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Assassin's Creed Brotherhood |OT| where my bro's at?
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bumpkin
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Hmm, I hope that whatever takes place outside of the Animus between sequences isn't limited only to that particular place and time. I haven't left it for at least two or three sequences (I just started sequence 7). In the original AC, I got hosed on one of the achievements because I missed an opportunity to talk to Lucy.
bumpkin said:
You better do everything you want outside the Animus before a specific mission in (I think) Sequence 8. Also make sure to finish all the Subject 16 puzzles and then exit the Animus to have a special conversation that you can't get after you finish the game. All the conversations with your teammates are also sequence-specific, so you've missed a few.
oddworld18
Member
MjFrancis said:
crap! one of them is the (early game spoiler)
email one
is the other 2012 achievement
"find one artifact in 2012"
statue searching in monteriggoni
bobs...onGaf
Member
Ledsen said:
Damn, im very much at the end of the game.
Modern day colloseum looks immense, graphically this is one of the best looking things ive seen, its such a step up from the rest of the game, woah.
What other conversations have I missed, Ive read every email, ive talked to them at the start of every single sequence, and ive also triggered cutscenes from when I went to the food table and talked to Altairs statue. :lol
I thought I would do the Subject 16 puzzles after the game, oh well
- I guess theres always Youtube.Jeff Stephen
Member
Well this is disappointing. Kinda wished you were forced out of the Animus after completing each sequence. I guess I'll start up a new save once I get back.Ledsen said:
Also is there a map for all Borgia flags available to purchase? I've come across a few on the map but certainly not all all 101.
infinityBCRT
Member
I thought theultron87 said:
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oddworld18
Member
Jeff Stephen said:
It looks like the maps unlock for purchase after you hit 100% of Rome rebuilt. They're pricey, around 17k each. I got them last night, and I don't think they cover flags in the Romulus lairs.
No, more of them unlock as you progress through the game. Might depend on your synch rate, or how many sequences you've completed.oddworld18 said:
They don't, but all of the Borgia Flags in the Romulus Lairs are all pretty much along the path, and easy to spot. Maps for them would be kind of unnecessary.
Only reason I missed out on some of them in my first playthrough is because I was anxious to finish the game, see how the story plays out.
bumpkin
Member
I think there's one flag that I missed in a Romulus Lair, but I couldn't tell you *which* Lair it was. All I can say is it was a flag in this square-ish alcove that wasn't reachable from any angle I could spot; it was just out of reach of simply scaling the wall beneath it. My only thought is to replay the Lair and try using aSai said:
parachute
I haven't checked, but you can replay the Romulus Lairs, right?
You have to first collect 25 flags on your own (use eagle vision), then shops will carry flag maps. You don't have to rebuild Rome first. I think the treasure maps unlock as you open more art merchant shops. You can also get a Vatican treasure map, but that's part of the art merchant shop quest.Bebpo said:
Bebpo said:
I've got all the maps except the Vatican Treasure Map (since you need to finish a shop quest for it and fuck those). I assumed it was tied to game progress since I got the last one around sequence 8 or so, but I do have a high synch rate (did all the sidequests, upgraded everything fully and found all collectibles).
edit: and yeah guy above is right, you have to buy the maps in each district.
bumpkin said:
You can check in the DNA which Lair you're missing a flag for. And yes, you can replay them. None of them require any special items, just normal climbing.
Bebpo said:
Only the treasure map, the flag map can be bought normally in the Centro District (and maybe in the other ones as well, didn't check).
infinityBCRT
Member
I think we also should remember that in AC1 that space you were in out of the animus consisted of 2 rooms. In AC2 it was a much bigger place, which is probably why they toned down the detail of the original animus room that you're in.jett said:It's not that they are better, they're also different. AC1 has a much more realistic look to it, especially the character models, which border on cartoonish in AC2 and ACB. Textures might also be higher quality, but it's worth pointing out that Florence and Venice are much bigger and more varied than the cities in AC1, especially vertically.
TSAGoodness
Member
So i just finished the Romulus Lairs (best part of the game so far), I haven't finished the real game yet, but I noticed on the map key it says "Templar Lairs" but I don't see any listed around. Do these become visible once you beat the game or something? I want some more "lair" platforming action.
DualShadow
Member
TSAGoodness said:
If there is a Templar Lair available you will see the symbol on the map. They open up throughout the game but I'm pretty sure some are 'exclusive DLC' and shit like that.
canadiancrowe
Neo Member
Nakiro said:
Nope.
Deepack said:
System Language has no effect, you have to change your location (to something like UK or US). Stupid, but that's how the game works.
1stStrike said:
See above
Also it has nothing to do with Microsoft, it's the way the developers implemented language changing in the game.Blue Ninja
Member
I just set my console's locale to United Kingdom, that did the trick for me. Like you, I prefer to keep the dutch language out of my games.Deepack said:
ACII had the same problem, really. I had my system's locale set to UK for at least six months because of that game.
big_z said:
Same here.
Actually its kinda weird... I just got a new HDTV and initially I was just stoked at gorgeous the game looked. Especially the lighting. Then I noticed the white gradient thing up the top. I got worried thinking it was my TV but a quick google search eased those fears. After seeing all the complaints I too was finding it so annoying that I couldnt play any more.
Then for whatever reason I stopped caring. Now I barely notice and if I do is in a really detached sort of "oh look theres that stupid fucking gradient think"... and then I forget about it.
So my advice? Get yourself to that same headspace
In all seriousness it was CLEARLY an intentional thing that has some effect on how the natural lighting in the world looks. When the camera is at certain angles it gives the world a really realistic type of lighting. I guess Ubi felt the pros outweighed the cons. ie. a stupid fucking white bar that covers a third of the screen thats extremely visible when you go through tunnels etc.
So anyone know what update was for?
edit: I just turned the game on and there was update... in case no one knew what I was talking about.
Iron_Scimitar
Banned
Question: Does it make that cool sound when you hit the pause button like it did in part one and two?
Somewhat off topic but I'm curious to know never the less. It relates to the series as a whole and I don't really feel it's warranted to make a whole thread asking a single question.
Was the PSP Game with Altair worth playing at all what so ever? Or is it complete shovel-ware that should be avoided at all costs? I avoided it when it came out because the reception didn't seem worth the investment. However, it's cheaper now and I wouldn't mind playing through it if it wasn't completely horrific.
What say you Gaf?
Was the PSP Game with Altair worth playing at all what so ever? Or is it complete shovel-ware that should be avoided at all costs? I avoided it when it came out because the reception didn't seem worth the investment. However, it's cheaper now and I wouldn't mind playing through it if it wasn't completely horrific.
What say you Gaf?
ShockingAlberto
Member
Okay, finished the game last night. I was left with two basic thoughts:
- The end game of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood goes a long way to retroactively ruin the game before it.
- This series can not sustain yearly installments.
Everyone has been throwing around the phrase "If they keep it this good, they can make it yearly." The problem is, it's clearly slipping already. Lots of Rome is copy and pasted from AC2, every ruined building is ruined in exactly the same way up top, mission directives are sometimes boring and uninteresting, and the end of the game...my god, the end. I have never seen a game so obviously rushed to make a deadline.
Even what is ostensibly the big mechanic change for the single player, the use of the guild, is randomly turned off during some missions. The actual training of the assassins is busywork. You click thing, fill up a percentage bar, then they eventually come back except this time with possible nutmeg.
And oh my god, the promotion scenes. Really? Really? Not only is it completely unskippable, but you can't even teleport to the hideout to do it. You have to go there, exit a door, and come back in before the unskippable cutscene will start that is exactly the same every goddamn time.
I've already mentioned how badly the last few missions dropped the ball. I could not picture a worse denouement to the game. I've never been a firm believer in the idea that games are made chronologically, where the first part is made first and the last part made last, but damn if it doesn't feel like the final leg of this game was as rushed as it could possibly be.
All in all, I picture Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood like someone rushing to cook an hour long meal in half an hour. The basic ingredients are there, but they're undercooked, and you don't see how bad it is before you take a bite.
I'll be skipping next year's installment, I think.
- The end game of Assassin's Creed Brotherhood goes a long way to retroactively ruin the game before it.
- This series can not sustain yearly installments.
Everyone has been throwing around the phrase "If they keep it this good, they can make it yearly." The problem is, it's clearly slipping already. Lots of Rome is copy and pasted from AC2, every ruined building is ruined in exactly the same way up top, mission directives are sometimes boring and uninteresting, and the end of the game...my god, the end. I have never seen a game so obviously rushed to make a deadline.
Even what is ostensibly the big mechanic change for the single player, the use of the guild, is randomly turned off during some missions. The actual training of the assassins is busywork. You click thing, fill up a percentage bar, then they eventually come back except this time with possible nutmeg.
And oh my god, the promotion scenes. Really? Really? Not only is it completely unskippable, but you can't even teleport to the hideout to do it. You have to go there, exit a door, and come back in before the unskippable cutscene will start that is exactly the same every goddamn time.
I've already mentioned how badly the last few missions dropped the ball. I could not picture a worse denouement to the game. I've never been a firm believer in the idea that games are made chronologically, where the first part is made first and the last part made last, but damn if it doesn't feel like the final leg of this game was as rushed as it could possibly be.
All in all, I picture Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood like someone rushing to cook an hour long meal in half an hour. The basic ingredients are there, but they're undercooked, and you don't see how bad it is before you take a bite.
I'll be skipping next year's installment, I think.
infinityBCRT
Member
For me, there were so many improvements have been made to the game mechanics and there were enough enjoyable plot points in the game for meShockingAlberto said:
Subject 16, Cesare's strange death, stabbing of Lucy, Juno's exposition about the sixth sense & finding Eve
Thing is AC: B wasn't just made over the last year. I'm pretty sure the development of Brotherhood was happening simultaneously with AC2 (and remember some random Ubi employee posting on neogaf about that too, at the time he called it AC3). There was a point where it probably was supposed to be one game and then was split into two. You can tell they already did significant work on the city of Rome just looking at the ending sequence. Most people at the time were convinced that Rome was supposed to be a fully playable city and was cut out of the end of AC2.
In terms of your guild members not being available, I believe it was during
Leonardo missions and during *some* of the end game stuff but not all of it. Wasn't that big of a deal to me
When you say promotion cutscene, do you mean when you save a citizen? That cutscene lasts like 8 seconds and you only see it like 9 or 10 times during the game...
infinityBCRT
Member
Oh wow, I don't think I ever saw that. I leveled up my Assassins to around level 7 or 8. How long is the ceremony?Volcynika said: