Assassin's Creed III

[stokeriño]

He was a bearded drunkard sea captain. Close enough for me.

[apsham]

Might try some multiplayer tonight.

[Crybaby Bunting]

What are the odds that this game will also feature a completely pointless ending that makes no sense, answers nothing about the story and adds more questions than ever before?

[stokeriño]

What are the odds that this game will also feature a completely pointless ending that makes no sense, answers nothing about the story and adds more questions than ever before?

Well in theory they're working to a hard "averting the apocalypse" deadline so...it would have to be quite an impressive effort to wriggle out of it.

[TKz]

Jesus fuck. I've been playing this for at least 4-5 hours now and the game still WILL NOT stop holding my hand. It's like the entire first half the game is a tutorial. I mean the story has been entertaining, but it's just been so boringly easy and without any freedom. I'm at the part where you're a teenager and you've just left the printing press in Boston.

[Benji]

Eurgh. I forgot how lame multi can be once abilities are introduced. Abilities are cheap tactics :@

[apsham]

I tried to play multiplayer last night but the servers just weren't having it.

[thatblindgeye]

So it was Assassin's Creed multiplayer?

I've been thinking about getting this on PC since I don't have an Xbox anymore. Has anyone bought it or any AC game on PC who thinks it was as good or better than the console, specifically multiplayer?

[stokeriño]

Yay, I'm a proper assassin running around Boston doing random shit at last (although at the moment it's collecting almanac pages for the most part...).

I get the sense that I'm never going to get fully immersed into this whole trade/craft/convoy/etc. ledger book thing though - much like I never got into the whole European assassin missions with the taking/defending cities in the previous game (beyond the basic "send recruits on pointless mission to level them up"). It just doesn't seem like a fun game mechanic worthy of the time and attention it demands you dedicate to it.

Watch me now run out of money almost immediately. ¬_¬

[The Quasi Juice]

Jesus fuck. I've been playing this for at least 4-5 hours now and the game still WILL NOT stop holding my hand. It's like the entire first half the game is a tutorial. I mean the story has been entertaining, but it's just been so boringly easy and without any freedom. I'm at the part where you're a teenager and you've just left the printing press in Boston.

I'm not even at that part yet and already kinda annoyed too. Game, I'm not a 12 year old kid, I want freedom dammit! How fuckin' easy is shooting people? You don't even have to aim! The only time I've died is when I jumped off a roof by accident 'cause I pressed the wrong button. I've had to "desynchronise" a bunch of times though, due to the game mechanics fucking up, or just not understanding them. You get Lee as a companion, and at one point you need to get into a barn where Silas is and Church but it's in a protected area so you need to be sneaky. I fucked up several times thinking Lee wouldn't be able to climb houses and do ninja shit like me, so we got caught.....nope, he can The fuck.

Edited November 2, 2012 by The Quasi Juice

[Benji]

Complete...

That was... different?

[thatshortguy]

Complete...

That was... different?

That ending is a prime example of why companies like Ubisoft just can't stop milking their cash cows, even if it means running a story into the ground. Congratulations, you've ultimately done no good whatsoever and are now in a worse place than you started. Now play another five-six games in the hopes the last one flopped so they will at least think about providing a proper conclusion.

[GoGo Yubari]

Currently in sequence 02. I can't believe how totally unintuitive and inconvenient the controls feel. I just beat Revelations yesterday and going from the controls of the Renaissance-period games to this is unbelievably jarring.

[TKz]

I should say for all my complaints, the story has been interesting so far and the naval battles are fun as hell. Possibly the most entertaining part of the game for me, genuinely captures the feel of being a badass pirate.

[Benji]

AC3 multi. 360. Tonight. 8PM GMT til late? I'll be on regardless.

[METALMAN]

The knowledge that I won't be spending the entire game playing as this posh Brit assassin makes me sad.

Totally agree. He's way better than that Connor idiot.

[King Ellis]

In case anyone in the UK is looking for a 360 copy cheapish and a semi-collectors one too: £31.29 at Argoose.

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/141986.htm?cmpid=COJUN&storeId=10151&_%24ja=tsid%3A11674|prd%3A1546795&referredURL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.argos.co.uk%2Fstatic%2FProduct%2FpartNumber%2F141986.htm&referrer=COJUN

[GoGo Yubari]

Okay, I will give the game this; there's been a lot of stuff about the game thusfar that I haven't liked, but...

The moment in Kenway's speech to Charles where I realized "oh fuck, they're Templars!" was a genuinely shocking, awesome moment.

[Clawson]

The assassination at the end of Sequence 7 is just so bad ass, it's unreal.

[GoGo Yubari]

Okay, I spent like $3500 on a sword, which means something in this game because money isn't as easy to acquire, and now it's fucking vanished from my inventory. What the fuck, Assassin's Creed 3?