Wait, I thought AC was supposed to be historical? I mean, I know it had scifi elements with aliens and whatnot, but that stuff was supposed to be “secret” history.

I would say for sure skip it. 

I’m not Heather but I’ve played about 35 hours in Odyssey, loved Witcher 3, skipped Origins, last AC game significantly enjoyed was AC2/Brotherhood.

I get so frustrated that the community accepts this kind of thing.

It’s very 2018 to say that TDK always sucked ass and Ledger is a one-note hamfisted cartoon, because it’s a very white dude thing to say that TDK is a masterpiece and Ledger “BECAME the Joker.”

Nope. The Dark Knight is in my Top 3 all-time movies. I saw it in the full-sized IMAX opening night, with impossibly high expectations, and it blew them away. Riveted.

“Now: The Dark Knight is a better movie than the perfectly okay Slumdog Millionaire, the movie that ended up winning Best Picture for that year. But it’s no masterpiece.”

TDK is near the top of my list as far as movies go. As for comic based movies, it’s #1. There has not been another movie as good as TDK, it’s going to be difficult for any of the DC or MCU movies to match it. Very few movies make me cry at the end, but Lt. Gordon’s monologue at the end of the movie as Batman is…

Man, am I the only one who still thinks The Dark Knight is an all-time great? Well, I’ll carry this burden. 2008 was a weird moment overall for superhero movies—even at the time, without the benefit of hindsight, you could feel things changing.

I’ve seen complaints that the button-mapping for interacting with objects is very inconsistent? I’d consider that a broken control scheme, if you have to continually refer to prompts to know what button does what in each specific instance.

That the fundamental control mechanics are bad, broke or impossible to really work with.

You’re selling me on unity! I’ve never played an AC game

Funny I think Rogue is the best of the Creeds you mentioned in your post. It hearkened towards what made the series great, with a fun narrative twist and weapon system rework. Unity was too vague narrative for me to even remember a thing about Arno—but the scope and parkour system of Unity are dearly missed by me.…

I’m in much the same boat. I did eventually finish Unity, but not Rogue or Syndicate or Liberation, and I never even bought Origins. Odyssey’s RPG leanings and opening up of player choice was beginning to interest me, but I figured I’d wait for a price drop, and articles like this make those parts seem very shallow.

I would love for them to get back to what I personally consider the series high point and refine it. Unity (ya ya ya i know). When you look at Unity tried to do, it really stands out as the apex of the series. A big, beautiful urban landscape, fluid, fun and skill based parkour (i fucking hate the parkour in Origins…

The Ezio trilogy really is still my favorite in the series and I haven’t finished a single AC game since Black Flag and I really only stuck around with that one because pirates. Similar for AC3 because I enjoyed the ship combat, but also because of the early US setting.

Funny, I’d say the exact opposite. I think they need to focus more on a concise narrative, improved traversal and a more optional approach to missions and gearing similar to Brotherhood/Flag/Revelations.

Funny, I’d say the exact opposite. I think they need to focus more on a concise narrative, improved traversal and a more optional approach to missions and gearing similar to Brotherhood/Flag/Revelations. I never played the series for RPG heavy mechanics, and while I agree they feel out of place, I think the series…

that’s exactly what he’s saying. he’s saying the dark knight changed the perception of superhero movies for the mainstream public and that marvel eventually benefitted from that.

Yes. Despite loving the first two, I never watched 3. I mocked the dancing with the rest of you,but that was all I saw. However, Topher was clearly supposed to be exactly like Peter Parker, but lacking that inner goodness. The casting works well with that in mind.