[Naren]

ubisoft is dedicated to releasing an AC game every holiday now. Pure cash cow.

Plus this one completes the trilogy, even though it's the 4th game. It's a 4-ology, a quadrology, a trilogy+1ology, a penguin induced handful of raisins....you get my point I'm sure

I thought "Assassin's Creed III" would complete the trilogy. How can they conclude the series with a game with no number. :scratch: It defies their system of numbered games introducing new characters in new time periods and locations (AC1 = Altair, 1200AD Israel, AC2 = Ezio, 1600 Italy) and the non-numbered games being about the characters introduced in the numbered games (such as Altair's Chronicles, Bloodlines, Brotherhood, etc.).

I don't get how you think AC: Revelations will be the "fourth game" when there are already 7 Assassin's Creed games out. Revelations would be like the 8th game...

Nah, I don't think this will complete the trilogy...

 

[Naren]

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The real trilogy. You play AC and then AC2 picks up right at the end, and then Brotherhood jumps in exactly where that ended. You could play them as one continuous game. Do the others add anything integral to the plot? No, since I've never played them and am not missing anything.

This series may suffer from too many expansions and adaptations, but the core 3 games so far are solid as hell and fairly consistent. If this is the final chapter that picks up where Brotherhood left off, it should be great. They don't need to do much tweaking of gameplay, features or graphics, just new plot developments.

And I doesn't need to be numbered, as I don't believe it will be introducing a new character. This should be focusing on Desmond and be the chapter he was preparing for with the other two stories within the story (Altairs and Ezios).

Since you did not play the other games, you do not know whether they added anything integral to the plot or not. If you hadn't played Brotherhood, you wouldn't know that IT added anything integral to the plot either.

I'm pretty sure Revelations will NOT be the last AC game.

And the last game in the series DOES need to be numbered (hence why Revelations is most likely not the last AC game).

 

[Naren]

The E3 trailer for this is just AMAZING.

 

[Naren]

My copy got shipped yesterday... but Skyrim still hasn't arrived. Supposedly Skyrim will arrive today or tomorrow. AC: Revelations will probably arrive on the weekend. Maybe Monday.

In the meantime, I've been watching insanely depressing movies. Last night I watched Byakuyakou, which is guaranteed to make you want to kill yourself from how bleak and depressing it is (and it gets like way more depressing when the mysteries are solved near the end).

:lol: Anyway, why can't places ship things FASTER!?

 

[Naren]

Its not really a spoiler since Im still very early on in the game, it deals with stuff you learn in the beginning and will already know. I just dont want others to read it and expect it to be something its not.

Wait... You're saying it's not a high-speed racing game? :ugh:

 

[Naren]

I have this game at home, but I wonder when I can start playing it since Skyrim seems, like most Elder Scrolls games, a game that never ever ends. :lol:

Not that I'm complaining because I love Skyrim/The Elder Scrolls, but I really want to play AC: Revelations too. :lol:

 

[Naren]

I know what you mean, Chris, but once I start an Elder Scrolls game, I can't stop until I've beaten the main story, every single side-mission, visited every location, and done pretty much everything possible. If I started AC: Revelations right now, I would spend the entire time thinking about Skyrim and going "I need to beat this game as fast as possible so I can get back to Skyrim!" and since I love the Assassin's Creed series so much, I don't want to do that. :lol:

I love the AC series and the ME series, but my top 3 favorite games of all time are all Elder Scrolls games. AC and ME games are in my top 10 favorite games of all time too, obviously, but I clearly put a much higher priority on Elder Scrolls games. To be honest, I never really think about Elder Scrolls games in terms of story since I don't view there as being a single unique story like there are in AC games (for example), but a living breathing dynamic world that changes with you.

But that's just me. Hopefully I'll be able to start AC: Revelations some time in December... :ugh: I really want to play it... and it's right there next to my TV... on the shelf above my 360... If it had arrived in the mail before Skyrim did, I'd probably be playing it right now, which probably would be better, just because I imagine you can beat Revelations in about 30 hours or so.

And the difficulty slider is pretty much meaningless to me. I've owned and played every single Elder Scrolls game released, but I have never once touched the difficulty slider in any of the games. I view it as a more precise way of changing difficulty that is more specific than Easy, Normal, and Hard. None of the AC games have Easy, Normal, or Hard difficulty settings, but you have to admit that the AC games are universally easy (not that I'm complaining. I think the difficulty is perfect. I never get frustrated and I move through the games very very smoothly without dying many times at all).

Last game in the AC:2 series, anyways, isn't there an AC:3 still coming?

Yes, it's the last game dealing with Ezio's story. There will be an Assassin's Creed 3. I don't know if AC3 will conclude the whole series' story or if there will be spin-offs with that too just like there were with AC2, AC: Brotherhood, and AC: Revelations.

 

[Naren]

I don't play video games very much and though assassins creed was way too easy. There was an xmen wolverine game that came out probably like 7-9 years ago that honestly I think is significantly better gameplay. Anytime I play ac i think of that game and how I remember that game being significantly more challenging and not nearly as repetitive.

Edit: It was called x2.

This post makes me think you are insane. :ugh:

 

[Naren]

Yeah it sucks. I usually have it happen after I renovate too many banks and tailor shops. Apparently you can avoid the dens being attacked all together if you keep your profile low.

I just beat AC: Revelations yesterday with about 50% of the achievements (which is annoying considering that like 25% of the achievements are multiplayer ) and I plan to get some of the ones I didn't get.

But the thing is... through my entire gameplay, my dens only got attacked once (I mean, not counting the one time they get attacked in the storyline at the beginning of the game). Granted, I never stayed at the "full red full alert" status for very long because I always paid off heralds or murdered "witnesses." So, yeah, keeping your profile low will prevent any of your dens from being attacked.

Pretty cool game, but I felt like the controls were a step down from Brotherhood. :yesway: I would rank Revelations above AC1, but below AC2 and Brotherhood.

 

[Naren]

When my PS3 broke and I bought a new one, I started playing through AC1 again and I was thinking "Hm, quite a bit different from the more recent ACs, but still pretty awesome." I just loved the setting of the first one. Israel and Syria during the crusades.

 

[Naren]

Also, non-spoiler, I started enjoying this game a whole lot more when I figured out how to avoid the whole tower command mini-game, and when I stopped trying to replay Desmond's side first person memories. It felt like it was trying too hard to be like Portal or something and I was getting frustrated with it.

I think I only had two tower command mini-games throughout my entire playthrough (one in the main storyline and one not). I was just really paranoid about keeping my notoriousness below maximum level.

I actually liked the Desmond first person missions. They were very very short, so they never really got boring. I think I beat the first one in about 3-4 minutes and the last one in about 6-8 minutes. They mainly just told me stuff I already knew/assumed. :lol:

 

[Naren]

I didn't hate them, but I definitely wouldn't pay money for them.

 

[Naren]

Assassin's Creed 2 had the best story and the best balance, but I think Brotherhood had the best system. So for me it's difficult to say whether AC2 or AC: Brotherhood is the best in the series.

I wasn't disappointed by Revelations, but I do think it did suffer from "more of the same"-itis.