Quick Look: Assassin's Creed: Bloodlines

How could you like this and despise the first Assassin's Creed? The animus is a central part of the story. You can't just remove the Desmond sections without detracting from the narrative. Although, I agree that Desmond controlled sluggishly for no reason at all. But even worse, Bloodlines seems to lack scenes in which the leaders speak their final words, which was in my opinion one of the best parts of the original Assassin's Creed. Without those short conversations, the assassinations would feel meaningless.
And of course, it also has uh... 3 or 4 civilians per area, which really eliminates the entire idea of blending into crowds, but that was so blatantly apparent that I'm sure everyone has already noticed.
anyway, ventilaator, i would highly suggest replaying Assassin's Creed. I believe that you could replay any part of the game without playing through the Desmond sequences.

I vote you connect it up to the PS3, and tell us what the unlock was.

" @Ventilaator said:

" @Death_Burnout said:

" @Ventilaator: Yeah, the fact that you liked this and didn't like that, is so insane...you owe the first game another chance! "

Well, the issue is that I've already given the game 5 chances or so... "

So it's even more crazy...i mean this seems so inferior to me...have you tried AC 2 yet? perhaps make the jump. "

This game looks... kind of like ass.
 
Makes me wish I had a copy of AC2 though.

" @Death_Burnout said:

" @Ventilaator said:

" @Death_Burnout said:

" @Ventilaator: Yeah, the fact that you liked this and didn't like that, is so insane...you owe the first game another chance! "

Well, the issue is that I've already given the game 5 chances or so... "

So it's even more crazy...i mean this seems so inferior to me...have you tried AC 2 yet? perhaps make the jump. "

That's also a part of the reason I want to have another go at AC1...because AC2 looks alright! 

@lolwot:   Well, I hate the fact that the Animus is a central part of the story. Unique concept, sure, but also makes me not care about anything that Altair ever did, because other then being fake, he was also fake. "

Was getting this at Christmas but now I ain't. It's one of the poorest PSP games I have seen.

That's an easy thing to say, but I do play a lot of games and other than Splinter Cell Double Agent, Assassin's Creed 1 is the only game I've ever seriously despised. "

" @Ventilaator said:

That's an easy thing to say, but I do play a lot of games and other than Splinter Cell Double Agent, Assassin's Creed 1 is the only game I've ever seriously despised. "

The "you need to play more games" argument is now more valid then ever. If Double Agent and Assassin's Creed are the worst games you've ever played, then you ONLY play AAA titles. There are literally thousands of games worse than either of those. Wii shovelware is an obvious example, but really, saying that Double Agent and AC1 are the worst games you've ever played is a seriously indicative of your limited gaming experience.   Please don't consider that an insult, as I'm sure most people would love the idea of never having played a shitty game and living an untarnished life of gaming, but maybe you should try to play more awful games to gain perspective. It's the shitty games like Big Rigs that make games like Assassin's Creed great. You need that contrast. How would you know that The Godfather was a great film if Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle wasn't there to compare it to? "

" @Kajaah117 said:

" @Ventilaator said:

That's an easy thing to say, but I do play a lot of games and other than Splinter Cell Double Agent, Assassin's Creed 1 is the only game I've ever seriously despised. "

The "you need to play more games" argument is now more valid then ever. If Double Agent and Assassin's Creed are the worst games you've ever played, then you ONLY play AAA titles. There are literally thousands of games worse than either of those. Wii shovelware is an obvious example, but really, saying that Double Agent and AC1 are the worst games you've ever played is a seriously indicative of your limited gaming experience.   Please don't consider that an insult, as I'm sure most people would love the idea of never having played a shitty game and living an untarnished life of gaming, but maybe you should try to play more awful games to gain perspective. It's the shitty games like Big Rigs that make games like Assassin's Creed great. You need that contrast. How would you know that The Godfather was a great film if Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle wasn't there to compare it to? "

To be fair though, Splinter Cell: Double Agent does suck balls. "

" @Kajaah117 said:

" @Ventilaator said:

That's an easy thing to say, but I do play a lot of games and other than Splinter Cell Double Agent, Assassin's Creed 1 is the only game I've ever seriously despised. "

The "you need to play more games" argument is now more valid then ever. If Double Agent and Assassin's Creed are the worst games you've ever played, then you ONLY play AAA titles. There are literally thousands of games worse than either of those. Wii shovelware is an obvious example, but really, saying that Double Agent and AC1 are the worst games you've ever played is a seriously indicative of your limited gaming experience.   Please don't consider that an insult, as I'm sure most people would love the idea of never having played a shitty game and living an untarnished life of gaming, but maybe you should try to play more awful games to gain perspective. It's the shitty games like Big Rigs that make games like Assassin's Creed great. You need that contrast. How would you know that The Godfather was a great film if Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle wasn't there to compare it to? "

To be fair though, Splinter Cell: Double Agent does suck balls. "

@Ineedaname:

@Ventilaator said:

@lolwot:   Well, I hate the fact that the Animus is a central part of the story. Unique concept, sure, but also makes me not care about anything that Altair ever did, because other then being fake, he was also fake. "

What do you mean by fake? He was a real person, at least within the game's fiction. Altair was Desmond's ancestor.
 

That's not the bookcase

I'm not an Assasain's Creed hater, I actually loved the original and the new one (though I can only play it at the store as I have no X360). I would have loved this game if it were better. So here's a one to two minute explanation of the problems. Other than this you just saw ALL the best stuff on the quick look. I'm also including the story inside here as it has so few changes. This game amazed me at first (compared to other portable versions) but that soon wore off as I played. Anyway here's all you want to know (minus the quick look) befor deciding to purchase (or not) bloodlines.
What 's new in the story is... 

Haha Altair runs like a ninny

Would be nice if we could get AC2 QL.

" @Kajaah117 said:

" @Ventilaator said:

That's an easy thing to say, but I do play a lot of games and other than Splinter Cell Double Agent, Assassin's Creed 1 is the only game I've ever seriously despised. "

The "you need to play more games" argument is now more valid then ever. If Double Agent and Assassin's Creed are the worst games you've ever played, then you ONLY play AAA titles. There are literally thousands of games worse than either of those. Wii shovelware is an obvious example, but really, saying that Double Agent and AC1 are the worst games you've ever played is a seriously indicative of your limited gaming experience.   Please don't consider that an insult, as I'm sure most people would love the idea of never having played a shitty game and living an untarnished life of gaming, but maybe you should try to play more awful games to gain perspective. It's the shitty games like Big Rigs that make games like Assassin's Creed great. You need that contrast. How would you know that The Godfather was a great film if Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle wasn't there to compare it to? "

To be fair though, Splinter Cell: Double Agent does suck balls. "

The PSP is better than this. 
Besides lower fidelity models and textures, Tekken 5 & 6 were practically identical ports on the PSP.

The next PSP needs to be a Dual Shock 3 with a screen attached to it. It's almost impossible to play anything besides games like FF Tactics on it because of the controls.

love the whistling

" I absolutely despised everything AC1 stood for, and I borrowed this just to see how it works on the PSP. And I finished it, and loved it. Can anyone tell me why exactly did that happen? "

This looks terrible, even for a PSP game.

I'll skip on this.

" Ryan really fucking hates the English, doesn't he? "

" @Ventilaator said:

That's an easy thing to say, but I do play a lot of games and other than Splinter Cell Double Agent, Assassin's Creed 1 is the only game I've ever seriously despised. "

The "you need to play more games" argument is now more valid then ever. If Double Agent and Assassin's Creed are the worst games you've ever played, then you ONLY play AAA titles. There are literally thousands of games worse than either of those. Wii shovelware is an obvious example, but really, saying that Double Agent and AC1 are the worst games you've ever played is a seriously indicative of your limited gaming experience.   Please don't consider that an insult, as I'm sure most people would love the idea of never having played a shitty game and living an untarnished life of gaming, but maybe you should try to play more awful games to gain perspective. It's the shitty games like Big Rigs that make games like Assassin's Creed great. You need that contrast. How would you know that The Godfather was a great film if Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle wasn't there to compare it to? "

" @Kajaah117 said:

" @Ventilaator said:

That's an easy thing to say, but I do play a lot of games and other than Splinter Cell Double Agent, Assassin's Creed 1 is the only game I've ever seriously despised. "

The "you need to play more games" argument is now more valid then ever. If Double Agent and Assassin's Creed are the worst games you've ever played, then you ONLY play AAA titles. There are literally thousands of games worse than either of those. Wii shovelware is an obvious example, but really, saying that Double Agent and AC1 are the worst games you've ever played is a seriously indicative of your limited gaming experience.   Please don't consider that an insult, as I'm sure most people would love the idea of never having played a shitty game and living an untarnished life of gaming, but maybe you should try to play more awful games to gain perspective. It's the shitty games like Big Rigs that make games like Assassin's Creed great. You need that contrast. How would you know that The Godfather was a great film if Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle wasn't there to compare it to? "

Good answer!  But no, I play a lot of games, and I don't hate terrible games like Big Rigs because I can laugh at them, there was not a single ounce of enjoyability I could derive from Double Agent or AC1. The fact that they're AAA games with amazing presentation just makes me hate them even more, because you can almost see the game breaking a sweat in an effort to be awesome.  Also, while on the topic of my ridiculous tastes in games...  I played Final Fantasy Tactics, found it kind of unplayable. Then I just figured that the genre is just too complicated, and it's not for me.   Then I got to play a Disgaea game, and I loved it. Then read the reviews and they said that "OH MY GOD, IF YOU DON'T EAT, BREATHE AND SLEEP SRPG GAMES THERE'S NO CHANCE IN HELL YOU COULD GET PAST THE FIRST LEVEL!"   I finished Disgaea 1, and am making my way though Disgaea 2 now.  I gave FFT another go, and still hated it. "

" @Ventilaator said:

" @Kajaah117 said:

" @Ventilaator said:

That's an easy thing to say, but I do play a lot of games and other than Splinter Cell Double Agent, Assassin's Creed 1 is the only game I've ever seriously despised. "

The "you need to play more games" argument is now more valid then ever. If Double Agent and Assassin's Creed are the worst games you've ever played, then you ONLY play AAA titles. There are literally thousands of games worse than either of those. Wii shovelware is an obvious example, but really, saying that Double Agent and AC1 are the worst games you've ever played is a seriously indicative of your limited gaming experience.   Please don't consider that an insult, as I'm sure most people would love the idea of never having played a shitty game and living an untarnished life of gaming, but maybe you should try to play more awful games to gain perspective. It's the shitty games like Big Rigs that make games like Assassin's Creed great. You need that contrast. How would you know that The Godfather was a great film if Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle wasn't there to compare it to? "

Good answer!  But no, I play a lot of games, and I don't hate terrible games like Big Rigs because I can laugh at them, there was not a single ounce of enjoyability I could derive from Double Agent or AC1. The fact that they're AAA games with amazing presentation just makes me hate them even more, because you can almost see the game breaking a sweat in an effort to be awesome.  Also, while on the topic of my ridiculous tastes in games...  I played Final Fantasy Tactics, found it kind of unplayable. Then I just figured that the genre is just too complicated, and it's not for me.   Then I got to play a Disgaea game, and I loved it. Then read the reviews and they said that "OH MY GOD, IF YOU DON'T EAT, BREATHE AND SLEEP SRPG GAMES THERE'S NO CHANCE IN HELL YOU COULD GET PAST THE FIRST LEVEL!"   I finished Disgaea 1, and am making my way though Disgaea 2 now.  I gave FFT another go, and still hated it. "

I agree 100% with the sentence I bolded. I can absolutely understand how the games you hate most are the one's that could have been better, if I'm understanding you correctly that is. It's not that the games were awful necessarily, but that, at least on your own mind, they failed to live up to their potential. Amirite? "

BEST QL EVER 
 
OY GOVNA!!!!

Looked through the comments, but apparently I'm the only one to notice that Altaïr sounded a bit like Schwarzenegger in Terminator around 9:09?

" @Ventilaator: Final Fantasy Tactics is complicated.  Disgaea can be incredibly complicated, but only if you want it to be.  You could ignore the whole item worlds, master/apprentice thing, and the senate and still finish the game just fine. "

Seems really underwhelming, even for a PSP game.

" The PSP is better than this. Besides lower fidelity models and textures, Tekken 5 & 6 were practically identical ports on the PSP. "

 Ventilaator, you should definitely pick up AC2 if you can. It's a much better game than AC1 (which I still liked btw). They solved almost every issue the first game had, expanded on all the cool aspects in the right ways, and added a lot of cool new stuff. The game is a much better designed package. It also doesn't feature any of the stuff which you hated about AC1. It has far less immersion breaking since you hardly ever leave the animus, and there's none of the repetitive gameplay left. It's a much smoother, more streamlined and much more diverse experience. You do have to wade through a shitty prologue though, but that doesn't take overly long.
 
This PSP-version looks really bad to me. The controls come off as clunky, camera control is too stiff and restricting, and there's hardly any atmosphere due to the flat lighting and barren streets. They might've been better off with a more lineair game on the PSP, so they could've realised a more focused gameplay experience and a much better graphical look.

It doesn't take a genius to see that this is just a crappy port due to the PSP not being able to pack in the original assets.
 
However, those fire effects look like complete ass.

well...this looks like utter shit

" @Death_Burnout said:

" @Ventilaator said:

" @Death_Burnout said:

" @Ventilaator: Yeah, the fact that you liked this and didn't like that, is so insane...you owe the first game another chance! "

Well, the issue is that I've already given the game 5 chances or so... "

So it's even more crazy...i mean this seems so inferior to me...have you tried AC 2 yet? perhaps make the jump. "

That's also a part of the reason I want to have another go at AC1...because AC2 looks alright! 

@lolwot:   Well, I hate the fact that the Animus is a central part of the story. Unique concept, sure, but also makes me not care about anything that Altair ever did, because other then being fake, he was also fake. "

" @lolwot:   But the actual story is obviously about Desmond, and whatever Altair's doing is just in the way of me finding out where the Desmond line is going. "

This looks so shitty. Even for psp.

Looks decent for a PSP game, I think the problem with this is that people are gonna come to it straight off playing Assassin's Creed 2, and obviously the two games just can't compare.
 
But for a stand-alone PSP game, looks solid enough to me. 

" @Ventilaator: No idea.  This looks like a way shittier version of a game you hate. "

"Or not getting used to."
 
Ice burn!