Assassin's Creed

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.

the best place to buy cheap games delivered fast is gamefly; free shipping on everything and you don't have to have a rental account to buy with them... just need to put your cc# on file
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

I hated the ship stuff.

Hated is probably too much. Just didn't want them in my Assassin game, which should stay focused on individual encounters. Same as the Tower Defense bs in Revelations; it was fine for tower defense, but why the fuck is it in this game?

man, you hate everything.

xp

pretty much.

I didn't get very far in this game, but I watched my pal play the ship parts in 3d, and it looked fucking cool

Started playing 3 last night & only got so far as the very first (I guess sort of prologue) assassination and so far there is SO much to be irritated w/ this game -- like all of my AAA game pet peeves at once. Massive, massive exposition in cutscenes peppered with "interactive" stages where all you are doing is listening & pressing up on the L-stick? Such a lack of effort on presentation that if you bump into other actors in the scene you clip through them in the first 5 minutes? A scene where you (the presumably only agile one of the bunch) jump over a crack in the cave floor, only for the camera to spin around the player and you see the three less agile characters walking up behind you, holding giant gear boxes?

I know I'm nitpicking, but COME ON.

I'm not sure I understand any of the examples you use - but this game has to be the most boring thing I've very palyed. I'm still at the rabbit hunting tutorial but I'm tempted to throw the towel.

agreed x2. liked the others a LOT (bar revelations) so was surprised by how utterly tedious and unfun this turned out to be. didn't do v well in the end of year polls either did it?

if you've not already, go for far cry3. not a million miles away in terms of gameplay but a gazillion times more fun and brilliant and addictive and LIKE HOW GAMING IS MEANT TO BE

feel like AC3 was hell-bent on teaching me shit i didn't want to know about. i for one say keep all learning out of games

(not really, some games do it great - stalker with the whole chernobyl thing comes to mind)

another one of these shits eh

http://horrorhomework.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Henry_Rollins_of_Black_Flag.jpg

finally a new ac game

i set it to italian cos i fuckin hated the accented-english v/o (yes complete with an "it's-a me" gag from your uncle mario (spolier, sorry))
― goole, Tuesday, August 17, 2010 12:01 PM

i got to this scene last night and loled. why is everyone cross-eyed in this damn game

http://kwikcrafts.com/Merchant5/graphics/00000001/e35thumb_wiggle-eye.jpg

is the tomb platforming always shitty? i just did one that took me forever to get to the top of only to find out that the developers actually chose to make you have to descend the same way you came. after all that i deserve a shortcut assholes!

I got stuck at a tomb platforming a few months ago and have not played this shit since then !

the vita one, liberation, is really good, the best AC game by some distance.

that inspired me to pick 3 up, it is by no means _good_ but it is better than its reputation. so far at least.

xp which one is that?

xp which one is that?

AC3. up to that point there were some nice stuff though (the ships battles were pretty cool). but I couldn't care less about the trading and all.
not really feeling the fights. and I really found the cities boring. nothing great to climb !

oh wow you manage dto get much further than me then! I think I quit at the ship tutorial