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Why Assassin's Creed has lost its identity? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by FookReddit69@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Remember those iconic games before 2014? The OG, while dated was really unique for its time, the Ezio Auditore Trilogy that became the standard for the franchise, 3, that was very ambitious (probably too much) with it's setting and story telling. Even 4, although it was the first time AC escaped from the base of what an assassin's creed game is supposed to be.

Unity was the very first big misstep and since then the franchise has become unrecognisable, taking gameplay and mechanics from batman games and now went into unnecessarily long, repetitive and bloated RPGs than the real fans of the series couldn't care less, especially since the core legacy mechanics of parkour and missions were gone. Not only that but they completely threw the modern day story on the trash since Desmond's death...

AC was one of the last original franchises a triple A company gave us and now is just a Witcher wannabe.

"Oh wth are you talking about, it sells well" sales doesn't equal quality. The last games are such a step backwards for the series.

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[–] Trollivier@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I liked Unity. I liked Origins. I also liked Valhalla, but it didn't feel like an Assassin's Creed game. But I liked it nonetheless.

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I liked Unity...

Imo the movement and flow of animations in Unity was the peak of the series. Getting to climb down the Notre Dame in like 10 seconds with all the spins and flips felt really nice. And the crowds were pretty great too. And the customization was pretty sweet, too; so many different armor pieces so you could make a truly unique assassin. And the co-op stuff was awesome.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The new games are probably better then the old ones

But nostalgia and the fact that it was something new at the time...

By today's ac, ac1 is sub par

[–] Matomo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get the sentiment, even though I wasn't too much a fan of the original series. That said, while sales don't equal quality, nor does sticking to the same thing. Changing style, direction or genre doesn't equal lack of quality. I was quite a fan of Origins and Oddysey.

The real risk is losing the original fanbase, which did happen quite a bit, probably.

[–] SuiXi3D@fedia.io 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Valhalla is oozing with personality. It’s freakin’ huge, beating out the amount of content in Odyssey. It’s not all great content, but it isn’t terrible. Even the DLC is huge.

[–] FookReddit69@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both are terrible

[–] Matomo@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're completely in your right to think that. I'm also glad there's an audience that thinks otherwise.

[–] FookReddit69@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago

But is low quality, the acting got worse, the missions are more repetitive, the way the scenes are framed it's bad, there's barely motion capture scenes, now compare it with the scenes in AC3 or even brotherhood... Those look like high quality TV shows scenes.