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Brotherhood could have been a side-project...they didn't really do much in it and the majority of the map is actually just wide open terrain. Yahtzee said that Brotherhood could have been DLC for AC 2, and I thought "Ehhhhhh, yeah, it's the same character, but I think they added enough new stuff and story to have it be considered a valid sequel rather than a simple expansion DLC."ciancon said:
That said, however, I was severely disappointed with Revelations. The game was sooooooooo frickin' hollow. You don't pull off a real assassination (I don't count that guy at the very beginning as an assassination, you don't sneak up on him, you don't plan your route, you just chase him down and murder him) until you're 2/3 of the way through the game...and the guy you assassinate turns out to be a good guy! Beyond that you're just doing the same sidequests you've done for every AC game, dungeon platforming for the Altair CDs, and playing Tower Defense with the Templars. There's no real meat to the story, it's just Ezio fapping about in Constantinople for a little while, getting half-way involved with the political situation, but mostly he's just there on holiday so he can find Altair's library.
Just seems you don't do nearly as much in Revelations as you do in the other games...and that's mostly because they stuffed in so many new features that they had to do the GTA IV style of having the first half of the game being learning how to use the crap you'll likely never use anyways. Seriously, other than smoke bombs I don't think I used any bombs and I made it through the game just fine.
ciancon said:
and that's because the "combat" isn't so much actual combat is it is just waiting to perform a counter attack then go on an execution rampage. Hell, you can even counter attack while performing an execution to keep the streak going. Not really that challenging.
I'm not even sure when I bought Revelations. I just got home one day and there it was, in my shopping bag as if I'd made a conscious effort to purchase the sorry excuse for a video game. I didn't even look at it for like a week or two.TopazFusion said:
When I did eventually pop it in the console, I found a game with EXACTLY the same gameplay components as AC2 and Brotherhood. The only additions were a handful of incidental nonsense which I avoided anyway like the tower defence minigame and the overly convoluted bomb crafting.
The story was utter piffle and actually moved us NOWHERE in terms of the main plotline. Ezio had no real goal, at least not one that I cared about. The actual city he was in and the people there didn't seem to be in any sort of huge danger and there were very few people to actually assasinate. Considering "assassin" is in the title of the game, I would have thought that would be the main gameplay element. Altair's sections were interesting but seemed to serve as nothing more than filler, like the rest of the game.
As for Desmond... wtf? In AC and AC2 I honestly thought he could become an interesting character, but they've stretched him out between 4 games now and revealed nothing more about him. His sections in Revelations were interesting ONLY for the rushed background that we were force fed while playing stupid 1st person platform levels, levels that were a frustration more than a welcome distraction.
But why do I keep buying this crap? Arghh!
I lol'd!GZGoten said:
*sigh* Yeah... ever since ACII (which I maintain to be the best in the series), the free-running vista, mechanic and method has been ground into the... well, ground. Only the hook-blade made AC:R of any interest to me (even the slo-mo kills got boring after the first few).omega 616 said:
With this character design perhaps?Daystar Clarion said:
Better idea, though, why don't you just kidnap Jennifer Hale?
OT: Why's everyone saying London as though it has to be the only place. I'm hoping it'll be the Napoleonic wars so we can go back to the heart of what made AC such a promising franchise: the name dropping, faint plausibility & the almost educational history (appropriate liberties taken, granted). Brotherhood was borderline pointless because Ezio spent the entire damned game trying to kill one guy (and even then made a meal of it when it made it look as though he was running around trying to strip Cesare) and only a couple of the others mentioned were real. And the distinct lack of 'names' in Revelations beyond the Sultan's family and the Byzantine general pissed me the hell off.
No, she wouldn't look like a whore.SckizoBoy said:
That's probably the most pointless use of a hood I've ever seen.
Since Brotherhood (And probably Revelations, which I have not played yet) had guns, they proved that colonial times can still work, since swords were still being used in the 1800's and such. Though 300 years may be too much of a timeskip, but I doubt it.
I wonder when we'll get to play as Desmond for reals, though?
Speaking of which, can someone PM me what happens to him in Revelations? The AC wiki doesn't say, last I read.
I wonder when we'll get to play as Desmond for reals, though?
Speaking of which, can someone PM me what happens to him in Revelations? The AC wiki doesn't say, last I read.
the end of desmond's story has always been planned for december 2012, it's mentioned in the games and in the developers blog's they've always stuck to that date. I think with the success of AC II they decided to developed Ezio's story and add more to the story, hence Brotherhood and Revelations.Raognerrrm said:
That title picture actually made me want a lead female protagonist as an Assassin. I wouldn't mind that one bit.
Finish Desmonds story in AC3... I was under impression that AC3 was going to have Desmond as protagonist. He has been a glorified CD put into a machine to read data basically for every game. Never has he really been protagonist.
