Assassin's Creed

Yeah, kinda. Although Batman is a little more robust imo

Is it just me or is the AC3 ad campaign the most off putting, jingoistic bullshit ever? And it seems to be getting worse?

I'm enjoying this now but jesus fuck having to wade through eight hours of bullshit before I got to the actual game I expected to be playing when I bought it was tough going.

Especially annoyed by the three hours at the start I spent playing as someone other than the main character purely for the sake of a bullshit lol-gotcha twist. Assassin's Creed: Shyamalan's Curse.

the first few hours of this have been the most tedious shit going. 5 minute cutaway then some sluggish walking around then massive cutaway, credits, cutaway, bit of gameplay and so on. when does it get fun? remember feeling this about 2 and brotherhood and being glad i stuck with it but this one is really trying my patience. sure sure you made a game that looks pretty, stop crowbarring your b-movie director ambitions into it just LET ME PLAY A DAMN GAME

it gets better, but not for like 6 hours.

modern gameplay disease of forgetting to add 'fun', focusing more on making something *important*

There's a pretty cool twist, but no fucking reason for it to take so long to get to it.

I did not *get* the twist. I was confused (never played II or brotherhood) by the <strike>intricate</strike> convoluted plot. The game started getting really good around ~ Episode 5, and I think it's worth it to just slog through until then. But oh man, I love running through the woods and fighting wolves. And it was super fun to snare a beaver. Best parts of Red Dead Redemption combined with Thief II. I <3 this game.

Oh, also I love my mansion filled with indentured servants and magical black guy

Yeah, I think you needed to play a few of those you missed to get the twist. Which you should do, because II & Brotherhood are both quite good. Revelations was pish though.

man first couple hours of this are not impressing me.

so what's the twist, this haytham bro is a templar?

partial turnaround in opinion: best walking-thru-deep-snow movement i've ever seen!

i called that twist didn't i.

yeah i'm kind of into this, dammit! the woodsy stuff is beautiful and the climbing free-run shit is surprisingly well done over rough, organic shapes like rocks and trees (with some annoying exceptions). i do feel like there's slightly less effort put into the detail of boston (compared to the italian cities anyway). these churches all look suspiciously alike. but i have to say i'm interested to see how they work in all the high school history.

but the pacing, jesus christ. who put this together? slow and deliberate and STILL not informative about what you're supposed to do. herky jerky with too many cutscenes. not a good feeling when you're hours into what you know are supposed to be tutorial missions that aren't very tutorial. i swear there's a cutscene were Charming Indian Love Interest says "meet me at the top of the hill and i'll show you", and so you run LIKE 12 YARDS up that hill. into to another cutscene.

I'm about ready to throw this damn disc across the room. Far too often there are automatic fail states, pointless chases and all sorts of non-fun activities. Which is a shame, because just tooling around in this is magnificent.

Also, why do cutscenes fade into other cutscenes? And why have a cutscene go into an interactive segment where the only thing you do is walk approx. 5', listen to a conversation, then walk 5' back, triggering another cut scene? Just show the conversation!

It's frustrating and stupid but I played all the other ones and want to finish it. Grr.

oh. great.

Sorry goole. For every awesome bit, like trudging through snow, or jumping on bears from high in the trees, there's a dodge the gunfire on the battlefield or they saw you so you fail at life moment. I don't remember so many autofails in prior games.

annoying and not wrong:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/6516-Assassins-Creed-3

basic verdict: boring, not violent enough. so far i can't argue with that.

i never played the byzantine one. the two italian ones were probably the high water mark, weren't they :/

sadly true. Quite pretty though. Except for everyone's vaseline coated lips.

and glowing glass eyes

Yes - ACII and Brotherhood were great. The third Italian one - Revelations? - had tower defense. Mandatory tower defense (thankfully only one, unless you fucked up).

Glass eyes! good call.

hey, an exciting pig herding minigame!

i want to like this but fuck if the avclub pan wasn't right one. pretty, inexplicably boring, unbelievably remedial mission design, faaaar too many cutscenes (most of which are about 8sec long), and a really nice naval combat addition.

a huge problem narratively is that having all of these side quests and main quests strung out across the environment & in game time across the "sequences" means it's really hard to tell if the revolution is happening or not.

The only part I'm loving is wandering around sewers trying to find all the fast travel points. It reminds me just a tiny bit of the awesome crypt stuff from AC II which, in retrospect, is the best gameplay section of the whole series.

Having to sit through 3-5 8 second cutscenes in a row, broken up only by a 15 second bit where you walk from one place to another, is some bull.

I don't really care for the naval stuff either. It's not badly done, but why is it in my assassination game? This is the first time I'm skipping most of the optional crap. No farmville for me, no stupid sailing, no recruiting people, nothing. None of that is fun at all this time around.

rip ac3, you were no fun at all

well shit, i was going to buy this for my BIL because he really digs the series but is about to have twins so is basically not spending money on anything that isnt cribs or food, but this sounds bad, esp since its still going for $50 used or something

has he played II and Brohood?

i'm still kind of into it because of my residual like of the series myself

yeah i think hes caught up

It is a solid game, but it lacks some magic. Also the main character has the charisma of a log, so you don't really give a shit about what he's doing. I think I might be just grumpy because it's the 5th game and I've put in over 100 hours or something playing this series.

well shit, i was going to buy this for my BIL because he really digs the series but is about to have twins so is basically not spending money on anything that isnt cribs or food, but this sounds bad, esp since its still going for $50 used or something

― Dave Whobeck? (jjjusten), Thursday, December 6, 2012 12:53 PM (15 minutes ago)

worth watching for deals on amazon, I picked it up for $35 new a couple weeks ago. also picked up skyrim & borderlands 2 for $25 each.

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they have loads of extra copies of hot games to unload after the initial rental rush is over and there's no issue with them undercutting competitors from their perspective so the prices are always surprisingly low.
basically, i wait ten months after a game is released and buy from them these days.
http://www.gamefly.com/Store/
Max Payne 2 for 15, Mass Effect 3 for 15, Arkham City for 18, AC Revelations for 18, Rage for 13, SSX for 13, Uncharted 3 for 18

Thank fuck I'm done! Woohoo!

nadir of this game (so far): a side mission in your home area to "find what happened to woman x". members of your hometown posse of craftspeople are noted on your map. so i just select her and go there. nothing happens. then i notice a 'mission destination' icon denoting a clue that i walked right by, next to where the mission started. this is a winter sequence so it was about a km of trudging through deep snow. mission story of course did not have that woman in the place where i found her at all.

Oh, the nadirs you will find.

i really liked this through and through

good day sir!

this is a winter sequence so it was about a km of trudging through deep snow

freezing your nadirs off

My son wants this for Christmas. I've been slowly falling out of love with them since AC2.

having finished this, my rankings of the series thus far:

AC2 > AC2: Brotherhood >>>>>>>>> AC3 >> AC2: Revelations > AC 1. Honestly, AC 1 is better than Revelations in setting and story but the gameplay wasn't there yet. Heck, it wasn't even close.

done! man it just kept getting worse. really the worst mission design i've seen in a game like ever.

Yep. Love how you're a spectator to both story endings. So satisfying.

any interest in selling your copy goole?

yeah, sure. we'll talk.

I'd sell you my PS3 copy if you want it. It's leaving my house soon one way or another.

need it for 360 unfortunately. thx goole, i'll give you a call/text soon.

Started playing AC:B again.

Also, saw this at the Safeway yesterday and snapped a photo:

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/479963_10151158215191596_784160815_n.jpg

Why, that sigil looks oddly familiar

Playing this a little before giving it to my bil and oh my god, it is just terrible and unfun

It does get fun for a while later on. Just nothing relating to the story is less than tedious.

ship stuff is fun, the off-the-coast templar and pirate treasure missions are like, whoa, this is the game i remember