It's been a decade and I'm still mad at Ubisoft stringing me along for 5 games, making me think desmond was gonna amount to anything and we were gonna get a modern day assassins creed.
Patrice Désilets was a visionary, he had invented the shared universe before Marel.
In the last game, in addition to the Present, we could have used ALL the Assassins protagonists of the various games.
My hypothesis is that it would be discovered that the Animus is not only used to see the past but also to modify it, as in Déjà (Vu 2006).
Patrice was already kicked out of Brotherhood because he opposed AC becoming what it is today.
This is why ACs today are made by "Yesman" and only direct people who don't care about the plot, but respect the deadlines and insert all the microtransactions that Ubisoft wants.
>The whole Desmond story was not very good and people hated it at the time. >t.secondary
people were all in on the whole schizo future plot until Revelations and AC3 completely ratfricked it
I thought it was cool and the present shit in AC3 was more interesting than anything else. Most say it can’t work but you just have to make it more like hitman with parkour and shit.
AC2's creepy ancient recordings and this ending twist were good, as was the basic idea of the past and present melding in his mind.. But they ballsed it up from there.
People disliked it initially because it was a surprise twist: everything about AC1 was marketed as this historical story. Which is mostly still was. But suddenly there's this framing device of a modern guy reliving these moments in a video-game type set up, and these twists ALWAYS rub people the wrong way if they were expecting just the straight forward story.
After a game or two, though, people came around. I especially still love Revelations and the nice sort of bookending it does with Ezio, who relives some of Altair's later life memories that he recorded in some sort of ancient aliens device. Near the end of the game Ezio has just experienced Altair's life and is now certain someone is going to be experiencing his, and uses this moment to talk to Desmond about how gratified he is to be able to be a part of this journey. The game ends with him finally settling down and leaving the future to his successors. It's a surprising touch from what is otherwise kind of the second filler game in a row.
The biggest mistake was forcing him to kill a qt just because she's a Templar because All tEmpLaR mUsT DiE! that keeps getting spouted in every Asscreed except Rogue.
I actually kind of wish that was it for Ezio's role, his life is destroyed just to use him as a go-between and discarded immediately, just left baffled and adrift with no idea what just happened for the rest of his life.
literally preventing the 2012 disaster that everyone was purporting at the time which originated from some war between our alien forefathers and man since we were just their creations. current plot now is still the same since iirc, ac3's ending just has them postponing the inevitable.
>What was the original plot anyway?
desmond saves the world from the solar flare the isu warned him/ezio about and dies in the process (end of 3) he fulfills his destiny but just a very "oh ok" way. the big twist was that it released juno in process but nobody really cared at this point.
Assassins Creed series is the most wasted potential I ever seen in video games. Should of kept going with what AC2 did and kept on with the mysteries of a past civilization, revealing more about it with each game. Without out it its just another open world game. The "Frick Desmond, I just want to kill shit in olden times" cry baby homosexuals ruined everything. The subplot made the games.
>Prototype sequel mentioned >brain comes up with nothing so I fall back to the web of intrigue and remember Pariah, that would OBVIOUSLY be what the sequel is about, right? >still can't recall if that was ever resolved >only five seconds later do I finally remember that there indeed was Prototype 2
Frick you, I actually managed to genuinely forget about that game, frick you for reminding me. God dammit.
>See spooky markings on building >Start solving puzzles with images of various old paintings >See a spooky snippet of a video >Start finding more markings and solving more puzzles >Start noticing the apple of eden as a comonality throughout history >Finally solve the last puzzle >"Adam" "Eve"
This shit absolutely changed my brain chemistry since. Truly a schizo experience. I lost all interest when I found out they never followed up on it. If you guys want something similar and don't mind reading a book, read the Illuminatus trilogy. It's got psychic dolphins, 80s porno scenes, and Masons hiding the fact weed makes you contact outer dimensional beings. It jumps around in time and place and makes you find connections, putting you in the mindset of a conspiracy theorist.
Lucy being killed off because the actress wanted more money should have been enough evidence for me to realise they had no idea what they were doing and just made it up as they went along, but I was still stupid enough to fall for it.
Should have been Ezio's ending, he was a cool character but him just being a pawn left in confusion is a different kind of dark ending for a character you don't see often in games.
I remember playing AC revelations, getting to that final revelation shit and thinking "this shit has no meaning or substance whatsoever"
And what do you know, ubisoft thought the same and they dropped that shit like rock
The modern day AC shit fricking sucked. Every time the world started to go slow motion I'd groan knowing I was in for 10-20 minutes of boring garbage nobody cares about before I'm allowed to go back to running around rooftops stabbing guys as an Assassin.
It's been a decade and I'm still mad at Ubisoft stringing me along for 5 games, making me think desmond was gonna amount to anything and we were gonna get a modern day assassins creed.
Patrice Désilets was a visionary, he had invented the shared universe before Marel.
In the last game, in addition to the Present, we could have used ALL the Assassins protagonists of the various games.
My hypothesis is that it would be discovered that the Animus is not only used to see the past but also to modify it, as in Déjà (Vu 2006).
Patrice was already kicked out of Brotherhood because he opposed AC becoming what it is today.
This is why ACs today are made by "Yesman" and only direct people who don't care about the plot, but respect the deadlines and insert all the microtransactions that Ubisoft wants.
>Killed Desmond off
>Never went forward with the modern day master assassin plot
Was this the greatest mistake in the franchise?
Kind of. The whole Desmond story was not very good and people hated it at the time. Their real mistake was AC3.
>The whole Desmond story was not very good and people hated it at the time.
>t.secondary
people were all in on the whole schizo future plot until Revelations and AC3 completely ratfricked it
>people were all in on the whole schizo future plot
Not really. People sort of ignored it or didn't like it. At the time I thought it was lame and chasing the coattails of Dan Brown.
I've always wished these games were period pieces and the main characters didn't look ridiculous.
I thought it was cool and the present shit in AC3 was more interesting than anything else. Most say it can’t work but you just have to make it more like hitman with parkour and shit.
moronic Black person
Absolutely no-one liked being pulled out of the Ezio story for Desmond. The idea of a modern assassin's creed was cool, but they fricked it up.
They fricked it up by not even doing it. It would have been really cool.
AC2's creepy ancient recordings and this ending twist were good, as was the basic idea of the past and present melding in his mind.. But they ballsed it up from there.
>AC2's creepy ancient recordings
Man I legit had nightmares of the Adam and Eve clip.
I don't know about nightmares but there was something really eerie about it, especially that there was no sound
I didn't like desmond but I was still decently excited about the prospect of a game in a modern setting with him.
People disliked it initially because it was a surprise twist: everything about AC1 was marketed as this historical story. Which is mostly still was. But suddenly there's this framing device of a modern guy reliving these moments in a video-game type set up, and these twists ALWAYS rub people the wrong way if they were expecting just the straight forward story.
After a game or two, though, people came around. I especially still love Revelations and the nice sort of bookending it does with Ezio, who relives some of Altair's later life memories that he recorded in some sort of ancient aliens device. Near the end of the game Ezio has just experienced Altair's life and is now certain someone is going to be experiencing his, and uses this moment to talk to Desmond about how gratified he is to be able to be a part of this journey. The game ends with him finally settling down and leaving the future to his successors. It's a surprising touch from what is otherwise kind of the second filler game in a row.
Nicely written post, I had the same impressions with Revelations. I like how it ended
idk I didn't ever really care for most of the current day bits, my roommate who watched me on and off like desmond more than me lol
Same. The only part that I liked, was in Brotherhood going back to the villa in modern day and exploring it, even though there's nothing to really do.
The biggest mistake was forcing him to kill a qt just because she's a Templar because All tEmpLaR mUsT DiE! that keeps getting spouted in every Asscreed except Rogue.
>AC2 did it better than Xenoblade 3
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who iz dayzmond
I actually kind of wish that was it for Ezio's role, his life is destroyed just to use him as a go-between and discarded immediately, just left baffled and adrift with no idea what just happened for the rest of his life.
Assassins Creed's plot ending up going nowhere still hurts.
What was the original plot anyway? Like what were Desmond and Lily supposed to do?
literally preventing the 2012 disaster that everyone was purporting at the time which originated from some war between our alien forefathers and man since we were just their creations. current plot now is still the same since iirc, ac3's ending just has them postponing the inevitable.
>What was the original plot anyway?
desmond saves the world from the solar flare the isu warned him/ezio about and dies in the process (end of 3) he fulfills his destiny but just a very "oh ok" way. the big twist was that it released juno in process but nobody really cared at this point.
i saw a gore image of some dudes finger that looked like that
gros lul
Your finger looked like a humanoid depiction of a not-goddess?
god fricking damn it
asscreed is my only guilty pleasure when it comes to videogames
A least Desmond was better than Layla, holy fricken shit at that garbage.
Going through Syndicate right now and the rare time you are pulled out of the game is fricken cringe as balls. Ubishit devs should be executed
I don not understand...who is Desmond?
you don't have to, the story was as confusing as the the cod zombies mess.
just play the game and never question it
>just leave him there like an butthole
Felt bad for Ezio being pumped and dumped like that
Blew me mind as a teenager
>the entire The Truth sequence
Exceedingly disturbing, isn't it? The series seems to possess this aura of hopelesness to it.
It's uncanny.
More like the aura of schizoness.
AC1 especially is a great schizo-core game.
The only downside is that dating the apocalypse to 2012 obviously hasn’t aged well.
Assassins Creed series is the most wasted potential I ever seen in video games. Should of kept going with what AC2 did and kept on with the mysteries of a past civilization, revealing more about it with each game. Without out it its just another open world game. The "Frick Desmond, I just want to kill shit in olden times" cry baby homosexuals ruined everything. The subplot made the games.
should have
this and [Prototype] were like the only western games I got super stupid into the lore, only for the sequels to shit on it.
>Prototype sequel mentioned
>brain comes up with nothing so I fall back to the web of intrigue and remember Pariah, that would OBVIOUSLY be what the sequel is about, right?
>still can't recall if that was ever resolved
>only five seconds later do I finally remember that there indeed was Prototype 2
Frick you, I actually managed to genuinely forget about that game, frick you for reminding me. God dammit.
>calls everyone else a crybaby
>proceeds to be a whiny b***h
*creeps you out*
>See spooky markings on building
>Start solving puzzles with images of various old paintings
>See a spooky snippet of a video
>Start finding more markings and solving more puzzles
>Start noticing the apple of eden as a comonality throughout history
>Finally solve the last puzzle
>"Adam" "Eve"
This shit absolutely changed my brain chemistry since. Truly a schizo experience. I lost all interest when I found out they never followed up on it. If you guys want something similar and don't mind reading a book, read the Illuminatus trilogy. It's got psychic dolphins, 80s porno scenes, and Masons hiding the fact weed makes you contact outer dimensional beings. It jumps around in time and place and makes you find connections, putting you in the mindset of a conspiracy theorist.
Piecing this together was super cool, really felt like you were finding stuff you're not supposed to know about
I want to assassinate Layla as the modern-day Alexios. Fricking Cali-bred c**t.
hudafuk ar u
Lucy being killed off because the actress wanted more money should have been enough evidence for me to realise they had no idea what they were doing and just made it up as they went along, but I was still stupid enough to fall for it.
What? Who's Desmond? I don't understand, Please wait, I have so many questions!
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>What the frick?
Should have been Ezio's ending, he was a cool character but him just being a pawn left in confusion is a different kind of dark ending for a character you don't see often in games.
I liked the modern day parts until AC3
It still makes me seethe, stop reminding me that Ubishit are fricking c**ts.
I remember playing AC revelations, getting to that final revelation shit and thinking "this shit has no meaning or substance whatsoever"
And what do you know, ubisoft thought the same and they dropped that shit like rock
The modern day AC shit fricking sucked. Every time the world started to go slow motion I'd groan knowing I was in for 10-20 minutes of boring garbage nobody cares about before I'm allowed to go back to running around rooftops stabbing guys as an Assassin.
Peak.
Honestly they might as well reboot this series and do it right next time
oh yea
you think ubisoft will rehire desilets?
even if he did get fired you think he won't make the story take a wxomnig turn?
WHO IZ DEZMAAND
sex with Juno.