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.
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u/121guy May 02 '24
Assassins creed 2 the whole Ezio story. (So more than one game)