Assassin's Creed
Anyone here played it? They were offering it on Steam for $10 a few weeks ago so I picked it up and just got around to checking it out. It’s good fun.
I only got through the first mission, but essentially, you run around in a pretty immersive Crusade-era Damascus and gather info on your target by blending in with crowds, eavesdropping, and interrogating. Which is cool enough, but it’s all mixed in with a super-sweet Prince of Persia-esq platforming system that has you running at high speeds across rooftops trying to escape guards and get the drop on people for assassinations.
I’ve had a problem finishing games the past few years as I tend to lose interest before it’s over, but I’m really enjoying the pacing on this one (and I’m actually interested in the story for once). Definitely recommend giving it a shot if you have the chance.
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I can guarantee you’ll lose interest….you do that first mission about 400 times in the game. Very repetitive and boring.
I have a laundry list of things that bugged me about it.
I thought the twist at the beginning was irritating, but I sort of liked watching Trish play it and the graphics are very nice.
But I know a lot of people liked it. If they work a bunch of kinks out, it’s gonna have a nice sequel.
yes travis is right, it’s very very repetitive and the i was not into the twist, it’s stupid and ruined the game a bit for me.
GET FALLOUT 3.
I have Fallout 3. It’s incredibly boring.
And by twist at the beginning of the game, are you referring to having all your weapons and stuff removed or is there something I have yet to encounter?
John said:I have Fallout 3. It’s incredibly boring.
you’re doing it wrong.
Fix the inventory management and tighten up the plot to involve less random wandering and fewer pointless subquests, and I’ll enjoy it. Mostly the inventory management. It does nothing in the way of adding any real strategy or challenge to the game and just forces me to run back to my home every 20 minutes. Even if they’d sped up the process of dumping my shit at home, I’d be fine. But seeing as it takes 10 minutes just to get back there, it’s infuriating. I was tired of looking at the same gray paths in the same gray ditch over and over and over and over again just trying to be frugal.
Also, making the only really effective way of killing things a trigger a cutscene every time I shoot a bullet is INCREDIBLY annoying and tedious. I want to just kill things. Maybe some fancy reflexes, some dodging and whatnot, but let me just shoot at something a few times and kill it. The whole V.A.T.S. system is one, enormous failure with absolutely zero redeeming qualities.
i have had none of those problems. i don’t have a home and i just dump shit to where i can fast-travel back to it. mostly crappy irradiated food. otherwise, i’ve been golden. maybe you try to carry too much useless bullshit.
it’s a massive world and quite awesome. i am thinking of getting an Xbox 360 just to play the new updated content (fucking PS3 doesn’t have it).
i also hardly ever get a cut-scene when i shoot things. at least not enough for it to get on my nerves. my experience pretty much IS shooting things a few times and killing it. and you don’t need to use the V.A.T.S. thing every time, obviously.
I am seriously bummed out to hear these things about Fallout 3. I started playing it the other day and made it to the point where you start wandering around outside before I got bored. That’s like 20 minutes into the game so I was hoping it was just the beginning that was slow, but this is making me not want to go back at all.
Jay said:I am seriously bummed out to hear these things about Fallout 3. I started playing it the other day and made it to the point where you start wandering around outside before I got bored. That’s like 20 minutes into the game so I was hoping it was just the beginning that was slow, but this is making me not want to go back at all.
i think there are more people on here that love it than don’t. in fact, john is the only person i know to hate it so much.
Mandy, if you’re not using V.A.T.S., you’re not playing the game right. It’s the biggest part of the combat system and the way you’re supposed to take out bad guys effectively. That said, if you’re not using V.A.T.S., you’re probably having more fun, so go figure. You might end up getting stuck at some point, though, being unable to beat something without V.A.T.S.
As for why I had so much stuff, I was worried about keeping all the junk I found so I could build weapons and armor later in the game. Also, to sell for money cause it seems impossible to make any real scratch in the game.
Also, get it for Steam on windows so you can get the extra PC stuff that xbox doesn’t have (like the world creator tool thinger). Also, The Pitt supposedly is currently unplayably buggy.
John said:And by twist at the beginning of the game, are you referring to having all your weapons and stuff removed or is there something I have yet to encounter?
Without getting too specific, I mean the parts with Veronica Mars.
i do use it, but if something like a Feral Ghoul is pretty much right in front of you, there is no need to. i am killing Super Mutants with 2 or 3 shots now, so i think i’ve got it down.
like i said, dump the stuff in various places you can fast-travel to. there’s a slight chance it will get stolen (none of my stuff has yet), but it also means less annoying running around.
and we’ve had this conversation – i hate playing stuff on PC. i never played Left 4 Dead because i hated having to sit there 2 feet away from the screen using a keyboard. once i get around to acquiring an Xbox, i can only hope any bugs have been addressed.
another reason i love it and which keeps me playing is the fact that the Dad is fucking hot and the hope that one of the game-ending options is incest.
Also, I loved Fallout 3. This is making me want to play it tonight.
I would download the extra stuff, but there’s so much I haven’t even seen yet in the game.
And I think the inventory management and VATS were really good. I can count on one hand how many times I had to go back to my house to get things. And VATS works better when you get the exploder perk. There’s nothing like shooting a dude in the arm and having his whole body explode into a million bloody pieces. :)
….and the ending is very cool, but abrupt. Save before you get to that part.
ooooh! good tip about the Exploder perk, thanks dude! i am basically doing everything i can in the game before i try the ending, as i have heard it is pretty much THE END.
i just downloaded “the pitt” didn’t get very far into yet though, my only problem is that when the game ends it ends, unlike Oblivion (which i think is better then fallout 3). that was my complaint about fallout 3.
why anyone would own a PS3 over a 360 is beyond me. give me 10 red rings of death and i’ll just keep getting a new 360. i mean even the conrtoller is better then playstation.
Ryan said:why anyone would own a PS3 over a 360 is beyond me. give me 10 red rings of death and i’ll just keep getting a new 360. i mean even the conrtoller is better then playstation.
blu-ray player.
mandy said:blu-ray player.
Don’t blu-ray movies cost like $40?
even if they’re not, i’m not buying my movie collection over again….plus from what i hear its not even a very good blu-ray player…
I’ve heard the opposite — that it’s the best blu-ray player.
It’s a great blu-ray player. And I also have no intentions of rebuying movies. I’m just getting ones that I don’t have already that will look awesome in such quality – being selective, if you will – Pan’s Labyrinth, The Fountain, Bladerunner, Planet Earth, etc. And the prices are comparable to DVD if you don’t shop like an idiot.
mandy said:It’s a great blu-ray player. And I also have no intentions of rebuying movies. I’m just getting ones that I don’t have already that will look awesome in such quality – being selective, if you will – Pan’s Labyrinth, The Fountain, Bladerunner, Planet Earth, etc. And the prices are comparable to DVD if you don’t shop like an idiot.
Note: my information about the cost of blu-ray comes from Howard Stern who continually complains about spending $40 on movies that suck. I am really happy that I don’t have the electronics quality bug, it has saved me a ton of money.
Surprisingly, I don’t really have that bug either. The only two super high quality things I’ve bought are my mac and my phone, and both are flukes in a long history of low-to-middle-grade electronics buying.
I would love to have a Blu-ray player, an HDTV and the Planet Earth series. But then I wouldn’t do anything else.
I’m not sure how, but I managed to avoid getting any of those things. I do, still, look forward to having that full package in the future.
Paris said:I’m not sure how, but I managed to avoid getting any of those things. I do, still, look forward to having that full package in the future.
it’s a nice package to have, and we bought slightly better stuff than we needed so we’d be all set for longer. we seriously lucked out getting everything at Circuit City on Black Friday. they had fantastic deals and we pay no interest until halfway through 2010, even though they’re gone.
Jay said:Note: my information about the cost of blu-ray comes from Howard Stern who continually complains about spending $40 on movies that suck. I am really happy that I don’t have the electronics quality bug, it has saved me a ton of money.
he’s an idiot. i wouldn’t pay $40 for ANY movie unless i have seen it first and absolutely loved it. even then i’d look for a better deal.
i don’t have the bug either, as mentioned above, we just happened to organize ourselves and go out to grab a really good deal on everything. that said, all (most) of my purchased technology in the past 10 or so years has been of excellent quality and/or reputation (though john will argue against any of my PCs) and it has all lasted brilliantly, so i’d like to think it has saved me money in the end.