DualShadow
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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood |OT| where my bro's at?
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I'm on Sequence 5 or 6, can't remember, but I have a few questions:
1. Is there really anything to do as Desmond instead of just running around? Like any secrets to find before the ending or something?
2. Has anyone died as Desmond yet? I thought about jumping off the building and dying, but then thought again.
3. When does Ezio get the parachute?
Just some simple things I'd like to know.
1. Is there really anything to do as Desmond instead of just running around? Like any secrets to find before the ending or something?
2. Has anyone died as Desmond yet? I thought about jumping off the building and dying, but then thought again.
3. When does Ezio get the parachute?
Just some simple things I'd like to know.
Lostconfused
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Actually that's not true at all. Sometimes they don't kill low level targets and sometimes they kill higher level ones.Snapshot King said:
Snapshot King
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GcRayden said:
1. You can talk to your team and try and 5 five artifacts that don't seem to do anything.
2. Nope.
3. Beat all the Leonardo missions.
just watched the GB QL for this game , for fuck sake Ubi , I thought this is multiplayer only and don't have Sp mode , and I avoided the game completely because of this miss marketing shit , so I almost missed the continuation of AC2 story ( one of my favorite games this gen ), the hell is wrong with Ubi ? (I know I should read more about the game , but fuck it I blame Ubi ).
Lostconfused
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Its Ubi's fault for debuting the game with multiplayer and focusing on it.Jangaroo said:
What's with the Guild challenges? They are borked. I've killed hundreds of stationed guards with my crossbow undetected, but under the Courtesan challenges I have 0/20. Likewise for jumping from a horse to a beam.
The game debuted with a CG trailer that was all about Rome and the Borgia. And at E3 they debuted gameplay with a single-player mission. *shrug*
Lostconfused said:
The game debuted with a CG trailer that was all about Rome and the Borgia. And at E3 they debuted gameplay with a single-player mission. *shrug*
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NinjaFridge
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Any tips for
I keep getting my ass kicked.
defending the baracks against the french?
Lostconfused
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First impressions are important. Focusing MP implied that it would be the prominent part of the game.Blader5489 said:
Prominent most certainly, but again, that didn't mean that there wasn't going to be a single player portion. As somebody mentioned before, they debuted it at E3 with a single player demo when Ezio gets attacked by the templars. You really have no excuse for not being aware about that.Lostconfused said:
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NinjaFridge
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dwebo said:
Dear Jesus. I forgot all about my Assassins, how did i manage to forget them? Also, arrow storm is badass but i'll take your advice.
Lostconfused
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Actually its really really easy to do that.Sai said:
Use a smoke bomb at every gate. That way you can close all of them right away without getting hit once, then call in an arrow storm on a big group and you should be done
Jangaroo said:
Yeah, Totobeni, don't you know it's your job to sell Ubisoft's game to you!
Ubi has done a really terrible job marketing this game. Hopefully that won't affect the sales, but I do think that the majority of people who played the first two games think this is just a spin-off multiplayer title with a crappy tacked on single player campaign that doesn't add much to the story. The focus in most of the marketing has been on the multiplayer so unless you are actively seeking out information -- and why would you if the multiplayer didn't already interest you -- you don't know what the single player entails or that it has a lot of new additions and features. You'd think they'd really want to make that a key selling point since it has been the excellent single player that has propelled the series' sales thus far.
Lostconfused
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I am not really here to make excuses for Ubisoft's marketing department. Since I am not the only one here who was under this false impression, they made a somewhat poor job of it.Jangaroo said:
The Dutch Slayer
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So do you get anything for
doing the VR training stuff?
Lostconfused
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Yes you do. You can guess what it is too because it was announcement a bit before the games release.The Dutch Slayer said:
Wait, the singleplayer portion has had far more coverage than the MP portion. It's most definitely not Ubi's fault if someone had no clue about the singleplayer. There have been nearly a dozen threads created for new trailers and coverage over the past few months detailing all of the new stuff being introduced in the game. I'm not sure how you could be on GAF and not know stuff about a series you're interested in. I'm not on often, but I know more about random games I have no intention of playing than I would have ever imagined. 
The Dutch Slayer
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I did not follow the game ON PURPOSE because I did not wanted to know anything from the story, I loved AC2 and did not want to spoil ANYTHING so did not pay attention to press stuffa bout AC:BLostconfused said:
Is it something that you can use ingame for the SP, or do you get more story that way?
Because if its something lame for the MP I do not care.
Or if its just an achievement I do not care for that.
DualShadow
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The Dutch Slayer said:
You can use it in SP.
Lostconfused
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Well I lost all interest in the series immediately after Ubisoft announced that they are going to release a sequel 1 year later with a multilayer component. So really there was no reason for me to look at any trailers, or news or anything about the game whatsoever.Irish said:Wait, the singleplayer portion has had far more coverage than the MP portion. It's most definitely not Ubi's fault if someone had no clue about the singleplayer. There have been nearly a dozen threads created for new trailers and coverage over the past few months detailing all of the new stuff being introduced in the game. I'm not sure how you could be on GAF and not know stuff about a series you're interested in. I'm not on often, but I know more about random games I have no intention of playing than I would have ever imagined.
The Dutch Slayer
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Ah thanks for the info, well if its only that than I try but if the stuff gets to hard or frustrating I'll just move on.Irish said:
Dorfdad said:
I would definitely play the second one first. This is a direct continuation of that story. It literally opens up 5 seconds after the last game ends. Plus, after getting used to all of the new equipment and combat options you have in this game, it may be hard to go back.
I can care less about whether or not you or anyone else for that matter originally thought the single player is tacked on. That wasn't what I was arguing about.stupei said:
Totobeni thought the game was multiplayer only. I'm raising up the point that yes, Ubisoft did focus on the multiplayer but they also had a lot of media focusing on the single player. Again, my argument isn't about whether or not the single player is tacked on or not.Totobeni said:
Then that is your fault.Lostconfused said:
Irish said:Wait, the singleplayer portion has had far more coverage than the MP portion. It's most definitely not Ubi's fault if someone had no clue about the singleplayer. There have been nearly a dozen threads created for new trailers and coverage over the past few months detailing all of the new stuff being introduced in the game. I'm not sure how you could be on GAF and not know stuff about a series you're interested in. I'm not on often, but I know more about random games I have no intention of playing than I would have ever imagined.
Saying "GAF obsessed over it" does not equal "and therefor the average person knew a lot about it." Plenty of people (even on GAF!) have been running around calling New Vegas an expansion pack. Obsidian had to go out of their way to combat that idea, solely because it has the same engine. Otherwise it's new storyline, new locations, new characters, two years in development. New systems, which they hyped up.
On the other hand you have AC: B. Same engine, same character, still in Italy, one year of development. You'd think Ubi would want to make sure they erase any of the immediate "wow, that's a $60 expansion pack" thoughts from everyone's minds, but instead they show single player campaigns that don't look especially different from anything offered in the game that came out just a few months before they start showing footage and hype up multiplayer.
Yes, people knew the single player existed, they just didn't know it was going to be worth $60 and you don't often spend that kind of money solely on gimmicky multiplayer that is likely to die off in a month.
Lostconfused
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So what is your argument?Jangaroo said:
The Dutch Slayer
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THIS ! +Irish said:
AC2 is one of the best games from the last 5 years (at least I think that), story and gameplay are so well balanced and if you want it to be it can be a LONG game 35 to 40 hours for 100% play trough.
Holy shit this game is HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE!
I'm ~15 hours in and I just started sequence 4 and got my own Assassin's finally :lol Doing all the side mission and getting all the collectibles (including treasure) is eating up a lot of time! Apparently I've spent almost 300 000 already
I'm ~15 hours in and I just started sequence 4 and got my own Assassin's finally :lol Doing all the side mission and getting all the collectibles (including treasure) is eating up a lot of time! Apparently I've spent almost 300 000 already
Lostconfused
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Oh I am sorry. I had no idea you were arguing about something completely different from what I was arguing or what Totobeni seems to be arguing. I jumped in because I agree with Totobeni's posts.Jangaroo said:
DualShadow
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jett said:
Some of them are working fine but like you said about the guard post one I don't think I have any for that. Even though i crossbow a shit load of guards without being detected.
Yet other ones worked fine so not sure what's going on with them.
GraveRobberX
Platinum Trophy: Learned to Shit While Upright Again.
"When you have to go, you have to GO!"...strange after grasping so many ledges, my piss has turned green ; ;, fucking syphilis, the medic said he this new lead based medicine would fix my problem...le sigh
Lostconfused said:
I'm going to have to agree with you there. Heck, I loved the first two games and even I was surprised at the substantial weight of the single player game. Ultimately, the first thing that sticks out in your mind is how the multi-player was being touted when first being announced. I know a number of gamers who thought the same thing and were shocked when I told them how great the game was. If you don't put much stock in the game after the initial reveal, it's going to be much harder to compete for the gamer's attention when being previewed. Especially when you consider almost every game gets a write up during the initial build up.
Ubisoft doesn't have the strongest track record of properly promoting strong games (I'm looking at you BG&E).
Not just that, but ACB does a piss-poor job of explaining the combat and climbing mechanics to anyone who hasn't already played AC2. Not only would you be lost in terms of the storyline, but you'd also be missing 3/4's of the possible move-set. And there's no trainer (AFAIK) like there was in AC2 if you need a full tutorial/refresher/review.Irish said: