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[plc268]

So... I'm playing through Far Cry 2, and I finally understand all the criticisms of it. Holy shit, what a bad game. Every mission basically the same damn thing, just on a different side of the map. Guard checkpoints are tedious and annoying, and it's damn difficult to figure out where you're being shot from at times.

That said, it was still worth the $5. It's a beautiful looking game, but not very fun. I've wasted more money on game rentals, so it's not too bad.

Only thing is that I don't wanna miss the story because it continues from game to game and sounds cool I hope you can like speed run through the first game. I'm also worried about the first one's repetitiveness and boredom giving such a bad taste in my mouth that I'm too turned off to play the sequel.

Yea, I have no desire to play Ass2. I know people say it's much improved over the first one, but honestly it wasn't the repetitiveness that killed Ass1 for me, it was the sleep-inducing story and mechanics that did it for me.

 

[scorpscarx]

Yea, I have no desire to play Ass2. I know people say it's much improved over the first one, but honestly it wasn't the repetitiveness that killed Ass1 for me, it was the sleep-inducing story and mechanics that did it for me.

Ac1 and 2 are like day and night, those two things you described are two of the main things they completely fixed. Just saying.

 

[plc268]

Ac1 and 2 are like day and night, those two things you described are two of the main things they completely fixed. Just saying.

Yea, I've heard all that before... and I'll probably eventually get to it, it's just not a priority.

Perhaps once it hits $5.
I already have a hell of a backlog anyway.

 

[Davidion]

Anyone buying Frozen Synapse? Interested in splitting.

 

[nyong]

Good lord the AC2 DRM is annoying. I don't care about your stupid "U" points, Ubisoft. You're not fooling anyone with that half-baked faux social-gaming login.

 

[Snuggles]

Good lord the AC2 DRM is annoying. I don't care about your stupid "U" points, Ubisoft. You're not fooling anyone with that half-baked faux social-gaming login.

No kidding. They're on the same shit list as EA for making me sign into a useless account to play a game I own. I don't care about Uplay or my Bioware account, just stay out of my damn way.

 

[nyong]

No kidding. They're on the same shit list as EA for making me sign into a useless account to play a game I own. I don't care about Uplay or my Bioware account, just stay out of my damn way.

What pisses me off most is that they're insulting my intelligence. It's like shoving a candle in a turd and trying to pass it off as a birthday cake. Anyone with half a brain isn't going to be fooled. I'd have more respect for them if they cut the BS and just made me log-in.

 

[leng jai]

Is the PC port of ACII actually any good? I have my doubts.

 

[Buttonbasher]

Is the PC port of ACII actually any good? I have my doubts.

Yes.

 

[Zimbardo]

would like to buy Ass Creed 2, but i'm trying to save up a nice chunk of change for the Steam summer sale ...and i already own Ass Creed 2 on xbox. (would much rather it on PC tho).

anyway, unless there's something GodLike on sale tomorrow, i'm probably done for now.

bought Farcry and BIA Hell's Highway.

nice UBIsoft week sale tho. good stuff.

 

[Phife Dawg]

Is the PC port of ACII actually any good? I have my doubts.

It is. Runs and looks good.

 

[CarbonatedFalcon]

Hmmm. I only played through about a third of AC2 on Xbox (rental) and I'm somewhat tempted to get it on Steam, but I'm put off by the fact that I'm sort of borderline capable of being able to run it. That and DRM.

I think I'll pass for now. $10 is still a little high for something I may not be able to run.

 

[MaritalWheat]

It is. Runs and looks good.

How does it play with keyboard + mouse?

 

[TheExodu5]

Is the PC port of ACII actually any good? I have my doubts.

It's good, except for a few points:

1) Requires a Ubisoft login to play
2) Shadows look quite bad when they're further than 5 feet away from you (much like STALKER)
3) Wireless 360 controller is not supported. No native 360 controller support, though the wired 360 controller works fine out of the box, minus the 360 button prompts.

 

[Avyrocky]

Ass Creed 2 does it need to be online constantly to play the single player?

 

[BattleMonkey]

Only thing is that I don't wanna miss the story because it continues from game to game and sounds cool I hope you can like speed run through the first game. I'm also worried about the first one's repetitiveness and boredom giving such a bad taste in my mouth that I'm too turned off to play the sequel.

Just youtube the cutscenes from AC1. The game is incredibly dull and you only need to watch the cutscenes and such to understand the basic background going into 2.

 

[TheExodu5]

Ass Creed 2 does it need to be online constantly to play the single player?

Needs to be online to launch, IIRC.

 

[leng jai]

It's good, except for a few points:

1) Requires a Ubisoft login to play
2) Shadows look quite bad when they're further than 5 feet away from you (much like STALKER)
3) Wireless 360 controller is not supported. No native 360 controller support, though the wired 360 controller works fine out of the box, minus the 360 button prompts.

What the fuck?

 

[TheExodu5]

I can't launch Brotherhood.

Unable to find the Ubisoft Game Launcher, please re-install Assassin's Creed Brotherhood.

Ubisoft Game Launcher:
Error code 1.

I've deleted all of the executables and .dlls and had them redownloaded. No luck.

Fucking Ubisoft.

 

[Dr.Acula]

So which game is better, ACII or Brotherhood? Time is more of a factor than cost to me, so I'm only ever going to play one of these games.

 

[Chris R]

Having just finished both I enjoyed ACII more. Bros is easier and more combat focused, things I didn't want from an AC game.

 

[gdt]

So which game is better, ACII or Brotherhood? Time is more of a factor than cost to me, so I'm only ever going to play one of these games.

Bro is better...but it just builds on everything from ACII. Really, play them both! Can't play videogames when you die.

 

[plc268]

What the fuck?

If AC2 is anything like AC1, then you can add in 360 wireless support using the 360 controller emulator.

Look here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1183634

Pretty huge and unacceptable oversight, if you ask me.

 

[scorpscarx]

So which game is better, ACII or Brotherhood? Time is more of a factor than cost to me, so I'm only ever going to play one of these games.

Yeah AC2 is more interesting story wise but Bro further improves upon the combat, and has the Colosseum, which is a neat set piece. Honestly though if your just jumping in I would go with Bro as it has the farthest advancements to the entire formula as a whole.

 

[TheExodu5]

AC2 was pretty terrible in terms of story. I wouldn't play these games for the story.

 

[EphemeralDream]

Hmm, just remembered one thing I was a little worried about with AC2 was how well it would run on my PC. ( Core i3 540 @3.07Ghz, 6GB Ram, HD 4670 1GB ) I won't be playing at any really high res since I'm currently using an old crt monitor. Max would be 720p if I play on my hdtv.

I can't remember exactly what my settings were but I played AC2 on a 4670 512 RAM with a Phenom X2 3.1 ghz.

Pretty sure I was getting a stable 30ish at medium settings and at 1680x1050 resolution. Hope that helps.

 

[drizzle]

3) Wireless 360 controller is not supported. No native 360 controller support, though the wired 360 controller works fine out of the box, minus the 360 button prompts.

What the fuck?

IT's like that in both Assassin's Creed 1 and 2. Ubisoft messed up and forgot to add the proper Wireless 360 controller API calls. They even said so on the Ubisoft forums. They also said they will never fix it (and they could have easily patched the fix in).

The wireless 360 controller is detected as a regular controller, so all the buttons are mapped incorrectly. That wouldn't be an issue, but every analog input on the controller (both triggers and bot analog sticks) don't work.

Wired 360 controllers work without a single hitch and, funny enough, if you plug a wired controller, the wireless one works properly.

 

[scorpscarx]

AC2 was pretty terrible in terms of story. I wouldn't play these games for the story.

Spoiler

I enjoyed the death of his family and adoption and then building onto his villa storyline.

Pretty much everything that isn't the modern day over-arching bullshit is great.

 

[leng jai]

IT's like that in both Assassin's Creed 1 and 2. Ubisoft messed up and forgot to add the proper Wireless 360 controller API calls. They even said so on the Ubisoft forums. They also said they will never fix it (and they could have easily patched the fix in).

The wireless 360 controller is detected as a regular controller, so all the buttons are mapped incorrectly. That wouldn't be an issue, but every analog input on the controller (both triggers and bot analog sticks) don't work.

Wired 360 controllers work without a single hitch and, funny enough, if you plug a wired controller, the wireless one works properly.

Well I'm not buying the game if they can't be fucked fixing it.

 

[John]

AC2 was pretty terrible in terms of story. I wouldn't play these games for the story.

i found the first game's story really engrossing actually. not because of 'the twist' or anything like that, but the parallels between the two settings, and the social and political musings between dr. evilpants and mr. imabartender were fun to listen to.

 

[apana]

Well I played Ass Creed 2 for five minutes and the story is certainly not what I was expecting, lol.

 

[goldsoundz]

Anyone with a quad core processor (i5 2500k) getting game crashes anytime you press ESC in AC2? Game is absolutely fucked.

 

[Blizzard]

Anyone with a quad core processor (i5 2500k) getting game crashes anytime you press ESC in AC2? Game is absolutely fucked.

I can't launch Brotherhood.

I've deleted all of the executables and .dlls and had them redownloaded. No luck.

Fucking Ubisoft.

Those games were pretty high profile I thought. It's kind of weird to see these issues come up. If either of you figure anything out let us know, I'm interested if there are workarounds.

 

[TheExodu5]

Those games were pretty high profile I thought. It's kind of weird to see these issues come up. If either of you figure anything out let us know, I'm interested if there are workarounds.

Had to delete the Program Files/Ubisoft/Ubisoft Game Launcher folder, find the GameLauncherInstaller online, and then it worked. :|

 

[apana]

Strange, game seems to running incredibly smoothly for me. Hope I don't have to deal with any of this in the future. The one thing I'm concerned about is game saves, I think they are tied to your ubisoft account.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

I'm so tempted to buy AssBro, what reason do I have not to?!

 

[hamchan]

So which game is better, ACII or Brotherhood? Time is more of a factor than cost to me, so I'm only ever going to play one of these games.

Play AC2 first, even though Brotherhood has better gameplay.

 

[FloppyDelux]

bought Samorost 2.

 

[Quake1028]

Glad I held off earlier on buying ACII, all of these problems people are having + huge backlog = I can wait for $5.

 

[Dog Problems]

Picked up Brotherhood and Samorost2. Really hoping for a Tom Clancy day tomorrow.

 

[Fredescu]

If AC2 is anything like AC1, then you can add in 360 wireless support using the 360 controller emulator.

Look here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1183634

Pretty huge and unacceptable oversight, if you ask me.

The link is broken at the moment, but I'm pretty sure this is it: http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/

Works for AC2, Dead Rising 2, and every game I've come across. No need to put up with silly wires.

 

[iNvid02]

download this and wireless 360 pad works fine on both 1 and 2
http://www.fileplanet.com/212510/210000/fileinfo/Wireless-Xbox360-fix-for-Assassin's-Creed-I-and-II

 

[mattiewheels]

AC2 for $10!

I'd get it in a heartbeat, but I'm being reminded about that stupid internet DRM. Did they tone it down to just a connection when starting the game?

 

[Davidion]

AC2 for $10!

I'd get it in a heartbeat, but I'm being reminded about that stupid internet DRM. Did they tone it down to just a connection when starting the game?

Yes

 

[MightyKAC]

Anyone know how well the Brotherhood Multiplayer community is? That's about the only thing that's keeping me grabbing it.

Edit: nvm I saw this was already answered and will prolly end up buying the game

 

[plc268]

The link is broken at the moment, but I'm pretty sure this is it: http://code.google.com/p/x360ce/

Works for AC2, Dead Rising 2, and every game I've come across. No need to put up with silly wires.

Oops, sorry. Forgot to check the link, but yea that's it.

 

[gdt]

How does a DS3/motionjoy work on ACII?

 

[goldsoundz]

Those games were pretty high profile I thought. It's kind of weird to see these issues come up. If either of you figure anything out let us know, I'm interested if there are workarounds.

I've tried everything I can think of: running my quad core on just two or one core, running one 560 Ti (I have them in SLI), trying various in-game graphics settings, shutting off background processes and Steam in-game community overlay, and more. I give up. About to write up a support ticket to Steam requesting a refund.

And for those of you with wireless 360 controllers, the hotfixes posted on this page both work without a hitch. I really was looking forward to playing AC2 as I loved AC Brotherhood and wanted to spend more time with the gameplay systems, setting, characters, music... you name it. I can't find any reports through Google that describe the problem I'm having. I've done all I can, or at least all I want to.

 

[Kuran]

Am I crazy for not going for the AC2 deal? The character design, presentation and voice acting just doesn't appeal to me at all. Haven't played any AC before due to there not being a demo.

 

[gdt]

Fuck it, bought ACII.

I fear I'm quickly becoming a Steam addict...