Comments | twigcollins: assbro - complete for various definitions of complete

twigcollins

assbro - complete for various definitions of complete

Nov 26, 2010 19:52

I think I burned through AC: Brotherhood about as fast as I've ever gone through a game. So yes, addictive and interesting. Packed to the gills with various missions, searches, events, and other crap to keep you occupied for a while - I maybe have done a quarter of the total unlockables in the game, and this time they even tied a portion of them ( Read more... )

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anonymous November 27 2010, 01:25:31 UTC

Argh - that's disappointing. I'm not as familiar with AC as other series, obviously, but it sounds like that the stuff going on in the background helped to make the story interesting, or at least stand apart. So to hear that the stuff in the background isn't actually as great as what's being played through with Altair and Ezio is just... argh.

Glad to hear that the gameplay is still good, though.

~soranokumo

kaitou1412 November 27 2010, 01:35:03 UTC

I don't understand why a bland personality is supposed to equal 'someone I can project myself on.' It's pretty insulting, honestly, if they think that the only reason we'll relate to a character is if they're incredibly boring.

I want to pretend I'm someone wild and exciting.

Unrelated note. I am reading a romance novel that takes place in Russia. They are breaking all my language rules and the hero has had 'whiskey colored eyes' 3 times in 48 pages. (which breaks a THIRD rule, as the heroine didn't know what cognac is, and she's Russian, so why would whiskey be in her descriptive vocabulary?)

_leareth November 27 2010, 01:57:45 UTC

...you should have alerted that this was spoilery, because i haven't found that unlockable memory of Ezio's yet and I WANT IT - though Lucy getting stabbed matches her namesake so that's actually not spoilery.

(I played six hours of the game last night and am having SO MUCH FUN running around upgrading things! Also loving the Lair obstacle courses GOING TO PLAY MOAR NAO BAI!)

twigcollins November 27 2010, 02:10:24 UTC

I put that there were spoilers in the cut-tag? I will go add another warning, though. I didn't intend to spoil. Sorry.

God, the Lair obstacle courses were the best part of that game. After they spent so much money and obviously so much time and love, for that game to end up with the issues it had is just unbelievable.

Ending Spoilers renshai November 27 2010, 04:24:23 UTC

I guess the end credits sort of imply he's been in the Animus the entire time? I can't think of any other way to interpret "He's going into shock!" "Just put him back in the Animus!" "The Animus is what caused this!"

I mean, unless the Templars came and scooped everyone back up immediately thereafter. Which is entirely possible, I suppose.

I don't even know, man. I spent the entire time in the temple going "This is a really bad idea. I have a terrible feeling about this." and then was entirely vindicated. I enjoyed /playing/ as Desmond, because I liked his little co-op platforming session at the start, but I can't decide if he got, like, horribly concussed when Abstergo first picked him up or what, because he has virtually no personality at all - he's not an everyman, he's just a vegetable with a nice tattoo. I will be kind of sad if Shaun and Rebecca turn out to be figments of the Animus' imagination, though, because they are the only bright spots in the non-Animus world.