Today's game is some more Assassin's Creed. I mainly made my way through the Jerusalem assassination. it was here i really started to feel the slowness of this game's parkour. With the other games (not-RPG ones) Parkour feels snappy and like constant lunges. Here it kind of feels like Altair is afraid to grab a ledge and i feeling it out first. Realistic? Yeah. But also it does slow things down a little.
Also, with Altair's face just being Desmond's it really cracks me up a bit. It's just funny seeing that he has the exact same face as him, especially coming from the games where all the Protagonist's have their own faces.
The actual assassination part was fun, albeit it felt a little light on story. I liked actually getting to chase the guy through the streets despite my gripe about the parkour. The fight though kind of boiled down to standing around and countering until he died. And i mean that more so than what the other games are known for.
It also throws me off they don't search for you. Like, i can just hop in there at a yellow and wait them out. I'd expect them to at least search around for me. But nope. They just walk away like they suddenly had something better to do.
Anyways, i'm enjoying this. It's interesting to see the roots of one of my favorite franchises growing up, so exploring this is a fun time. After this i want to go to 2, and work my way up from there. I have a friend who's trying to complete every Final Fantasy game; I'd like to dedicate myself to finishing every Assassin's creed game, even if i'm dreading Odyssey and Valhalla, and Shadows too actually. The story for Shadows was ungodly long, i liked the game play though. I should upgrade my CPU though with how much of a Bottleneck it became for that game.
I've been wanting to play AC1 for a long time but my ass has been spoiled with new high end graphics ever since I played Unity and Origins. AC1 just looks so... grim and dull. I had a fun time playing AC2 and was surprised how deep the story went. It also helps it was one of the games that my computer could barely run back in the day. Controls were flimsy but you get used to it over time. The only hiccup that prevents me from playing AC2 again is the Ubisoft launcher which rarely works on my end.
The fidelity holds up decently, it's more just the graphic direction. Everything's so grey.
2007 is smack dab in the middle of that mid 00s grey-brown color palette design disaster era. Every game from then looks way worse than they should because of it.
I wouldn't say that the graphics of AC1 is bad, the cities just looked all the same. To me what was much more of a problem was the very repetitive gameplay for most of the game. That was both fixed in AC2, the cities got their own style for the most part, loved the carnival in Venice for example.
It's the first entry in the series, so it's fair that the gameplay isn't as polished as in the later games. I do agree with the appearance. It has a very muted color palette which I dislike as much as I dislike the piss filter in movies/games that take place in Latin America.