The Point - What happened to Assassin's Creed?

@Loriathan AC3's story was epic (although the atmosphere of AC1, 2, and Brotherhood were better)

The problem is that Ubisoft's heart isn't in it anymore, they just want the money that it brings. Why do you think studios like Naughty Dog, Bungie, Valve, and, yes, Nintendo, do so well? Their hearts are in it. They care about their creations. They want to make the games, they find making them fun. That's why I honestly believe Watch_Dogs will do well, but the sequels will fall apart. They don't care if they want to do it, they care if it makes money. That and a lack of time due to deadlines are what is killing the franchise. I honestly hope they're making ACIV because they want to, and in interviews they sound like it, but it sounds to me like they're just looking at focus groups and saying, "They like it, put it in the game."

There never was anything in AC that was real other than the time period! No human, even peak athletic individuals can do what is done in this game!

didn't help making a new / recycled game each year either. I just got Bored

I think the problem here is the fact that they are paying IGN to make some ads. Not Gamespot kkkk

AC turned into another annual milking franchise... shame :-(

i dont think anyone doesnt like assassin creed because it doesnt feel real but more because its lack of progress in gameplay. the best was assassin creed 2

Not sure if I agree or not. Obviously Assassins and Pirates are very diferente things and I confess I didn't enjoy AC3 as much as the previous ones. Probably because Connor had no personality at all. But I don't regret having bought the game either. It was still enjoyable. And I know graphics are not everything, buy the graphics on AC3 were incredible, and they look even better on AC4.

Thank you! You said eveything that was in my mind. Except, you said it in a perfect way. I'm like... Clapping!

I feel like my most fond experiences in any open game world are the ones when I find something off the beaten path, I haven't found a game that can make these experiences other than fallout.

Its a great game and I believe it's following the right track...This video, on the other hand, is occupying unnecessary space with no real purpose but gossip and wine.

hmph...oh well. AC 1 was so boring i never even completed THAT game and never tried another one in the series.

For me the thing that killed AC series is AC3 Ending. I loved the animus and "world end" story line. Each game gave clues to this mystery. I especially loved the "secrets" part of AC2 and ACB which gave puzzles and revealed how the Assassins, Templar, and "those who came before" affected our history. The whole thing was so interesting and mind blowing. But unfortunately it came to a bitter end by AC3. It had such a anti climatic and confusing ending that I'm surprised not much fan rage came toward it. (Most probably because everyone was more concentrated on the ME3 ending which in my opinion made more sense than AC3.) I mean 5 games with lots of mysteries and stories just so what? So They can reveal this ancient goddess thing villain out of nowhere and make the protagonist save the world and die by touching a disco ball in the last minute? What the hell?

And now we have AC4 which is more of Pirate game instead of an Assassin game with no more interesting story to tell.

Agree with everything except the "Animus" hate. I loved the idea of an anti-future connection to the past and it's what made me try out AC in the first place. Without it, the incredible ending to AC II wouldn't have been possible. I loved how the first AC's mini-games tied in how the Assassins and Templars fought across (via iconic artwork and scientific discovery) the centuries for the future (super-past) tech. I do think it was misused in the next few sequels, but if they remove Desmond's Animus sequences in any future game (even if they aren't up to par -- like in AC III), I'm tossing AC into the trash.... okay, I won't. But, I'll definitely have to write an email to Ubisoft.

Great video, I have been feeling many of the same feelings about the past couple Assassins Creed games.

Am I the only one who actually liked the Animus story?

I totally agree with this video. I love Assassin's Creed series, but the first two games were the best. The last one was the badest for me. It wasn't too much fun. I actually felt like he said... I was working, but it was technically the best in the series, which proves to me that not always the most beautiful games are funnier than the others.

Ass Creed sucked and everyone raved on about 2 but it just bored me and I still hated all the animus stuff. This sums up most of my friends feelings as well, just don't get who is buying them as no one I know likes them.

This video sums up my feelings towards games in general these days.

i guess im apart of the silent minority but I have enjoyed every single AC game since release. Alot of people complained the first one had two few missions but i honestly enjoyed the story enough to progress through them. The only one that i pushed myself to finish was Revelations to see the end of Ezios story and it was not even a push.Im excited for what awaits in Black Flag however I agree that more time needs to be between the series even though AC3 was in development since 2. what ever Ubi does do not get rid of the Animus. You get rid of that you lose the whole series and story

I tried very hard to like this series, really I did, but I could never get into any of them. ACII was free for gold members on Live and I still couldn't enjoy it after 80% of the game. :(

Assassins Creed 1 felt a bit like a tech demo. It got too repetitive after a few missions.

Assassins Creed 2 was awesome, they really brought the game world to life. Brotherhood followed it up nicely and is probably my fave game in the series so far.

I'm not sure why I didn't really enjoy Revelations. Perhaps it was the sudden change of scenery. The bomb making was a bit of a pain too.

Assassins Creed 3 was ok, but I didn't really care for Connor. I did however really enjoy the ship battles so I am quite looking forward to AC 4!

I know why I personally didnt like AC3, and I think it's a huge point that was overlooked in Danny's video.

The writers got lazy, pinning the end of the world with the Mayan 2012 bs and an ancient alien precursor race who created humans blah blah blah - who hasn't seen this storyline a billion times. Nobody really cared about Desmond anyway.

After learning and playing as Conner's father, who was actually very interesting, we got stuck with Conner... A character with no motivation, no political or social beliefs and no emotions or emotional connection to the audience or other characters. He is a cardboard cut-out. The script is worse than a PBS episode of "History's Kids" and even a plank of wood and a hammer could have done better voice acting. The historical figures were little more than NPC's, sending Conner on one boring task after another after another with no reason.

During the promotion of the game, all Ubisoft talked about was the graphics and new mechanics. That should have been a hint. They ALWAYS forget - a game is only as good as it's plot.

Watch the "Mom dies" sequence in AC3. Tell me honestly if you give a rat's ass about any of these characters. You can stand there for 20 minutes or longer not saving mom from firey death while she tells you some bs backstory of little interest. This, to me, sums up AC3 completely...

This is the 20th sequel right?

never saw Danny say that amount of shit

It's become a franchise. Not a surprise, with the way Assassin's Creed is, it can go on for quite some time, 20+ main games wouldn't really be that surprising.

What is occurring among most people is fatigue. The games get released in a far too quick succession for people to take a break. I got AC Revelations soon after release, having played 2 and Brotherhood one after another not too long before that. Got through like 3 DNA Sequences on Revelations and I just couldn't go on. There was something about the game that felt "boring". So I uninstalled it and forgot about my ownership of that one for quite a while. Now, almost 2 years later, I re-installed it, not having played any AC game in-between and I'm having a blast.

The core mechanics of the games are solid, the settings are fairly interesting as well, it's just that some may grow tired of it since the underlying principles of the games remain the same. I'd get bored with ANY game (apart from open world custom character RPG like Skyrim etc.) if I had to play it several times in a year (first playthrough, one or two more after that, first sequel playthrough... you get the point).

I think Resident Evil has met more or less the same fate and for the same reasons. The story over time just got overcomplicated and melodramatic and in trying to make the gameplay supposedly more exciting, the core of what made it good to begin with was lost. Ultimately, both of these series started out feeling special and ended up as just another bunch of games.

I wish more people would take the approach Square took w/ Final Fantasy (not that that series is exactly in its hay day but it's an example everyone knows). You get a Final Fantasy game, it just means you are getting an RPG w/ certain core elements, a game that feels the same as others in the series. You don't need to tie all these games into one huge mess of a plot.

An overarching plot can really only be no better than its worse element. If they dropped the ball on, say, the second game of the series, the third then has to include all that garbage too and you are stuck w/ it forever. It is better to keep various important elements and the spirit of a given game intact over various iterations than it is to try to force everything to be some sort of long winded cannon.

Total agreement with this...sad....I loved the 1st 2 games...

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Yes, the AC series feels exactly like a product coming off an assembly line because that's how Ubi wants it. They have seen other franchises do exactly the same thing and make a lot of money.

I will wait to see how the review are for the next AC installment but I'm not really excited about it. The whole pirate thing feels like some kind of gimmick because pirates seem to be semi-popular at the moment so Ubi decided they should have a pirate AC game.

I agree with Danny ... I completed the game (AC3) ... and it did feel like a chore to me that I really had to work at to finish.