Merkavar said:
so basically how does this game play on PC. is it clunky and makes you wish for a playstion controller?
how good a pc do you reckon is needed for ac3?
the reason im asking is i really prefer my PC over my Playstation, as other people use the TV and my dog has ruined the lounge. but 3rd person games seem easier to control on playstation with joysticks.
So which do you recommend. pc or playstation when it comes to AC3?
It s not a game where you benefit hugely from mouse + keyboard like with most shooters, but it isn't fundamentally held back by the standard pc interface.
The free running in all versions is so streamlined and simplified there is nothing to it. The difference between Gamepad or m&kb is more or less precision difference between movement and camera direction.
On consoles the right thumb stick doesn't give the most precise camera pointing (compared to mouse) but this is compensated by subtle diagonal adjustments with the left thumb stick. On PC you peg the W key to go dead straight forward and with mouse aim precisely where you want to go.
The problem you might find is the WASD controls, just get used to moving forward with your middle finger (of left hand) holding down W key and then ring and index fingers respectively pressing A and D keys for strafing and diagonal. Unless you are sed to this it WILL be very weird as it doesn't match up with any established muscle memory and you may be tempted to call it inherently inferior... But you'd be wrong.
Having three fingers DEDICATED to movement allows amazing responsiveness, even though in only 8 directions (including diagonals). You can very easilly perform sharp zig-zag motions by holding down W and alternating A and D presses. Most games with a sprint only allow you to sprint 45-degrees off from you line of sight, one degree out and the sprint is broken. With a thumb stick it is hard to hit perfect diagonals but easy with WASD movement, just with holding W then hold A or D.
For fighting in assassins creed, the camera locks on target so mouse or thumbstick are irrelevant. WASD does as well as thumb stick as its all just circling target and advancing/retreating.
[small](I never liked assassins creed though it could mainly be down to my prejudice of playing the Hitman series, I expected a bit more subterfuge and a little less one to one fighting. I uninstalled my copy of the game when I bum rushed a a target surrounded by guards expecting to have to make a quick exit after killing him... Only after stabbing him the world around my character and the target dissolved and they held a 5 minute nonsense conversation... Which would've impossible, the guards should have turned me into a sword shishkebab if I was still around seconds after I'd stabbed my target. The whole point of the concealable blade is that I could just shank him in the kidneys then calmly flee before anyone noticed.
It just not the game for me, not on any platform.)[/small]
