Assassin's Creed 2

[Sir Prince]

What I hope they fix is the blatent console porting. The menu system and exiting the game was rather rediculous.

It's been a while sicne I played, but was it stuck in widescreen too?

 

[Suspect-Device]

The problem was for me, the first one suffered from a sort of "Your watching a game" sort of thing, there was very little you could do to attempt missions in a different way, other than doing them in a different order.

It was more fun to run about randomly murdering people and being chased by guards than actually doing the missions.

Fist fights with thugs especially.

 

[Tuckles]

That's true.

Also, the confusion would be excellent, except for the guards that surround your target of course. It'd be pretty apparent that you killed their boss.

 

[Rujasu]

I found it easier just to counter the **** out of everything. I swear that was the worst design decision ever made -

"Hey, how can we make combat more fun?"

"Hmm... how about we make about five animations of insta-kills and let the player spam them effortlessly until there's nothing but bodies for miles around?"

"It's... brilliant!"

Fight with the hidden blade. It's much more fun when you can't autoblock.

 

[Selothi]

Except that you only have to have good reflexes to one-hit-kill every guard with your counter-attacks ... While cool, it's just as unbalanced, if not more.

 

[Elenmmare]

It suffers from lazy developing, the fighting that is; instead of making fights truly challenging, they just make a lot of them. Imagine a game where missions with more than 2, 1-1 fights was rare. That'd rock.

 

[Tuckles]

Yeah, IMO it'd be better if you had to run from most fights, and were only good at one-on-one fights (which would still be a friggin challenge).

(to those who watch anime) Sort of like how in Samurai X, the protagonist dispatches mobs, that's how I think it should be done.

 

[The Mercenary]

Also, what the hell was up with you losing all knowledge of how to do stuff at the beginning of the game? Did the Old Man hit you over the head until you suffered total amnesia?

I enjoyed most of the game, but I didn't honestly do the assassinations unless I got bored. I explored the cities and killed guards. Eventually, I managed to (somehow) finish the prereq quests, so I went off and killed the guy in my way. What I hated was that as soon as the guy took a knife to the throat, every guard in the city instantly knew who killed him, so when I had lost the guards surrounding him or killed them, and I was casually strolling through the streets, fifty guards would pop out of nowhere. It might have been nice if the Templars got harder to kill as the game went on (At first I had to kick them off of rooves to have a slight chance, but later on I could just do those annoying little quick kills). It also would have been nice to have a lot more things to do while wandering around, instead of just massacring guards by the dozen.

On a side note, anyone else lure the guards over to where the entrance to the bureau was, then kill them above the closed entrance? When you killed them all, it opened up, and their corpses fell into extremely interesting positions. One guy's leg was through his chest, and made a 270 degree angle with his other leg.

 

[Tuckles]

What knowledge? IIRC all he lost was his equipment.

Oh, you mean the learning how to do skills? Yeah, I never got that either. lol

 

[italiano]

It suffers from lazy developing, the fighting that is; instead of making fights truly challenging, they just make a lot of them. Imagine a game where missions with more than 2, 1-1 fights was rare. That'd rock.

Lazy producing might be more accurate. Developers are usually tied down by upper management for the larger companies.

 

[Kamos32]

My favorite thing to do in the game was to lure some of Saladin's troops into a group of Richard's soldiers, those fights could be surprisingly entertaining, especially when a Templar got involved.

 

[Average Joe peasant]

I think altair/ezzio's outfits are far too obnoxious for assassins.
Cuts down on the whole 'suspension of disbelief' thing.

And I think the first game looks better/smoother than the second one is looking so far. And why'd they give an assassin a gun?

 

[Tuckles]

Because it's 1192 and you're friends with inventors, you have to have something cool.

Also, yeah, the assassin's uniform (why do they even HAVE uniforms?) is too conspicuous.

 

[Sir Prince]

Because it's 1192 and you're friends with inventors, you have to have something cool.

Also, yeah, the assassin's uniform (why do they even HAVE uniforms?) is too conspicuous.

That and what Swadius pointed out on how you are an expert assassin then suddenly "forget" how to do stuff when you are demoted are stupid.

And how the **** can it be 1192 and have Leonardo Da Vinci and Renascence Italy?

However, I will probably but the game when it hits the bargain bin. I've started playing the first one again, and it's a lot funner when I don't expect much out of it.

 

[italiano]

It's not 1192, it's late 15th century.

 

[Tuckles]

Well ****, where'd I read 1192? 

 

[Archonsod]

However, I will probably but the game when it hits the bargain bin. I've started playing the first one again, and it's a lot funner when I don't expect much out of it.

Yeah, I got it in the Steam sale last week. Haven't had much time to play it yet, but thus far it seems pretty average. Ok, the graphics are quite an achievement, but the gameplay itself could be any of a number of third person adventure games. Nothing remarkable, but then no real causes of complaint either, beyond perhaps it getting a tad repetative eventually.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

How strange. You guys are all badmouthing it, but I quite like it. Normally I complain at the slightest thing, but - other than the haystacks, multi-combats and appalling pseudoscience - I find it to be pretty cool. Quite a lot is well done.

I did have very low expectations though.

 

[jasonxfri13th]

Well ****, where'd I read 1192? 

Assassains creed one took place in 1192.

Assassains creed 2 takes place in 1486.

 

[Redcoat-Mic]

How strange. You guys are all badmouthing it, but I quite like it. Normally I complain at the slightest thing, but - other than the haystacks, multi-combats and appalling pseudoscience - I find it to be pretty cool. Quite a lot is well done.

I did have very low expectations though.

I had high expectations and I loved it, I loved scrambling over everywhere. And I found combat very fun.

Then again I was clever and just rented it.