The Point - What happened to Assassin's Creed?

My dad worked on this game, how dare you. He's gonna come round your house and do your knees in.

Danny...think you forgot Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. It came after AC2 and before Revelations.

The series is so beloved? You must be joking....

Great show again. Looks like The Point is the new thing. Johnny was the rising star of Gamespot, no longer. That's what happens when you deliver a big FU to your entire viewing audience!

I loved that video, well spoken!

Ironically, the advert that ran prior to me viewing this episode was for AC-BF.

I think danny is spot on with this point. Every time I play an assassin's creed game, I am waiting to get to the part where I get to see Desmond's story. I want to get done with this animus stuff and see how Desmond's story goes. Sure the history is fun. The different characters are neat. But the animus portions threw me off. I wanted to be either in one place or the other. Not both at the same time.

Yep, guess we'll have to see ;) I do hope it's good though. I remember AC 2 being jaw-droppingly good. PS4 launch consideration!

Good points made. I still like AC3, and I did finish it.

Awesome video Danny. I believe alot of us share your view. Hopefully Black Flag will bring us back.

Dude, wish you reviewed GTA V considering your knowledge of the series and I just love watching reviews man,

The answer to your question: expert-centered development vs. process-driven development.

Typically studios can't handle the losses of their "superstar" dev-team members, because they aren't process-driven. Once the experts depart for greener pastures the studio hits a wall until they can replace the superstars...which is really hard to do.

I don't know, I had a complete opposite opinion of the first AC. Yes it was beautiful to look at and the story/setting was unique, but it became immediately apparent to me that it's restrictive and repetitive gameplay was holding me back from completing it and therefore ranking it mediocre at best. The reason I play games, after all, is to experience an immersive gameplay, not great story (I would read a book instead) or good graphics.

It was actually very surprising for me that it did get a sequel and became successful, though not much have changed since then.

Good commentary Danny, i'm also hoping black flag turns out okay

The one of the reasons why I stopped playing AC (after Brotherhood) is because of the repetitiveness, making the same game every year, expecting people to spend 60$ on it and play it and thinking this time is gonna be different wont work, at least not for most gamers

If Ubisoft released ACs every 3 years (like normal developers do), the game would be popular as GTA now, they made a huge mistake in yearly releses coz that only leads to downfall

God, listening to the music reminded me how much I loved AC2. It was a masterpiece from the artistic direction to the soothing music of Jesper Kyd. And now I see how AC 3 was....it only the only thing common between the games was that it shared the same name. AC 2 had heart, AC 3 had bigger wallet.

Although I thought Assassins Creed 3, I'm still excited about the series based on the mechanics alone. The worst part of Assassins Creed 3 is that it seemed like the game was half intro and held your hand the whole time. which i think was the point of this video in short, So i fully agree.

Nothing has happened to it. It still remains a fantastic game. There is something known as change and evolution, kids. It's a fact. If Assassin's Creed kept making game after game after game in the same location and the same time period, then it would be another Call of Duty, and people would criticize it for being unimaginative. But then they change and move to new sceneries, and you guys are bitching about it?

I liked brotherhood and the original. Didn't get into the second one, and Revelations was simply too much -- Ezio too old at that point (both in age and the THIRD game to star him as a character). But AC3 has been spectacular. I love it. The scenery and era that AC4 takes place in is one of my favorite. I don't buy into this commentary at all. Sorry.

This video is disgusting.

Assassins Creed 2 and Brotherhood are definantl amongst my favourite all time games. I would say that I didn't like Assassins Creed 3...... but I haven't gone back to it after finishing the story.....

I Full Sync'ed every AC game so far (the 5 big ones that is) and I'm as excited for Black Flag as I was for AC2. Yeah Revelations was lackluster and AC3 was just bad but I have hope. And if I'm wrong I'll just blame VanOrd =p

Never really thought about your last point on how all of a sudden there's UI everything and buttons presses flashing in your face non-stop but you're right, it does lessen the experience.

I also have to admit I'd be fine without the Animus arc altogether...the "let's interrupt your game to show you Desmond sulking again" really annoyed me =p

Good job once again Danny =)

I have a friend who is big into Assassin's Creed games. I gave him my copy of the first because it just didn't gel with me. Nothing wrong with it, I just didn't really get into it.

The second one I liked a lot more. I played his copy and ended up getting my own to see it through.

As for "what happened", well Ubisoft happened. Call of Duty happened. And annualized game releases happened. Time was when we'd be lucky to see a sequel within 3 years of one another. Now it's a November fixture and no signs of stopping. It's not special anymore. Not at all. It's just another annual release and that is easy to get cynical about. You don't have time to love them because the new one will be out before you can blink.

As a series, I view it as a cautionary tale. No offense to people who like them. I still like Halo games and their on their way to the same level. Taste is subjective so it's just down to what you like as an individual. But I hope in coming years and in the new gen we might see some series focus on craft over quantity.

I must say I am pretty impressed with this series. It's some very good games journalism and people should take notes.

Good job Danny! Keep up the good work.

Even though I did finish AC3, I do agree that it was my least favorite of the franchise. I really am disappointed as well in how the series has turned out, and have very little interest in ever playing Black Flag.

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@PS4-Rocks-U what hes saying is they havent always been this way.

You're right. It became increasingly harder and harder to finish AC games. By revelations, I was like 75% and took a break. Felt more like work than fun. And I'd only be getting black flag because I've played the others. I on the other hand like the desmond animus story. It's my opinion that's the core story they want to tell. It's just not fleshed out well.

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That's infinitely more interesting than a history simulator. I Just think ezio won over the people more than they intended. And then catered the story around that. How many games where ezio is the main dude? I doubt they planned that from the start.