Poll: Assassins Creed or Borderlands
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You'll get more out of Borderlands as a single experience, but Assassin's Creed will introduce you to a franchise with 2 sequals and a third in the works.
Assassin's Creed had a lot of great ideas at the time, but didn't quite deliver on them. The sequals fixed all those things, however, so it may be worth playing just so you can move onto the sequals.
Borderlands is a great game, but it really shines in split-screen co-op.
Assassin's Creed had a lot of great ideas at the time, but didn't quite deliver on them. The sequals fixed all those things, however, so it may be worth playing just so you can move onto the sequals.
Borderlands is a great game, but it really shines in split-screen co-op.
Dammit, I love both of them!
BUT, I will say Assassin's Creed has much more of a story that makes sense and the ending isn't retarded. AC is not as long or big as Borderlands, but the places you do go to in AC are much more interesting, even if getting there kinda sucks, but the same can be said of Borderlands too.
So get Assassin's Creed, is what I'm trying to say.
BUT, I will say Assassin's Creed has much more of a story that makes sense and the ending isn't retarded. AC is not as long or big as Borderlands, but the places you do go to in AC are much more interesting, even if getting there kinda sucks, but the same can be said of Borderlands too.
So get Assassin's Creed, is what I'm trying to say.
Both are good games, but i got more out of borderlands, too much sneaking and faffing around on AC for me at times
Assasins Creed 2 is much better, brotherhood is better still, and revelations is looking even better than that. So you get more gaming with AC1, if you can brave boredom for half the game.
Assassin's Creed also offers the chance to break away and just kill random guards any time you really get bored. Still, both games are a grind. It basically in what you think you'd have more fun doing.
A stealth/combat game with a deep setting and story mired by some grinding? Or Diablo with guns in space also with a grind and boring parts? Take your pick.
A stealth/combat game with a deep setting and story mired by some grinding? Or Diablo with guns in space also with a grind and boring parts? Take your pick.
Of those two? *hrk* Fairly sure you could get both for USD20... anyway, I'd go for Screed, 'cos the story's better (i.e. there is a story) and once you've hacked your way through those fights esp at endgame, the sequels are far far far superior, so you get a better franchise out of it. Borderlands has... well, nothing much, except co-op which is a bit nnnnnn...
I say go for Borderlands. It has a lot of personality and it´s a good rpg-shooter. AC 2 is good but the first game is a bit boring.
Assassin's Creed II.DOOMGUY said:
Seriously, you don't need the first one - it's kind of lame compared to II and Brotherhood.
The first assassins creed was fucking awful! Jeez, that game was just BAD! Then again the combat in all assassins creed games is "hold block and press attack as soon as they hit you", you can take out 20 people easily this way!
borderlands has the same appeal as Diablo, shit loads of loot and loads of "which is better" and comparing stats.
Borderlands almost has no story (it has a story but there is next to no cut scenes, it's all reading) and assassins creed has a religion/illuminati angle.
borderlands has the same appeal as Diablo, shit loads of loot and loads of "which is better" and comparing stats.
Borderlands almost has no story (it has a story but there is next to no cut scenes, it's all reading) and assassins creed has a religion/illuminati angle.
I had a lot of fun with the first Assassin't Creed. I did get repetitive after a while but the assassinations were creative enough to keep things interesting.
Assassin's Creed 2 however fixed nearly all of the problems that I had with the first game and ranks as one of my favorite games of all time.
Assassin's Creed 2 however fixed nearly all of the problems that I had with the first game and ranks as one of my favorite games of all time.
Both games have their issues, but Borderlands gets quite fun if you have a few friends to play with, but AC gets more fun if you get into is as a series, and definitely rewards the player by getting significantly better in the later installments.
I love Assassin's Creed. The original is a bit lacklustre at times, especially when juxtaposed with AC2, Brotherhood and the upcoming Revelations, but the setting and gameplay is different enough to most other games out there to make it well worth your while. To me, it was a completely new experience, something that can be quite hard to find in the gaming world.
Basically though, the sequels are better in every single way in terms of gameplay, and the story becomes more and more involved and engaging as you progress. I did prefer the Middle Eastern setting of AC1 to renaissance Italy, but the characters in the sequels (especially Ezio) are much more developed than in AC1 (for example, Altair, who had a U.S. accent for some baffling reason), so it all balances out.
Borderlands on the other hand is a lot of fun when played cooperatively, but it doesn't have much of narrative... it's more a pseudo-RPG quest for kit. If you like that kind of thing, then you'll probably like Borderlands more... but the story in the AC franchise is what sells it for me. They just keep getting better and better.
Basically though, the sequels are better in every single way in terms of gameplay, and the story becomes more and more involved and engaging as you progress. I did prefer the Middle Eastern setting of AC1 to renaissance Italy, but the characters in the sequels (especially Ezio) are much more developed than in AC1 (for example, Altair, who had a U.S. accent for some baffling reason), so it all balances out.
Borderlands on the other hand is a lot of fun when played cooperatively, but it doesn't have much of narrative... it's more a pseudo-RPG quest for kit. If you like that kind of thing, then you'll probably like Borderlands more... but the story in the AC franchise is what sells it for me. They just keep getting better and better.