Assassin's Creed.

[TheBluesader]

@Wallet:

You're right. At some point it certainly does start to feel more like work. But then I'll go another 4 hours not going to the bathroom or to bed to "work" through it. And when I'm not playing it, I'm thinking about how much "work" I have to do next, and planning how exactly I'm going to go about tackling the problem. Which doesn't make any stinking sense because it is, after all, a game. But I get that way about all games I consider really wonderful, Civ III, Half-Life 2, SimCity, Total War. So maybe when a game becomes serious to you as business, that's a sign that it's a very good game.

Or that you really, really need a girlfriend. Or boyfriend. Or, heck, any kind of friend at all. To play Rock Band with.

 

[Sethzard]

i really like this game, i don't see why everyone keeps insulting it.

 

[Altorin]

i really like this game, i don't see why everyone keeps insulting it.

because it's short, it has a side storyline that seems to not fit at all with the main storyline, the investigation missions are boring, and the combat can be at best mindnumbingly easy and at worst mindnumbingly retarded

that being said, I loved it.

 

[Wewt]

I expected to hear at least one
OMG U SUK ITS THE BEST GAM EVAR!!11

 

[maximilian]

Yeah I'm waiting for it. One thing I didn't add, is that if you have an ounce of intelligence, you can counter attack every move because only one guard attacks at a time. I booted it up yesterday and made a video (I might youtube it) of me taking on as many guards in Acre. I killed 200 after a 2 hour backstep around the city. Wasn't fun, only 8 or so counter attack animations - did it purely because that's how petty I am.

 

[Altorin]

the game does have it's flaws, no-one who's actually played it can really argue that.

But, a lot of people enjoyed the game despite those flaws, and there's nothing wrong with that, just like there's nothing wrong with pointing out all those flaws and wondering why people enjoy such a flawed game.

I happened to enjoy the story of the game, and enjoyed the assassinations enough for me to mainly see past the bad stuff, and I got 1000 gamer points on this game, twice.

 

[nastykerm]

It looks beautiful, handles ok, but suffers from lacking 'omph'

I quit after I got to Damaskus. I was chased by some guards when I decided to duke it out with them, and ended up killing ALL the guards who tried to get me. I think I must have killed like 25 of them. After that, being chased by guards was boring as I could easily kill them.

I really hated the story as well. I found is annoying to run around on that white screen just to be able to play, and the bits where you are in the future was pointless and crap.


I'm glad I borrowed it from a mate in stead of buying it.

 

[Daemon888]

yes its repetitive and a little boring but i still finished it and dont regret buying it. not so sure about the sequel though, might skip that one...

 

[stompy]

^stompy^

I enjoyed the combat. It was a little repetitive, but using the hidden blade in combat was by far the easiest way to speed up combat. If you were competent enough with the counter attacks, and watching for opponents dropping their guard, every attack was a 1-hit kill. I found, using the other weapons, I'd counter, then still have to hunt them down because they weren't dead. With the hidden blade they all died pretty quickly.

My biggest complaint with Assassin's Creed is just the investigation missions.

Hmm, I probably hated the combat because I was sore with the ending. It seemed like the probability of getting a non-lethal counter was infinitely raised at the end, and killing someone with the hidden blade was a hassle for me because Altair believes that, regardless of how many times I press 'hidden blade', he wants to switch to the sword.

Perhpas it was me, but I really though the upfront combat was incredibly annoying. Stealth combat was alright, and jumping around was awesome. I also share the hate of investigation missions... it's always best to look for the eavesdropping one.

Though, my most hated thing (besides the combat), were those fucking beggars. Damn them!

 

[Divine-Devil]

While I know that the game does have it's flaws, I just love it for its good and fun points. I just can't get tired of having fun in swordfights and running on the all over the 3 cities (having a swordfight no less).

The one thing that I hate is traveling between each city. You haul your high horse back to your hometown, sit through another 5 minute speech, only to finally grab onto a horse to ride through the countryside. "Wow" you exclaim, as you see people walking along the road for their pilgrimage to a great city. But it's all put aside by chasing guards unless you go at a quarter of a kilometer an hour. I'd just prefer to gallop along the countryside to get to my destination without being hampered thank you very much.

But I can't stop loving it for what I like about it!
Nice review.

 

[Altorin]

^stompy^

I enjoyed the combat. It was a little repetitive, but using the hidden blade in combat was by far the easiest way to speed up combat. If you were competent enough with the counter attacks, and watching for opponents dropping their guard, every attack was a 1-hit kill. I found, using the other weapons, I'd counter, then still have to hunt them down because they weren't dead. With the hidden blade they all died pretty quickly.

My biggest complaint with Assassin's Creed is just the investigation missions.

Hmm, I probably hated the combat because I was sore with the ending. It seemed like the probability of getting a non-lethal counter was infinitely raised at the end, and killing someone with the hidden blade was a hassle for me because Altair believes that, regardless of how many times I press 'hidden blade', he wants to switch to the sword.

Perhpas it was me, but I really though the upfront combat was incredibly annoying. Stealth combat was alright, and jumping around was awesome. I also share the hate of investigation missions... it's always best to look for the eavesdropping one.

Though, my most hated thing (besides the combat), were those fucking beggars. Damn them!

everysingle time I played through the game (which was 3) I did EVERY SINGLE investigation mission.

and yes, you do have to manually change to the hidden blade when you enter combat mode, and yes, it's annoying, but if you get good at counter attacks and watching for enemies taunting/cowering, you can kill every single person in the game except the last boss (and even then, you can use the hidden blade exclusively, except to hit him while he takes away all your life, then you can hidden blade kill him in one shot.

but yes, it can be tedious if you aren't good at counters (regular hidden blade attacks are useless against non-cowering/taunting enemies, and you can't guard with the hidden blade, your guard just sets you up for a counter)

 

[maximilian]

I think the point is; why use the hidden when you can endlessly counter?

 

[Altorin]

I think the point is; why use the hidden when you can endlessly counter?

the key word being "endlessly"

if you counter with the hidden blade, every single hit is a 1hit kill

which means that it doesn't go on endlessly.

 

[OuroborosChoked]

Eye candy? It's like grey on more grey with grey (with a little gray thrown in for color).

When it's not grey, it's brown or other dreary colors.

I'm not saying it should be rainbows and puppies... this is the middle east in the middle ages... but jumping jesus... all the washed out colors'll give you eyestrain...

 

[OuroborosChoked]

I'd buy the sequel.

So will I... so I can get the rest of the buggering story.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I enjoyed Assassins Creed at first, but it quickly became repetitive. You climb down a wall, stab some guys arse, watch a long, wordy cutscene and run to a hay stack. And all the other parts got so bloody easy by the halfway point that the only reason I kept going was to be able to truthfully say I had completed it.
Still, if you don't play it for a while it becomes fun again, which can be said for surprisingly few games, nowadays.

 

[maximilian]

It's a game I go back to for about 10 minutes before I go out. And that's about it.