Assassin's Creed

How long is it?

12-ish hours. Mind you, it might as well only be one hour because all you do is constantly repeat the same three actions nine times.

I beat it over three days of pretty hardcore playing, with all the eagle points and side missions completed, getting about 860/1000G. Never going to bother with the flags.

I'd say it took me 15 or so hours.

Sweet. Providing my xbox doesn't die, I'll rent it next month. SHOULD BE A GOOD REPETITIVE TIME

Yeah, it's a pretty sweet rental.

I'm getting it free from work :D

I can see if being a lot longer than the 15 hours. The last time I played it I had fun just wandering around and killing guards for two hours.

[quote=Shade;785013]I can see if being a lot longer than the 15 hours. The last time I played it I had fun just wandering around and killing guards for two hours.

Yeah, speaking as someone who's beaten the game and just about everything on the side... You're not gonna get days of fun out of killing guards. Theres only so much bad AI you can laugh at.

Yeah, it's not a GTA or Crackdown where you can just come back to it and kill some dudes. That aspect is really only fun while you're actually playing the game, not so much after you beat it.

This is why the game sucks:

I haven't been this dissapointed since The Darkness. :(

Man, that game was disappointing. Good, but pretty ****ty.

If you have a fetish for shooting lights out, then you'll love The Darkness!

Splinter Cell taught me to never do that.

I didn't even realize you could shoot lights out until Double Agent. But I still use the little electrical distortion thing.

Yeah, there was no point to shooting out lights in either CT or DA. All it got you was an alert and smarter enemies.

I shot out the lights. I like a challenge. :cool:

I'm the main character in assassins creed

I'm the coat

I never finished a Splinter Cell game, so in the end it didn't matter.

I finished all but DA with 100% stealth rating. SO IT MATTERED

Does that mean you killed no one?

yeah. but the tanker mission in DA kept ****ing me up, so **** that game

Man, you could get away with a lot of bold stuff on many of the Chaos Theory/Double Agent missions. I played the warzone mission in DA like a tactical FPS.

That makes the games a lot less fun. My first run through was mostly just stealth killing dudes and the second was no alerts/no kills. So ****ing tense, so fun.

Gonna rent this tomorrow instead, cats. Probably Mass Effect, too although that'd take too long to finish and I'll just end up buying it eventually sooo what's pretty good and short-ish that I can finish in a week?

Made the right choices. ME is worthy of purchase.

15 hours? wow, that sucks. alright, guess I'll rent it.

It's meant to be played multiple times, but it's short. Thank ***. Last thing I want these days is a 40 hour game.

I want a 200 hour game.

Next Baldur's Gate.

Next Oblivion.

I couldn't see myself becoming involved with a 40+ hour game these days.

I can. I'd never play xbl again.

Oh man, I still have to get Oblivion. Maybe in March.

300 PLUS HOURS

I've only put about 70 hours into it.

I'll do it. CAN'T WAIT

actually, I probably won't rent any games for awhile. Gonna finish up a bunch that I have now. CoD4 veteran, SC: DA, FFXII...

The best part was when you blamed the failed terrorist attack on your gf. Turns out she makes it easier for you to escape in the last mission, though.

Yeah, if you didn't blame it on her it's just like FUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK though all the JBA **** was really annoying. Dragged the entire game down. The last mission partially made up for it, same with all the other real missions, but still. I hated going back there, even though it was relatively easy.

I just really, intensely hate timers in video games. I want nothing to ever be timed ever. Ever.

I hated how in certain sections, you could only walk. *******it

The timed runs in Mario Galaxy are easy as hell to complete, but the timers make it seem urgent. I ended up beating the Battlerock Speed Run with 4 minutes left.

No, I hate being rushed in video games. Timers are gay.

Now that I got my new tv though, maybe I'll get Assassin's. I'll do DA after.

no timers are always good

yeah, vamp you might want to explain yourself a little better. ant's got a really good point.

[quote=Vampiro V. Empire;802355]words about splinter cell
Yeah, the very first mission where you get 50 seconds to get out of there ****ed me off. I didn't even know where the ladder was, and there were still guards roaming around. ****

The only thing I liked about those missions is that you couldn't kill anyone, which is how I prefer to play my stealth games. Unlike the ****ing tanker mission. ***, that level ****ed me off. Didn't kill a single person or get a single alert and BAM I have to kill everyone. AR)REHFORPEVWHVOGUXncrognwtroctgreahwrwtu

Wow, can't believe how ****ing bad the controls in AC are. This game is kinda cool, but kinda sucks. Haven't decided which wins yet.

"sucks" wins

Yeah, this game is mega ****ing me off. But I still want to play it. wtf

now here's a guard who knows how to have a good time.

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I found the *** Creed controls to be pretty easy going. Just hold down R + A all the time, and you're golden. I was trying to play it like Prince of Persia for the first hour or so.

Nah, they're pretty bad.

I hate not being able to save when I want, or that there's no save points, or that the checkpoints mega suck. I like that when I block, I still get hit. Finding all of the flags isn't fun in the slightest.

I do like going around town and assassinating all the guards while nobody notices until I'm around the corner.

It saves every time you do something notable, so I don't really see a reason for saving any time. Only time it would be useful would be if you're trying to do an assassination without being detected. But **** that ****, the only reward you get in the whole game for being stealthy is 20G.

Yeah, not really worth it. Still, I like the option of saving whenever I feel like it, in any game.

Me too. People complain about that making games to easy... but it's not like they're forced to save every step of the way. Personally I like how the Orange Box and a couple other games do it. Checkpoints that make sense AND save anywhere.

Yeah, and like Baldur's Gate? You can save whenever you want, providing there aren't any enemies in the immediate area. Best system ever.

Best. Game. Ever.

But that's not whenever you want! Unlike System Shock 2 and Starcraft, of course.

Man, just goes to show you all the good games use the save anywhere function.

oh ***, you know that beeping sound warning you that guards are super ****ed and ready to **** you up if you look at them? Yeah, that sound won't get out of my head.

WHERE IS THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS?

*blends*

There's a murderer among us...

haha, wow. This game sounds really bad.

You guys are bashing this game WAY too much. I agree it gets boring after the second or third target but come on it's not nearly as bad as you make it out to be. I find no trouble with the controls, the animations are fluid, and the whole world is just gorgeous. It's just... not all that fun to play.

And oh yeah the AI sucks. But there's much worse out there.

Ok that doesn't make it unbearable and the worst game of the year.

It makes it a bad game, however. I mean, wow, it has great graphics and the controls are decent and the animations are really smooth, great. But oh wait, it's fundamentally broken and boring.

Yeah, all right.

We didn't say it was the worst game of the year. There's just parts of it that **** me off. And it's repetitive as hell.

Best part is you get stuck in walls pretty often. Love it.

Huh, I freerun everywhere and never got caught on anything.

But really I continue to play a lot of games that I find boring and tedious, so I don't view it as all that bad.

It's funny because I played the **** out of Tenchu Z and found Jade's Game way worse.

Oh man, shoulda rented that instead.

I've gotten caught in a wall three times now. I've been able to get out after a few minutes, though. It happens because I back myself in a corner when fighting a ton of guards and counter all of them.

When you counter guards, the remaining few tend to get sick/scared and run away. When I just mash on the attack button there's always one that'll run away. ugh

nevermind I got it.

got wut

Oh, the Eagle's Challenge achievement.

I just noticed there are 360 threads. wooooo

deleting any new threads on sight

Yeah, get Tenchu Z. You'll either find the charm in it or you'll really appreciate Assassin's Creed.

Is it more fluid than AC? I mean, what isn't amirite

Fun fact: Prototype will feature movement similar to Parkour. Creed tried to do something in the same vein, but....they didn't do it quite right.

So, if any future release game will be fluid, it'll be Prototype.

Alright, I'll try it out sometime. You should lend me your copy! because I don't want to pay $40+ and I doubt I'll be able to finish it in a week. I hate renting.

Yeah, not like I play it anymore. I got all 1000 points and then played it completely with a male character, so I exhausted all options. Though, I guarantee you won't like the game. As much as I like it, I can admit it's really bad.

I watched some trailers and...yeah. MAYBE I'LL LOVE IT. But running around as a ninja? I'll do it.

Uh, it's not Free Radical. They're doing something else. Radical Entertainment is making Prototype and so far their biggest titles include Scarface, a Simpsons game and Ultimate Destruction. Prototype looks badass, but their past titles don't speak to highly of their talents. Though Hulk was pretty good.

**** it, I knew it was Radical SOMETHING.

Yeah, I guess that'd be a disappointing revelation.

Uh...sure why not.

[quote=Angelwing;803676]Alright, I'll try it out sometime. You should lend me your copy! because I don't want to pay $40+ and I doubt I'll be able to finish it in a week. I hate renting.
Man, if only you were a Britfag. I can find it for

Someday.

winnipeg is so expensive ugh

I might buy it when I get paid at the end of the month. But... Burnout and DMC are out then. Plus, there's a bunch of films I want. :(

I'll try out Burnout, but I have the first two DMC and I haven't even played them yet. someday

I've still got to get Oblivion, Mass Effect, Gears and maaaaaybe Orange Box.

DMC2 is garbage. Worse than Assassin's Creed. YES, THAT BAD

Yeah, pretty much.

It's like Ninja Gaiden, but with more faggots and C-C-C-C-C-C-C-COMBOS!

Completely different if you ask me, but OK!

If there's, like, a 200G achievement for beating DMC4 on the hardest setting, I'm fuuuuucked.

Yeah, you suck at video games. Mister ugh i cant beat call of duty 4 its too hard

I DID BEAT IT! :(

Mile High also?

uhhhhh sure

... achievements make it so hard to lie.

Thought so! You would've posted about it if you did. Just because it truly is an achievement. But yeah, didn't beat **** then.

One day I'm going to sit down and make a serious try. Furthest I got ever was the part where the side of the plane rips off. But I had RED BLOOD VISION and had just been flashed, so no chance I was gonna make it.

Oh man, that's the furthest? Ouch. That's only the second room =/ Did you pick up the shotgun?

I cannot recall. There's only like four main rooms, anyway.

It's right at the beginning. On the left side. makes thing WAY easier. Assuming the gun is actually reloaded (often only has one bullet loaded into it)

oh man, after I beat R6V on realistic me and cats are doing CoD4 on veteran.

It's not that bad. Easier than CoD3, harder than CoD2 though. But CoD3 is only hard because the germans can shoot and walk through walls. However, Mile High makes it harder than either game.

I thought COD2 was harder on Vet than COD4. Though that's probably because I was used to dying in one hit by the time COD4 came out.

I really want to do realistic Vegas at some point. I tried hard GRAW last night, and it was essentially the same as normal GRAW. You die in a few shots on either difficulty, very few ways to make it more difficult.

Do it, dude. It's incredibly easy if you take your time and think things out. There's that one casino hotel part that can be a mega *****, though.

Fine. Once I beat Virtua Fighter quest, I'm gonna do it. Could take a while, though. ****

heeeccccckkkk naw. I'd say 2-3 days max.

Harder than CoD2? Oh ***. Whatever, I can do it. eventually. Easy so far!

Gonna have to restart I think because I missed intels and that destroy all tvs achievement.

CoD 4 of course.


I'm playing through Bioshock right now. Why did they make it so easy?

ITS ONE OF THOSE ****TY GAMES THAT ONLY CARES ABOUT **** LIKE 'STORY' AND 'ATMOSPHERE', DIDNT YOU KNOW?!

who needs that when you have guns?

speedfreak, faget

But really, don't you think dying in only a few hits and always being low on ammo and not being able to freely regenerate would only add to the atmosphere? Kinda like System Shock 2. What a disappointment.

Screw you guys with your Veteran and Realistic difficulties. I just finished Assassins Creed. Now that's an achievement.

It's funny because I was hoping the game was over after the final target on my list, then I go through all the usual bull****, find his location, but then LOL ITS A WOMAN TRY AGAIN. So you have to make a long boring trek to another city to find him, and you're forced to kill dozens of guards because they put up imaginary barriers. So I finally kill him. Ok game over? No... now you have to return to kill your master. More tedious traveling and combat. Finally it was over, and I was treated to a really lame ending to go with a crappy game experience altogether.

The part where you were forced to fight soldier after soldier was stupid as hell. Assassin's Creed? C'MON UBISOFT. Then convincing King Richard to give up on the Crusade? jeeeee ubisoft.

The rest of the game was alright, though.

Jesus Christ, I'm just about to finish the last assassination. Way to ruin it for me.

hahaha oh wow.

spoilers: your master is the bad guy

WHAT A TWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEST

Use eagle vision.

throwing knives are your friend

Wow, you two are faglets. banned!

I usually avoid spoiling games for anyone, but this story is so cliche and uninteresting I didn't think anyone would care.

But seriously my biggest gripe with AC is you can't skip any of the mumbo jumbo dialogue. There were times I'd literally change the channel and watch TV for 5 minutes.

That's because of the glitch. Pretty gay, considering I didn't even receive it.

If I'm going to play a game through to the end, regardless of if it blows or I suspect the ending, I still don't want it ruined. So don't be a dick in here because I usually read most of the **** posted.

king kong dies at the end

women are like tea leaves. you don't know their full strength until you spoil a ****ty game for them.

shadow the hedgehog is a robot!

You can use the shield in single player? Must be a story-mode only thing. Because I can't use it in realistic terrorist hunt on single player. And it's really hard.

While I'm here, I have a question for ya. In Bioshock, if I have a series of physical tonics (1, 2, and 3), do they stack if i use them all at the same time? Or should I just replace 1 with 2 or 2 with 3?

I THINK they do. Probably do.

Yeah, because I LOVE that fast-wrench-swinging tonic, or whatever it's called. Wanna swing it super fast and whatnot.

oh man, awesome. The wrench is insane.

Man, I wish they kept that Wrench King achievement instead of that one where you can't use vita-chambers... oh well.

Do Big Daddies take damage from the wrench?

Heck yeah. I used it once in the beginning.

Melted armour Big Daddies are terrifying.

takes sooooooo long to kill one with the wrench. Even with a ****load of wrench tonics. Electric buck and the machine gun have been working just fine!

I was skimming articles on Bioshock today and this guy was like, "Because in the end you get more for saving all the little sisters, you should do that when you play the game." and I was like NO YOU PLAY THROUGH ONCE AND HARVEST THEM ALL AND THEN PLAY AGAIN AND SAVE THEM ALL UGHHH DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT THE WORD ACHIEVEMENT MEANS?!?!


then I realized... I'm just an xbot without a cause

But you don't get an achievement for harvesting.

Should have. Discrimination against evil faggots.

Oh, my bad. I thought to get all the achievements you had to play it both ways. what as stupid game

Nah if you play your cards right you can get every single achievement in one game.

Yeah. Surprise surprise, you can actually [spoiler]kill Sander Cohen later in the game[/spoiler] by visiting his apartment.

Well, then. At least the point still stands that just reading an article got me all in a huffy over a game I've never even seen on a system I don't own.

I blame this blog.

No kidding. I got up to the second level on my second attempt and I was just like "... whatever, I'm bored."

It's not a game you can play again right away. You have to wait a few years.

few years? xbawks 720 will be out by then

BIOSHOCK 2: MOON CITY will be out by then.

Nah, just BioShock: THE PREQUEL. Moon City will be a good ten years down the road.

The prequel had better kick ***. Rookie Rapture detective investigating Fontaine? Yes plz.

It won't. It should be pretty good though. I just can't see it being kick *** without Levine or his team.

Nothing particularly wrong with their new systems. And like that'd stop them anyways.

Not that we know of, yet. And it should. They can't even ****ing fix live.

I haven't had any live problems in almost a week...

I haven't really (aside from lag, which is probably my ISP but they say otherwise), but tons of my friends are. Sucks to be them.

Still? I was getting huge problems right before and after christmas until about a week ago. Since then it's cooled down a bit and I haven't had any problems in more than a few days. I figured if it wasn't happening to me of all people it wasn't happening to anyone else.

Yeah, I still get a lot of major lag, pretty frequently. Pretty gay.

Doubt that's MS's fault. Unless you're talking about the dashboard.

The dashboard hasn't really frozen for awhile now. It pauses for a bit every once in awhile.

Yeah, when I finally get my ****ing phone, I'm calling shaw. hate them

lol trying to get a job with them

Doing what?

customer service. technical service, eventually. Maybe. Gonna try and get a job at the casino, though.

Work with Ant to create a casino heist. OCEAN'S TWO

Someone's gonna have to change their name to Ocean.

Nagel's 2

Has a nicer ring.

Nagel's 2 BOOBS

show us yer tits, love

or Nagel's 3 Booby

Nagel's Dark Boobies 3.7

Know what we didn't do? Play Double Agent.

Wanna play now?

Coulda played last night. But I ended up playing a marathon session of CoD4. Was gonna try and get Nagel in there but then we had too many people.

:(

I think I was playing with THE CLAN but I'd ditch them for you and Hardkill

Yeah, I was like "fuuuuuuuuck, she's probably playing with those SSF faggots anyways." Needless to say, Hardkill was disappointed. Even worse when we got this one guys son in instead and he started REALLY sucking it up. Lost a good ten game sin a row because of that kid.

I'll play next time. you guys will lose even worse

haha, SSF. Their private match rules are so awful.

haha team kill?

and ssf is awesome, you're just jealous.

Yes, I'm quite jealous.

I thought you loved hardcore!

Nope. It just annoys me now.

Just as I start to like it.

Really? Ugh. It's only fun if you got a good team who you can rely on. Unfortunately, all those I enjoy playing games with aren't all that great, so I find myself getting shot more than I should be. OH WELL

Yeah, idk I still find it fun even though I suck.

I do WAY better in Hardcore than in normal.

<3 Hardcore.

I just gotta play differently. And always have a G3 as a custom class. But I don't wanna do either.

G3's pretty good. I still use the M60 for most maps, though.

G3 is a one shot kill though, thus the best gun to use on Hardcore, but I don't wanna use it.

So I got Assassin's Creed.


PRETTY COOL HUH?

You have a fun time ahead of you!

Wait, did you finish Bioshock?

wait, you bought assassin's creed? hahaha, wow

wait, he BOUGHT it? oh my

haha NO. My dad bought it.

You're dad is dead to me.

You guys were so close...

he's still alive to me, but off my friends list

Wait. He was on your friends list? That's... creepy in a way. Like, you guys hanging out and talking with my dad? Ugh.

I'm totally adding him.

we need a game night with cat's dad. When is he available!?

He's online pretty often actually.

You can catch him on around 10PM-1AM weekdays, and pretty much any time on the weekends. And what game did you guys play, CJ?

Central?

Oh, no. PST. My time.

Too late. Shame. :(

Uno? I don't even know what to think now...

WERE THERE VIDYA CAMS???

nah. his dad isn't a huge talker to begin with. We talked about dan for a bit, what I did for a living and stuff in his life and that was pretty much it.

wow.


DETAILS.

Not much to say. Just how you know me and the basics of my life.

oh ****. you told him about VGC?

I'd never tell any parent about VGC. ever

[quote=Vampiro V. Empire;809679]what I did for a living
Only a parent would use employment as XBL small talk. fuuuuuuck

I started it though. Made fun of him for being, essentially, jobless. And he was like "OH YEAH, BUDDY, WELL WHAT DO YOU DO? BET IT SUCKS" and I'm like "well at least I have a job, pal."

hahaha... wow. Funny too, because you make more than he does, and you're 22.

I then threw all my frags at him and kept running him over with a banshee.

What a dick.

good times

we should play with your dad this weekend!

Cats' dad is is to me as ken is to cats.

He's a grudge-holder for sure, but like... only for a few months. And yeah, we can play tonight or tomorrow. Or on Sunday I guess.

Tonight

ALRIGHT MAN. ALRIGHT.


Gonna be SO COOL.

Oh jeez

I'll totally be there in a bit

My dad probably won't be on. And if he is, he'll be playing Assassin's Creed.

No he won't. You'll invite him to the game and he won't be able to resist. quality time with your son? heck yeah

...ugh.


I mean, yeah wooo.

Does everyone on VGC hate their pops? Another strange parallel.

I know I do.

So I'm the oddball to actually like my dad? k cool

My pops is number 1.

My dad used to love the vidya. But now he just writes everything off as 'too complex'. Even drivan that he used to love.

Not a fan of my dad. At all.

Nor am I.


Oh yeah, my dad's not that great either.

Don't like mine.

Love my mom, though!

Alright. So in order to be an Xbot, you must hate your father.

SURE, ME TOO I HATE MY DAD

RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAGE

Have to love mommy, though.

ehhh

What is it with ****ty fathers these days? Good lord.

he says from his little bubble of a community

My dad's okay at being a dad, but I can see how he could be much better. I think vamp's right, though. His dad definitely sucked, as in, he hated his kids. Then my dad was like "I'm gonna make sure my kids know I love them!" but he still has a lot of traits that I'm pretty sure he got from his pop.

That's like my uncle. Except he goes out of his way to be the furthest thing from my grandpa. He always says he has to think what his dad would do in any given situation and do the exact opposite.

Kinda glad I didn't live back then.

Yeah. Plus, no vidya or xbawks.

No wonder they turned out the way they did.

Getting out of work for 5 years to play real life shootan? Sounds like my kinda scene.

you woulda been one of the first waves of men to die.

Yeah, I'd probably have been part of the tiny British battalion that got ****ed in the *** by GERMANY'S WAR MACHINE in 39.

Plus I'd be waiting for my health to regen.

Yeah, which is when you woulda got ****ed by a german soldier rounding the corner. Regenerative health only goes so far apparently.

BREETESH DIE TROOPEN

GRANAD!!! SCHNELL SCHNELL