According to google’s advanced search functionality we don’t have a specific thread about this game yet, whilst I’m tempted to believe that their is a thread somewhere I’ll be damned if I can find it.
Anyways I’m really excited for this game, despite that atrocious JUSTICE scored trailer from last week, for two reasons.
One: I really liked Assassin’s Creed conceptually and I think that at certain points the game really worked, but it was kind of hamstrung by being too big and too long and possibly being too concerned with its story. Stripped of 90% of its Desmond sections and with the assassinations streamlined a little the game would have been amazing, as it stands it was good but often frustratingly stoppy/starty.
That looks amazing. The cities look great, the movement looks great, the weaponry looks insane but whats important is that the developer giving the commentary seems to be aware of the limited aspects of the previous games and is desperately trying to talk up how many activies and options you have in this game.
Also that underground bit really reminded me of Prince of Persia: Sands of Time
I’m excited despite how much i disliked the original game. Someone somewhere said Ubisoft often make excellent Tech Demos, and I think that’s true of the original game. In all honesty it feels like a lot of the gameplay was just an afterthought. All games are repetitive to a degree, but In AC it felt like if you’ve done the first assassination then you’ve done them all. Throw in some cheap tricks (Lepers. You suddenly becoming a wanted criminal if your Horse runs instead of walks) and you have a thoroughly unsatisfying, yet very pretty, game.
I loved the first one and will write more about it and the sequel at a later time. With that said, I am really sad to see they are doing Italy and not Ancient Rome
Rumor has it that Ubisoft was originally planning a Feudal Japan setting for the sequel (Huge Samurai! Evil Bouncy Ninjas!), but based on what I’ve already seen so far, I think this setting could be rather interesting too, in its own way. The Carnivale-masks alone present some nifty possibilities.
Yeah I adored the original personally, and Renaissance Italy is one of my favorite historical periods so I’m very keen. I only watched the cinematic trailer for the first time today and it had me geeking out pretty hard I have to say.
I continue to adore the first game. The gameplay they showed during E3 looks like they fixed a lot of the first game’s mistakes of which there were, honestly, plenty of. So, color me excited.
Also, tell me I’m not the only one already plotting the custom soundtrack?
I was thrilled for it before, but that gameplay video has me really aching for the game. The hidden gun was kind of jarring though. I totally geeked out when they showed the merchant wearing a plague mask. I’m hoping that means many types of poisons to buy.
I absolutely love the first Assassin’s Creed. I can see where everybody has problems with it, but I never thought the game got too repetitive. It was one of those games that completely sucked me in and wouldn’t let me go until I had finished it.
In fact, I just recently finished playing through the entire game again (mostly because I wanted to get the stupid Conversationalist achievement I missed the first time through), and I enjoyed it just as much the second time around. I even like the Desmond sections, and I hope there are just as many in the new game. I would have been happy with a sequel on par with the first, but I’m excited that Ubisoft seems to be aiming for something that is better rather than resting on their laurels.
For some people, Halo ODST or Modern Warfare 2 are the must-have games this fall. For me, Assassin’s Creed 2 is the one game I can’t go without. If I could only get one game over the next several months, that would be it.
Originally Posted by BillyGView Post I was thrilled for it before, but that gameplay video has me really aching for the game. The hidden gun was kind of jarring though. I totally geeked out when they showed the merchant wearing a plague mask. I’m hoping that means many types of poisons to buy.
The first pistol was actually created in Italy in the early 1500s so it’s not too jarring for me. The game seems to be using Leonardo Da Vinci as an excuse for all manner of improbable,operable, technology anyways.
In terms of soundtracks the entire time I was playing Assassin’s Creed 1 I was listening to Peter Gabriels Last Temptation of Jesus Christ score. For this one I think I might go for some Tallis Scholars
Originally Posted by Spike MarshallView Post The first pistol was actually created in Italy in the early 1500s so it’s not too jarring for me. The game seems to be using Leonardo Da Vinci as an excuse for all manner of improbable,operable, technology anyways.
The reason it was jarring for me wasn’t the historical aspect, as much as it was the “holy shit that is a loud and thus ineffective assassin’s weapon.”
Originally Posted by BillyGView Post The reason it was jarring for me wasn’t the historical aspect, as much as it was the “holy shit that is a loud and thus ineffective assassin’s weapon.”
We are dealing with a game where no one notices a guy in an all white suit diving 200 feet into bales of hay or leaping from the street onto lampposts. But yeah it is a tad loud
But he jumps and leaps and crawls with zest and beautiful athletic prowess, so why would anyone questions his actions when he is so pleasing to the eyes? Plus, he can throw smoke bombs while in the hay! And that will make a fire, and thus, another diversion! It’s like Ubisoft hired the greatest assassins of history to make this realistic, then a gun without a silencer! Madness.
I really sorta want to believe that maybe they’ll have fixed the problems to make a better game, dug through the layer upon layer of shit to find the gem that I’m sure was there in Assassin’s Creed, but I’m really dubious.
My biggest complaints in AC1 were all tied to the tiny variety of secondary missions, and that video I saw a while back of Ezio poisoning a soldier so he goes insane and murders your target for you bought some good faith on that front.
My biggest complaints were the lack of any variety, the hilariously undercooked combat (press X to win!), the infantile storyline, and the fact that it was two to three hours of gameplay repeated nine times.