Assassin's Creed II story... Oh come on! (Verbose ranting and spoilers within.)

[Anah'ya]

--but I still see the story as interesting - it's well thought out, in the way of Dan Brown I guess.

Excuse me.

What?

I stayed well clear of this topic, least until I heard this. You are comparing the horribly predictable (as in, start playing, know whats going on after the first "subtle" hint is dropped) to Dan Brown?

Are you ... serious?

You are saying the haphazardly stitched together Assassin's Creed 2 conspiracy that is built upon random famous art combined with a golden orb, and a backdrop of the done-to-death Illuminati vs. Templar and Aliens created humanity is... is comparable to Dan Brown? Its as though they took everything they could get their fingers on and mashed it together in a big pile of stinkin' mud.

Now, I don't mind me a story thats been told before, no need to re-invent the wheel, long as you make it interesting. I don't mind me conspiracy theories either. But UbiSoft is suffering from a bad case of badly told conspiracies. *shudders as she thinks back to Splinter Cell*

Ugh.

Dan Brown. Not the biggest fan of him, his book read the same after you read two of them, but least he tells 'em well..

Site-note: I liked the simple stories that followed Altair and Ezio enough to play the games... but every-time I got yanked out of that and had to face Desmond again I found myself wanting to be somewhere else.

 

[EtherEdge]

Ass creed 2 was a really fun game, and the story was below par (good thing in golf remember?) compared to a lot of other games. The thing that really hooked me was solving the spiffy truth puzzles to figure things out, with the *only* bad thing being that any mystery loses its hook when its revealed. =/
I loved every second of the game, except the part where stuff is "explained" (that is, the ending). This doesn't mean it was a bad ending, in fact it was rather well done, its just by its very nature it is dissappointing.



On a tangent, I disagree with the game being sacrilegious. Fictional, blatently evil pope who used mind-control devices to obtain a position of power is not the same person sitting in the vatican, past or present. I'm not Catholic, but I don't see any harm in ripping that bastard another eye socket lol. Enjoying alternate history, and fiction in general, does not make one a blasphemer. =P


tl;dr - Story was very well told, but was ending was doomed to dissappoint, by nature.

 

[alrekr]

Anyway, I want AC3 either set in the Garden of Eden, modern day (although I'm very hesitant of this one) or in World War 1. I think a new way of blowing people up, sniping them out or jumping on them would be rather awesome, Franz Ferdinand's assassination would have too be in there though, maybe as the tutorial.

Franz Ferdinand's assassination was the biggest fail, that ever worked. All the assasins cocked up and the guy who managed to kill only did so as the Franz's driver had to take a detour that took him past the sandwhich store the assassin was in. The other assassins all cocked up and their cynide didn't work, the shooter tried to drown himself in knee high water and their arms supplier spilled the beans as the cops spoke to him and at the time he wasn't even a suspect! Yet someone this worked and thus set off the spark that plungded europe into WWI

Well, admittedly I haven't studied the assassination in depth... all I knew was that the angry Serbs killed him and Austria got pissed.

I got to cut down on being the history version of a grammar nazi. Oh but I do enjoy history and hate it when people butcher it with nonsense. I mean argg Hitler wasn't a socialist even his party said it was as his party also said it was nationalist which bascily oposes social... Woops I did it again, mabye I should just make a thread for ramblings

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

I got to cut down on being the history version of a grammar nazi. Oh but I do enjoy history and hate it when people butcher it with nonsense. I mean argg Hitler wasn't a socialist even his party said it was as his party also said it was nationalist which bascily oposes social... Woops I did it again, mabye I should just make a thread for ramblings

Don't worry dude, I fucking love history too. But hold the phone, people are calling Hitler a socialist? Um... what? That's... that's... *facepalm*. But he's on the right of a political spectrum and socialism is on the left, where has this even come from. I think there should definitely be a history thread but I wonder how it would work.

 

[Sigmund Av Volsung]

I kinda liked the story, but it left a LOT of plot holes, and that *thing* at the ending reeks of sci-fi/pseudo science.

 

[Nazz3]

The franchise should rather be just set in the past, than having the sci-fi 21st century era plot on top of it.