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The latest installment of Assassin's Creed shows promise. Although anything would be better than the swill that was AC3. The only fun part of that game was the naval sequence.
 
currently playing AC black flag like theres no tomorrow...

lots of content and ubi finally ditched the uplay passport *you can get one free off the site*.

the multiplayer is awesome...

not sure about the whole clan thing though, its getting a bit like halo where you have organised grups working together in what is meant to be FFA, but as an experienced gamer *flicks hair patronizinlgy* i either join them or give them a good seeing to.

the main storyline is pretty good... (on a side note, edward kenway is appeared in quite a few sexual dreams since i started playing it. That and captain jack sparrow... i think i have a thing for pirates? *confused face*) and im intrigued to see how it ends.

the things i learnt through gaming is never listen to other peoples bad comments about games, they will only make you enjoy it less when you play them...

AC has finally managed to fill the hole that 90s MMORPGs being taken over by P2W payment structure left in my heart :'(
 
You're the first person I've heard speak ill of ACIII everbody else treats it as the game that broke the boredom, and if it's worse than the original game it should have killed the franchise because the original is nearly unplayable with it's constant forcing you to explore the entire city with no reason other than to stretch out an incredibly short game.
 
i seem to like indvredibly boring parts of games then.. i enjoyed unlocking everything. On this one theres loads of things to collect but they are optional. theres loads of chests on random islands in the middle of the sea and ship battles are epiiiiiiiiiiiiic

im also liking halo 3 again... they gave a free download on xbox the other month and went on there. im very rusty...i got owned... a lot....
 
You're the first person I've heard speak ill of ACIII everbody else treats it as the game that broke the boredom, and if it's worse than the original game it should have killed the franchise because the original is nearly unplayable with it's constant forcing you to explore the entire city with no reason other than to stretch out an incredibly short game.

I have to agree about the first...

But the third left me disappointed. I admit it was cool to play as a boss during the intro, and like I said, the ship part was very fun. But Connor bothered me. He was very one-dimensional in my opinion, and I just couldn't get into his story. He reminded me of some punk with a couple of tomahawks running around town, instead of being the supposed protagonist. The gameplay itself seemed very mechanical and the stealth was a joke. Soldiers on every rooftop negated the surprise assassinate fun that I had in the 2nd (which was glorious). Aagh... ah well.

I haven't gotten a chance to play the latest much. Literally, all I've done so far is make it to the island after the shipwreck.

We'll see how it goes.
 
I rarely unlock everything but I love searching for Easter Eggs and unlocking things. If the original AC had been something like Hitman where all the places you were scouting out were scouted because it would give you information on your target and his route/habits, and different ways you could kill him I would have been all about it. I love that in Hitman running in guns ablazing is almost the singularly worst idea you can possibly come up with and kinda hate that in AC it usually works rather well since the parry/kill system is flawless, your only problem is the target running while you slaughter everything.

But it's not, you basically climb everything just to unlock it and it has nothing to do with the game but you HAVE to do it. Side quests are supposed to be side quests and if I want to get to the point I should be able to. Anything mandatory should add to the experience.

I still throw in Batman Arkham City/Asylum every so often to hunt down a few more Riddler Trophies but I didn't need to get them to beat the game. That for me is a pretty big difference.
 
Oh, and Candy, I want a tent, with eyes and a big scary mouth, like the illigitamit love child of one of those angry muppet monsters from Jim Henson had sex with the smiling dancing mountains from Super Mario.
 
I'm playing the iPad version of the Lego LOTR, and the controls fucking suck. I own all the Legos games on the consoles and pc, this was my first foray into the iOS version.

I may not ever buy another game if the controls are the same.
 
I haven't played any of the LEgo games, I keep meaning to pick one up wince all I hear is that they are adorable fun and if you enjoy whatever franchise they are doing you have no excuse for not enjoying yourself unless you simply hate fun.

How is Farcry? My friend has it but he seems to just use it for a hunting sim.
 
This is a get stoned and play video games Saturday. I think it will have to be Far Cry 3, or else maybe seeing how rusty I am at COD. Other suggestions welcomed.

Is anyone considering getting the new XBox? We have a PS3 and was thinking XBox for the new console for the family room this XMas.

Very comforting BND!
 
I haven't played any of the LEgo games, I keep meaning to pick one up wince all I hear is that they are adorable fun and if you enjoy whatever franchise they are doing you have no excuse for not enjoying yourself unless you simply hate fun.

How is Farcry? My friend has it but he seems to just use it for a hunting sim.

LEGO LUKE IS A COCKSUCKING MOTHERFUCKING SON OF A BITCH!

So my ex and I were playing Lego Star wars high off our asses- like so high that we were in that state that Peter and Lois were in where they thought they sang an amazing song but in reality were just staring off into space. Well, DESPITE that obvious handicap, we managed to sneak through the entire Death Star, her as Han and I as Chewy, saved the princess, and were well on our way to sneaking back out again. All this, mind you, is much more impressive because we were barely tethered to reality. Well, we're on our way out, we've snuck through the control panel, and out of NOWHERE, computer controlled Lego Luke turns around, jerks off his helmet, and JUST STARTS SHOOTING UP THE PLACE FOR NO GOOD REASON! These weren't even stormtroopers! It was the guys manning the controls and shit! And an ENTIRE ROOM of them! Fuck you, Lego Luke. Fuck you.
 
I'll probably wait a year to let the smoke settle and/or some exclusives get announced. So far the only thing the PS4 has for me is MGS5 and a lack of hatred from the XBone launch stuff most of which I think are good ideas. However if the Xbone gets crushed there's no point.

It very well might come down to who gets Kingdom Hearts III at this point or if PS can improve it's online service, I like my XBox gold quite a bit, and while I love my Xbox controller (I have big hands, it's not that I don't like the PS controllers I just prefer having all that extra room and I really liked the first gen Xbox controllers before they replaced them with the sports controllers.

You must have big hands. I hated those things. I uh... played with a child's mini controller for a little bit...
 
Oh, and Candy, I want a tent, with eyes and a big scary mouth, like the illigitamit love child of one of those angry muppet monsters from Jim Henson had sex with the smiling dancing mountains from Super Mario.

Consider them dropped at the breeding center. Gonna go through a couple days of Rune Factory first. I just beat the first boss and I want to ravel in the extra hearts it's going to give all the women-folk. Also, it's about time for my turnip harvest to come in, so I'm gonna be rolling in pussy AND cash. It's a good day for Raguna. I still haven't picked who to court yet...

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/040/f/0/Rune_Factory__Concept_Art_by_Pikaspirit.jpg

Melody's obviously the hottest, but I married her on the console so I want somebody else on the handheld. I'm digging the chick with the eyepatch, but she doesn't move in until you beat the story and I'm bad to just stop playing after I beat story...
 
Just went through the egg festival in Rune Factory, but I was playing in the dark so as not to wake up the gf- well, went to hit the start button to open my menu; hit the power button instead. I think my brain went "oh that sticks out" like the normal DS, because it couldn't actually see the buttons.

Goddamn it.

Edit: At least it was just that one day.
 
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I haven't played any of the LEgo games, I keep meaning to pick one up wince all I hear is that they are adorable fun and if you enjoy whatever franchise they are doing you have no excuse for not enjoying yourself unless you simply hate fun.

How is Farcry? My friend has it but he seems to just use it for a hunting sim.

It took me a while to get into the flow of the game. I am just at the point where I need the animal skins to go any further, so yeah I can see that. Just achieved a compound bow so maybe I will have better luck in hunting.

It is pretty good as far as shooters go and the story is cool. Some very trippy scenes and over all pretty engaging. For a frame of reference I have been a COD, CODMW, BF2142, Crysis and CrysisII player over the years and FARCRY3 ranks as really good, but not quite as good as those games. Sort of the Drew Blesoe of FPS. The biggest drawback is it won't let you save at points where other games would. So you end up having to accomplish the same objective a couple of times, because sometimes 2 or 3 objectives in sequence have to happen before the next auto-save. Eventually you get really cautious, and a lot of the game requires you to be thinking about stealth so you have to go with it. (but it is still annoying to kill the same guys over and over while trying to figure out the last part of the objective!)

I played for basically 12 hrs yesterday so it has something going for it.
 
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