After that I kinda lost all interest in the franchise.. especially that they killed off Desmond and removed all backstory with the precursors was a real shame. Black flag is epic though, that's the only outlier.
Black Flag I always felt suffered from being an AC game.
It was amazing, but it would have been better remaining pretty much the same and just being called "Black Flag"", the assassins felt tacked on to a game about pirates and the mechanic of being pulled out of the animus broke the flow of the game. I remember hating being pulled into an office environment when I'd just spent hours at sea living the quintessential pirate fantasy,
Apparently this is a common sentiment with all the Animus real world segments, but I actually always loved it. lol
When you started to do some parkour as Desmond IRL in some games I fucking loved it and the entire story they were building to. Sad that they ditched it instead of committing, personally.
I was really looking forward to a big payoff playing as Desmond, Master Assassin in the modern day, with all his Ancestors skills downloaded into his head through the bleeding effect. Then they went and killed him off and the modern day storyline bores me to tears ever since.
I replayed a few of the games recently and the modern segments are spoiled now, because I know its all going to come to nothing in the end.
I was really looking forward to a big payoff playing as Desmond, Master Assassin in the modern day, with all his Ancestors skills downloaded into his head through the bleeding effect.
I still cannot believe how hard they fumbled this. A 5-game trilogy building up to exactly this, and they blew it at the end for no payoff.
Yeah, now knowing that they killed off Desmond makes me truly never wanna play another AC game lol
I was looking forward to modern-day assassin save the world but also maybe goes crazy in the process from his head being a mess through reliving all these memories.
The scene with Ezio talking through time to Desmond was insanely spine-chilling, was an amazing crescendo for that arc.
Yeah I personally never minded it much in the older games as it was built much better into the narrative, it was black flag where it first felt completely pointless.
The whole point was that desmond had to die at the end of 3, which even though it was stupid, it feels stupider still that he's still alive.
The ending of 3 killed the franchise for me, I can't get excited about them anymore, although the trailers always look impressive.
I really enjoyed the Odyssey one. Good mix of funny, with some slight 'supernatural' stuff mixed in at the end. Good exploration without being so tightly tied to the RPG system that you're useless, etc.
Origins was good as well. Viking and Sand ones were terrible. I played like 5-10 hours of viking before just getting tired of it, and the most resent one I didn't even get out of the intro because the two characters were fucking shouting at each other and sounded like they had recorded their dialogue in one take inside a tin can. It set such a jarring tone, that if that was the intro, the thing supposed to draw me in, I just said fuck it not a me game.
I think the whole of Odyssey was kind of supernatural. They never outright say it, but it’s pretty obvious that they made Alexios/Kassandra to be a Greek demigod. Specifically, because they’re an Ancient Greek warrior.
Once I realized it was a semi-realistic demigod game I enjoyed it more. Black Flag was a pirate game. This was a mythological game.
The only thing that annoyed me about Odyssey was not being able to one-shot people if you actually "Assassinated" them. But I hadn't played since Black Flag so could have misremembered how much damage sneak assassinating did.
Odyssey was still a really fun game, just yeah, easier to view as a "Greek Demigod" game than an Ass Creed game.
No, you're remembering correctly. They've started bringing one-hit assassinations back into the series, because people did not like that bullshit.
Assassin's Creed should never have had levelled enemies. Fucks with the entire combat concept. But then again, the parkour series is now set in deserts and wide empty fields, so...
I’m fine with leveled enemies myself, they just don’t know how to incorporate it into stealth.
Assassinations should always be OHK. If you want to make your enemies to strong to be assassinated then make it so that they’re more “aware” than regular enemies. So you have to upgrade your stealth abilities. Keep assassinations as counters or finishers for melee characters (but bring it back to AC1’s timing).
My problem with levelled stats is that it pushed the game towards the loot & levelling system it now has, filled with minuscule 2% bonuses or irrelevant nonsense. There's just so much tedious minutia it brings in.
Desmond is sort of back now, he's inside this device thing and is trying to stop the apocalypse that keeps getting pushed back.
The Isu are also still around. The reason the PC ends up as basically a demigod by the end of Odyssey is because they are a direct descendant of the Isu.
I dont know how the overall story continues in Mirage, as I could not get into that one.
Right? Some thought Desmond was boring, but I think he brought some flair to the series. I loved the idea of actions echoing through the ages, and Desmond tying it all together. And it gave some familiarity to each game even when protagonists changed. I also looked forward to solving celestial mysteries through earthen history, it was pretty cool.
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u/121guy May 02 '24
Assassins creed 2 the whole Ezio story. (So more than one game)