Cid Silverwing said:
I was right to quit the series around Brotherhood. Already then it was getting repetitive as fuck with the Italians and collect-a-thon bullshit.
That was also my last dalliance with
Ubisoft Game: The Ubisoft Game Variant A7-IVd series, although I didn't play the original so only played through ACII (quite good[footnote]Although Ezio ostensibly being a complete and utter sociopath is never addressed, hence why I've found my AC time to be incredibly disturbing as well as mostly boring.[/footnote]) and Brotherhood, which was just more of the same but less meaningful and in a more boring location.
Quite why any reviewer gives AC:O (as Yahtz points out; the title they go with after a little break is
Origins?! it's like the very title advertises they couldn't be arsed) any leniency is beyond me. They've been a kind of weird anti-art product for years. Same banal gameplay loops, the same idiotically referential pop-history schtick, and for a game supposedly about assassinating people it's quite shit at the whole assassins thing.
...and yes, business is business, but other creators in games and film manage to make creative art at the same time as filling their coffers. AC exists only to keep on existing for the sake of suits in boardrooms.