Assassin's Creed 2 PC

Expecting all the gamer population of the world to have internet connection all the time they want to play is just wrong.

They should add the offline mode, and it would solve all the problems. We would just have another Steam :p
 
WabeWalker said:
So let me see if I've got this right. You guys are going to play Assassin's Creed 2 on the console, when you've got a kick ass PC that will run it ten times better
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I think the idea is the principle of the thing. I liked AC and would like to try AC2 but I'm not going to because of their asshattery.

So it's this same moral code, is it, that allows you guys to cheer on Skidrow, the biggest group of scumbags on the planet
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People who crack games to show off their skill are really the biggest scumbags on earth? Yeah right, most of them dont care about piracy they do it for recognition amongst their peers and most of them hate the modern torrent/p2p scene.

...who have done more harm to PC gaming than Ubisoft will ever do.
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You know what scene groups do, they take modern games and they IMPROVE them in ways the developers refuse to, I'm lacking sympathy for developers who degrade the quality of their game in order to try and stop people from stealing it when we all know it's a complete waste of time.
 
PrincessFrosty said:
I think the idea is the principle of the thing. I liked AC and would like to try AC2 but I'm not going to because of their asshattery.



People who crack games to show off their skill are really the biggest scumbags on earth? Yeah right, most of them dont care about piracy they do it for recognition amongst their peers and most of them hate the modern torrent/p2p scene.



You know what scene groups do, they take modern games and they IMPROVE them in ways the developers refuse to, I'm lacking sympathy for developers who degrade the quality of their game in order to try and stop people from stealing it when we all know it's a complete waste of time.
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I don't care for any of this - the people who crack games are the ones who are making it possible for people to pirate games.

Talk about a 'straw man argument'!

If a guy smashes a store window, and then walks away, and hundreds of people come in and steal from that store, the guy who smashed the window is still the one who has caused all the chaos, regardless of whether or not he stole something himself.

And by the way, since you seem not to understand this, cracking software is still illegal. Doesn't matter if the hackers don't pirate the game and put it up on file sharing sites - it's still illegal to crack software.

Instead of these people 'improving these games' (and that argument itself is just so stupid, on so many levels), I would much rather see these people CREATE SOMETHING OF THEIR OWN.

That's right. If these people are such skilled programmers, an argument which you've continued to advance at this forum, then why don't they form a software company of their own and CREATE GAMES that are improvements upon the games they're hacking.

Okay, great, they don't like the games that are being created by other companies. Why don't they make games of their own then? If they believe that they know how to create games then that's what they should be doing. Hey, we know that some of these gaming companies have made millions of dollars - yes?

Then why don't these expert programmers show us how it's done, and create their own programs rather than hacking into the programs created by other people (an illegal action).

You, my friend, just don't get it. These people are not to be praised. They're people who break things. They don't create. They destroy. Get it?

Jesus. It's like shouting at a brick wall.
 
WabeWalker said:
If a guy smashes a store window, and then walks away, and hundreds of people come in and steal from that store, the guy who smashed the window is still the one who has caused all the chaos, regardless of whether or not he stole something himself.
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Reaching...
 
WabeWalker said:
I don't care for any of this - the people who crack games are the ones who are making it possible for people to pirate games.

Talk about a 'straw man argument'!

If a guy smashes a store window, and then walks away, and hundreds of people come in and steal from that store, the guy who smashed the window is still the one who has caused all the chaos, regardless of whether or not he stole something himself.

And by the way, since you seem not to understand this, cracking software is still illegal. Doesn't matter if the hackers don't pirate the game and put it up on file sharing sites - it's still illegal to crack software.

Instead of these people 'improving these games' (and that argument itself is just so stupid, on so many levels), I would much rather see these people CREATE SOMETHING OF THEIR OWN.

That's right. If these people are such skilled programmers, an argument which you've continued to advance at this forum, then why don't they form a software company of their own and CREATE GAMES that are improvements upon the games they're hacking.

Okay, great, they don't like the games that are being created by other companies. Why don't they make games of their own then? If they believe that they know how to create games then that's what they should be doing. Hey, we know that some of these gaming companies have made millions of dollars - yes?

Then why don't these expert programmers show us how it's done, and create their own programs rather than hacking into the programs created by other people (an illegal action).

You, my friend, just don't get it. These people are not to be praised. They're people who break things. They don't create. They destroy. Get it?

Jesus. It's like shouting at a brick wall.
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The amount of straw men in this argument is staggering, they are so tall, I can't even see over them to find a point in your argument!

Makes me wonder if all the posting done lately is because of the Ubi DRM servers being down, so meaning you aren't playing the game.

I don't have that problem, I pop it into my PS3 and it works!

P.S. I don't have my PS3 connected to the internet lols, so have fun with the DRM. When it's down and you aren't playing, don't forget about the straw men.
 
Blakestr said:
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What are you talking about - it's the perfect analogy.

Seriously, this forum scares me. Do you guys lead the companies you work for using logic like this?

I sure hope there aren't any brain surgeons amongst you.
 
WabeWalker said:
If a guy smashes a store window, and then walks away, and hundreds of people come in and steal from that store, the guy who smashed the window is still the one who has caused all the chaos, regardless of whether or not he stole something himself.
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Crackers buy the game then modify it and share the results. Absolutely nothing they do is illegal unlike your busted ass analogy.

I think im going to have to jump on the bandwagon and just stick you on ignore. You just dont get it at all and have reduced yourself to asinine analogies that make no fucking sense at all.
 
Disposed said:
Crackers buy the game then modify it and share the results. Absolutely nothing they do is illegal unlike your busted ass analogy.
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Actually he's quite right about the law. DMCA. There are exemptions is certain cases but not if the game is currently supported.
 
heatlesssun said:
Actually he's quite right about the law. DMCA. There are exemptions is certain cases but not if the game is currently supported.
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The DMCA only applies to people who live in the US. Most of these groups are probably in other countries.
 
Derangel said:
The DMCA only applies to people who live in the US. Most of these groups are probably in other countries.
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There are reciprocal agreements amongst most industrialized countries that criminalize breaking copy protection.
 
every time you bring up the DMCA

I have this image of someone going OH NOES THE DMCA as they are about to click on the crack to download

of course, that's all just a figment of my imagination, it doesn't happen in reality to myself or anyone
 
Can I share something?

I had a dream last night that Skidrow was out in the middle of a big field having a tea party with some other pirates - everyone was dressed up as a pirate - and along came Bill Gates and the president of Ubisoft and ran them over in a huge steamroller.

Seriously. I'm not making that up. Those of you who have me on ignore, your loss, amigos.
 
WabeWalker said:
Can I share something?

I had a dream last night that Skidrow was out in the middle of a big field having a tea party with some other pirates - everyone was dressed up as a pirate - and along came Bill Gates and the president of Ubisoft and ran them over in a huge steamroller.

Seriously. I'm not making that up. Those of you who have me on ignore, your loss, amigos.
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sounds like one last pitiful attention grab :eek:

I must say, this game is pretty good, I just finished Sequence 9, and I'm gonna go glyph hunting. I gotta say this game far surpasses the original in every conceiveable way. I wish they had never released the original Assassin's Creed, cause then if they made AC2 the first game, (story elements aside) then you could play as Altaiir without all the repetition in the first game and instead you'd have SO much more to do! And subtitles, let's not forget that.
 
Fail said:
I gotta say this game far surpasses the original in every conceiveable way. I wish they had never released the original Assassin's Creed, cause then if they made AC2 the first game, (story elements aside) then you could play as Altaiir without all the repetition in the first game and instead you'd have SO much more to do! And subtitles, let's not forget that.
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^^ Definitely seems to the overwhelming consensus. I suspect I'll quickly agree when I finally play this thing myself.
 
Fail said:
sounds like one last pitiful attention grab :eek:

I must say, this game is pretty good, I just finished Sequence 9, and I'm gonna go glyph hunting. I gotta say this game far surpasses the original in every conceiveable way. I wish they had never released the original Assassin's Creed, cause then if they made AC2 the first game, (story elements aside) then you could play as Altaiir without all the repetition in the first game and instead you'd have SO much more to do! And subtitles, let's not forget that.
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The glyphs are really awesome...seriously...it makes the game so much larger scaled. And that's I'll say...enjoy
 
Thanks, I'm wondering if the DLC is worth it for this game, I heard there's a 13th and 14th memory sequence? And it's DLC based?

I haven't looked into it cause I haven't bothered to connect my PS3 to the internet, although I'm going to when I get home because I need to get that 77 MB patch cause I heard in sequence 11, there was a gamebreaking glitch.
 
Blakestr said:
The glyphs are really awesome...seriously...it makes the game so much larger scaled. And that's I'll say...enjoy
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The glyphs are ... interesting. I missed 3 of them I think (don't know how :confused:), but I youtubed 'the truth' anyway...

Red pill anyone?
 
Yeah, I got like 5 glyphs and found myself just youtubing it last night cause I was so damn impatient!!

It definitely reminds me of the Matrix, it's like "Adam" and "Eve" woke up from a virtual reality right back into reality. They were being controlled by Abstergo (my guess) and they were trying to break free.

I can't wait for AC3, I might even buy it day 1. I don't know why I passed on AC2 for so long, I must have a head with no screws in it, all dollars and no sense.

But to be fair, I did pick it up for $30 after all, brand new from Best Buy during their sale last week. I think I'm gonna buy the DLC for this game, I think i'll get my money's worth.
 
Fail said:
Yeah, I got like 5 glyphs and found myself just youtubing it last night cause I was so damn impatient!!

It definitely reminds me of the Matrix, it's like "Adam" and "Eve" woke up from a virtual reality right back into reality. They were being controlled by Abstergo (my guess) and they were trying to break free.

I can't wait for AC3, I might even buy it day 1. I don't know why I passed on AC2 for so long, I must have a head with no screws in it, all dollars and no sense.

But to be fair, I did pick it up for $30 after all, brand new from Best Buy during their sale last week. I think I'm gonna buy the DLC for this game, I think i'll get my money's worth.
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Well at least we agree about the game itself.

The exploration alone is enjoyable. Just wandering around these cities is fascinating. There's a real sensation of a living world here.

But there's some very enjoyable gameplay too - I love getting pick-pocketed, and then locking onto the guy and running him down. The timed race challenges are also extremely addictive, chiefly because they're so damned difficult - I find that I can't walk away from these unless I get them right.

Then there's the plot itself. If you just stick with the main quest, there's no feeling of repetitiveness, which obviously plagued the first game.

It's just a much, much deeper game than the first - I'd have to say that it's my game of the year so far. It was a way better sequel than either ME 2 and Bioshock 2 were.
 
WabeWalker said:
Well at least we agree about the game itself.

The exploration alone is enjoyable. Just wandering around these cities is fascinating. There's a real sensation of a living world here.

But there's some very enjoyable gameplay too - I love getting pick-pocketed, and then locking onto the guy and running him down. The timed race challenges are also extremely addictive, chiefly because they're so damned difficult - I find that I can't walk away from these unless I get them right.

Then there's the plot itself. If you just stick with the main quest, there's no feeling of repetitiveness, which obviously plagued the first game.

It's just a much, much deeper game than the first - I'd have to say that it's my game of the year so far. It was a way better sequel than either ME 2 and Bioshock 2 were.
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I wish every one of your posts looked like this one, then I think you'd find more welcome from the rest of us here. You have to realize that your stances are very unpopular and attention getting (not in the good way). But being American, I believe in second chances, there may be hope for redemption yet.

However, posts like the above are very good, you should post like that more often.

I too, just played the main story and felt that by doing so it did away with a lot of the repetition. I liked the puzzles in the Assassin's Tombs, those were very good, not very hard, but not very easy either, they took you a few minutes to figure out some of them. They also required a high amount of precision, especially the timed ones.

Ironically, I haven't done many of the side missions at all, and it's ironic because some of those are Assassaination contract missions, which are what the game is based on, lol.

I'm seriously thinking about buying the DLC, I heard it's only $3.99 each and gives you 2 more chapters to the story, I think it's worth it. I don't like the idea of microtransactions, but I didn't pay full price for the game, so I feel like I'm getting a great deal for under $40. I haven't played a game 24/7 over a weekend in a long time, this one made me play untill the hours just before dawn. It's just THAT good.

You're right, they captured just about everything about medievial Italy. Leonardo is pretty hilarious, they got the voice acting spot on.

I really can't wait for AC3, all I can say is they better not fuck it up.
 
Fail said:
I wish every one of your posts looked like this one, then I think you'd find more welcome from the rest of us here. You have to realize that your stances are very unpopular and attention getting (not in the good way). But being American, I believe in second chances, there may be hope for redemption yet.

However, posts like the above are very good, you should post like that more often.
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Wow, you're quite the smarmy little douche.
 
Flawless Eyefinity support, in case people were wondering.

It runs very smoothly as well. A 5970 was pushing a good 60fps+ at 6048x1080 (Three 1080p screens plus bezel correction) with everything on max settings and AA at x2.

I was really impressed with how slick they made the transitions between single screen cutscene, to full three screen gaming environment. There are also additional effects on the side screens when you're in the main menus and database. There's no info on the side screens but there is funky Animus animation which isn't present on the centre screen, so they have clearly added this just for Eyefinity setups.

Really impressed. This is up there with Dirt2 and Bad Company 2 for flawless, out of the box Eyefinity. I didn't even need to set any resolutions, it just used my native desktop resolution and scaled the UI perfectly into the centre screen.
 
JCDenton said:
Wow, you're quite the smarmy little douche.
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Nah, we just disagree about the DRM mainly. It's been a pretty heated debate, but that's really only because when it comes right down to it, many of us here are just mad about PC gaming.

I've been fascinated by PC games since I played my first text adventure, and I can't understand why everyone else isn't fascinated by them as well.

I could mention Assassin's Creed to my friends, and I doubt that even one of them would know what it was.
 
Fail said:
Ironically, I haven't done many of the side missions at all, and it's ironic because some of those are Assassaination contract missions, which are what the game is based on, lol.
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I was personally not a fan of the side missions. Most of them were quite repetitive with no real storyline attached to them (at least as far as I took them). Some of them felt oddly out of context as well. Particularly the races and the beatups, but even the assassination contracts felt less like being an assassin and more like being a hitman for hire. They just don't fit with my vision of assassins in the AC universe.
 
WabeWalker said:
Nah, we just disagree about the DRM mainly. It's been a pretty heated debate, but that's really only because when it comes right down to it, many of us here are just mad about PC gaming.

I've been fascinated by PC games since I played my first text adventure, and I can't understand why everyone else isn't fascinated by them as well.

I could mention Assassin's Creed to my friends, and I doubt that even one of them would know what it was.
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Most of my friends didn't even know you can game on a PC.
 
hopefully tonight I beat this game, i think I'm going to take a nap and wake up early in the morning and finish the game hopefully.

I wish they would have never made the first fucking game.

Imagine playing as Altaiir with all of AC2's improvements?

jesus
 
Just my two cents: DRM aside, I thought it was a pretty great game, especially as far as console ports typically go. And it's not like I'll be forever bound to their DRM scheme now... it's not TF2 - I won't be playing it three hours a day a year and a half from now :p

Oh, and as for the DLC: I'm guessing that's the two sequences following the main storyline that came bundled with my PC version? 12 and 13 I think? If so, 13 alone is worth it - 12 is fun, but 13 is nine new assassinations - it's like AC1 on steroids, compressed into an hour. It's quite fun.
 
Åndhrimnir;1035491717 said:
Just my two cents: DRM aside, I thought it was a pretty great game, especially as far as console ports typically go. And it's not like I'll be forever bound to their DRM scheme now... it's not TF2 - I won't be playing it three hours a day a year and a half from now :p

Oh, and as for the DLC: I'm guessing that's the two sequences following the main storyline that came bundled with my PC version? 12 and 13 I think? If so, 13 alone is worth it - 12 is fun, but 13 is nine new assassinations - it's like AC1 on steroids, compressed into an hour. It's quite fun.
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werd

I'm gonna buy both soon, hopefully tommorrow or Wednesday

and yes sir, your PC version did indeed come bundled with the DLC
 
Just beat the game, the ending was seriously WTF, it was funny how after the last sequence after you beat the last boss, Desmond goes

What.
The.
Fuck!

lol

I gotta say, the end was good, but that prophecy shit was kinda . . . . convulted, like a major stretch, but it does tie in with the whole Pieces of Eden thing.

I think I'm gonna buy the DLC and get some more out of my game, I like the idea of having 9 new assassaination missions AC1 on steroids sounds rather good!

I can't wait for AC3, it'll probably be a day one purchase if it turns out to be as good as this game.
 
One thing I haven't seen mentioned and I'll mention it is this: Jesper Kyd really outdid himself this time for the music to this game. This might be the best score of his career to date and that's saying something coming off the likes of the Hitman games, Freedom Fighters, the first AC, and so on. I've heard a lot of sound samples and the music just blows me away.

For me it's the best score of 2009 (when it first came out.) Best score, period, across all mediums not just videogames.

This music has rightfully won just about every videogame music award you could cite.

Highly recommend buying the scores to both AC games. You can get the MP3s off of Amazon or Itunes for starters.
 
Q-BZ said:
One thing I haven't seen mentioned and I'll mention it is this: Jesper Kyd really outdid himself this time for the music to this game. This might be the best score of his career to date and that's saying something coming off the likes of the Hitman games, Freedom Fighters, the first AC, and so on. I've heard a lot of sound samples and the music just blows me away.

For me it's the best score of 2009 (when it first came out.) Best score, period, across all mediums not just videogames.

This music has rightfully won just about every videogame music award you could cite.

Highly recommend buying the scores to both AC games. You can get the MP3s off of Amazon or Itunes for starters.
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and I recommend you buy the game, it's very good

you will like the story, the puzzles, the voice acting, the music, and the atmosphere.

It is a little on the easy side though
 
Fail said:
and I recommend you buy the game, it's very good

you will like the story, the puzzles, the voice acting, the music, and the atmosphere.

It is a little on the easy side though
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Just a matter of time. I'm playing some other games right now and seeing if the clock is my friend or not on this. I'd still ideally like to buy this legitimately on the PC but for now that simply isn't a viable option at present.

I can wait a little longer. I know this is an awesome game. I loved part 1 and I know I'm in for a big time treat with this. :)
 
While I can't state openly what advise I'd give you on the PC version, I think you already know

but for the console, it's a definite buy, it's definitely not an experience to miss out on, unlike so many games.

I think they deserve your money more on the console version than they do on the PC.

It's a shame, i've seen some Eyeinfinity videos of AC2 and it simply looks stunning with Eyeinfinity. It's a shame they optioned for that draconic DRM and the $10 extra price tag
 
Proper scene crack is out courtesy of Skidrow.

Not that it matters given that people have been using server emulators to play pirated copies for at least the last month or so :rolleyes:
 
defiant007 said:
Proper scene crack is out courtesy of Skidrow.

Not that it matters given that people have been using server emulators to play pirated copies for at least the last month or so :rolleyes:
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excellent thread necro, I approve. It was only a matter of time before a proper crack happened, and now it will make Ubi's always-on DRM for it's other games easy to crack.
 
Yup, this is great.

Especially because Ubisoft is now charging $60 for all PC games, and not just AC2. Check out Splinter Cell Conviction. What's their excuse now?
 
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