nothing will ever be as recalcitrant and bloodyminded as Assassin's Creed, which debuted in 2007 to unanimous "it's good apart from the sci-fi shit" and proceeded to ship another 28 games and a movie with the sci-fi shit
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NO you are wrong and this is wrong. The best moment in the series was when you beat the pope boss fight or whatever and then in the basement Ezio meets a digital space ghost deity and the deity says "What up... DESMOND!!!!"
And since you ask, yes, I did enjoy the walking around the office segments in Black Flag.
Oh it's definitely not worth it. I'm sure Ubisoft could lay off an entire satellite office worth of people if they just decided fuck it, from now on the series is purely stabbing simulators in historical settings. I'm glad they don't though.
im not gonna say it was worth it bc it absolutely wasn't and the more they've tried to downplay that stuff as time went on, the more it stuck out as completely uninteresting
but black flag turning you into a Not-Ubisoft playtester and revealing that Not-Ubisoft was actually the Knights Templar all along is really funny
second game was all like oh you didn't like that shit? ALIENS MFER, ALIENS DID THE GARDEN OF EDEN HOW ABOUT THAT SHIT
i'm always comparing people's ideas of a "precursor race". games have the affliction of almost always ruining the idea by having the precursor race have some instrinsic connection or interest in humanity. only dead space avoids this
yeah, i think that's the pile i was rummaging around in with this old post: https://cohost.org/vectorpoem/post/41877-no-one-knows-who-the
good post. i guess without any of those cliches it isn't the trope at all, but for me the biggie is definitely "this having any connection to us besides us eventually finding out about it". halo was to me insanely cool in the first game for the way the forerunner were presented: barely at all. nobody in the game cares
i mean it's lame both in the sense of a cosmic connection and a personal connection: just because something in the universe is fascinating doesn't mean anyone we know has to be fascinated by it. so much realer if they aren't
yeah like it doesn't particularly affect any aspect of our daily existence that dinosaurs were around ~80 million years ago, it just fucking rules and makes our planet more interesting.