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I have to admit, as i much as i love assassin's creed and ESPECIALLY ezio, i wasn't too hot on his new robes when the working cover of brotherhood was first leaked. but it seems ubisoft caught wind of that and changed it a tad for the better (okay that was probebly under way before the cover was leaked). the differences are subtle but here are the links:initial design: [link]
refined design: [link]
Much better, the lapels are reshaped, the hood is a much better design and the one complaint i still had about it was that the assassin hoods have historically been entirely white and that red strip along the border in the later design is not welcome! but in screen shots i see that they've even fixed that too! right-on ubisoft!
I do think it's too much white and red, perhaps a few differernt shades of grey to white would have made it better, that's what i liked about the robes in II, but the new look is growing on me even though nothing will beat the ACII robes.
I decided to use ezio as he appears ingame for the right picture. ever notice how his design changed throughout production. up until right before release he was wearing the cape pad that now you must buy as leather armour (and you can't do so without also covering his other shoulder in ugly bland brown) and although he always had two hidden blades, the choice to have both worn on the outside of his sleaves was another last minutes thing. And going back as far as the little CG trailer that showed ezio chasing after his target through venezia, the hood design was different indeed.
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Wow nicely painted! I'm gonna do my own Ezio now but in Ebony cos its my favourite ;3
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I really don't like the Brotherhood gear at all, I don't know why I just think it looks too 'clean', y'know? Too modern for the time it's set in.
I really liked the fact that in AC2 there were loads of wee fiddly bits in the clothes; lace, buckles, fancy collars and patterns etc - so even when you were wandering around Florence laden down with weaponry you still seemed to fit in, yet in Brotherhood you stick out like a sore thumb. :/ My only consolation is that you can dye them to a much nicer, more natural green (thank god for that! I hate the default colours!) or, thanks to Uplay, get Altair's Armour again or better yet, the Florentine Noble clothes.
Awesome pic btw - I love all the little details! ^^
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yeah, i think the new robes could be helped by not just being white, but various light shades of grey too (like the ACII robes) some kind of patturn on the lapels (again, like in II) and also on the red bits bellow the waist. I do like the sleaves though, they're pretty cool.
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Mmm, I like the zigzaggy bits at the top! But yeah, everything was too monotone!
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the whole game was a bit cheeky of them, and with all the comics, face book games, short films and crap i'm starting to fear that they've lost touch with the winning formula
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Well now that Patrice DΓ©silets has left Ubisoft, I'm really starting to worry. Apparently they want to aim for a GAME A YEAR which is all well and good in some respects but how on earth can they keep the quality up?!
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i think they've gone too far away from stealthy infiltration, now it's all about big open street combat. in assassin's creed, discretion was encouraged because realistically any small group of guards posed a genuine threat if you weren't on your A-game; now not only can you do whatever you want then just sick your recruits on your pursuers but you don't even need to because ezio can go up against infinite hordes of attackers and kick their arses in his sleep. yeah it's awesome to watch, but it gets tedious and that wonderful sense of realism and need for discretion (one of the tenants of the assassins i might add) is gone!
and you just have too many get-out-of-jail-free card, i did appreciate the hidden pistol as a part of the story cause i think it's a worthy successor to the hidden blade in the renaissance, but now you have a cross bow which takes a split second to aims and fire and reload, darts, easier combat, and for fuck's sake you can just hold down a button and arrow literally fly down from the heavens and kill EVERYTHING near you... not cool ubisoft.
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Yeah, I know exactly what you mean! I liked the fact in AC that if you picked a fight with someone that's precicely what you got and more often than not you wanted to avoid doing that as you'd just end up getting your arse kicked by a bunch of soldiers. (I fail at defending myself as Altiar - I generally just leg it across a rooftop and hide XD)My favourite missions involve stealth and even in ones where it wasn't neccessary I'd still do it! There's one in Brotherhood where you have to kill X amount of people and I would creep into their camp, poison one and then hide, wait for the others to come over and investigate then kill them simultaniously or, failing that, walk quietly past everyone and kill the lot of them completely undetected! It's so much more FUN to act like a proper assassin!
I really like the crossbow actually - I found the pistol a right faff to aim but in all honesty my new favourite weapons are the poison darts. 
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it's just too easy is my main problem. then there's the multpiplayer, i'm not fit to make a serious judgement because i havent touched it and probebly never will, but i will say this. they shouldn't try to weave it into the story. they can just have it on the side, it doesn't need to be canonically justified. AC is brillian because it's big and new and out there with all this soft science and everything but at the same time, it's sensible, it's believable! abstergo downloading recorded memories into their subjects to turn them into perfect assassins, that's just retarded. and templar vision? WTF?! recently they said they think they've perfected the formula and now they're going a but nuts with all these extra instalments, i think the formula was just right in ACII with perhaps a bit more building up to missions like in the first game. in brotherhood they've just kept improving until it's just...it's not bad, but either they're running out of juice of the directions the first two games were going in and the one this one was going in are not consistant.
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Yeah, exactly! I've only played on multiplayer once and tbh it really didn't click with me at all. :/ I know someone who really does like it but I just couldn't get into it. Nice ideas n'all but just not Assassin's Creed. :/ I hate that they released an entirely new map for MP but NOT as part of the main game! From the clips I've seen of it, it looks like a brilliant place to explore but nooo...they have to seperate it from the actual game. ¬¬
Definetly with you on the buildup to missions stuff too - I really liked having to track people down and investigate things - again, lots of sneaking around and stuff.
abstergo downloading recorded memories into their subjects to turn them into perfect assassins, that's just retarded. and templar vision? WTF?
I know! I thought the whole point of the animus/bleeding effect was that it only worked on people who were replaying their own ancestor's memories!
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yeah, it's just getting very slowly but surely sillier. they also say there will be another main entry to the seires this year that will not be ACIII, i have a theory. knowing them lately, if it turns out to be a brotherhood-ish add on to altair's story with all the updated gameplay mechanics, i want you to know that i fucking called it!
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Haha will do!
It does feel like they're overdoing it a bit - even with the DLC for AC2 - jump board/trampolines WTF?!
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DLC can be abused a bit, if there was no such thing as DLC do you think the guys at ubisoft would have just cut out those two DNA sequences from ACII altogether, or would they have stayed until they finished!
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I'd like to think that they'd have kept the in as part of the full game but I really doubt it somehow... :/
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i think multiplayer can act as a bit of a poison if not handled correctly. once ubisoft got the idea, that's all they seam to be into, then it becomes about pleasing as many people as you can thus losing the specific charm assassin's creed had. i know critically brotherhood did extremely well but it's another case of the company who mad ethe product not understanding who they have a responsability to please, the original fans, the ones who loved the initial concept, but now ubisoft are getting tired of its friends and wants to become part of the in crowd and so has started willingly acting stupider to apeal the larger demographic.
but is it worth it? the story modes are long and varied, with any more artistic elements, i played assassin's creed II when it came out and i only stopped when brotherhood came out! of course now i'm playing II again...
where as multiplay...it only takes a day or two to see everything there is to see, do everything there is to do, yeah there are multiple game types but they're all the same in gameplay. why put so much effort into something that is going to be inhabited by only tumble weeds in a few months?
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Exactly! That's why I liked RDR's multiplayer so much - because it's a complete free roam (with other game modes available if you want to have a free for all/gang match etc) you can do what you like - often I end up just wandering around for hours, not really doing very much but others I'll spend with a posse clearing out gang hideouts. ACB's multiplayer on the other hand just doesn't grab me at all - there's no staying power and because each 'round' only goes on for a set length of time, there's nothing to stay for and really, not a lot to do. 
Storywise, I actually found the bits in Brotherhood with Desmond much more interesting than those with Ezio, which, despite him being arguably the main character, felt almost like a sideline. Saying this, since I completed the game at the beginning of December...I haven't played it since.
I do wonder sometimes whether the whole game was just an excuse to carry the multiplayer. :/ I really hope there's a lot more of Desmond in the next one - it was really refreshing to play as him (especially knowing that you could leap off tall buildings with no health damage! XD)
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an excuse to carry the multiplayer? of course it was!
the central problem is that it's just an optional add on to ezio's story messily attatched to the main canon (desmond, apple, 21/12/2012, ones who came before, etc) there's a bit at the very beginning and it doesn't even count because it was just more on the ending for the previous game, and then right at the very end after ezio had done his irrelevant business just going through the motions of being an assassin the developers go "oh yes, the apple, right"
it all feels...less gritty, and sometimes grittiness is good, in moderation. while everythin that happened in I and II fealt important and was always building up to the big moment when something about the first civilisation was revealed, this time ezio was just going around roma, having a good old time, la volpe, being an assassin and responsible for saving the world and whatnot couldn't be bothered to do his research before trying to kill maciavelli and ezio has to slap across the ear and remind him that we are assassins! what we do is kind of important!
i think they've sacrificed the story quality for gimicy gameplay a bit more this time. while i apreciate assassin recruits as a story aspect (cause in II when everyone revealed themselves as assassins to ezio i thought "this is bullshit, where are the hoods? where are the robes?) but while "arming those who have been disarmed by the borgia" sounds good, you can't just pick up kids of the street and make them assassins! it may be fun to do, but there's a reason they are trained since birth, because unless they share hole hearidly the ideals of nothing is true everything is permitted, etc, they won't make good assassins for long.
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'this is bullshit, where are the hoods?' - LOL omg guys, you aren't in uniform! 
Too true though! As much as I liked having my own merry band of assassins at my beck and call it was just too easy - training them hardly took any effort at all (I lost none of mine even though there's a change they'll die out on missions) and as for recruiting them, you're right, they went from getting their arse kicked by some rubbish guards to suddenly saving the life of the bloody MASTER ASSASSIN. I mean wtf? O_O
Cesare was built up to be this incredible badass from the trailers and stuff but tbh I didn't really get the same feeling of threat from him that I did from Borgia Sr and on that note, why the hell did they release the 'animated comic' thing about his rise to power AFTER most people have finished the game?! I have a patchy at best knowledge of what really happened at that time and yet the game expects you to know who everyone is and stuff which is a bit crap. :/
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yup, same as the comic. i dunno if you've read it (it takes ages for ANYTHING to get to australia) but basiaclly it tells the story of another future assassin who doesn't know he's an assassin experiencing a natural bleeding effect (and some stuff with abstergo) basically it tells the story of nikolai orelov, a russian assassin. all the comic adds to the assassin's creed world is the knowledge that the assassins destroyed the staff of eden using nikola tesla's teleforce invention which resulted in what we know to be the tunguska event (wiki it if you must)
all of which we worked out in the fucking glyphs!! it's just needless expansion for the sake of giving the fans mroe to chew on!
ubisoft has hit the jackpot with the success of assassin's creed and now they're going a bit nuts
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Yeah, :/ I want to get the comic as it's drawn in part by one of my favourite webcomic artists but yeah, it's one thing to make something that ties in with the universe and gives us new information but not stuff we already know!
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you're fun to talk to, i wanna draw you summin!
anything you like, shoot!
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Hahaha aww thanks! ^^
I really don't mind! XD
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*whips out hidden blade* i said ANYTHING YOU LIKE! i'm sick of people being all "ah, it's okay" or "just keep drawing what your drawin" make a request woman!
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lol! I'm useless at requests - I can't even make a decision as to what dvd to watch if I'm asked!
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something from a videogame, show, movie, book, comic, i dunno, pick something
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Very well, Ezio (AC2, minus beard, tuscan ember colourscheme if possible 
That sound ok? XD
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sure! you sure you wouldn't prefer him but naked? i dun mind! (i wouldn't mind seeing that myself)
also, what time is it in brittain right now?
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Hahaha! XD I leave it up to you.
Umm...*checks time* Just gone half one in the afternoon!
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wow, it's half twelve in the morning here. what's on tv in...wherever in brittain you are these days?
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Scotland! XD Ummm, no idea really, I tend to spend half my time either online or on the PS3 so I hardly watch tv these days. lol I catch up stuff on BBC iPlayer so that would be Hustle, Being Human (eee!) comedy shows etc. My mum just finished watching Bargain Hunt this morning though - she's addicted. XD
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OMFG! i was just thinking as i was reading this "i wonder if she watches hustle" then i see the world hustle!!
we got the first season here a few years ago, the second last year, and recently my mum's got seaons 1-4 on dvd from the bbc section of...this shop you've never heard of;D
what's your favourite grift?!
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Hahah no way! I just watched the newest episode last night. 
Favourite grift...ooh, I don't know! I love all the long cons - especially when it looks like they've failed then their secret backup plan pops into existance - but I really like the little street tricks. I can't remember what it was but there was one where Albert got poor Eddie to try to take Β£20 off him and gah, I can't remember how he did it but I remember liking it at the time.
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oh is that that part where eddie's talking to albert at the pub, and he's all "i'm like, one of you guy's now, sorta, so teach me how to grift ey?" or something and albert's like "hm.. okay then. uuuuuh, gimmi 20 quid" *eddie does so* albert: "that was lesson 1" eddie: "..."
heheh, i like the one i think in season 2 where danny's running a long con to prove to mickey that he can, and in the end when he's convicing his mark that this land he's trying to sell him is full of gold, the guy catches on and says he'll get his own people to do test, then mickey's back up plan: ash, who's pretending to be the farmer who owns the land, pretends to shoot rats but acutally shoots gold dust over where the mark's men test the soil;D
oh and the comic book auction one in season 1, that was so cleaver;D
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YEAH that's the one! XD
lol I remember that ep - Ash is just plain awesome.
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i don't recall that one, is that the series where danny and stacie are replaced by two new characters?
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Yup! I wasn't keen on the idea at first but they've really grown on me.
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No U! Cmon man... fanboyism is baaaad.
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You just keep wainting for your intervention bud!
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*sigh* fine, i promise the next thing i draw will feature boobs.
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and by that i mean female ezio
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would love to see that xD
btw awesome work!!
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i've already done it, go check the gallery
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Sigh, add in a nice rack and i will accept it.
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Are you going to update the faces at all? like give them more detail, otherwise it looks awsome.
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oh yes, i'm far from finished, but at the moment i have to focus on getting into university for next year. so, in a few weeks perhaps?
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