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- Hello and welcome to The Backlog!
We're two brothers who
have a big old collection
of games and today we're
going to talk about them.
- Every game we've ever
bought, we put in to
an Excel spreadsheet, and catagalog them.
And today, we're going
to pick one at random
and talk about it regardless
of whether or not we've played it.
- Catagoralog them
- Catagorog.
(laughs)
Catalog and categorize
them at the same time.
- [Bob] He's having a stroke.
- I'm having a stroke.
(laughs) That's what
happens when you turn 31.
- We're alive, not live.
Taped at the Video Game Trading
Post here on Long Island.
- Long Island.
- Strokin' out
- here at the Video Game Trading Post.
Don't come here.
- Don't come here.
- You might stroke out. (laughs)
- But if you do come here, buy everything.
- Yes.
The random number I picked is 551.
- 551.
Assassin's Creed Revelations
for the XBOX 360.
- [Bob] Alright you're
gonna have to remind me.
- [Will] Okay!
- [Bob] 'Cause they all blur together.
- [Will] They all blur.
This is the third of the Ezio Trilogy.
- Okay the beard.
- Yes.
- This is bearded Ezio.
- This is the one
where Desmond spends the
entire time in a dream,
like in a coma.
You play as Ezio primarily
but you also play
as Altair during the
last years of his life.
- [Bob] Okay that was cool, that was cool!
I liked that.
- [Will] There are a lot of
cool things about this game.
But we had just gotten like four in a row
and this is like exactly when
Assassin's Creed Fatigue
was starting to set in.
- [Bob] Yes.
This was a big mistake in my opinion.
- [Will] Yeah, it's 'cause
it was Assassin's Creed II
which was great, and then
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
which was pretty cool!
And then, Assassin's Creed Revelations
the year immediately following,
you're like wait a minute,
I just played this twice.
- Yeah. (laughs)
So it's a good game!
- Yeah, it's a good game.
- Because Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
and Assassin's Creed II are good.
- Yes.
- And that's why this is good.
- Yes, 'cause it's just
basically more of that.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- I'm a big fan of old Ezio.
- Yeah.
- I'm a big fan of Desmond.
Nobody likes Desmond.
- Nobody likes Desmond.
- I like the Desmond story.
- Yeah.
- I wanted more of that.
The thrilling conclusion
to Desmond is stupid.
- It was dumb.
- It was very dumb.
- It kinda just ends.
- It made me swear off
Assassin's Creed games basically.
Yeah so the whole thing with this game,
I don't remember the story of it,
but the whole thing is
like Ezio was trying
to solve a mystery
about the Pieces of Eden
and he actually has to
like, go back and like,
look through Altair's old notes and stuff.
And you actually play as
Altair as he's getting older.
You play Altair like, the
day he dies at 91 years old.
And he's like slowly
walking his way through
the headquarters and he just like,
can't do it because he's falling apart.
So that was cool!
You do a lot of the same
stuff you did in Brotherhood
where you get a group of assassins,
and you can send them
on missions and stuff,
so you never see them, so why bother?
The big, new gameplay
mechanic they added to this
was tower defense.
- Oh no!
- Tower defense was like
the big gameplay thing
at the time so every
game started to put them,
put tower defense in.
Every company tried to release
their own version of tower defense.
The thing about the tower
defense in this game,
if you play it right, you
only ever have to do it once.
When they show you how to do it.
- [Bob] Yes.
- [Will] But if you've ever
played an Assassin's Creed game,
you know how to play the game
so you never have to do this again.
- [Bob] It was like optional.
- [Will] Yeah.
- [Bob] A lot of people really liked it!
The tower defense stuff.
- [Will] Really?!
- [Bob] Yes.
The same people who liked the boat stuff
in Assassin's Creed IV.
- Which was also garbage.
- Yeah.
Oh no, actually Assassin's
Creed III had the boat stuff.
- Yeah and then they made
a whole game out of it
and now they're making
another whole game out of it.
- Yeah, I'm not a fan.
- Yeah, no, the boat stuff--
- When I play Assassin's Creed,
I wanna play Assassin's Creed,
and now I don't wanna play
Assassin's Creed anymore
because they've got
too much Assassin's Creeds.
- I think this is also
the Assassin's Creed where
you can start making bombs.
Which goes completely against the idea
of a stealthy assassin.
- (laughs) Yeah!
It was good though, I enjoyed the game.
- It was, no and that's the problem though
like it is a good game
but like, it came out
like one right after the
other right after the other.
It was the same thing with Tony Hawk,
you can't do that with a game like this.
- Yeah.
- [Will] ;Cause then the
next game suffered from it.
- I did like going back to
Altair because Altair was in,
probably, the worst Assassin's Creed game.
- [Will] Yeah.
- The first one was a little rough.
- [Will] Yeah.
- But he was a cool character!
- He was!
- Yeah.
- And it was cool to see like,
the next stage of his
life after the first game
after he kills his own boss.
- Yeah.
- You know what happened to him.
- Wait, you get to play that though.
Well no, you play that in the first one.
- You play that in the
first one and then I think
in this one, you play like
the immediate aftermath?
- I think you play a little
bit before he kills his boss.
_ Maybe.
- And then a little bit after.
- Yeah.
- Yeah.
- But I just, I was talking
about all the problems
I have with this game,
I still vividly remember
91 year old Altair trying to fight.
Not even trying to fight,
he's just like pushing people away
as he's walking to the chair
where he's going to die in.
- [Bob] (laughs) I
remember the giant battle.
- Yeah.
Like this, you're walking around,
and you're not old yet.
- Yeah.
- [Bob] But like, everybody's just
murdering each other around.
- [Will] Yeah.
- [Bob] And you're thrusted
in to it as Altair.
That was cool.
- [Will] Yeah, yeah.
- I get the big epic story
that they're trying to conclude
from Assassin's Creed II
all the way to Revelations.
- [Will] Yeah.
- But they didn't need
to drag it out.
- Yeah they definitely
didn't need to do that.
- Probably could've skipped Brotherhood
or just made these all one game.
- [Will] Yeah.
- I think they did too good
with Assassin's Creed II
and they ran with it a little too far.
- Wait.. was this the one
that introduced multiplayer?
- No.=m Brotherhood was.
- Brotherhood was, okay.
- Yeah Brotherhood definitely was.
I remember because I
had pre-ordered bonuses
up the wazoo and everything.
- Yeah of course you did.
- And the multiplayer was okay.
- Yeah the multiplayer was
fine, it was interesting.
Not a game you would return to
for multiplayer though, I don't think.
- No, definitely not.
- Yeah.
But again, it's a really good game.
I'd only recommend it if
you are playing through
the Assassin's Creed II trilogy.
- Yeah, I know the game came
out on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.
I know now for PS4 and Xbox One,
you can get the trilogy
in an HD collection
so if you've never played this game,
you might as well get all 3
and plow through them all.
But yeah.
Honestly, I think you could
skip it and not miss anything.
- [Bob] Yeah, I mean, I
wouldn't recommend really
Assassin's Creed games at all.
At this point, no.
- Yeah.
Two is probably too dated by now.
If you played two and you like it
then you'll wanna do
Brotherhood and Revelations.
- [Will] Yeah.
If you're gonna get
Assassin's Creed games,
just get Origins, get the
new one that's coming out.
- Yeah I think Odyssey is the new one.
- Odyssey, that's what I meant.
I don't think you're gonna miss anything.
- Yeah.
- The stories are pretty self-contained.
- Yeah and it's stupid.
- And it's stupid.
Yeah that's not so much self-contained,
but very stupid.
- Very stupid.
- Assassin's Creed IV had
a self-contained story
that didn't really mean anything.
- [Will] Yeah.
I dunno, if you're interested,
you already know if you're
gonna get it or not.
- Yeah.
- So whatever.
What do you guys think of Assassin's Creed
Revelations?
- Revelations!
Have you played it?
Let us know down below or
anywhere on the internet!
- Thank you guys for being here
and watching this episode of The Backlog.
We will see you later!
Goodbye!
- Bye!
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