Makes sense. I’m in a similar situation, but I really enjoyed Origins, to the point where I actually 100% cleared the map, which I almost never have time to do anymore. Took me a few months though. :) My question about the double-XP boost—do I have to buy it for each new character I make or is it globally applied like…

There has been a lot of talk in the last day or two about the “Time-Saver” XP-boost, and the implication that the base game was designed to be JUST grindy enough so as to hamstring impatient players. The article on Polygon goes so far as to call the $10 XP-boost all but essential to make the progression feel…

Seriously though, can you guys in the gaming press just publicly state who is in charge at Telltale so the rest of the industry can blackball them and be done with it?

Now let’s all stop to imagine the sound of explosive diarrhea missing the toilet and painting the walls and floor of a bathroom stall.

You lose all credibility when you suggest that The Doors isn’t a masterpiece, perhaps even the quintessential rock biopic.  ;-)

Ironically, take-off and landing crashes have the highest odds of survivability.

Here’s the thing about this generation of gaming: There is so much good content out there at low prices (frequent sales, quality indie games, etc.,) that there is frankly no reason to pay full price for any game, ever, when you can just wait a few months and save a bundle, playing something else in the mean time. I…

It’s almost like Ubisoft is doing literally everything in its power to squander all the good will they picked up for Origins being as awesome as it was.  This really feels like a “hold my beer” meme moment for them.  Like the gaming community suggested that they had turned over a new leaf with Origins so now they need…

The best and only one that matters.

The lack of the Florence cathedral baptistery will forever be AC2's most egregious flaw when it comes to historical accuracy.

Thanks, EA.

Wow, talk about a cool description that didn't match the final product.  You made no mention of the fact that the actual mechanics are basically a glorified board game.

If you’ll indulge me a moment of being “that guy,” I just bought this game because of the great sale on the PS Store, and kind of wish that the Blades of Chaos has been kept below a spoiler warning. The game is still pretty new.  On topic though, I'm already looking forward the my second playthrough for the purposes…

No Trespasser? I would have expected that the game that pioneered the classic FPS mechanic of being able to look down at your own 3D polygonal boobs would AT LEAST make the Weird list.

If Achilles was a real person at all, he would have predated the time period of this game by more than 500 years, unless they’re going to have some Animus glitch missions that send us back to the Trojan War (which would be awesome.)

So-called “sane gun control” is by no means a simple solution, not only because of the fact that everybody has a different idea of what that actually means, but also because of the physical and legal logistics of implementation. And I say this as someone who is very in favor of stricter gun-control.

I am more or less…

The title of this article would have been right at home as a Norm MacDonald Weekend Update joke. And yet, here we are.

The article mentions it as a sequel to Origins, though I suppose anything is possible with Animus trickery. ;)

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the main story was set in the early Roman Empire, but through some classic Animus trickery, we got some sections that went back to the Greco-Persian wars or Alexander the Great or some other such notables of Classical history.

Great point. Greece (especially the islands) was a major maritime culture. They traded all across the Aegean, including with Egypt and (what is now) Turkey.