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[Skill Up] I do not recommend: Assassin's Creed Mirage (www.youtube.com)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

The series died with Desmond. They were building up to something in the present day and then just fucked it all off with no payoff. And then proceeded to not replace it with anything. Where's the ongoing storyline to hook me in to continue playing? 4's playtester double agent was cool for a little bit but not enough to keep me interested and they never got it to a point where I wanted to know more after the credits rolled. The series ended for me there, when they confirmed Desmond was just a brain in a jar now, fuelling abstergo's games.

[–] Jumi 6 points 1 year ago

Even if it would be the best AC of all times I wouldn't get it because I really dislike the protagonist.

[+] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eh, black flag and rogue were pretty fun.

[–] Globulart 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

As was origins honestly. Brotherhood is definitely my favourite and the later games feel more generic than true AC games, but they're still good fun.

[–] dwokimmortalus 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Origins grew on me as it's own game, but I hated it as an assassins creed game.

I personally found the next two extremely boring, but I can still replay origin and enjoy it.

[–] Wumbologist 1 points 1 year ago

I never played Origins but I always thought Odyssey felt like an ancient Greek RPG that some executive decided to slap the AC logo on last minute to make it sell better.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Id even say that unity despite the bad press and how buggy it was is still in the overall good category.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unity spent a long time being unplayable in an are where that was unforgivable than it is now. I picked it up just before the big patch where they also threw in the first DLC for free as an apology and I ran pretty well on my device, but nobody cared because nobody was playing it.

I feel it also had a pretty lackluster story, I opened strongly but generally but then just became blander as it progressed. I really wanted to like the characters, but they never landed for me.

The last game that I feel had a great plot was black flag, largely because everything since origins has been enormous in scope in a way that's just directly detrimental to a linear cutscene style story. Also as historical RPGs they're good but Assassin's Creed has something really special that has been forgotten, and I was hoping this game would reignite it, but it seems not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fair enough, though I do think the overall gameplay of unity was pretty fucken good.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I used to boot it up and just play through that one repeatable painting heist that was optionally 4 player, although I'd do it by myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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