The Point - What happened to Assassin's Creed?

I agree with Danny, cut the Animus out completely just give us a regular series I could accept that

i liked AC 3 :/ and honestly i thought it was the best

I completed AC:3 2 times and fell in love with it.

At the end there, I think Danny hit the biggest problem plaguing the entire industry. The franchise milking is what's killing Assassins Creed within the span of a single console generation.

the AC series could of been a break out that stood shoulder to shoulder with Grand Theft Auto and Half-Life as a series that stood the test of time. Instead Ubisoft decided to exploit it for short-term gain, turning what was once one of my favorite new IP's into a joke.

Also, they have already made it abundantly clear they intend to do the same thing with Watch Dogs.

I disagree a little bit with Danny over the immersive worlds of the original games. All of them had rather obvious game elements, so it was an issue from the very start, it just got more obvious. I liked the first one a lot, but it did get repetitive with its objectives and mechanics, reminding me I was playing a game all along. The second one was a leaps and bounds improvement with that. I then skipped the next ones, except for AC III because I already felt they were milking it... I liked AC III (specially the naval assignments), though the story was disappointing. They really focused too much on the weak Desmond parts as well. I'm not looking forward to Black Flag, Watch Dogs looks much more promising.

give a thumbs up if you never complete AC III, the more thumbs means ubisoft you guys are a bunch of wankers

Hey Ubisoft go F&*ck yourselves, kill the series already we getting tired of repetition

I always felt Ubisoft was just making up things as they went along. None of the AC games ended with you feeling completely satisfied. There was no real meaningful underlying story, despite Ubisoft wanting to fool you into believing so. They had no idea where the animus thing was going or where to take it. Or how to tie up all the loose ends from the different games. I'm guessing the developers were big fans of the television show Lost . . .

Some good points. I don't know anyone who enjoyed the Desmond sections in any game. Though I personally enjoyed AC III overall, I don't think I ever looked forward to micromanaging every single item in my trade caravans, collecting random things to craft the better weapons, or having to play one specific way every time to get 100% sync.

One incredible mistake in the gameplay were the displays of the "do those 3 things exactly while you're living the story and you will get 100% in this mission". Terrible design choice. It sucks you right out of the story and makes you think in mechanics and railed activities. And when you "fail" by, for example, choosing to kill your target in other way different that the one displayed, thar red line, that "X", "you failed!". Coitus Gameplay Interruptus from the start.

Maybe they were too much focused on introducing new things in every other title that they forgot to keep that "organic feel" in place for the gamers. I also didn't like how they ended desmond's story, they could have done much better!! But even so ezio and altair were phenomenal and the mechanics of the game are still pretty awesome so maybe just for the sake of roaming around the open world, assassinating the targets in more unique ways and getting another shot at learning history, i am going to spend my buck on it!

When Ubisoft started to underestimate their awesome reinvention of history (in the forms of, for example, eliminating the glitchs/the truth after Assassin's Creed 2) and starting to focus more on "what would be more entertaining and fast", they started to lose the suspense and the mood around the saga. AC2 was interesting, clever, deep and frightening at times. AC3 was just fun sometimes.

The other thing is that silly "objectivism" that the saga has been developing since "Revelations". We got Assassin's and Templars, each faction with a certain view of power and development of human race. Yes, the majority sided by the assassin's because of their politics and struggle. But no, now we have some weird blurry "middle ground" where templars are "not that bad" and assassins "maybe were wrong". And is just a political statement of the creators, not a character-driven consequence. Maybe Abstergo bought Ubisoft? :-)

You've lost that organic feeling, oh that organic feeling

You've lost that organic feeling, now it's gone, gone, gone

woah oo oh oo oh

I think the most disappointing thing in AC is that the assassins are too damn strong for an assassin. Assassin is supposed to be stealthy, whereas there isn't any need for stealth since AC2. Damn it man I can even kill a whole army with swords and etc in a country with just one damn hidden blade. As for the story, well just like what people say, it has been gradually weaker since AC2 (which has the greatest story).

This video encompasses my total AC experience. I LOVED the first two and Brotherhood. But AC3 felt like an effort to play and I eventually quit. I haven't even bothered past that point.

I have to be honest and say that if AC3 stuck with Haytham as the main character it would have held my interest a little more , just can't seem to see Connor as a decent main character. But as it has been said before the first one was in many ways the best , maybe because it was completely original maybe because towards the end it got ridiculously hard in places (although the final fight was a bit of a letdown imo).

AC2 was a great game aswell with decent setting and believable main character, I haven't played Revelations or Brotherhood yet and tbh I may give Revelations a miss due to a lot of negative comments from players who have played all the AC series.

Another good Vid Danny, as always keep up the great work.

Assassins creed 3 was a bad game in terms of main character and storyline but the open world was really good and so was hunting

I liked the first one, loved the second game, and there's no word for how great I think Brotherhood was, but with Revelations the series really began to decline in quality, imo. Revelations was decent, but man, I almost have no positive words to utter about Assassin's Creed 3 - I did like Haytham as a character though but that is about it...

Great show. One of the better gaming related show on the web.

I am so psyched about this game.the world has improved so much and the ocean and islands are beautiful as well.the characters are amazing,they have awesome personalities and the voice acting is great.i like that ubisoft has put so much emphasis on the naval open world.the thing that i like the most is that they have made the main character a brash cruel pirate assassin and not the old assassins like Altair,ezio and Conner who were never in for themselves.but I'm so glad that Desmond is gone because he was a lame main character.

I must say the only part i really enjoyed/loved was AC2. Such an awesome game! All the other parts i just didnt got in to...

I must say the only part i really enjoyed/loved was AC2. Such an awesome game! All the other parts i just get in to...

I played 1, 2, brotherhood, revelations and bit of 3. I gotta say the series started to bore me somwhere in the middle of 2. There was just too much stuff. Too much weaponary on someone who is called an assassin. I loved how they did it in the first part weaponwise and it was hard. When you want to use hidden blade in a fight you could instantly kill an enemy, but also you had to be quick and precise, because you couldn't block. In 2 they just turned your character from Kasanova into super killing machine in a day (yes, you get "trained" by Mario but by the time I got to training part I already killed hordes of soldiers using every tecnhique avaliable. In 1 we know that Altair was trained since he was a child to became what he came to be, but Ezio just puts the hood on and can just kill everybody even better than Altair. Also, story become very tiring with all those historical characters just thrown at you at the end of 2 and almost every one of them is an assassin.
3 finally made me decide to quit the series. Firstly, it was too demanding for my pc (but if a game's good, that shouldn't stop you, would it? you wait for a while and improve your pc, just like I did for witcher 2). Secondly, the story became very very boring (with all the assassins which are good guys and templars which are bad guys). 1 had very nice conspiracy concept and you knew which are your goals: kill couple of main dudes (because that's what assassins do) and in the end you get interesting ending with mysterious apple. And also assassin codex (like never use poison) was a very cool thing. In 2 they just said "**** the codex, kill howerver you like!".The gameplay also became horrible. You used to be an assassin, sneaking upon enemies, avoiding direct fight whenever possible, but now the game throws you from the very begining fighting a battle with bunch of soldiers side by side with some npcs. And even when you do fight alone, you're just too powerful, the fights are too easy, they don't have a feeling of deserved victrory.
All in all the series became just what Danny said in the article: a mass product, a golden goose. And everybody heard of that golden goose and came to take an egg (not "an" egg, but as much as they can carry) from it. They placed it on pedastel and demanding with their eager eyes "make more! make more!". But the goose is tired and should just be put down.

ps sorry for the long comment

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And also difficulty has dropped to shit in these games now, the chases in AC1 towards end were the best, I ran like shit cause I will die if I don't (in game) and AI got more aggressive towards the end, and if you are outnumbered more than 4 or 5 towards the end you get your ass kicked.(unless you run around in circles waiting for the health to regenerate).

And more than 2 Archers will kick your ass.

I've completed all 4 parts till Revelations... My interest in game dropped after Connor entered the series. Graphics might have got better but the game itself is going in another direction. I'm still playing AC2, I love it till today.

Assassins creed 1 was the best, it had varied locations, not too many obvious climbing locations, the story of Altair was subtle, the confessions after each assassinations made Altair(and me as the player) question who was right, and managed to keep me till the end. i didn't like the fact that mechanics were locked almost till the end, but i did like it when I got new weapons after missions rather than buying stuff. AC 2 was good but while the world was detailed it lacked a little of the wonders of the original, like when you first saw Jerusalem, and its very aggressive beggars. And about black flag, I think besides the Naval battles I bet Risen 2 is a better Pirate simulator.

And the side plot about Desomond, wow wasn't that a terrible shit.

yeah the problem whit AC for me was i could not just finish it to the end dont know why really

Totally Agree with you, AC 1 was very Interesting game to me at first! UBSoft Is moving on a wrong Direction With AC series! IF they would spend this time on Prince of Persia things could be better!

I have the console titles and love them. But to say a lot of rehashing? Grand Theft Auto lives and breathes on rehashing. How lame too bash one franchise and praise another.

I got AC 1 and 2 but lost interest in the series after that for the all the reasons he said in this video, he was spot on about everything. They should have stoped making AC games by now

I think after ac brotherhood the game loose it greatness