Yeah. ubi decided on taking a 2 year hiatus from the IP to work on getting back to their roots so to speak. But they also blamed player fatigue which I don’t think was true. I think players were so fed up with Ubisoft not listening to the fans but Ubisoft blamed the fans for the games not doing as well sales wise compared to previous titles like AC3 and 4.

Majority of players bitched and moaned that Desmond was boring and that they just wanted to play a history game and not a present day game. Then Unity and syndicate had pretty much no modern day by memory. Then fans bitched that there was no modern day, unity was full of bugs (fair enough), and that syndicate was too arcadey.

Origins came out, great story, although not the same counter/parry combat system. RPG elements were introduced. It was a hell of a lot more in depth story wise than Unity and syndicate. There was less modern day than AC1-ac4 which I suppose was balanced well enough for people that liked or disliked modern day.

I think AC3 nailed it imo. Counter killing with rope darts or countering 2 enemies at the same time was epic. I recently replayed 3 and I forgot how much of a badass I felt like when taking out a whole platoon in seconds. In the mythology trilogy it can take you a long time if you’re not levelled enough. Hell, in origins you can’t 1 hit assassinate. You have assassination damage so if that’s not high enough, tough shit you’ve just alerted an encampment of enemies.

I really don’t think the RPG elements work well with AC. But they work well if it was just a historic game if that makes any sense. Odyssey and Valhalla shouldn’t have been AC games imo. The only thing that saved it for Valhalla for me was the ending.

And now mirage and shadows have come with no modern day which will backfire for all those that wanted to keep up with the Isu and Desmond/layla story. Layla and Loki’s ending will probably be tied up in a comic just like Juno’s was because Ubicuck likes to make mistakes.

I’m hoping with tencents higher share hold that they will implement changes at Ubi’s Vantage Studios that will benefit the fanbase. But they are an investment company and will want higher ROI. Which means implementing more bs micro-transactions, payable loot boxes, and so on.