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Re: Assassins Creed: Rogue - aka Black Flag 2 by WITTGENSTEIN 04/27/2015, 9:32am PDT
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:

WITTGENSTEIN wrote:

What more do you want me to say? This game is Black Flag 2. If you liked Black Flag, you will like this. If you didn't like Black Flag, you will not enjoy this.


I can't believe this game disappeared in all the coverage of the spray of shit and horror that was Unity. This game is like the Deus Ex to Unity's terrible Daikatana.


What kind of game was Black Flag 2, my friend?


ICJ


Sid Meier's Pirates! on steroids. It's not quite as pirate-y as Black Flag was but still more pirate-y than Unity. There's some shit in there about an Assassin-turned-Templar but honestly who cares. They've taken out a lot of the stuff that didn't work in Black Flag and replaced it with stuff that does. There's only one main city (New York) and two free-roam maps (New York River Valley & Newfoundland) you can cruise around looking for trouble in. You can hunt if you like that boring bullshit though I just bought all the stuff I needed with the PHAT LEWTS I was getting sinking everything in sight.


So, some of the changes

- When you raid a vessel you can now sell it off for salvage, netting you between 750-1500 pounds. This option was missing from Black Flag and made money the chokepoint for a lot of upgrades. No more!

- iPod for your sea shanties. Now you can skip shanties you don't like or turn it off altogether. (Unfortunately can't selectively disable/enable shanties and make your own shanty mixtape like in Saints Row III/IV though)

- Building upgrading from ACII is back to give you a steady income. The system works well enough to support your ship-raiding but that's probably going to still be your main method of money-acquiring.

- I'm really enjoying the "Interception" side mission. Instead of tailing a mark and killing them you find a target and then hunt down six or so assassins all waiting to stab him to death. While you're hunting them down a timer is ticking down. If the timer ticks down then they all try to jump him at once so it's still possible to prevent the assassination but you have to be real quick about it. They tend to use moves from your repertoire and are really slick. I was stunned the first time one jumped out of the bushes and just stabbed me to death without giving me an opportunity to counter or anything.

- Get your ship instantly. Finally after seven games they figure it out. I don't want tutorials. Just give me my guns, my sword, and my fucking ship at the end of the first mission.

- More completionist shit like Legendary fleet battles and etc.

The story is kinda meh compared to Black Flag's horribly depressing Heart of Darkness-esque spiral but still passable.
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Assassins Creed: Rogue - aka Black Flag 2 by WITTGENSTEIN 04/26/2015, 12:48pm PDT NEW
    Re: Assassins Creed: Rogue - aka Black Flag 2 by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/26/2015, 1:11pm PDT NEW
        Re: Assassins Creed: Rogue - aka Black Flag 2 by WITTGENSTEIN 04/27/2015, 9:32am PDT NEW
            I never could get the hang of Black Flags control scheme. by Oom Shnibble 04/27/2015, 10:06am PDT NEW
                Re: I never could get the hang of Black Flags control scheme. by WITTGENSTEIN 04/27/2015, 10:52am PDT NEW
 
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