I never understood all the cult about Mass Effect 2. It’s the weakest of the trilogy for me by far. It is “Secondary quests, the game”. The main story barely ever moves forward. The very last mission of the game was the moment I said to myself “YES! Things are FINALLY going to get interesting! ... And it’s over. What?”

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All this.

You are conflating two distinctly different issues, Alex. And you seem to realize this very clearly, but it doesn’t seem to stop you from writing an article of ill consideration.

at least you ghouls are consistent, I thought for sure Patty Jenkins would get special treatment compared to Christopher Nolan and yet, here you are, a computer ghoul hiding behind your laptop and avatar, casting judgement on Jenkins and the like for having the audacity to wish their real work, nee, their art, and the…

i think it had more to do with the pandemic and not being able to be open, my guy.

No it’s a great RPG game. It’s amazing to explore Egypt but when people say it’s not an AC game it’s because it’s an RPG.

I think the opposite of this is true.

I find it ironic that people that are supposed to like video games insist on dumping on AC Unity, which is easily the apex of the series, the last moment before it became an inferior witcher knockoff with dull side quests, a giant empty expanse, and enemies that took at least 500 smacks with a dull weapon to kill.

Not only would Christopher Nolan absolutely have a theatrical release in his contract, there’s a huge difference between dropping $30m on headline content for a streaming service and throwing a $225m film in there, losing millions in potential profits (subscribers would not make up the difference).

it’s not an AC game.

Speaking as a huge fan of RPGs: RPG elements were the last thing I wanted from Assassin’s Creed. My hidden blade should assassinate people, not do-some-damage-determinant-on-our-relative-XP-levels,

To put it another different way, you can say Unity is the worst AC game (which I don’t agree with) because Origins isn’t really an AC game.

I think origins was probably the worst AC game. It ditched all the gameplay mechanics that made AC unique in order to transform the series into a shallow, generic action rpg. At least odyssey was a GOOD generic action rpg. 

 Not the best AC

Unity is by far one of the better games in the series. I loved it, my friends did too. Honestly, I already have 70+ hours in AC: Odyssey, maybe i’ll uninstall it and play Unity again.

It’s definitely not the best game in the series, but I agree it’s criminally underrated.

Origins and Odyssey are massive downgrades from syndicate, which is a downgrade of Unity. Unity had a parkour and social stealth system that absolutely SHITS on the latest games.

I heartily disagree. Unity had a rough launch but it still stands as the ultimate AC game. It is the only one that actually delivered on the series promise. Crowds large enough for social stealth to be believable. Fun, fluid, pretty parkour. Enemies that were difficult enough you were forced to be stealthy. A massive,…

Origins and Odyssey are amazing RPGs, but bad Assassin’s Creed games. The first time I perched on top of a base and studied the enemy patrols for my ideal take-down route, and dropped down on the first guy.....only to have him take like half damage or whatever, and alert the entire base, I knew this was no longer…

Odyssey should be 13th, not 3rd. And Origins should be 12th, not 1st.