Current Events > Assassin's creed could be an exponentially better series if...

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They would just drop this stupid overarching sci fi shit.

Playing origins for the first time. It's good, but still plagued by this animus nonsense. No one plays these games for that horseshit. Everyone just want to be a badass killer in an interesting point in history.

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I've also thought that before. But I think the bigger issue is how lame their lore is with the whole "ones who came before" thing with Minerva and Juno. It's been 10+ years and double the amount of games and this lore they were trying to build up is utterly lacking in substance and completely uninteresting to boot

Agreed. It feels like they set up the entire universe in this way and now they don't know how to write it out, so now you just have these awful segments in every game where you have to go back to a modern day laboratory in modern day and walk around listening to Brenda by the watercooler talk about a coding project. It's dire.

And in every fucking game they have the quirky "I hate society, listen to my snarky sense of humour" guy. Honestly you could add a clear point or two to every /10 score if they just cut every one of those scenes out of the game.

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I wanna try Origins, I consistently see it called the best AC game.

Imma get Valhalla first, then go back.

cant believe its still $60 lol

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pinky0926 posted...

Agreed. It feels like they set up the entire universe in this way and now they don't know how to write it out, so now you just have these awful segments in every game where you have to go back to a modern day laboratory in modern day and walk around listening to Brenda by the watercooler talk about a coding project. It's dire.

And in every fucking game they have the quirky "I hate society, listen to my snarky sense of humour" guy. Honestly you could add a clear point or two to every /10 score if they just cut every one of those scenes out of the game.

I just don't get it, they've noticeably rolled it back throughout the series. So they obviously know it sucks and no one is interested in it.

It's barely part of origins, but every so often I get bounced out of the animus to play as this girl that is so irrelevant to the story of 95% of the game I can't even remember her name.

So why not just drop it? You could tell much better stories contained to the time period if they would just scrap this dumb lore.

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It's so weird to go on the subreddit for AC and encounter people who seem to only care about the modern day stuff.
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They dropped the ball hard in the third game.

The stuff with Desmond wasn't really great from the start, but then they just do mass effects ending. Should have abandoned it there.

I completely disagree.

For me the modern stuff is like the hook for the whole series. It's actually a really cool concept that Ubisoft have fucked up time and again. The Desmond thing was borderline unforgiveable and rightfully turned a lot of fans off that aspect of the plot entirely, so as some kind of course correct they've minimized the relevance of the modern day... which pleases nobody.

People who like the modern stuff get shafted and people that don't still hate it.

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I actually really liked the overarching story along with the modern stuff during the first few games until I realized that the plot wasn't really going anywhere beyond the reveal of the precursor race. I was always hoping that they were building up to an AC set in current times where the war between the Templars and Assassins reached its culmination. A game that partly took place in, for instance, WW2 Berlin and the other part in current day Berlin.
Now I just tune out during the modern day bits and hope I can quickly get through them

Actually I thought they did it well in Origins. And I thought they were building up a new Desmond and I was excited.

It was odyssey where the modern day stuff became stupid and meaningless.

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TheSavageDragon posted...

really going anywhere beyond the reveal of the precursor race. I was always hoping that they were building up to an AC set in current times where the war between the Templars and Assassins reached its culmination.

The biggest issue here is there's probably at least a minimal risk of getting someone angry if you pose a modern day AC game and imply that a still living person or someone that has a relative still living was a Templar.

Like, with the AC 2 games, no one is going to complain that you're portraying the Borgia as evil folks who are looking to take over and work for an underground conspiracy to control the masses. Implying that someone in the modern day like Bill Gates or Zuckerberg does would run into some major problems. Hell im surprised they got away with the Subject 16 stuff in those games.

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Flaming_Fire619 posted...

The biggest issue here is there's probably at least a minimal risk of getting someone angry if you pose a modern day AC game and imply that a still living person or someone that has a relative still living was a Templar.

Like, with the AC 2 games, no one is going to complain that you're portraying the Borgia as evil folks who are looking to take over and work for an underground conspiracy to control the masses. Implying that someone in the modern day like Bill Gates or Zuckerberg does would run into some major problems. Hell im surprised they got away with the Subject 16 stuff in those games.

You're right about that. I would expect them using fictional characters for the modern parts like they've been doing

TheSavageDragon posted...

I actually really liked the overarching story along with the modern stuff during the first few games until I realized that the plot wasn't really going anywhere beyond the reveal of the precursor race.

It just seems like they didn't know where they were going with any of it and tried to wrap it all up sloppily in AC3.

Flaming_Fire619 posted...

Implying that someone in the modern day like Bill Gates or Zuckerberg does would run into some major problems.

There's no way they would get away with that. It would probably have to be someone entirely fictional.

Watchdog's had you mess with a fake Martin Shkreli though.

The Animus tech and concept are super cool, and I've always enjoyed it. Character and plot writing for present time is usually pretty garbage though.
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