Why so much hate for Assassin's Creed 3

[BakaSmurf]

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Fun fact about Revere's ride:

He would not of said "The British are coming" because most of the colonists at that time still thought of themselves as British. He would of said "The enemy is upon us."

The more you know!

But Paul doesn't say 'the British are coming' in-game at all. One of the random persons he warns does, but Paul never utters the phrase himself.

EDIT: Playing through the level again just to be doubly sure, I thought I should mention that when I ask for directions, Paul is throwing up the devil horns instead of just regular pointing. Most metal glitch in an AC game ever.

 

[lunavixen]

To me, a lot of the fun to be had in assassins creed is the triple headed funman of 'runny-jumpy-stabby' and in AC3 there is a lot less of the stabby, i loved plotting out the best way to kill my target and hightail it before they figured out who did it. I also must admit, I feel that Connor is the weakest of the protagonists in Assassin's Creed, his story arc is indecisive and he's not as solid a character as Altair and Ezio were, hell, i think Desmond's storyline was nearly better than Connors, Connor just wasn't compelling as a character, I mean you can kinda see why Ezio became an Assassin, but Connor? Not so much.

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the biggest throw around for me in the story was the twist with Haytham, at first I was like "Who is this guy? Aren't I meant to be playing as Connor? And then BAM! I will honestly admit that I was not expecting the twist with Haytham. (the Templar part, not the being Connor's dad part, saw that coming a mile away)

put this bit in spoiler for those who haven't played the game yet.

Edit: Don't get me wrong, I still like the game, i just feel that it's the weakest of the series.

 

[Max_A_Buck]

I just don't like how much I fail because I get detected and I miss feeling like a bad arse when I fight/kill people. I'm at chapter (sequence?) 9 and I'm yet to jump off something and kill someone. What's with that?

 

[Random Argument Man]

I fucking love AC3. Although, there is some stuff that really piss me off though.

-Let's start with the worst: The ending. I would debate that AC3 has the worst ending ever. A few Mass effect fans without knowledge of this ending would contest this, but if they knew...(Deus ex machina but with no choices this time).

-If the Frontier didn't had tree climbing, I would've gone crazy. The cities are not fun to run on rooftops. Remember Venice from AC2? Every freaking ledge went somewhere. It had a flow. AC3 really asks you to make a detour to reach the other end of the street. New York ain't that bad. It has a few stuff that sets it appart. Boston though? IT'S WORST THAN ROME.

-I don't find Connor that bad. If you do the secondary missions, you'll see a more compassionate character. He cares for the people of his village, the people of homestead and the crew of the Aquila. It's understandable that he's mostly pissed all the time. However, the Templars seem to have a better philosophy than Connor. A conversation between them pretty much look like this.

Connor: Your evil act has ended.
Templar: But that act would've help everyone.
Connor: You did it to control and abuse people.
Templar: Control yes? Harm them? NO!
Connor: Um...well...*plugs ears* LALALALALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.


-Last, and not least, those **** missions where you have to chase Thomas Hickey and Charles Lee.

 

[Zeckt]

It has a worse ending than ME3.

Let that sink in.

Also, the pacing is all over the map, the characters are dull and uninteresting, there's too much pointless busy work, there's hardly any assassinations, it's too easy, you spend too much time playing as Hatham, the list goes on.

Worse then ME3? is that even possible?

 

[woodaba]

It has a worse ending than ME3.

Let that sink in.

Also, the pacing is all over the map, the characters are dull and uninteresting, there's too much pointless busy work, there's hardly any assassinations, it's too easy, you spend too much time playing as Hatham, the list goes on.

Worse then ME3? is that even possible?

Imagine Mass Effect 3's ending explained even worse.

Imagine not being able to choose which ending you got, but the choices were still presented to you.

Imagine that it ended the exact second you made that choice.

That is the ending for Assassin's Creed 3.

 

[Andalusa]

I love the franchise, I like AC3. It disappointed me a bit, and the fact that I liked Haytham more than Connor is a bad sign. The ending didn't evoke any emotion from me, it was an interesting twist, but there was nothing to tug at my heart strings. I CRIED at the end of Revelations, full on sobbing, my mother ran into my room to ask what had happened.
I enjoyed the game, it just fell a little below par.

 

[verdant monkai]

I didn't hate it but it was just a bit dull. Free running was vastly improved and so were most assassination techniques both of these are the reasons I play AC (free-running and stabbing). The reasons I didn't like it as much as I could have, were these:-

It was chock full of glitches

I thought the weapon system was poor compared to the previous games.

Combat didn't work for me, instead of gutting them I pushed them over, thus over extending myself and earning a bayonet to the face. Pressing B and X simultaneously does not work and it was just a pretentious version of the old system which worked well.

The city's are very dull, in previous AC games I stopped to admire the view a few times, revolutionary America's cities are crap compared to Rome and Constantinople.

The Frontier was pretty cool but it became a chore to navigate.

I am not American.

There was this big lie about killing both Brits and Americans but anyone who played the games knows this is bull shit. You are basically the revolutionists attack dog, they give you command of their troops at one point for Christ's sake. You do kill guys on the revolutionist side but they sound oddly British too.
I find it a bit more difficult to see people as villains and then murder them when I know that I am British. Don't get me wrong ethically I am on the Americans side as I disagree with people not being allowed to choose for themselves, on who rules them and makes their laws. But don't you dare tell me that it is a unbiased game.

 

[Gone Rampant]

If people "Hated" AC3, this thread would be quite longer.

Rather, people don't like it mainly because Connor's just not as fun as Ezio (Also I think Noah Watts is one of, if not the WORST Voice Actors in all of time. Everything I've seen (I'm in Sequence 5)? Not good.), and everyone was expecting a massive gameplay change like in AC1 to AC2, while this is a refinement.

Honestly, I like what I've played, but I was kind of hoping that Connor would occasionally help the Brits if the leader of the American forces was a Templar.

Also, the ending hate is because we're told about both futures, but we can't choose which one we want. I'm expecting stuff to change in patches/DLC.

In defence of the, "You don't kill Revolutionaries," complaint? Get the King Washington DLC, that should satisfy your murderous craving, you bastards*.

*Just came off from Spec Ops The Line, sorry.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Cause it's taken me two hours to get to the main character and now I'm playing fucking hide and seek.

I actually really like certain parts of the game, but it doesn't take three sequences to realise

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Hatham has his ring finger

 

[ImperialSunlight]

Cause it's taken me two hours to get to the main character and now I'm playing fucking hide and seek.

I actually really like certain parts of the game, but it doesn't take three sequences to realise

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Hatham has his ring finger

So have all of the assassins since Ezio. In ACII, Da Vinci improved the design of the hidden blade so cutting off the ring finger isn't necessary.

 

[shrimpcel]

Combat is still too easy. There's even regenerating health now (albeit I don't think it regenerates DURING combat).

The game is way too linear, too scripted. The developers need to take a page from The Elder Scrolls and actually give freedom to the player.

A lot of the quests/missions are boring.

 

[SextusMaximus]

Cause it's taken me two hours to get to the main character and now I'm playing fucking hide and seek.

I actually really like certain parts of the game, but it doesn't take three sequences to realise

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Hatham has his ring finger

So have all of the assassins since Ezio. In ACII, Da Vinci improved the design of the hidden blade so cutting off the ring finger isn't necessary.

Meant it metaphorically, but I can see how that didn't come across, I still thought the assassins cut their ring finger though. I meant there are a number of clues across the way, as long with the knowledge you can derive from trailers and dev interviews.

 

[Sexy Devil]

Oh man I got replies, not used to that.

They have done that to the same extent in every AC game. Americans are just choosing to notice it now because it's their history the game is messing with.

Name the other in-your-face major historical events that the other AC's did... because I'm drawing a blank at the moment...

I shouldn't have included AC1 because they were pretty good about that, but the Ezio trilogy is full of it.

They directly involved Ezio in the Pazzi conspiracy to overthrow the Medici.
They had Ezio fighting Rodrigo Borgia for all of AC2, and Cesare in AC:B.
They had Ezio be directly responsible for Cesare Borgia's death in that 1507 invasion.
Leonardo Da Vinci actually building that flying machine he designed but never built (namely because it wouldn't have worked) and then Ezio flying it.
Machiavelli being an assassin and Ezio's advisor.
Those various truth puzzles that revealed stupid shit like Gandhi actually having a piece of Eden, etc.

I haven't played them in a while so that's just the standout stuff. And in AC:R I pretty much mentally tuned out an hour in but there's probably a few examples in there too. But basically everything Ezio did was him getting directly involved in historical events.

I'm still allowed to complain that they have not fixed it. Plus, I don't feel like a badass unless I overcome adversity. I just think everything else is made of paper.

OT: Now that I've played it quite a bit, please add "horrifically broken multiplayer" to the list of things wrong with this game. Don't get me wrong, the core gameplay is fun, but the UI is horrendous and the progression is broken beyond all belief.

Fair enough dude, complain away. It's just been annoying me because I've been seeing a bunch of people complaining (namely Kotaku writers) that the previous games did this stuff much better when they really didn't.

 

[The_Lost_King]

It has a worse ending than ME3.

Let that sink in.

Also, the pacing is all over the map, the characters are dull and uninteresting, there's too much pointless busy work, there's hardly any assassinations, it's too easy, you spend too much time playing as Hatham, the list goes on.

That is impossible. Atleast in AC a magical space child could logically exist.