Assassin's Creed 3 Ending. Spoilers ahoy

[charge52]

That entire sequence where Desmond goes to rescue his father and deal with Vidic is the biggest letdown and anti-climatic "fight" in the Assassins Creed series. I was ready for some dueling with the guards, or at least a length dialogue part where Vidic does some explaining and tries to bargain with Desmond, but no, he just asks for the Apple and you see what happens there. He knows the Apple can manipulate people, but holy fucking christ, he must have forgotten that in this scene. It's just fucking absurd that's how they deal with the big bad in the Desmond arc. I just shook the controller out of my hands and went to lie face down on the floor.

So fucking bad.

Worst part of it was Cross. Builds up to this big showdown, then you just end up chasing him for a couple of minutes while he has a mental breakdown. And by "chasing" I mean that you catch up to him immediately after you get to the cubicles and then spend 30 seconds trying to get the damn assassinate button to work.

The whole "hide behind the desk while he approaches with a gun" and then having him run off. Was that the Apple taking effect, seeing as how he had that yellow glow around his eyes. Desmond had the Apple afterall, so he could have used it. I don't know anymore, it was just so poorly done.

He was suffering from the bleeding effect, Cross was put into the animus at a very young age(3 if I remember correctly) and suffered from hallucinations for most of his life. When he met the mentor a "code" activated in his brain and he killed him, then fled to join the templars, who put him back into the animus. This causes him to occasionally relive his ancestors memories, to the point he loses control of his body. So what happened was he started to lose control of himself as he lived out his ancestors memory at the worst possible place and time.

 

[IamLEAM1983]

I'm just not surprised. It's a textbook case of "Ohes noes, our cash cow is done with! QUICK! EXTEND ITS LIFE!"

I'll just sit back and wait until AC4 or AC3.5 scrambles some sort of halfway decent reasoning for the current game's ending. Then I'll laugh as it fails to do so.

 

[Grape_Bullion]

Currently doing a bunch of end game content, if you can call it that, and this thing is so full of glitches it's unnerving. Legend icons aren't showing up on the main or mini map, completed the Boston Brawler missions with the tournament ending and it's still listed on my DNA tracker... this sucks.

 

[Sexy Devil]

Currently doing a bunch of end game content, if you can call it that, and this thing is so full of glitches it's unnerving. Legend icons aren't showing up on the main or mini map, completed the Boston Brawler missions with the tournament ending and it's still listed on my DNA tracker... this sucks.

You think that's bad, during one of the memory sequences I mounted a horse. For some reason it spawned another horse a few metres away, put me on the horse, and made me unable to move/dismount. Was weird as hell.

 

[Grape_Bullion]

Can't take it anymore. Downloading Okami HD as we speak. Remember me fondly this generation's games, because I can't say I'll do the same for you.

 

[wakeup]

the ending was rushed simple as that, by the end of assassins creed 3 all the plot lines from the the previous games are destroyed so the developers could start a fresh; abtergo do not do anything and vidic dies just like that, the world is saved even though it never felt like it was going to end, desmound is killed without any epic final scene where he uses the abilities he earned. the funniest part is his death scene has no emotion what so ever. hes about to die and his fathers just like "ok" and rebbeca and shaun just coldly turn away without a goodbye. in fact all of Desmond's parts felt rushed, is it just be or did the present day stuff seem graphically inferior to the rest of the game like it was made on the old engine by a totally different team.

 

[CrazyBlaze]

Question. Wasn't it a solar flare, similar to the 2012 one that killed the Ones that came before ?
If a whole race of these God people couldn't stop the invent with all of their technology then how could one single person from that race just click her fingers and done! Poof, tragedy averted! It makes no fucking sense! If they could have done that, they would have stopped their race getting blown the fuck up. Juno's powers just seem way to overexaggerated and the reason why she didn't use them to prevent the destruction of her people does not exist. So explain that to me.

By the time they were wiped out they had created the technology it's just

Spoiler

Juno stole it or broke it in some way that only she could fix and Minerva locked hey robotic mind in that device because it was the only way to stop her. Keep in mind that everything we have seen of them is not entirely pre recorded. They did implant their minds into computers.

Does anyone else just feel that the whole modern technopriest aspect of these games just needs to go away? Find me ONE person that thinks the series wouldn't be better off only consisting of the Assassin stuff.

I mean, we have two different secret factions manipulating their way through the ages and interacting with the big names in history in ways we never thought of, with poison, assassinations, intrigue and politics. How is that not good enough to be a game on it's own? Why do we have to have this batshit 'god race from time immemoria trapped in a ball that can protect us (for reasons no one actually explained) but is also going to... do something bad to everyone' shit?

I like it. It ties everything together nicely showing how events from the past can affect what happens today. I will admit to be disappointed in the Abstergo level mainly because Cross doesn't fight back and Desmond has unlimited health so there is no risk of him dying. I mean he just shrugs off bullets like its nothing.

 

[ChaplainOrion]

AC III is just one big story of useless, not saying I didn't like it though. You know right from the get-go that Connor's journey is going to end in failure, so it's not that surprising that Desmond's ends in failure as well. The game's conflict all seemed to be based on this idea of all-for-naught. The moral line seems to be starting to blur with the Assassins-Templar conflict, the last AC's all seem to have been, "OMG TEMPLAR ARE SO EVIL, LOOK AT THEIR EVILNESS!" now it seems that Connor's whole thing would have succeeded if he was a Templar.

 

[bossfight1]

It felt like the game was just eager to bring the series to a violent halt. A good ending is one where you can feel confident that everything will work out, yet it says "OH, MORE CONFLICT, ONLY THAT YOU WON'T BE AROUND FOR."

But it's still a marginally better ending than ME3 because you didn't spend the last few games building your own character, gaining friendships and making choices, only to be kicked in the balls in the last ten minutes.

 

[mattttherman3]

They didn't explain HOW releasing her would save the planet, like what was the green aura? Also didn't explain WHY Desmond had to die to do it, also didn't explain why it had to be Desmond, you would think his father would selflessly sacrifice himself to save his son, but hey, what do I know? You know, the series would have probably been better if they just cut the modern day out of it.

After Conner found out what really happened to his village, why did he keep fighting the templars? It made no real sense to me, I fully expected him to just say fuck it, I'm out. That's what I'd do!

Captcha: Bitter End- Naw, totally a coincidence

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[Dillonpanizzolo]

I think ubisoft ran out of ideas.... Plus wanting to prolong the story for more money. Up until the end this was my favorite game to date.
To me it seems that they had an idea and portrayed it well for the first 3 games and then from revelations and ac3 they just lost it although they did finish ezios story of well! Even if you do want squeeze every penny out of the franchise surely you would make the ending as attractive as possible and make it a real cliff hanger while still leaving it open for another game . If that were the case i would be left wanting more but at least be more satisfied that the last 6 years of playing assasins creed wasn't a complete waste of my life! It would also make me want the new game if there is one a whole lot more then i do right now!

I think they tried not to make the ending lame or a repeat of another game but in the end that's how it seemed . Also I think the storyline with each assassin was too grand for such a weak ending! It seems that all the effort went into each assassins storyline and not enough into the main storyline of saving the world.... Examples of this are all the missions you play with Desmond and ob the ending . Almost like ubisoft got so caught up with the assasin play and storyline of each part in history and then the release date for the game was a week away and the developers said oh wait hold on we should probably include Desmond in here somewhere,, oh thats right lets kill him in two minutes, make Juno the bad guy and not explain how or why except for a few dirty emails from her , print the DVD label and we are good to go!

I am extremely gutted over this game/series!

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

THANK GOD THERE'S FINALLY A THREAD FOR THIS

It was virtually indistinguishable from the Mass Effect 3 ending. It's like they made a checklist of everything that was wrong with Mass Effect 3's ending just so they could include them, because there's no way that they didn't notice the similarities of their ending during that shitstorm. For Christ's sake it even has space magic and the Jesus parallels thing going on.

Does that mean I should get started on an indoctrination theory?
Anyway.
I was somewhat satisfied. It was exactly what I wanted which was for Desmond's story to end but not the Assassin's Creed universe as a whole.
Granted, I think it could've been executed a little better but at least the concept of what I wanted was there.

 

[AgentLampshade]

Worst part of it was Cross. Builds up to this big showdown, then you just end up chasing him for a couple of minutes while he has a mental breakdown. And by "chasing" I mean that you catch up to him immediately after you get to the cubicles and then spend 30 seconds trying to get the damn assassinate button to work.

Man, this pissed me off the most. We've been watching Desmond train for 4 full games (not counting Revelations, it's hard to train when you're in a coma) and the majority of III was building up Cross as Desmonds "rival" so I was expecting a climactic fight at the end or something.

Instead we got another chase scene.