The Hidden Blade Assassin's Creed in Depth

Yes, but he killed them. No one lived to tell the tale. The whole point of a mysterious death is the fact that nobody knows WTF happened at that location. People just disappeared and/or died in inexplicable ways. If guys wake up and go, "Some guy choked me from behind!" then all the mystery is gone.

It would be different if the unarmed take-downs were kills, but they're not. I'm all for seeing pacifist gameplay (and plan to do some myself) but I wouldn't call it mysterious. That's my take on it though. There is no official definition.

You know, the guys at PcGamer (you can find them on YouTube) are actually doing a Dishonored playthrough where they obfuscate every kill to look like an accident. It's really fun to watch and I think it would definitely be interesting.

Have a great Thanksgiving, everyone!

Oh gosh. This better not give Ubisoft any funny ideas about naming and theming the next protagonists on things relating to turkeys rather than eagles

On that note, Turkey Vision. Gobble gobble, fool Templars

I don't think Connor likes this holiday.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!.. Unless you don't live in the US, in which case you most probably don't celebrate Thanksgiving; in that case, happy thursday!

The real holiday for me was Black Friday. After 12 hourse camping different videogame offers and about $185 I got away with Darksiders 2, Borderlands 2, Dishonored, Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning (I really wanted to get this one, R.A. Salvatore is a genius), adn AC3! So maybe I can slowly crawl back to the forums and not stay away trying to avoid any AC3-spoiler. I also got Skyrim and Mass Effect 2 as gifts for a couple of friends, so my Christmas shopping is already done I guess.
Anyone else got something cool from Black Friday as well?

Apart from that, anything big I've missed out?

Did all my Black "Friday" shopping Thursday morning.

Picked up some Turtle Beach X12s for $35... that's all the shopping I needed to do this year. Already had Christmas shopping done.

Got dishonored for me and dance central 3 for my sister .

Oh man EA you're gonna love Dishonored.
Also now is a fitting time to link you guys this;
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/121116.jpg

Haha. That reminds me that i aslo got Kick-Ass 2 the graphic novel.

Hell yeah!

I got Marvels.

Bwahahahahaha that was precious.
And may I ask, what is "Marvels", Joey?

It's a story of a reporter in the Marvel Universe. It follows him from the beginning of the Golden Age of comics (1930s-1940s) through the 1970s, give or take. It shows the evolution of the heroes as well as how a normal person reacts to masked heroes and villains fighting every day. One of the best graphic novels out there.

does anyone know what the character number limit is for posts in these forums? is there one?

Stabguy would be the one to ask.

If there is a limit, it's gotta be pretty high. My AC2 FAQ is over 48,000 characters long.

I don't think Drupal has a limit by default.

Good to know. Thanks guys.

sync asked me this question once. Evidently I told him 5 MB.

...obviously. Also that was post 1618 in this thread.

Soooooooo........

No posts in the last four days. WAKE UP THB! Or is everyone still convinced that the world did end the 21st and are still hiding in their bomb shelter basement?

I make time for this website every single day! I expect you all to entertain me!

Sorry Joey... I've been formatting a post for the AC3 forum for the last 3 hours... it's up to 15,000 characters and i'm less than half done.

Something good is in the works!

Sorry, Dark Souls.

My friend bought me a Skin for a Champion in League of Legends. I really like knives and other blades. So now I'm wondering what to do with my Christmas money. Do I get him a skin back, or do I get myself a 3DS game and a nice knife from the Asian lady a short bus ride from here?

It's a guide for the homestead in AC3.
Artisans.
Full recipes.
Making money.
Etc
Etc
Etc.

7 Mini-Guides in one!

I see this might take some more time (in chat Stabguy admitted he was still on sequence seven). But I'm sure he'll get to it as soon as he can *cracks whip*. In the meantime, here is a list of the types of AC3 assassinations so far:
Turkey Shoot
Eagle Strike
Early Death
Blitz

Stunts haven't been done, but they're possible. There was also that firecracker kill. Should that be it's own style, or could it be considered a type of longshot?

Now for the targets. I'm not sure if it's worth it to have a section listing all of them, especially when some of the kills are so lame. How are you supposed to be creative when you're prompted to push ?

Looks like I'm going for the record... over half way done writing it up now... but I'm up to 39,000 characters

Sounds like it'll be good.

While I'm not sure what type of assassination it is, I did manage to rope-hang William Johnson(would have a screen if his body didn't dissapear after the cutscene), and I managed to silent kill him (without clearing all the guards/poisoning the executioner).
I don't have recording material though

With all the chases, it seems like "kill where he stands" should be possible on a few... Braddock, hickey, Lee?

So...
AC3 has been out for two months now (the day before yesterday to be precise). When would be a good time to start posting vids from the other games? I'm not saying I'm done with AC3 or anything, some things are just a bit tedious to record.

I finished AC3 yesterday (January 1, 2013). It took me eight weeks to play the first six sequences and four days to do the last six! It could have been even faster except I stopped to liberate New York, deliver the mail, etc. Anyway, I'll get started on those AC3 menus now.

I plan to make an Explosives category that will include Firecracker and Trip Mines.

I'll go ahead and list them all. It will be good for Full Sync videos and anything creative leading up to the "Press " moment.

does anyone here know how to edit GIFs?
like more than just add text, a complete colour swap, add some stuff, change some other stuff?

a tip on how to learn it would also be appreciated.

no big deal if no one can, it's just this fun little idea i have going

Photoshop should be able to edit GIFs frame-by-frame, I think.

You're better off just getting it straight from the source, though.

So, anyone here watch the super bowl?

Connor was a Ravens fan.

lolNope

Look what I got in the mail today! Thanks Stabguy, Ian, and StarkRavenous!

You know what this means. They know where you live.

here's what's REALLY on Haytham's mind in sequence 2...

If I may ask, what was the occasion? It sounds like you're going on a suicidal mission.

Don't worry about it.

This is weird. There's a headline news story about a rapper driving a Maserati on the Las Vegas Strip being shot at and crashing into a taxi, leaving three people dead. They've identified the taxi passenger and it's a lady I knew from Seattle. She must have been vacationing in Las Vegas.

http://www.ktnv.com/news/local/192622491.html

http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2013/03/01/why-assassins-creed-wi...

An article on how AC will out live us all.

What a lot of people forget is that the games would have to center around time periods after 1000 AD or so. Unless it's First Civilization or they dropped the Templar/Assassin War and focused on other historical events before then that had famous icons possibly using PoEs.

But then that would defeat the purpose of the title of the franchise.

Joey. I see no reason they can't go pre-1000... Even if the assassins and templars aren't official groups. The creeds that holds these groups together are just that: creeds, ideals, ideas. I think one of the templars said as much when he said that you can kill them all off, but templars would come back. That said, if Adam and Eve broke off early on, their ideas and longing for peace and free will were around long before the assassins were Assassins. Fighting for peace and choice is as universal through history as breathing.

Also, thanks to the vaults in AC2 and the images in the truth puzzles, we are already aware of many many events pre-1000AD that were Assassin/Templar centric. Here's a few:

465 BCE - Persian Assassin Darius kills Xerxes I
323 BCE - Iltani poisons Alexander the Great
210 BCE - Wei Yu assassinates Qin Shi Huang with a spear
41 CE - Leonius kills Caligula
44 CE - Marcus Junius Brutus (Assassin) and 39 others kill Julius Caesar. Brutus's documentation leading up to this event? The Scrolls of Romulus you collect in ACB (to get Brutus's armor).