Assassin's Creed series

[icycalm]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=739708

Will there ever be an asscreed game with good gameplay?

Dont' get me wrong, i really dug AC4 (will probably end up on my GOTY list), but in a similar way to how a mmo hooks me. Mindless collecting, repetitive stuff in an immerse world kinda thing...

Yet I still find it a bit odd having this on GOTY awards when the core gameplay is mediocre to real bad. I don't believe I gave any mission over 3 stars, with most being 1. Tailing is awful, stealth is soo bad that they pretty much said fuck it, and put bushes everywhere (while probably cursing at the AC3 folks that made this bush = stealth feature). And for some reason combat in ac3-4 feels like a regression from brotherhood where now enemies rarely ever attack you when you are doing way too long kill animations. Diving is pure shit (and naturally you can't 1 star those)... and while ship combat looks fantastic, you pretty much use the same playbook at the beginning of the game until the end (well at the end you can just mortar spam).

I know AC is suppose to be a game for the masses... but we have batman that sells pretty ok, and has way more deep and challenging and rewarding combat.

idk, its just a bit of a bummer that in 2013, press can still give open world games a pass if core gameplay isn't up to snuff... but batman orgins got shat on in reviews... and its a better game... so idk.

There are talks that next years AC game will have some fundamental changes or something, but what can they really do?

I just hope some of Blacklist bleeds into AC, because that is easily the best gameplay out of AAA ubisoft of recent years