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On Wed, 06 May 2015 18:06:43 +0300, Rin Stowleigh <rstow...@nevrhadgmail.com> wrote:

> I've got AC2 sitting in my Steam library uninstalled, I apparently
> bought it about 4 years ago for a few bucks but never got around to
> trying it.  One of these days I'll fire it up and if I like it I'll
> take a look at the others.
> I assume AC2 doesn't require knowledge of the story in AC1 to enjoy?
> Its been a long time since I played AC1.  Probably 2008.


I knew ACs were some arcade games and had no interest in them.
Then Steam Winter Sale 12-13 came, and I bought AC2 just to check was it possible
that the game looked as beautiful as its screenshots. (Yes it was!)

It has strong plot, and diversified enough gameplay. Still being arcadish
sometimes it gave me RPG feelings, and sometimes "tomb raider" ones.
Overall despite few very annoying arcade sequences I enjoyed the game greatly.
My only thought was if only they made NPCs behavior more various.

And in the next game - Brotherhood - they did!  There, in Rome, peoples really
are alive (for game standards). It is interesting to watch them, interesting
to provoke miscellaneous (not scripted, predictable) situations and collisions.
Even after the plot ended I continued to play (the game lets you) for a week or so.
That what should RPG games do and no one actually did - dynamic world.
(Brotherhood is shorter then AC2 plotwise, but bigger as a gameworld.)

Then after another half-year I played original AC to see how the series began.
I finished and enjoyed it to some degree, and realized how much they enhanced
the series in AC2.

Then (after yet another half-year) I tried Revelations and... uninstalled it
after 10-12 hours. Pure boredom. Not step, but jump back.

Now, I have so much criticized AC3 and so much praised AC4 listed in my Steam library,
and not sure do I want to play them.

-- 
Andrew Rybenkov