Assassin's Creed

This would be amazing with a VR helmet. Jumping around jungle lagoons, leaping from coconut treetop to coconut treetop, and you never have to worry about bugs, heat, or dangerous animals.

You automatically knew there was treasure behind the waterfall.

When the meta stuff starts up in IV, I just want to go back to playing that awesome pirate game. I hope this isn't a huge part of this game.

but everything outside the story was a blast

lol modern games

― napgenius (goole), Tuesday, December 10, 2013 11:04 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Uh that first meta part was just like someone walked into the room while I was playing an awesome pirate game and stole the computer screen from me then waved it around going "Nyaah nyaaah nyaah!" is there a mod that will let me assassinate these VR clowns? I don't care that I am playing a videogame inside a videogame. Unless this is going to turn into Saints Row IV you can leave that stuff at home.

Please tell me this is a very very small part of this game.

yeah the Animus/Abstergo stuff in the series is really annoying and compeltely pointless - not sure why the developers feel obliged to stick with it.

Paris is burning !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLcjwqXATIM

I was expecting this to follow !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L93-7vRfxNs

Pretty psyched for that but maybe it's because I just read Fatal Purity.

Finally got the mission where I have my own ship and the crew are singing sea shanties and there are all these little islands everywhere to explore. YES THIS IS AWESOME.

Yeah the open world segment here (it feels like this game is made of a few different open world areas) is pretty frickin' amazing and seamless. You can go from sailing the seas and fighting other pirate ships to discovering buried treasure on a secret island without any load screen or load time. I love the controls for the ship, you can sort of put it on cruise control, you can turn it around like a tank, and you can pull it up to an island and just whip it to a stop like you would a car in GTA. But it doesn't look silly, it looks awesome!

The collectible stuff in IV is done extremely well, any time you have to find something out of the way you end up using your crazy acrobatic moves and end up walking across treetops or something cool that you wouldn't otherwise have done.

It's harder (or maybe just more time consuming) to make money as well, which is frustrating when I'm trying to level up the ship but is better than opening up stores and watching money roll in you'll never spend. Making you dive for the elite plans was a good move too.

So this awesome open world, it's going to be available for the rest of the playing time, I suspect? I've been running around doing random missions and I'm wondering if should just chill on those for a minute and progress in the main story so everything is unlocked. Can't wait to do a diving mission...

Just want to comment again the open world looks AMAZING holy crap AAA video games over the past couple of years are giving Hollywood a run for their money. Seems like every 10 minutes or so I catch a view that is postcard pretty, and yes this is my favorite non-Monkey Island pirate game of all time. When you are sailing at travel speed and your boat hits the water and it all splashed up and onto the deck and then washes off..... holy crap it looks amazing. Just, damn.

prob gonna pick this up after i finish dark souls 2

I found my rip of the old Pirates of the Caribbean Disney record I made and it sounds really cool played alongside this game, you can even leave the game music on.

Not gonna lie I try to get the music sheets so I can hear more shanties

Neu goes SUPER well w both the cutscenes and big dramatic open-sea drones.

Both 1 and 2 have water sound sections.

Riding the big waves is the killer app.

I really liked the Abstergo segments in IV. I thought it worked as an interesting framing device for what you were doing, as well as opening up the premise for any other era they wanna hit....as the Unity previews show. I liked the change-up of going from third-person blonde piratey dude actioning around vs first-person vaguely nameless gamedev QA tester.

the sheer buckets of lore in the game were a nice addition.

Dawned on me last night, after digging up treasure from a island that looked a little too familiar, that this game is procedurally generated. The towns are really starting to feel the same too. It's still a great game, but the more that shows through, kind of ruins it a bit for me.

I went back to this at the weekend for the first time in a month or two. My ship's so maxed out on weaponry that I can take out man-o-wars from distance just by raining mortar down on them and come away without a scratch. Kinda spoils the fun. I've still a couple of dives left to complete - I tended to avoid them as they were always so unbearably tense - but that's about it :(
Roll on the French Revolution, but I'll miss the pirating.

I harpooned a few hammerheads last night, which was amazing (as everything in this game is) visually and easy to control. I still can't get over the look of the ocean in this. Just brilliant programming. You really feel the weight of the ship, and the gravity of everything, and the pull of the waves, particularly during rough seas. It looks _exactly_ like real footage. Best water EVER in a videogame.

I'm serious about "Neu! 2". The second track has this crazy minimalist reverbed out snare drum part that goes really well with all the cannons during ship-to-ship battles. And track 03 sounds like a windy spooky Caribbean church.

I haven't touched the story mode on this for a while, just been exploring underwater pirate hideaways filled with sharks and stuff. I just climbed up a really sweet bell tower that was 6 or 7 stories tall.

Just finished 3. Really bad story/acting and glitchy gameplay. In mitigation, easier time with recruits and I liked trading. Sea missions also brilliant.

Really slow to go for 4. I played game thinking that Ezio was such a good character compared to Connor (

Superfluous 'N' or is this common US spelling?) in that there was a bit of movement and growth. Honestly felt that this game was just railroading me between cut scenes. Some of historical notes were interesting as I know/knew very little about that period.

The accents though - they could not find actors capable of accents with their budget?

In terms of 4 though it sounds from this thread they've kept good bits of 3 and chucked the rest.

I don't know, haven't played 3. It feels like an open world pirate action game laid on top of a stealth franchise. It is a LOT of content. You can spend dozens of hours just doing sidequests and fighting ship battles. It's pretty good, it's almost too good, in fact. If they had made a game with half this content, and spent all that extra time perfecting gameplay and little physics issues, it would be a masterpiece.

just bought iv, its taking forever to download

the level of detail in the fauna is absurd

flora, rather, not fauna

Just wait til you get to islands with deer, crocodiles, and tree monkeys.

on ps3 so i guess i'm missing the full experience of the next-gen version

so any interest around here in the forthcoming AC movie?

is it the sequel to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcE8xJkK6t4

Having never played any of these before, I recently picked up the Ezio trilogy and AC3 for cheap. Is there any point whatsoever in getting the first one or should I just plunge into 2?

start with 2

1 is awesome for the visuals of the medieval middle east, though

I just started 2 last night. Played about half an hour, got to Italy.

Kind of weird to have the right trigger be your sprint button.

Does the game restrict jumping early in the game or can I just not find the button to do it?

Medieval Middle East is awesome but I haven't played it since it came out so I imagine the mechanics are fairly ropey considering the series still has issues with them. The one to skip is 3.

Does the game restrict jumping early in the game or can I just not find the button to do it?
― calstars, Friday, April 11, 2014 11:29 AM

iirc holding r1 is sprint/freerun/jump combined but it doesnt come into play until after you beat up that first group of guys. i think theres a 'race to the top' sort of thing where the freerun/jumping/climbing gets introduced

I always heard not to touch 1, but I kinda want to watch the assembled supercut of all the cutscenes on yt

I bought 3 for hella cheap, but I don't know if I want to get into yet after all the time spent in 4 during Dec/Jan. You can only play so much AC before the mechanics grind you down due to repetition, and I want to be fresh for AC:Unity.

4 is nothing special so far, its really no different than 2 barring the ship stuff which i havent delved into yet. and i guess theres hunting which might be cool. but otherwise the mechanics are the same. its still mash the attack button, loot the corpse, fuck chasing that stupid courier who gives a shit, open the chest, watch the cutscene. feels like a ripoff, $60 for a re-skin of a previous game thx ubisoft

its really no different than 2 barring the ship stuff which i havent delved into yet

idk dude this might be something crucial.

Yes you at least need to wait til you get a ship.

Just your hardy crew's enjoyment of bellowing sea chanties as you cut thru the deep blue makes this game a mark well above most.

totally went out of my way to chase down the annoying song sheets to get more shanties

yeah 1 is great for the visuals and feeling of these amazing cities. but it's very repetitive.
same qualities with 2 in firenze and venezia + a much better gameplay. I play it at the moment and so far it's great.
the visuals and feels of a great city are clearly key aspects in these games for me. and one that was lacking in 3 with NYC and boston being totally meh.
haven't played 4 but since there are no big cities in it, there might be a problem (and I like the boat parts in 3 but I dunno, it's just another game to me).

ok maybe i should progress the story more. i've just been hanging around havana collecting all the viewpoints, etc. and slaughtering guards. is there no wanted poster / notoriety mechanic in this game?