Zero Punctuation: Assassin's Creed 3

[Aaron Sylvester]

I thought the game had learned it's lesson during AC:Brotherhood when we spent way too long fucking-around on rooftops, interviewing people, etc and not enough STABBING.
And it seems AC3 has gone even further downhill.

To quote Yahtzee from one of his earlier Assassin's Creed reviews, "Ubisoft can't seem to grasp what makes their game FUN".
Pro tip Ubisoft: It's the assassinations in Assassination Creed that made it fun. I KNOW, it's CRAZY isn't it?
Not dick around in pointless minigames and farming money, not being surrounded by 20 guards and playing the "how awesome are you at hitting the counterattack button" game, get back to the fucking ASSASSINATIONS.

 

[mjc0961]

Good news everyone! This also doubles as a review for AssCreed Liberation on Vita! Seriously, I might actually like this game if it would just let me go around and sneakily assassinate people, but every time I'm just about to start having fun, it wants you to go do some other stupid stuff instead.

And why does it want me to go buy rival shops up? I don't seem to be getting a damn thing for it, not even a mountain of pointless money.

It sounds like I should just bin Liberation and go play Assassin's Creed 1. I might actually get to assassinate people in it!

 

[Tony2077]

It's fine and people like you can go away. God you're starting to get annoying.

So what did you like about Assassin's Creed 3? Seriously is it worth buying?

more assassins creed and the new features aren't that bad either and i like this new setting

 

[FemaleGamer5]

Yeah, when I bought this I wasn't expecting some bizarre mixture of Pirates of the Caribbean and f*cking Tarzan ¬¬
Not to mention the tedious first few missions painfully spent developing the pointless background of our less-than-riveting protagonist.

 

[Rblade]

I strongly believe historily significant goose needs to be a thing. a goose in a napoleon hat showing up in paintings and photo's of historical events, get on it magic internet photoshop gnomes!!

 

[TheCommanders]

The only thing I really disagreed with was Yahtzee's opinion of Haytham . The entire rest of the game playing as boring old Connor I kept wishing I had instead kept playing as the understated British bad ass. Not to mention that he made some way better arguments over Connor's naive and repeated trumpeting about some antiquated concept of freedom that he never really bothers to define.

 

[PhunkyPhazon]

It's fine and people like you can go away. God you're starting to get annoying.

So what did you like about Assassin's Creed 3? Seriously is it worth buying?

Personally, I think it is, but since I know not everyone thinks like me I'll just say that if you liked the previous games, then I think you'll probably like this.

Though looking back at my playtime, I have to admit that I think Yahtzee is right about there not being much "sneaking and stabbing". There's certainly plenty of both, but they're rarely seen together in this game. Regardless, the combat is a blast, running through trees is still fun (no, there aren't any super-tall-towers to jump from, but I don't think this should define Assassin's Creed), and hunting adds a different twist on the typical AC gameplay.

 

[Two-A]

i'm having fun with the game and i feel there is something missing from these videos lately oh i remember what it is humor

Dude, it's just a game review. You don't have to be so hurt.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Sounds to me, from this review anyway, that the developers got confused about what kind of game they were making, some thought they were making Farmville, some thought they were making Port Royale, and some thought they were making Age of Empires; and in the end they decided to hybridize them all together and see what happens.

Nah, Ubisoft simply reckons that in order to improve upon a franchise all you need to do is add more stuff each sequel. Doesn't matter if the initial gameplay focus goes completely out the window, as long as there's more meaningless stuff to do. After all, that's the only way to create engaging gameplay, right?

Also setting it in colonial America didn't help much either. Oh man, woods and shacks - can't wait to parkour through that shit.

Yeah, I knew that. I wasn't seriously suggesting that game development is that disorganized. Esp. when I know it isn't.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

This may be the first time that I've genuninely been unable to tell if he, on the whole, liked it or not.

He spend most of the time complaining about the side-stuff and lodged a couple complaints against the story, but he never said if he still liked the parkour/assassination gameplay, or the ship mission gameplay for that matter.

Amidst all the complaining about stuff in past games, he did make it clear that he liked them, all the way through to Revelations. For this one, I'm not sure.

I usually scoff at people when they say something along the lines of "So, did he like it or not?" Now the shoe is on my foot I suppose.

He said it was BORING. For a game that's one of the worst thing you can say about it.

 

[Tony2077]

i'm having fun with the game and i feel there is something missing from these videos lately oh i remember what it is humor

Dude, it's just a game review. You don't have to be so hurt.

I'm not hurt its just that humor has gotten a little stale on these lately it sound like he's just ripping them apart because he can now. its the people here that seem to be making a mountain out of a dirt pile

 

[Arshmurs Pocaschminskis]

okay 1. games aren't about rewards, they're about...playing the game...the "reward" you get from playing the naval missions is a face-smashingly awesome and novel gaming experience (well, if you're baked anyway)
2. Connor's dad speech non-bubble made me lol really hard.

 

[FallenMessiah88]

AC1 was a bit repetitive and it also lacked polish in some aspects, but the core gameplay was really good.

I haven't played any of the AC games after the first one, but from watching Yahtzee's reviews, it seems like the series is starting to lose focus.

I really wan't to check out the other games in the series. I like open world games and I also lke side quests and extra stuff, as long as it doesn't interfere too much with my general progression.

Also, the "historially important goose" line was simply brilliant.

 

[DragonWright]

I love the series and had fun in this game, but it's definitely worse than previous games. I'm playing homestead missions and seriously thinking to myself, "Why am I doing this? Am I supposed to care?"

The whole crafting and convoy thing was implemented so badly, I just kept thinking of such better interface designs they could have used.

Some of my best moments of this game were the assassination contracts where you kill generic soldiers on the map, just because... you actually get to Assassinate someone!

 

[zombflux]

I stopped listening after he said the minimap was bukkaked with objective markers and shit.

really?

 

[ShinobiJedi42]

I agree with a lot of things said in this video, but I completely disagree that it was boring. For me, having learned about the American Revolution all through high school made it that much incredible to be meeting historical figures that are lauded as heroes in our culture, and also to be present during significant moments in history. Many moments of the game gave me goosebumps, especially since the game portrays the "heroes" in a more realistic manner. So basically, I felt more invested in the story even though Connor was a boring character. His dad, though. He was awesome.

And I never touched the crafting and farmville faffing about. I stuck to faffing about in the woods hunting cute bunnies. I do really miss the assassination assignments. Those were really fun. It annoyed me that the "assassination assignments" were just "Go kill this guy walking around."

 

[Two-A]

i'm having fun with the game and i feel there is something missing from these videos lately oh i remember what it is humor

Dude, it's just a game review. You don't have to be so hurt.

I'm not hurt its just that humor has gotten a little stale on these lately it sound like he's just ripping them apart because he can now. its the people here that seem to be making a mountain out of a dirt pile

That's subjective (I found last week's episode funny, for example), but it's not the fact that you called him unfunny that made me think you were "hurt", it's just that your previous post had a "Hey this game is fun btw you suck" tone to it. I guess that was not how you wanted it to sound.

OT: I'm actually having a blast with this game, I played Assassin's Creed more for the platforming than the assassinations honestly. Although I would like the game to stop railroading me with the optional objectives :/.

 

[Metalrocks]

still have to wait for the pc version. i expected that the game will have some flaws but i think it will be fun to play. i still enjoy revelations and im eager for part 3.

 

[Tony2077]

i'm having fun with the game and i feel there is something missing from these videos lately oh i remember what it is humor

Dude, it's just a game review. You don't have to be so hurt.

I'm not hurt its just that humor has gotten a little stale on these lately it sound like he's just ripping them apart because he can now. its the people here that seem to be making a mountain out of a dirt pile

That's subjective (I found last week's episode funny, for example), but it's not the fact that you called him unfunny that made me think you were "hurt", it's just that your previous post had a "Hey this game is fun btw you suck" tone to it. I guess that was not how you wanted it to sound.

OT: I'm actually having a blast with this game, I played Assassin's Creed more for the platforming than the assassinations honestly. Although I would like the game to stop railroading me with the optional objectives :/.

well i think your right but i don't know i just don't enjoy his newer videos if that is what your talking about I'm thinking about deleting the book mark and just making a smt/persona club one

 

[Porecomesis]

You know, there's something really weird going on when the game looks more sensible than Yahtzee.

Assassin's Creed III: ... What is it with you and stabbing people?
Yahtzee: What is it with you and NOT stabbing people?!

Strange how our desire for games to be more mature about themselves has lead to this.

Well I could understand your point of view if the game wasn't called, you know, assassins creed. Which implies being an assassin which normally implicates some form of stabbing and or killing. People play assassins creed to be an assassin, not a fetch quest/farmville minigame.

I know that. I'm just pointing out that it's a bit weird.