Assassin's Creed was a good series

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shikamaru317 said:

I have played every main game in the series, and I personally think the series has only gotten better over time. I feel like nostalgia is blinding alot of these #NotMyAssassinsCreed supporters. Have they forgotten how awful some of the early mechanics were like having to go around ripping down posters of yourself to clear notoriety? Or having to constantly defend your outposts from attack in Revelations, disrupting what you actually want to be doing in the game. Not to mention how awful the feather collecting was in AC2, it's so bad that Ubisoft themselves have joked about how bad it was in later games. AC4 for me at least is a high point in the series, good main character, good world design, fun gameplay. AC Origins was on par with AC4 and I have high hopes for Odyssey.

Fact is, the old AC gameplay formula had grown stale after 9 main games, which is why AC Syndicate sales took a dive even though the story and characters were good.  Ubsoft knew they needed to refresh the formula and try something new, so they decided to make AC Origins an RPG. And it worked, AC Origins doubled AC Syndicate sales and is among the top 3 bestselling games in the series now if I'm not mistaken (with digital included).

Agreed. I recently finished Origins, and my goodness, it floored me. Reminded me of how impressed i was with the jump from AC1 to AC2. I honestly think Origins should have been game of the year, but that's a different topic. Unity is the only blight in the series for me, with an underwhelming story, world, co-op and largely unmemorable final boss. 

For me, this has been the best series of the HD gaming era, easily.  And i love how the stories all combine together, especially in origins. I like what i see in odyssey, but i just don't see how it can top or be much better than origins, but we shall see.