Assassin's Creed

[Turd Ferguson]

I really enjoyed this game, but wasn't ever able to beat the mission where you have to get across the docks by jumping on those poles. I'd fall in the water every single time. I finally put it down out of frustration, so never finished.

Thinking about it, though, maybe it's time to give it another try ... other than that, it's a nice piece of work.

God, that mission pissed me off. Not only are you having to evade a bunch of douchebags chasing you, but you've got a dude with arrows taking potshots at you and one miscalculated jump, and you've got to redo the entire damn mission. It took me at least ten times.

All I've got to say is, if the PS3 Sixaxis controllers weren't so expensive, one would've been chucked at the TV for sure.

 

[Mr Light]

So... does collecting the flags actually do anything? It doesn't work towards my "do 15 things get a life bar" and there's 100 of several different kinds of flags...

 

[MyCylon]

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I think it does nothing, actually. I remember reading a review somewhere about that. As a consequence, I didn't go after the other flags.

 

[Arrqh]

Got the pc version the other week

Enjoying the menu system?

 

[John Clark]

Enjoying the menu system?

Either I haven't got far enough in to quite trigger all that bs - or I've successfully wiped it from my memory

 

[PKerr]

I really enjoyed this game, but wasn't ever able to beat the mission where you have to get across the docks by jumping on those poles. I'd fall in the water every single time. I finally put it down out of frustration, so never finished.

Thinking about it, though, maybe it's time to give it another try ... other than that, it's a nice piece of work.

God, that mission pissed me off. Not only are you having to evade a bunch of douchebags chasing you, but you've got a dude with arrows taking potshots at you and one miscalculated jump, and you've got to redo the entire damn mission. It took me at least ten times.

All I've got to say is, if the PS3 Sixaxis controllers weren't so expensive, one would've been chucked at the TV for sure.

Add me to that club.
You can do all these amazing things but you can't swim? Hmmm...

 

[MyCylon]

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That was really irksome, somehow, that the guy couldn't swim. I wonder if it was fitting for the time, though. And normally an assassin probably wouldn't need that ability, would he?

 

[unimatrix7]

It's difficult to believe that a man with that kind of strength, agility, and stamina would not be able to swim. At the very least, he wouldn't just drown as soon as he entered the water.

 

[MyCylon]

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That's certainly true. You'd think he'd at least be able to grab hold of something and pull himself up.

Still, I do wonder how common place being able to swim was back then.

 

[Mr Light]

Well he lives in a desert, and he's wearing heavy robes and lots of heavy metal weapons...

 

[MyCylon]

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Pretty good points there.

It's just that I'm always surprised even today by how many people actually can't swim - even people living on the coast. So I'm just guessing it might not have been much better back then (even if this guy wasn't living in the desert ).

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I dunno, if he's a professional assassin, I would think swimming would be considered an important skill. You never know when you're going to need to sneak onto a ship and leaping into a lake can be helpful to avoid detection.

 

[Mr Light]

OK, I finished the game! WTF was up with that ending. That's the worst game-ending cliffhanger I've ever seen. First of all, the entire game is completely realistic and grounded, then in the end you fight the ghosts of all the previous bosses, the final boss can clone himself into nine copies and then teleport around? LOL. That was weird. But it's the ending to the future story that really pissed me off. Well Desmond we're off to look for some stuff... we'll be back! THE END! Wow. Reading on wiki I know see that all those illegible scribblings were references to the end of the world in Dec 2012 so that's interesting. On the whole I thought it was a fun game though the controls were a little clumsy. Would have been nice if the parkour stuff happened faster.

 

[MyCylon]

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The ending really bugged me. I don't mind cliffhangers. But I feel you do have to provide some degree of closure to the story you're telling.

Personally, I was expecting something like being able to use all the powers and the knowledge acquired through the Animus to fight your way out of the 'real' world or something along those lines.

I think that would have been pretty cool. And you could have ended with the main character on the run.

 

[Jim Steele]

So far I've done the first assassination only.

It's about to get very f'ing repetitive, I can assure you.

Edit: Oh you finished it... curse my thread reading reluctance.

I really liked the first couple of hours of this game, and dug the ending (ciphers written in blood - who doesn't love that shit?). But the ten or so hours in the middle? Jeez, that was a chore and a half.

 

[Mr Light]

I was expecting the ending would be Kristin Bell would help Des break out of the lab and they would go on the run. But I guess they're saving that for the sequel I agree the game is very repetitive, by the second half of the game I stopped saving any citizens, I just did the viewpoints and the easiest investigations (eavesdropping & pickpocketing). The assassinations themselves were pretty different each time, though. The last two regular ones I had to do three times before winning and each time I was down to a single life bar when I won! Yikes! Oh and I didn't have any trouble at all with the one at the docks, I never fell in the water once, but a couple times a soldier grabbed me and tossed me in the water, but then I figured out to approach along the pier to the south, which is where the target runs down anyway.

 

[OdoWanKenobi]

I wanted to stop saving the citizens, but I'm an achievement whore. I saved them all. I refuse to go hunting for all of those flags, though.