Assassin's Creed

oh shit was i supposed to give this to you :<

eh i found it for $18 so what the hell

btw peeps that dig this really might want to check out el cheapo game "the saboteur" which i have also been playing quite a bit recently - lots o climbing, but u get gunz and carz and esplosives

I'm totally stoked to get The Saboteur one of these days, b/c I actually know the locale where it takes place pretty well...kinda think my lack of interest in GTAs has been that I don't really know most of their locales very well (never played San Andreas fwiw).

started Fallout 3 last night finally though so I think it'll be a while before I leave that vault, so to speak...

yeah digging this. Only thing that deeply upsets me is that I can't PARKOUR without consequences as in the first game due to health no longer (totally) replenishing when, e.g., I fuck up a big cross-building jump or whatev.

Wait a fucking minute, did this game just make a nintendo joke?! That's fucking awesome

xxpost saboteur is excellent btw, not up to the sheer wow of AC2 but much more out & out fun than most of the big releases of late

yeah I ordered The Saboteur, as it's pretty low-priced now, & I'll keep waiting for AC2 to come further down in price.

Guys, the brotherhood demo is awesome. Anybody else a ps+ member and want to play?

Anybody? Seriously this is fucking great

i've been playing ACII a lot. it's pretty fun, every time i get bored with one aspect of the game they add something new (tired of running around in one city and stabbing people? here's a new city, and you have to ride a chariot past a bunch of guards to get there!). the tombs are especially fun. the fighting is funny though, in theory it's all complicated and has all these different maneuvers you learn to do, in practice I just jam the fight button really fast until everyone's dead.

so nobody else got into the ac brotherhood beta? cuz it's awesome.

Brotherhood beta is online multiplayer, correct? Zero interest. Excited by the single player game though.

it's a totally unique multiplayer. You can't kill your attacker.

Read about it, not interested. I don't do multiplayer unless it's co-op. Adversarial multiplayer not my thing.

Brotherhood gets 10/10 on Eurogamer = o_O

but ACI is the best AAA game I've played on any console (well, KOTOR was pretty great too) & if ACII just improved on that & this improves on that, then I can see it! gotta get ACII soon, the price is certainly getting right. The problem with waiting to get Brotherhood is that if I wait a year or so then multi is gonna be barren = the cost of being a cheap ass.

I wish they had spent more time talking about the 20+ hour single player component. I would have been more excited as ACII was my game of the year. Now I gotta pick this up. At least nothing's been spoiled by my ignorance.

ACII was so much better than the first one which became so repetitive and boring I gave up on it about halfway through.

Looking forward to this one and have just had an email from Amazon saying it's on its way so hopefully will arrive tomorrow

i got ACII having never played ACI and it's really confusing - i'm expected to know how to do everything right away and the story makes no sense..

is this the same game that's advertised on uk tv with the friggin awful strange inappropriate dance music?

So anyone else playing this? I've played about 3 or 4 hours so far and first impressions are that it's even better than AC2. It is more of the same, but in a good way with some interesting tweaks to the gameplay mechanics.

Rome is massive and very well designed and the ability to now ride horses in the cities is awesome. Definitely recommended if you liked the previous one.

I've been playing through AC1, which I have pretty mixed feelings about. All the negative stuff is true- repetitive missions, unpredictable/inconsistent "social stealth" rules (LOOK! A MAN, ON A HORSE, RIDING ABOVE WALKING SPEED! CLEARLY HE IS OF THE ANCIENT BROTHERHOOD OF HASHASHIN!), unlikeable protagonists (Desmond is a whiner and Altair a straight-up dick), but the environments and freerunning are almost enough to justify the game's existence on their own.

I kind of want to rush through to get to the good AC games, but the obsessive completist in me won't let me rest without completing all of the viewpoints, citizen rescues and investigations. Which is nice, because there's a ton of beautiful, meticulously-rendered scenery I'd miss if I did. Who the hell makes a game where you can climb around on the Dome of the Rock and not only makes it totally optional, but easy to miss?

I'm not doing the flags beyond the ones I stumble across, though, because I am not insane.

I gave up on the first one after about 6 hours and have never regretted it.

impressed with brotherhood so far!

the symbol puzzles are really imaginative and creepy, like they were in 2. good job.

Playing "the Saboteur" now and amused by how much AC it mixes in

I bought bro'hood this weekend for the multiplayer (and eurogamer's 10). I have never played an assasins creed game so bought the AC2 for £10 yesterday.

I aim to play 2 then straight into bro. but play the multiplayer from brohood in tandem.

Is this madness?

Has anyone any tips?

skip the DLC on AC2

i'm really liking brohood!! i'm not very far in the story, and in true ocd style i've been grinding out all the side shit.

first impressions

- rome is pretty but a lot of it is ruins. i think this is accurate, for the time? pretty cool climbing around on the colosseum.

- the villains (one group of) in this game look to be some kind of anti-church old gods of rome pagan dudes, but that may be fake since the templars are behind everything. i was impressed with how they used cultural stuff in AC2; and so far the use of old roman locations, artwork, etc, has been really cool and involving too.

- the structure of this one is more "horizontal" than linear, if that makes sense. there are fewer artificial blocks on where you can't go right away, and less emphasis on moving through the story missions to unlock the side stuff. most of the side stuff is there right away, laid out all over the map. there's a ton to do. opening shop locations, buying landmarks, taking down enemy towers (a twist on the 'tower look around' thing) secret hideouts, the hidden symbol puzzles, faction missions, missions of shop owners. i'm not even to the whole 'train more assassins' part. they packed it full.

- the combat works a little better, but builds right off of AC2. you basically can do everything right away, and you kind of have to.

- it looks like a lot more is made out of the modern-day framing device. you are able to leave the past-simulation at any time and walk around the lab, even leave the building. i'm sure there's going to be a lot happening here and there are hints already of twists to the conspiracy story. there's also a bunch of virtual training stuff you can do, for the medal-obsessed.

oh and there's a really long sex cutscene pretty early on :/

1 more thing: there is slightly more horse-riding, which has been slightly improved, and you can ride horses in town. esp after RDR all horses are awful so this is kind of a negative

slightly more horse-riding

nooooooooooooo

only one segment so far where it was part of the action. there are a few spots where you kind of trot along while machiavelli talks to you

one plus side of more horsey shit is that the guards sometimes ride them and it's pretty terrifying! i can't think of a game with sword fighting where you face down a mounted attacker, which i think was kind of big deal at the time.

I have no time for these games anymore. If I wanted to put on a dress and walk around a big crowd groping people i'd go to the Santa Claus parade.

just ordered AC 2 game of the year from the UK; hoping it'll play on my USA 360 (net seems to suggest it will)

should get to Brotherhood by the time it drops in price, by which time sadly the multi'll be dead.

haven't touched the multi. don't know if i want to

you should. it's all i played and it's awesome

really loving the multi, but on the PS3 game matching is plain broken.

however its nice to have a multiplayer game thats got a bit more going on upstairs.

what with the climbing and all, rite

love poisoning a guard and then throwing coins at his feet

lol i'll have to try that

i'm super ocd about this right now

I think I'm nearly finished (just at the end of sequence 11.) I do like the game but it has its issues: the map screen runs at 15fps, it's too easy to decrease your wanted level, and chiefly the boss assassination missions always seem to end up in a massive melee. if the boss does manage to get away he just runs in a loop until you catch up and assassinate him.

there's little need for actual guile when fighting the bosses. in fact, there's little opportunity for it anyway. you can sit and analyse the guard patterns and still be seen w/in seconds. mostly you just weigh in and then mash punch until the guards are dead and the sequence complete

would love for AC to have some of the /sophistication/ of the hitman games when it comes to multiple routes to the finish. would also love a ninja game in the engine, with more sophisticated stealth

yeah the stealth/hiding element is the most game-y and uninvolving.

it would really help if you weren't dressed like a fruitcake. then you wouldn't have to visualize 'blending into a crowd' with some flashy color changing business. it would just look like you're blending into a crowd. just sayin.

that said i'm totally loving this

Just got a used copy this morning. ACII was my game of the year last year so I am very happy to have this in my hands.

(I was talking about ACII just for ref, dunno if those issues have been addressed in AC:B)

naw ACB is basically the same. it's the same engine just with a lot more added to the mission and story elements. about the only thing that's different-different is kill-chaining in combat. that and... more horses.

the more i think baout this game the more i think it needed a disguise mechanic as a core element.

Is this available for PC? I have the first one, found it pretty but a bit repetitive.

not yet i don't think. brotherhood, that is.

AC2 is

I guess I'll pick up AC2, then! Totally bored w/UT now, I've been looking for something new to play for a while....

11 years? ;)