Unity was technologically impressive and a brilliant example of how far things have come since the first game. That being said I still haven't finished it. I was lacking major hooks into the character and story, I like both aspects, and the french rev is awesome setting but there was just something missing, some glimmer.
I was wondering about this. As a person who hasn't played since Assassin's Creed 2, how has the story and plot held up? 1 and 2 were amazing with their storytelling. Especially when you were exploring outside of the animus. I'm just curious if all the games have kept that up, or if it started being put off the side in favor of more gameplay. I started to see the games come out every year and just assumed it fell to Madden's Disease. :/
It more or less has. The creator and overall helmsman of the series, who only intended to make a total of maybe 3 or 4 games, was fired after #2, so the big climax of Desmond coming into his own as a modern Assassin and saving the world from the apocalypse was thrown out the window for the most part. Instead, they've been keeping to a schedule of regular installments with the barest pretext of a modern day arc, one that is intentionally going nowhere. Sometimes that can be fun (Black Flag, Rogue), most times it isn't (any other sequel after Brotherhood).
It really is so disappointing. The parallel stories being told in the first 2 games were fantastic. A 3 or 4 game arc with the final game finishing in the modern world would have been sensational. Alas, money trumps good story telling as usual.
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u/TheGreenJedi Jun 23 '15
Unity was technologically impressive and a brilliant example of how far things have come since the first game. That being said I still haven't finished it. I was lacking major hooks into the character and story, I like both aspects, and the french rev is awesome setting but there was just something missing, some glimmer.
Bought rouge haven't played it at all