User blog comment:ACsenior/AC update: AC in the "future"?/@comment-3046679-20130404202053/@comment-4043223-20130406104047

I agree with this a lot. One of the things that bugged me and before I start complaining I will say I have no solution either; they did the best they could, but the combat for Desmond annoyed me. I mean, how many gunshots can a guy take before going down :/ also, the slow aiming of the guards. A modern story-line would have big issues to contend with and they would need more gadgets. Even a kevler vest would have been more believable for me in the Desmond sequences.

I found it more challenging from a traditional AC game-play sense when playing as Haytham then Connor (who is a walking tank, even moreso than Ezio ever was). For AC4 the concepts show Blackbeard effectively being a walking gun shop with more pistols then several guards/combatants combined. Don't get me wrong, I look forward to AC4 but part of me misses the way it used to be but then again I can always replay the earlier games.