Assassins Creed 3

[thepolishkid88]

Originally Posted by sheady

what are the major control differences, I'm thinking of picking it up this weekend.

Basing it off my brief previous experience I would say very little, however it may depend upon your system. The game itself helps you in a few ways as it takes you step by step through the gameplay.

[straka91]

Love this game, the Naval battles were a nice addition. Not to pleased about the lack of upgrading though, guess it goes the setting.

I have 3 complaints from an otherwise great game...

1.The sale book thingy in the mansion is confusing as hell and slow as hell.
2.Glitches, I kill a guy and end up flying 1000ft in the air or bouncing over a damn tree for 15 minutes.
3. You cant beat the game by countering like the last couple of Assassins Creeds lol.

[thepolishkid88]

Originally Posted by straka91

Love this game, the Naval battles were a nice addition. Not to pleased about the lack of upgrading though, guess it goes the setting.

I have 3 complaints from an otherwise great game...

1.The sale book thingy in the mansion is confusing as hell and slow as hell.
2.Glitches, I kill a guy and end up flying 1000ft in the air or bouncing over a damn tree for 15 minutes.
3. You cant beat the game by countering like the last couple of Assassins Creeds lol.

Glitches are an otherwise down side to a phenomenal game. In all honesty I haven't played a game this good since maybe Call of Duty Modern Warfare.

[sheady]

I think I'll have to pick it up tomorrow morning, I'm not working so can spend the whole day on it.

[brymaster1]

Originally Posted by straka91

Love this game, the Naval battles were a nice addition. Not to pleased about the lack of upgrading though, guess it goes the setting.

I have 3 complaints from an otherwise great game...

1.The sale book thingy in the mansion is confusing as hell and slow as hell.2.Glitches, I kill a guy and end up flying 1000ft in the air or bouncing over a damn tree for 15 minutes.
3. You cant beat the game by countering like the last couple of Assassins Creeds lol.

THIS, I have no idea what that **** is for.

[CubsJunkie]

Sweet mother of fnck, the Thomas Hickey mission makes me want to punch an infant. What an incredibly annoying mission.

[Anthony19]

I don't know I'm not liking the story line so far. I am on sequence 4 and it seems to not make sense. I a native American for Christ sake, and playing hide and seek. How is he an assassin?

*Edit*

Nevermind.

[thepolishkid88]

Originally Posted by CubsJunkie

Sweet mother of fnck, the Thomas Hickey mission makes me want to punch an infant. What an incredibly annoying mission.

I hated every chase scene you had to do in that storyline. So annoying how you would be chasing after someone and just start doing parcor on random houses. Hated every one of those missions.

Great storyline but very involving and took me 2 months to beat majority of the game.

[JKidd]

The accounting book in the mansion is used to stock building supplies, create trade able items and then trade.

I'll preface this with the more "homestead missions" you do to get more people in the homestead map will give you more and more items to stockpile and create - thus giving you more and more items to trade.

Stockpile:
Used to gather raw materials such as lumber, iron ore, food, plants and farm life. If you've been in the frontier hunting, stocking up on food/hunting items is pointless, as the bottom option "Connor" will have a ton of venison and pelts.

Crafting:
Perhaps the most irritating part. This is where you use the items above and craft things like barrels, ales and furniture. The easiest thing to do, at least early on, is stock up, and then go through each category in crafting, and see what you can actually make. Early on, barrels, and a few other items will be about it. You'll see you have the person needed, and the raw materials so you can craft the items. As you get deeper into the game, more things will be open, and in turn, you'll need to craft items, and then mix it with other crafted items. For example, to make ale, you'll craft a barrel out of the oak lumber, and then use the barrel mixed with the barley stock item to make ale.

What makes it a pain in the ass, is that it resets your position in the crafting recipes each time. So, if I'm down on "metal works" and I craft rings, and then I want to craft something else, it resets me to the top of the crafting recipes and I have to try and find my place. No tutorial in this area was a huge pain in the ass, and took me quite some time to figure out.

Trading:
Exactly as it sounds. You craft items above, select a convoy slot, and then select which trader will give you the most money for the convoy.

I'm about done with the story for the game. I think I'm at like 80% done. Some awesome battle missions.

[JKidd]

Beat the game, and severely disappointed with the end.

After encountering Haytham and killing him, you then have to kill Charles Lee. Well, instead of using ANY assassin skills, the game has you quite literally walk right up to him. You then get some archaic battle against mercs, and he slips away. Fear not though, it's time to do the same thing again. You find him on the harbor in Boston, and WALK RIGHT UP TO HIM! Then, everyone's favorite type of sequence... a chase sequence into a burning ship building. Yippee. You then get injured, shoot Charles (not by your own doing, it's in the story), track him down to the Frontier and again, walk right up to him to kill him in yet another story sequence.

If that wasn't irritating enough, then things get even more ****ing stupid.

You're back to Desmond outside of the animus. Your next 20 minutes (no exaggeration either, it's 20 SOLID minutes) is trying to track this stupid hologram down inside the caves. No direction pointer and no help, just look for glowing **** and go to it. Last, you find the orbs power and poof! World is dead and game is over... yet of course you don't get to choose, the story does.

Absolute worst ending to a story mode game like this I've ever played.

[sheady]

I got it for christmas and have only played an hour or so, I'm not impressed so far. I think part of that though is because my wife got it for the xbox instead of ps3 so mid battle I keep pushing a wrong flipper and going in to the weapon menu.

also, the fighting the wolf part....retarded.

[thepolishkid88]

Originally Posted by JKidd

Beat the game, and severely disappointed with the end.

After encountering Haytham and killing him, you then have to kill Charles Lee. Well, instead of using ANY assassin skills, the game has you quite literally walk right up to him. You then get some archaic battle against mercs, and he slips away. Fear not though, it's time to do the same thing again. You find him on the harbor in Boston, and WALK RIGHT UP TO HIM! Then, everyone's favorite type of sequence... a chase sequence into a burning ship building. Yippee. You then get injured, shoot Charles (not by your own doing, it's in the story), track him down to the Frontier and again, walk right up to him to kill him in yet another story sequence.

If that wasn't irritating enough, then things get even more ****ing stupid.

You're back to Desmond outside of the animus. Your next 20 minutes (no exaggeration either, it's 20 SOLID minutes) is trying to track this stupid hologram down inside the caves. No direction pointer and no help, just look for glowing **** and go to it. Last, you find the orbs power and poof! World is dead and game is over... yet of course you don't get to choose, the story does.

Absolute worst ending to a story mode game like this I've ever played.

Really teased the entire time about the British and American colonies fighting as the main storyline, yet there is very little of those two armies. I found the ending to be brutal, I was on Youtube a lot looking up how to beat the parts. Really hated the end, and probably won't be buying the next one.

[killmachine]

is awesome, and full of gliches!

[JKidd]

Originally Posted by thepolishkid88

Really teased the entire time about the British and American colonies fighting as the main storyline, yet there is very little of those two armies. I found the ending to be brutal, I was on Youtube a lot looking up how to beat the parts. Really hated the end, and probably won't be buying the next one.

Yeah, it wasn't as much as I thought it'd be.

Two or three missions, off the top of my head, that actually had Connor fight during a battle (aside from naval stuff).

It was a fun campaign, but the ending has completely turned me off to getting another Assassins Creed game. I might get another if I have nothing to get, and I have a ton of return dollars to blow through, but the game - as a whole - is maybe a 6/10 now that I'm through it all and the novelty factor of a new game has worn off.