You got me excited. It's the reveal only. Still exciting, but it doesn't look like it'll be released in July.

Yeah, sorry, I didn't realize that either...

For me I have a bunch of games backlogged that I have to finish in the hardest respective modes with DLC. Off the top of my head I have Deus Ex : Human Revolution, Mass Effect 3, & Bioshock Infinite.

Its not much of a log - but seeing as there haven't been many other games that I have felt were "Have to Play", this seems about right to me.

Did I mention that Bioshock Infinite if freaking BOSS. Can not overstate how much I enjoyed this game.

Destiny triggered a few links to older games in my brain. Here's one no one remembers:

No. Seriously.

does playing it make AC2 better in any way?

Nah. The story of AC1 was not worth the repetitive gameplay. The story of Ezio (the assassin for AC2, Brotherhood and Revelations) is leaps and bounds better. You might understand a little bit more about the universe by playing AC1, but you'll probably understand enough of it just from the intro to AC2 to get by.

I definitely wouldn't discourage you from trying AC1; however it gets boring very fast and the combat in AC2 was vastly improved. You could always just pop the first game in and get the gist of the story and gameplay by the first two or three major assassinations before switching over to 2.

Love me some Red Dead.

... but I am absolutely terrible at it, btw...

Count me in. I've been eyeing my copy lately, never finished it and probably won't unless its co-op. I also have the Undead Nightmare stuff, but never touched it.

~M

Other than using the same control scheme, not really.

But you should throw in AC1 and check it out. I remember being quite impressed with the visuals at the time, particularly the lighting.

The big complaint was not the gameplay as much as the repetitive design of each location. "You moved to a new city! Now murder these guys." It was super fun to jump off a building and stab someone in the back, but once you've done it 20 times you want some variety. AC2 has a lot more variety in activities.

But you should throw in AC1 and check it out. I remember being quite impressed with the visuals at the time, particularly the lighting.

AC1 was cool in that it was much different than a lot of games, but it suffered in gameplay implementation.

AC2 was the best in terms of story and what you did in the game; Brotherhood added some really cool gameplay elements and graphically looked a lot better. Revelations was a let down in terms of gameplay and story.

My wife bought me AC3 for Christmas but I just can't get into it. Despite it being "open world" it still feels like I'm on rails, lots of conversations you can't skip, or people you have to walk next to... slowly... for a long time.

You can also go here and make sure to buy with MS Points, it won't charge you: http://marketplace.xbox.com/en-US/Product/Fable-III/66acd000-77fe-1000-9115-d8024d5308d6

I had a US XBox Live account and lived in Australia and now the UK and I had to update it to the UK before downloading Fable 3 would work.

Cheers!

I don't think you'll miss out on too much by skipping AC1, as #2 was the best of the entire series. Brotherhood was a close second, and I can let you borrow that one along with AC3 when the time comes.