Assassin's Creed III

[JagdPanther]

That is so full of win.

[Edge Meltdown]

I was wondering... assuming that this is the last game of the series, are we going to get a face-off against some major antagonist on the present timeline like Daniel Cross? I really want to have a one-on-one death match against an assassin, but that probably isn't gonna happen here anyways.

[Renegade334]

Introducing characters and other stuff that so far have been confined to comics and comparable media would be tricky.

Spoiler:

I mean, the AC fans heavily suspected it already, but the games never outright confirmed that Lucy was actually an Assassin who had switched sides to the Templar and worked in secret with Vidic, all because she had a bone to pick with Desmond's father and wanted payback.

That revelation should have some importance in regards to the game plot, but this never made it out of the comics and non-game medias. It was merely brushed away in AC:R with Shaun Hastings reporting that Lucy had been buried in a cemetery outside of Rome and everybody was worried about Desmond's coma.

So far we already have (kind of) a main antagonist in the shape of Warren Vidic, so I guess he's the only (named) big antagonist we'll have to defeat in AC3, since it's the last of the main series (the guys from Ubisoft said some time ago that further AC games were not excluded, but they'd probably not feature Desmond as the main character/Animus explorer). It's kind of late to introduce a new big bad guy unless it's some sort of faceless SEELE/Illuminati-like group whose members eventually die all together in an accident/explosion/whatever in AC3's climax.

...
Unless Ubisoft opts for the "nah, the Templars aren't completely dead, which means we can make more games in the future wheeeee~" route.

[Tyabann]

That Lucy reveal is in the Subject 16 DLC.

[Edge Meltdown]

^ Was it also confirmed whether she's still a sleeper agent or was her loyalty lies towards Desmond? I'm just curious because she just up and died in the end of Brotherhood directly in the hands of Desmond and indirectly by Juno herself without knowing what are her real feelings towards both parties.

@Renegade334 I suppose there is nothing can be after all since this is the last part of the series and it could also mess the plot and add more loose ends...

[Renegade334]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

That Lucy reveal is in the Subject 16 DLC.

Ah, that's better.

I got fed up with AC:R (I preferred AC2 and AC2:B) and didn't download the DLCs, so I must've missed that.

[JagdPanther]

I would think it's still just open to interpretation by the player, Edge.

[Edge Meltdown]

^ Yep I think so too, even though I got a lot of questions in mind, I think I'll leave at that for now.

[The Butcher]

I didn't get Revelations because it looks almost the same as Brotherhood with a few tweaks.

AC 3 though...looks freaking amazing. I just hope we won't be in the forest all the time.

[Tyabann]

Originally Posted by Renegade334

I got fed up with AC:R (I preferred AC2 and AC2:B) and didn't download the DLCs, so I must've missed that.

Just watch it on YouTube. Honestly, I think the concept behind the DLC was really neat, but I fucking hated playing through it, so...

Originally Posted by The Butcher

I didn't get Revelations because it looks almost the same as Brotherhood with a few tweaks.

It really is. The only new addition is bombs, which are overpowered. Also, for a game called "Revelations", there isn't many of those.

[JagdPanther]

Originally Posted by Kaisos Erranon

Just watch it on YouTube. Honestly, I think the concept behind the DLC was really neat, but I fucking hated playing through it, so...

Yeah, it could get annoying. But it was very forgiving since it was so easy to screw up.

It really is. The only new addition is bombs, which are overpowered. Also, for a game called "Revelations", there isn't many of those.

Eh, it's more AC good-ness. I bought all the games on Amazon at low prices (new, too), so it was a no-brainer for me.

[syke123]

I hope their new engine is worth it, I mostly found the combat lacking from the gameplay videos though.

I always thought that from so many sequels we'd get to see one of their games set in the glory of the Roman Empire since theirs just so much potential and controversy, but I'm more than anticipating the next installment to come close.

Since this involves secret societies I'm guessing the founding of X group in 1776 will play some role in developing or thickening the plot. Even though this revolves around the templars, they seem to be influenced a lot with modern day's conspiracies which leads me to believe that they'll include this, or perhaps rewrite it to be a significant templar event.

[blakstealth]

[MrTerrorist]

[Fallen3dge]

^ epic video lololol

[JagdPanther]

I am amazed at how people can do make stuff like that. How do they do it?

[Kismet-chan]

Originally Posted by Edge Meltdown

Was it also confirmed whether she's still a sleeper agent or was her loyalty lies towards Desmond? I'm just curious because she just up and died in the end of Brotherhood directly in the hands of Desmond and indirectly by Juno herself without knowing what are her real feelings towards both parties.

Spoiler for WARNING: DON'T read this if you don't want to get spoiled/haven't played the DLC yet:

It's actually not left up to the interpretation of the player as JagdPanther said, it's stated fairly clearly in the Subject 16 DLC.

You find out that Lucy had actually switched her alliance to the Templars at some point (Subject 16/Clay discovers video-taped evidence proving this) and became a double agent, which is why Juno made Desmond stab her. Everything she had done up until that point was a part of the plan that Warren came up with -- even Lucy letting Desmond read her emails in AC1 was his idea.

However, they did genuinely have feelings for one another, so we'll probably never know if Lucy would've actually changed back to the Order's side or not. I'm assuming that Juno didn't want to take any chances.

[JagdPanther]

Originally Posted by Kismet-chan

Spoiler for WARNING: DON'T read this if you don't want to get spoiled/haven't played the DLC yet:

However, they did genuinely have feelings for one another, so we'll probably never know if Lucy would've actually changed back to the Order's side or not. I'm assuming that Juno didn't want to take any chances.

Hence, it is up to interpretation by the player....

[Cyz]

The fighting system seems rather impressive. Does Connor carry a hidden blade too? Because on the demo, he jumped right at the target with a tomahawk.

[Kismet-chan]

Originally Posted by JagdPanther

Hence, it is up to interpretation by the player....

Oh, I didn't know that you were referring to that particular tidbit of information. :x I was mainly addressing Edge's question of Lucy's ORIGINAL intentions.

Spoiler:

But mind you, I was saying that we don't know what she would've done AFTER that point. Juno killed her because up until that very moment, she was still Templar-aligned and wasn't planning on switching back. If she had been, Juno wouldn't have had the need to kill her, as she wouldn't have been a threat.