Originally posted by NCRotCA
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Uhhh, what is wrong with you?
Originally posted by Ushgarak
But I don't have any fancy console-ma-jigs!I do have a joypad though- how bad can the controls be?
With an actual controller you should be good. Like I mentioned the other day, though, I really can't imagine the AC controls working at all with a keyboard and mouse, though.
Originally posted by NCRotCA
mod edit - illegal talk is not allowed!
Originally posted by Ushgarak
But I don't have any fancy console-ma-jigs!I do have a joypad though- how bad can the controls be?
I'd assume a joypad would help, though.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
I don't know about Vista or 7, but Peach and I had the (oirignally unstable) co-op version of it working on modern computers not long ago.You;d need DOS box for the original.
Also much of its gameplay no longer has the same impact, as its mechanics have been copied. Still; great stuff.
It still can be damn creepy and terrifying. How many times did I turn a corner or open a door, walk into you, panic, and immediately attack?
Note: Psychic powers are awesome. However, you are USELESS against robots then! Gah, so many times I was racing in circles because I couldn't kill the damned things...
I believe you can actually legally download it for free from the website.
How similar would people say it is to Bioshock? I sort of respect Bioshock as a work of art but I was still a little disappointed by it. The storytelling's a bit too subtle for my liking, though I am still currently playing through it.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
The solution for psychic powers not being great against robots is NOT to shoot the person who CAN fight them in the back
Don't sneak up on me then! Jesus.
Originally posted by NCRotCA
I believe you can actually legally download it for free from the website.How similar would people say it is to Bioshock? I sort of respect Bioshock as a work of art but I was still a little disappointed by it. The storytelling's a bit too subtle for my liking, though I am still currently playing through it.
Bioshock is a near-copy of SS2, with the RPG elements removed.
It's very similar indeed- the finding of logs, the contact by radio chatter all the time, the basics of the power system (swap psychic powers for genetic modification and swap cyber upgrades for adam)... even the bad guys are exceptionally similar (splicers are just 1930's versions of SS annelids). You have the alternative approaches to enemies, the hacking subgame... I spent much of Bioshock somewhat miffed at the direct plot similarities. also.
Bioshock was a good game- though I have zero interest in the upcoming one- but from a historical perspective, SS2 was better. I liked the RP elements better, the character classes were good (if only really distinguished near the start), the level design was good, the inventory system and ammo was good (the maintenance requirement for weapons was LESS good)- and it had co-op multiplayer!
Except for graphics- Bioshock looked the part, whilst even at the time SS2 was only graphically average.
Peach's criticism's of the ME series aren't without merit. The story and depth kept me glued, but it's not a superb game or series on every front. There was never a moment where I was in awe of the combat, for example.
AC's criticisms I have a bit more issue with, only because the first game is clearly flawed, but the sequel directly addressed most of the glaring issues of the first, and by all accounts the 3rd has as well. It's a classic example of responding to feedback without overreaction, which is commendable. If you don't like the series, you don't like it, simple as that. But I find it almost objectively false (or as close as these things can come to such a label) to say that it's not a well-made series.
I have no clue how you're not into the metastory though, Peach. I'm not into conspiracy stuff just for the sake of it, but the world they're creating through the story is riveting imo.
It just doesn't interest me all that much. Brotherhood gives you opportunities to take a 'break' and go wander about the present-day world, true, but I feel that it's too little too late for getting into the metastory, and there wasn't enough in the previous two games to make me care. I don't find Desmond or any of the other modern Assassins to be very compelling characters, and tying everything ever into the Templar conspiracy is a bit over the top and silly, in my opinion.
The end of the first sequence in Brotherhood, where you're controlling Desmond, I was going through the entire thing going "okay let me get back to Ezio already", and I've left the Animus exactly twice since then, only to get a pair of achievements.