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[–] li10@feddit.uk 27 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

Assassins creed has been consistently disappointing me since Black Flag.

AC2 used to be my favourite game and the modern titles are unrecognisable. They’re all just a bunch of generic, drawn out, mass appeal, play it safe bollocks.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The most upsetting thing is that they threw out anything resembling a decent narrative to draw out the series with diminishing returns. We never got closure on the templars and modern storylines are ignored now. We could have had closure and then just had everything in animus after.

[–] li10@feddit.uk 3 points 19 hours ago

It kinda bothers me that they didn’t at least go all in with switching up the story.

At this point the whole “assassin’s creed” part kinda holds the narrative and story back, I think they should just drop it entirely and have each game be its own thing.

I loved the assassin thing when I was 12, but it’s kinda cringe now.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 6 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Odyssey was pretty dam good in my opinion.

[–] guylacaptivite@sh.itjust.works 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It was. Most of it's criticism comes from the fact that it's not really an assassin's creed game anymore. It was mostly far cry: ancient greece

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Which is not a really good criticism in my opnion. It still had a lot of the core elements of AC, they just tried some new things. And a lot of it worked out.

[–] guylacaptivite@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

Agreed. As a game it was one of the best Ubi has done maybe ever imo.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I enjoyed Origins, Odyssey just felt so... empty. I couldn't bring myself to do the post-game content I was so bored with it. I got to the Medusa and just... stopped. Have no desire to go back to it.

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I enjoyed Origins as well. To me Odyssey was a more refined version of Origins. Better exploration, combat, etc. Odyssey focused more on exploration which is maybe why you felt it was more empty? I enjoyed it personally but it's definitely a preference thing.

[–] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There was definitely more exploration but all the "dungeons" were just cookie cutter copy/paste sections from what I remember, Origins at least had some unique puzzles

[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 1 points 17 hours ago

True, now you're making me want to replay Origins lol.

[–] SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zip 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Unity had a rough launch, but that was the most “assassin” feeling assassin’s creed imo

[–] li10@feddit.uk 2 points 18 hours ago

Yeah, I do wonder about giving that another go.

[–] w_l_l_w@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

As in you didn't like Black Flag, or that was the last one you did? I'm currently replaying it for the first time since it came out and it's alright so far. I completely forgot everything from the story

[–] li10@feddit.uk 5 points 20 hours ago

Black flag was good, everything after has disappointed me in one way or another.