Man all this talk is making me wanna get the game. I played some of the first AC but was really bored. I heard they changed a bit since the first. Should I jump on this to get ready for the new one or should I just stay away?

Did you play Assassin's Creed II?

The first one, IMO, was a repetitive snoozefest. I didn't bother finishing.

I platinumed ACII. I haven't played Brotherhood yet only because I know I'll want to make that a platty as well. Backwards logic, I know... but I just don't have the time to get sucked into that right now!

If you haven't played since AC you should definitely try Brotherhood at that price.

Buy and play ACII before Brotherhood.

Nope never played ACII.

Why play 2? I'd rather get Brotherhood for MP.

If all you are playing is the MP, then yeah, get Brotherhood. But if you want the full story, you need to play AC2 before you play Brotherhood. It's really one game broken up into two.

For those who never played AC1 after hearing mixed reviews, it's going to be a bonus included with AssRev. So now you have a chance to check it out for free...

And then Revelations will be Part 3...

I was tempted by this, but yeah, the game comes out today and zero reviews.

i didn't realize i posted that in the amazon thread. woops!

Yeah, no review copies were sent out to anyone (early) it seems.

That usually means a game is great without any major issues, right?

joystiq trashed it today

http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/28/x-men-destiny-review/

Hrmmm, they might be trying to sell Destiny on name alone. Which might translate to major game suckage I hope that isn't the case but history does not bode well for a game that isn't reviewed until release day. The same goes with major movies.

Well, you create an X-men game that doesn't allow you to play as any of the X-men... who thought this was a good idea? Even with a $25 gift card I'm going to pass... they could have just made an X-men Legends 3 and I would have bought it.

Back on topic, Amazon is having a Buy 1 get 1 50% off with a small mix of games across platforms:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...29181&plpage=1

I have no idea how you get to this sale from their homepage, so credit to CAG and CheapyD for this.

Cut the Rope is free today for android phones.

Nice! Grabbed Heavy Rain and Dragon Age:Origins Ultimate for $41!!

Between this and Best Buy's deal on the 2 game collections (and a reward zone certificate I had) I went from not having bought a NEW game since Killzone 3 to adding 6 games in two days for less than $100 (Ico/Colossus and the God of War Chains/Sparta combo).

Wow, Silicon Knights sure has gone in the crapper.

No kidding. I rented X-Men Destiny last night from Redbox. It's really rough. It plays sort of like inFamous, but no where near as fun or as pretty or as well voice acted. You have to pick your mutant style in the first few seconds of the game and there's no going back or swapping out. I picked a brawler style and nearly instantly regretted it. The game is super-easy on normal difficulty -- I haven't come even close to dying yet except once when I actidently jumped off a cliff I didn't realize was there. The combat is just button mashing. You can sometimes combo attack but there's no need to since all combat is totally cake. You have a guard button but there's no need to use it even when opponents are firing missles at you. Not even worth the $2 rental. Hope nobody actually bought this.

I heard you can beat it in 5 hours, too. Horrible.

I'll disagree with one part - I think it is worth the rental. It does have poor voice acting, not so great graphics, and a dumb story but it is still a passable button mashing brawler imo. I am renting it for a night or two and will enjoy my 4$ investment.

Buying it though... eek. Nobody should do that.

And what is with Nightcrawler's outfit?

Wow, thanks for the update. I saw you were playing that this morning and I told my wife who was watching me, "I hope he didn't buy that". And she was all, but it is X-Men. I was like trust me, I heard it sucked bad. LOL. Yeah, I'm not sure what they were thinking when they made that. They could have remade X-Men Legends 1&2 and throw it in a box for $40 with achievements and it would have been a better game. (and I probably would have bought it )

Excellent, finally jumped on Oblivion Anniversary Edition and Dragon Age Origins Ultimate.

Ok, just beat the X-Men game and can comment on a few things.

The game is not very good. It is not worth 60. Nor is it worth 20. Honestly, it would have been a pretty good 10$ XBLA title.

A Redbox rental is about worthwhile if you enjoy brawlers because for 2-4 bucks you can play through the kind of dumb campaign, unlock a bunch of achievements, and beat up scores of bad guys.

Things that will irritate you. Bosses that have multiple stages of damage, require pattern memorization, and have unskippable cut scenes. This makes failed attempts super annoying... not because of the boss - because of the cut scene.

The implication that you have a choice between dark and light is silly. The story really doesn't branch. It just gives you a different mission to unlock different passive/active abilities. So most of the abilities I unlocked were from X-Men folks instead of Brotherhood folks since I went light side. There are like two points where you are asked to pick a side. At the end whichever one you pick unlocks that achievement.

Pretty dumb but at least a little fun as a brawler. I beat it and now my daughter is playing the game on the hardest difficulty with my upgraded character (for a playthrough 2) and just demolishing it. It is a pretty easy game.

There are so many things wrong with this game, it seems silly to harp on one, but one thing I found particularly funny. when you are supposed to continue to a new area by smashing through the floor, it's pretty obvious since there's no where else to go, but not only do they highlight the grate or sinkhole like it's been irradiated, but they also display a huge holographic cartoon fist (not unlike the Howard Stern logo, upside down) that goes up and down repeatedly over the grate. Every. Single. Time. It's hilarious.

Amazon has just added a $20 credit when pre-ordering Battlefield 3. That was enough to get me to bite despite an ever-growing backlog of games.