Bad UI in action: 11 clicks to quit Assassin's Creed

http://www.videosift.com/video/Quitting-Assassins-Creed

by e1ven • 18 years ago

21 11 18 years ago

ctingom• 18 years ago

Wow, that is horrible.

henning• 18 years ago

Assassin's Creed has other flaws that are the reason it's just an OK game in spite of its amazing graphics and innovative parkour physics, but this confused the hell out of me when I was playing it.

Basically, you just walk right up to the person you're going to assassinate, press a mouse button to kill them, then run around a city randomly for a minute or two to lose the heat. Repeat.

flipbrad• 18 years ago

That's really something I hope they can improve on for the rest of the trilogy; the repetitiveness of the challenges faced was galling, despite this being a super cool game to play for the first and last 45 minutes

breily• 18 years ago

I actually think Assassin's Creed UI is very intuitive, especially for the the range of movements that are allowed simply by pointing your character in a certain direction.

And quitting on the 360 just takes one step: turning off the console, no save necessary.

a-priori• 18 years ago

Maybe they just don't want you to quit. :)

wmf2• 18 years ago

This appears to be yet another symptom of the poor Windows port; on PS3 it's much easier to quit.

cdr• 18 years ago

Press the power button?

phaedrus• 18 years ago

That works on Windows too.

wmf2• 18 years ago

Yes, or press the PlayStation button that allows you to exit any game at any time.

sygzzy• 18 years ago

I haven't found a UI I liked that wasn't in a text editor.

fdb• 18 years ago

I never found this "correct" way to quit the game, but learned that just pressing Alt-F4 in any of those screens does the trick.

Bad UI in action: 11 clicks to quit Assassin's Creed

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