Comments on: Assassin’s Creed 2: Stabbing Through the Heart of the Matter http://doublebuffered.com/2009/11/30/assassins-creed-2-stabbing-through-the-heart-of-the-matter/ A Programmer's View of Game Design, Development, and Culture Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:55:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: JZig http://doublebuffered.com/2009/11/30/assassins-creed-2-stabbing-through-the-heart-of-the-matter/#comment-746 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:02:06 +0000 http://doublebuffered.com/?p=273#comment-746 When I was writing it I was trying to think of a good way of saying “within a hundred years of the Rennaisance” but gave up. Yeah, sorry about that.

I didn’t delve too deep into the Eco-specific stuff because I haven’t 100% finished Name of the Rose yet :) Foucault’s Pendulum is next on my list. Sorry, I’m late to the party like always.

]]> By: Amelia http://doublebuffered.com/2009/11/30/assassins-creed-2-stabbing-through-the-heart-of-the-matter/#comment-745 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:32:53 +0000 http://doublebuffered.com/?p=273#comment-745 I would declare calling The Name of the Rose a Renaissance book is technically wrong. I mean, the Renaissance may have been happening in metropolitan Florence in the mid 1300s, but it certainly wasn’t reaching the isolated mountaintop Franciscan Monasteries.

If you really want to be ballsy (and pretentious, like you promised :P ) you would compare the concept of Eco often giving a role to his reader versus Assassin’s Creed forcing the player to embody a character in turn “playing” a character. That would be an interesting read!

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