EvaUnit02 on 13/4/2009 at 19:38
Quote Posted by Thirith
I've just started playing the original
Assassin's Creed on PC. Is there any point in doing all the side-missions? Does it improve my character's abilities or equipment? Or might I just as well not do all the repetitive mini-jobs over and over again?
IIRC, you have to do three minimum to unlock the main assassination mission.
David on 13/4/2009 at 20:01
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Oh joy, a sequel to the game where you play an assassin but that isn't any fun unless you act completely unlike an assassin.
Assassination is not necessarily a stealthy business. It is usually characterised as a surprise attack by someone paid to commit it.
Assassin's Creed certainly lives up to that.
ZylonBane on 13/4/2009 at 20:58
Quote Posted by David
Assassination is not necessarily a stealthy business. It is usually characterised as a surprise attack by someone paid to commit it.
Assassin's Creed certainly lives up to that.
When the bulk of the gameplay derives from slaughtering hordes of guards, I'd say you aren't really playing an assassin anymore, except in the loosest possible sense of "someone who kills people". I've seen some posts by one of the devs of AC acting genuinely mystified how anyone got the impression it was supposed to be a stealth game. Apparently you're supposed to play it like God of War.
It's almost like the anti-Thief. They started out with these notions of stealthy gameplay, blending into crowds, etc, then just said fuck it and made it all about shanking as many people as possible.
D'Arcy on 13/4/2009 at 21:21
You don't have to slaughter hordes of guards in most of the missions. You just end up doing it because it's fun. It's perfectly possible to kill just your target, then run away and hide, or blend into the crowd. If you do it the right way, it's even possible to kill your target without anyone around you noticing it, then vanish.
SubJeff on 13/4/2009 at 22:14
Have you played it Zylonbane?
gunsmoke on 14/4/2009 at 01:39
Of course he hasn't. He has a LONG history of commenting on games he has no experience w/based on forums posts/reviews/general dissent.
ZylonBane on 14/4/2009 at 06:35
And generally being right anyway.
june gloom on 14/4/2009 at 07:46
You've been lucky so far.
Aja on 14/4/2009 at 08:19
thief 3 was a good game
Thirith on 14/4/2009 at 09:35
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
And generally being right anyway.
You generally have a number of points IMO, but you also inevitably end up extremely one-sided because you tend to hear only the things that fit the opinion you've already made. Although neither
Bioshock nor
Thief 3 were brilliant games, both of them (the latter more so than the former) got some things right, so you may understand that it's a bit frustrating at times to discuss these games with someone who's taken a somewhat justified but definitely strongly biased, undifferentiated position
without having played the games.
