Assassin's Creed

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

i can't seem to catch thieves either (ac2) so now i'm just like ehhh take-a my money i don't-a care

despite the overblown mess of AC3, I'm still kinda looking forward to the Pirates one

ehhh take-a my money i don't-a care

yeah those bits were hard but doable.

xxp I'm not very far after the ship tutorial !
every now and then I feel like giving it another try...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4pn8nmDllU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SOr4zo7UZc

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ftkXal8uM

i finished ac2 last night and was blown away after finding out "the truth" behind it all! are u ready, ok here it is

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/_okIA8iI5Tw/0.jpg

Noassin's Creed

have sales of ac3 been notably lower than 1 and 2? because i loved the first two but couldn't stand the 3rd. hopefully they'll reboot it to re-add the 'fun' next time

Anyone buy the new pirate one? The reviews are saying it's the best since 2, but I'm afraid I have some Ass fatigue.

Ass3 was such a shitshow that the only way I'm picking up Black Flag is when I can get it super-cheap.

Yeah, I hear you. AC3 was a fucking mess.

But pirates!

yeah AC3 burned me forever on this series

I didn't even like 2 that much

I loved 2. And I need a new roam around the world game. But man, AC3 was SO BAD.

any stats on the first day sales of all the ACs, inc the new one? like everyone else, i found 3 such sluggish anti-fun i've pretty much given up on this series.

hilarious that all the reviews (for 3) hover around the 9/10 mark, such venal bullshit. up there with the ridiculous response to la noire

ass creed 3 is really impressively terrible. like, dude sneaking all over the one-story buildings of colonial boston is the dumbest shit i have ever seen. he's literally like 4 feet above the sightline of passers by. in his cloak and shit.

ass creed liberation on the vita was v good tho. much smaller game per hardware restrictions, tighter storytelling, good setting. plot was gibberish but who fucking cares at this point.

I loved 3 but this one is a LOT of sailing. Like hours upon hours so far...

plot was gibberish but who fucking cares at this point.

haha i kinda feel like about that about the franchise at this point. oh great a whole new environment!!!... in which to sprint, climb and button-mash fight exactly like all the previous games

I found 3 as boring and bad as everybody here. gave up on it after a few hours when it was released but I've gone back to it a couple days ago.
it's still as bad but I decided to finish the main story or at least all the battleships parts !
that's a big challenge, I know.

all the side missions, trading, hunting, interactions with people are so uninteresting... and indeed, who had the silly idea to set this in a city with NO high buildings ?? how could this be validated ??
it's basically an AC where climbing and horse riding is useless... even the assassinating part is not so central !

I broke down and picked this up. To my surprise, it's actually quite good. The story is a bit pish, but for the most part (fuck a chase sequence, now and forever), the game play and the world is a joy. Getting in naval battles, tracking down collectables, whaling; so much to do and the systems to do it are actually good. Though AC2 still wins for story and setting this might be the most fun Assassin's Creed game yet.

yeah I am tempted to get this even tho AC3, like for most people, made me swear off thes series forever - the pirate theme is just too tempting. I'm not that keen on the naval battle stuff (didnt do much for me in AC3) but how is the island exploration? Is there anything to acrually explore? That's the part that fascinates me most

huh this is encouraging.

The empty island exploration is a bit meh, but the locations they created to traverse and interact with in the story or side missions are some of their best. The naval combat is entirely revamped and updated, and is both fun and, at times, nail-biting as you weigh another shot or ducking incoming fire. You also board to capture disabled ships, and depending on the size of it may have objectives to complete before capture occurs. As far as systems go, it's definitely the highpoint of the series. Stuff makes much more sense, and your swashbuckling combat style fits the milieu.

like, dude sneaking all over the one-story buildings of colonial boston is the dumbest shit i have ever seen.
― adam, Tuesday, November 5, 2013 12:06 AM

this actually sounds appealing to me lol :-{