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Topic	Which of the Assassin's Creed games follow the Abstergo plot?
ParanoidObsessive 01/17/20 6:42:37 PM #7:	SKARDAVNELNATE posted... Origins Odyssey I have no idea what Abstergo is up to. They remain a modern day antagonist but the historical figures don't seem to fit into their plans. It revolves around Layla Hassan. She's a tech-head who starts out working for Abstergo, but in her attempts to climb the corporate ladder she digs a little too deep into secrets she shouldn't be looking at, has a Templar hit squad sent after her, survives because she's started picking up martial arts skills via the Bleeding Effect, and then joins the Assassins. Then the Assassins send her to find Atlantis. Which she does. And then she becomes the mostest super-special girl in the entire universe, with the 2500-year old immortal who likely helped found both the Templars and the Assassins at some point in the past handing over the source of their power 30 seconds after meeting her, because she's just that awesome, gosh! Miroku_of_Nite1 posted... IMO Ubisoft sucks at writing modern day characters. All of them seem to come across as Burger King Kids Club characters in the modern era. Desmond and his dad are alright though. My main complaint about the Layla games is that she and her entire team come across like people who would be spending all of their time on Twitter and Tumblr, not people who are part of a secret conspiracy that has been hidden in the shadows for a thousand years, influencing world events. Layla's researcher in Odyssey specifically comes across like someone who doesn't know how to interact with other humans without resorting to memes and references. And Layla herself is a blatant unrealistic slacktivist rebel. It doesn't make me more sympathetic to her and her plight as a character, it makes me root for the Templars. I get it - they're trying to make main characters who are sympathetic and relatable to the people playing the game. But I don't play video games to hang out with fictional versions of the same assholes I can't get away from in real life. Desmond was a bit of a dork, but he was still light years better than the new cast. Aside from that, there's the fact that I DON'T relate to "too cool for the room" hipster kids at all. I'd rather be the cubicle slaves from AC4 and Rogue. It's the same reason I have no interest in playing Borderlands 3. I don't really find the idea of Internet influencers and meme-spouting assholes being the main antagonists to be all that entertaining. Everything I've seen of their dialogue is irritating as fuck, and not in a "Man, I want to shoot these people" sort of way (which is what I think they were going for), but more in a "Man, I don't want to play this game" sort of way. It also doesn't help that trying to be trendy and "modern" with pop culture just tends to date games horribly, so they wind up aging and looking ridiculous given enough time. More neutral personalities feel more "timeless", and are better for viewer/player immersion anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:933097803] in Which of t... [t:78339332]...</cite> <quote><cite>SKARDAVNELNATE posted...</cite> <quote>Origins Odyssey I have no idea what Abstergo is up to. They remain a modern day antagonist but the historical figures don't seem to fit into their plans.</quote> It revolves around Layla Hassan. She's a tech-head who starts out working for Abstergo, but in her attempts to climb the corporate ladder she digs a little too deep into secrets she shouldn't be looking at, has a Templar hit squad sent after her, survives because she's started picking up martial arts skills via the Bleeding Effect, and then joins the Assassins. Then the Assassins send her to find Atlantis. Which she does. And then she becomes the mostest super-special girl in the entire universe, with the 2500-year old immortal who likely helped found both the Templars and the Assassins at some point in the past handing over the source of their power 30 seconds after meeting her, because she's just that awesome, gosh! <cite>Miroku_of_Nite1 posted...</cite> <quote>IMO Ubisoft sucks at writing modern day characters. All of them seem to come across as Burger King Kids Club characters in the modern era. Desmond and his dad are alright though.</quote> My main complaint about the Layla games is that she and her entire team come across like people who would be spending all of their time on Twitter and Tumblr, not people who are part of a secret conspiracy that has been hidden in the shadows for a thousand years, influencing world events. Layla's researcher in Odyssey specifically comes across like someone who doesn't know how to interact with other humans without resorting to memes and references. And Layla herself is a blatant unrealistic slacktivist rebel. It doesn't make me more sympathetic to her and her plight as a character, it makes me root for the Templars. I get it - they're trying to make main characters who are sympathetic and relatable to the people playing the game. But I don't play video games to hang out with fictional versions of the same assholes I can't get away from in real life. Desmond was a bit of a dork, but he was still light years better than the new cast. Aside from that, there's the fact that I DON'T relate to "too cool for the room" hipster kids at all. I'd rather be the cubicle slaves from AC4 and Rogue. It's the same reason I have no interest in playing Borderlands 3. I don't really find the idea of Internet influencers and meme-spouting assholes being the main antagonists to be all that entertaining. Everything I've seen of their dialogue is irritating as fuck, and not in a "Man, I want to shoot these people" sort of way (which is what I think they were going for), but more in a "Man, I don't want to play this game" sort of way. It also doesn't help that trying to be trendy and "modern" with pop culture just tends to date games horribly, so they wind up aging and looking ridiculous given enough time. More neutral personalities feel more "timeless", and are better for viewer/player immersion anyway. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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