Any "Open World" game has this issue, letting you roam and discover as you like, while totally neglecting the main story line.
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Try it, try free running, or battle, with these things in mind and you'll see how fluid controls will get.Īs for the story. Enemies take time to attack, attack patterns are fairly predictable, free run courses are more than obvious and can be easily and quickly scanned with your eyes to plan your next move or direction. It sucks, I know, but planning ahead always is a good idea. I'm playing it right now with a controller and it never fails to frustrate me, from awful directions - especially when free running, to input delays due to stupidly long animation of certain moves.
I totally agree with you that the controls sucks. Instead of training to be an assassin Ezio could of easily just attended a couple of weeks of Sunday School, same results. My overall dissapointment is this game presents itself as an intelligent, cryptic, mysterious, prophetic, puzzle-solving endeavor but there is really nothing deep, revelatory, or meaningful happening at all, it's nothing but a simple but repetitive revenge tale stoked in Christian imagery and references. I was impressed with the early story in Florence but Venice, though pretty to look at, is boring with nothing interesting outside of Carnivale happening in this highly detailed location. How much longer is this game cause I'm thinking of shutting it down, the plot apparently is just filler, too many characters introduced only to delay progression and be assassinated 10 minutes later. I'm currently searching for a man in robes who stole the artifact from me after I stole it back from the guy who previously stole it from the chic I gave it to so it wouldn't be stolen.(see tedious). I tend to delay main missions while I go off on all side quests and activities but when returning to the main mission it's a complete letdown! Story is basically "hey Ezio go kill this person.is it done? Ok now go kill that person, good job, now this person has something to do with it go kill them too." I've been hopeful (because I heard this is the best AC game) that at some point an amazing story was going to emerge and everything would be tied together in some clever twist but that doesn't appear to be happening. My issue is after all the running around collecting, looting treasures, buying everything, finding secrets, exploring tombs, repairing the villa, gathering feathers, deciphering codex, fulfilling contracts, solving puzzles, etc.the main story itself is dull, repetitive, and going nowhere! With no achievements I now regret why I even bothered. Another reason for the long hours is I try to complete every area in total ( no walkthroughs) before I move on. Many hours were loss trying to play a terrible console port. After 80 hours (and years in my library) you'd assume I've beat this game multiple times.NOPE, haven't beat the game even once! One reason is I quit because the PC controls were horrible.