TopazFusion said:
Proverbial Jon said:
now I actually groan and feel like it's an obligation to buy the next installment. I'll play it but I won't enjoy it... what's up with that?
I know right.
It must be because the story is compelling enough (or complicated enough), to keep us interested.
Unfortunately, if the gameplay is lacking, the whole thing becomes a chore to play.
The way they're stretching out the story a little bit more, and a little bit more, just to make us want the next one - it reminds me of episodes from Dragonball Z !!
I'm not even sure when I bought Revelations. I just got home one day and there it was, in my shopping bag as if I'd made a conscious effort to purchase the sorry excuse for a video game. I didn't even look at it for like a week or two.
When I did eventually pop it in the console, I found a game with EXACTLY the same gameplay components as AC2 and Brotherhood. The only additions were a handful of incidental nonsense which I avoided anyway like the tower defence minigame and the overly convoluted bomb crafting.
The story was utter piffle and actually moved us NOWHERE in terms of the main plotline. Ezio had no real goal, at least not one that I cared about. The actual city he was in and the people there didn't seem to be in any sort of huge danger and there were very few people to actually assasinate. Considering "assassin" is in the title of the game, I would have thought that would be the main gameplay element. Altair's sections were interesting but seemed to serve as nothing more than filler, like the rest of the game.
As for Desmond... wtf? In AC and AC2 I honestly thought he could become an interesting character, but they've stretched him out between 4 games now and revealed nothing more about him. His sections in Revelations were interesting ONLY for the rushed background that we were force fed while playing stupid 1st person platform levels, levels that were a frustration more than a welcome distraction.
But why do I keep buying this crap? Arghh!
GZGoten said:
female assassin? if this happens I already know the next one will be Sisterhood and Clarification XD
I lol'd!