User blog comment:Master Sima Yi/Assassinews 12-05-'15 — Assassin's Creed: Syndicate has been revealed!/@comment-24.199.113.201-20150607132445/@comment-1153722-20150607165305

I wouldn't see the benefit in entirely leaving out the modern day parts, assuming that would include the Animus interfaces and such, when they would still be ever present in all the preceding games. It would make all the next games feel disjointed and inconsistent from the rest of the games, and it wouldn't instill the most confidence in the developers for me if they just gave up on the modern day entirely.

Aside from that there's plenty of reasons why I still enjoy the modern day, reasons that I've grown accustomed and used to in all these past games. I'm just as curious to know what the Assassins and Templars are up to in the modern day as finding out about the historical storyline. Reliving the memories of these Assassins always paves way for some sort of endgame in the modern day, and taking that away would also take away part of the anticipation for the games' endings for me. Remember the ending of Brotherhood, moving with Desmond through the Colosseum and the vault, and when he obtains the Apple? That's what made me excited for the next game, not Desmond killing Cesare.

The Fall comic must be my favorite modern day story and it proves that there can be compelling and engaging modern day stories. I cannot really understand why the modern day stories can't be of this caliber anymore. The most interesting things in the stories of Black Flag, Rogue and Unity were told through collectibles. There's an audio file on Harlan Cunningham and Arend Schut infiltrating an Abstergo facility in Rotterdam to obtain the Precursor box. That's the kind of thing I want to see and play, not hear about.

I really think any problem there is in the current modern day segments can be fixed by writing more compelling stories that will interest all AC players, and for the modern day and historical stories to run parallel with each other. When all you do is walk around an Abstergo office, it's no surprise people will want to get rid of it. But having 7 years' worth of modern day story cut short is in my opinion not the way to go, when it can instead be improved upon.