Not an assassins creed fan. None of them really felt like I was an assassin and really did not like the " 'merica" story line of the last game. I mean really, you can't even make an Assassin game about something other then america or an obvious homage to it? Sorry maybe I'm being snobby but it really felt like there was a good story, then someone took it to a focus group and came back with "make it more....American"
I'd love an assassins creed type game if the story was less propagandish and it was more assassin (ie like old schoolThief or those ninja games for PS.. not ninjagaiden the other ones...)
Where it was made doesn't really matter, it just seemed like there was the basis for a good story line, which got sort of "lowest common denominator" dumbed down to make the game more marketable. I've seen it in a lot of games (pretty much any good game put out by a relatively small production house, that then gets bought or picked up by someone big), where an initial game is good, and has a genuinely interesting story, and then the sequel gets the "hollywood" or "prime-time-tv" treatment, where its sort of watered down to be more "accessible".
just how the game across to me. and the ninja game i was thinking of was Tenchu.
One of the few cities I have spent time in where pretty much everyone I meet really doesn't like the town. I purchased a business in Fort Mac a year and half ago and it is a lucrative market to operate in "IF" you can get over the HR challenges
Not an assassins creed fan. None of them really felt like I was an assassin and really did not like the " 'merica" story line of the last game. I mean really, you can't even make an Assassin game about something other then america or an obvious homage to it? Sorry maybe I'm being snobby but it really felt like there was a good story, then someone took it to a focus group and came back with "make it more....American"
I loved dragon age origins. Probably still my favorite game.
DA2 was OK once I stopped wishing it was DAO.
Mass effect two was fun but it kept reminding me of how DA2 failed.
Was really disappointed with halo after the first one. Other games evolved and brought in new mechanics (gears of war was probably the first shooter I really fell in love with) while the Halo franchise just changed graphics and guns.
Currently I play skyrim, DA2 (a little) and a whole lot of NHL. I keep looking for new games but nothing really grabs my attention.
I'd love an assassins creed type game if the story was less propagandish and it was more assassin (ie like old schoolThief or those ninja games for PS.. not ninjagaiden the other ones...)
I literally have NO idea what you are talking about...it's set in Italy during the renaissance, it has nothing to do with America? And Ubisoft in Montreal put out both games, they did not get bought out, they did not get picked up, in fact the first AC was a HUGE release with years of hype, if anything that was the bigger release.
I mean I could see if you were complaining about AC3 which is set in America during the Revolution, but even then it's just the setting for the game, same as Renaissance Italy and Middle Age Middle East before that, not sure what is propagandaish about it at all. The second game naturally picks up the storyline from the first, it is one of the absolute best in the gaming world, then continues it on to Brotherhood and Revelations to arrive where we are now in AC3. There has been absolutely nothing to do with America until AC3. Can you explain where you thought the story line had anything to do America?
Halo evolved just as much as other games did. Gears of War is easily my favourite first person shooter ever, (Halo is 2nd) but it evolved from 1-3 about as much as Halo did. You can't expect a series to go away from what makes it what it is, that would just alienate the current fanbase.
Dragon Age was solid. Played Origins for a while, but just ran out of time never completed it. Will go back to it someday when I have time
Skyrim was awesome as well, but I just never seemed to have time to finish that game. Plus is felt like Fallout so much. If I could do nothing with my life I would lock myself in a room with all these games and play, I think I'd be content enough
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I literally have NO idea what you are talking about...it's set in Italy during the renaissance, it has nothing to do with America? And Ubisoft in Montreal put out both games, they did not get bought out, they did not get picked up, in fact the first AC was a HUGE release with years of hype, if anything that was the bigger release.
I mean I could see if you were complaining about AC3 which is set in America during the Revolution, but even then it's just the setting for the game, same as Renaissance Italy and Middle Age Middle East before that, not sure what is propagandaish about it at all. The second game naturally picks up the storyline from the first, it is one of the absolute best in the gaming world, then continues it on to Brotherhood and Revelations to arrive where we are now in AC3. There has been absolutely nothing to do with America until AC3. Can you explain where you thought the story line had anything to do America?
Halo evolved just as much as other games did. Gears of War is easily my favourite first person shooter ever, (Halo is 2nd) but it evolved from 1-3 about as much as Halo did. You can't expect a series to go away from what makes it what it is, that would just alienate the current fanbase.
Dragon Age was solid. Played Origins for a while, but just ran out of time never completed it. Will go back to it someday when I have time
Skyrim was awesome as well, but I just never seemed to have time to finish that game. Plus is felt like Fallout so much. If I could do nothing with my life I would lock myself in a room with all these games and play, I think I'd be content enough
I think it was the whole weird "modern western guy doing weird science to relive his ancient historic ancesters life as an assassin" and the weird co-vert government ****. Am I thinking of the right game? I just really thought the game would have been better if you were just an assassin, not a modern dude dreaming about being an assassin or w/e that was.
I'm completely aware of AC's history and the fanfare the original and follow up were released to. The other stuff was a reference to what happens to alot of games, i did not mean to imply that's what happened to AC.
I know AC was big and wasn't picked up or bought out or anything, i just meant the Story/style of the game, to me, FELT like one of those games, where the original intention/story had been altered to appeal to a broader market.
Am i even thinking of the right game? you have me second guessing myself....
and i concur that if i didn't currently have a girlfriend, i would probably never get one as i'd be far too busy playing games
I think it was the whole weird "modern western guy doing weird science to relive his ancient historic ancesters life as an assassin" and the weird co-vert government ****. Am I thinking of the right game? I just really thought the game would have been better if you were just an assassin, not a modern dude dreaming about being an assassin or w/e that was.
I'm completely aware of AC's history and the fanfare the original and follow up were released to. The other stuff was a reference to what happens to alot of games, i did not mean to imply that's what happened to AC.
I know AC was big and wasn't picked up or bought out or anything, i just meant the Story/style of the game, to me, FELT like one of those games, where the original intention/story had been altered to appeal to a broader market.
Am i even thinking of the right game? you have me second guessing myself....
and i concur that if i didn't currently have a girlfriend, i would probably never get one as i'd be far too busy playing games
Yeah your thinking of the right game, Lynk posted a "review of AC in 5 mins" up there you can check out if you want if you've got 5 minutes...
I personally like that aspect of the storyline, it's what makes moving era to era possible and makes the storyline with "The Ones Who Came Before" possible. That's possibly the best part about AC, IMO, is the back story of the "First Ones", the coming apocalypse, Subject 16's secret video, pieces of Eden, all the fluff about abstergo's current movements, things like that, I love all the backstory the put into it. Doesn't feel forced or changed at all to me, not with the level of backstory involved, and the way all of this stuff ties in to the current time is awesome, much better than doing random ultimately pointless assassinations in the past, IMO. But jmo...
Yeah your thinking of the right game, Lynk posted a "review of AC in 5 mins" up there you can check out if you want if you've got 5 minutes...
I personally like that aspect of the storyline, it's what makes moving era to era possible and makes the storyline with "The Ones Who Came Before" possible. That's possibly the best part about AC, IMO, is the back story of the "First Ones", the coming apocalypse, Subject 16's secret video, pieces of Eden, all the fluff about abstergo's current movements, things like that, I love all the backstory the put into it. Doesn't feel forced or changed at all to me, not with the level of backstory involved, and the way all of this stuff ties in to the current time is awesome, much better than doing random ultimately pointless assassinations in the past, IMO. But jmo...
different strokes i guess.
I'm a big fantasy/medieval/RPG guy, so the modern twists probably just offended that aspect. I probably didn't give it enough time but the combination of that, and not feeling like an assasin, felt like iwas be sold a period/fantasy assassin game but was being given a sudo-sy-fy hack-n'-slash game. the disconnect in expectation and product recieved probably has the most to do with me being soured on the franchise. Add in the US setting of the third one and i was heavily turned off.
Well, I spend the majority of my free time this week playing Grand Strategy game.
Turns out I ****ing suck at them all, My Russians got destroyed by the hordes, My 'muricans got beat by the Mexicans and my Communist Germans got destroyed by the French "just cuz"
Well, I spend the majority of my free time this week playing Grand Strategy game.
Turns out I ****ing suck at them all, My Russians got destroyed by the hordes, My 'muricans got beat by the Mexicans and my Communist Germans got destroyed by the French "just cuz"
One of the few cities I have spent time in where pretty much everyone I meet really doesn't like the town. I purchased a business in Fort Mac a year and half ago and it is a lucrative market to operate in "IF" you can get over the HR challenges
I moved to Fort McMurray 16 years ago and have grown to love it! I don't understand how people can chirp a city that has provided so much (financial) opportunity.
The downtown core was stagnant for a long time and now they are the brink of 2 billion dollars in development. Thats right 2[B]Billion![/B}
I moved to Fort McMurray 16 years ago and have grown to love it! I don't understand how people can chirp a city that has provided so much (financial) opportunity.
The downtown core was stagnant for a long time and now they are the brink of 2 billion dollars in development. Thats right 2[B]Billion![/B}
So much financial opportunity, yet all of the people I know from the Mac are up to their eyeballs in debt, broke, and stressed out. But hey, look what half a million dollars can get you in Fort Mac ...
I moved to Fort McMurray 16 years ago and have grown to love it! I don't understand how people can chirp a city that has provided so much (financial) opportunity.
The downtown core was stagnant for a long time and now they are the brink of 2 billion dollars in development. Thats right 2[B]Billion
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