Assassin's Creed III

I've never played any of the minigames. Doesn't interest me.

Multiplayer is fun, though it feels like the stun window has resorted back to in Brotherhood (very little time to get a stun in), and the fact that stun and kill are now the same button has screwed me up a lot.

Originally posted by Morridini
GOd this annoys the hell of me now, where's that one fun minigame we played early on in the game? On the ship we got to try two minigames when were you took opponents pieces by moving your pieces towards or away from them (the fun one), and the game that is basically advanced tic-tac-toe (boring). However I am now at sequence 5 and have yet to find the first one again, everyone play the ****ings boring one...

One of the Thief Challenges involves winning £500 from those games.

So how long is the single player?

Originally posted by Nemesis X
So how long is the single player?

Took me a few days. But I did just about all the side missions and naval stuff.

Originally posted by KingD19
Took me a few days. But I did just about all the side missions and naval stuff.

Phew. Finally done with all collectibles and side-quests. Completing the entire map of the Frontier was a pain. They should have at least put in more viewpoints in the Frontier.

Now to finish off Sequence 11 & 12 and get 100%.

The Naval part of the game is **** from what I've seen so far.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
PCompleting the entire map of the Frontier was a pain. They should have at least put in more viewpoints in the Frontier.

I was wondering about that, I still have dark areas in Boston for some reason that I can't seem to get rid of other than actually walking everywhere.... why did they change that aspect of the game?

Originally posted by Morridini
I was wondering about that, I still have dark areas in Boston for some reason that I can't seem to get rid of other than actually walking everywhere.... why did they change [B]that aspect of the game? [/B]

No clue. Maybe it's in one of the dev dairies.
I'd be okay with that aspect of map-unlocking if they hadn't put in wide-open spaces with most of it having no buildings or trees to climb whatsoever. Or more viewpoints.

The Dark areas in the city may be the underground fast travel spots.

Nope.

Hmmmm, I know I had that problem with the Northern part of New York. (the more...townish part with the farm fields and stuff)

But Boston was pretty much filled out after I did all my viewpoints.

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Way to make the set pieces suck, Ubisoft.

Oh how I hate Connor, now at Sequence 11, guess I am nearing myself the end. The game feels...rushed is the best way to express it. There's just so many aspects of the game that feel unfinished, and a lot of the "improvements" of the gameplay has made it worse. I'll see how I feel after finishing the game, but so far this is the worst Assassin Creed game imo (still enjoying it though, don't get me wrong).

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Had another lovely bug happening to me. I've been doing Homestead missions as fast as possible, so there's no way this can be explained by "you should have done it earlier":

But I approached the point where Connor returns to the Manor only to find

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Achilles lying dead in is chair

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the actually rather touching funeral for Achilles, with his voice monologing his letter to Connor

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greeted by Achilles...standing there asking me to help him hang up a picture over the mantlepiece...even though I just finished burying his cold dead body in the ground...

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he

Originally posted by Morridini
Had another lovely bug happening to me. I've been doing Homestead missions as fast as possible, so there's no way this can be explained by "you should have done it earlier":

But I approached the point where Connor returns to the Manor only to find

Spoiler:
Achilles lying dead in is chair

, I play through the mission this prompts and after

Spoiler:
the actually rather touching funeral for Achilles, with his voice monologing his letter to Connor

I once again return to the Manor and see another Homestead mission waiting for me. I enter the Manor and am

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greeted by Achilles...standing there asking me to help him hang up a picture over the mantlepiece...even though I just finished burying his cold dead body in the ground...

. And this wasn't just a one time occurance,

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he

's there whenever I come to visit...

That sounds like a good glitch. 😄 A decent character gets to live again! 😄

Kazenji, I lol'd. Some glitches...

For those who have this for the 360, Can people access that Uplay through Xbox live?

i've tried with some of the other Ubisoft titles and can't seem to get in.

I have not tried it in AC3 yet, but have had no problems in previous Ubisoft titles through Xbox live.

As for AC3, I completed it a few days ago, and soon I will have 100% Synchronization on every mission, just three to go.

All in all: very disappointing. I've always loved the Desmond sections, and for some reason they didn't want to do it justice, if the common interpretation of the ending is true,

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Desmond being dead, even though that is never explicitly stated or shown

As for the past story, it was okay, Connor was a horrible character, Haytham was awesome, the rest of the cast was forgettable. Sadly any good points in the story were undermined by the god awful gameplay, I have never played an AC game where the Assassin ended up doing the exact opposite of what I wanted as many times as in this one. Whoever "improved" the gameplay for this game ****ed up in a major way.