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Assassin's Creed II - The |OT|
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BudokaiMR2
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duckroll said:An AC game set in feudal Japan would be pretty hilarious. There would be 1 viewpoint per city, every single building will look identical, and instead of huge cities, you'll be horse riding through long mountainous roads and forest passages just to get between many tiny ass villages and castle towns. Not sure if want.
I dunno, sneaking around Osaka castle and the surrounding barracks could be kind of cool. Got a point about the viewpoints though. Maybe they could just make one viewpoint for each town from a surrounding mountain ;p
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The Saboteur already did it, otherwise that game's setting and gameplay style would be suitable for a potential AC3 imho.
I would very much like an AC set in 19th century industrial revolution era england/usa. Nice architecture, gritty violent world(jack the ripper tie in loll) They can keep the prostitutes and just change their wardrobe.
I find it quite possible to implement this with all the thomas edison/Tesla talk in the truth files
I find it quite possible to implement this with all the thomas edison/Tesla talk in the truth files
Okay erm..... I just noticed this but...... In Florence, if you try to go south any further than the bridge at the bottom of the map, there's actually MORE of the city, but you just can't go there. When you get near it, it says "Area not yet available" and you get the desync warning if you go beyond that. In fact, while I was notorious, when I did that the map actually showed a herald and a bunch of wanted posters in that region I had no access to.
.......DLC?
Edit: Also the game is fucking buggy. It just froze on me AGAIN. This time right after I finished an assassination contract in Tuscany. I did a dual air assassination and got my target and the guy I followed to get to him. Then some enemies got alerted and I did a dual assassination in their faces. BAM! FREEZE! Ugh...
.......DLC?
Edit: Also the game is fucking buggy. It just froze on me AGAIN. This time right after I finished an assassination contract in Tuscany. I did a dual air assassination and got my target and the guy I followed to get to him. Then some enemies got alerted and I did a dual assassination in their faces. BAM! FREEZE! Ugh...
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Had my first crash last night. Warping from the villa to Venice, half-way through Memory 7. During the load screen.
I think you get to go everywhere by the end of the game.duckroll said:
As for bugs, the game froze just once for me on PS3. It was pretty near the beginning, I was running around with Ezio, suddenly the audio cuts out and some moments later, the game freezes and I need to do a manual power off for the console.
Other bugs included magical teleportation through walls in Venice - if there is a wanted poster on the other side of the wall and you press circle to remove it, presto - you're on the other side of the wall.
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nah, that section of Florence remains closed off.glaurung said:
glaurung said:
Dude, I've beaten the game ages ago. I'm just playing to complete everything else now.
Yes that's how it is, except my audio doesn't cut out either. It froze on me 3 times over the course of my game, and this is the 4th time.
Other awesome bugs I've encountered include falling and getting suck in a part of a building and having to quit and load. I've also had enemy targets on the minimap get stuck on my cursor, even after they're dead. I ran all over Venice with 2 red targets stuck on my cursor, and they only vanished after to traveled to another city. Lulz.
This is definitely my GOTY so far, but it's the buggiest GOTY contender I've played in forever.
I just did my coolest move yet.
There was a group of five guards, I jumped down and had two in one blow, stood up and stabbed the other two in the neck with my arms spread and killed the shocked last guard with a stab in the back. Overall, it took me less than 2 seconds to kill them.
There was a group of five guards, I jumped down and had two in one blow, stood up and stabbed the other two in the neck with my arms spread and killed the shocked last guard with a stab in the back. Overall, it took me less than 2 seconds to kill them.
OK, I just finished the main story last night and I thought I had access to all locations by that time.duckroll said:
It'd be weird if they did some DLC for Florence and NOT DO it for Rome...
The bugs you're describing sound worse than anything I've seen during my game time.
What about the last missing weapon for the Villa and what about the two treasure icons on the map below the villa? How do I get there?
kamorra said:
I rented it on 360 today to test it (if its any better was going to buy it as will get me rental cost back) and its no different with frame rate their identical to PS3. It has more definition to the textures but its minor (games looking old anyway), loading identical, tearing tbh hardly that different not as bad as PS3 but still bad and its really really dark like they messed up either the gamma or forgot to put half the dynamic lighting in.
Basically either version your going to get the same whether its PS3 or 360 so Im off back to PS3 one as prefer the pad and my trading it to get 360 ones gone out the window. Maybe PC version when that comes out.
Dunno why they made such a sub 30fps game though as the textures arent taxing either machine! Characters look like they had some form of car accident!
For setting in ACIII, do they HAVE to go forward in time? Personally seeing the statues of the various Assassin's in the room in ACII, I'd want to play as some of them. Some of them seem badass.
Maybe there'd be some reason they would need to go further back in time, something obscured by the mist. I don't know.
Maybe there'd be some reason they would need to go further back in time, something obscured by the mist. I don't know.
now that i have finished the story, i think i will go and learn all the proper combat moves....all i really used most of the time was the hidden blade or the counter move with the sword. I just looked at youtube and there are some awesome combos that i wish i had used before
cant be bothered finding all the feathers
cant be bothered finding all the feathers
Duckroll: I think that souterhn Florence area gets unlocked with one of the retail-exclusive DLC...I think. When you buy the Florence map it shows the that part unfogged, too.
I think I have it on the default settings...eh. I had bitmapping on 1, I turned it off and the framerate looks the same so far.
The 360 version definitely as messed up gamma and crushed blacks all over the place.
kamorra said:
I think I have it on the default settings...eh. I had bitmapping on 1, I turned it off and the framerate looks the same so far.
[Nintex] said:
The 360 version definitely as messed up gamma and crushed blacks all over the place.
jett said:Duckroll: I think that souterhn Florence area gets unlocked with one of the retail-exclusive DLC...I think. When you buy the Florence map it shows the that part unfogged, too.
WTF! That's serious bullshit.
Also, I found that you can actually replay memories of the Assassin Tombs, which is pretty cool, just not the main story memories. So the functionality is still IN the game, they just removed it for story memories for whatever reason. Wtf. Ubisoft!!!!!
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
[Nintex] said:
Likewise, it only gets a little bit darker during the day to night transition but otherwise it's all crisp and clear (360 version here) for me.
:lol It shouldnt be a little bit darker day or night it should be much darker in night with the lighting affecking the area.
Thats prob I had with it. Night time PS3 its very balanced with the gamma setting, no crushed blacks and great dynamic lighitng but its dark as it should be. 360 its either crushed or you alter brightness to counter it then its just washed out at night.
Thats prob I had with it. Night time PS3 its very balanced with the gamma setting, no crushed blacks and great dynamic lighitng but its dark as it should be. 360 its either crushed or you alter brightness to counter it then its just washed out at night.
I'm personally hoping for the thing talked about during a Desmond segment.
With that ability, why couldn't Desmond simply hop around time? Visiting important events that his ancestors must have be involved in.
Every memory could offer a new skill as well as part of the plot-line. Maybe AC3 will the a P.o.E. hunting focused game. Need the memories to see where the ancestors hid the P.oE.s so they can nab them before Abstergo.
This solution makes it so that many times can be visited, and actually make the Desmond parts a little more interesting.
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However, this might make the game itself a bit huge... Two Blu-rays? (I have no idea about this stuff though.)
The visiting of the memories w/o an Animus. S16 couldn't control it, but why not Desmond?
With that ability, why couldn't Desmond simply hop around time? Visiting important events that his ancestors must have be involved in.
S16 and him are apparently related by blood, though I think it's rather distant after by the present. This could make it possible for Desmond to visit the very same ancestors 16 babbled about in the glyph puzzles.
Every memory could offer a new skill as well as part of the plot-line. Maybe AC3 will the a P.o.E. hunting focused game. Need the memories to see where the ancestors hid the P.oE.s so they can nab them before Abstergo.
This solution makes it so that many times can be visited, and actually make the Desmond parts a little more interesting.
Desmond going through a catacomb-like level to reach a P.o.E.
However, this might make the game itself a bit huge... Two Blu-rays? (I have no idea about this stuff though.)
The Bookerman
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How About these settings: China, Japan or World War ...1
World war 1 should be explored more I think.
World war 1 should be explored more I think.
It doesn'tjett said:Duckroll: I think that souterhn Florence area gets unlocked with one of the retail-exclusive DLC...I think. When you buy the Florence map it shows the that part unfogged, too.
The Retail DLCs all take place inside Buildings available in the existing areas. They just unlock a door that you enter.
Got this game yesterday by Amazon...alongside a GameFly notification that AC2 had shipped. Thought that I wouldn't mind the $15 difference, and popped it in my 360.
Damn, am I glad I decided to buy this. Absolutely phenomenal. It's an improvement over ACI in every degree with the exception of some fickle controls. Just got to the villa, and I'm loving the game. I realize that the game's practically GTA, but I'm enjoying this game a lot more than any GTA. Something about freerunning and sneaking up on targets is more exciting than driving around, guns blazing.
GotY for me so far.
Damn I'd love an Assassin's Creed in Chinese Antiquity.
Damn, am I glad I decided to buy this. Absolutely phenomenal. It's an improvement over ACI in every degree with the exception of some fickle controls. Just got to the villa, and I'm loving the game. I realize that the game's practically GTA, but I'm enjoying this game a lot more than any GTA. Something about freerunning and sneaking up on targets is more exciting than driving around, guns blazing.
GotY for me so far.
Not to mention the whole car thing. And not being able to traverse modern cities.Zzoram said:
Damn I'd love an Assassin's Creed in Chinese Antiquity.
duckroll said:
For the first thing, it's indeed bullshit. Nobody is having southern florence.
For the second, while I don't know if I can tell about the reasons specifically, choices are made when you devellop a game and it's all thought out. It's all for a reason, the feature obviously been cut but not hazardeously or in-between blonde jokes at some lunch time.
I also thing it's sad to not have the full replay feature but I know of some even more cool things that have been cut and that nobody of you know of. I hope you as well can enjoy the game for what it offers.
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Ranger X said:
Okay, that's good to know. I would feel very upset if it was some half-assed attempt to get me to buy the LE instead.
Well, I think it is very clear that people have enjoyed the game for what it offers, and enjoyed it A LOT. But I think it would be fair to fans of the game to also consider what we would like out of the game, especially for features which we understand have been cut for development reasons, but can possibly be patched in at a later time.
Ranger X said:
BTW Ranger X there's a bug in the PS3 version with the "action camera" option. I set it to to 4/4 afer playing for a while in my first game and it rarely showed up during counter kills. Started a new game with it already set at 4/4 and it happens constantly now, as it should.