Comment on Day 722 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 5 weeks ago
To me it always felt like AC2 is the true start of the franchise. The first game was cool in many ways, but overall felt almost more like a tech demo or proof-of-concept. I like the more serious vibe of it, but it gets very repetitive.
On the contrary I feel like there was a purity to AC1. AC2 leaned too hard in the direction of busywork and history tourism, AC1 had an almost meditative focus on the assassinations.
I understand why the second game was more popular and has shaped the (imo poor) direction of the franchise. But the first game has always been my favourite.
I’m noticing a bit of that. A lot of the missions feel like “Go here, pickpocket a guy, beat up another guy, kill a guy” with very little plot exposition. It’s still cool but the story is fed between the cracks it feels like
iamthetot@piefed.ca 5 weeks ago
Disagree. AC 2, Brotherhood, and Revelations are good and I love them, genuinely, but AC1 is undeniably the start of the series to me. For one, the modern storyline was genuinely half of the pull for me, I was so invested. And never have I ever felt more like an actual assassin than in AC1 I think. Every game after drifter further and further away from assassin and into generic action.