used to feel special when a new release in your favorite franchise came along. Now it's like "Oh gees another one is out already. Pass." Naked cash grab. Which sucks for me because I actually enjoyed following along the increasingly weird story (up until I realized nothing ever really happened to advance the "metaplot").

The sad thing is once they beat this horse to death and then some, Watch Dogs will probably step up as the next one. Rinse repeat.

I used to really love Ubi too. Their various studios produced some of my favorites but between milking AC, Uplay and locking more and more features behind devices, websites, additional account services etc it became a bit much.

I need to play AC beyond 1. The last AAA game that I played besides GW2 was Mass Effect 3. As my only experience with Origin, it wasn't so bad, however, I'm not sure how much I would want to branch out into Uplay...

I highly recommend AC2 and AC Brotherhood, both are excellent games. Any after that are not so good.

Assassin Creed: Call Of Duty....

But seriously, i ran fine AC3 and AC4: Black Flag, despite the system requirements. My PC is ancient and yet both games ran on high without problems (it has an E6850 dual core CPU, 4gb RAM and an Nvidia 650Ti Boost - so not a beast PC).

The hardware locking trend launched by COD: Ghosts seems to be picking up this year (Alien Isolation, CoD: AW, Evil Within, Far Cry 4, AC4 and probably even more). All in the name of looking next-gen, while playing fine on computers with lower specs (pirates seem to have unlocked the hardware limitations, pointing to the fact that the system requirements are, in most cases, complete and utter bull to hide poor optimization)

Lol, "flopped"... the game is in terrible conditions but it will sell millions, Watch Dogs (new ip) also had problems and lot of negativity and still sold >4M.
Bah, those assholes deserve a bigger hit than "-9%" on shares for everything that they've done the past months, the only praise that i can give them is them publishing Child of Light and Valiant Hearts.

Well, at least the characters look almost as good as in Mafia. Oh wait, that's a bad thing.

Really?? I was led to believe AC4 ran like shit on pc... Maybe I was extremely misinformed...

In the meanwhile, here are the Steam reviews to entertain yourselves.

Strange, but it ran fine on this one. Dunno why, do not care. But definitely mty CPU wasn't supposed to ran it. And yet AC4 worked fine.

Yeah, I keep hearing contradictory stuff about this. Some GOGers reported that they were amazed by the performance and visuals on PC, others insist that it was a technical mess. Haven't played it myself, yet, but frankly I trust the guys who said that it ran and looked fine. Because let's face it, these days there are too many people who bitch about performance simply because a game was mainly developed for console, no matter how good the PC version is. Not to mention the jackasses who call a PC port garbage just because it plays much better with gamepad. :P

maybe I should think about buying it during the Christmas deals then :D

Yea, that was the kicker for me too, in a free game I get it, in a game I already paid for it's not something that works for me. At least there's always Rogue.

~RK

Yeah, had the same thought. Although the PS3 version's current metascore is even worse than Unity's. But I'm pretty sure that just like in case of any other friggin' game ever made the Xbox 360 and PS3 versions will miraculously end up with identical metascores eventually, probably a higher one than throughout all versions of Unity. Considering that Massive is behind Rogue I'm at the very least expecting a solid product which Unity clearly isn't.