Assassin's Creed 3

[badger]

Anyone else play this and get thoroughly frustrated with it?

I thought the idea sounded cool --- an AC game (i've played through every other one for the main consoles, not the sidebar handheld console ones) based in Revolutionary War 'Mercia. **** yeah!

And then, the following happens:

1- Walk into rocks, walk into walls, walk into tons of things that I shouldn't be able to walk into.
2- Run up the wall... fall. Run up the ledge... fall. Run up many things that look I should be able to run up and NOT fall, or at least be able to grasp the top... and fall.
3- Climbing the same tree over and over for viewpoints. Oh look! ANOTHER ONE OF THESE DAMN IDENTICAL TREES TO CLIMB! derrrrrrrp
4- Side mission fail due to environmental snafu --- you mean those redcoats that are completely ignoring me are suddenly chasing after me? GONG!!!!! GONNNNNNNNG! The alarm is sounding! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-ooooooooooooooo! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-oooooooooooo!
5- Ninja horse... can only walk on smooth surfaces... that you cannot see, because everything is covered in snow. Oh dammit, my horse got stuck in a ****ing rock. Bye bye. Awww, he's neighing at me not to leave him. Poor horse. (whistle) Hey! The horse just re-appeared out of nowhere!
6- I'm on a boat! I'm on a boat! Sh!t, the boat just crashed into a rock... another rock... it's stuck on a rock and other ships are firing cannons at me... rock rock rock... **** **** ****

Anyways, if you have played AC3, tell me how wrong I am (or agree) or just share your own misery stories. It's incredibly how buggy and glitchy and just DAMN ANNOYING this game is!

[Midtowner]

It's not a horrible game. Pretty compelling storyline. I've only run into your horse bug one time. Also, on what planet can horses not swim?

The combat is really repetitive, there are like 3-5 kinds of bad guys to kill plus bosses. Stealth missions are annoying, I once got sucked into completing part of the main mission just because I had stopped playing I guess in the wrong place.

[achiro]

Glitchy as heck. I put it down to play Halo4 and haven't picked it up again. I will eventually to finish the storyline but don't know if I'll bother with full sync on each mission like I have on the others.

[badger]

Glitchy as heck. I put it down to play Halo4 and haven't picked it up again. I will eventually to finish the storyline but don't know if I'll bother with full sync on each mission like I have on the others.

Full sync is full-on frustration. You may find yourself thinking "I could totally do that, I'm gonna reload from the checkpoint to get the full sync!" and after 20 failed attempts and 20,000 f-bombs, you WILL LET IT GO

[badger]

SPOILER NUISANCE: At one point, you and the present day group fly to Brazil for a little sparkly piece o' nothing. And then... ho hum, you're back in the abandoned cave. Seriously?! Stupid stupid stupid stupid!

[achiro]

SPOILER NUISANCE: At one point, you and the present day group fly to Brazil for a little sparkly piece o' nothing. And then... ho hum, you're back in the abandoned cave. Seriously?! Stupid stupid stupid stupid!

The game is full of crap like that. Cut scene, end cut scene, walk 20 feet to go through a door, another cut scene starts, end cut scene 10 minutes later, then you have to run from one end of a map to the other to get to another cut scene...

[badger]

The hunting part is kind of fun. The first time I encountered a cougar I was really surprised and then I was like "Oh yeah, this is a cougar, not a cute little zoo kitty"

Also, if anyone playing it has forgotten that you need to level up your "*** Bros," hehehehehehehe, hold LB (not sure what PS3 button is) and hit X so that you can send them off to Quebec or wherever for trainin' missions.

[SicEmBaylor]

The PC version has yet to be released, but I intend to grab it on release day.

PC gaming>console gaming>mobile>board games>playing doctor.

Err...wait...

[SicEmBaylor]

Along the same lines as AC3, I decided to give 'Dishonored' a try. They have some similar elements, but the setting is totally and completely different.

Dishonored is absolutely fantastic -- highly underrated.

[StoopTroup]

I've noticed that the best games are hard to find on the shelf of places that sell used games. You might keep that in mind unless you are someone that has to have the next Version or the newest games before everyone else.

[SicEmBaylor]

I've noticed that the best games are hard to find on the shelf of places that sell used games. You might keep that in mind unless you are someone that has to have the next Version or the newest games before everyone else.

I didn't mind buying used games when I had an Xbox. It's usually a much better way to go unless you're just dying to have something at release date.

However, you can't buy PC games used. Unless it's ebay I suppose.

[StoopTroup]

We have a PS3 and a XBOX Kinect that just took a dump. I need to see what's up with it. We don't play any PC games anymore.

[badger]

Unless you love the AC series, avoid AC3. Look up the cutscenes on youtube, or watch someone else walk into the mountains and run up and fall over obstacles that shouldn't be obstacles in the first place.

Troop, our PS3 crapped out on us right around the beginning of the year. Would play blu rays, would NOT play game discs. So, we turned in everything for a 3DS... we haven't played it too much, but it looks cool I guess

[SicEmBaylor]

Unless you love the AC series, avoid AC3. Look up the cutscenes on youtube, or watch someone else walk into the mountains and run up and fall over obstacles that shouldn't be obstacles in the first place.

Troop, our PS3 crapped out on us right around the beginning of the year. Would play blu rays, would NOT play game discs. So, we turned in everything for a 3DS... we haven't played it too much, but it looks cool I guess

I love AC, but the controls take a lot of getting used to. It even takes me awhile to get used to them again when I haven't played one of the games for awhile.

[Killerbees]

I am done with it. Too glitchy to worry about full sync.

Seems like QA in general is going down the last few years on games. Mainly talking about the established series.

I will give Dishonored a go. It looked like a combo fighting game, and I dont like them.

[badger]

I am done with it. Too glitchy to worry about full sync.

Seems like QA in general is going down the last few years on games. Mainly talking about the established series.

I will give Dishonored a go. It looked like a combo fighting game, and I dont like them.

Read "The Trenches" comic? The comic itself isn't that funny, but it has tons of funny stories about video game QA that are worth reading. Here's a link

It seems that the problem isn't a lack of QA, but rather, an unwillingness to change bugs and glitches before a game's initial release (in this internet era, they usually release patches right after release) so that they can make it to market by the holidays.

I miss the one-liners of the original game. The absurdity of Middle Easterners speaking in English just adds to the humor, but when they repeat the same lines over and over as your assassin does crazy things, it's just perfect, so I repeat them now. We are also calling the new guy "Ezio" even though we all know he's "Connor," because after three Ezio games, who gives a crap about "Conner." So, "DAMMIT EZIO!" everytime something goes wrong.

"Why is he doing that?"

"He's going to hurt himself. And when he does, I'm not going to help!"

[OUTrumpet]

For some reason, I'm not encountering a lot of these glitches problems, but I don't think I'm very far. Completed full sync through chapter 6 with most missions only requiring one to two play-throughs of some missions, most you can get a full sync the first shot. The only exception was the General Braddock quest, and I couldn't shoot the dang barrels. Kept wanting to aim and shoot at them. Found out didn't have to aim a little later.

Conner doesn't seem as well developed as Ezio unfortunately.

Only glitch I've encountered is the game freezes up sometimes, but that could just be my XBox as it's freezing on other stuff too. Little confused about how the game enters into 'bullet-time' sometimes, but is very inconsistent. Conner runs around like a bad-***, then others he's derping about.

I love the pirate missions.

Badger, on the boat missions, the less sail you have the easier it is to maneuver. When I need to turn sharply, take the sail all the way down to none.

And when doing free roam, don't hold down A. Just use the Right Trigger and you won't fall.

[badger]

Protip: You will do the most badarse fighting maneuvers if you just BUTTON MASH.

I got the idea while watching baby badger hitting the keyboard buttons on one of her toys a last week. It was so cute, that I decided to mimick it in AC3:
1- Hold right trigger
2- Hit ALL FOUR buttons, X Y A and B as much as possible, even rubbing my finger across all four so that they all get hit pretty much simultaneously.
3- ???
4- Ezio... errrr, I mean Connor... is now pulling out his pistol, his arrows, everything to finish enemies. He's taking two musket redcoats and making them stab each other with their muskets, and THEN they fire them into other enemies. He's tripping them, sliding behind them, finding random stuff to volley himself off up, while burying his hatchet in skulls, in stomachs, in their legs, KILL KILL KILL.

In short, PROFIT.

[setem]

Damn game was super short! I like the story line but the game play did not live up to the hype.

I want a whole game based on Achilles and a whole game based on Hatham and then mordern era games.

[8timechamps]

My son was dying to get AC3, so we pre-ordered it, and I picked it up on release day. He played it the first Friday night he had it, and hasn't played it since. I'm assuming it's because of the things mentioned here.

Now he wants Halo 4, any reviews?

I'm a PC gamer, and am currently addicted to Civilization V. Anyone play that?