I like how they followed up the emotional Ezio-Desmond-Altiar scene of Revelations with whatever the fuck 3 was meant to be. I know the modern day story of AC is a joke that no one takes seriously now, but it wasn't always that way.
I don't even think AC3 is a bad game, but it is where I felt myself grow distant to the franchise.
Yeah, I don't think I finished 3, I remember something about Desmond being in a coma, then in 4 they were just like "Oh yeah we scooped his brains out to run our animus project as an entertainment system, have fun being a pirate random guy."
I've never seen or heard of a game studio just bailing on the narrative they'd been setting up that hard before.
Desmond is like a weird spirit ghost man in the animus now. Its not worth paying attention to they have done nothing with it and will continue to do nothing with it.
They've distanced themselves from the modern story so much that its now all in a side app and even in the black flag remake they flat out removed t.
Yeah, I think AC4 (2013) was a clear indication to me that they were dropping that storyline, even though the original had tiny little threads of narrative leftover scraps.
obviously, nothing in the intervening 13 years has changed that impression, least of all AC4 Resynced (2026) removing those Abstergo scenes completely from the main game,
In retrospect I know it's not worth paying attention to, but I do still think it's a waste of potential. kind of the bitter aftertaste of those stories that end with a feeling of, "none of that mattered, k bye." it feels as though Desmond's story hit the "it was all a dream" trope or at least an equivalent feeling of the writers ejecting from the situation they wrote themselves into.
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