Today’s game is Assassin’s Creed 2. I started this up today, and did a little tinkering with reshade. I still want to mess with it a bit because i feel it’s way too saturated, but it’s definitely got less of that ugly filter games of that era had. So, just consider this a disclosure that mileage will very if someone decides to replay this and sees my pictures.
I first wanted to start off by saying that the soundtrack to this game is absolutely amazing to me. The piece earth alone absolutely captured me with it’s calm opening followed by the (what i assume) to be the electric bass.
Ezio’s performance can come off a bit flat at times, but despite that there’s something about him that has captured me in the same way my other favorites have. I think it’s similar to Arno and how he goes from this almost cocky individual to something more reserved and at times furious. With my only other brush with him as a character being Revelations, it makes for a fascinating character arc. Especially since he gets a full 3 games to grow, something as far as i remember no one else gets.
This game really feels like they took the flaws of AC 1 and refined them. The parkour feels far nicer. So does the combat and the story. The characters feel like they have far more depth too. I suspect this will be as short as Assassin’s Creed 1, but i’m hoping i’m wrong and we get a little more time. Obviously nothing crazy like Shadows but a Shorter game feels perfect, especially for a trilogy.
EZIO AUDITORE DA FIRENZE!!!
love this game :)
Wait a minute. That is not breath of the wild.
Looks a bit better this way. I remember it being mostly brown and yellow.
It wasn’t too bad on PC but that may have been my monitor, but there were some segments where it didn’t look great
This is my problem with almost all 7th-generation games. They are largely muddy, brown, and dark. I almost never go back and play 3d games from this era.
Reshade does wonders there.
Ahoy on YouTube did a statistical analysis on this question. And he found that there were some very brown games but overall there were just as colorful games as in any other time period. The trend actually comes from the sixth generation and the seventh actually ended it.
It is mostly a feeling that comes from the over exposition of a couple of popular games that were indeed browner at some parts. But if you look at all the games released, there was no significant change. It’s statistical cherry picking.
EDIT: essentially, a few popular IPs experimented with post processing shaders and got a bit browner at some parts, some other IPs aimed at a more mature and adult audiences and were more de-saturated in visual design for some parts of the game. If you only show those parts it may seem like the entire 7th generation was brown, but it wasn’t, not anymore than any other video game generation.
Great Choice! Ezio is the OG! I really loved playing the trilogy. For me AC II is the most nostalgic.
The games I grew up with were Unity and Black Flag, so getting to go back and experience Ezio is fun. I’m finally starting to see why a lot of people love him
I never got into black flag and unity was a buggy mess when it came out, but the co-op was fun. Maybe I’ll give black flag a chance after these years.
Man i should go back to all the old AC’s. Loved it!
Are you playing with a controller or a mouse and keyboard? I love me a mouse and keyboard, but I played this game a couple years ago and by the end of it I was ready to break my computer in rage and I’m not normally an angry gamer. The parkour was awful by the end, you have places where you have to execute long series of moves and jumps with the most precise timing and sequences of key presses at exact perfect timing and if you screw it up or if the game decides to delay your input or flip your key presses (which it did A LOT) you fall and are right back at the very start. Sections that are supposed to be a fun little challenging climb were taking me 30-60 minutes just to get past, and I’m normally pretty good at those kind of challenges in video games. I was starting to think my game was bugged AF, heck, maybe it was.
Controller. Specifically PS3. I have a lot of respect for people who play the franchise with Keyboard and Mouse but I could not be one of them
