Comment on Unbelievable that Assassin's Creed never won a Game of the Year award
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Maybe they should just ditch the whole Animus plot.
I think if that was going to happen it would have happened after AC3.
Personally I’m glad the Animus is there, it makes it much easier for me to suspend disbelief about so many things in those games. I wish AC3 hadn’t messed up Desmond’s story though, I wanted a cool conclusion, rather than having Desmond get Poochie’d.
Kjell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Is the animus still there in the newer games? I haven’t played a AC since origins and I don’t remember the animus but perhaps that story was so insignificant and boring that I have suppressed those parts.
I wished Desmond’s story should have gotten more time or even a spin-off focusing only on Desmond.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Sounds like you’re talking about the Animus as sections where the player isn’t in the historical period rather than what I mean, which is that the historical experience takes place in an in-universe simulation.
Kjell@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I didn’t remember when the game character entered the animus to get the historical experience from Black Flag, Unity and Origins. So I believed the game started and ended with the historical character, in the AC world that means someone was connected to the animus all the time. But from the player’s perspective it is not different from any other game where one plays a historical character.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
For me there’s a lot of video gamey ness to the AC series. I don’t find this breaks my immersion because the character I’m playing as is canonically in a simulation.
If the Animus wasn’t there as a framing device there’s a lot of stuff that I would find extremely hard to look past. I think it’s a great way to justify loads of stuff that would otherwise marr the experience.
The game character coming out of the Animus appears a lot up to AC3. There’s sections in AC 4 in the game dev’s offices, I’ve not played Unity, and there’s the stuff with Layla in Origins (incidentally, it’s only just occurred to me that I went to school with someone called Layla Hassan!).
There’s a lot more of it in the Desmond games, including part of AC3 where one gets to do assassin shit in modern times.