Ah fuck I forgot about the Borgia flags, then again there is waaaaaay less flags in Brotherhood. Oh and the Truth Puzzles I guess but they appear in super obvious places like in II and there is less of them as well.
Did you play II’s DLCs? The Siege of Forli and the Bonfire of the Vanities ones?
I’m not done AC2 yet! I only just finished Chapter 6 (got on the ship to Venice) and was thrust into the Modern Day, hopefully to see Desmond start doing parkour tricks of his own.
Also AC2 had DLC’s? Huh. Honestly DLC missions don’t come to me as something the AC series is known for or is consistent with. But what do I know lol
Oh yeah that is right, I forgot you said that.
I think it is the only time Assassin’s Creed ever did that sickening thing companies did back then when they cut out parts of the game to sell as DLC. Most of the time it was and still is just small shit you don’t miss because it is side content but in II they cut out two whole chapters one of which pertains to one of the most important events of the Renaissance.
It´s a cool cape though. Useless outside of Monteriggioni, but cool (good thing they realised it and made it useful in Brotherhood).
@TheChicken The main “prize” is making Maria speak again. You also get an extra weapon for your collection when you collect 50 of them (alongside a little cutscene with a Mario).
The Borgia flags are a lot less tedious. And I think you can even buy maps for them?
Amen. Tombs were amazing, as were the Truth puzzles.
In the PC version, you play the DLC chapters automatically as part of the main story, right before the finale. Which also leads to the hilarious exchange of Desmond saying “I´ve always wanted to visit the Vatican” and Shaun responding “Good. Cause that´s exactly where you´re going”, after which you spend half a dozen hours defending Forli (you get to bang Catarina Sforza in the next game, so totally worth it) and assassinating lunatics in Florence, lol.
I guess it does look kinda cool but there are capes you can wear in the game that look cool and don’t make every Tomaso, Riccardo and Enrico in Italy want to murder you.
True but some of them are still hidden in the tombs and it seemed like @TheChicken had difficulty with the tomb platforming (You get better at it the more you play them and the more you play the older games, trust me.)
Yeah and it is a little weird but you do get to see the Bonfire which is cool. Even if most of the event is viciously recontextualised the event very poorly and even ignores Rodrigo Borgia’s own involvement in the events despite being the antagonist of the game.
The best thing about Xbox having seemingly given up on the exclusive market is it allows me to play a game I had my eye on for some time now.
I am glad to say that Pentiment has been an excellent experience so far. Everything from the lovely illumination-esque visual design to the delightful and well utilised music and the faithful recreation of HRE era Bavaria as well as the full realised characters and a monastic detective story that feels like a worthy successor to Eco’s The Name of the Rose.
I can’t recommend it enough.
So apparently my PS Plus subscription ends on the 13th, and I’ll lose access to the Extra catalog that includes the AC Ezio Collection that I’m currently working on (idk if I can finish AC2 before then)
I resisted the temptation to buy new games on sale, because I KNOW I have a backlog of stuff already bought but forgot/wasn’t in the mood for.
Once I’m “done” with AC2, what game should I focus on next?
I’m not gonna renew the sub until I can get a deal for it, since the prices are absolutely ridiculous with the increases they’ve done last year. (Hopefully Extra because I like the catalog, I just don’t use it enough.
disco elysium is great but if you like it, you’ve found one game you like. if you like dark souls, you’ve found a whole series
honestly, dark souls is best played alongside another game anyway. it’s really not good for long sessions, you’ll want something else to keep you occupied if you get stuck on some of the harder fights
Poor Kentucky Route Zero sitting there with no votes, almost makes me want to defect out of pity.
I need to return to Kentucy Route Zero at some point. I think I’m half way through the third episode. KR0 veers from “this is really interesting, weird, and insightful” to “this is dull, pretentious bullshit” from scene to scene. I need to find the inclination to finish it to see if the plot at least ends on a good note.
Funny, I never found it dull or pretentious. Anyway the game has as good an ending as you allow it to have both in terms of gameplay choices and how you interpret it.
No offence AK, but I’m probably less enlightened than you are. I mean, I will state, I think that when the game is good, it is very very good. I think my favourite scene is near the end of episode two when the gang breaks into the musem(?) which while you wander in real time, has the people there explaining to someone else in the future what they say of the gang and what they thought of them. That was really clever. Some of the text only encounters you can find off the beaten path are very interesting too, like little snippits of weirdness in the wild, I love that kind of thing.
But then other things test my patience. At the end of episode 2 the bar scene which lasts for so long. I will admit, it has a good pay off in episode 3 when the gang arrives and there is just the bar owner left, but it goes on for so long. And where I stopped in episode 3 where you find the bunch of people huddled around some giant computer setup, and there’s a woman there who goes on about her life writing erotic fiction and some other people, and that just really irritated me, in a “this wants to sound smart but this seems utterly tedious” way, if that makes any sense.
I need to go back and finish it. I will say though, I think the game is interesting enough that if anyone has any interest in the game, they should play it, I think it is clear a lot of effort went into it. But compared to Disco Elysium? No I’m afraid not.
Yeah that is probably it but even then there is new stuff I discover every time I go back to it, there was a stunning write up about a lot of the teeny tiny references buried everywhere in the visual design of the game.
I think The Chicken will appreciate that section a bit more since I am pretty sure he has a background in theatre. I actually really liked that interlude mostly because I am a sucker for Beckett so I appreciated the style.
Yes it does, Act III is probably the slowest one, most dialogue heavy and perhaps the most heady. You quit before it picks up again for “Here and There Along The Echo River” (I am forgetting the title), it goes back to being more about the characters you have been following after that.
True, Kentucky Route Zero is well written but none of the men and women on the team were brave enough to ask the most daring question of all time: Are women bourgeois?
Damn, okay, so Disco Elysium it is! (Poor poor Kentucky Route Zero…)
Yeah, I’m sure I’ll enjoy it.
Pretty sure I bought it a while ago, knowing it was very popular and unique, then finding out it was very text/reading-heavy as a detective game, and just wasn’t really in the mood for that. 
Also, taken at around 1am last night, wow, I guess your sub expires at midnight the day of renewal.
I didn’t take out some time to play more AC2 last night, so unfortunately I’ll have to kill The Spaniard another time… (Stopped juuust before the end of Sequence 11.)
I did complete getting all the feathers though! I figure I wanna be a lil crazy, and if I wanna platinum at least one AC game, it better be this one since the amount of content/busywork just increases per game I assume… 
Just cause 3. Need I say more?
(If you know you know)
Nice! I think it’s worth doing at least once for the extra cutscenes. And honestly, it’s not the worst collectible out there (though it would’ve been better if there was a purchasable map of their location).
Holy shit there’s some inspiration from Samuel Beckett??
I fucking LOVE the existentialist, surreal, silly themes from Waiting for Godot so there’s that.
Also yeah I love and am trained in theatre
Cool, well good to know there’s some good stuff in KentuckyRZ when I get to it sometime
BTW, O to all masters of Disco Elysium, what do I start the game as? Should I choose a pre-made archetype or is a first run-through better with a custom character?
That is why I know you would love it. Parts of Godot are staright up used in some of the games conversations and the third act interlude is a stage play in his style I believe. The last act of the game also revolves around a theatrical adaptation of Frost’s Death of the Hired Man.
Whatever you like though since it is your first time I recommend an even spread. You want to have at least two in the Physique and Psyche so you have at least two health and two mental.
Okay, well here we go. Locked this in.
I figure since the game lets you make a custom and not use up all the points it gives you, I figured I’d set the stats similar to how I’d view myself.
3/4/2/2 should be okay.
I looked it up and some people say the 3 pre-made archetypes are good since new players won’t understand how to best use the Custom feature.
But others say each pre-made gives you One point in a certain category which can really suck for some reason.
