Bob_McMillan said:
Of all the franchises, you'd think AC would be the easiest to translate to the big screen. Just throw some cool parkour and swordfights together, and you have an entertaining movie. But apparently, just like the games, the modern bits ruin the flow and are completely unnecessary.
The entire "animus" thing in AssCreed not only completely ruins any chance at storytelling, it also entirely invalidates itself and everything the player does. They would have been better off retconning it the hell out and just making games set in different time periods. The sci-fi nonsense about ancestral memories immediately frames the story in our own present/near-future but the other issue...namely Ubi's desire to churn this shit out annually, means it's a story they simply cannot or will not tell since a story with an end cannot be released annually.
If AssCreed could ever been something it would have been this. The first game was not very good, but an interesting experiment in working out the formula. The second however, was. If they had made game 1 Altair, game 2 (and 2a/2b if they insisted) Ezio, game 3 would have been Desmond, in the future with the skills/memories/answers they sought resolving the story set by the premise. A beginning, a middle and an end, all the parts would have worked and the story could have been resolved.
The animus is the worst sort of framing device. Since games do not exist in a vacuum it invalidates itself simply by nothing the player doing actually mattering, the story never progressing and the series never ending. But that's not what AssCreed is. It's a way to make money with the least amount of work with just enough premise to give it a reason to exist. The Ubisoft game of climbing towers, uncovering vapid busywork and collecting...collectibles is the order of the day. So called "survival" sandbox games do it, Ubisoft does it and many others copy it....make a sandbox, have game mechanics and people will pay to play it even if there's no story, challenge, end goal, etc.
Ezekiel said:
I wondered why an actor like Michael Fassbender was starring in such a shit series. Hollywood is weird.
For several years now, "Hollywood" in reality makes very few movies. There are a tiny number of huge studios and they each only make a small number of "blockbusters" a year. That's the new business model...not dissimilar from "AAA" games publishing. If you're in Hollywood now and get offered a role, you damn well take that shit. It's why so many "movie actors" are now on TV, there are simply many more roles on TV shows than there are in movies.
