George Gumpert

"yeah, the first one had a way of getting boring, yet it was strangely addicting despite that. It had such a great concept, but seemed to fumble on the execution. AC2 seems to have gotten the execution just right. I think part of the reason the first one was so boring was because a lot of the gameplay mechanics were the same at the end of the game as they were at the beginning. I've already put 5 hours in, and have only gotten 2 assassination targets, and am still getting more new core features to play with. Even so, there is plenty to distract you from your core mission if you get bored with it, however the addition of a good storyline has made following the main storyline much more enjoyable." - George Gumpert

"Haha nice! Yeah, I don't get it either. They were kinda cool and unique at first, but now they're just effing everywhere. Strange, I've never seen someone actually own one though... As for the slinky, do you remember buying a non-glow in the dark one and some Uranium?" - George Gumpert

"I found that Assassin's Creed (the first one), like most sand box games, gets as repetitive as you let it. There are two parts to a good sandbox game: Letting the player do whatever they want, and providing them with the tools and, more importantly, motivation to do so. It's all too easy to fall into "this is what works, so I'll keep doing it that way." I can honestly say I only did one assassination in the original AC the "right" way, and it was the most rewarding part of that game. Having said that, the original game didn't do much to convince the player to try anything new. It pretty much let you fumble without consequence. If you were caught, you were pretty much a god in combat, so it didn't matter. While Ezio slowly becomes godlike in combat, the new game does give you motivation to try things in different ways, and gives you a lot of different goals (both long and short term) to distract you should the main quest line get boring. For example, last night I just learned that one..." - George Gumpert

"Keywords: coed, boys 1 2 5, girls in between, all used the same front door. Something tells me your coed dorm was one giant orgy." - George Gumpert

"Your problem isn't that you need to save more, it's that you need to make more. In this economy, not saying it's your fault - just that this article doesn't apply to you, nor did it pretend to." - George Gumpert

"Can you give me more information as to what's not working, so I can try to help you out? The RSS link has moved since the last post, though this link should get you there: http://blog.georgegumpert.com/feed..." - George Gumpert