What I Played Today: October 30

Assassin's Creed 3, Dungeons of Dredmor

I continue to play Dungeons of Dredmor, and it continues to be entertaining. I am slicing straight through everything, and I finally figured out how the General Winter ability works and it really does require me to wear the Ushanka all the time, otherwise I might die from my own ability. But hey, easily done, helms aren't that exciting anyway.

But enough of that, Assassin's Creed 3 is out! First, to speak to the multiplayer, which I still love. They gave it a bit of a UI upgrade, and they did something I really didn't expect. Apparently Abstergo has gotten into the entertainment business, and the multiplayer is now in universe a multiplayer game, which is all layers of meta. But the new character models are cool, and I love this game, so...hurray.

Also, because this game is newish, details of the single player campaign will be hidden for now, but click if you're willing....



So, the single player starts with Desmond and his Dad and those other two people hanging in a cave and trying to find a key. Desmond is knocked out and forced to go back into the Animus again, because what else is this doofus good for, and we are suddenly following the story of Haytham Kenway, a British gent who kills people to get keys and such, and is sent off to the New World to find the hidden cavern that Desmond is currently hanging out in.

We in fact spend a lot of time with Haytham Kenway, despite that the fact that all advertisements make a big deal about this Connor fellow, who we can only assume is just a dream in Haytham's balls right now. We watch Haytham hang out on a ship and stop a mutiny, then arrive in Boston and meet this baller named Charles Lee. You run down the street and suddenly, without warning, find Benjamin Franklin, just fucking standing there, as if to say, "Hey, you heard of this guy, right?" Such pandering.

So Haytham gathers a group of dudes to help him gather info about the temple, stabbing dudes, shooting dudes, and all the time I'm thinking, "this guy sure isn't Connor!" Eventually we meet an Indian princess (?) and after Haytham takes over a base it becomes clear that we will be following this dummy for a while, and so I log out and say, "I'll save this for tomorrow." But yeah, Assassin's Creed, all some jerk named Haytham, all the time.

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