Tell him that he should have run a different direction than Federico. It's super easy to beat Feds if you just run straight to the church rather than attempt to follow.

1) no Patrice Desilets as the series architect; it's my belief he brought a lot of focus to the series
2) no Jade Raymond as the series producer
3) different studios producing different elements of the city; iirc, AC3's forest was built by a different team than its cities, which was a different team than its sewers,…

Still don't understand why they never brought Kyd back. I love his work.

I think there were plenty of places to go, like actually good stealth, doing the original plan of actually tailing and learning the lives of people before you assassinate them (or at least gathering intel), and stuff like that. Hitman-esque social stealth would have been interesting. TONS of possibilities. Everywhere…

Jesper Kyd is one thing I didn't talk about at ALL, but should have. It brings up 2's atmosphere in a huge way.

I do not remember that in A—oh... Ooooohhh

There's a lot of potential evolution for the series. Heck, even Revelations' ziplines alone are cool. As weird as it sounds, I REALLY liked AC3's underground. Lots of cool ideas. Problem is that there's little focus. When I wrote about AC3 last year, I think I described it as a patchwork game, a mechanical pidgin…

I think Constantinople was an interesting city, especially in terms of verticality, but the game attempts to draw things out SO LONG that it stops being interesting quickly. The cavecity was a cooler concept, but somehow, they managed to squander it.

"You know what would be fun? Ezio as a disabled old man."

I had a blast with this piece. Getting back into AC2 felt good—I didn't expect it to hold up as much as it did. If you're bored and want more of my writing on AC, here's something I wrote on 3 a while ago.

We've been hearing this theory for a while now, like, since the first week of the game, and it's wrong.

don't you know it

"Doc, because of this, you're now one of the best CS: GO players in the world."

So, when I wrote this all those years ago, I actually hoped to turn it into a discussion about how interesting a girl Hercules would be.

Murmur, Suros, and Icebreaker all have the speed perk, however, Mida has TWO speed perks.

Thanks. It's been fun. I'm hoping this gig remains as solid as it has been. Maybe one day, I'll graduate from freelancer to full-time! :D

Unfortunately, I don't have any guitar or rock-related rhythm games. :(

Hopefully my writing conveys that.

It is so horrible. That metascore is far, far, far from reality.

Wasn't a good PC version until recently.