Assassin's Creed III

[ubernoob]

Yes, Connor was THAT bad of a lead character. There was no depth to him at all. At first, I thought he might be an Altair type figure, but he didn't even reach that.

Agreed. They played up the stoic native stereotype way too much and he had absolutely no development in the story.

Glad to see him go.

[Chizzypoof]

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Discussion about the Connor character. I am putting it in spoilers because I don't want my opinion to sway anyone who is currently playing this game.

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I didn't think Connor was that bad, he had movie scripted motivation but the game just didn't take it into any good direction. Story lines ended up just being confused (by end game your fighting the people you helped because there is no one else to fight), the motivation he had didn't go anywhere (you start helping your Dad) and the game play failed to help you believe you are anything near an assassin. Toward the end of the game I felt more like a serial killer with a tomahawk.

[Eman5805]

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Remember how in AC1 you'd spend all that time eavedropping and scouting around before you made an assassination? Now, I hadn't stealth killed a single person that wasn't a random mook in the street until the game railroaded me into doing it. That is unacceptable. I remember the tension I felt as I slowly worked my way towards a mark, only for a little mistake twarted me and I had to fight my way out.

This game encourages you to go high profile and fight 30 people at once.

Connor isn't half the assassin Altair was.

[cdawg44]

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http://www.gamespot.com/news/new-assassins-creed-on-the-way-6403590

http://www.gamespot.com/news/next-assassins-creed-set-in-brazil-6401294

Looks like Brazil is the setting and we may be getting Co-op as well.

[Mabster]

The setting MAY BE in Brazil and there's nothing new there. To me it looks like that editor is just trying to produce website hits on his own articles. Citing only his own articles to strengthen his claim is pretty cheap and isn't really reporting anything of substance.

I don't know about co-op either. Sounds like another baseless claim on his part again. Especially since there's a recent interview with AC3 mission director Philippe Bergeron saying

Co-op was one of those big thing at the beginning that just didn’t make sense in the end. For us it was really part of the single player experience, to have in-and-out co-op, and in the end we never thought it made sense in the storyline that we had for the Animus. There was no way to reconcile having multiplayer or co-op in an ancestor’s memories.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/ubisoft-says-assassins-creed-was-always-supposed-to-have-co-op/

Edit: I haven't played Liberation though and apparently it does something with the storyline and doesn't need the genetic link/animus background that I thought was at the base of the franchise.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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The Infamy DLC came out today, 800 MS points. It is the Tyranny of George Washington storyline.

[cdawg44]

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The Infamy DLC came out today, 800 MS points. It is the Tyranny of George Washington storyline.

THE DLC is well done IMHO and The wolf power is a total blast to use and the game is much more gritter than most AC's I've played in the past. For most of the folks on here who may not be hardcore AC players, I would reccommend waiting for all of it to come and catching a discount if you are not going to get the season pass like I did.

EDIT: Woohoo!! Finally 100% AC III. That's 62 hours I'll never get back. LOL.

[pistolpete]

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I got this game for the PC as pretty much the first non-sports game I have ever played. I've dabbled in MW3 as I also have it on PC, but never got into it.

So, as a 100% AC novice I love this game. I don't die all the time like I expect I would on other games, and in fact the only time I de-sync is when I get detected. I love climbing stuff and looking around.

There was a time when I would enter Boston and my frame rate would dip. But that has oddly stopped. If I do lots of free running and changing direction and going crazy it dips too much, so I just have to avoid that.

The learning curve seems pretty quick and I feel like I can progress along playing just a couple hours a week. I don't mind if it takes me a year to beat it. I'm only @ 11%.

[Candyman5]

I think I may be getting this as part of a buy 2, get 1 free deal from GameStop.

However I'm unsure with Tomb Raider and Naruto releasing March 5th. I'm probably the only one in line that's not getting the show. :P

[Valdarez]

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The Infamy DLC came out today, 800 MS points. It is the Tyranny of George Washington storyline.

THE DLC is well done IMHO and The wolf power is a total blast to use and the game is much more gritter than most AC's I've played in the past. For most of the folks on here who may not be hardcore AC players, I would reccommend waiting for all of it to come and catching a discount if you are not going to get the season pass like I did.

EDIT: Woohoo!! Finally 100% AC III. That's 62 hours I'll never get back. LOL.

I'm a huge AC fan. I have a custom NCAA13 team I've used for the last 3 years based on the colors/logo and even made a custom background for the game. When others complained about AC3 being buggy, I just didn't see it. I think I experienced 1 bug (literally) when playing through the entire game up to about 90% completion. That all changed with the Tyranny of King George DLC.

This DLC is buggy as hell. I've gotten stuck multiple times now, with the character literally unable to move, forcing me to quit the game and restart missions. There are people that are literally floating or covered in the snow, either way that I can't reach. When saving slave caravans, I've seen the entire contents of a caravan floating behind the wagons (people floating in air). Bodies on the ground just sliding to the right/left for NO reason (freaky at first...). Camera angles in fights have been totally !@#$ up as well, making it nigh impossible at times to see what's going on.

I don't know what happened with the ACIII - Tyranny of King George, but it's the worst quality AC game/DLC that I've experienced and I've played every single game across all consoles (PSP/Vita as well!). Don't get me wrong, the story is great, albeit short, but the game is buggy as hell now.

[cdawg44]

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I'm a huge AC fan. I have a custom NCAA13 team I've used for the last 3 years based on the colors/logo and even made a custom background for the game. When others complained about AC3 being buggy, I just didn't see it. I think I experienced 1 bug (literally) when playing through the entire game up to about 90% completion. That all changed with the Tyranny of King George DLC.

This DLC is buggy as hell. I've gotten stuck multiple times now, with the character literally unable to move, forcing me to quit the game and restart missions. There are people that are literally floating or covered in the snow, either way that I can't reach. When saving slave caravans, I've seen the entire contents of a caravan floating behind the wagons (people floating in air). Bodies on the ground just sliding to the right/left for NO reason (freaky at first...). Camera angles in fights have been totally !@#$ up as well, making it nigh impossible at times to see what's going on.

I don't know what happened with the ACIII - Tyranny of King George, but it's the worst quality AC game/DLC that I've experienced and I've played every single game across all consoles (PSP/Vita as well!). Don't get me wrong, the story is great, albeit short, but the game is buggy as hell now.

HMMM, I had no issues like that with the DLC. While the main game was buggy for me, the DLC was a good experince, all things considered

[Valdarez]

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HMMM, I had no issues like that with the DLC. While the main game was buggy for me, the DLC was a good experince, all things considered

That's so weird. The 'only' thing I did differently was that I fired up the 2nd disc prior to playing the DLC, and it had never been used up to that point. Wonder if there was something on the disc that was installed locally that brought up the bugs? Just odd that the experiences were so different.

[cdawg44]

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That's so weird. The 'only' thing I did differently was that I fired up the 2nd disc prior to playing the DLC, and it had never been used up to that point. Wonder if there was something on the disc that was installed locally that brought up the bugs? Just odd that the experiences were so different.

Interesting, either way, that is the issue with the yearly release of this title. While Ubisoft does a great job of trying new things out and taking risks, there are just way too many bugs with this game and the series would benefit for some more time between releases.

[DGuinta1]

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Just started playing, so cool in the opera house and climbing the walls why the opera is commencing. Very cool and so unexpected for me.

[Valdarez]

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Just started playing, so cool in the opera house and climbing the walls why the opera is commencing. Very cool and so unexpected for me.

Ahhh... the prologue. First of the game was quite interesting.