- Recon Number 54
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.
Personally, I've played it the same way that I played each of the others. Get as far into the main story as it takes to allow me to then grind out all of the secondary objectives to their end/max and then resume/finish the main story.
In doing so, I usually end up spending a good amount of pretty no-stress time getting used to the quirks of the mechanics, the intent of the designers, the arc of the story, and covering all of the landscape 3-4 times over. Then, when that gets boring (it's already repetitive, so my boredom-threshold being hit it not disappointing) I simply save and resume later, and eventually play through the last few level(s) when it all is completed and there is nothing left to grind out.
So yeah, chasing feathers, running pointless tasks for NPC's that can't move from their spot, and beaver-chasing (I never thought that I would be able to use that phrase while discussing a video game)... it's all, fine by me.
I kind of like the game. The humor in the writing of the supplemental data entries, the fact that it takes the characters of history and twists them in interesting ways (I never thought that I would say "Paul Revere is an annoying jerk", for example) and to me, for some people it made me do a little more research into who they were and how history actually records their actions.
Not a waste of money for me. It was a gift, but that just took it off of my shopping list. In retrospect it would have been on my "wait until it's $50 or less" list, but then nearly any game that I have played lately has been that sort of result for me. If I were to compare my entertainment time/value between it and another title that I was looking forward to (Halo 4). AC3 has spent more time in the disk tray (which, to me, in the end is the sign of any good game, how long it remains in your disk tray).