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[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:

[quote]En Sabah Nur wrote:

[quote]audiogarden1 wrote:

[quote]browndisaster wrote:
AC III is horrible…I’m not excited for AC IV at this point.

I liked the UI, the timeline, and the father-son premise, but the game really felt flat.[/quote]

I would say its far from horrible, its really a very good game if you’re judging it by itself, but in the context of the series and what came before it, its the weakest entry since the first one in my opinion.

ACII>ACB=ACR>ACIII>ACI IMO[/quote]

I agree with this man 100%. The thing that ruined ACIII for me was the pacing, you spent like 6 hours in what felt like an extended tutorial, not to mention I wasn’t all that fond of Connor as a protagonist.

In retrospect, I would’ve really liked it if they would’ve explored the idea of being an assassin for the Templars. And man…Haytham was the perfect character for that. They could’ve started you off as an Assassin, and then in the later part of a game, or maybe in another game, have you join up with the Templars.

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I agree with both points as to why acIII was a disappointment. Also, climbing around in the wilderness turned out to be much more boring than it was initially made out to be, and at times pretty damn tedious.

The thing that really disappointed about it for me was that the intro made probably the best first-impression of any AC game to date, only for it to fall flat afterwards.
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100% agree! AC2 was obviously SICK, AC3 made some great improvements (game-play wise, movement, attacking) but after you get transformed from the first char, into the wilderness, then the game goes to shit. AC3, the first part, was incredible though. Never felt that impressed / drawn-in by a game before.

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[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Raging at Arkham Origins, it can often be a buggy mess.

Experienced a game breaking one just there, went to continue my story and it just had batman glitching out and falling into the infinite darkness.[/quote]

I’ve hit a few glitches as well. Nothing as bad as yours though.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Raging at Arkham Origins, it can often be a buggy mess.

Experienced a game breaking one just there, went to continue my story and it just had batman glitching out and falling into the infinite darkness.[/quote]

I’ve hit a few glitches as well. Nothing as bad as yours though. [/quote]

Where about’s in it are you?

The worst glitches i’ve had far was being stuck in the GCR comms tower for Burnley and the game breaker during the predator section after Joker’s entrance. I would avoid restarting/dying at the mentioned predator section, all was well until I got shot to pieces and started again at the checkpoint.

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[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Raging at Arkham Origins, it can often be a buggy mess.

Experienced a game breaking one just there, went to continue my story and it just had batman glitching out and falling into the infinite darkness.[/quote]

I’ve hit a few glitches as well. Nothing as bad as yours though. [/quote]

Where about’s in it are you?

The worst glitches i’ve had far was being stuck in the GCR comms tower for Burnley and the game breaker during the predator section after Joker’s entrance. I would avoid restarting/dying at the mentioned predator section, all was well until I got shot to pieces and started again at the checkpoint.[/quote]

I just finished the first encounter with Bane. I’m tracking his location now.

I ended up under the ground after a fast travel once, but after a few seconds the game just acted like I jumped in water. I also had the screen go all weird for a second during one of the fights, but I can’t remember which. Deathstroke maybe.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Raging at Arkham Origins, it can often be a buggy mess.

Experienced a game breaking one just there, went to continue my story and it just had batman glitching out and falling into the infinite darkness.[/quote]

I’ve hit a few glitches as well. Nothing as bad as yours though. [/quote]

Where about’s in it are you?

The worst glitches i’ve had far was being stuck in the GCR comms tower for Burnley and the game breaker during the predator section after Joker’s entrance. I would avoid restarting/dying at the mentioned predator section, all was well until I got shot to pieces and started again at the checkpoint.[/quote]

I just finished the first encounter with Bane. I’m tracking his location now.

I ended up under the ground after a fast travel once, but after a few seconds the game just acted like I jumped in water. I also had the screen go all weird for a second during one of the fights, but I can’t remember which. Deathstroke maybe. [/quote]

If the glitches and bugs get ironed out deserves it’s 8/10.

Not taking account of the bugs, it’s actually my favourite one of the franchise so far. I prefer Batman’s portrayal.

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[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Raging at Arkham Origins, it can often be a buggy mess.

Experienced a game breaking one just there, went to continue my story and it just had batman glitching out and falling into the infinite darkness.[/quote]

I’ve hit a few glitches as well. Nothing as bad as yours though. [/quote]

Where about’s in it are you?

The worst glitches i’ve had far was being stuck in the GCR comms tower for Burnley and the game breaker during the predator section after Joker’s entrance. I would avoid restarting/dying at the mentioned predator section, all was well until I got shot to pieces and started again at the checkpoint.[/quote]

I just finished the first encounter with Bane. I’m tracking his location now.

I ended up under the ground after a fast travel once, but after a few seconds the game just acted like I jumped in water. I also had the screen go all weird for a second during one of the fights, but I can’t remember which. Deathstroke maybe. [/quote]

If the glitches and bugs get ironed out deserves it’s 8/10.

Not taking account of the bugs, it’s actually my favourite one of the franchise so far. I prefer Batman’s portrayal.
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I definitely like it better than city. I think Asylum is the best though.

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[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RATTLEHEAD wrote:
Raging at Arkham Origins, it can often be a buggy mess.

Experienced a game breaking one just there, went to continue my story and it just had batman glitching out and falling into the infinite darkness.[/quote]

I’ve hit a few glitches as well. Nothing as bad as yours though. [/quote]

Where about’s in it are you?

The worst glitches i’ve had far was being stuck in the GCR comms tower for Burnley and the game breaker during the predator section after Joker’s entrance. I would avoid restarting/dying at the mentioned predator section, all was well until I got shot to pieces and started again at the checkpoint.[/quote]

I just finished the first encounter with Bane. I’m tracking his location now.

I ended up under the ground after a fast travel once, but after a few seconds the game just acted like I jumped in water. I also had the screen go all weird for a second during one of the fights, but I can’t remember which. Deathstroke maybe. [/quote]

If the glitches and bugs get ironed out deserves it’s 8/10.

Not taking account of the bugs, it’s actually my favourite one of the franchise so far. I prefer Batman’s portrayal.
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Anybody else kind of pissed off at how small a role Deathstroke actually has? I can deal with Black Mask being a little more on the backburner than expected, but I wish Deathstroke would have shown up for at least a few fights.

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[quote]Big Kahuna wrote:
Anybody else kind of pissed off at how small a role Deathstroke actually has? I can deal with Black Mask being a little more on the backburner than expected, but I wish Deathstroke would have shown up for at least a few fights.[/quote]

Ya, I agree.

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Glitched on the firefly fight last night…

Wasn’t the end of the world though.

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Broke out in hysterical laughter to the Battlefield 4 Campaign’s intro song. Couldn’t stop thinking about it to concentrate on the rest of the drama, too good.

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AC4 just came out and got a 9/10 off gamespot… From what I heard from others it’s one of the best in the series definitely surprised it did so well, also battlefield 4 came out, anyone pick that up yet?

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[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
AC4 just came out and got a 9/10 off gamespot… From what I heard from others it’s one of the best in the series definitely surprised it did so well, also battlefield 4 came out, anyone pick that up yet?[/quote]

why does that surprise you?

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[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
AC4 just came out and got a 9/10 off gamespot… From what I heard from others it’s one of the best in the series definitely surprised it did so well, also battlefield 4 came out, anyone pick that up yet?[/quote]

Have BF4 pre-ordered for PS4.

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btw if anyone wants their shiny behind massaged in a game of FIFA’14(or 13) for xbox360, I can certainly do that for you.

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[quote]Claudan wrote:

[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
AC4 just came out and got a 9/10 off gamespot… From what I heard from others it’s one of the best in the series definitely surprised it did so well, also battlefield 4 came out, anyone pick that up yet?[/quote]

why does that surprise you?[/quote]

Probably cos they’ve gone downhill since number 2

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[quote]MaazerSmiit wrote:

[quote]Claudan wrote:

[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
AC4 just came out and got a 9/10 off gamespot… From what I heard from others it’s one of the best in the series definitely surprised it did so well, also battlefield 4 came out, anyone pick that up yet?[/quote]

why does that surprise you?[/quote]

Probably cos they’ve gone downhill since number 2[/quote]

Can’t agree at all.

Number one was like a demo compared to number two.

Number three introduced using other Assassins to help you…which is cool.

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It just seemed to veer off in a random direction to me, and story wise the third one took kind of a dip at a certain point of the game. I didn’t really know what to expect for Black Flag but to hear people saying it was the best game in the series upon other things was pretty cool lol

the company also seemed to be pushing out titles relatively quickly because of popularity and I was wondering if that would cause a quality dip as well, but suppose they proved themselves well.

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[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
It just seemed to veer off in a random direction to me, and story wise the third one took kind of a dip at a certain point of the game. I didn’t really know what to expect for Black Flag but to hear people saying it was the best game in the series upon other things was pretty cool lol

the company also seemed to be pushing out titles relatively quickly because of popularity and I was wondering if that would cause a quality dip as well, but suppose they proved themselves well. [/quote]

AC has always been one of those that seemed to pick up on its mistakes quickly and fix them.

ALL of the bugs in the first “demo” were worked out for the second one…which is why it stands out.

I think people today are just jaded.

If a game like that came out in 1993…every nerd on the planet would have had a spontaneous orgasm and died.

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[quote]Professor X wrote:

[quote]cstratton2 wrote:
It just seemed to veer off in a random direction to me, and story wise the third one took kind of a dip at a certain point of the game. I didn’t really know what to expect for Black Flag but to hear people saying it was the best game in the series upon other things was pretty cool lol

the company also seemed to be pushing out titles relatively quickly because of popularity and I was wondering if that would cause a quality dip as well, but suppose they proved themselves well. [/quote]

AC has always been one of those that seemed to pick up on its mistakes quickly and fix them.

ALL of the bugs in the first “demo” were worked out for the second one…which is why it stands out.

I think people today are just jaded.

If a game like that came out in 1993…every nerd on the planet would have had a spontaneous orgasm and died.
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So people say AC2 was better than AC3, sure in terms of story line, and characters - yes, but game-play, graphics and murder scenes, c’mon, AC3 dominated.

I would only expect ac4 to progress further on that, that’s why I was surprised that someone was surprised that it was good… I mean cmon, did anyone expect AC4 to be bad?!

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Despite everything AC3 did to improve upon previous titles (combat taking some hints from the Arkham games, sea battles being cool, trees being accessible), I can’t say that it improved on gameplay. Something about it just felt off to me, and I can’t put my finger on it.

I feel like AC2 and Brotherhood were probably on a par with each other, Revelations things started to go downhill in terms of plot development and gameplay - they brought a lot of new mechanics in, and it turned into a bit of a tangled mess.

Anyway, cool that Black Flag is getting good reviews, I’ve deliberately ignored both it and Arkham Origins since I don’t have an Xbox at uni and the first game on my to do list over xmas is GTA V