Assassin's Creed

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?

There is. Yeah, you should progress the story at least until you have the ship. Havana is meh compared to what you get into.

ok heres a list of my progression

- catch the sage
- desynchronized
- catch the sage
- desynchronized
- catch the sage
- desynchronized
- catch the sage
- desynchronized
- catch the sage
- desynchronized- catch the sage
- desynchronized
- catch the sage
- desynchronizedv
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Might wanna click down that difficulty setting; it's affecting your ability to hold down the ctrl button

i beat a guy at checkers and pet a dog

See, you're doing it

You can also pet a goat

i petted a cat and skinned a lizard

IV is amazing. Have completely ignored story to just pootle about the tropics looting and robbing.

I really like all chests, etc. on map at outset. Also the easy fast travel and activating the locations.

I am not liking how long it takes to get metal!

I also am sick of non-animus bits. They've trimmed the stories in the game, why do I have to spend 30 wandering around on rails NOT GIVING A MONKEYS!

I actually liked the office parts this time. I dug the conceit and thought that wandering about their place in Montreal was a nice way to break up the story.

Plus all the lore was cute

This game is fantastic.

I've unlocked a good few upgrades both for character (templar armour, pistol swords) and the boat (elite hull, elite broadside, etc.) and I'm still on training/intro missions. I only completed sequence to get diving bell. I really like that you can buy the hunting goods for upgrades. I have had

Speaking of which the swimming underwater in this is really bad but at least the goods are easy to find. Do far at least.

The sounds of this game (shanties, etc.) is really good. Accents are all a bit ropey as per.

*I have had four pistols from early on. Great in mêlées.

Holy shit this game... Story is a distraction from the pirate good times but enjoyable none the less. Office parts have improved. The combat is a lot better in this one.

Did anyone else find the underwater levels very stressful?

yeah iv is great. reluctant to try it after 3 but this is superb.

Are you going through story or completing side missions?

Having this thing on hold now for several months already due to not really wanting to deal with this fucking sharks again, I really have to say I miss those moments when you would just climb into the rigging to watch a balearicaribbean sunset, breeze along unnoticed near some big ass manowars fighting each other in a massive storm, casually shoot some howler monkeys with your blowpipe or having your crew sing Lowlands Away for days on end...

Think I've done roughly 80% of the side missions and yet only about 30-50% of the main narrative content for fear of getting beamed back to this dreadful office setting again...

doing all the side stuff too - this game has a really smart way of making collecting emeralds, sea shanties etc seem like the most satisfying thing ever. currently can't be arsed stopping my ship at every tiny island to grab one treasure chest but im sure i will in time. about 25% completion so im at that sweet spot where i've learned all the mechanisms and haven't got bored by any repeat-of-earlier-one missions. love this game, love it

wish i could suss out the ship fighting controls better though. got mortars but damned if i know how to fire em

Then better not learn this imo, once you get mortars and a decent hull it makes naval battles even against the biggies or the strong fortresses almost uninterestingly easy in that it's virtually impossible to actually lose the ship altogether and have to start a new attempt.

Think I've done roughly 80% of the side missions and yet only about 30-50% of the main narrative content for fear of getting beamed back to this dreadful office setting again...

As above, I really don't like those bits but thankfully they are relatively short (even if painful).

Funnily enough the sharks (apart from the first underwater mission) never really bothered me. It was the eels that messed me up the few times I died. Really the oxygen lasts so long that you can sort of wait things out most of the time. I couldn't ever get good at the swimming underwater, I just couldn't really do any kind of controlled swimming up close to chests, etc.

wish i could suss out the ship fighting controls better though. got mortars but damned if i know how to fire em

On XBox it was left bumper and then fire with right trigger. Aim slightly in front of moving target. IMHO it is best to upgrade armour and broadside before mortar. Maybe storage because it only uses wood and you can sell more. Staying south is brilliant for looting goods for trade.

What I found really useful was to upgrade the ship as much as possible (sunken chests for elite, etc.) so I only progressed with story to as far as those being unlocked and then swam for them all. The other handy thing: Capture all forts before going too far in story. That way if you're ever being hunted just sail to them and they will take out the hunters, you collect the metal.

The other advantage is when your ship is upgraded it's much easier to take on the Man O'Wars who have c.a. 1500 Reales as well as goodies for trade so you can take the lazy way out and buy all the equipment needed for armour, etc. upgrades.

I also (being a very bad player generally) found getting Templar Armour to be a huge help but I didn't get any sense that the other armours (except Mayan) made all that much of a difference.

Treasure chests and fragments in outer sea remain unopened/uncollected - life too short in the end when there is zero benefit (I'm not online so all the multiplayer rewards don't do much).

I can't praise the very open world from the beginning highly enough. It's great to level up and be everywhere. Also the assassination contracts were a good mix - ditto the viewpoints.

Royal Convoys cost 200 Reales to find at taverns but are worth between 3000 and 5000 Reales and are simple to hit for quick money.

Forget harpooning. Lots of work for very little. Ditto hunting.

don't you need to hunt to make holsters and pouches ?

You can just buy hunting goods if you want. I prefer to hunt, myself. And rope-dart kill panthers.

The rope-dart came in too late in the game for me to really get used to but I might go back in to give it a go hunting as I never made the connection.

You can buy the hunting goods but they can be expensive therefore if you can harpoon the sea hunting goods those are actually the most expensive and with the upgrades being wood only iirc it shouldn't take long. I say this having had no patience and bought them all rather than actually put the time/effort in.

do the costumes do anything? like i can buy a new cloak or craft a shark hunter outfit but do they actively do anything to my stats?

I didn't find any difference at all which was annoying given time spent gathering the materials. Even the fancy white whale outfit seems to do nothing. I suppose some of the hunting ones might make a difference but all in all it's good for completion stats but not much else I think.

I need to come back to this. I liked the running around islands part but couldn't get the hang of the ship battles.