I really don't mind Desmond as a character. He may be a little bland - but not insultingly so. Shaun is one of my favourite characters from all videogames - maybe because I do love Danny Wallace and his reserved, sarcastic humour.Calvar Draveir said:I never fI also thought that was a cool moment, the Truth segments showed us so much about the state of the world in 2012.Falseprophet said:Yahtzee's right, it's hard to buy into the modern day Assassin v. Templar conspiracy in Assassin's Creed when we hardly see any of it. But "The Truth" segments in AC:Brotherhood did more to give it weight than anything Lucy, Desmond or even Vidic have said. Most noteworthy is one phone log where
A man calls his cable company to complain about his TV flashing all of his and his son's personal and medical data on the screen--probably negligence on the part of some Abstergo tech, for all we know. Within 2 minutes, the Templars have sent someone to his house to kill him and his son.
Now that's a little touch that shows just how pervasive and powerful this conspiracy really is.
Desmond has never really been an uninteresting character to me, he's a bit quick to distrust people, he's not the most empathetic person ever, but he also has this kind of naivety to him. In AC 1 I always talked to lucy just to hear more dialogue between them. I think lucy is a nice character too. I find it funny that Yahtzee thinks she's stuck up and work-focused, since there's a bit of dialogue where Desmond doubts she ever does anything fun and she gets offended.
I think Yahtzee's just sticking with the first impression he got of these two characters, since they have gotten way deeper than from the first and even second game.
One thing I love about the AC series is this whole conspiracy/counter-factual history plot going on; and the fact the glyphs and the rifts in AC2 & Brotherhood respectively shed a lot of interesting light on how actual world events were always being manipulated by the Templars I thought was awesome:
The phone logs especially were awesome and slightly disturbing. Especially the one about how the Templars were to theatrically assassinate Alan Turing because his new 'computers' would reduce the control the Templars had over workers - and they said make it happen like Harry Dexter White (who was known to be in contact with John Maynard Keynes - who is identified in the rifts as a Templar). It's a fascinating interpretation of history for me at least.