When I catch up on 2, Brotherhood, and both iPhone games in 2016, I can now move on to Assassin's Creed: Revelations:
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When I catch up on 2, Brotherhood, and both iPhone games in 2016, I can now move on to Assassin's Creed: Revelations:
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Originally Posted by IGN
All these games are awful.
Actually, Brotherhood is pretty good. You have to ignore the story and Da Vinci side quests, but there's still plenty of good content left. Not as good as the recent Prince of Persia games though.
I only played a tiny bit of the first one and it was fucking miserable. I couldn't believe people were actually raving about the series
I put four hours in and I've never touched another one.Quote:
Originally Posted by dave is ok
Boring and generic.
AC2 was wretched. I really doubt Brotherhood is that much better.Quote:
Originally Posted by AaronChance
I really like the parkour control scheme and the idea of basing a game in a simulated ancient city. ..but the series has a LOT of extra baggage that I couldn't care less about.
That's the revelation.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
What I played of the second was a lot better than the first in that it was a lot more of the game. I still wish it controlled more like Mirror's Edge though, I hate having the game do everything for me.
The second was a lot better than the first, but we're basically talking about the difference between a 2/10 game and a 4/10 game. It's twice as good!
I have the second lying around somewhere. I played it for an hour or 2, hated the controls and haven't picked it up since. That was about a year ago.
Same here. I have heard since that the beginning of the game kind of sucks though, so it's still on my to-do list.
Its weird in that I don't like the games myself but have no problem watching someone else play them. It might be the controls that get on my nerves.
They definitely look like they should be more fun than they are, but in reality you're just holding the "Do neat looking shit" button and pointing him in the right direction. Oversimplification ftl.
I think it works for keeping the series accessible on a general level (it's certainly one of a tiny minority of games that's started life as a planned trilogy and actually made it past the first game), but an advanced controls selection would be pretty cool.
Although it wasn't the second game they originally planned, which would have been set in the present, with the third in the future. They completely scrapped the original trilogy so I don't know if it counts.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
I think Mass Effect is going to be the first pre-planned trilogy of full length games to actually see completion.
Goddamnit it Frog, now I'm going to spend all night trying to figure out if you're wrong about that.
For what it's worth Brotherhood's multiplayer is fun and interesting, at least to me.
I'm on an island here, aren't I?
For a planned trilogy, it's kind of strange how nothing happened in the second game.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Nope.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Well shit..guess I'm the only one here who really liked AC2 and Brotherhood.
I like AC2 enough that I still pop it in to play for a while every now and again, and I wanted to grab Brotherhood for the MP if nothing else. But I can understand why the games don't get much love, I felt pretty much the same about the first game.
We found out more about the Reavers, stopped an invasion and a cooperative venture they were having, saw and stopped another type of Reaver, have possibly formed a Geth army that will stand against the Reapers, started/stopped a Geth war that could be unwinnable for the Quarians, and given/destroyed a Reaper that could be used against the invasions. There's at least as much if not more that happened in the second game than the first.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
I do hope the Rachni come back in ME3, I saved them on my good character and they weren't mentioned at all in ME2 from what I remember.I really like AC2 but I still haven't gotten Brotherhood yet.Quote:
Originally Posted by raystorm
On Ilus or whatever the Asari is, when you go there the first time, an Asari comes up to you and informs you of how the Rachni are doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
Alright, neat. I haven't been at that point in the story with a character that saved them since the game came out so I didn't really recall.
I gassed the ever loving fuck out of them to try and impress Wrex so it won't matter to me. He didn't seem to even give a fuck too much.
The AC games are OK. I really like the setting and style the game presents itself, but the mechanics really stink. For a sandbox game they need to expand on the capabilities of you as an assassin and the interaction with the items around you. I did enjoy some of the Da Vinci objects and I even went so far as to rebuild my home in AC2. I was looking forward to the post-modern version of the game (such as climbing massive sky scrapers, base jumping, etc) but it always seems like they're coping out with these other releases still set in medieval times.
Wait and see. Someone gave me Brotherhood but I'm going to just trade it in for another game later on.
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Originally Posted by MechDeus
If you hate story developments you'll probably hate games that focus on that, yeah.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Yeah, I didn't expect anyone to disagree.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Don't get me wrong, I really like the game. But the fact remains that we're in exactly the same position at the end of ME2 as we were at the end of ME1.* And even though 90% of Mass Effect 2 was dedicated to team-building, I'm pretty sure that we're going to have to do it all again in the next one.
*except the Geth might like us a little bit more!
edit: And that Shadow Broker stuff! That one piece of DLC is more relevant to ME3 than the entire main campaign.
Only in terms of the Reaper threat. Everything else has changed.Quote:
Originally Posted by epmode
http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...4&d=1304212594
Friendship is Magic.It was awesome, but since you're judging story progression solely by if the Reapers are stopped then Shadow Broker did absolutely nothing.Quote:
edit: And that Shadow Broker stuff! That one piece of DLC is more relevant to ME3 than the entire main campaign.
Thread officially hijacked.
Agreed that AC1 was pretty damn boring and repetitive but AC2 is better than the sum of its parts and is a bit of an evolution on POP for the mainstream. The portable AC1 is downright garbage and AC2 DS is more like an action platformer akin to Sonic than anything else once you understand how to play it.
This is the cover of the next Game Informer. It takes place in Constantinople/Istanbul. You'll be playing as the same dumbasses you have in the series so far.
It looks like exactly the same game. I really don't know how people keep playing these identigames year after year.
I blame a combination of outspoken fans and normal greed for that. I think the original layout was supposed to be past-present-future for each game of the trilogy, but people bitched up a storm at the thought of the majority of the game occurring in recent times and Ubisoft made some good money from it. They do have really awesome art and design for the ancient times but I wish they would wrap up the main story first, and after that they can make all these sidequest games.
Yeah, this is not Assassin's Creed 3, it's Assassin's Creed 2 part 3. Yawn, kinda.
Played AC1, skipped AC2, played Brotherhood, will skip this with the force of a thousand suns.
Assassin's Creed II again? Really?
Hey, so, this is out and it sure is Brotherhood again.
Yup.
Soooo... more of the same and yet so surprisingly improved that it makes the previous game unplayable?
Yeah, I don't see the problem. I liked 2, Brotherhood improved on 2. So it sounds like if I like brotherhood, Revelations will improve on it.
I kind of like these games even though I'd never buy anywhere near full price. They're so cheerfully goofy that I can't hate.
Assassin's Creed 1 part 4 IMO. Lets get to modern day / future already. They already brought aliens in to it. It's just ridiculous now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
That's just stupid, 2 was such a massive leap for the series that you can't say it's just some minor upgrade on 1. 1 is pretty much unplayable now it's so laughably bad.
It was unplayable then too...
...and I like how they include the first one on the PS3 version of Revelations. It's like a little kid showing his mom how far he's come from the beginning of the school year till the end.
It's definitely the worst pack in bonus ever, hell they should pay me money to take that pile of shit.
Ubisoft should be trying to forget 1 existed imo.
I remember the first being pretty good as long you just plowed through the story and didn't do all the pathetically repetitive and shallow as fuck side missions. I'm also not sure I could go back to it by this point but I guess I'll find out pretty soon. I kind of want to since I remember Altair begin kind of a self-centered asshole that enjoyed killing compared to Ezio's standard good guy nature; it was a decent change of pace having to play as someone who had no honor getting broken in.
And yeah, saying AC2 and Brotherhood are the same as the first game doesn't make sense on any level. Improved gameplay, added abilities, vastly improved structure and missions, and a different setting and characters place the jump from AC1 to AC2 as much as any sequel.
Wacky new outfit you'll never use on GameSpot!
http://www.gamespot.com/event/codes/...d-rev-xbox360/
Good for those that feel accomplished by filling in lists in video games!
Chao, Mech and myself had an awesome stabmans party last night. Anybody else pick this up and want to join in on the murder goodness?
I've had a revelation.
This game series sucks.
Chao, Mech, and Chux: part of the problem.
Cool story bros. We're actually talking about playing the game instead of being stupid cunts.
Feel free to jump in when you're able to contribute.
No. You are the stupid cunts.
These games are pretty solid, but I don't feel compelled to buy them since there are now so many. The idea of the trilogy had me buying 1 and 2, but I really want nothing to do with all the subsequent games and kind of hate the series because of it. Such a shame, the original trilogy idea was fantastic.
Read a summary of the last ten minutes of Brotherhood and then grab Revelations. It's a refinement of the concepts in Brotherhood giving it that leap forward over AC2 but doesn't feel like a dragged-out cash grab like Brotherhood did. Staying away from the portable games is also a great choice.I love that this outfit has limited quantities. HURRY BEFORE THEY RUN OUT OF TEXTURES!Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
The costume is ugly as FUCK btw.
Partners in sucking:
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Originally Posted by The Magic Box
That's.. really fucking weird. I'm super excited for that game, but that's not really that exciting. What is Ubisoft doing? They're really trying this weird cross promotional shit.
Hey, it's okay, Diff. I'll play this video game and you can play some other video game. Even one I don't like!Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Pound it, dog?
The older you get, the more you sound just like your mother.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
AC2 sucked. It was like the first game with fancier missions but none of the actual problems fixed.
why are people playing what looks like more AC2?
I guess some of us had fun with AC2.
The multiplayer is also probably the most interesting since Pandora Tomorrow.
The only two actual problems I had with AC1 were the missions and the large amount of context sensitive controls, so I'd say they got one out of two. There are flaws in every main AC game but it's almost always just something to do with the side missions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tain
I do wish they'd tone down the context stuff or find better ways to do it, as the amount of actions that are assigned to the face buttons is getting positively ridiculous at this point. Maybe it's time to make left trigger into a second shift key or something.
I didn't realize that you recruit and assign enough assassins to form a small army in this game.
AND I got all of the best armor not even halfway through the game, well before the second standard set of armor was able to be purchased in the store.
I did all of this within the first 5 sequences. At this rate, I'll have everything done in the game without even getting close to finishing the story.
The pacing of this game is REALLY fucked up.
Armor? I have't even seen any of the "special armor" yet. I think I'm only on Seq. 4 and have 3 of the keys.
You get one for find information the memoir pages and beating a dungeon and the other for getting 7 (?) Assassins to level 11.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
It's been like that since at least AC2, I don't recall the armor in AC1. If you bother to keep up on collecting and side missions you'll always get the best stuff in the game way before the weaker stuff finishes becoming available.Quote:
Originally Posted by ChaoofNee
You also recruit a ton of assassins because you need them, provided you're doing sidequests and want money. They need to get to max level (which requires them being away on missions and unavailable to the player) to then be set in dens to make them invincible to attack. If you want to keep the cities you take over without micromanaging all the time you also need to station assassins in those cities, which completely removes them from your available list and you need to get a fresh recruit. I think you can station like three or four per city, so you'd need like 40 or so maxed assassins to have everything.
p.s. Running around town as Desmond with his backpack is kind of silly awesome.
Watching him make googly eyes at Sofia is actually kinda silly creepy, though!
I just watched Embers and I think they aged Ezio and regressed Sofia. In the game she seems old enough for him to hit on and be okay but in the movie it really looks like a father/daughter thing.
Maybe she likes a little snow on the roof!
...and gets off on eating raisins!
Prune juice gets her wet.