I beat Assassin's Creed 3. Currently it's about 3 hours into the credits showing the over 3 million people that worked on the game across all of Ubisoft's studios.
Anyways I thought this was pretty good. I finished it around 92%. Put in a little effort for side stuff but didn't waste a shitload of time. Would not have been fun to do that last part.
Some brief thoughts:
-This game looked really good. While old timey Boston and New York aren't really interesting cities they really feel more alive on the new engine thanks to animals and kids and just plain more shit on screen. The Frontier and the Homestead are where it really shined.
-While it's still annoying to try and get down on stuff (apparently Unity has a "down" button now rather than a drop button) traversing has gotten a lot better. This is helped greatly by trees, being able to go around pillars, rock climbing, and other things that just make it feels like it just works.
-Combat has improved a lot. Can't counter your way to victory against tough enemies. Though versus weaker enemies you'll still mercilessly slaughter people.
-Modern story is still very WTF but at least there were some fun locations this time.
-Connor's story on the other hand was great and the scope of the game was huge. I wasn't expecting 30 years across two different characters. They also didn't cast the patriots in the best light. Very cool.
-Holy shit that item creation and trading system was bad. Those menus made me basically never use it.
-Homestead on the other hand was great. Fun little missions that helped build up that community feel.
-Boat stuff was awesome. Pretty obvious why they made all of AC4 like that.
Overall I liked the experience. Now to wait for AC4 to get cheap. I did buy one of the King Washington DLCs. Time to see if they work standalone since I just jumped straight to third one. Honestly not too interested but it was like $2.50 during a sale so whatever.
Update: Gave the 3rd King Washington a solid hour. Holy shit you're in constant level 1 notoriety and there's guards EVERYWHERE. Fuck this noise. I played 2 missions and couldn't handle the anxiety. Goodbye AC3, I won't let that DLC taint my memory of you.