-Combat sucks. Essentially it comes down to waiting 10+ seconds for someone to attack so you can counter-attack or attack them and hit their sword for 5 times before their health depletes. And it's sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow. God damn, it might as well be a random encounter on Final Fantasy x_x.
The combat gives what you put into it. If you mindlessly hold your finger on the counter button and wait for an enemy to attack then yes, it is unrewarding... If you're good at the game you can dispatch a group of 5 guards before they even realise you've killed them, avoiding any unessecary open combat.
-Controls are frustrating. I want to leap onto a nearby ledge so that I can pull a guard off onto the ground below and die. Instead, I end up jumping out and away from the wall....falling to the ground below and die.
The free running system is damn near perfect if you are jumping away from a wall its because that's what you're telling it to do... The controls are 360 degree specific and it only does what you tell it to do. Try being less retarded, it might work.
Whenever I buy "Assassin's Creed" I usually expect more assassinations and less "Follow me!" "Race these people!" "TIME LIMIT OMGZ, QUICKLY FIND YOUR OBJECTIVE, WE MADE IT TRANSLUCENT ON THE GRID SO THAT IT WILL FADE INTO THE VAGUE SHAPES ON YOUR RIGHT HAND MAP THERE ON THE HUD FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE!!1!!" .
This had more assassinations the first game, pay attention. The first game was criticised for its distinct lack of variety, the makers were answering to the faults of the first game and have done an asdtonishing job of spicing the gameplay up. If its a game of assassinations you're after, i'd recommend Tenchu Z.
-Good thing I spent that whole game collecting and buying all of that expensive armor, weapons, and fighting skills. That last boss fight really implements so many weapons and styles in order to beat the villain... (It's not a spoiler, it's a service announcement to anyone wanting to spend 60 dollars.)
Thats absurd, you don't collect items in any game solely for the final boss... you collect them in order for your character to evolve with the difficulty curve of the game ie: the guards take more punishment and are better armed in Venice than in Tuscanny. Thus, you need stronger weapons and more robust armour to even the playing field... You're just firing sh!t by this stage of your post, you've run out of argument.
-Replay value: Worthless. Those long cutscenes were neat the first go around but wading through them again is meaningless if you just want to pick it up and play. 4 minutes of back-and-forth dialogue I can recite at this point and I'm eyeing Rock Band or Arkham Asylum.
Well, i'm on my second time round and loving it.
-How- HOW THE HELL- are you going to make a stealth-based game and NOT ADD A *beep* SNEAK BUTTON?!!?!?!!? "But you have the hide-in-plain-sight option" A lot of goddam good it does me on a roof where someone off-screen can snipe me onto the ground, someone below me can call his buddies to gangrape me before I know where they're coming from, or *my favorite* the brilliant feature where you have to walk VERY FAAAAAST up behind a guard who will most like turn and see you by the time you walk over to him, but if you I DUNNO do the sensible thing and RUSH HIM he will hear you and alert the other guards right as you kill him thus exposing your location and we begin this *beep* all over again with what might as well be turn-based combat.
Sneak buttons are for games where you are infiltrating ie: Metal Gear Solid, you're in areas you're not supposed to be in. AC:2 is city, and you're mingling with public. Thats the whole point is that you "hide in plain sight" you kill your target and disappear into the crowd. this was a selling point for the game... Guess you missed it. In terms of your gripes i can confirm that...
1. I've never been shot off a roof by an archer, not once.
2. I've never been attacked from the ground up and if i had i'd notice that i'd been seen and run for cover
3. I've never had aguard notice me when i've snuck up behind for a kill
4. I've never had trouble rushing guards, so long as you attack fast you avoid being discovered by other guards.
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To summarise, you're points all seem to suggest that you just can't play the game porperly rather than any apparent defect within the games design itself...
If you can't manage this, i'd stay away from Arkham Asylum, especially if you're planning on playing it on any other difficulty than Easy.
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14 years ago
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KnightHawk712
14 years ago
I think he was being sarcastic, criticizing how easy the FINAL boss is...
It's not gambling when you know you're gonna win. Counting cards is a foolproof system.
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