Scrap Desmonds Story? Assassin's Creed

[PhunkyPhazon]

Ugh...hard to say what I want to say here without spoilers. Basically, AC3 is CONFIRMED to be the last game with Desmond as the protagonist. If they keep the future subtext (and they probably will) then you'll most likely be playing as someone new.

And no, I don't get the hype for a modern day Assassins Creed either. The combat system would have to be more gun-centric, perhaps even turning it into a third person shooter. And how exactly is the climbing/parkour going to work? If they set it in an average city, it would take forever to climb even the smallest of buildings, and you certainly can't leap from rooftop to rooftop like you can in Rome or Damascus, the building heights vary too much for this to really work consistently. I mean yeah this works great for something like, say, Spider-Man, but an Assassin doesn't have the super strength and agility required to make those kinds of jumps.

As far as the modern day goes, they can just keep doing what they did with AC3. The concept works when applied to individual levels, but it just wouldn't work as an open-world. Good example: The Saboteur. There's a reason you can just drive a car instead, the streets between buildings are too wide and there aren't many other ways to get around this.

Besides, weaving a giant conspiracy theory about a secret war between secret factions throughout known history is the entire POINT of Assassin's Creed. There's a reason Ubisoft's slogan for the franchise is "History is our playground"

 

[Tdoodle]

i don't see how anyone couldn't understand Desmond's story, it's pretty straight forward if you just pay attention to it.

It's simple but it's utterly bananas. He's been chosen by an ancient civilization to save the world from the apocalypse that wiped them out 100,000 years ago.

Desmond wasn't fleshed out enough before III and so far doesn't seem to get enough attention in that either. He had his moment at the end of each game but the last three games were so focussed on Ezio that he didn't have a real opportunity to come into his own. I'm told he gets some in that optional block-puzzle thing in Revelations, but I doubt the majority of people bothered with that and regardless the series' main character should have had more attention than that. So I wouldn't have scrapped it, I think the series needed that link between each character, I would have just done things differently - we had Altair coming into things more in Revelations, there's no reason we couldn't have had Desmond coming in more over the course of the series. Apart from the second Desmond sequence in III all he was used for was sight-seeing tours and he needed some proper missions of his own.

 

[disgruntledgamer]

I don't understand why anyone would want an Assassin's Creed in a modern setting. So far they've given us some very interesting and unique settings. There are plenty of games where you run around the roof tops of New York City. It makes no sense to want Assassin's Creed to ape the same tired bullshit.

I guess if you are somehow immune to the soul-obliterating stupidity of the entire animus/future Desmond thing, I can kind of see why you would want that to have a big resolution in Desmond's time. But still. Let's keep it in the past.

I can see some merit to it, but realistically it should be nothing more than Sniper missions. Why take the risk of walking up to someone with cameras all around, when you can just take him out 3 blocks away with 1 bullet and no risk of getting caught?

I'd like to see the next AC to be the war of 1812. I so want to burn down the white house, proud Canadian moment.

 

[Otaku World Order]

I think AC3 will mark the end of the Desmond storyline. I think Ubisoft is toing with the idea of dropping the Animus framework and the future stuff with Assasin's Creed Liberation.

I do hope AC continues though. There's still plenty of interesting time periods and locations they could use.

 

[Dethenger]

Desmond's story is fucking garbage.

As Altair, Ezio, and Connor, we have a conflict, seemingly spanning the entirety of history, between two factions, both seeking to establish a better world, albeit by very different means. They clash swords and ideologies alike, both factions having disciples capable of wielding their words as well as their steel. This secret war changes, dictates, even, the course of history, even though the world at large is oblivious to it. This is interesting.

As Desmond, we have spooky alien precursors who use magic technology to show up as ghosts and leave cryptic messages to unintelligibly chronicle the end of the world. This is horseshit.

 

[Xathos]

I always see people saying they don't like Desmond's story. I guess I'm just one of those "weird guys" because Desmond's story is the reason I keep playing. Assassin's Creed 1? Desmond was the only reason I kept playing that game. I wanted to get through the sequences, have some talks with Lucy, Vidic, and sneaking a look at emails. Altair just did absolutely nothing for me. In Assassin's Creed 2, I was fine with Ezio's story, but felt Desmond's just took too much of a backseat until near the end. Brotherhood was a good balance, and I like his story during that game. Revelations was just...best not to get into that. Still playing Assassin's Creed 3, but so far I'm liking what I'm seeing.

While I normally have fun playing through his ancestors, I mainly get through them just to see more about Desmond and his friends. That's not to say I don't enjoy doing all the side stuff and killing guys, but Desmond is the main draw for me. I just wish that Desmond met a bit more Assassin's. Rebecca and Shawn are fine, but we've been with them for a long time.

So they can keep Desmond and flesh him out even more (if that's even possible, still haven't beat AC3), I would look forward to it.

 

[Something Amyss]

There is......but it's incredibly weak, and without the Animus and Desmond, the link between the games is pretty tenuous.

The story is incredibly weak with Desmond. This isn't fine literature and most of the time, it struggles to be a B-movie. And that's fine, but I don't think there is much of a point to saying removing the framing device would make it...Basically what it already is.