Board Thread:Assassin's Creed general discussion/@comment-5174994-20150710183750/@comment-25633871-20150710190733

Actually, I do. I enjoyed what little of AC1 I could play (I had a bad copy that refused to work and I never replaced it), loved II, REALLY loved Brotherhood and was super-stoked for it, thought that Revelations was a bit much but enjoyed it, actually did enjoy III and what it offered/did and feel that it's unfairly treated by a lot of people, enjoyed Liberation once I got the HD version (and wish the main games would pick up more of Liberation's social stealth mechanics), absolutely loved IV and feel it's probably the best game in the series, enjoyed Rogue and felt it did a lot gameplay wise I wish they'd done with IV, and was really looking forward and excited for Unity… but Unity pissed me off so badly that it basically burned me off of the franchise. ACIV was so much fun that it brought me back in a big way for Unity, and then they let me down.

The gameplay was unpolished, one of the most interesting settings was basically unused and horrifically misrepresented, the modern day sections were pathetic, and the main characters were just unlikable. About the only thing they did well was the exploration and environment, and even that was buggy and a pain (I lost track of the number of windows I ended up circling around trying to go through them). The whole game was wasted potential. It could have been amazing, mind-blowing, a deep and interesting story with conflicted characters and a challenging combat/stealth system, and it was none of those things (the challenging combat/stealth system, maybe, but that was unintentional on their part). My roommate can attest how I just got more and more tired of the game as I went along, and how we both got pissed off the farther in it went until we were just done with the whole mess.

I can actually tell you when Unity basically completely lost my sympathies and I started to hate it. It was when Arno got kicked out of the order, and he was allowed to keep his hidden blade and his life, and then we proceeded to have a drunken flashback (inside a genetic memory flashback!) about him murdering like twenty people to get a keg of beer. I'd been pulling for the game up until that point, and then the game pulled that and I lost any and all sympathies for it. And as mentioned, it was so bad that it basically burned me of the whole series. And then at the end of the game, he's back, without a single justification as to why. GYAH!

And then there's Syndicate, which does a few good things (female player character, no multiplayer, actually trying to have stealthy weapons), but because of Unity I'm not just wary, I'm disdainful. Syndicate does not excite me. The Victorian Era doesn't excite me, the carriage races look terrible, and the grappling hook - even in a series like AC - is ridiculous. What little they're doing right does not outweigh the stuff that I feel it's doing wrong or could do better. It's not an issue of needing a female player character, it's an issue of the whole series feels like it's lost it's direction since Desmond died and the creators are just making shit up as they go. And of course, the fact that it's most definitely become a yearly thing now, even after the drumming Unity took, is just exhausting and sapping me of what little interest I have left in the series. There's no breathing room. Heck, Unity was so bad it's actually made me more cynical and wary towards every other game I was looking forward to.

At this point, I'm not picking it up until I can get a used copy, after I've played every other game I'm waiting for for the rest of the year, and I've preordered every AC game since II. Syndicate will have to get nearly universal acclaim for me to even pick it up in the first week of it being available, and right now even that's doubtful. This used to be one of my favorite video game series, I looked forward to a new AC game every year, heck, I used to DEFEND this series' yearly installments to my friends who accused it of being just another yearly CoD or Battlefield game. Not anymore. Ubisoft apologizing isn't enough at this point. I don't know what it will take to bring me back like I used to be pulling for this series. I don't think anything can anymore.

Sorry that I went on for so long, I didn't mean to go into so much detail. Guess I just had a lot to say. XD

TL/DR: yeah, I'm losing interest in AC too.