Assassin's Creed Forum

There are so many fantastic concepts in Assassin's Creed, and those have made me really enjoy the game. However, there are so many little things that the developers decided to include that nearly ruins the entire experience. Beggars (also the insane people), the fact that nearly anything triggers a guard's attention (very annoying during missions where you have to stay unseen), how guards throw rocks at you while you're climbing, guards constantly grabbing and throwing you to no effect (triggering a long throw animation), the long, pointless dialogue sequences (and if you fail an informer mission or something, you have to watch that again), and the timed assassination missions (not fun AT ALL).

Yeah, I just felt like fuming about the game real quick, since it had been pissing me off earlier this evening when I had been playing it. Who else shares my opinions?

i thought the rock throwing and dialogue set-up was appropriate. but those market stall things that u dove through seemed completely useless because they slowed u down, and i wished there were more ways to go about an assassination. like environment kills and stuff. slice a rope and drop a chandelier. kick barrels or tip them over to slow down guards. stuff like that

Assassin's Creed made a really good first impression on me. For the first few days I played it I thought it was an absolutely awesome game, but thanks to the repetitiveness of the missions and a bunch of little niggling issues I soon changed my opinion. By the fifth or sixth assassination, I thought, 'You know what? Fuck this game!' and haven't played it since. There weren't nearly enough mission types (and one of those mission types was literally 'sit down and watch a cutscene'), and those mission types stayed exactly the same throughout the entire game, so the game got really boring after a while because you were just doing the same things over and over again. Granted, the repetitiveness probably would not have set in as quickly had I not been going for the achievements, but since I was I climbed every viewpoint, saved every citizen, and did every investigation mission until I just got sick of it all and quit playing.

I also had many small issues with the game, most of which the OP covered. I can usually forgive a few minor problems here and there, but combined with my fatigue of the missions, it all added up.  It was a game that had a lot of potential, but they really screwed it up. I mean, I can certainly understand why people like it so much--heck, I liked it for the first few hours too--but by the middle of the game I just found it a chore to play and couldn't take it anymore. That being said, I am hopeful for Assassin's Creed II. Assassin's Creed is a series with a great core concept; all it really needs is some fleshing out.

Hopefully Assassin's Creed 2 will fix it's issues. It's looking good so far, so fingers crossed.

Even with the flaws stated, I still enjoyed the game.  The assassinations and free running never ceased to be fun for me.  Plus, it looks like Assassin's Creed 2 is going to fix most, if not all of the flaws of the first game, so yay.