[PC] Free - Discovery Tour by Assassin’s Creed: Ancient Egypt | Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece (Both Were $29.95) @ Ubisoft

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  ColPow11 on 15/05/2020 - 08:09

  +8

  You don't need to own the base game; and like all of these offers, you can claim it now and download/install it later.

  Ancient Egypt is 43Gb.

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  nomoneynoproblems on 15/05/2020 - 08:38

  -5

  Can't believe they charge $30 for this.

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    FutureTech on 15/05/2020 - 08:59

    +1

    And you don't get to stab people from the back!

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    King Colbra on 15/05/2020 - 09:05

    +9

    "historians and Egyptologists guide you on one of the 75 available historical tours they have curated."

    They still had to pay someone to make the tours. I've never played this version, but I assume the tours aren't 30 seconds each.

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    Caped Baldy on 15/05/2020 - 09:33

    +7

    Why? it's a lot of content and a significant amount of research and effort goes into it.

    • baldur on 15/05/2020 - 09:51 Comment score below threshold.
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        toastfacegrillah on 15/05/2020 - 09:59

        +8

        So only the person who discovered something can be said to have done any significant research.
        All others after them are simply cashing in on their work without contributing anything else of significance, or value?

        • baldur on 15/05/2020 - 10:08 Comment score below threshold.
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            brotherfranciz on 15/05/2020 - 18:07

            +1

            @baldur: Perhaps you should look up the definitions in a dictionary…

            "Research" does not have the same meaning as "discovery".

            You can research something without needing to discover it. Think about a school project you did.

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        armaboo on 15/05/2020 - 10:21

        +4

        At the time when the games were made, there was quite a lot of press about how the tried to make the enviroment (cities and background population) historically accurate. Not being an expert, but having played through Origins and seeing the major cities and landmarks of Egypt, I think this would be an excellent way for kids (and adults) to learn about history.

        Perhaps if you were a history major or had a hobby of learning about ancient civilisations this would be considered silly .. but I think 90% of people could learn from these.

        p.s. thanks heaps to OP for the deal!

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    Xianese on 15/05/2020 - 11:42

    +1

    I'm fairly certain that if you own the full game it's included. I got it on PS4 and don't recall paying for it.
    They were simply also offering it as a $30 stand alone entity if you wanted it that way.

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  [Deactivated] on 15/05/2020 - 10:52

  +4

  Assassins Creed Origins was amazingly accurate for a game, but as a historical simulator? I really don't see it.

  The game boasted its historical fidelity in all its marketing, but was actually pretty poor when it came to the macro view of the world. And it had to be. Trying to create the whole of Ptolemaic Egypt would be impossible, and creating smaller areas in high fidelity then bordering them with some sort of "travelling to next location" message would destroy the seamless open world. So, the whole world was compressed like a theme park.

  Places that would take hours or days to travel between on horseback were a five minute ride apart, and sprawling settlements were reduced to something the game designers could model reasonably. Also, in the interest of making the game interesting, Alexandria is presented as a city of marble and tile (it had many marble buildings, but not that many), all the Pyramids at Giza are given the same style of white casing stone that the Great Pyramid had, characters like Cleopatra were hammed up, the weapons were dialled up to 11 or just invented, Roman-style gladiatorial arenas inexplicably pop up in Ptolemaic Egypt, soldiers were given outlandish armour inappropriate for the Egyptian heat, ethnic tensions between Egyptians and Greeks were played up to a level that isn't recorded in histories, etc…

  This is all absolutely necessary to make a cool and interesting game, and a lot of the micro detail around the society, its cults and political strife, its statuary and NPC garments, were well done (even if half the voice actors sounded like they had a bad Jamaican accent instead of any form of Greek or Coptic one). But the world itself was more theme park than real historical simulator.

  So, by all means, enjoy it for what it is - a theme park built around Alexandrian Egypt, but don't expect to be able to sprint from Alexandria to Giza in five minutes in the real world.

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  dfg555 on 15/05/2020 - 12:56

  +1

  this would be good for tech demo/display pc's

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  TEER3X on 15/05/2020 - 19:02

  Language packs don't include Greek. Damn it. Would've been nice but beggars can't be choosers or is it don't look a gift horse in the mouth?

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  michal on 15/05/2020 - 22:16

  +1

  How can you actually tell the games are in your library?

  Order history claims "You have never ordered", but if you click on GET IT FOR FREE it says "ALL GOOD. Your game is activated on your Uplay Library."

  Where can I see this library? I mean I actually own a bunch of Ubisoft games including Far Cry 3 and 4 as well as Just Cause 3 and 4 and at least one or two Assassins Creeds they gave away in the past.

  I just don't have any of it currently installed and I'm on my Hackintosh.

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    Freezies on 16/05/2020 - 01:55

    +2

    You can see your game library from within Uplay.

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      michal on 16/05/2020 - 17:34

      +1

      Thanks.. For what it's worth, adding it via your account on the website does not add it to your games even though it says "ALL GOOD. Your game is activated on your Uplay Library."