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Exactly how much modern day Animus stuff do you want in Assassin’s Creed: Shadows?

Do you care about the Animus story anymore?

  • That shit trash. Get rid of it for good.

    Votes: 539 56.8%

  • Keep it in but actually do something interesting with it.

    Votes: 293 30.9%

  • I love the Animus. It should be 50% of the game.

    Votes: 49 5.2%

  • All Animus all the time.

    Votes: 68 7.2%
  • Total voters
    949
  • Poll closed .
hydruxo

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I don't care about it at all. I think they need to stop the Animus shit and just go full on historical. They don't know what they're doing with the modern day story and haven't since a certain character was killed off a decade ago. I get it's their way to frame the reason why we're able to hop around to different time periods, but it just never goes anywhere so who cares anymore? Vast majority of players probably audibly groan in any AC games from the last decade when they're forced to do the modern day parts. It just isn't fun or interesting.
 
Omanisat

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Flush it.
 
Jerm

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Oct 31, 2017
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Bro I haven't known what the fuck is going on since the 360 era. I thought they were done with Animus lol.
 
Deranged Hermit

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Oct 25, 2017
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Dump it or keep it entirely optional. Pulling the player out of the main game for brief, pointless interludes is annoying.
 
Mesoian

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I mean I'd want a lot if it was interesting.

I don't want it if it's going to be a literal 5 minutes of a vague puzzle that has little to nothing to do with the overarching plot. AssCree 2, 3 and 4 were terrible about that, even with all of the out-of-the-animus stuff.

Odyssey probably handled it the best and even then...like, what are we doing?
 
Zerpette

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Hazz3r said:
It depends what you mean. The meta story in Valhalla was incredible, with some huge payoffs by the end of the game. I absolutely want more of that.
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I strongly disagree with this. The game would've been much better in my opinion if it had a tighter story that focused solely on the sibling rivalry of Eivor and Sigurd over leadership of the Raven clan, with the Norse mythological elements mixed in just to contrast how each is guided differently by their visions of the gods.

They can keep a very basic "you join an ancient order of assassins" framing device so it's nominally some kind of Assassin's Creed each time, but I think they should completely jettison all the other accumulated lore which is just unwanted baggage at this point.
 
Platy

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Oct 25, 2017
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Less than Black Flag level stuff

like intro, some thing here and there in plot twists and some extra stuff if you want and a prologue
 
Crossing Eden

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Ascenion said:
Come on now, we deserve better than Layla. Origins was fine, but Odyssey went batshit and Valhalla followed it. Now we're stuck with Basim and bullshit.
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Really put into perspective why someone like Desmond was needed in the first place because he could like...actually interact with the isu stuff without losing his sanity.
 
PucePikmin

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It's gonna be segmented off in AC Infinity somehow I suspect. Shadows itself will probably have little to none of it.
 
Hazz3r

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Zerpette said:
I strongly disagree with this. The game would've been much better in my opinion if it had a tighter story that focused solely on the sibling rivalry of Eivor and Sigurd over leadership of the Raven clan, with the Norse mythological elements mixed in just to contrast how each is guided differently by their visions of the gods.

They can keep a very basic "you join an ancient order of assassins" framing device so it's nominally some kind of Assassin's Creed each time, but I think they should completely jettison all the other accumulated lore which is just unwanted baggage at this point.
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Each to their own. I thought the contrived rivalry between Sigurd and Eivor was the least interesting part of the narrative. The meta story is what I have enjoyed the most over the last few games, not so much with Origins, but with Odyssey and Valhalla absolutely. The writing hasn't been this good since Revelations.
 
That1GoodHunter

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They fumbled that bag by killing Kassandra in the modern timeline. I would have been more than content with hearing Kass shooting the shit with some companions recalling the people she met while travelling the world during her lifetime.

At least Basim is a much more interesting character than Layla...
 
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Revoltoftheunique

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Always hated it. I remember in the very first game I didn't like it. Took me right out of the experience. It should have been a historical anthology game with the common theme being the battle between assassins and templars from the beginning.
 
RandomSeed

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PepsimanVsJoe

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That1GoodHunter said:
The fumbled that bag by killing Kassandra in the modern timeline. I would have been more than content with hearing Kass shooting the shit with some companions recalling the people she met while travelling the world during her lifetime.

At least Basim is a much more interesting character than Layla...
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Personally, I'd say that giving Kassandra the staff of immortality was a mistake. She appears during the events of Valhalla, and that's about it. Otherwise, she's hanging around for 2,000 years doing...apparently nothing about the Templars or the pieces of Eden. Then she hands it off to Layla who drops it and dies a couple years later.

It's like Ubisoft keeps writing cheat codes into the franchise and then tries to write them out. It just doesn't work for me.
 
Oozer

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The modern-day stuff is great and I'd be really upset if they ditched it. I love how experimental they've been with it. Hopefully we're about to get another twist on it.

Simba said:
i havent really played any of these games since 2, is there still some kind of interconnected story or did they give up on that?
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There was one storyline that kinda ended in Assassin's Creed III, then they meandered for a couple of games (in some interesting ways) before starting another one in Origins. I believe that one is still playing out, though there was none of it in Mirage.

Indelible said:
Just make it completely optional for the few people that still care about the modern day story.
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I'm pretty sure that's what they're doing. The individual games won't have any modern-day stuff, but Infinity will.
 
That1GoodHunter

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Personally, I'd say that giving Kassandra the staff of immortality was a mistake. She appears during the events of Valhalla, and that's about it. Otherwise, she's hanging around for 2,000 years doing...apparently nothing about the Templars or the pieces of Eden. Then she hands it off to Layla who drops it and dies a couple years later.

It's like Ubisoft keeps writing cheat codes into the franchise and then tries to write them out. It just doesn't work for me.
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She also showed up in Jade, so they are probably planning on having her be a recurring minor character in AC going forward. At the very least you can absolutely bet she is showing up in Shadows, one way or another, Odyssey team being the devs.
 
GlitchyDegree

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Fucking none. I was sick of it by the end of the Assassin's Creed Odyssey Atlantis DLC. If it's there, it should be optional.
 
ZodiacWolve

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Keep it to a minimal. But I gotta know where the modern day stuff with Basim at the end of Valhalla will lead to.
 
SickNasty

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It should be a full 50 percent because finally making AC Japan and then pulling you out of it for extended periods would be the funniest and most Ubisoft decision they could make.
 
t67443

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Oct 30, 2017
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10% modern day stuff with something to progress the conflict between Assassins and Templars.
 
NekoCat

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Couldn't stand it from the beginning. By the time we got to IV (where I tapped out of the series), it already seemed like they were just going through the motions with the modern day stuff. Blows my mind that they're still doing it.
 
HardRojo

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I haven't played an AC game since Black Flag, but after they fumbled it in AC3, I want none of it.
 
Soj

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I'd be happy with none. Maybe just some cutscenes that bookend the game would be good.

It's been nothing but an annoyance to me from the start. I never even liked the Desmond stuff.
 
Zaied

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Oct 27, 2017
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Certainly keep the Animus since it's important, but I want it to also be engaging. Unity and Syndicate are cases where the present day had a minimal presence in the story — also Mirage more recently — and I think it made those games less intriguing as a result. But then again, I haven't been nearly as invested in it since the Desmond days, and following Charlotte in the comics to a lesser extent.
 

CanUKlehead

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Oct 30, 2017
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Feels like they haven't done anything meaningful with it since the Ezio trilogy...like, more than a decade ago. So either get rid of the pre-tense or do something than just looking for relics or whatever crap it's been.
 
Gamer @ Heart

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Oct 26, 2017
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Just like the last few games, it will book end the story and contribute to less than 2% of the total playtime but contribute to 30% of the negative discourse about the game
 
est1992

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The only time I want to go to modern day or the future is when they make an AC game with that as the main setting
 
Rust

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You know what? Fuck it - bring back that giant suspended claw-animus from the Assassin's Creed movie. Show someone in modern Japan testing out the new Templar Robotics machine, and the twist in Act 3 is that you are no longer in the machine but as you're killing dudes in Ancient Japan, you're also murking someone in the modern day as an accidental Templar agent.
 
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