Quote from: MoonerSK on Dec 31, 2013, 08:53:13 AM
Quote from: Cal427eb on Dec 30, 2013, 09:22:15 PM
It just isn't Assassin's Creed anymore. It's a straight up pirate game, which is fine, but in a game that is supposed to be about assassins it is very lacking. Unless somebody tells me that they have more of that later on in the game I'll probably never play it again.
well before release of the game they said that around 40% of the missions would be naval. and i do not agree that it isn't assassins creed anymore, the games were always in some hictorical period and it would be stupid to think that the assassins do not change for centuries, they adapt to the age they live in. if they didn't change anything everyone would be complaining, now only the few people that don't like tha naval complain like it was hard to know that a game in a pirate setting would have a lot of naval in it 
I already knew that it was going to have a lot of naval stuff in it. I had read that it would be about 40% naval but as I hadn't played those sections yet nor played any previous AC games I had no idea that I wouldn't like it. I'm not that into pirates but I don't particulary dislike them either. You shouldn't have to have a pirate fetish to like this game. If you need to really be into pirates to enjoy it then the developers have to have gone wrong somewhere. Previous games have been set in renaissance Italy, medieval middle east and frontier/independence America. If the interest in those times and settings were so important then surely these games wouldn't have been so successful. The core gameplay has to be good, the story has to be ggood, the characters have to be interesting. I think the fact that AC4 has to rely on people enjoying being a pirate says something about the core gameplay.
I've never played an AC before 4 and I really don't get what all the fuss is about. I could forgive the aweful controls if the gameplay was better. The missions are quite repetitive and I've heard this game is an improvement over previous games in that regard.
I knew going in that the game, even though it has ''Assassin'' in the title isn't really about stealth or being an assassin. You can try to play stealthly and you can limited success at it but I often find in a lot of situations that you might as well just go straight into combat as combat is so easy in this game. The tailing and eavesdropping missions are just tedious. Also why isn't there some sort of ''stealth'' button? (or have I somehow missed it) Some sort of ability to actually crouch and sneak would greatly help the ability to sneak if you choose to. There just isn't an optional sneaking way to approach missions. Sure sometimes there's thick grass/vegetation that your character automatically crouched in and you can whistle etc but they really do half ass the stealth options.
I enjoyed the naval at first but it quickly became first boring then tedious and finally frustrating. If the tailiing missions were tedious on foot then the tailing mission in a ship was just rage inducing.
To each their own, if you enjoy this game then fine, good for you, I'm honestly really pleased that most people enjoy the game. it's just not for me is all.
