JAY the BIRD
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Glad to see some others believe ACB is the best of the series. Such a phenomenal game with a surprising number of improvements for a short development time.
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Assassin's Creed III |OT| Easier to read than Ratonhnhaké:ton
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Revelations is a nice cap to the the Altair and Ezio stories. It also added some info about Desmond that I felt added to him as a chararacter. It's not a great story on its own but does a great job tying up the the Ezio saga, imo.
I'll accept that answer. Ezio is a totally generic, uninteresting video game character, but Altair (in AC1, not in ACR) was a character who had genuine motivation and depth. Unfortunately, they tried to retcon Altair in ACR to make him more like Ezio. Family drama. Revenge. Yadda. Yadda. But at least Yusuf, Suleiman, and Sofia were all very well written.
Pretty much. Story-wise, it's a nice coda to the series. Not much to sink your teeth into, but rewarding for those who had been following the series closely since AC1.
ACR has gotten an unfair bad rap. It's a "slight" game in comparison to the others, but it's also a much tighter and more finely crafted game (mechanically).
Incredible. The yin to my yang. My arch-nemesis of taste. Amazing to me that two people can play all five games and come to almost exactly the opposite conclusion on all five.Marleyman said:
Deadly Cyclone
Pride of Iowa State
My pre-order stuff said I'd get them at section 6. I'm past that now but have no idea where to find the weapon/outfit. As far as I can tell they aren't in the store. Where do you find your pre-order stuff?
All the weapons and outfits are found in the basement of the Homestead after you buy them. The weapon room is easy to miss as it's off to the side and behind the stairs.
pretty disappointing the Homestead building interior doesn't really look any better or improve as the game progresses.
Quick Mustard
Member
Couldnt find it in the patch notes so I dont expect it has, but does anyone know if the new patch will fix the convoy problem?
AHA-Lambda
Member
Quoted for next page, anyone?
valentine71
Banned
I was at sequence 7 and everything got deleted on my PS3 becoz of my stupidity. It felt like i was just starting the game at sequence 6. By the way how long is left? Was i halfway at the story? How long does it takes to complete the game?
SuperSonic1305
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I thought it was a little too convenient and ridiculous that (recruit spoiler)
Duncan is the kid from the opera house who saw Haytham kill his uncle. Then he just so happens to move to Boston and gets recruited by Conner. Ridiculous and unnecessary even by AC standards
Whoa, how did you find that out?
SJRB
Gold Member
Wh.. what?
SuperSonic1305
Member
Talk to him after he is recruited.
Thanksgiving week, wasn't it?
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Deleted member 80556
Unconfirmed Member
I actually liked this detail.
But the target shouldn't have been his uncle. Now that was pretty ridiculous.
Because, I mean, he would've been an assassin since before.
Because, I mean, he would've been an assassin since before.
SuperSonic1305
Member
Still can't believe what they did with the horse whistle. What were they thinking?
ShockingAlberto
Member
I think it's amusing that the Wii U version just has a horse symbol button on the touch screen.
Just shows that in the end there is no right or wrong answer; just enjoy what you enjoy.
I agree with you in a lot of things. This is sad.
Hit sequence 11. I can't believe this game got reviewed as well as it did.
The main story missions are generally poor and involve very little assassinating. Way too much eavesdropping and following people slowly.
The side content is largely hidden and out of the way, and provides no benefit to completing the main story missions. I tried to do some manufacturing and trading, but the UI was so painful that I could barely tell what I was doing. Also I haven't used money for the entire duration of the game. I think I bought one sword.
Why did they even put the boston & new york underground into the game? Did anyone find that useful?
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood was the real AC3. I don't even know what they are doing over there anymore
The main story missions are generally poor and involve very little assassinating. Way too much eavesdropping and following people slowly.
The side content is largely hidden and out of the way, and provides no benefit to completing the main story missions. I tried to do some manufacturing and trading, but the UI was so painful that I could barely tell what I was doing. Also I haven't used money for the entire duration of the game. I think I bought one sword.
Why did they even put the boston & new york underground into the game? Did anyone find that useful?
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood was the real AC3. I don't even know what they are doing over there anymore
How doesn't it? You have to explore as the game definitely doesn't hold your hand through stuff, which I like for a change.
jmro said:
The UI takes some getting used to but after some time I enjoyed it much more than previous titles. Also, you not spending money was your own fault.
jmro said:
Fast traveling was definitely useful.
They weren't thinking.
What is wrong with it?
endlessflood
Member
Can someone explain the various cannon rounds (for the Aquila) to me?
Normal cannon balls: the default, obviously.
Heat shot: supposedly better against big ships. Does this do extra damage compared to the normal cannon balls, or does it have some other effect (e.g. damage over time)?
Grape shot: supposedly better against smaller ships. I'm assuming the main benefit here is just that you don't need to be as accurate when shooting at the smaller ships, with a wider area of effect?
Chain shot: I know that this is to take down a ship's mast, but does that serve much of a purpose? I had one mission where I was forced to use it so that I could board another ship, but can you make a ship you're chasing be dead in the water using the chain shot on a normal mission?
Normal cannon balls: the default, obviously.
Heat shot: supposedly better against big ships. Does this do extra damage compared to the normal cannon balls, or does it have some other effect (e.g. damage over time)?
Grape shot: supposedly better against smaller ships. I'm assuming the main benefit here is just that you don't need to be as accurate when shooting at the smaller ships, with a wider area of effect?
Chain shot: I know that this is to take down a ship's mast, but does that serve much of a purpose? I had one mission where I was forced to use it so that I could board another ship, but can you make a ship you're chasing be dead in the water using the chain shot on a normal mission?
SuperSonic1305
Member
You have to equip the ability to call your horse as opposed to just pressing a button at anytime like past games.
Grover Cleveland
Member
ACB>AC2>>AC1>ACR
Haven't played AC3 yet.
Haven't played AC3 yet.
Chain Shot is great for immobilizing ships in order to finish the optional objectives in naval missions.
Yes, it was as fun if not better than AC2. They pushed the boundaries of believability with Da Vinci's toys, but overall, it's so much more enjoyable than ACIII. Can't believe people would pass it up and play ACR instead. The bomb making and guild defense made that game unplayable for me.
Two optional things made it unplayable? The fuck am I reading?
I still don't know how anyone could actively hate the bombs.
Optional? Well I guess... if you don't mind finding and tearing down wanted posters after every other property purchase and encounter.
And bomb making was a tedious affair. One thing ACIII did right was just giving you smoke bombs without having to make them from gathered ingredients. I suppose even the lack of needing a blade enhancement for grabbing high ledges in ACIII was also welcomed, now that I think about it.
If you have zero interest in that stuff it might not do much for you. Personally I found the Da Vinci stuff to be another lame add on and the story itself felt hilariously rushed for the last 20%, and Rome wasn't a very good area to traverse because I hate horses in AC.
It added a (great IMO) MP mode to the series, but beyond that it's my least favorite in the series.
I don't know about that. I pretty much had to actively try to get my dens taken over to get one of the guild challenges completed.
I guess if all you want is smoke bombs, ACIII might be better in that regard, even though you could refill your bomb collection just by opening up the radiant wheel in Rev. And the ledge thing.... wow. Instead of quickly jumping up a twenty story tower in a short period of time, it takes Connor like 5 minutes to climb three stories. So slow.
Different people, different tastes.
Ha ha, yeah, Connor's climbing is pretty slow (which is sadly faster than Aveline in Lib), but I can see how they wanted to make the higher ledges accessible from the get go as opposed to needing an attachment to get them.
I only played 8 hours or so into Rev, so maybe bomb fragments were not as much of a chore to get later on. But the notoriety going up every time you opened a shop (therefore putting your dens in danger of siege) really had me scratching my head.
I guess all in all, I understand how they wanted to make ACIII more streamlined, but for ever step forward, they took two steps back... the lack of weapon wheel being one of those missteps (that's one of the things of ACR I actually liked aside from the city of Constantinople and revisiting
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I only played 8 hours or so into Rev, so maybe bomb fragments were not as much of a chore to get later on. But the notoriety going up every time you opened a shop (therefore putting your dens in danger of siege) really had me scratching my head.
I guess all in all, I understand how they wanted to make ACIII more streamlined, but for ever step forward, they took two steps back... the lack of weapon wheel being one of those missteps (that's one of the things of ACR I actually liked aside from the city of Constantinople and revisiting
Masyaf
CorruptShadow
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AC2 > ACB > AC3 > ACR > AC1
My thoughts on the series. While ACB, was better with some gameplay improvements; I really liked the subject 16 stuff and that was pioneered in AC2 , so it gets the nod for originality.
My thoughts on the series. While ACB, was better with some gameplay improvements; I really liked the subject 16 stuff and that was pioneered in AC2 , so it gets the nod for originality.
Eh? There were no wanted posters in ACR. All you had to do was pay off heralds, and they were on pretty much every corner. And if that still wasn't enough, the game would automatically throw an official your way whenever your notoriety got past 50%. Honestly, I have no idea how badly people must have playing ACR if they ever had to do a den defense. I put in 35-40 hours of playtime and never had to do a single one (other than the tutorial). Hell, it wasn't ever even close.
Bombs were easy and fun in ACR. You got ingredients for pretty much everything you did (killing, Mediterranean missions, respawning treasure chests, etc, etc). I used bombs all the time, and I was never short of ingredients. They were an awesome part of the strategic approach to your kills and escapes. They really opened up the game a lot and made it a much more stealthy and strategic experience. Really, I think a lot of people just went into ACR "guns blazing." Which is the last thing you should do in a stealth game.
I think many people approach the AC games as straight-up action games rather than as strategic action-stealth games. Which is probably why some people prefer AC2 and AC3. Those two games are the most "action-y" of the bunch, and neither of them favors a patient, strategic approach. AC2 and AC3 are pretty much just linear action games in open-world environments. The other three are open-world stealth and exploration games that focus on patience and strategy.
I feel that AC2 and ACB are arguably switchable (I like acb more because the collection shit isn't as goddamn fucking tedious as in AC2) the fact almost everyone here rates ac1 at the bottom of the barrel (as it should be) and ac3 as better than acr doesn't instill me with much hope for any further AC games.
Don't believe "everyone." AC1 is still the best of the bunch, and I know I'm not the only one who thinks so.
If we were to do some metrics on this stuff, I'd wager that the most consistent data point is ACB being in the top two. Everything else is all over the place.