• Assassin's Creed: Can the Assassins Win the War?
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Despite the fact that I don't keep up with the series, wasn't like, the first thing that happened in AC1 was the near extinction of the assassins? How do they expect to come back from that, exactly? Especially when the literal world is weighing down on them.
Well I know who's employed by the Templars.
[QUOTE=minilandstan;46455850]Despite the fact that I don't keep up with the series, wasn't like, the first thing that happened in AC1 was the near extinction of the assassins? How do they expect to come back from that, exactly? Especially when the literal world is weighing down on them.[/QUOTE] It was and it was fixed through slow reconstruction. When Altair became the mentor of the Levantine Order his main focus was the reunification and expansion of the Order/Brotherhood. The same thing happens in AC3 when Achilles talks about how the Colonials were basically wiped out and Connor was one of only a few Assassins left. It's nothing spectacular but it at least sets the ground for good storytelling. Basically - Order dies out, someone comes along and rebuilds it. Usually the player character.
No, because at this rate the series is never gonna fucking end.
The Assassins can't possibly lose if you're playing as them. The combat is too easy.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;46456684]No, because at this rate the series is never gonna fucking end.[/QUOTE] just wait till the reboot, which will just be titled "Creed"
The series would've been better off without the entire Animus/future world stuff holding it back.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;46459563]The series would've been better off without the entire Animus/future world stuff holding it back.[/QUOTE] The modern day stuff was neat, I feel like it was done well enough in AC1. But the sudden precursor shit and all that just felt terribly contrived.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;46459563]The series would've been better off without the entire Animus/future world stuff holding it back.[/QUOTE] I started with AC2, and I lost faith in the present day sections about 5 minutes in when the templar goons used night sticks. OK, maybe they wanted him alive, but they could just get a marksman to shoot him with a tranquillizer dart.
I love the series, even the story of the series... I like how they put in the future stuff to show the current events of the modern world, while going down to the animus and show how it all builds up from back then to now... It's like a treasure hunt of the big thing. In Black Flag it was the observatory, in the first assassin's creed, it's the piece of eden... In Connor it was a key that could end the 2012 apocalypse that activate a universal Aurora. These events actually shows how powerful the ancient civilization was back then and how mysterious and how wonderful these ancient civilizations possess, and how there name's are the same as the greek/roman gods, and I like that... it put down a new secret origin of the birth of religion... I could understand that the majority of people who play games take graphics and gameplay as prioity, and if it's not your "60 fps 1080p" quality support, people will badmouth about the game and how horrible it is before the game even releases... I am glad I am not one of these people as the reason why I play video games is because I want to know the story, I want to beat the game and see the end of what could possibly come in the future. I don't give a shit about graphics... I don't mind the gameplay in the game... I'm not much of a completionist and rarely do 100% of the game.
At one point after Assassins Creed 2, I was so immersed in the storyline and all the details. It was really nicely designed and amazingly well told. In AC2 I looked for secrets everywhere and the game overall was really amazing. Even AC1 left a big impression on me, it was so unique when it was released. Unfortunately I feel like they butchered the series storyline with extremely dumb plot devices and deus ex machina everywhere, the endings are excruciatingly bad. I just do not care anymore because it certainly looks like they are trying to keep the series going for decades and trying to artificially prolong the series. I love the premise of the series a lot but it gets way to convoluted and awful the further you progress through the series.
[QUOTE=chunkymonkey;46456684]No, because at this rate the series is never gonna fucking end.[/QUOTE]Seriously. Hey, remember when this was considered a trilogy? :v:
I haven't been able to care about AC since AC 3. It just keeps going down hill. I mean yeah AC 4 was better. But it wasn't amazing.
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