I just finished my semester and everyone is gone and it looks really good. How is the story? Is it worth $20 to play immediately or should I try to see if it goes on sale on Steam?

Also, do you think it's worth it to get a PS3? There are really only 4 games that I really want to play atm: FFXIII, Uncharted 2, Assassin's Creed 2, and maybe MGS4.

You can have my xbox 360 copy if you want. The game was pretty fun at first but got boring fairly quickly. I'm assuming you're talking about #1, I haven't played the sequel.

I don't have a 360 >_< thanks though

I think I got it on Steam for $5...but I haven't played it yet so I can't help you.

Bought it full price for PC when it came out, I think it was money well spent. Very good game (especially if you liked the PoP games), even if a little repetitive at times. And the ending is very meh, too, but the game's fun enough to overlook its shortcomings.

I loved the PoP games and I got bored of Assassin's Creed within about 3 hours.

Honestly I wouldn't waste your money.

wtf is a "PoP" game!?

prince of persia

Man. Brian's lost his edge, he's not cool anymore.

Oh how the mighty hath fallen.

I think I might just buy it tonight

It's a good game, surely worth $20. I paid full price and I wasn't disappointed.

I greatly enjoyed Assassin's Creed. The second is much better though.

Terrible, terrible game. Horrible combat, everything you actually do in the game is ridiculously repetitive and boring. There's a great story hidden somewhere in all this, but the gameplay is awful. Greatly regret buying at release.

Exact opposite. The story will make you go 'what?' over and over. Also, your forced to watch these long boring talking head cut scenes. But the gameplay is awesome.

Though, again, the second is a much better game all around. Play the first if you want to understand the meta-story of the second. If you don't care about that, don't bother.

I got bored with it within a matter of 2 hours. But I guess that's my shortcoming because most games don't really get good for a few hours, but something about it just totally failed to grab me (like the fact that I wasn't having fun at all).

asscreed has a long way to go to reach the PoP games

Also, the PoP games have a long way to go to reach the ORIGINAL Prince of Persia:



and it's STUPID HARD sequel:

What are you people smoking? AC is a very good game. Beats the **** out of most PoP stuff.

They are smoking "Opinion"
Made from pure distilled "Point of view".

Well for starters the story is about the most retarded **** ever.

asscreed 2 has a gun

Assassin's Creed (the first one) was really good. Sure, the investigations got repetitive, but they were pretty much just filler between some of the really awesome assassination missions (the whole de Sable part, from the city to the battlefield, is up there with one of my fondest memories of any game). Combat was easy but still very satisfying due to how brutal it looked and how simply you could do stuff that looked cool.

Assassin's Creed 2, on the other hand, went and fixed some of the flaws from the first game. They took out the investigation missions, made scaling buildings a less laborious process, let you run past a guard without them chasing you ("Only an assassin would run! My logic is infallible!"), and added some more fun challenges. The only problem I had, in retrospect, was that some of the new additions seemed to be "just because". After the introductory training session, I didn't use the poisoned blade once. I didn't know you could throw sand into a guard's face during a fight until I saw there was an achievement for it. Stuff like that. Although I suppose if that's the only criticism I can level at a game ("There's too much stuff!") then it can't have done too wrong by me.

Guns were invented around the 14/15th century so that makes sense to an extent.

Plus, you've got Leonardo ****in' da Vinci on your side.

I hated Assassin's Creed 1. Played it for a few hours, then got insanely bored of doing the same exact thing over and over again. Never finished it.

I bought 2 on the hope that they fixed the repetitive bore that was the first one, and it was immensely better. Had no problem making my way through the whole game.

In that case I might pick up the 2nd when it's cheap.

Holy ****, I can actually remember the game in the first picture. I remember one part, where you would encounter some 'mirror' of yourself. I kept trying to kill it. After a couple of days I figured out you could run past it...

Yeah, I remember that too. That was near the end, when you were in the palace. I don't remember any skeletons in the game, however. The guards were people IIRC.

I really loved the art style and environment they created. If you don't mind the enemies lining up like kindergarten children waiting to be schooled then you will love the game.

The first game is definitely not bad for $20 and under. Yes it is repetitive, but the story and music are good in my opinion and that can keep you going. The PC version is actually better than console version since you have some new investigation mission types to break up the monotony.

I'm glad I waited a day because now it's $10 el oh el

Assassin's Creed is beautiful, interesting, and fun.
For about an hour.
After that it's still good mind you, for another hour.
That's when it starts to get old.
I really wouldn't recommend buying it unless that amount is pittance to you. If you think the amount is worth about an hour of greatness, and about 3 hours before you are sick of it, then go for it.


On another subject: the new PoP's are mostly pretty boring, and that warrior prince or whatever it was called was pathetic. Sands of Time was the best (of the new ones), but needed more puzzles and a bit of tweaking for the combat.

Um so I got to the part in Memory Block 2 after you get your weapons back and you're supposed to ride a horse to the next place (after it makes you do a practice sword match) and the game won't let me progress past the entrance of the next area ... either it crashes immediately after I enter (if I don't ride a white horse in :confused:) or I get stuck in the interactive Animus loading screen forever. Googling revealed that this was an intentional bug in the pirated version ... ??? Has anyone encountered this/know how to fix it? The version from Steam should be the latest patched version ...

Edit: This is not the "Jerusalem bug" ... this happens on the way to Damascus as I try to enter the area w/ the first tower thing

Since it's not online, you could solve it the same way these so-called hackers solved it...

It involves something with crackers, I'm not sure if you're supposed to put cheese on them...

Haha, you bought it legally but got bit by DRM issues trying to prevent piracy? That sounds like a nightmare

Pretty much the same way I feel, except I don't really HATE the game so to speak.

I've yet to play AC2, waiting for christmas for that one. However AC1 I found to be beautiful and have fantastic combat and possible finishing assassinations, but was overall disappointed by the repetitiveness of everything. The hidden objects don't even reward you and some of them are damn hard to locate. I never finished the game either, played it half way and put it back on the shelf.

The most aggravating thing for me was when around 3 months ago I decided to try and beat it in order to prepare for AC2 coming out, but when I went to load my saved game there was nothing there. Didn't lose any other save game data though which was weird.

And yet the pirated version has an inbuilt bypass of the problem... or so I'm told *cough*

Man I really don't want to play the first memory block AGAIN ... I had gotten this far trying the game out on my friend's 360 and this'll be the third time I'll have to do the first part if I can't sort this glitch out -___-

I disliked the game mainly because it's one of those idiotic games where you start off with all your badass equipment and skills, and then the game takes them away from you after teaching you how to use them, making you reacquire all of them over the course of the game.

You hate metroid games? HEATHEN.

Ok for whatever reason Steam rolled out an update this morning and it's fixed, yay

You hate Castlevania Symphony of the Night?