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PostPosted: 02-15-2011 12:39 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


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isn't that to stop aliens and learn about the ocean?
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MKJ wrote:
find and solve glyphs


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find and solve glyphs


I've found and solved 2/3rds of all the glyphs so far and it doesn't really add a whole lot to it all yet. I can see how it all ties together though, but I think the exposure to what's happening in 2012 is far too low to really get a feeling for it. The storyline you follow with Ezio is 10 times more interesting. I really don't care about Desmond the slightest bit, simply because I've been him a whopping 10 minutes at most (and yes, I did the training after dna sequence 6 or 7 or so).

The fact that Ezio's storyline about the whole conspiracy is interesting enough to hold up the game is saving its grace, because the reason why I'm in the Animus running around in 17th century Italy completely escapes me. Maybe they uncover a lot more about it in the end, but its all too little too late I think.

I will put this small disclaimer here as a future failsafe in case they present a whopping bloody awesome ending: I haven't played it all the way through yet :)



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PostPosted: 02-15-2011 01:16 AM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Oh, new Assassins Creed will be announced in May.



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So, I finished Assassin's Creed 2 last weekend, unlocked all achievements.
Right now I'm thinking how long I should wait with Brotherhood. The GT.com review says it's basically more of the same so I don't want to dive into it too quickly, out of fear of having a massive Assassin's Creed overload. I'm digging into Beyond Good & Evil HD right now but that will only keep me occupied for so long....

I do appreciate the modern day backstory of AC2 a bit more now that I've seen the end, but still.... all the Desmond bits feel tacked on and your team comes across as a bunch of incompetent muppets. Also, but maybe this is because I've never played the first game, the significance of Desmond getting visions outside of the Aenimus and dreaming of Altaïr and his lover completely goes by me.

*WARNING: Spoiler (highlight hidden text to read it)*
After reading all of the 30 codex pages and seeing the finale of the game the thing that most impressed me was the way in which the game blatantly said that religion and christianity as it is now is based completely on false ideas. Quite a bold reality to shape in a game.



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Memphis wrote:
I was tempted by ACII for a tenner, but heard that the story hinges on AC1, which i also heard is a bucket of poo.


Memphis, go ahead and get AC2 if you want to. You really do not have to have any experience with AC1 to understand the whole story. It may help to read the plot synopsis of AC1 on WikiPedia or some other site to give a slight bit of insight into the happenings of the first game, but one can play AC2 well without playing AC1.

At first you feel like you're supposed to know a lot of things to truly appreciate AC2, but soon enough you'll figure out that it is not the case and that the game assumes no real prior knowledge.



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MKJ wrote:
to be fair, the cratedropping thing you propose was in AC1 and it was more than annoying. you couldnt cough without having 3 guards on your tail.


Odd posts, because this is the case in AC2.
If you run into a guy holding a crate in front of guards and he drops the crate, the guard will get mad at you.

ps:
why can't guards swim? That's just retarded.



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not as bad as AC1 tho

also, swimming in full gear = not gonna happen. ever wondered what a chainmail weighs? :)
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Oh who cares. The thing is that it made it way too easy to avoid guards in Venice. Just jump into the water, swim a bit and you've shaken them off.



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So i open my Assassins Creed II game which i have not touched in a few weeks and lo and behold, my savegame is gone. A-fucking-gain. Don't know if it's related, but their supremely gay launcher insisted on being updated, now giving me an utterly useless shiney new window to close before i can start the game.

...last time i ever get a ubisoft game, what a bunch of cunts.

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fear not, ubi has discontinued their gay online drm since the ac2 debacle.
too bad they didnt remove it from ac2 with a patch AMIRONG
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PostPosted: 03-26-2012 12:43 PM           Profile   Send private message  E-mail  Edit post Reply with quote


Just started playing this; so much better than the first!!! Actually enjoying this one...
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Yeah it's cool. Brotherhood's good too. Various sources here at Q3W say Revelations is not so good.



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The series definitely peaks with Brotherhood. But avoid Revelations like the plague. It's a hastily done cash-grab. Watch all the story elements on YouTube rather than buying the game.
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for a game called Revelations, it doesnt reveal much.
the ending was pretty weak.

AC2's ending, that was a Revelation.
cunts.

ac3 sounds cool though. and i like the conspiracy theories
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Apparently, and this makes Revelations even shitter in my eyes, they revealed in the DLC that *SPOILER* Lucy was actually a Templar all along *SPOILER*. I mean WTF, one of the massive questions you're left asking at the end of Brotherhood and they can't even see fit to reveal the answer in the main Revelations game? Fuck Ubi.
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came in to post that.
the DLC sounded interesting, but its 2 hours of more tedious platforming bullshit in which they drop one of the biggest plotpoints.
now I don't mind the quality of the dlc so much, but who thought it was a good idea to include a major twist in a piece of content they know not everybody is going to have?
how does that work exactly?


also, spending another two hours getting all the fragments so you get the "true" ending is seriously not worth it. a black screen with four lines of text which dont add anything. goodie.
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Looks like this behavior is to become par for the course:
Capcom Selling "Asura's Wrath" True Ending as DLC

I was hearing good things about that game and was starting to get interested, but that kind of behaviour has just lost them a sale.
Of course, I'm not really surprised that it's someone like Ubisoft who pioneers such reprehensible behaviour and someone like Capcom who takes it to the next level of stupidity given their past records, but it's still incredibly worrying.
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Fucking hell...sunk some serious hours into this now. Absolutely brilliant in every way :D
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Mat Linnett wrote:
Looks like this behavior is to become par for the course:
Capcom Selling "Asura's Wrath" True Ending as DLC

I was hearing good things about that game and was starting to get interested, but that kind of behaviour has just lost them a sale.
Of course, I'm not really surprised that it's someone like Ubisoft who pioneers such reprehensible behaviour and someone like Capcom who takes it to the next level of stupidity given their past records, but it's still incredibly worrying.


and here's another one.

Borderlands 2 dev already detailing post release DLC...pre-release.
http://www.shacknews.com/article/73224/ ... ailing-dlc


k well, it's different... it's not supposed to be an integral part of the main game or the storyline. But people still bitch about premeditated DLC's.
But you can't expect them to create twice the content you're used to paying for the same price. they'll either have to raise the price of the game, or use DLC's in order to have a proper ROI. Aren't AAA titles getting bigger and better, in scope? Something has to give.
So we either accept the fact that our increasing expectations take more effort, that we have to pay for, or we'll have to be ok with the fact that nobody is raising the bar to the next level... or content with DLC's as part of the changing gamefield in the industry...which simply gives each individual the choice of how much entertainment they're willing to pay for.
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***Potential spoilers***

Ok so I have done quite a bit more of the game now and I must be nearing the end. I have done quite a few things within the game, though I can't seem to find my last "long weapon" as it were so I am stuck on 21 out of 22 weapons purchased.
Upgraded everything else and I am making a mint from my mansion etc.
Just done the fort defence in Foreli, been stabbed etc etc and I don't have much left in the way of memory sequences left (on 13 atm) I don't think.

Can't be arse to find all 100 feathers, though I say that now I might just get a map off the interwebs and find them that way (done 27 so far)

Fantastic game; really enjoyed it. 10 times the game the first one was. Looking forward to starting brotherhood once I have clocked this one.
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you get the uberweapon (a hammer) by completing one of the collect quests. could be the 100 feathers, not sure.
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FARK SAKE!!!
Looks like I will be getting the feathers then...long night ahead me thinks...!
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Yeah it's the feathers. They are a bitch to find. Use a guide.



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Finished the game, got 900G on the game and not sure if I can be arse with the feather finding etc to get an acheivement for it.

Excellent game, really really suprised with how much better this was than the first. Gonna break out Brotherhood this evening in an attempt to keep myself occupied and distracted from going out on the razzle dazzle. Expect the Assassins Creed Brotherhood thread to be resurected soon :D
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PS - I think this might have actually been better than Batman - Arkham City
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Not too sure about that. Arkham City has far more diversity. AC games get a bit long winded after a while. The stort in arkham city is a bit fragmented because of all the stuff that sidetracks you though, but overall I'd say I prefer batman



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