Should I skip Assassins Creed 3 and play AC4

The Joker said:
Yeah because people like milk... :D

Quoting sales figures isn't exactly the best way to prove its a brilliant series though.

The Call of duty franchise has sold 139,600,000 Million copies...

One of the worst games in the franchise (Call of Duty : Modern Warfare 3) sold 26,500,000 copies The highest sales figures of all the COD games...and its was the worst lol.
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I agree with you on the sales figures not really speaking for the quality of a product. I didn't really mean that high sales automatically makes it a good series, my point was more that I am not the only person who loves the franchise and therefore probably not the only person who sees the differences between them and don't see them all as the same old glass of milk. The CoD franchise since MW2 (except maybe Black Ops) on the other hand... Although I will admit the new one looks different.

As soon as the AC franchise starts releasing bad titles I will stop buying them, but until then Ubisoft can milk it to their heart's content as I will probably buy every one of them.
 
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If you enjoy the series, get part 3. You'll want to see how the plot of Desmond's arc comes to an end (even though we all know 2012 didn't happen:p). AC 3 might be a buggy mess and Connor can be annoying, but if you play Black Flag and seek out the collectables- trust me when I say that you'll wanna see how Desmond's story plays out
 
Robin said:
If you enjoy the series, get part 3. You'll want to see how the plot of Desmond's arc comes to an end (even though we all know 2012 didn't happen:p). AC 3 might be a buggy mess and Connor can be annoying, but if you play Black Flag and seek out the collectables- trust me when I say that you'll wanna see how Desmond's story plays out
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I do want to complete Desmonds story, maybe I will just do a quick playthrough.

Thanks for the advice.
 
termin8r said:
I do want to complete Desmonds story, maybe I will just do a quick playthrough.

Thanks for the advice.
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Skip the naval missions then, AC IV is better in any case. You should also be able to skip the Homestead missions and assassin recruitment. That should save you some time.
 
AC Awesome setting, combat and acrobatics. Mind shattering story(Interactive DNA memories? Amazing! plus the reveal in AC2 literally flawed me)
They can milk this cow as much as they want. I can't see it getting old, especially if they remain as historically accurate as possible.
Also AC 3 had an awesome section with Desmond utilising what he learned through the Animus bleed effect and he gets into a boss fight!

I had no bugs in my play through but did have a fairly big update to dl so guess its all sorted.
 
Assassins Creed 3 focused too much on the hunting and what not, although you need to play all of them to understand the full story.
 
termin8r said:
They are really milking the franchise.. A modern day AC is what we need to keep the interest alive.
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exactly! i have gotten jaded with the mechanics now. Its become the same old gameplay, with a few gimmicks thrown in. I know i am in the minority here, but i really didnt like the inane "ship battles" from AC4
 
I'm only on Revelations now,but I do get a bit bored at times as the games are quite repetitive,kill this person,deliver that,sneak into there....sigh.
I want more plot and gripping storylines.
 
termin8r said:
They are really milking the franchise.. A modern day AC is what we need to keep the interest alive.
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The problem with that is it will make guns the focal point and we don't need the offspring of AC and CoD to hit our shelves. Face it modern assassins would be using sniper rifles and pistols, any AC set in our time period would end up looking like Hitman. Keep the game in the past with swords and real fighting.
 
Wlad said:
Like I've said in my previous post, each AC is very different from the last, if you can't see that then I don't know what to tell you. These games have a decent development cycle and a massive amount of people working on each one and it shows. I'm not saying there aren't issues with all of them that should be resolved (navigation can sometimes be problematic, tailing missions, etc.) but the good outweighs the bad by far.
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I have to agree with Joker. Up until Black Flag the series was really starting to stagnate. I was doing the exact same things I was doing in the previous games, just with a few new weapons thrown in here and there.

Even the land-based sections of Black Flag were very boring. I got so tired of eavesdropping and tailing people that I wanted to rip my hair out. The naval combat is the only thing that saved Black Flag and that actually made it worth playing. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have played it at all.
 
termin8r said:
After 3 AC games the gameplay has gotten very tedious. I liked the culture experience but even that is getting old.
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I really enjoyed AC: Black Flag, the boat combat and customisation was fun. Much better than AC 3 and probably also revelations.
 
Ike_009 said:
The problem with that is it will make guns the focal point and we don't need the offspring of AC and CoD to hit our shelves. Face it modern assassins would be using sniper rifles and pistols, any AC set in our time period would end up looking like Hitman. Keep the game in the past with swords and real fighting.
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Not necessarily. Guns and sniper rifles are noisy and clumsy. When has the AC series ever encouraged that kind of approach to gameplay? A modern day AC would likely see an assassin still using traditional assassin's weapons, slipping into a crowd, stabbing the sweet jesus out of an enemy and then slipping away again, unnoticed.

That kind of approach isn't possible with guns.
 
Clive Woofer said:
Not necessarily. Guns and sniper rifles are noisy and clumsy. When has the AC series ever encouraged that kind of approach to gameplay? A modern day AC would likely see an assassin still using traditional assassin's weapons, slipping into a crowd, stabbing the sweet jesus out of an enemy and then slipping away again, unnoticed.

That kind of approach isn't possible with guns.
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I very much doubt that abroach is valid today when the VIP you have to kill is followed by 5 bodyguards and doesn't walk in crowds when he has a Limo to drive. Plus in previous games if there weren't crowds you had roofs, try jumping off a skyscraper to stab your victim 20 floors below.

I never said that AC has encouraged that approach but if you want to kill a person today you won't be using a knife. Also in previous games you had to escape from guards using your freerunning skills and combat, would you be able to outrun a police helicopter on foot or take 5 armed policeman down with a knife. The Traditional AC gameplay just isn't plausible in a modern setting when you consider the tools the police have against single guy armed with a blade. Effectively a present day AC game would be the next Hitman.
 
And I still disagree.

the VIP you have to kill is followed by 5 bodyguards and doesn't walk in crowds when he has a Limo to drive.
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Because in medieval times VIPs didn't have bodyguards and didn't have horse-drawn carts to drive around in. I mean, it's not like this is actually true and Ubisoft just changed omitted this to suit the gameplay they wanted for their game. ;)

Plus in previous games if there weren't crowds you had roofs, try jumping off a skyscraper to stab your victim 20 floors below.
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Because every city in the modern world has only skyscrapers and no other buildings? ;)
but if you want to kill a person today you won't be using a knife.
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Because it's not like people still kill each other with knives today, is it? Knife violence died out years ago. ;)

It's also not like knives are more discreet, more personal and much easier concealed than guns. ;)

The Traditional AC gameplay just isn't plausible in a modern setting
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Because it's not like the developers would make slight alterations to gameplay to fit the modern-day setting.

Effectively a present day AC game would be the next Hitman.
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Watch Dogs has been described as being like a modern-day Assassin's Creed. I guess Watch Dogs is then the next Hitman game. I'll have to email the devs to inform them. ;)

Mate, Assassin's Creed can very easily be ported to a modern day setting without sacrificing the DNA of the series. I think your objections are more because you don't want it to happen than they are that you think it's unfeasible.
 
I thought about skipping it too. But I already invested so much time in the previous 4, following the story, that I feel a little compelled to play it just to finish the story. If you do skip it, you should at least look at the game play on youtube just to wrap up the story, before moving on to black flag.
 
Clive Woofer said:
Mate, Assassin's Creed can very easily be ported to a modern day setting without sacrificing the DNA of the series. I think your objections are more because you don't want it to happen than they are that you think it's unfeasible.
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Nope, I just don't see a driving, shooting, hiding for cover watch dogs type game as true to the DNA of the AC series.
 
Ike_009 said:
Nope, I just don't see a driving, shooting, hiding for cover watch dogs type game as true to the DNA of the AC series.
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Agreed. Watch Dogs is not AC, not even close. AC should stick to historic periods, that is one of the biggest reasons why I am such a big fan of the series.
 
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