Current Events > Best Assassin's Creed protagonist?

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Ezio seems to be the most popular, but I never liked him that much.

edit: some of the special letters got chopped. "Adwal" should be "Adewale."

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Ezio

Ezio, we literally lived his full life, no one else but Edward is so loved.
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Ezio
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Altair. Really don't get what people love about Ezio so much
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YourDrunkFather posted...

Altair. Really don't get what people love about Ezio so much

Envy


Altair is the best

Not surprised that Ezio is stomping everyone. He had more games than any other, but he was so overly charismatic and arrogant (at least until Revelations) that I found him unlikeable.

Even though he was almost unanimously hated, Connor is my favorite.

I'm also growing very fond of Shay too as I'm replaying Rogue. He's the only one (except maybe Adewale) who seems to actually stick to his morals rather than following a certain side.

I like Altair a lot too, but he doesn't have too much of a personality.

Arno is easily the worst of the main protagonists imo. It seems like they made him a blank slate so that the player could customize him and play online.

Might have worked out better if the online wasn't completely broken.

Came in here to see if someone voted for Connor.

You can always bet on CE having a troglodyte with the absolute worst possible opinion.
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Ezio and everyone else can fuck off.
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Arno was a complete joke to me.

Edward was the one best to me. With Shay a c close 2nd, Connor 3rd, and Ezio 4th.
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Ezio is the only right answer here.
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I dunno, I liked both edward and ezio I guess. I only played up to black flag though
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Ezio, though I like Altair, Arno, and Haytham, too. Aveline, too, though her game sucked. Connor is the worst.
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omega cookie posted...

Came in here to see if someone voted for Connor.

You can always bet on CE having a troglodyte with the absolute worst possible opinion.

I get why he was hated, but I thought his flaws were explained well enough in his character. Even if you don't like him, he's still far, far better than Arno, Aveline, and the Frye twins.

ThyCorndog posted...

I dunno, I liked both edward and ezio I guess. I only played up to black flag though

You're not missing too much character-wise if you skipped Unity and Syndicate. Rogue had a great protagonist though and imo really turned the morality of the Assassin vs. Templar war on its head.

i'll probably check em out when they're like 5 bucks on steam. rogue, at least. but I'll probably end up playing all of em
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I liked Eddie the most.
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Vertania posted...

omega cookie posted...

Came in here to see if someone voted for Connor.

You can always bet on CE having a troglodyte with the absolute worst possible opinion.

I get why he was hated, but I thought his flaws were explained well enough in his character. Even if you don't like him, he's still far, far better than Arno, Aveline, and the Frye twins.

He was just fucking boring, suffered from being the lead in an awful game, and had the misfortune of having to follow Ezio.

As for the others, I have no idea. After Black Flag, AC is pretty much dead to me. Black Flag was just so good that anything after it would likely let me down, and based on what I've seen from people who have played them I made a good choice.
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Shotgunnova posted...

I liked Eddie the most.

I don't remember Black Flag's story too well, but I didn't care for him too much either. He seemed to only care about himself and his riches.

That's not to say that he was a bad protagonist, but it did make him less relatable imo. He was the first one that really gave the player an outside view of the Assassin-Templar war.

I'll likely end up replaying that one before III, just to refresh the story. The whole American timeline was a mess since the release order was all over the place. Chronologically, it should be AC4 -> Freedom Cry -> parts of Rogue -> AC3 (& Liberation?) -> the rest of Rogue.

sylverlolol posted...

Ezio is the onbased on the ly right answer here.

Only the right answer sylverlolol posted...

Ezio is the only right answer here.

Ezio is not the only answer.
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omega cookie posted...

He was just fucking boring, suffered from being the lead in an awful game, and had the misfortune of having to follow Ezio.

The "boring" complaint that everyone uses is part of his character. He was raised pretty much outside of society, yet he has to interact with people who are from a different culture and don't speak his native language. Couple that with having his community destroyed by people from that culture and it doesn't seem unreasonable that the main emotions he shows are anger, angst, and lust for revenge. Also, I'm pretty sure the Iroquois people weren't encouraged to have bombastic, egotistical personalities.

I get why people didn't that in a character, especially after transitiong from Ezio. I don't get the "bad game" argument though; I thought it was great (apart from the sailing sections and absurd optional objectives).

Only played the first two (and the first hour of 4).

Ezio was the more interesting and fleshed-out character but Altaïr was cooler.
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I've gotta go with Ezio, but the older Altair from Revelations was great.

Haytham was also pretty dope; he has this classiness about him.

I haven't played the Syndicate, Rogue, or the French one, though.
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Ezio is the only answer. Who the fuck actually played/enjoyed AC3? lmao
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Vertania posted...

The "boring" complaint that everyone uses is part of his character. He was raised pretty much outside of society, yet he has to interact with people who are from a different culture and don't speak his native language. Couple that with having his community destroyed by people from that culture and it doesn't seem unreasonable that the main emotions he shows are anger, angst, and lust for revenge.

I just... didn't give a shit about him. Didn't care about his revenge, about his motives, or anything he had to say. I mean, you have Ezio who we spent three games playing as, were with him for his entire life, and we actually had a connection with him. With Connor, it felt like they wanted us to have that same connection with him, but didn't put in the effort to actually establish that connection. He wasn't boring as in "bad", just boring as in "they never gave me a reason to be interested".

Vertania posted...

I don't get the "bad game" argument though; I thought it was great (apart from the sailing sections and absurd optional objectives).

AC3 suffered from one glaring problem, the time period and location used. The lack of large building, complex cities, and general vast wilderness really does not mesh well with the stealth approach of the games. It forced you to rely more on the combat system then previous games over stealth takedowns, and I personally could only take so much of the "press counter, cutscene kill" fest that the game became. I completely understand that it was trying to be accurate to the times, but I wish they hadn't.

As for the sailing, we'll just have to agree to disagree. The boat battles were honestly the only part of that game I enjoyed, which is why Black Flag was so amazing to me.
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omega cookie posted...

AC3 suffered from one glaring problem, the time period and location used. The lack of large building, complex cities, and general vast wilderness really does not mesh well with the stealth approach of the games. It forced you to rely more on the combat system then previous games over stealth takedowns, and I personally could only take so much of the "press counter, cutscene kill" fest that the game became. I completely understand that it was trying to be accurate to the times, but I wish they hadn't.

As for the sailing, we'll just have to agree to disagree. The boat battles were honestly the only part of that game I enjoyed, which is why Black Flag was so amazing to me.

See, I don't get why people hated that in III, but loved it in Black Flag. BF had even more openness; you just traversed it in a boat instead. That made it even more tedious to explore small locations because you constantly had to jump off the boat and swim back to it.

BF also had much smaller cities and buildings than III. The combat system and lack of stealth was pretty much constant across III, BF, and Rogue.

I chose the Frye's since you had the whole conflict between Jacob and Evie at odds as to how to take down the Templars was really nice with Henry as the mediating force between them. I kinda wish it would have changed the end based on which one you used for main missions more often, but overall their characters interacted with probably the best cast of historical figures which kinda made them cooler because of it.
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Vertania posted...

omega cookie posted...

AC3 suffered from one glaring problem, the time period and location used. The lack of large building, complex cities, and general vast wilderness really does not mesh well with the stealth approach of the games. It forced you to rely more on the combat system then previous games over stealth takedowns, and I personally could only take so much of the "press counter, cutscene kill" fest that the game became. I completely understand that it was trying to be accurate to the times, but I wish they hadn't.

As for the sailing, we'll just have to agree to disagree. The boat battles were honestly the only part of that game I enjoyed, which is why Black Flag was so amazing to me.

See, I don't get why people hated that in III, but loved it in Black Flag. BF had even more openness; you just traversed it in a boat instead. That made it even more tedious to explore small locations because you constantly had to jump off the boat and swim back to it.

BF also had much smaller cities and buildings than III. The combat system and lack of stealth was pretty much constant across III, BF, and Rogue.

Again, I can't speak for Rogue, but as for the other two, the reason people liked it in BF and not III was because BF wasn't an AC game.

To explain, BF had the combat system, Templars and Assassins, all that stuff, but it was more of... I guess the best way to describe it is "an adventure game set in the Assassin's Creed universe". Whereas III was "It's AS2, but without Ezio or buildings!", BF was more "Yeah, it's an AC game and there are Assassins and Templars somewhere doing stuff, but fuck all that, BOATS!".

It's like III tried to be what they thought we wanted AC to be, and BF just said fuck that noise, we're just going to have fun.
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I'm weird in that I think Black Flag is overrated (ship battles got SO tedious by the end of that game for me) and Unity is very underrated.
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omega cookie posted...

Again, I can't speak for Rogue, but as for the other two, the reason people liked it in BF and not III was because BF wasn't an AC game.

Thankfully Ubisoft is making an all-out pirate game now. They don't have to worry about trying to please AC fans and the people that wanted more Black Flag in the same game.

TendoDRM posted...

I'm weird in that I think Black Flag is overrated (ship battles got SO tedious by the end of that game for me) and Unity is very underrated.

I agree to some extent. I like that Unity tried to go back towards the combat from AC1. Straight up combat, especially against groups, wasn't as easy as it had been since AC2 and on, which made you rely on stealth and tools a bit more.

The online stuff ruined it though, since it was near impossible to match with people on PS4 (in my experience, at least). The pushing of microtransactions and the app were obnoxious too. Also wasn't a fan of being confined to one city, like they did with Brotherhood, Revelations, and Syndicate.

Edward for me.
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Vertania posted...

The "boring" complaint that everyone uses is part of his character.

Bullshit. He can be from a different culture and still emote. We had flashes of an actual character and those flashes were admittedly amazing, but flashes don't make a character.
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dave_is_slick posted...

Bullshit. He can be from a different culture and still emote. We had flashes of an actual character and those flashes were admittedly amazing, but flashes don't make a character.

Did you completely ignore the rest of that paragraph, or what?

Altair talked even less than him, but he gets a pass.

Take 2 away and the series is garbage tier. Ezio by a mile.
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Vertania posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

Bullshit. He can be from a different culture and still emote. We had flashes of an actual character and those flashes were admittedly amazing, but flashes don't make a character.

Did you completely ignore the rest of that paragraph, or what?

Altair talked even less than him, but he gets a pass.

He talked less but he emoted. Connor didn't. The rest of your paragraph was fluff.
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ezio for sure

altair is cool too
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