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Assassin's Creed III |OT| Easier to read than Ratonhnhaké:ton
- Thread starter Blue Ninja
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Supposedly $47.99 at TRU on Nov 2nd/3rd.
lol me 2. Fuck you real life!
Edit: or i'll wait for the PC version, not sure yet will wait for reviews.
SJRB
Gold Member
I'm getting pretty psyched for this, to my own surprise. I wasn't feeling the setting at all, but somehow the thought of a new, fresh AC makes me giddy.
Ironically most of that is caused by that weird Desmond screenshot from a couple of days ago.
I'm going to miss Jesper Kyd though..
Ironically most of that is caused by that weird Desmond screenshot from a couple of days ago.
I'm going to miss Jesper Kyd though..
harriet the spy
Member
I can't decide between the regular edition + steel cover at amazon, the encyclopedia edition (which I could order separately), and the gold+liberation on psn.
I kinda want the special edition for the figurine, but fuck it's pricy.
I kinda want the special edition for the figurine, but fuck it's pricy.
LightofRohan
Member
Can't believe it is out in one week! Gahhh!
I've been waiting for this for so long. Getting the master edition!
I've been waiting for this for so long. Getting the master edition!
Pre-ordered at Play-Asia for full price, along with Liberation. One hundred and four dollars, and no DLC.
But I get them on Day One, with the possibility of being the first person to solve some dastardly puzzle or discover some obscure easter egg. Can not wait.
(Now why are they using O's and not U's in "Ratohnhaké:ton" if that's how it's pronounced?)
But I get them on Day One, with the possibility of being the first person to solve some dastardly puzzle or discover some obscure easter egg. Can not wait.
(Now why are they using O's and not U's in "Ratohnhaké:ton" if that's how it's pronounced?)
Revolutionary
Member
I want to pick this up but I never finished Revelations. I just booted it up an hour ago to try and continue but I felt so lost. Argh. Gonna have to restart, and I don't think I'll be done by next Tuesday.
Guess I'll be skipping until I'm ready to play it. I plan on picking up Liberation day 1 though, since I don't believe it has anything to do with Desmond.
Guess I'll be skipping until I'm ready to play it. I plan on picking up Liberation day 1 though, since I don't believe it has anything to do with Desmond.
BigWeather
Member
Did any of the prior games' pre-order DLC eventually become available for purchase? I'd really, really like those Mayan ruins but already ordered from Amazon. Ugh.
Vinterbird
Member
I was given a choice between 360 and PS3, so they aren't hiding one of the versions away.
3. Liberation takes place later in the timeline from what I've understood.
But I must say, I'm surprised at how well Ubisoft have kept certain aspects of the game secret, really well controlled and calculated PR effort.
October 30th 6 PM Paris time.
Watch the last hour on Youtube, that's basically all you'll need.
Spazznid
Member
Heroes Wanted
Just watched this and wasn't sure if it'd been posted.
Shows some levels and scenes not shown in other vids.
Also, there's PLENTY of time to beat Revelations before the 10th.
These games are only about 7-9 hours if you don't do much side-questing. You won't miss out on much of the story at all by skipping side-quests, either.
I plan on waiting for the PC version of III, so Liberation better be good enough to hold me back.
Then again, there's Halo and the WiiU... I'll be okay... (O)_(O)
Just watched this and wasn't sure if it'd been posted.
Shows some levels and scenes not shown in other vids.
Also, there's PLENTY of time to beat Revelations before the 10th.
These games are only about 7-9 hours if you don't do much side-questing. You won't miss out on much of the story at all by skipping side-quests, either.
I plan on waiting for the PC version of III, so Liberation better be good enough to hold me back.
Then again, there's Halo and the WiiU... I'll be okay... (O)_(O)
Vinterbird
Member
My guess that everything we've seen from commercials and trailers would be from the PC version, since it without doubt will be the best looking one.
LiquidSolid
Member
Pretty sure they've said that they don't really overlap, so you can start with whichever one you want. Personally, I'm starting with Liberation for the following reason I gave in the Liberation thread:
I'll probably jump into some AC3 multi as I'm playing through Liberation though.
timetokill
Banned
This would probably be the first AC I ever bought...
But my wife is a huge fan and is eagerly anticipating this one. So she'll pick it up, now I don't have to
But my wife is a huge fan and is eagerly anticipating this one. So she'll pick it up, now I don't have to
Is Ass Rev in any way of interest? I didn't love Ass Bro but I really like getting into the story stuff, dumb as it is.
I'll probably see if I can get ACIII for a reasonable price, and if not, I'll just go for Ass Rev for now.
I'm not really hype about the ACIII. Yet.
ashbash159
Member
I feel like if they didn't release Revelations, than more people would be excited for this game. Whenever a franchise becomes annual, people immediately get a little more put off by the games for some reason. Plus reviewers were a little more unfavourable towards ACR for some reason. I wasn't that much worse than AC2 and ACB according to everyone in this thread who's played it (I haven't, because of the reviews).
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Is the AC3 team a different team who has been working on this game for three years?
I'm not sure what the differences are between the teams who made AC2, ACB, ACR, and AC3.
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I can't imagine they leave this location after AC3, the amount of work they put into each town and environment in these games is crazy, it would seem mad if they were to ditch it after just one game. I wonder how many years it'll be until we get another new time period/location.
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Is the AC3 team a different team who has been working on this game for three years?
I'm not sure what the differences are between the teams who made AC2, ACB, ACR, and AC3.
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I can't imagine they leave this location after AC3, the amount of work they put into each town and environment in these games is crazy, it would seem mad if they were to ditch it after just one game. I wonder how many years it'll be until we get another new time period/location.
MrCookiepants
Member
Holy shit, this comes out in a week.
Holy shit, Halo 4 comes out in 2 weeks.
Holy shit, Halo 4 comes out in 2 weeks.
Vinterbird
Member
AC3 is made by the AC2 team, Brotherhood and Revelations was made by splinter groups, at least thats how it's been reported. It's been in production for about three years.
Revelations sets up the beginning of 3, but you can just YouTube it. 3 opens with a running start, so knowing what the hell is going is going to benefit you.
I enjoyed ACR a lot. People like to nag about its
overall irrelevance in the Desmond story
Can't wait for this game. Assassins Creed is one of my favorite franchises this gen. I love all the games except Revelations.
But theres a chance for this game to get bombed as Patrice Desilets din't work on it. and I strongly believe Revelations got bombed just becoz of this.
But, ACIII free running looks better than ever.
But theres a chance for this game to get bombed as Patrice Desilets din't work on it. and I strongly believe Revelations got bombed just becoz of this.
But, ACIII free running looks better than ever.
New stuff: Hunting, forest-exploration (Which seems to be drastically different from normal city type gameplay of the previous games.), sea-faring combat and exploration (On your own boat.), inviting NPC's to live at your homestead, climbing trees and mountains (They mentioned that the "grab points" on these elements is different, more natural, than the ones on buildings I think.)
The part I'm most excited about is the forest-exploration -- it looks really, really fun. But someone mentioned that hunting is a string of QTE's -- is this true? The sea-faring gameplay also looks like A LOT of fun.
I just hope that the new aspects of gameplay don't feel like standard Assassins Creed gameplay but glued and taped onto new assets/scenarios -- ie, feels and plays like standard city-play, except you're on the ocean, or in the forest, which is what tends to happen to games with many uniquely different gameplay elements.
Obviously, it won't feel like a totally different game unless they built a new engine.
The part I'm most excited about is the forest-exploration -- it looks really, really fun. But someone mentioned that hunting is a string of QTE's -- is this true? The sea-faring gameplay also looks like A LOT of fun.
I just hope that the new aspects of gameplay don't feel like standard Assassins Creed gameplay but glued and taped onto new assets/scenarios -- ie, feels and plays like standard city-play, except you're on the ocean, or in the forest, which is what tends to happen to games with many uniquely different gameplay elements.
Obviously, it won't feel like a totally different game unless they built a new engine.
It looks like that in the gameplay videos show. But only when you get personal with the animal.
Canis lupus
Member
Why from P-A if I may ask?
SJRB
Gold Member
If some of you are running out of time, Revelations is all but a must-play. Reading the wiki is more than enough, since the game adds nothing substantial to the overall plot other than closure for certain characters.
Ironically enough the game doesn't feature any 'revelations' at all, and even though the city looks great the core game adds nothing to the overall experience - bombs are trivial, Den Defence is poorly thought-out, the hookblade is a gimmick and the notoriety system is created by someone who hates videogames. Not to mention the story makes Ezio look like a sociopath and the Assassins like a bunch of raggedy terrorists. It's a filler to keep the franchise warm and fill the gap between Brotherhood and ACIII and that's noticable.
But I guess the game is worth playing for the bard mission alone.
Ironically enough the game doesn't feature any 'revelations' at all, and even though the city looks great the core game adds nothing to the overall experience - bombs are trivial, Den Defence is poorly thought-out, the hookblade is a gimmick and the notoriety system is created by someone who hates videogames. Not to mention the story makes Ezio look like a sociopath and the Assassins like a bunch of raggedy terrorists. It's a filler to keep the franchise warm and fill the gap between Brotherhood and ACIII and that's noticable.
But I guess the game is worth playing for the bard mission alone.
What a lot of people don't seem to realize when they say this is that AC1 was more along Patrice's vision than ACII was. Most people don't like AC1, but I did, so I'm never really sure why people call for him all the time. AC:R would match his line of thinking moreso as well.
Blue Ninja
Member
Sales-wise, there's no way in hell this thing is going to bomb. It might not score as rave reviews as ACII or Brohood, but the average consumer doesn't care about that.
Brotherhood was a lot worse than ACR in that regard, imo. Brotherhood is the pure definition of filler: they could've condensed it all into one memory block and nobody would've noticed. Revelations' story, at leas the Ezio side of it, was actually decent.
indigo-cyclops
Member
I usually go ahead and buy on PS3 and never finish, but this time I've learned my lesson. I'm waiting for the PC version as that is where I usually end up finishing the games.
The notoriety system debuted with AC2. The only notable changes to it in Revelations come in the form of building up an area increasing notoriety (which is fair) and wanted posters being removed as an option to reduce notoriety (which was a stupid decision and one I'm glad Ubi didn't repeat with AC3).
Fantastic.
rockman zx
Member
Whatever it means...........
IceDoesntHelp
Banned
If only the Wii U was out sooner ):
i don't know if this one was already posted:
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/23/assassins-creed-3-dlc-is-non-canon-to-avoid-fracturing-fan-base/
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/23/assassins-creed-3-dlc-is-non-canon-to-avoid-fracturing-fan-base/
first 10 minutes of the game, video does not belong to me, i have not watch the video, watch at you own risk, i saw this at N4G and figured some people here don't mind getting the game spoiled for themselves
AGAIN:
WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WALK AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OKAY, WHATEVER
AGAIN:
WATCH AT YOUR OWN RISK
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WALK AWAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OKAY, WHATEVER