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myrialux play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.
Ezio the Assassin is the biggest house flipper in Renaissance Rome. ("Flip This Villa" as Toby says.)
There is nothing funnier than accidentally calling your horse at the wrong time. Except maybe accidentally picking up a body when you're trying to loot it.
Rome has the most well-behaved horses around. None of them spook when Ezio runs into or falls on them, they climb stairs with ease. But they can't step over dead bodies and stand there, ineffectually walking in place, until the rider manages to aim them in another direction.
Romans of the time have a love for street theatre that outstrips that of Ankh-Morporkians, as they will often come toward a deadly street brawl.
If you take Ezio in and out of high profile really quickly, he looks kind of like he's beatboxing.
Ezio really wants to climb down that ladder, even though you don't want him to.
Ignore the well-armored man hiding in the convenient haystack!
Roman guards don't get paid very well. Hardly worth looting their bodies unless you need the money for more house-flipping.
Romans lace their towers with high explosives and make their banners out of flash paper. It's amazing the damage one torch can do.
You'd think guards would learn not to push Ezio around.
Ezio's mom and sister are hanging out in a brothel and he has no problem with that.
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myrialux play Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood.Ezio the Assassin is the biggest house flipper in Renaissance Rome. ("Flip This Villa" as Toby says.)
There is nothing funnier than accidentally calling your horse at the wrong time. Except maybe accidentally picking up a body when you're trying to loot it.
Rome has the most well-behaved horses around. None of them spook when Ezio runs into or falls on them, they climb stairs with ease. But they can't step over dead bodies and stand there, ineffectually walking in place, until the rider manages to aim them in another direction.
Romans of the time have a love for street theatre that outstrips that of Ankh-Morporkians, as they will often come toward a deadly street brawl.
If you take Ezio in and out of high profile really quickly, he looks kind of like he's beatboxing.
Ezio really wants to climb down that ladder, even though you don't want him to.
Ignore the well-armored man hiding in the convenient haystack!
Roman guards don't get paid very well. Hardly worth looting their bodies unless you need the money for more house-flipping.
Romans lace their towers with high explosives and make their banners out of flash paper. It's amazing the damage one torch can do.
You'd think guards would learn not to push Ezio around.
Ezio's mom and sister are hanging out in a brothel and he has no problem with that.
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Though earlier today I was aiming to assassinate a guard about six feet below Ezio - the guard was on a roof, Ezio was on a slightly higher roof. I targeted. I jumped.
I failed to notice that, for some bizarre reason, Ezio had actually targeted not the guard six feet below him, but a passing four-guard patrol way the hell down on the street. I discovered this fact when Ezio flew past my intended target and was suddenly on the street, hidden blades buried in the heads of two of the patrol.
The survivors were not happy.
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I'm enjoying watching Toby play - it's one of the games where the camera moves don't make me seasick. (Most of the time.) And he tells me it's interesting hearing me comment on things that he, as a long-time gamer, just accepts because they're part of game design problems, such as guards on rooftops floating slightly above the roof, Ezio performing a move in a brawl that involves the guy he's picked up passing through his body, the chests of gold that game characters leave all over the place for Ezio to loot, etc.
And I find it amusing to hear Toby as he plays - walking past a clump of guards when one of them pushes Ezio, whereupon Toby yells "Oh, it's on!" and proceeds to massacre them.
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It's such a pretty game. My mom, who hates violent games, even let me take her on a tour of Venice in ACII... though she didn't realize that as I climbed Ezio higher, I was also picking off guards with throwing knives. (I was deliberately being pretty subtle.)
She did figure it out when a guard surprised me and I had to hidden blade him. >.> "Did you kill that man?!" "Mom, the game is called Assassin's Creed..."
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Toby wantonly killed a ... herald, I think. The guy was glowing gold in Eagle Vision, so Toby was "Is he a target? He's gold. Am I supposed to kill him?" and experimentally stabbed him. And then ended up with a snide "Ezio doesn't kill civilians!" message, which left Toby darkly muttering, "Why is he gold, then?!"
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She was very dubious of the ACII box, though - I got the collector's edition, which came with an 8-inch-tall Ezio figure and thus was packaged in a fairly massive box. I brought the box home, very excited about the contents, and put it on the kitchen counter while I put my other things away. The following conversation ensued:
Mom: What's that?
Me (enthusiastically): Assassin's Creed II! It's set in the Renaissance and you can climb things and sneak around and and and- *insert fangirl squee here* And it came with a figure!
Mom (with complete seriousness): *eyes the box with extreme wariness* Is there an assassin in there?
Me: ... yes?
I continue to tease her about that to this day. (And the awesome Ezio figure is now on my highest bookshelf. He looks very dramatic.)
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(For those of you reading the comments not familiar with ACII, the doctors look like this ().)