Assassins Bleed Too

Thank Minerva. They fixed almost everything I hated about the first game.

There are fewer collectibles. You can buy treasure maps to locate all the treasures in the game. The feathers only appear in cities so you can keep track of how many you need to collect by how much of the city you have opened up.

The quick time events weren't required for an achievement. I missed more in this game than in the previous one.

There were a lot more things to do besides collecting. You have to help rebuild your city, fill your villa with art, translate codex pages, and find seals in hidden tombs. And most of the side quests are assassinations.

The only thing they didn't fix is the fact that this game randomly guesses which way I'm trying to jump. I don't know if it's my controller or if I'm physically handicapped but I can't count the number of times I jumped off a high building straight to the ground and the died. Or when I was trying to complete a timed obstacle and jumped into the water.

Assassination are much better. You can do them in many more situations.

The are a lot more weapons. The poison blade is my favorite new weapon. I just wish that you could actually own the axe and halberd instead of just stealing them from enemies and then loosing them.

All in all I would say that this game is an improvement in every way with no added problems.

1000/1000g this time. Requiescat in Pace.

Crackup pt. 2 - The Assassins Creed Incident

Since I did this whole huge rant on Crackdown I might as well share why I hate collectible achievements, The Assassins Creed Incident.

Assassins Creed was one of the first games I'd ever played for the 360 and the second time I'd gotten close to 1000g. The first being Call of Duty 4 which was the first game I did it on. I had only two more achievements.

Assassins Creed has no less than 8 find this hidden thing in the game achievements. With diligence I had obtained seven of them. The 8th "Personal Vendetta" brought me to the brink of sanity. I had found every Templar but one. That last one. I couldn't figure out where he was. So I just decided to start over and go to where each of them were supposed to be. One by on I checked the locations. Nothing. I decided to start over again thinking I must have missed one. Nothing. I checked again, repeatedly checking in groups before I moved on to a new area. Still nothing. After the tenth time I gave up. My dreams of another 100% shattered. I contemplated starting a new game just for that achievement but I decided against it.

It wasn't until almost a year later that I had gotten another 100%. But it was an XBLA game and Dash of Destruction at that. 200 gamerscore in 20 minutes. I felt dirty. It wasn't until a full year almost to the day since AC that I got another 1000/1000g in Dead Space. And I commemorated it with my first gaming blog post.

I was only one achievement away from 1000/1000g in Lost Odyssey but it didn't hurt as bad. Probably because I knew I couldn't get "Treasure Trove" with out starting over but I was so close to getting "Personal Vendetta" in AC.

The other achievement I was missing in Assassins Creed was "Hungerer of Knowledge" and I kept forgetting to push "A" during the cut scenes. That would have required a new game.

Update: It was actually Hexic HD that I got my first 100% since COD4 and it felt awesome. "Grand Pearl Pooh-Bah" was hard as fuck.