Assassin's Creed II Thread

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Which will hopefully come around soon.

Need to go into AC2-rehab. Just platinum'ed it, the pain for waiting for part 3. 'Luckily' they kept some of the orginal game out so we can buy it ... as dlc ... something to look forward to!
 
So I have discovered a fun new thing to do. Stick someone with some poison, and when they start punching the air or flailing their sword, normally people keep their distance from them.


But, there are some things people will do for money. :D


It doesn't get old seeing people run into impending doom yelling "MY LUCKY DAY!!"


Oh man. :lol:
 
So I'm done the game and only need 2 trophies to get my platinum, "collect all the feathers" and "show your colors". I've gone through every feather location in Florence 3 times and I'm still missing one. Apparently its a glitch that people are getting and the only thing to remedy it is to play the game all over again! ARGH!

With this glitch and the numerous other annoyances I find with this game, I think I'm trading it in and just living with the 97% I have with it.
 
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So I'm done the game and only need 2 trophies to get my platinum, "collect all the feathers" and "show your colors". I've gone through every feather location in Florence 3 times and I'm still missing one. Apparently its a glitch that people are getting and the only thing to remedy it is to play the game all over again! ARGH!

With this glitch and the numerous other annoyances I find with this game, I think I'm trading it in and just living with the 97% I have with it.
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Strange, I found them all fine, use a video guide as apposed to a map if you haven't already, it's much MUCH easier to follow because you get the map location usually shown, and then you can see plenty of the surroundings and how exactly they went from nearby, to right on it as well as be able to check if you have that one for certain.
 
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Strange, I found them all fine, use a video guide as apposed to a map if you haven't already, it's much MUCH easier to follow because you get the map location usually shown, and then you can see plenty of the surroundings and how exactly they went from nearby, to right on it as well as be able to check if you have that one for certain.
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I'll give it a go later today and see if I can find it. If not, I'm taking the disk out back and putting it out of my misery with my 12 gauge.
 
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I'll give it a go later today and see if I can find it. If not, I'm taking the disk out back and putting it out of my misery with my 12 gauge.
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:lol: I used a very nice guide, I can try find it if you like but I didn't favourite it or anything. They went through pretty quick but you could pause when they showed the map, set a marker then get near, then mimic them to the exact location as they ran a short bit.

Edit: Look in the uploaded from this channel http://www.youtube.com/user/johnnybebad6
 
Also watch out, sometimes on the internet maps some feathers are actually on an border of a map and so may be on the wrong map located.
 
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Also watch out, sometimes on the internet maps some feathers are actually on an border of a map and so may be on the wrong map located.
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I just don't like using maps/photos myself, they're to vague on the map, not showing the level of height or things like that, and photos are often to narrow without enough landmarking to show you whats what. Not to mention if a guide said 'on a beam' that wouldn't narrow it down on Assassin's :lol:.
 
Played, finished, platinumed :D

Now, I'm one of the people who loved the first AC and didn't mind it being "repetitive". With that said, I don't really see how AC2 is any different - you're still mainly running on rooftops to kill someone with your wrist-mounted blade and collecting things. The end results may vary, but the activities don't. I was certainly very surprised by the negative reviews AC got compared to the extremely positive reviews AC2 got.

I found the Monteriggioni "side quest" very tiresome. I don't think any game benefits from having 100 objects "hidden" over the vast maps they have now, that you must collect all of to do something - especially when taken in conjunction with the 330 "treasures" spread about, or the 8 statues, or however many paintings you had to buy. Collecting things isn't fun. Leaping through the air to stab people through the neck is fun. Robbing their corpse and dumping them in a haybale/river is fun. Taking a giant axe off a heavily armed soldier and ramming it through their brain is fun.

Ultimately I think AC2 really is - and deserves the epithet as - the true sequel to AC. The Real Running on Rooftops to Leap Down and Knife Someone Through the Heart Simulator.
 
I think although many of the missions are indeed reasonably similar to one another, climb these rooves, kill these dudes, the original AC had you beating people up who had no weapons to get information, stealing and sitting on benches. Only one of the 4 grind missions were really killing at all. This time around there seems to be more actually killing people, kill these guards to clear this area and thats what we want to do, not beat up unarmed people and sit on benches.

That said, I didn't dislike the original, it was good enough but I'm glad the 2nd installment has you doing more actual killing and lets me sneakily and precisely remove those guards.

As for collection, I couldn't agree more, collecting 100 things is boring, thats why I used a guide. I'm not sitting around for hours trying to find that last feather it's just not fun at all. The glyphs however were much more interesting because you got a nice puzzle to accompany it, but you couldn't really call them collectables and there wasn't to many either.

By far the biggest improvement I thought though was more of a cohesive story, more interesting and better executed story. Ezio is a much more compelling lead, the voice acting and conversation has been written with much more care and attention. It was by no means the best story ever, but it was much less shallow then the original.
 
I finished the game and couldn't really find any replay value in it, so i just sold it. But it was fun while it lasted. I hope Ezio's story isn't quite as abandoned in the next game as Altair's was for this game.
 
Found the feather and got my platinum!

Trading the game in this weekend for something else, I can't see the download content being that great or giving the game much else.
 
completed it unlocked all subject 16s video its a amaing game i played 23 hrs straight on this game and i was addicted to it after i tuned it of i had to turn it back on and play again
 
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completed it unlocked all subject 16s video its a amaing game i played 23 hrs straight on this game and i was addicted to it after i tuned it of i had to turn it back on and play again
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Thanks. 👍
 
Im at 91%. I still have a few Glyphs and a fair few feathers to go before I get that Platinum (which will be my first, I just never seem to complete games).
Still trying to work up the motivation to get all those feathers.

I do agree it is a great game, and while I liked the first, this one is miles better.
A definite must have :)
 
Just bought this game for the 360. I hadn't played the first AC.

This is the most purely enjoyable game I've played in a long time. Free running is beautiful. Hopping across the rooftops of Florence doesn't get old. All of Ezio's movement is just so fluid. I also love how the story is exposed - I think that the open-world design is perfect for this type of game.

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Zrow
Just bought this game for the 360. I hadn't played the first AC.

This is the most purely enjoyable game I've played in a long time. Free running is beautiful. Hopping across the rooftops of Florence doesn't get old. All of Ezio's movement is just so fluid. I also love how the story is exposed - I think that the open-world design is perfect for this type of game.

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The story continues from the first one, so you're missing a lot of the details.
 
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The story continues from the first one, so you're missing a lot of the details.
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I don't think it's actually as important as it may seem, sure the 'real world' stuff makes less sense but Ezios story is relatively independent and interesting enough as a stand alone, much more interesting then Altairs anyway.
 
I got a quick question. If you finish the game and start a new can use everything you got the firs time around or do you have get everything over again?
 
Quick question, has anybody bought the DLC and if yes is it worth it?


PS. @ kjb Not really sure but i don't believe so.
 
I am currently hooked on this game, really nice roaming around, doing the side quests, i take my time, playing probably a couple of hours every other day...

Currently at 31% in Santa Maria inside the cathedral.


Does anybody know if we can turn off the Auto Save feature???
Can i save on the two remaining save "slots" ?? or are they "blocked" for different games?

Thanks in advance.
 

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