#by which i mean it sometimes makes me physically ill HDHDNDNDN

[mishkakagehishka]

tbh i adore the ezio games (i started with 2 bc my ass was not playing ac one it did not have subtitles and i couldn't be assed. sayonara altair) but like. i love the fantasy elements but i do rlly wish they stuck more with the like. historical elements???

but yeah no fr the syndicate modern-day stuff was just shaun and rebecca fucking around. i do miss it being like. real ppl tho. do u know how excited i get when i read a wikipedia page and go "omg i recognize that name from my silly assassin games!" like girl. i miss that !!! i miss desmond tho he was my meow meow. wet cat of a guy.

ac my beloved tbh. like don't get me wrong i have fun with the modern games but it really just feels like they're attaching the AC name to just get more attention/revenue/cash in on old fans going "well, it's an AC game..." and tbh i feel like ac has so much lore and stuff that it just gets contradictory and stops making sense. and like you said it feels way more fantasy these days. in some aspects that's fun, but in many it's like... is this rlly ac anymore?

anyway yeah i think you can divide AC into "old ac" and "new ac" and old ac superiority despite my love of like 1 of the newer games

No, but really. The real people, real events was a huge appeal to me. They had Niccolò Machiavelli implying Il Principe was about Ezio. They explained the "why the fuck was Robespierre's jaw shot off" with Elise being a bad bitch and responding to "I'm never telling" with "[gunshot] then write". You had a teenage Suleiman the Magnificent in Revelations. It was just fun to go "hey, there's this historical event that has some confusion surrounding it, you know what would be super fun? Secret societies."

And I love fantasy!!! But AC is not a fantasy game to me :< if they made a new IP, it'd be proper, I'd love to play, but this way it just seems like they're only muddling the established lore with what would otherwise probably be a very fun and interesting new world. It's definitely for the marketability </3