No, no, no, no, no, no, I had a flan. Boom. What you aiming at? Come on. Yeah, I'll walk at you. Oh, but I could have been so cool if I had a flan. Ladies and gentlemen, we've lost him. Rollback is gone. Rollback's gone, everybody. They took it away. The beta has officially ended. But while it was here, it was pretty good. Anyway, I brought my friend Deon to record some fighters. Because I know our connection's decent on delay base. And look, I didn't want to go back. I wasn't ready to go back to the online streets. I wasn't ready. Let's get the best of the delay base. I wasn't ready to go fully immersed. Damn, you lost matches. Me, I'm flawless, personally. Every time I see you on PC, you're always flawless, but you've only added one game to your repertoire. I went from seven to eight. I know BrokeLonged on for his daily one right game. It said, whew, I'm beat. I'm going to get that Floyd Mayweather 50 in a row and then just retire from rank. Yeah, I think that's a good goal. You should actually, that should be your video. I won 50 straight rank matches. Why could I be picking a part of the team? Editor, put that picture back up. Just then standing there. Why do you think he's part of the team? Honestly, because he knows rollback's gone. And he knows I dodged those. I knew you were going to do that. All right, so you knew about that. But hey, bro, drop your combo. Frame, spike, frames, go. These frames are actually kind of wild. Don't do it. Don't do it. Honestly, my favorite part about the rollback was just that, well, one, it felt pretty smooth when it was doing its thing. But even when it lagged. I was reacting to things and I was like, see? I told you. See, but that one, you probably would have got that on rollback, huh? Nah, it didn't. Probably not. Yeah, bro, nah, I think so. I think so.  Oh, dude, even on delay-based, I'm still him. Man, maybe I was wrong about rollback. You was impressed in two ways, regardless. Maybe I was wrong. I don't need rollback. Rollback needs me. Oh, and I blocked that. All right, nah, I see it on another netcode. I want to react to that. Stop the cat, bro.  Nah, but like I was saying, even when it lagged on rollback, I liked when it would say, like, defeat. But then you didn't actually defeat them. That was pretty funny. Probably going to have to address that one. Level three. Yeah, down. Nope, no, but how are you blocking this? I don't need to. Wow. Level one in vulnerability? Yes. Bro, how did you? What if I throw one up? I'm not going to do it.  Right after you said you weren't going to do it, huh? Well, I wasn't going to super dash is what I meant. I had to keep you honest. I still got spark. I'm feeling pretty good on this. I feel like if I just get one.  I was basically on the ground. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It might be a bit of an Xbox, you know, connect. I don't know where I was going with that. Me, me, me, I'm over here. I'm glad you didn't know where you were going with it, but then you said it was going to be like a connect to connect. Hey, open up, open up, open. And I can super dash after beans when they hit me. All right. And I know I know you probably was loving Jeanette Bond rollback. Yeah, I know you was probably loving that. Oh, yeah. No, I feel good. It felt real good. And I played a lot on rollback. I didn't like record any videos, but I was just kind of playing on the low, playing with everybody. I was just I was just going into twitch chats and be like, hey, no, pretty much.  I just imagine you're in one twitch. I like, honestly, I know you ain't being me.  And then you just went to a different twitch. I was like, I know you ain't being me.  You ain't got road.  Also level three. Nice. What? I was like, but I was doing the easy version. Oh, my lord. It's like, I still got it. Do I have a vanish? No, I do not. Oh, how did you did not actually get away with all of this doubt? That was that was like, no way. You blocked an instant overhead like that.   Please don't kill me. I'm not losing my first game back on delay base. I can't. The fraud allegations are going to go crazy. The fraud allegations, please. Think of the fraud, bro. Let me add a couple of scars to that face. You want to know about my I do remember why? And I just know you'd be looking at the box. Now, the pretty much the whole movie is him looking at his job. So go, you want to know these scars? You want to know why I got these scars? My father when I was a boy. Oh, I got this. Oh, you even got a rematch. Turn a whole on video. Hold on. Put the video back.   I'm surprised it even worked. I was surprised it even worked.  And I was going to say, bro. So for you anyway, all right, let's not talk about that. Because I know how you I go. Coosie. I was doing that to people rollback too. I think I could have to wait for that. You're in there. I don't know. It probably would have been pretty close. I think I could have. That did not work exactly how I wanted to. All right. All right.  That's fine. And then I did do the counter hit, but Goku Black was definitely just looking the incorrect direction.  I was trying to do.   Hey, but it's been a little while. I didn't get to play as much rollback as I wanted. I was a little busy, but I got some games in there. I got some games in there. My favorite thing about the rollback was just that everybody that was playing rollback at the time was pretty much just somebody that was waiting for a long time. That's the fact that I read this. Never mind. I'm like, oh, you put some fear in my heart. Hey, what if I got to play that? You know what, I didn't even register you did the EX because it was so purple in the corner that I couldn't tell. I think I'll do it again. Whoa. Nope, stop. 6M, I knew you were blocking that. I knew you were blocking that. Oh, yeah, I was going to say that the average skill level of player was so much higher because everybody was just like, it's time. I can react now. How much two is three? Even the average players just got like an enhancement. Yeah, brother. Everybody was boosted over there, man. It was great. It was like the competition just got like three tiers higher. Superdash? I didn't tell you I was going to Superdash. I just didn't think it was going to look like this. Remember when we were so bad at modern Yu-Gi-Oh that we were like, oh, brother, this guy links? That turns out that's just everybody. My gosh. Let's go. 800 frames of hit-stun question mark? Yes, sir. And catch this rock. Into the dragon rush. One million percent tech that. Again, bro, you updated your game, didn't you? Yeah, rollback's not a thing anymore, buddy. Yeah, go ahead.  Dion, wake up. Rollback never existed. That was a dream. Stop. Stop. Beam. Woo-hoo. All right, so you got some tricks up your sleeve. Mix ups.  Afterimage goes a little too cr- They still made this move too powerful, invincible. Damn. Turn him into Chuckie Finster first. Tommy too, man. He's got nicks. Probably. I didn't want to help him, but it's OK, Chuckie. I feel like without the lower of setup that we just do that sometimes, people are just like, why are we doing a Chuckie Finster impression right now? No. Oh, no. No. Wait. Oh, my god. Oh, he's cleanly with it. It's one more time. It's one, one, and I just decided, by the way, it's a first to three. I just decided that right now. It's one, one right now.  After a hard day trying to pick a lock with my one screwdriver. And then put Tommy Pickles face on Krillin right now. Thank you. I feel like it actually would look surprisingly natural. It'll fit. It'll fit a little bit. Don't tell me the hit C assist is true, man. Of course, bro. He's always backing me up.  But, uh, oh, stop, stop, stop, stop, stop, no, no, no, no. No. But I faced a lot of hit C assist on Rollback. It wasn't any easier to deal with it there. I don't think it's a connection-based thing. Bro, please, bro. Bro, how did you not waste me? I'm a little nervous. Was that Zomsu behind me? Wait, I'm confused. I definitely, I was actually stunned because I thought I should have been grabbed. Let's go.  It's tight, not the way you want to look like your days. Look it up. Don't ask me what does that last. Don't ask me what does that last. I'm saying, this combo won't drop so bad. Why are you lying to the people? No, no, no, no, no, no, I had a flat item. Boom, where you aiming at? Come here, yeah. I'll walk at you. Oh, but I could have been so cool if I had a flat. Yeah, you were too. I could have been so cool. If I 2H last second, I'm sorry. But they would have remembered. They would have put me in the hall of fame for fighters. Watch out behind you. What? I can see where that's that. All right, I'll catch up. Oh, yeah, we're going the long way. Oh, we're going all the way to the corner. You're going to play. Guess that mix. Yamachan edition. Oh, guess that. Yeah, you got. You have no options other than to get hit by this dragon rush.  No, he's bad at the game. That's a sense of being. Don't eat that. Oh. Medium invincible. Oh, my God. You're just asking. I was freaking out. I'm not going to lie. I was pressing stuff. Is that so bad? Is that a crime? Is that a crime? I don't think it's crime. Eat those for breakfast. Mink. Mink, I'm over here. All right, I guess I'll jump. That's the assist. Yes. Oh, my God. The best day of my life. What are we playing? Spirit ball. It's OP because I can just get slightly knocked down right here. Mix up. Don't jump. All right. You can jump. Yamcha. I did never decide. You ain't got these. So you had these. What of it? I've always had these. I was born with these. Not impressed. I was born in their like, is that a Genemba combo? Who's Genemba? Who's Genemba? Whose memories are these?  Oh, why are you pressing buttons? I'm curious. I'm vanishing. OK, so I wasn't. To a NAS whooping? I could just kind of tell that there was a command grab energy in the room. No way. This is so annoying. The scrambles. Scrip. The scrambles, dude.  Yeah, I don't need the corner.  You tried so hard to do it, though. I was thinking about it, but I'm good. I don't even need it, actually. There's no way you're alive. Key last. Key last. Key last. I'm not doing it a third time. I'm not giving you the absorption. Rock assist. Damn, so you're so you were paying attention. And I crouching. Yes, yes, yes, no, no, and I'm dead. All right, all right. Unnecessary roughness. Automatic first down. I win this. I'm leaving. All right, bro. Medium starter sailing. Oh, my God, man. I remember when that was the optimal combo in season two. Hey, man, that's the optimal combo now. Hey, I'll see you. How are you not dead from that? Yeah, use that bar pussy. I have to. I guess anybody get three bars. Anybody got a problem with me? Don't do it. I won't. Even though I really want to, I just I'll do it too. Oh, you're done. I was going to level three. I thought you were going to level. Oh, oh, my button. Did I say save it for when rollback comes back, bro? That's two. One. What's my final rollback?  What does that mean? Walking forward. Oh, but I almost had you again, didn't I? Nice. You should have learned from your lesson. I almost had you again. No, I'm literally you. I go to, by the way. I think you know what that means. I'm not crazy. I'm not crazy. That's a beam. No, don't eat my lunch.  I'm going to get that lunch back. I know it's still there, too. I know it's still there, too.   But you did that because I wanted to UI tech, bro. Damn, what are you looking at? Bro, eight frames.  That's you, bro. Stop doing that. You need to spice up this video, don't I? Why'd you make me shout like that? I really need to add some delay-based like a hook. Why is it eight frames consistently beyond? I really feel that we're not on ruleback anymore. Watch out behind you. Why are we? Seven, six. All right, it's falling back down to a natural three. This pain is going to make me stronger. Bro, stabbed into his palm. OK, so do I have spark? I do. All right, so I'm pretty much in the lead, actually. I definitely blocked that, but let's not discuss that.  Bro, this comminger has been kind of cooking me today. You say that, but I'm not. All right, all right. So this wasn't my best match. I'm not going to lie. I got- You still got young, too, bro. Exactly. I'm glad you said it so that I don't have to. But actions do speak louder than words, I guess. Come here. Superdash, I fear nothing. Superdash part two, I fear nothing. So what? I was way too high for that to hit. Bro, this is the 2-H of a god. What are you even talking about? No, no, no, dude. I'm struggling. I'm struggling this match. Yeah, maybe stop dangling your ethernet and try to pay attention to me. Watch out behind you. Hit. Why are you immune sometimes, bro? I feel like sometimes you hit him. Sometimes he's immune. Yeah, he's fine. He gets immune. I don't like it. Don't do it. Oh, brother, you see him punching the wrong way? You see him punching the wrong way, and then it's turned around? I'm matching. I'm matching. Movie night. What of it, bro? What of it? Guess what? This whole Goku black thing, bro? It's over. It's done. Finish that sentence. He's gone. Well, be careful with that sentence. He's gone, bro. Goku black no more. Do him. No fancy level one starter, bro. Nah, I could never do that.  No! Do you need to draw a homie draw? Homie draw? Homie draw? Like you, kid. All right, so it's 2-2. Damn, wait, wait, did you see Geneva in the background? Like, nothing personal, kid. His eyes were, like, shadowed out. Hold on, let me say that in Geneva language. I'm going to say shaded. That's all right, but if I actually heard that, I would be so scared. Like, if I could tell you he was actually forming senses, I would be so scared. I'd be like, so do you understand English or not? Oh, see, I counted that, though. Oh, little tricky. Yeah, see, I got a little tricky in myself, too, bro. Double rockets. Double rockets. Yeah, a little SSX tricky every now and again. No, no, I had, like, really cool plans.  Yeah, me too. You, uh, I noticed that you tagged out to Geneva. I'm just going to go ahead and hit you at the level three. I don't really have mixed from here. I just want you to feel it. Why are you doing that? I'm not doing that. No, but I'm supposed to be invincible. Mark Grayson put me down. I would like you to go to the corner. Whoa. I feel like I've been playing pretty bad. Watch out. There was a hit. Oh, boy. I will. I knew you were going to mess it up. I missed on purpose. Yeah? If this was rollback, I won 1 billion percent, J2H. Yeah, keep all the excuses in the world, bro, because it's not rollback season anymore.  Please, please, please. Yeah, bro. Oh, I got to save that money. You knew I was dead. I'm so fast. Oh, yes. UI Goku's going crazy. Here I go. 1 6M. Whoa, I'm going crazy, bro. 6M. Nice drop, kid. Whoa. Oh, God, no.   I'm not dying from this, though. Three and a half. Oh, with a vanish on top. You've been waiting the whole set for one of those. I shouldn't have fed into it. I shouldn't have fed into it. Where are you at, though? Oh, that's not what I meant to do. Behind the back. Yeah, first one in the lay base, Neko. How'd it feel? Well, rollback, I blocked it, so. Wow, I can't do this. Actual, perfect. Rollback, and that doesn't happen, but whatever. Oh. You almost ran into the second rock.  How many times do I got to teach you this lesson? It is because of delay base. I am reacting every time. Let's get you back to your retirement, old man. There is no rollback. And don't ever. I knew it. All right, it was pretty smart. Damn, that was surprisingly fast. What? Oh, I jumped in. No. That was it. This was just a string of lucky. Oh, yeah? Yeah. You want to make it a first to five, then? Well, I mean, I'd embarrass you. I wouldn't. I'm down for that. I'm already at three, you missed. Ooh, got him. And I'm out of there. All right, I didn't expect it twice. Rock assist. I was literally doing gaol claws. You can go ahead and put that one away. That's not going to happen.  No way. No way. The only thing I'm going to be putting away is you. No way! You already agreed to the first five, though. You already agreed to the first five, though. Editor play back, did I? Or was I kind of like... You want to make it a first to five, then? Well, I mean, I'd embarrass you. No, you got to argue that I'd embarrass you. Yeah, but in a first to five.  I'll embarrass you in the first to three. I'll embarrass you in the first to five. No, I don't see a thing. I counted my chickens before they hatched, though. It was kind of like a lesson in humility, honestly. Oh, did you think I was going to respond? I was starting running and screaming.  Oh, my gosh, bro. Oh, my God. No good, terrible day like Judy B. Jones, man. I am literally... Damn, long combo, bro. Put it down. 81 hits, looking like Nezzy Huyga in every Naruto game. 2H that's. Yump to that. There's a reason I can't lose. Nice job. Damn. I feel like that move, I don't know when or why, but it used to be like you threw it in a little corner combo, but now it don't work too good. I mean, to be fair, I only know it off the one set up. Anyway, I only need two characters to win. And anyway, anyway, even if you win, that's four. Bro's already counting his losses. Last time I counted my wins and that didn't work out, so I'm hoping that I keep the same energy. Okay, Krillin doing pretty good.  Okay, not really worried. I swear if I had my PlayStation controller in... Bro, I got a million issues. You don't want to try me. Oh, brother, I tried to jump.  Oh, brother. I got a very, very strong feeling about this. Oh, no spark, huh? I gave you a chance. Wow. I gave you a chance. Even with the speed boost, that was too slow. I guess I could have bent it up faster. I'll put it down. Bye-bye. Bye-bye. You caught me. Okay, Jenna. Guard cancel, I'm out. Do you want to see something devious? What's that? What's that?  Where's the devious at? Well, you didn't let it happen, did you? Yeah? Now I'm going to get devious.  Do you? Oh, no. What? There's no way he's just hitting buttons. Well, I wanted to do it because he's full screen in-vul from on the third hit, so that's what I was trying to do. No shot. Oh, wow. It never kind of hurts. Yeah, you got two touch. And also that big hit, the one that I hit you with is medium scaling. Yeah, yeah. Nothing connected. I got it.  No, no, it's fine. Keep having your fun, there's nothing wrong with a little bit of... All right. I'm vanishing! I know, Ro. My instant air-dash jumps are... You know, they could be cleaner. Nice meter. Two S's in your face just because I'm him? Okay. Oh! Okay, all right, all right. You know, I actually do love the Xbox controller for most games. I feel like it's the superior controller. It's just I don't like the D-pad, so I don't use it, and that's the analog stick. I have less control. Don't! All right, so right now I'm down on my luck. Yeah, they call me delayed base, Dion. I'm just saying rollback, and I win that, but whatever. Maybe I should try the D-pad. No, I can't switch up now. You got another chance, don't worry. Buy another chance, I mean... Oh, hey, hit, thanks. Even though I landed a pretty sweet counter. Oh, yeah, where you going? Wow, Ro! You are Goku! Damn, you're really the bonkers for real. You're insane. Whoa! No way, it has a... I'm mashing. I was hoping you'd land lovingly into my kicks. Damn. Okay, I can clutch up from this. Okay, that's pretty much all I needed. That's pretty much all I needed. Let me just hit a quick level one for the tag. Level one, just to feel something? Level two, just to feel something. That was kind of cool, though. It got you to the ground! I hate that hit assist, man. When they made it see-assist, I think a hit player was in the room, bro. Do not touch! I've been too late! All see-assist, my conspiracy theory, see-assist only exists above hit. All see-assists were just above hit. They only won Zee Broly, because they have super armor. It's kind of crazy. Why'd that not hit you, bro? Don't ask questions that we don't need the answers to. I need to win! I need to win, I'm going all out. I'm going all out. If you would have missed that, I would have started laughing. I would have started crying. I wasn't ready for that. I wasn't ready for that. Little something different for the one time, one time. I wasn't going to block that either. I think if I hit the see-assist, I should go, no way. No way. Okay, you're kind of him for that. I'll give it up on that one. But only that one. That's the only thing you're getting from me. Delay the super dash. What's the mix? What? That was the wackest thing I've ever seen. No, you got away with murder. You got away with murder on that one. You were getting double-sided, same-sided. Absolutely killed. I don't know. I'm kind of good with it. Man, this sucks, man. I'm kind of coming your life into pieces. This might be your last resort. I'm trying to get downright devious with it. I'm trying to get downright devious with it. That was a little too devious. I thought I was going to be frozen in fear. I was hoping. Do it. Little basic. What were you doing? Massing reflect. I like when he wins with Spearbox.  How will you hit him? Oh! Oh, my God. He just panicked. Time stop. What were you doing? I thought you could stay in there. Yeah, that would have not been fun. They hit the shot. That was pretty on the ball gaming. You adapted to the situation. I could respect it on that level. Too short, bro. That actually would have comment on a taller character. How did you block it? Oh! Oh, God. I don't even know why I'm on the ground, bro. I can't be on the ground against a hip. Oh! He's playing on the ball fighters. No! Oh, rollback. I would have checked that, though. I'm rolling back. Put these purple paws on you. It all actually pretty went bad when I suggested that. I think this is the ultimate lesson in humility. If I don't mention that first to five, I just win the first to three. But now I'm sitting here with two wins. Hey, man. It's still two wins. That's two more than the person who's watching. Beginners, welcome. You're not welcome. Well, that's the end of the video. Like, comment, subscribe. We miss rollback, and we will be back.


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Hey, everyone, I am the hook and I'm the blade All right, so and Together yeah, Jesus Christ you know Genuinely forgot that that was the next part. It's been a minute. All right. It's a gather we're Jesus Welcome to the hook blade podcast a show about all things assassin's creed I'm your host Lawson with me as always is my co-host Tim And it feels very weird saying all of this again because at can you believe it's been 10 years since our last episode? I can actually Well, I mean we just finished season 5 of AC Netflix It's getting better It's picking up Something finally happened. They just brought Danny Wallace back. So I'm pretty happy about that Just to be upfront at the top this is just a little I don't know It's a cheeky little one-time thing. We're we just it's a because we feel like it episode But we figure with with the announcements that have been made We we kind of we have an opportunity to really deliver The the hook blade to end all hook blades because we've got like the next five years lined up So if we play our cards, right? We don't have to do another one of these for Until like 2026 essentially. Yeah, I mean There's a lot of mileage that we can get out of this one episode here.  Oh man. Isn't that wild? That's not a good book. Who knew that it was just generational differences that made his Wow, all of his employees toxic abusive monsters interesting. Well, but there's also the read of that where he's saying that like the younger people I guess that are maybe I think that is. Yeah, it's like. Yeah, just get over it Get over it kids. You're all too sensitive and weak Little snowflakes now, let me grope you Jesus Christ Yeah, so I was reading a Twitter thread from at a better Ubisoft.  I don't want to work for this guy You've got some serious problems. I think yeah, I mean that's essentially like the biggest That's prime to be the biggest Assassin's Creed game. Maybe ever. Yeah and for you to kind of turn down those opportunities, I mean Correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like a lot of the people on the development team also can get bonuses based off of sales and stuff Yeah, so like to turn down all of those opportunities. It's not just a matter of like Generational differences like there's something going on there. That's pathological so yeah, I think it just we needed to kind of reiterate that Hashtag hold the Ubisoft accountable still technically exists even if people aren't really using it anymore and They're still a company that is not a very good place to work and doesn't deserve our financial support at all. So that is still the reality But all that aside Tim, let me ask you a question. Okay, how Are a how excited are you for the future of Assassin's Creed like on a scale from one to ten? Sure probably like a minus two I Mean I won't lie that the Mirage trailer was very nostalgic, but also and it felt very like It felt nostalgic of course because there's a lot of there's a lot of I There's a lot of iconography in there and whatnot But also it just feels like oh, yeah, a new Assassin's Creed story awesome Like it took me back to like watching the Unity trailers. Yeah So the trailer was very well done. I like the trailer a lot I think it's like the second best one only being beat out by Revelations trailer, but As far as the game itself, I mean, I guess I'm focusing on Mirage only in that and that answer Generally speaking.  I mean It's an RPG. Like I mean, they're being very transparent about it. So no, thank you Um Hexy no one no one knows enough about it. I feel like to really be excited Mirage is the only one I can understand excitement about at this point and it really to it It's kind of astounding to me to think when you consider how excited we were for Valhalla when that was announced and you compare that to Mirage has just been announced and it literally is the Complete execution of most of the things that we have been asking for and wanting for years but our faith in the company and their ability to actually deliver on that promise the the ability for this game to actually be good has Decreased so substantially That it it's honestly hard for me to even be excited for it because I'm kind of just like Ah, well if I guess if it's everything they say it's gonna be then cool and good But if not, it'll be this, you know, it'll be this good old Assassin's Creed as usual, right? Yeah, I I agree Chronologically speaking the next thing coming up is interesting because it's technically not Mirage But Assassin's Creed Valhalla the last chapter You see that yeah, I saw the little like I Saw the little thing showing animus anomalies, but I feel like I feel like in that thing. They showed it. They showed it as um, oh No, this is bad. I'm blanking on her name Avar the main key that no Oh damn The modern-day lady in origins Layla Layla, I feel like in a snippet of that gameplay showed Layla in the animus anomaly not Bassem So that's Maybe I could be totally wrong. It could be footage from the could be footage from the normal game. I don't know Anyway, cuz we heard Bassem's voice in that little teaser didn't we? Yeah, I I think you're right about that. I mean more animus anomalies That's like the best part about Valhalla. So I'm I'm open to that. I guess it's it's and it's for free That's pretty cool. It's coming out for free. Well, and what's interesting to me about it is I mean one it's like pretty rare for any Assassin's Creed DLC of any kind to like involve the modern-day story and This is now of particular interest just due to the fact that This might be it This might be the last real modern-day thing we get right because I Mean word on the street now is Mirage has almost no modern-day component. I think they've said You have a cutscene of him getting into the animus the start of the game and a cutscene getting out of the animus The end of the game and really how substantial can that be? Yeah I mean it's not a matter of like syndicate situation where there are cutscenes throughout the game Yeah, if these are just like a preliminary modern-day cutscene and then just to give context to oh, yeah You're still using an animus, you know, whatever but I I feel like It's weird because obviously I don't think that an Assassin's Creed game should have no modern-day like Unity's modern-day is abysmal and it's it's not really justified but it is interesting to think that like Assassin's Creed like like the animus is not only It is a kind of a MacGuffin because it allows you to like go to any time period you want and That's always gonna be motivated and somewhat by like how marketable is this is this is a location gonna be or whatever sure and It's not like in the lore The assassins and Templars only exist within the animus or anything like, you know, if you're a random person in The year 2000 you could come across an assassin you don't need an animus to experience that process. So I Don't think it's like lore breaking or or anything like that to like show an Assassin's Creed story without the use of an animus It's just the breaking of a tradition and I and obviously like I Understand why people are upset about it and I'd prefer there to be modern-day Yeah Especially in the back-to-basics game, you know, that's that's really what did it for me is this like They're they're putting all of this effort to say that this is the you know, classic It's a celebration of our roots Assassin's Creed game and like what better way to Really emphasize that like to the cater to that player base than to have a real-deal modern-day story. So it's like confusing that of all the games to to Directly minimize it and even say up front that they're minimizing it like this is a surprise to me And it makes me like, you know, if it's not going to be this game that has good modern day Then what faith can you really have for any subsequent, you know, infinity game? Yeah, I have good modern day I mean Darby McDevitt who's writing on Codename hexi hexa hexa. I don't know how to pronounce it He says that, you know, he never wants people to be doom and gloom about modern day He's always like guys. We're trying and trying our best. Yeah, and I Still it cannot really be Like I'm just I doubt I press X to doubt It's difficult. I don't envy the position that the people behind Mirage are in because it's like Let's say you do a modern-day story for Mirage. I feel like Because codename red and hexa you're gonna be so vastly different at least that's what they're promising that a modern-day story in Mirage Would need to have a beginning and middle and a conclusion within Mirage itself Which isn't typical in Assassin's Creed because you know, Desmond story spanned across many games so if you do the modern-day story and you have this like and you introduce this whole big plan and Then you can't execute it across the infinity games like red or hexa even then I could see it being better off just not to bother with it You know what I mean? Sure. I don't agree with it, but yeah, no, and there's always the implication. It seems that You know, it can really just come down to time cost budget reasons You know on a smaller game like this that you just don't have the resources to pull off a playable interactable modern day Right or even I mean I imagine the cutscenes in syndicate I mean they were contracted to an outside vendor I think which is why the art style was so different and I'm sure they weren't cheap to do. Yeah, but it's still just like it's never that You can it's you can tell a good story in any number of ways with this franchise and with this concept so Neglecting to do that always is gonna feel like laziness more than anything to me If a game like brotherhood had no modern day at all then like that would be pretty insulting But I feel like At this state if I was going to play Mirage, I would count my blessings I guess and I would say well, okay It's an Assassin's Creed game in every other aspect. So I'll take no modern day, you know, like sure I love the modern day. I would I would play a modern day only game I would watch a modern day only thing because I'm invested in the lore and the franchise but If I had to pick between like huh interactive modern day or you know decent Assassin's Creed fantasy I'd pick the latter Ultimately at this state that was with where the franchise is So I'm not as if I was going to play Mirage I would not that wouldn't count me out because there's no MD Same thing goes for red and hexi if those end up being Assassin's Creed Light experiences, you know, like no modern day is it's not gonna It's not gonna make me never play a part of the or an entry in the franchise again You know, you're saying it's not like the deal breaker to you that it seems to be for some people Yeah, but I would argue it isn't to them either.  They're not gonna miss the modern day at a certain point, you know, I I think you might be right I mean, let me consider it like so like think about like the modern day even at its best was like 20% 30% of the experience, you know, I'm no I'm not anti modern day at all I don't think it's boring. I like being pulled out of the animus. Whatever, you know, so yeah, I don't hate it I like it when it's around But I do feel like it's always been supplemental to the historical stuff and Until I mean, obviously, I think everyone would agree on that But you have to consider how small of a part of the experience it is so I can't I Can't just like hate on Ubisoft for not prioritizing that it's you know, it's like Allow me to live the Assassin's Fantasy in the way that like the old games provoked Um First and then we could talk about modern day, I guess. I don't know No, that makes perfect sense. And that's probably a good segue into Let's just talk about Mirage and talk about what we're supposedly getting How would you rate your excitement out of 10 for Mirage? It's difficult because I I have pretty much decided I'm not gonna play it And that's nothing that's nothing to do with like I think it's promising and there's obviously the like skepticism I have because I don't want to Get excited for it and play it and be disappointed Oh, but also I don't know I just feel like they had their chance to keep me on as a fan and I'm It's just not like they missed it Obviously, they're not they're not upset that I'm no longer a fan I guess but you know what I mean like the opportunity was missed and whatever So I like What I've seen I like the trailer obviously as I said before I like the screenshots the concept art the iconography that they're like They're embracing it so hard. I saw a tweet. Yeah That was like how it started and it was all tired and then it was like how how it's going and then it's bassin With the hidden blade and everything. It's like, okay, cool.  This has been happening since syndicate like you guys are you're so phony, you know The existence of Mirage Exactly confirms that you guys have been neglecting the core fan base for years It's it's interesting you say that because I have the same Response where there's like an alternate universe where if assassins creed hadn't gone in this wildly different direction for the last However, many years that Mirage could feel like the most boring assassins creed game totally because it would just be baseline I mean it used to be that there had to be a twist on it There had to be something new about the setting about the protagonist that they had to introduce these gimmicks And they had to do these other things to make these games interesting But now they've gone so far off the rails that you can essentially make a game that follows Roughly the template and style and tone of what the very first game did and have it feel fresh and exciting and new to people 100% I'm kind of with you on the Like my gut feeling right now is I want to say that like I won't play it just for the same reasons You said of like, you know, I've already this far disengaged from the franchise. I've already like Lost all and and as we as we're gonna get into We know that this is not Promising what's to come in the future.   I'm probably gonna play Mirage.  I I was so surprised that there wasn't one. I mean in for a game. That's coming out next year You know, I feel like that's very surprising. Yeah, I get not seeing gameplay for red or hexi I'd rather those games that have been announced, but I get why they did it But yeah, it's like all all we've gotten that's more than the confirmation of red and hexi is that there's There's a cinematic trailer attached and like some screenshots That's it. Like so we essentially know About just as much like obviously there's a lot more story details that we know and a lot more developmental details that we know about Mirage, but like it still feels like for a game that's coming out next year We know very little about it. Yeah, especially compared to other assassins create a marketing cycles I mean by this point the AC Unity story trailer was already released. So it's really weird Now that's a very good point and it's it's it's a bizarre way that they're handling this this game It is also going to be It's a lower price. It's like $50 instead of $60 which Honestly surprised me. I would never have expected them to take anything less than the most amount of money They could get for something But I do think that signals it's gonna be a much shorter and smaller game which obviously We are okay with I do just wonder though if you really compare it directly to like all right something like Unity You know I feel like in this framework the engine that they're they're running with It's not like we're going back to you have 13 memory sequences, right? Like that's not the vibe Yeah, so my question is like, you know compared to say rogue Rogue was cheaper and smaller of a game, but it still felt very much like a full fledged experience It still was a satisfying game to to play through and 100 percent complete And i'm i'm curious if if mirage will be or if it'll actually Just due to development time and scope feel so light on the bones that it actually underwhelms even compared to the games of the past That feels possible to me.  Is there any basis on that? No, okay They're not using unity's movement system and and for good reason because unity's movement system I've I've heard about this from from folks who have more knowledge than I do about the game development process Unity's movement system being what it was even as broken as it was is still a miracle just based on the complexity of what they were trying to do um I think the most they've said about parkour from mirage is that they Are inspired by unity's parkour and that bassem will have A new move set with new animations that is much faster Than the parkour experience was in origins odyssey valhalla And I suppose that's encouraging But I just still I'm trying to picture how fun a parkour system can be that's just you know, let's say origins with prettier animations and 30 faster and Will it be more fun to use than it was in that game? Sure, but like Will will we get a parkour system that is so Inherently gratifying to use that you can actually sink time into just running around with no direction the way I can in unity Or even syndicate to a lesser extent. I doubt it is the thing. I don't think they can Do that this well and with this game, you know, yeah, I I agree it's it's also difficult because it would be easier to perhaps accept that like Oh, wow, this is this is a ubisoft's like, you know last hurrah until they Go away from the from the roots of the series forever But it started as like a dlc, you know, like this wasn't playing from the beginning. I will say the first glimmer of not being like I I didn't understand this until I read it in an interview with the creative director on this game, I think but The whole narrative that it was a dlc that was graduated into a full release game Apparently is a little overblown. Okay, because the idea is they were like they had pitched it as a dlc, but they were literally like two weeks into the process of Of envisioning that dlc when it was decided that it should be elevated to a full game So it's not like they got anywhere in developing the actual game as a dlc It was it was built from the ground up as a new game, which is good. Yeah, I think but But that is a bit like, you know It started as a dlc and quotation marks would still be true and accurate enough for someone like jason schreyer to print As as part of the rumor so and I don't want to I guess suggest that like oh it started as a dlc not playing it because my favorite game in the series started as like a handheld experience so I mean that is the thing too. I I think you hit the nail on the head. I think you I think you um Touched on exactly why even if you are super excited for for mirage it's difficult to be excited for the future of assassin's creed because mirage comes out and then That's it. Goodbye. You know unless Unless you'd be soft as blown away by the support that mirage sees post launch. I don't see them Doing any more of these kinds of games Especially like when they took the time to address that red is going to be an rpg And that hexi is going to be something that's not mirage either and that's that's kind of a good segue into Although there is one thing I wanted to say about mirage, which is just that I think mirage is One of the best subtitles in the franchise. I think it just is cool and sounds good I don't know. I just wanted to throw that out there. It's much better than syndicate Syndicate might be one of the worst, but that's a whole other discussion Um mirage. Yeah, so we've pretty much covered how we're feeling about mirage And that that brings us to infinity and beyond uh Assassin's creed infinity. I I want to just start by saying I think The one thing we can really say we've learned About assassin's creed infinity broadly speaking Uh, it seems to me like they still have no idea what the fuck it is It it really feels like they Are the way they're talking about it There is just no clarity to like what we can actually expect like everyone comes away from this whole showcase with a different understanding of what Infinity actually is and I've even seen articles like Talk about mirage being the first part of it like nobody understands what's going on with this And like yeah, we got some pieces clarified. So like you and I have always speculated And and this was something we talked about in our very last episode about infinity, which was that Surely for anything that's going to be a quote-unquote live service There's going to be a multiplayer component. Um, we didn't know if that would be co-op or competitive It does seem like now it's confirmed that there will be a standalone competitive Component to infinity which is has its own codename. That's ac and victus and That that's one thing we learned we learned that it you know exists and that it is still called infinity, which is But but they're treating it like like it's a launcher of some sort like this is just the software that launches these different games and that The actual games themselves which are being developed simultaneously by quebec and montreal They're not really going to share much of the actual Base level gameplay system and I I'm curious like At a certain point the question has to be asked if the sales pitch to us is that these are going to be very different games from each other But they're part of this service If they're going to be that different what what is the point ultimately of Bundling them together at all in any way, right? Like what do you gain as a company? What does ubisoft gain and what do we gain as a player slash customer? having red and hexi Live on the same platform Yeah, um I I agree with that Because if they're going to be like completely just different experiences, you know, yeah I mean what is the utility to not just releasing them as two separate assassin screed games? Um, which it seems like obviously infinity and hexi are going to be on store shelves Right, but like yeah, all right. So is infinity like because because if you recall The way infinity was always described by you know, jason schreyer and other leakers is that it was one game That had multiple settings. Right. Yeah, that would be updated continuously or whatever and now the The line the the pitch is not one game with multiple settings. That would be one thing. It's two games two developers But they'll be part of it. They'll be part of infinity in some way It's all very its head scratch inducing and and mac was saying about how like they want to support these games for longer periods of time As if a as if a holla hasn't been supported for years Um at this point, but like so red or hexis Like by that statement, you know could have years worth of content being released for it So maybe that's where infinity comes in. I I don't know maybe I don't I don't get it and I and I do think that the most like Logical scenario is whatever the standalone multiplayer thing is it would be what kind of unites the experiences because I would imagine You know, okay, Invictus launches. Let's say alongside or close to red And you have maps and cosmetics for your Invictus character that are all pulled straight from red But then hexi comes out and you get maps and cosmetics from that game that are part of Invictus But like, you know, it's like you could do all of that the same way Fucking Call of Duty does it where you don't need to put Black ops 12 and warzone on the same launcher. You know what I mean like Yeah, I mean, it's like warzone is getting its update with the release of the modern warfare 2 remake So it's like, okay. So now warzone is going to play like modern warfare 2 have fun And if we if we literally just take them at their word for what this is going to be and let's just forget all this infinity nonsense And when we get down to it, there's two games coming on the horizon where there's red, which is feudal japan open world rpg ubisoft kebeck jonathan dumont Yeah, so if that's one of them, you know, the question is Who cares feudal japan right has been like an exciting and like often Requested setting and one of my you know, if it would probably be my top three settings. I've always wanted to see I mean, I don't want any game from jonathan dumont. I don't want any of this and I don't like that it's Being directly pitched as carrying on the the legacy or what have you of the the odyssey approach to these games Yeah, no, thank you. Geez that said that there's the one if I'm if I'm gonna force myself as a as a podcast host here to be Like optimistic or give the benefit of the doubt which which fundamentally I don't want to do There is a part of me that says that Whatever it gonna whatever it's gonna end up looking like The idea of just seeing how ac evolves For something that's going to be next generation only is intriguing to me Only in the same way that seeing anything that will be fully next gen only is intriguing to me Because there still hasn't been much, you know There still is not really a game that only exists because it's only possible on the playstation 5 Going off of that, you know the thing the thing about that that I guess I I don't share that excitement necessarily just simply because if mirage don't get me wrong Not excitement. I I can't even describe it as exciting. Most it's it's curiosity Yeah, yeah, but like if mirage was like the the promised ac next gen experience that also was so very clearly touching on the Basics of this of the series that everyone likes That'd be awesome, but I can't help. Yeah, I can't help it be like. Oh wow the odyssey design approach But next gen. Oh, so now I can fight a hundred different enemies on my screen at once like You know, I mean like there's something to be said about like What next gen can do about immersing you into a city and being a blade in the crowd and all that that i'm not sure that like The odyssey or even vahala approach to this series can nail Um Like I can ac one remake. I feel like why people get excited about that so much is because It can take the most simplistic nature of this series that everyone enjoys but like Bring in those immersive next gen details like, you know, whether it's graphical or with audio or with ai um and so The fact that red is so set on continuing the rpg trend I don't know because origins. I feel like could be described as an rpg and I like origin so It's difficult. Yeah I don't know If it's going to fall more in the odyssey or more in the origins boat because they have shown nothing and we know nothing really um I find hexi to be the more interesting of the two simply because of the team behind it But I said the same thing about vahala. So That's a good point and it's something I actually meant to bring up which was you know For as doom and gloom as you are about rpg's you did come around Quite heavily in favor of origins. It became one of your favorite games in the series um And so I was always curious like does that mean that you have a slightly more open mind to what an rpg ac could end up looking like and The interesting thing about that to me is is it's just Knowing that it's quebec and what they're describing is an rpg Just being more likely to be the odyssey approach. I mean, I'm expecting Maybe full fledged character customization dialogue options.  Just not what we want. Not something we're excited for but There is still that that mindset I have where it's like Origins does kind of show that like that approach can be Satisfying. It's just I have never understood why they're so resistant to just letting an rpg like this is something we've still we've still never really seen but like It is possible theoretically To make an rpg game like the ones they've been making That has good parkour and good stealth. It is possible They've just seemingly refused to do it out of lack of interest or care Like if they're trying to make a combat forward combat focused experience Then those things are going to fall by the wayside, but it doesn't need to be combat heavy to be an rpg in my opinion I'm not saying that to suggest that I think that there's any chance that red is not the absolute personification of everything we hate And that it's just riding a horse around the countryside and fighting monsters But I still have that like feeling of well, maybe, you know stuff like hexi or stuff that comes later I mean, that's the level of copium. I'm really honest that maybe maybe Assassin's Creed will be good again in 2029 Yeah, I mean I'll always defend origins and I think if there was just a few more factors At play like if I wasn't so jaded with the series Like if origins was the only game that had just come out I would probably be excited for red. Yeah Cookie is like on my lap Looking at the microphone. It's like she's about to start talking I wish you were kind of hilarious. What do you think about red? Are you excited for hexi? What's up cookie? I wonder if you can Man, she's very interested in like, you know that foam thing I have Yeah, she she's liking she likes that Oh, the the like noise absorber backdrop thing. Yeah But yeah, if if origins had just come out, I'd be excited for red. Yeah, that's not the case I also have had years of ubisoft garbage to deal with like really Really just erode my love for the franchise. I guess too. I mean, let's let's talk about hexi then because It does seem like there's a cohort of people like a lot of the same people who are excited for mirage have this I hope I hope this microphone isn't picking up my stomach gurgling noises because I don't know what's going on down there, but Oh We're gonna find out in editing how obvious it is that I'm hungry.   I I don't know how else to I know everyone's tripping over their dicks about a darker tone and a little bit more horary kind of direction. Perhaps I I couldn't give less a fuck about any of that So the only thing that I have that would make me even remotely curious or interested in hexi is That darby mcdevil is involved But even then now that doesn't quite go as far as it used to because I didn't love valhalla's story Exactly So there's that and then there's just the fact that It's Question mark a new thing like it like the whole thing about hexi so far has been that it's a it's a new and unique approach It's not following the lineage of the rpg stuff or the classic You know action adventure game and it's like I had hoped that the very first thing we would see on the next generation consoles Would be a new and different approach Like that would be the thing I would want if if everything else about the game gets to change because you have a new Engine new graphics new animations new hardware to take advantage of I would like a new approach. Please don't just make Odyssey and feudal japan and You know prettier with next-gen graphics and have that be the sales pitch, right?  That's fine. I still I still like Like there is still I'll I'll show up for anything Darby is involved with because I do still think he's a good writer I think that the things that I didn't like about Valhalla's story were just sort of the natural side effect results of a Mandate that he had to deliver a hundred hour game You know, I think that there was no way to write yourself out of that Reality because it really did end up being like a short game that was stretched into a long one with a bunch of filler ass content Yeah, I mean if you consider that like, okay, he's adapting that the Icelandic sagas But like maybe that's only the only reason why that happened was because that's the only form of storytelling That could span across a hundred hour game, you know, maybe that's kind of what put him in that position Yeah, and then and I'm still I will be curious about what they had to give him or promise him or what it would have taken after years working on the franchise and treating Valhalla as this like Love letter, you know, and I don't want to ever describe Valhalla as a love letter to the fans But it was clearly trying to do something with tying in all these things from the series past and bringing a modern day experience back to the forefront After doing that, which would feel like a natural stopping point for him And then he leaves and he works at another smaller studio for almost a year What what about hex a would have Gotten him a guy who broadly seems to have the same interests and hopes for Assassin's Creed that the hardcore fans like us do What got him back on board is, you know, my question ultimately And he seems really excited about this. He was obviously really excited about Valhalla. We know how that turned out, but you know, it's like It is possible that You know, just not having to be under the thumb of Serge Hascot The guy who is broadly Responsible for that whole hundred hour directive. I mean that alone has to account for something I mean, it's even been said in the past that there were things about black flag that Were help were would have been better, but were severely limited by that guy's Flawed leadership, you know, so I'm rambling but That's my only that's my only Interest in hexa is seeing What got Darby McDevitt back on board and what he does with it everything else.  Yeah, cool I guess but I'm also just worried that it's not going to involve assassins because Darby As much as he is like one of us, you know, he does like to feature stories where the assassin is not the main character Yeah, yeah, so that could this could very well be the case where you play as like a female during this time who's not in the brotherhood But maybe you come across some But I could see this being like from a civilian's point of view Perhaps when someone he was being accused of being a witch or what have you that seems like a perspective that Darby would love To start from and it's also just knowing that the franchise is now as comfortable as it is with You know, supernatural and mythical kind of elements Like there would be something intriguing to me about a witchcraft or witch trials centered game that was like still taking the Broadly realistic historical approach that assassins creed used to be known for Where it's, you know, not real because in real life witchcraft isn't real But I know that it's no offense witches listening to the pie But I I would imagine there's no Chance in hell that uv soft of today makes A witch trials game that does not feature you casting spells. Yeah, that reality kind of depresses me I That's kind of a it's kind of a bummer I think I also just think something that we're running into here And I think that all of us like in the fans and generally In general, um Is that We know so much and yet so little You know, we know about the next three games in the franchise and yet We haven't even seen A sliver of gameplay for any of it, you know All the interviews are vague as hell Darby is being forced to be vague as hell Mack is being vague as hell about everything. Everyone's being vague and I get it But it's like why do a showcase at all if if you're gonna It's so it's just so strange to me that like you would show the next like this is the future slate of assassins creed And yet you can't even show gameplay for the for the soonest upcoming game I don't understand. Yeah, and the ac netflix thing. It's like Are you even gonna show me like some concept art for it anything at all?  I appreciate that it's still super early in development. It could fizzle out so easily I'm not excited about the showrunner I feel like I'm at the exact point as an assassin screed fan Or I will never play another game But I could I could watch the show like because Really? Well, here's the thing like I watched I like I watch shows and movies all the time So even if I wasn't acclimated with assassin screed, I I could check it out, right? And Yeah, knowing what I know about assassin screed It's gonna incentivize me a little more to watch it So I would watch it but not as like an invested assassin screed fan But like as an assassin screed veteran, you know Like as a survivor Exactly. Yeah, like That's perfect. I like that more than veteran. Yeah, the assassin the assassin screed survivor, you know Yeah, I I mean, I'll watch it just because it's kind of the best Chance you have at any sort of modern day content because I really can't imagine An assassin screed show just like I couldn't with the movie that has no, you know Modern day element and the movie had too much modern day like I would imagine their instincts Will be will be similar in that regard and and you just do more than a show because a show Let's say you you have animus chicanery in the first 10 minutes or the last 10 minutes of an episode And it teases you up for the next one But the bulk of the story is is a historical narrative that could be Cool and perfect and great, but wolf. I don't I would love if they had just said what the like historical setting would be that would have been pleasant to know. Oh wait. Yeah, Malta Just just to step on the toes of the tribute fan game that is currently in the works now I would love if they I mean the opportunity for a show or movie is that you get to do a setting that wouldn't Make great sense as a game like I always thought, you know, world war two assassin's creed would be great for show or movie There's a lot but there's so much you can do with it And they'll probably if I knowing them they'll want to tie in like existing characters and time periods and shit. I don't know We'll see Codename jade is looking pretty awesome. Oh, yeah, that's the most exciting uh Announcement is I what I what I really wanted was uh boy, there's They showed the like teaser.  Look at this And then dany waltz is over there just being like wow that looks beautiful. I'm just like did we just look at the same Dude, are we watching the same showcase? Isn't there like I was I mean The character that they that they show perched up posted up about to about to leap of faith Has like an assassin insignia on his on his drip and I don't think assassins were around yet in that time period Maybe they're like that. It's like this is pre origins timeline.    I have a little switch grip style controller for my phone And I play games or or I stream x cloud games to it So the promise of like play assassins creed on your phone On its own is appealing to me.  It's my telephone my mobile. Yeah, I mean it's very ubisoft because they can capture a whole new audience I always thought That the whole point I mean, we've known that there was a mobile game in china in development for like a long time and I always I I'm sure it's even on record on the podcast at some point of like Make a mobile game advertise the shit out of it in china Because they have never released a mainline assassins creed game in china to my knowledge So they don't give a fuck about the assassin's creed franchise over there But if you make a game that hits with them the way that you know those those similar games are Are successful in that market then you are able to establish some brand equity in the territory for The possibility that a bigger AAA release you could exploit that market I always thought that was the strat and that it would imply that like one of these infinity games I thought for sure infinity would kick us off in china for that reason because then they could sell the game in china And they could sell millions more copies I guess not I guess they're just doing this uh for its own sake. Yeah, I mean Whatever it kind of seemed like that was what was going to happen with all the Extended universe stuff that was being set in china like there's like a book. Yeah, like they want to establish a A reputation there and it's like I don't know there's a book series. There's like comics.  I mean I it's so hard.  Yeah, I mean it was worth it ultimately, but It's just I care obviously because I've dedicated a lot of my uh, a lot of my uh video game life to assassin's creed and Obviously this podcast and so I care But it's it's just the element of like I'm past the point of like I'm not gonna let you rope me in again assassin's creed just so you can hurt me It's I I'm past that point. It's just I just I just can't I can't even get excitement to begin with because I know what the company still stands for and I know I know what they're gonna do I know what they're gonna do. I don't care. I don't care that mirage exists because it doesn't mean anything Are you are you people that see hidden blade and you say thank you?   Let's say it's exactly like vahala's parkour Let's say it's exactly like vahala stealth.  Oh, and let's just throw in like buggy is unity Let's just make it also really buggy With all of that going against it. I just have to feel like the baseline facts We have about the game the fact that it is an assassin. It's bassam. It's it's shorter. It's no dialogue options. It's an action adventure game. It's black box missions, you know all of this all of these things the the aesthetic the setting I feel like it would have to just by default be the best assassin's creed games since origins, right? Like there's just no way Even that broken That it's still somehow for me Less enjoyable than odyssey, right? Yeah, I agree. I mean just just in that like it's going to be mercifully short too like even like Really easy to pick up and play it'll be over sooner, you know No, it doesn't overstay. It's welcome. At least it's not pretending to and then there's a dlc if you want to play further Cool, you know and then if they and so if they're telling me hey, we're going to give you most likely The best assassin's creed game in the last five years I sure would like to be able to say thank you but The truth is like you said, you know, it's just that the level of interest has died down and the trust has died down and it's like I don't know. I mean it's Is it possible that we see gameplay of this thing and it just rocks our shit? No, or at least mine I know you won't probably won't carry either way And suddenly I'm like My pre-order give it to me. Give me the game. Please. Thank you. You know like I guess I guess I guess it's possible. I see that I see that as a possibility for you and I don't mean that in like a negative way I just I know your habits for the assassin's creed enough that Even if it's like a month after a couple months after you'll play mirage I'm gonna they're gonna message me and you're gonna be like, you know what? there's this really cool sequence and It really felt like because you too Because because because that's what I did. I did that for odyssey. I did that for valhalla. I was so Like I was in at the beginning. I always start I start high and they have to disappoint me so consistently and so much That it brings me down And mirage is already starting pretty high as a concept. So I guess yeah, I'll just I'll I'll drop the facade and I'll admit it I'm kind of looking forward to mirage but I still overall like that's the thing it's Mirage is like it's it's its own thing It's for me It's detached from just like the state of the the franchise because it's true that like If they just announced mirage and neither of the other games And let's say hypothetically we didn't have any leaks or rumors about next gen assassins creed It would be possible To look at mirage as a course correction and as an example of like, oh, this is what assassins creed could be now And we could just go back to how it was wouldn't that be beautiful? We could just have it like it used to be and it would just change you could go to different settings I could do different things.  I'm driving the clown car. I'm part of the problem, but But here we are. I think it's more likely for you to play mirage than it is red or hexi Oh, absolutely. Yeah I think if I'm being honest I think it's possible. I'll play them all Just out of curiosity. Yeah out of sure shameless morbid curiosity. I might wait get it on sale You know Well, maybe but damn maybe you could purchase the assassin's creed infinity bundle and It's like 15. It's like $15 a month And you get all of the games day one You subscribe you get all the old ac games to Christ Yeah, I can't imagine anything bleaker than being subscribed to just ubisoft as a company I just pay them to exist So I guess that about that about covers everything I think so We didn't we didn't talk much about Invictus. Do you have any thoughts about Invictus?   So multiplayer and assassin's creed is always welcome to me I also always thought that like the warzone trend would be good with assassin's creed because That's kind of what the pvp stuff was It was you and you had a target and there was other assassins around you trying to kill their targets like That yeah, that was that that's in essence kind of what warzone is today. It's just bigger maps Sure So if you put me in like fuel japan and I got to go find a target And also they're trying to kill me and also my target or whatever then yeah, I that's cool. I'm down with that I just that honestly like if you could just casually play that instead of being invested in like the lore and story That sounds like the perfect way to enjoy assassin's creed these days You know parkour rounds to have some multiplayer people but not have to care about the story and lore that's being ignored every day But no, I mean I won't play it, but you know I'm excited about I not excited, but I'm intrigued by the idea of multiplayer coming back I also think like I've said this before co-op is is a great idea for assassin's creed bring it back Yeah co-op in fuel japan That sounds Like a okay time. It sounds like a pleasant experience I can't believe that that's like a standalone thing though. That's kind of strange to me All right. I don't I mean I feel like it It makes sense with the warzone approach theoretically But is it is it going to do the same thing I call it duty's doing where like it uses reds assets That's that's what I would imagine right? Yeah, I mean maybe they that's also where they would introduce like legacy assets Like here we we did a renaissance idli map and a american revolution map I mean they could kind of do anything if it's if that's the yeah, which is what they did with in uh Like in revelations a lot of the maps were like, oh here's rome here's Here's uh this this town square in florins from ac2 um Yeah, they just never got to the point where it was like hopping generations, of course You are that you're the resident uh pvp expert because I never touched that shit You were missing out any of it. I know I know It's a lot of fun. I guess to to kind of wrap this up Since it's been a minute and I was going to maybe do this at the top, but honestly, I forgot. Have you had a good year? um Kind of sure Your answer is no, I can cut this part out, but I just you know, we haven't we haven't done this in a while and Uh, it's been a whole like over a year since the last time we did an episode Kind of detoxing from a sassus grade was nice. Um, yeah, I uh Yeah, for the most part. I think I've had a I've had a good year. Um, I'd say my answer is yes. What about you? I I think I've had a really good year. I since since the last episode. I you know, I graduated college uh moved out of My parents house in missouri. I moved to los angeles I worked on A couple tv shows one of them's airing right now the patient I worked on set for that that was fun Now I work on movie trailers and stuff which has been a cool job to have So it's been a good year and I think both of us have been staying busy, which is part of why We haven't really delivered on the idea before of like doing something else that's not assassin's creed related whether it's a podcast or a youtube thing, but You know, we appreciate that it does seem like, you know, every once in a while I'll glance at the analytics and it seems like every once in a while people come back and listen to these old episodes, which uh is really nice and and always a nice feeling to see a new comment pop up and that people are are still getting something out of these because We did it for a long time and and it was fun and it's been It's been fun to kind of uh dust off the old blue yeti And get back into it today. Yeah, totally. I definitely uh Missed doing the podcast element of it whether it's assassin's creed or whatever. So it's definitely nice to revisit this and uh, I'm sure that there are a couple listeners that will be happy to see this episode and hopefully Hopefully they agree with some of our thoughts here You know The the the main the main thesis statement for this episode I think uh, if you're excited about the future of assassin's creed that you are wrong and you should feel bad Yeah, I mean I I endorse that So let us know in the comments looking at you. How excited are you out of 10? Has as ubisoft won you back have they wind and dined you with this mirage trailer? And will you be pre-ordering and buying the special collector's edition with the I don't know.  I didn't even there is and apparently everyone has already bought it And now they're putting it up on ebay Awesome. That's sweet. That's what we like to see. That's what we like to see Uh, I've been the blade. Hey, I I've been the hook Thank you for listening. Uh, have a great year since that's probably how long


Hi everyone, Joe for jaspeascasebrakes.com, doing a quick Panini Prison Basketball Solo Pack Break, number 106, where we're giving away 10 of those basketball mixer spots. If you're watching live, we just have to do one more of those, and then we are in Brakesville. Big thanks to this group for getting into Break 106, once again 107 sells out the break. Remember, there's two different dice rolls. First one will be for the break, second one will be for the giveaway part. But let's do the pack break first. Let's roll it, let's randomize it. Six into three, nine times for names and teams. One, two, three, nine to the final time. Patrick down to Logan. Yeah, I saw that earlier today. Jordan loves mom and his girlfriend. Tickets were on the very top row of the stadium in there, and can't see. They couldn't find like a suite or like the, don't the Packers would have had an owner suite or something like that? I don't know who's, I don't know who dropped the ball there. Unless they wanted, unless they requested they wanted to sit out there. You know, they're like, hey, we want the whole cold, chilly, Kansas City, you know, experience at Arrowhead, eight and ninth and final time. So unless they wanted to. But I was actually watching, I saw that live on TV, I was like, okay, this, why are they up there? They, it seemed like, it almost seemed like they asked to be up there. All right, here's the first half of the list right here, and the second half of the list right over here. Thanks everybody. No trade windows in this. We're just going to dive right into the pack and then we'll get the, we'll get the break going. Oh, was it actually seven? Well, what about during game time? Was that game time was 70 degrees out there?  I feel like there was a wind chill that went across the top of that stadium. They look chilly. They look bundled up. And here's the final printout hot off the presses. Although I don't know where, where's Jordan love from? Maybe his parents or maybe his mom's from a warm weather area. Jordan love is from Bakersfield, California. It does get pretty toasty. Oh, it gets chilly in Bakersfield though. Diamond and silver, Dremont green, green parallel. Not a Tyrese Halliburton. That's not too shabby based Tyrese Halliburton for the Kings. That's for Eric, red, white and blue, Michael Porter Jr., Mitchell Robinson and Jake Lehman. All right, nothing too crazy there. The Tyrese Halliburton base was all right though. There's Jordan love. Let's go back to this list right here. Let's gather everybody's names. New dice, new list and let's random new dice. There's the new dice. We're going to randomize that list one and a four five times. One, two, three, four and fifth and final time. One and a four. So it's top 10 after five. So there's five. So from 11 on down right there on your screen, no dice. We'll get them next time though. Thanks for giving it a shot. Top 10, congrats David, Michael, David, Michael, Jade, Logan, Brian, Ricardo, Matthew and Steve Herrick. Congrats to the top 10 after five. You're in that basketball break. I'll see you next time for that one. Bye-bye.


Welcome to Statistics and Data Science. I'm Barton Poulsen, and what we're going to be doing in this course is talking about some of the ways that you can use statistics to see the unseen, to infer what's there even when most of it's hidden. Now, this shouldn't be a surprise if you remember the Data Science Venn diagram that we talked about a while ago. We have math up here in the top right corner, but if you were to go to the original description of this Venn diagram, its full name was math and stats. And let me just mention something in case it's not completely obvious about why statistics matters to Data Science. And the idea is this, counting is easy. It's easy to say how many times a word appears in a document. It's easy to say how many people voted for a particular candidate in one part of the country. Counting is easy. But summarizing and generalizing, those things are hard. And part of the problem is there's no such thing as a definitive analysis. All analyses really depend on the purposes that you're dealing with. So as an example, let me give you a couple of pairs of words and try to summarize the difference between them in just two or three words. I mean, in a word or two, how is a souffle different from a quiche, or how is an aspen different from a pine tree, or how is baseball different from cricket, and how are musicals different from opera? It really depends on who you're talking to depends on your goals. And it depends on sort of the shared knowledge. And so there's not a single definitive answer. And then there's a matter of generalization. Think about again, take music, listen to Three Concerti by Antonio Vivaldi. And do you think you can safely and accurately describe all of his music? Now, I actually chose Vivaldi on purpose because Igor Stravinsky said you could he said he didn't write 500 concertos, he wrote the same concerto 500 times. But take something more real world like politics. If you talk to 400 registered voters in the US, can you then accurately predict the behavior of all of the voters? There's about 100 million voters in the US. And that's a matter of generalization. And that's the sort of thing that we try to take care of with inferential statistics. Now, there are different methods that you can use in statistics. And all of them are designed to give you sort of a map, a description of the data you're working with. They're descriptive statistics, they're inferential statistics. There's the inferential procedure hypothesis testing. And there's also estimation. And I'll talk about each of those in more depth. There are a lot of choices that have to be made. And some of the things I'm going to discuss in detail are, for instance, the choice of estimators that's different from estimation, different measures of fit feature selection for knowing which variables are the most important in predicting your outcome. Also common problems that arise when trying to model data and the principles of model validation. But through this all the most important thing to remember is that analysis is functional, is designed to serve a particular purpose. And there's a very wonderful quote within the statistics world that says all models are wrong, all statistical descriptions of reality are wrong, because they're not exact depictions, they're summaries. But some are useful. And that's from George box. And so really, the question is, you're not trying to be totally completely accurate, because in that case, you just wouldn't do an analysis. The real question is, are you better off doing your analysis than not doing it? And truthfully, I bet you are. So in some, we can say three things. Number one, you want to use statistics to both summarize your data and to generalize from one group to another if you can. On the other hand, there's no one true answer with data, you got to be flexible in terms of what your goals are and the shared knowledge. And no matter what you're doing, the utility of your analysis should guide you in your decisions.


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