Unskippable: Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

[dalek sec]

That was a pretty good one, I liked the Tron crack and the line "And now you're blind!" when he wouldn't stop looking into the sun like that. This game is very confusing.... D:

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Hahahahahaha! "Small mercies!" indeed.
Although a Rancor in Renaissance Italy would be awesome!

 

[GrizzlerBorno]

I probably shouldn't have watched that without actually playing the game yet. Meh, atleast I'll be able to try out what happens if you don't press....whatever X is on the PC.

And that last shameful whimper by Graham was golden. keep it up guys!

 

[Warforger]

Awesome as always guys.

Still not sure whether to play Ass Creed 2 or Brotherhood, I'm still slightly put off by the lack of truly moving forward with the series so I never really bothered.

Play Brotherhood, if you don't like the SP campaign you can just play the MP instead which is a totally different game and even has it's own storyline (although it's not needed and only furthers the pointless present story). I hate the present part, I swear I have yet to leave the animus unless I really needed too, If I were in charge Desmond dies but his DNA is used in the Animus still so that all we have is the older assassin part not any of the present day crap.

 

[manythings]

Awesome as always guys.

Still not sure whether to play Ass Creed 2 or Brotherhood, I'm still slightly put off by the lack of truly moving forward with the series so I never really bothered.

Play Brotherhood, if you don't like the SP campaign you can just play the MP instead which is a totally different game and even has it's own storyline (although it's not needed and only furthers the pointless present story). I hate the present part, I swear I have yet to leave the animus unless I really needed too, If I were in charge Desmond dies but his DNA is used in the Animus still so that all we have is the older assassin part not any of the present day crap.

I think you'll find market research shows that present day crap is what key demographics are all about these days.

 

[omicron1]

My name is Desmond Miles, and I approve this message.

I think we can all agree that Assassin's Creed's story is an overblown, plot-hole-ridden Da Vinci Code ripoff... still a fun game, just don't expect it to make sense.

 

[dmcc85]

did he say "schmutz"?
schmutz aint italian... schmutz is german...
fix your european-languages!

... racist americans ... wait... was i beeing racist there?
damn my german roots... jk i am half spanish ;-)

 

[gphjr14]

Still looks interesting though as I feared like Yahtzee stated its Assassins Creed 2.5. I have no desire to play the multiplayer but the single player doesn't seem to warrant a 60 dollar purchase.

 

[duchaked]

"really? I thought assassin's killed people for money"
huh...me too!
and the Tron/Grid comment made me snicker/chuckle right as I took a sip of my Coke
I agree that every pit should have a Rancor in it

HAHAHA Ezio's gonna be Luigi from now now on
and Mario was-er, is awesome

 

[Dak_N_Jaxter]

I really liked that crack about Altier at the Airport.

 

[vxicepickxv]

The ending line in the credits was great too.

"Assassin's Creed sounds worse than it really is. Assassins just stab you, they don't actually make you listen to Creed. Small mercies"

 

[Rad Party God]

Mario is also a fairly common name here on Mexico.

OT: Great episode, as always, I'm looking forward to the next enema... er I mean episode.

 

[Mike Richards]

I think we can all agree that Assassin's Creed's story is an overblown, plot-hole-ridden Da Vinci Code ripoff... still a fun game, just don't expect it to make sense.

Where exactly does it not make sense? It takes some really weird turns, but the only parts that don't make sense are the parts that we clearly aren't supposed to understand yet.

The thing that I love is that it's pretty much the only example of high-concept sci-fi I can think of in games, and it's a damn good one in its own right. You know, the kind of story that's all about dreaming up some fantastical technology, showing us how it works, and then showing us how it all goes horribly wrong. While I doubt we'd find anything like the Templar Conspiracy, the fact remains that if we were capable of looking into the past like this many parts of our history would be almost unrecognizable.

And hey, as far as plotlines go I happen to think the Conspiracy is pretty good anyways.

 

[omicron1]

I think we can all agree that Assassin's Creed's story is an overblown, plot-hole-ridden Da Vinci Code ripoff... still a fun game, just don't expect it to make sense.

Where exactly does it not make sense? It takes some really weird turns, but the only parts that don't make sense are the parts that we clearly aren't supposed to understand yet.

The thing that I love is that it's pretty much the only example of high-concept sci-fi I can think of in games, and it's a damn good one in its own right. You know, the kind of story that's all about dreaming up some fantastical technology, showing us how it works, and then showing us how it all goes horribly wrong. While I doubt we'd find anything like the Templar Conspiracy, the fact remains that if we were capable of looking into the past like this many parts of our history would be almost unrecognizable.

And hey, as far as plotlines go I happen to think the Conspiracy is pretty good anyways.

By which I mean, it's not consistent with our reality.

It's reasonably internally consistent, but it takes itself way too seriously for what is, essentially, make-believe masquerading as alternate history.

 

[Mike Richards]

By which I mean, it's not consistent with our reality.

It's reasonably internally consistent, but it takes itself way too seriously for what is, essentially, make-believe masquerading as alternate history.

I can accept that. It does make me wonder what all alternate history is if it isn't make-believe, but I understand your point. I'm of the opinion that the writing is good enough to sustain the seriousness of the proceedings, but to each their own.

I mean, that's the only philosophy that's stopped me strangling anyone who said Mass Effect 2 was bad...

 

[The Big Eye]

Methinks Hank Green's was better.

 

[Scrythe]

You guys should to the intro cutscene for AC: Brotherhood's multiplayer next.

I'm sure you can squeeze a few jokes out of Vidic's lame speech.

 

[Versago]

Oh no!
He moved the thingy in the middle - it'll cause a Renaissance Cascade!

Great Unskippable as usual guys

 

[Chunko]

I liked the comment about the disney ride lo.

 

[plunderbunny]

I don't know, it might be fun to listen to some creed... actually, no.

Anyway, great episode I nearly spat out my cherry coke at the 'Tron' comment.