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I would gladly pay good money for re-released AC games without any of the modern day Abstergo stuff. Am I the only one? I mean, at the time it was interesting, but the modern day missions now just detract from immersion and are usually crap.
Just me or anyone else?
[Just started replaying Revelations!]
I'm the exact opposite.
The thing that got me excited to keep playing back when I first started the series was the idea of the modern-day plot building to an awesome conclusion. I first got into the franchise after Revelations was released, but before 3 was, and played through all of those games pretty quickly. When 3 came out, I heard that they had killed off Desmond, and I immediately noped out. Never bought 3, haven't played an AC game since. I quote a comment I saw over a decade ago back on the alien site:
What I wanted in Assassins Creed was a concise set of games, Four or five games, with a focused story the ultimately led to a modern day game where Desmond Miles topples the templars.
But no.
Now we have a platform for games rather then a cohesive set of narratives.
It felt like the first two games were part of a main narrative that was building towards that modern-day showdown. Brotherhood and Revelations were sort of interludes, and game 4 or 5 probably should have been the last mostly-historical one, followed by one final game in which the historical aspect is secondary to the modern day conclusion to the final plot. But instead of building a cohesive overarching story, they just found a way to turn AC into a historical version of Call of Duty or FIFA, churning out the same shit over and over again with just enough new paint to keep people buying.
Absolutely, if they’d gone that way it would have been cool as well. But, given they didn’t, the modern day stuff is just jarring and immersion-breaking. For me, at least.
Hash tag different people like different things and that’s ok!
I will say, I do wish the modern day plot focused on the differing philosophies of the Templars and the Assassins, rather than going as deep as it has into the wacky nonsense of the Juno/Jupiter mystical plotline.
Hash tag different people like different things and that’s ok!
I mostly agree with this. Except that hash tag. Your use of "hash tag" here is an abomination.
I mostly agree with this. Except that hash tag. Your use of “hash tag” here is an abomination.
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Couldn't agree more. I got literal goose bumps at the end of AC1, felt like I was progressing towards some sort of ultimate showdown in 2 and its spinoffs. And then their lust for a never ending cash cow straight up ruined it.
Never played 3, but played Black Flag up until they started talking about aliens (I think?) and then noped out. Not touched the franchise since.
Yes, I felt very similar, loved the first two and always understood it was supposed to be a trilogy, but when they diverted to Revelations I saw it was going to be drawn out and I totally lost interest.
I've played a tiny bit of Black Flag and Unity but they never grabbed my interest like the first two and it's story arc
I don't play this game, but my gal does like ten-fold. Well at least, she plays Odyssey. It's one of her favorite games. She doesn't like any of the other one's that much. I got her the one with the Vikings, but she played it two seconds - had her family smashed then it time-skips and you're smashing other people's families? She didn't dig that setup. She dipped her toes in the Egypt one, but just keeps going back to the Greek one (I am guessing it's Greek - you know - by the title).
I get motion sick from 3D games, so I haven't really watched her play them. But I did give it a go playing that one game where you're a southern mixed gal of wealth freedom fighting for others. But I really don't play these types of games as a whole, and I got to the swamp and got lost. Ended up returning it (especially because spinning the camera around to figure out how I got lost and where I could go was making me sick). But I did have my gal check it out and I guess the two systems are different and the one I was playing is the older system and she has little to no interest in playing it. Which is actually what I was trying to say in all of this. But also she likes that one Battlefield that everyone hates, so she might be in a super minority here. Eh.