Assassin's Creed

[Fresh Tendrils]

Re: Assassin's Creed

It doesn't matter if it's 5 minutes in or 50 minutes in, based on the way AC has presented itself through impressions/hands-on and marketing, the "plot device" would have still surprised a lot of people.

[jmood88]

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I disagree with you, its like going to the theater to watch a movie where something big happens in the first 5-10 minutes and you go on a message board beforehand where someone spoils it for you.

It was announced by the developers so I don't see how it would be a surprise, and if someone hadn't been following the game I don't know why they would be in this thread.

[CaptainZombie]

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If it happens in the first 5-10 minutes it's not so much a spoiler as a plot device that begins the action. I don't see how knowing something you're going to discover anyway almost as soon as you boot the game up is going to spoil anything.

If we used your philosophy around here, then many of games, movies, etc. would be getting spoiled. I don't care if its in the first 2 seconds of the game or 5-10 minutes in, this is just ridiculous.

From my understanding and I could be wrong, but none of the previews even show this or acknowledge this twist until someone posted it on Wikipedia and Youtube.

[jmood88]

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If we used your philosophy around here, then many of games, movies, etc. would be getting spoiled. I don't care if its in the first 2 seconds of the game or 5-10 minutes in, this is just ridiculous.

From my understanding and I could be wrong, but none of the previews even show this or acknowledge this twist until someone posted it on Wikipedia and Youtube.

Jade Raymond talked about it during an interview and Kristin Bell talked about it in some interview on a late night show. If someone had been following the game at all they would've heard about it.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I don't read/watch interviews, just hands-on impressions of gameplay and there has been plenty of it. From all the impressions I have read from IGN and TeamXbox, whenever they mention the story they mention very little, if any, and usually state that the developers are being tight lipped about the story.

[CaptainZombie]

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Jade Raymond talked about it during an interview and Kristin Bell talked about it in some interview on a late night show. If someone had been following the game at all they would've heard about it.

Don't you think that the what was posted a few pages back from the Kristen Bell article is kind of a spoiler to this game? Personally, I like being surprised by a story. Same thing goes with Halo 3 and Bioshock, we were warned to use SPOILER tags for anything that wrecks the story correct? What makes this different?

Maybe I'm getting worked up for nothing here, but it sort of bothers me to know that something big happens right off the bat. I'm fine with the sci-fi elements that have been mentioned, but don't need to know the crap about the first 5 minutes of the game.

[jmood88]

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Mood, I don't have to read or check out every single preview to follow a game? Might be your philosophy man, but not everyone's.

From a few pages back, I guess Yankee_Pride has no clue what he is talking about either since he mentions that the developers have been quiet about this games story in a few posts. Yankee has been following this game very close, so is he not following this game either? Out of the blue the developer comes out and says that there is a sci-fi angle at the beginning of the game.

Link Please?

I'm not going to look for a link but I've barely been following this game and I know it was in the game and the developers have been quiet about it and have said that it's because they don't want to ruin the story, which is why in the previews that every site and/or magazine has played it has started after the beginning. Go look for interviews with Jade Raymond.

[jmood88]

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Don't you think that the what was posted a few pages back from the Kristen Bell article is kind of a spoiler to this game? Personally, I like being surprised by a story. Same thing goes with Halo 3 and Bioshock, we were warned to use SPOILER tags for anything that wrecks the story correct? What makes this different?

Maybe I'm getting worked up for nothing here, but it sort of bothers me to know that something big happens right off the bat. I'm fine with the sci-fi elements that have been mentioned, but don't need to know the crap about the first 5 minutes of the game.

It was an interview on national tv and was posted on just about every gaming site when she said it. I don't know why you would be in this thread if you're worried about spoilers.

[CaptainZombie]

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I don't read/watch interviews, just hands-on impressions of gameplay and there has been plenty of it. From all the impressions I have read from IGN and TeamXbox, whenever they mention the story they mention very little, if any, and usually state that the developers are being tight lipped about the story.

Yeah, even Yankee said the same thing a few pages ago that the developers have been tight lipped. Kristen Bell says something and that is a developer now according to some.

I don't read every single preview either since I only want to know an overview of the story these days, I can enjoy games much better the less I know.

[jmood88]

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I don't read/watch interviews, just hands-on impressions of gameplay and there has been plenty of it. From all the impressions I have read from IGN and TeamXbox, whenever they mention the story they mention very little, if any, and usually state that the developers are being tight lipped about the story.

They also said that the reason why they won't let them play the beginning is because of the sci fi part that they haven't explained.

[jmood88]

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Yeah, even Yankee said the same thing a few pages ago that the developers have been tight lipped. Kristen Bell says something and that is a developer now according to some.

I don't read every single preview either since I only want to know an overview of the story these days, I can enjoy games much better the less I know.

I never said or acted like Kristin Bell was a developer so don't put words in my mouth. I said that the developers weren't talking about the stories so stop making me seem like I was saying that they've been talking about the story everywhere.

[Pared]

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jmood, why must you continue to argue? Others don't want to be spoiled with that bit of information yet would like to discuss how much they're looking forward to the game, it's release date, reviews and such...

If someone else is asking for a bit of COURTESY to just type **SPOILER** on something that could potentially be such then what's the problem?

[Fresh Tendrils]

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They also said that the reason why they won't let them play the beginning is because of the sci fi part that they haven't explained.

I know that, but I'm referring to the specific plot device of the game, not that the game had a sci-fi element to it.

[CaptainZombie]

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It was an interview on national tv and was posted on just about every gaming site when she said it. I don't know why you would be in this thread if you're worried about spoilers.

So we can post spoilers to storylines in games, movies, wrestling, etc. and the mods or the OS community won't care at all since people should stay out of that thread, correct? Where have you been?

If I know something major about Mass Effect as an example that happens in the story from reading someones impressions, my experience since I might have the game early, etc. and go to post that info in the thread than it's ok by your philosophy.

[jmood88]

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So we can post spoilers to storylines in games, movies, wrestling, etc. and the mods or the OS community won't care at all since people should stay out of that thread, correct? Where have you been?

If I know something major about Mass Effect as an example that happens in the story from reading someones impressions, my experience since I might have the game early, etc. and go to post that info in the thread than it's ok by your philosophy.

I don't care what you do, I know that I'm not going to whine about anything being spoiled if I'm in a thread a couple days to a week before the game comes out.