I never wanted to kill, I am not naturally evil...

Jan 11, 2012 14:20

So...  amid a week of a grizzly sick Microbe and purée-making mania, I've been finding some time here and there to play Assassins Creed Revelations.

For those of you who are not gamers, it means that I get to run around the rooftops of the unbelievably stunning 16th Century Constantinople...



...collecting shinies and doing stuff like this:



Anyway here's the thing.  Typically whenever a game gives me any option, I play as a pacifist. For example, in Fallout 3, my interactions with other humans were so saintly and do-gooding that my social status could only be illustrated by a little picture of a sandal-wearing Jesus figure.  This despite the fact that I spent the entire time dressed in full combat gear, leveled up to maximum gun skills, taking out super-mutants by shooting them relentlessly in the knee until they died.  (But that didn't matter because they were mutants and therefore asking for it.)

Anyway the problem with the Ass Creed games is that they just won't let me be a pacifist assassin.  Every time I am minding my own business, scaling a tower to try and collect a shiny from the top of it, my peace is broken by a barrage of jobsworthy guards shouting "Hey, you! Get down!"  "You will die for this!"  "Don't let him get away!" ...and I then have to kill them all, bloodily, with my magnificent weaponry.

Not only that, but the 'engage parachute' button is the same button that makes you leap from a rooftop and assassinate a passer-by by pinning him to the ground through the eye with your hidden blade.  G keeps catching me in the act of apologising sheepishly to pixelated people that I have accidentally assassinated, all the while insisting that I am a good guy really.

Ach well...

Upon seeing how my Xboxy passion has been reawakened, G has very kindly bought me another game to play next.  Crysis 2... anyone?  (All I can say from the box is that it looks very unpacifist indeed...)

bloodlust, gaming

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