• Syndicate (loved), Black Flag (Fun to be a pirate, fun story, but again…that same gameplay loop)

• Original Assassin’s Creed (I recognize its groundbreaking nature for its time, but found it kind of underwhelming),

• Rogue (got it for free at some point…don’t know where or when or how. But found it similar to Black Flag; fun to be a pirate, but the same gameplay loop)

• When I had Game Pass, I also took stabs at Origins and Oddysey.

I think anyone can recognize the loop I’m talking about. Go into an area. find a point that let’s you sync a bunch of little mini games (in AC it’s syncing from high points, in Watchdogs it’s hacking towers, etc…) Then you just randomly do enough side-plot and main plot missions and kill the sub-bosses until you “control” that part of the map and then do it again. Every game. Every Franchise. They all follow the same loop.

It’s only when a game adds something somewhat different to the equation (a grappling hook in Syndicate and a train that is constantly looping through the city or sailing a pirate ship in Black Flag) that it has any sort of novelty for me.

Those cheeky buggars have made the same basic game for over a decade just by changing time periods and art assets.