User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 03-03-'13 — Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag trailer and screenshots/@comment-94.194.128.30-20130304125548/@comment-26435037-20130304155153

FTGM I agree with you. Desmond was not a bad character, but it just that we had somewhat short experience with him. Sure, he appeared in five games, he felt to me more as a plot device than a real protagonist. He mostly was there to introduce the game (in AC2 and ACBH, this role was taken by Will in ACRV and AC3), playing with the Ani-Fuckin'-Mus, playing puzzles with Clay, playing Minecraft, knocking out Dani Cross THREE times (with no effort) and dying like a b*tch at the ending of AC3. (Though in time I

Despite all this, I actually liked the character of Des, but it is just that he is boring compare to his awesome ancestors Alt, Ezio, Eddy and Haytham (NO for Connor, who was cool in combat, but not otherwise).