Assassin's Creed this Friday, whose getting it ?

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I doubt I will play this some more, it looks great but it doesn't have the stat building like a RPG, it doesn't have the responsiveness of a fighting game, the controls are horrible so that only leaves looking at the scenery and if I wnated to do that I would book a holiday to North Africa and see it for real instead of a 19" screen with black borders.
 
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Erm, I'm at the end (I think).

The credits have rolled and I can now see the writing on the wall... what do I do now? I'm just wandering around and the only thing I can do is read email on the 3 computers. Am I missing something - is there some action you need to perform to get the game to end?

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Good game in all. Sure, there were some short comings - but it was just the right combination of Prince of Persia and Hitman for me.
 
I am infurated with this game, it crashes every 10-15 minutes.

I am currently trying to do one of the main assassinations and with the poor save system everytime that the game crashes I am sent right back and have to get the assignment again, then go and find the guy, then kill him, then get back to the hide out.

I cannot do all of that in the gap between crashes! I had thought that the PC was overheating but having taken off any over cloacks and monitoring the heat it doesn't seem to bad.

I am awaiting the 'imminent' patch!
 
The only issue I had with the game was missing speech. I played about 10 minutes before I relised muting the characters was not a stylised choice. Lowering the sound hardware acceleration solved that. No crashes thankfully.
 
Cybergangster said:
**** SPOILER ****

Erm, I'm at the end (I think).

The credits have rolled and I can now see the writing on the wall... what do I do now? I'm just wandering around and the only thing I can do is read email on the 3 computers. Am I missing something - is there some action you need to perform to get the game to end?

**** END SPOILER ****

Good game in all. Sure, there were some short comings - but it was just the right combination of Prince of Persia and Hitman for me.
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That is the end, you can now just look around at all that stuff and figure out some of the stuff behind it :) You can also jump back in the Animus and re-do missions etc.
 
Timdog said:
just got it today, runs like crap most of the time on my agp 1950 on vista :(
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Seeing as you're using AGP - I assume you're using a single core CPU?

Assassin's Creed has dual core as minimum requirements. Here's why:

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So far, I've really enjoyed this game. It's running well on my system. Only occasionally notice framerate drops at 1920x1200 (with black bars), full details (including ini mod for extra npcs).

Only completed one assassination so far but I'm taking my time. Playing it in conjunction with reading a novel called Brethren (can't remember author's name just now), which is set during the Crusades. The two really complement each other.
 
Just completed this (Director's Cut), thoughts below:

+Impressive graphics, and well stylised
+Decent framerate (80-120fps); the horror stories about performance seem to be unfounded
+Low VRAM usage, you could play this quite comfortably on a 640MB card I reckon
+Better gameplay than I was expecting as I dislike platform games, it doesn’t rely on perfect timing of jumps etc
+I like the fact that most buildings are climbable, it isn’t too contrived in terms of feeding you down a single path
+Variety of hiding methods is a nice touch

-Unbelievably convoluted method of quitting the game, the worst I’ve ever seen in fact. It takes a minimum of ELEVEN clicks to quit, which would be bad enough on its own, but this is compounded by having to wait through a couple of loading sequences. Then once you finally get back to the initial splash screen you have to reload your profile in order to exit, how incredibly ****ing stupid is that? If I designed such a poor interface I wouldn’t just lose my job, I’d be taken out the back and shot as a service to humanity.
-Load times are too quick so you almost never get time to listen to the hints’n’tips voiceover that plays on the loading screen. It should have a ‘press any key to begin’ prompt for when you are ready.
-Game gets a bit repetitive midway through… in the early missions I was doing all the investigations, rescuing all the citizens etc, but I gave up towards the end. Also pretty lame that all the bureaus seem to be identical except for the colour scheme
-Fights are a bit slow paced and tame compared to say Dragon Age 2, most of the time I just stand holding block surrounded by half a dozen baddies, waiting for them to lunge so I can hit counter (which seems overpowered). Fights don’t seem to scale much the more enemies you face, they should all rush at once to overwhelm you or something.
-Unskippable ‘cutscenes’ everytime you complete a minor objective (such as saving a citizen) get very tiresome after a while, as it prevents you from moving effectively towards your next objective
-The modern era sections feel unnecessary (and very dull), they break up the flow of the main game
 
HangTime said:
Game gets a bit repetitive midway through…
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This is what really frustrated me. So much so I have never finished it. It got far too samey far too quickly. I should get round to completing it at some point as I have all of the series on Steam now.

I thought this was a thread about the new one at first and thought - how on earth have I missed all this discussion / release date - but then saw the thread date :p
 
You could just Alt F4 to exit after a save.

Is this your first Assassins Creed game? If so you are in for a treat next, they get better.
 
Yeah read about alt-F4 but didn't want to risk corrupting a save as it uses autosave rather than manual.

It is my first AC game just trying to start AC2 now (it is running a ubisoft patcher despite being fully updated on Steam - presumably some DRM shenanigans)
 
AC 2 had a faster quit game (less clicks) patched in IIRC.

It is funny how things like that can really get annoying.
 
DAMN YOU ALL!

I thought this thread was for ACIII. I was about to jump around like a little girl!

Damn you all to HELL!
 
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