Assassin's Creed II Leaps to PC March 16

[NickIsCool]

unless it has dx11 support, then the wait was unnecessary

i was looking forward to playing this on muh pc when it hit consoles

now all the want from hype and what not is almost completely gone

i MIGHT pick it up when it gets a steam sale, till then, meh

 

[deffel2000]

I'd prefer the console version more. I like achievements and the aiming seems less irritating.

What are you talking about? Its either autoaim which is no aiming at all
or you have to fiddle with those pesky analog sticks which are absolutely
no match for a good mouse like the nova slider.
(remembers killzone2 on my ps3 with dread but on the other hand with a mouse
that game would have been extremely easy)

I give you the achivements though I only care about them when they unlock
something in the game.

Greetings the Deffel

 

[oppp7]

I'd prefer the console version more. I like achievements and the aiming seems less irritating.

What are you talking about? Its either autoaim which is no aiming at all
or you have to fiddle with those pesky analog sticks which are absolutely
no match for a good mouse like the nova slider.
(remembers killzone2 on my ps3 with dread but on the other hand with a mouse
that game would have been extremely easy)

I give you the achivements though I only care about them when they unlock
something in the game.

Greetings the Deffel

I ment I liked it on a personal level. Maybe not so much the aiming as the other controls. I prefer having all the controls within my reach at all times.

 

[deffel2000]

I ment I liked it on a personal level. Maybe not so much the aiming as the other controls. I prefer having all the controls within my reach at all times.

Ahh I understand. Thats why I bought consoles in addition to my PC.
Pcgaming is not so great when you do it from your couch.

Greetings the Deffel

 

[DoW Lowen]

[HEADING=2]Attention[/HEADING]

For anyone who read the novel of Assassin Creed 2, the Battle of Forli and Bonfire of the Vanities was in it. To be blunt...

[HEADING=2]It was Awesome![/HEADING]

Get it. Get it when it comes out. Yes yes I know, Mass Effect 2 blah blah blah. But you shouldn't pass it up.

It can kiss my hairy ass , hell I'll grow a boil just to make it more appealing for that smooch.

Let your permiere clients play the game then allow the peasants a turn at it after you have sucked up as much profit as you can, and then charge a price normally associated with console royalty fees... for the hell of it, because the console gamers have to pay that price.
BS, money grabbing so and so , you aint getting my dosh.

Plus whats the bet it will be a piss poor port of the game, I bet you they even use the ..it performs poorly because its future proofed, and you need a PC that will emerge in the future to get the best from it.

What was the BS escuse ? Needed time to make it perfect, or protecting the game from the nasty PC pirates ?

Unfortunately , todays PC gamers will lap it up and kiss Ubis feet for the privelage.

(PS - Console users - this rant is not at you guys, Consoles are great machines and I wish I had one as well as my PC, this rant is because the way PC gamers get shafted and treated as 2nd class platforms... suprised the DS ver didnt beat the PC one)

Hmmm it seems there are a few stragglers from the obnoxiously loud group that was the MW2 PC boycotters or at least their equally blind sighted cousin.

I'll tell you what I told them.

PC gamers have it better than console gamers. Period. You have better graphics, better controls, cheaper games, the benefits of digital download also you have an increasingly upgrading architecture. So stop bitching, comments like these give me a migraine.

Assassin's Creed II Leaps to PC March 16

And unsurprisingly no one cares. You want to make us wait a extra few months then you can get fucked. I have no desire to play this game anyway, especially since the "surprise" ending is already well known. But I may download it just out of spite.

Yes, damn those dastardly developers daring to delay the days.

A port is no easy feat, it was either release it on the consoles and work on the PC port, which by the way will have improvements over the consoles versions I can imagine (because it always does) or release everything at the same time which would be about in March...

Here's a tip to you PC gamers, don't bother, Ass of Ass Creed 2 is paperboy dressed up in good graphics and physics.

The story is good and the character Ezio is likable, but the actual game is just jumping and running from place to place doing whatever you have to do.

It could have been good if you could find out yourself how to get to a spot, but no, just go in the direction of the map marker and hold a button to climb is all that is needed.

The game is much more than climbing.

While I don't normally self-promote I don't want people to miss out on a great experience. So here is my review which I feel sums it up better than others

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.157271

 

[DigitalSushi]

[HEADING=2]Attention[/HEADING]

*STANDS TO ATTENTION*
Sir yes sir!

[HEADING=2]It was Awesome![/HEADING]

ARGGGHHH!
*starts doing pushups*

Here's a tip to you PC gamers, don't bother, Ass of Ass Creed 2 is paperboy dressed up in good graphics and physics.

The story is good and the character Ezio is likable, but the actual game is just jumping and running from place to place doing whatever you have to do.

It could have been good if you could find out yourself how to get to a spot, but no, just go in the direction of the map marker and hold a button to climb is all that is needed.

The game is much more than climbing.

While I don't normally self-promote I don't want people to miss out on a great experience. So here is my review which I feel sums it up better than others

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/326.157271

Here's my review.

You play as Ezio, you go wherever your told to go and if you hold two buttons down you have zero obstacles.
The End.

I must admit, the glyphs were cool and the ending was fucking brilliant, I also admit that I'm immature and childish.

I kinda get the game, but when difficulty is taken out of the equation just for the sake of moving the story it takes all the fun out for me.

Spoiler

like when you shoot up the carnival while the fireworks go bang, I reloaded my game just to see if the timing of the shot made any difference, no it didn't, your instructed what to do by a harlot and providing you press a button your free to carry on the game....

 

[mogamer]

You missed a big part regarding the requirements for this game. This was taken from D2D.

A PERMANENT HIGH SPEED INTERNET CONNECTION AND CREATION OF A UBISOFT ACCOUNT ARE REQUIRED TO PLAY THIS VIDEO GAME AT ALL TIMES AND TO UNLOCK EXCLUSIVE CONTENT. SUCH CONTENT MAY ONLY BE UNLOCKED ONE SINGLE TIME WITH A UNIQUE KEY. YOU MUST BE AT LEAST 13 TO CREATE A UBISOFT ACCOUNT WITHOUT PARENTAL CONSENT. UBISOFT MAY CANCEL ACCESS TO ONLINE FEATURES UPON A 30-DAY PRIOR NOTICE PUBLISHED AT http://assassinscreed.com.

Look at the final sentence. So you can only play it being online, yet online features may be cancelled with 30 days notice. A $60 rental.

Don't want.

 

[Aperama]

My real question: Will this game be playable, unlike the first one for PC? Seriously, they never patched it, and I've owned two copies (one came with my graphics card, a GTX 280 which should be able to run -its sequel) - you just get random errors, and most of the people who've played it have. But Ubisoft doesn't support PC gamers - we just get crappy console ports, pretty well universally (same with Capcom - anyone who's ever played Resident Evil 4 PC and wondered 'what button 1 + 3 together' during the much-beloved quick time events were would have to agree with me here). But yeah.. I reaally can't see myself wanting to pick it up, given that I still can't play past the first assassination in part 1 (literally won't let me travel past X point, and this is a common problem that they refuse to try and fix because they've already sold it!) Heh. Sorry, ranting a little, but.. still truthful.

Looks to me like you have that problem, I don't. Pirated the game first time, then bought it on Steam, both versions worked flawlessly.

Also, are you high? Ubisoft is one of the best PC developers. Or PC porters. The only game that made me angry about them was Prince of Persia from last year, and only because we didn't get the DLC.

I say this of Ubisoft only in the fact that I have repeatedly had problems with their games, reported said problems after actually buying (and sorta wishing I hadn't due to the complete lack of user support) and being told 'uh, try your video drivers, we haven't had this problem with anyone else' (this after a month wait, and seeing several people pop up with the same problems.) Sands of Time was the only game I've had run flawlessly from Ubisoft for PC, and even that felt very 'well, we'll just stamp over a few 'keyboard' graphics and that should be good enough over the XBOX version'. I played the PoP trilogy through - I bought Warrior Within, but after how INCREDIBLY buggy I found it, pirated Two Thrones (and found it similarly covered in bugs). Beyond Good And Evil was a FANTASTIC game that I really wish I'd played on Gamecube first instead of PC, given that there was a game-breaking bug that was apparently somewhat common in the near-midway point - again, a 'well, sucks to be you' if you have it sorta problem.. Okay, so this is only a small sample, and all of a similar genre, but.. when Creed screwed up on me too (and I was again given virtually NO support by Ubisoft) - I decided that I hated them as a developer. Might be an unfair assessment, but it's one I've found to be truthful. (I'll admit, I've played some Ubisoft-published games that haven't had these problems, but they've all been exclusively developed for Windows, and as a side-note, worked over by the initial developers.. I'm sorta thinking Heroes of Might and Magic 5/Morrowind as I speak here.)

I've tried my (two!) copies of Creed on two separate PCs (well, technically, the second copy only on the new as it came with my video card, as previously noted) and both encountered the same problem, making the game unplayable if I wanted to get out past a certain point - just crashed, sometimes even sending back to bluescreen, every time without an error message. I don't - nor do I plan to - own a 360 or PS3 to play it through on, so.. well, yeah! My biggest problem is still the lack of proper support they offer vis a vis patches at Ubisoft, given that several people were still encountering problems over the last patch I saw thrown out, and.. no support was really being given, y'know?

 

[SykoSilver]

I wish they had announced this sooner. I just bought it for PS3 because I was under the impression that the PC edition would be a plain ol' port. http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/5251069024/m/8591064287

 

[Miral]

I say this of Ubisoft only in the fact that I have repeatedly had problems with their games, reported said problems after actually buying (and sorta wishing I hadn't due to the complete lack of user support) and being told 'uh, try your video drivers, we haven't had this problem with anyone else' (this after a month wait, and seeing several people pop up with the same problems.) Sands of Time was the only game I've had run flawlessly from Ubisoft for PC, and even that felt very 'well, we'll just stamp over a few 'keyboard' graphics and that should be good enough over the XBOX version'. I played the PoP trilogy through - I bought Warrior Within, but after how INCREDIBLY buggy I found it, pirated Two Thrones (and found it similarly covered in bugs). Beyond Good And Evil was a FANTASTIC game that I really wish I'd played on Gamecube first instead of PC, given that there was a game-breaking bug that was apparently somewhat common in the near-midway point - again, a 'well, sucks to be you' if you have it sorta problem.. Okay, so this is only a small sample, and all of a similar genre, but.. when Creed screwed up on me too (and I was again given virtually NO support by Ubisoft) - I decided that I hated them as a developer. Might be an unfair assessment, but it's one I've found to be truthful. (I'll admit, I've played some Ubisoft-published games that haven't had these problems, but they've all been exclusively developed for Windows, and as a side-note, worked over by the initial developers.. I'm sorta thinking Heroes of Might and Magic 5/Morrowind as I speak here.)

This is true. On my old PC I had some dodgy audio hardware which claimed to support OpenAL but actually didn't. This wasn't usually a problem as most games default to non-hardware-accelerated audio and have a setting somewhere in the options to turn it on. Both Prince of Persia and Assassins Creed 1 defaulted to it on and lacked the setting (not surprising that it affected both, since they shared the same engine). As a consequence, I was about a third of the way through PoP before I discovered that there was supposed to be a voice track to go along with the subtitles I had been reading. (Sounds worked fine. Speech didn't.)

Ubisoft "support" didn't want to know about it. The forums came up with a workaround (to use dxdiag to disable sound acceleration prior to starting the game). This worked most of the time but the sound would still glitch out after a few hours anyway.

Apart from that issue, though, both games played wonderfully on my machine and didn't feel like second-rate ports at all, so I can see where Abedeus is coming from. Sure, their support sucks, but that's true of all game companies. (And both games play perfectly on my current PC, which doesn't have the dodgy sound hardware.)