Assassin's Creed

[Morbo]

Started playing Assassin's Creed a few days ago and so far it's been pretty fun. But jebus, once you get the short sword and the counterattack ability fighting becomes rather easy.

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Thar be bodies everywhere! Was just taking on groups of 7 of them at the same time, and the final body count was 57 if I counted correctly. And to think the only reason I went into that little camp was to quickly nab the 2 flags I'd spotted from a distance.

 

[Rabid Potatoe]

RMD + LMB is the instagib manoeuvre.

Combat looks awesome and shinyful, the actual assassinations and story bits are fine, but those damn investigations are so badly done I'm inclined to say that the developers are bipolar. Half the game is awesome and it is crippled by monotonous filler. The inter-city area sucks too, they should have left it out completely. As has been said before, the combat mechanics fail as well.

 

[Redcoat-Mic]

What they get is a broken game. The AI is ****ed up and so it's not hard to beat IF it was fair, unfortunatly this game seems to want to pit you up against 20 units while you command 6.

That's just you being ****e. Skirmish isn't the focus of the game, though the AI is pretty easy to crush anyway. It's just a shame the campaign isn't multiplayer.

Also, running round capturing sectors over and over to get some coal isn't fun.

Um, don't let the AI take them back off you?

****e? I'm sorry buy even 4 units of trained infantry can beat off 20 swarms.
And I don't have enough men to guard them constantly, but I was talking about capturing them in the first place. It's less about fighting battles than it is controlling windmills.

 

[Archonsod]

Blockhouses tend to work well in that regard, though not perhaps as well as siezing the choke points.

 

[Redcoat-Mic]

Also, for me, the maps are too enclosed, there's hardly ever open fields, cramped areas are hard to organise in.
The AI seems to cramp up into stupid unorganised clusters than just swarm over you too.
I suppose it'd be great online though.

 

[Rabid Potatoe]

Just finished Assassin's Creed. And I'm hugely disappointed with it. It seems about 1/8 of it is absolutely made of win, while the rest is a load of mindless filler. As if they had about a years less time than they needed or something. If they had condensed the whole Altair thing into something smaller with less drudgery it would have been a huge amount more fun, and they could have had some actual meaningful gameplay with Mr Miles rather than just those cutscene things.

And one more thing. If they even went to the trouble of giving King Richard a french accent, why the **** does Altair sound like the most obnoxious turd they could possibly drag in off the street?

EDIT:

In fact, having watched it again, yahtzee's review is absolutely spot on.

 

[Lhorkan]

Altaïr speaks like Desmond. The Animus translates all (or most, rather) speech to English, so why couldn't Desmond speak with his normal accent in there?

 

[Darian]

Because in the past he controls Altaïr's body, rather than replacing him. Or at least I suppose that's the reason... the whole future portion of Assassin's Creed was a poorly-planned plot concept that should have been the twist at the end instead of within the first minute--or, better still, left off altogether. Thief and Prince of Persia did fine without futuristic nonsense to artificially increase plot depth.

Oddly enough, the Animus skips the unimportant bits of Altaïr's life but doesn't let you skip cutscenes. I hope they got a discount on it...

 

[David Derde]

I hope they followed my example,
and kept the damn receipt.
To be utterly fair, though, this is nto the worst over-hyped game in recent times.
I remember quite a few site getting pretty enthusiastic about Turning Point: Fall of Liberty,
and that's turned out to be a pile of Tanner's Grade I.
It's a shame too, as the Turning Point devs are making another game I really liked the look of,
Legendary: The Box. Please, dear God, don't let them **** it up.

 

[Rabid Potatoe]

Altaïr speaks like Desmond. The Animus translates all (or most, rather) speech to English, so why couldn't Desmond speak with his normal accent in there?

Because he can't act?

 

[VariousArtist]

Ok, I finished the PC version. Its a shame what a wonderful world theyve created and what they havent done with it.
For some reason they forgot to learn from Hitman, Thief and San Andreas. Did they actually have played any of those games? Where are the physics, shadow stalking and impact of sounds? I really hoped for more.

 

[Dodes]

I'll join in the necro here, I just finished Brotherhood and HOLY SHEET man, I'm going to say it right here, that Assassin's Creed has the best plot for a video game

隐藏: Actual Game Spoiler

Lucy is a Templar or agent, or should I say "lucy", because in AC1 and AC2 she has nine fingers but then suddenly(I don't know specifically when) in AC: Brotherhood, she has 10 fingers again,

From what I have gathered, we have an Inception scenario going on possibly, where the character is not desmond but the character is in an animus viewing desmond's life as desmond views Altair/Ezio's

Also Desmond is apparently going insane in Revelations (the next title)

I say we make this thread for discussing all things ACreed-like, specifically all of the series

 

[Dodes]

隐藏: alright, kinda, but not really some minor spoilers of where Ezio goes/what happens to him

Okay so it looks like Revelations at some point we are going to go back to where Altair was as Ezio, and then actually play as Altair, but it seems that Ezio is seeing Altair (almost as if he had the bleeding effect), also using the dates we have from the game, we can deduce that Ezio is 52 when Revelations starts (at least if it were to be chronological, but we will probably skip around, I would not be surprised if we skipped back to Florence like in Brotherhood

Also I ponder why we didn't do anything as Ezio's father, I guess we can simply assume his actions didn't have much impact and he didn't uncover anything important

And it seems something has gone wrong with Desmond as he now is going insane and his subconscious is starting to be shattered

 

[Dodes]

that's just stuff from the trailers for revelations, I haven't even got to anything spoiler related

 

[Evilknightz]

I'll join in the necro here, I just finished Brotherhood and HOLY SHEET man, I'm going to say it right here, that Assassin's Creed has the best plot for a video game

隐藏: Actual Game Spoiler

Lucy is a Templar or agent, or should I say "lucy", because in AC1 and AC2 she has nine fingers but then suddenly(I don't know specifically when) in AC: Brotherhood, she has 10 fingers again,

From what I have gathered, we have an Inception scenario going on possibly, where the character is not desmond but the character is in an animus viewing desmond's life as desmond views Altair/Ezio's

Also Desmond is apparently going insane in Revelations (the next title)

I say we make this thread for discussing all things ACreed-like, specifically all of the series

隐藏

Lolwut.
AN ANIMUS WITHIN AN ANIMUS.
WE HAFTOGO DEEPURRRR!
Also, dude, she doesn't have 9 fingers, when she showed Desmond she merely bent back her fingers to symbolize her Assassin allegiance to him. Even ****ing Ezio has all his fingers.

 

[Dodes]

I'll join in the necro here, I just finished Brotherhood and HOLY SHEET man, I'm going to say it right here, that Assassin's Creed has the best plot for a video game

隐藏: Actual Game Spoiler

Lucy is a Templar or agent, or should I say "lucy", because in AC1 and AC2 she has nine fingers but then suddenly(I don't know specifically when) in AC: Brotherhood, she has 10 fingers again,

From what I have gathered, we have an Inception scenario going on possibly, where the character is not desmond but the character is in an animus viewing desmond's life as desmond views Altair/Ezio's

Also Desmond is apparently going insane in Revelations (the next title)

I say we make this thread for discussing all things ACreed-like, specifically all of the series

隐藏

Lolwut.
AN ANIMUS WITHIN AN ANIMUS.
WE HAFTOGO DEEPURRRR!

隐藏

Inowrite? the first thing I thought was INCEPTION, would be a plausible plot twist though

 

[Evilknightz]

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