Ass-assins Creed

agent 47

Dear everyone. Earlier last year my friends and I were all set for the mometus occasion of Assassins Creed's release. The altar was built, and the virgins primed (us). In a moment of jest, i swore that if Assassins Creed wasn't the greatest gaming experience of all time, i would gladly hurl my cherished Computer into the red hot heat of the sun. Then, the great day arrived, and i had my first taste of the game on my friends Xbox. Later that day my brother talked me down from the roof. Since then i have shaved my head, grown a beard, and gone to live with the Tibetan Monks of Ji'bek, in a simpler, easier existance. This game is bad. Even by bad standerds. The graphics were good, but this only meant that i could see him frolic around like a pilluk in high definition gayness. Further more, i think they could only afford one voice actor, as no matter what i did, i was greated with the following: "Oh thank you, you're great, im not.", over and over and over and over. So let me emphasize my distast in the manner acustmed to Assassins players.
"It's Bad"
"It's Bad"
"It's Bad"
"It's Bad"
"It's Bad"
"It's Bad"

tman

I actually enjoyed it, repetetive as it was...

mayordenis

i loved it

Jackabo

Repetetive deffo ,but i enjoyed it also,thought it wasnt half bad,and very nice to look at.

Jack Sheehan

It wasn't 'bad' as such. All the jumping around killing people was fun, it was just a little repetitive.

Makaveli

tman wrote: »

I actually enjoyed it, repetetive as it was...

+1

Half the fun was just climbing up buildings and trying to make big jumps.

Steez

Plus the fighting with citizens. And the retard/homeless person throwing.

CiDeRmAn

I have been enjoying this game, took a break for a couple of months so I could play other games but back to it now and in the last stages.
I really love the look and feel of the game, going from Jerusalem to Acre and to Damascus is wonderful, the missions do feel a tad samey after a while but so what? Just climbing every tower and taking on a crowd of enemy guards is great fun, and there is enough in the game to keep you playing til the end.
Perhaps agent 47 simply didn't play it enough, it certainly doesn't deserve the pasting he gave it.

Kintarō Hattori

Makaveli wrote: »

+1

Half the fun was just climbing up buildings and trying to make big jumps.

Agreed. I'm playing it at the moment and am enjoying it.

Azza

Looking foward to the March release of the Directors Cut on PC which adds in 4 additional mission types. Should keep the repetitive nature away bit longer

madrab

yeah it was a decent game but having to run around a frickin mountain every level to get to a your destination was annoying, the end had way too much fighting in it & not enought stealthy-shenanigans

i think yathzee's review of it summed it up correctly - faffing-about-creed

stevenmu

I really enjoyed it. I think the problem a lot of people had with it is that from the descriptions of the game given by the developers, people extrapolated out a lot of things they wished were in the game and as they hype grew more and more people started believing the game was going to be everything they wanted it to be. As far as I'm aware the game delivered everything the developers said it would, but people who had raised their own expectations far beyond that were left dissapointed.

Branoic

yep, I too enjoyed it. Sure, the missions were repetitive and the whole "Kingdom" area was a wasted opportunity for....well, for anything, but overall it was very good. I actually really liked the combat system. Once you got countering with the hidden blade down you were awesome.

johnny_ultimate

Yeah I enjoyed it too. Although repetition is grating in the last couple of missions especially, overall it was a fun experience. In terms of character control, it was a massive leap forward, and if the developers take on board the numerous criticisms gamers have aimed at the first one, the sequel will be something very special indeed.

0ubliette

climbing the massive, MASSIVE church in Acre and just sitting there looking out over the entire city was epic. Great game spoiled by repetition and bizarre future bits, but not spoiled much. Certainly an enjoyable game, and quite an interesting story too, looking forward to seeing what they do with it. Altair is cool :cool:

TheDoc

i thought it was well worth the purchase and ive no regrets, great game

kryogen

fantastic game, great story, the missions got repetitive but it looked amazing and i certainly didnt get bored playing it, i cant wait for the next one!

corblimey

Yeah, I enjoyed it, *hated* the ending and the DS version is p!ss poor, but the original was good fun.

Makaveli

0ubliette wrote: »

Great game spoiled by repetition and bizarre future bits, but not spoiled much.

The future bits (or really present bits) were a bit lame alright but as a plot device they worked quite well really. Also, they have no real effect on the game itself.

Repetitive but great fun.

agent 47

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

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Perhaps agent 47 simply didn't play it enough, it certainly doesn't deserve the pasting he gave it.

I did play it and complete it twice and got a fair few achievements also. I just want to vent my anger out about how disappointed I am with it

tman

If it was such a steaming pile of crap to you, why bother playing through it twice?

Ivan

I too am firmly in the "it was good" camp. The control system was superb for the style of gameplay that was involved. I dont think we have seen a console game like it. The deceptively simple controls makes this one of the first games where I think the control system will be much better on the console than on the PC. Thankfully though I managed to avoid all of the hype surrounding the game and so went into the game with an open mind. I think that helped me enjoy it a helluva lot more than most.

Lawless_Samurai

Yeah I was the same as Ivan. Didn't pay much attention to what everyone was saying and I think its benifited my enjoyment of gameplay



That and the HD tv always help!

Branoic

TBH with a name like "agent47" I can understand why you didn't like it. If you were expecting a sort of medieval Hitman game, then yes, the assassinations weren't half as involved as those in the Hitman games. Still though, in and of itself it was a great game.

L31mr0d

agent 47 wrote: »

I did play it and complete it twice

WTH??? seriously... who plays through something TWICE that they hated?

It's like someone over in the movies forum saying, "I hated Batman & Robin so much that I watched it twice"...

It just doesn't add up.

mayordenis

doesnt make any sense at all, plus i like got 800+ avhievments from 1 playthrough you must me some sort of complete noob, jesus. lol.

Ph3n0m

What I think is needed here is the Chewbacca defense (yes I know, how very retro of me)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chewbacca_defense

Agent47 played a game more then once that he/she/it hated. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

Sarky

If you ended up disappointed with this game, well, it's your own fault for believing the hype. Personally I found it really quite fun. Yeah, the sub-missions weren't nearly varied enough, but there's a lot of satisfaction to be had for a mission going well. Killing someone in broad daylight in the town square and disappearing into the crowd before anyone points the finger at you is almost as good as finishing a mission in Thief. Almost.

Zombrex

On the one hand the game was a bit poo (as is any game where the graphics are used to defend it)

On the other hand, she made it



... <drool> ...

So you can see the dilemma.

0ubliette

Wicknight wrote: »

On the one hand the game was a bit poo (as is any game where the graphics are used to defend it)

On the other hand, she made it



... <drool> ...

So you can see the dilemma.

Ah Jade....i'd crawl over a field of broken glass on my belly just to have a **** in her shadow

thelordofcheese

Wicknight wrote: »

On the one hand the game was a bit poo (as is any game where the graphics are used to defend it)

On the other hand, she made it



... <drool> ...

So you can see the dilemma.

Not really, it's a rubbish game, I don't care that the lead producer happens to look somewhat presentable.

MikeHoncho

I thought the thread name "Ass-assins" creed would surely be dedicated to the lovely Jade but was disapointed with the first few posts. Thanks to the last few posters for bringing the thread on track.

MMM Jade.

Zombrex

MikeHoncho wrote: »

I thought the thread name "Ass-assins" creed would surely be dedicated to the lovely Jade but was disapointed with the first few posts. Thanks to the last few posters for bringing the thread on track.

MMM Jade.

Well its a touchy subject these days after that comic of her, er, "persuading" fans to buy the game.

Zombrex

thelordofcheese wrote: »

happens to look somewhat presentable.

That is a bit of an understatement isn't it ....

Jackabo

0ubliette wrote: »

Ah Jade....i'd crawl over a field of broken glass on my belly just to have a **** in her shadow

Pmsl !!

Jay P

Surprisingly enough, I liked it...for an hour. It's terrible, why didn't I listen ot my friend?

Benzino

God I hate this game. It's so damn repetitive, all the missions are basically the same with the same sub-missions!! As for the story..just when you might be getting into it, feeling your an actual assassin, the game cuts back to a cut scene to remind you your not, that your a bar man instead..great.

There better be major improvements in the next game.

Daithi412

got it christmas day, enjoyed it, looked class, however finished story in a week of casual use, and yea it was repetitive...

HOWEVER

if the makers take note of everyone talkin about the repetiveness, then they will make one hell of a sequel, it needs a better storyline....

anyone think collecting the flags is a total waste of time? so boring its not even worth the acieviment imo:D

as long as they dont set the sequel "in the future", it should be good.

just take the game as a E60 beta...:)

muppetkiller

Am I the only one who doesn't think it looks class ?
It doesn't look that next gen to me..and I'm playing it on a nice little 42 inch plasma

Sephiroth_dude

I have'nt had a chance to play this yet,how many hours is it to play through roughly?

Sarky

I finished in a week of fairly casual playing, so if you don't bother about the achievements like collecting flags and killing Templars, I'd imagine you could finish it in under 30 hours.

tman

I'd say less than 20 hours is closer, and that was including finding all of the viewpoints and completing all of the citizen saving missions...
Decent enough value for money anyway

Sarky

I occasionally come back to it, purely to leap about rooftops like a tit because it's just so much fun. And now I can stab those bloody annoying beggars with impunity...

agent 47

Benzino wrote: »

God I hate this game. It's so damn repetitive, all the missions are basically the same with the same sub-missions!! As for the story..just when you might be getting into it, feeling your an actual assassin, the game cuts back to a cut scene to remind you your not, that your a bar man instead..great.

There better be major improvements in the next game.

THANK YOU!!!
That sums it up entirlly. And also to that other guy who wanted the game to be more like theif. And to you guys who are wondering why i replayed the game, my mate was as eager as me to see it, so we ran through it again.
HE HATES ME NOW!!!
And yeah, slicing an dicing is fun, but you can do that in your kitchen, and anything that more fun with bread, does NOT belong on my gaming shelf.

Potential-Monke

How bout you go out and make a game look as good as that, with controls as fluid and instant, a story which hasn't really been done before, leave it on a cliffhanger, and give the potential to be a multi-sequel big seller?

Yes, it was repetitive, but it's not fricken bad for an early PS3 game! Alot of pap came out when the PS and PS2 was released. And funny enough that you finished the game een though you hated it, and when your "friend" wanted to see it you played through the whole game again? Sounds sussed...

Worse games have come out, and this game never promised to be the next MGS or Hitman or (insert savage game title here). Programmers and developers are still learning on the PS3, give them time for Christy's sake!

Branoic

agent 47 wrote: »

And to you guys who are wondering why i replayed the game, my mate was as eager as me to see it, so we ran through it again.

Your mate wanted to see the game, so you played through the whole thing again to show it to him? Couldn't you just have loaded up the odd save game and show him half an hour or something?

steviec

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Worse games have come out, and this game never promised to be the next MGS or Hitman or (insert savage game title here). Programmers and developers are still learning on the PS3, give them time for Christy's sake!

The mistakes made with Assassin's Creed were design decisions, not technical ones.

That said, I really enjoyed the game overall and think it's judged far too harshly in general. I certainly enjoyed it a lot more than CoD4 or Bioshock or Halo 3 or any of the other many FPSes (except maybe Orange Box) that gained so much praise last year.