I just beat Rogue today on PS3, I played Black Flag (also on PS3) Last September
I've not played 3 as based on reviews and the general reception it received I decided it wasn't worth it, but jumping back into the series after not playing an Assassin's Creed game for a few years with IV was really refreshing. If this was a series where a new game came out every 2 years even, I think people would on the whole enjoy them a lot more
Rogue was shorter (I think my save was 13 hours compared to 30 in Black Flag) but I liked how the sailing was cut down. I like sailing, but there were parts in IV where you'd play for an hour and be sailing for 75% of that time, and I think overall it serves the game better as something to do in between the on foot missions rather than something where the focus is equal. Rogue also has a lot more stuff in the water, so the sailing is more involved
The voice acting, for the main character in particular, was pretty awful. The times where he does well he sounds passable, but there are times when he's narrating the story and it just sounds terrible, which is a shame because Edward Kenway had a great voice actor
Rogue and Black Flag are mechanically quite similar, but the setting really makes them stand apart, also I think both games performed and ran pretty well on the PS3, and since I've not played the IV story DLC and it was on sale, I grabbed it off PSN, but I'll play it in a few months probably
It's a shame this game was pushed out to die really, because its a very good sequel to maybe the best Assassin's Creed game, overall it's probably not as good as IV, but if this dropped on PS4/XB1 and they delayed Unity a year I don't think maybe people would have minded considering how much better IV did critically compared to III, and a lot of people seemed kind of bummed that the sailing was gone from Unity
What do you think, GAF?
I've not played 3 as based on reviews and the general reception it received I decided it wasn't worth it, but jumping back into the series after not playing an Assassin's Creed game for a few years with IV was really refreshing. If this was a series where a new game came out every 2 years even, I think people would on the whole enjoy them a lot more
Rogue was shorter (I think my save was 13 hours compared to 30 in Black Flag) but I liked how the sailing was cut down. I like sailing, but there were parts in IV where you'd play for an hour and be sailing for 75% of that time, and I think overall it serves the game better as something to do in between the on foot missions rather than something where the focus is equal. Rogue also has a lot more stuff in the water, so the sailing is more involved
The voice acting, for the main character in particular, was pretty awful. The times where he does well he sounds passable, but there are times when he's narrating the story and it just sounds terrible, which is a shame because Edward Kenway had a great voice actor
Rogue and Black Flag are mechanically quite similar, but the setting really makes them stand apart, also I think both games performed and ran pretty well on the PS3, and since I've not played the IV story DLC and it was on sale, I grabbed it off PSN, but I'll play it in a few months probably
It's a shame this game was pushed out to die really, because its a very good sequel to maybe the best Assassin's Creed game, overall it's probably not as good as IV, but if this dropped on PS4/XB1 and they delayed Unity a year I don't think maybe people would have minded considering how much better IV did critically compared to III, and a lot of people seemed kind of bummed that the sailing was gone from Unity
What do you think, GAF?
In before everyone is waiting for a PS4/XB1 release
