Happy New Year everyone!
Since my last post, I got and played Assassin’s Creed III. I’ll concur it is important to play it for the saga, but I was mostly bored…
I guess I’m ready to play AC IV now, the gameplay was a bit odd jumping right after AC Revelations. :-)
Happy New year, Gia! :)
I grabbed a copy of Ass Creed III when it was free on UPlay some time ago. Tried to play it, but I didn’t enjoy it at all and stopped after a few missions O.o No idea what was wrong, maybe I just wasn’t in the right mood, maybe it was just plain boring.
If you have the free AC IV Black Flag, you can try that one. From what I know ACIII is one of the worst ones (if not the worst in series).
I must admit that I didn’t grab the free Black Flag. I’m not a fan of ships and sea battles, and from what I gathered, there’s a whole lot of that in the game.
That’s actually the part that makes it fun. Ships give you freedom of movement over the entire map (you can do whatever whenever you feel like it), and sea battles are quite arcade-y, not very complicated, also governed by RPG elements (like cannons with better stats, etc, so you can make your ship OP). But if you dislike that aspect, I guess this one might have been not for you either.
I tried AC IV, I can’t really get into it. Pirates and navy battles are two things that don’t really interest me so, although I understand why the game has such a huge following, it’s starting to get really disconnected from the Assassin saga.
Things that are wrong with AC III:
- It’s boring.
- Like, it’s really boring.
- The only good line is when Edward says “I was going to leave. Now, I’m going to feed you your teeth”.
- SO.MANY.BUGS. So many ridiculously, game-breakingly bad bugs. Happily married with annoyingly annoying unresponsive controls. Interface is hell, maps are useless.
- I had to play the hero as a kid playing hide-and-seek. Bleh. Kill me.
- The first-half hero gets a footnote love interest that only serves to birth the second-half hero. Ezio was an unapologetic womanizer and I loved him, so my problem isn’t the love story, it’s the “put the least effort in the love story”. I’d rather the mother was a nameless prostitute than that cardboard.
- My biggest problem with the game and the biggest deviation from what I consider an AC game: Why the f- do I spend so much time in the battlefield? I don’t want to play a tactical war game “aim cannon here, now aim cannon there, now lead these men into battle”, I want to double-air-assassinate people.
- The RPG elements (are they even that?) make absolutely no difference in the game. I only traded once and saved two people in the frontier, because I had to to progress in the game, and it had absolutely no impact in the game. I didn’t craft anything and I didn’t need it. I almost forgot the game had trading, crafting and hunting options (I wouldn’t go hunting because I don’t like the idea, but I don’t object hunting being in the game, it made total sense in the context).
- I know it’s important in USA for many reasons, but I’m kinda tired with all the “American Revolution” stories in the media (games, movies, series etc). I can’t relate. The first games were in new and interesting places, but we just HAD to go where half the Hollywood production goes every year (I’m exaggerating, but it feels that way sometimes, especially in earlier years and before ACIII came out). I feel it was a very US-oriented game, and the story wasn’t told in a way that could make it compelling and interesting globally. And it’s not like I don’t consume huge amounts of US-media and thoroughly enjoy it, this specific game wasn’t made with players in mind, it was made with specific (real? imagined? I don’t know) audience in mind, that I just can’t feel part of. I’d rather it had focused on the first years of the New World when the domino pieces were still falling, and tell a story that it’s not Pocahontas or Dances with the Wolves, but they couldn’t go there, right?… Discovering America is such a rich, compelling story spanning centuries and what do we always get? American Revolution, Americans vs Brits. I’m bored.
- I just couldn’t like Connor. Maybe it was the voice acting, but he sounded like a brat. I wanted him colder, or more sentimental, but he was in that indifferent medium right in the middle. On the other hand, Haytham had so much potential which was wasted because we had to get the son as the main hero. So Haytham’s part feels like wheel-spinning.
- Probably my favorite part in all the previous games is the tombs (although timed platforming can significantly anger me). This game had a peg-somethin’-with-trinkets, and I had to google it to find out, and by then I had lost interest. No connection with the game whatsoever.
- I know the frontier was supposed to feel vast, but it felt empty. Bonus frontier hate for the QTA wolves.
- Desmond died.
AC overload XD Try not to get burned out ;)
Happy New Year!
do…do you ever get tired of assassins creed?
joking
Happy new year!
Actually, I started Liberation but found it a bore, I just couldn’t make myself play it, and I can’t really get into AC IV. I’m not a big fan of pirates and stuff and I don’t get the point. The guy miraculously has all the assassin features but he just happened upon a costume. I remember Altair and Ezio fondly, I’d rather keep them the only Assassins I’ve played and remember all the fun I actually had.
I think it started to go wrong with AC III, where we spend so much time in f***** battlefields. We are supposed to be assassins. I don’t like war movies or war games (MOHAA ONLY BECAUSE IT’S GREAT), I prefer cop stories (or assassin stories). I realized afterwards that one of the things that really bugged me with Connor is that we are basically playing an army captain and not an assassin. I’m starting to lose interest in the series, if and when I get a better laptop I’ll jump to Rogue and see how it goes.